Scaling up Investment for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation

4 May 2008 (4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.)

Whilst the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) adhere to the "Bali Roadmap" to settle the details of the International Climate Change Regime beyond 2012, governments, the development community, and the private sector must scale up their climate change activities so that investment in climate change mitigation and adaptation increases at the magnitude required.

Development funding and concessional finance will always remain central to the fight against climate change particularly in Asia's frontier developing countries. However, because of the scale of investment required for climate change mitigation and adaptation in the next 20 years, it is imperative to harness both the public sector and the private sector investment capital. This seminar, organized in collaboration with Club de Madrid, will discuss the question: "How do we attract capital at the required scale to meaningfully address climate change?".