Water for Climate Action: Scaling Finance and Investment for Global Common Goods

Description

This high-level event will bring together public and private, conventional and innovative financiers to spotlight key efforts to mobilize finance at scale for water and nature and to contribute to the delivery of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, the Paris Agreement and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. The COP28 Presidency will platform related announcements - on impactful policies, funds and initiatives - that are working to build a more robust global financial architecture and advance the implementation of the Sharm-el Sheikh Adaptation Agenda and the 2030 Breakthroughs. COP28 will outline a way forward as a means to accelerate action towards COP30, with a particular focus on water and nature.

Objectives

To spotlight key efforts to mobilize finance at scale for water and nature

Target Participants

Stakeholders with an interest in water and nature financing

Resource speakers

• Johan Rockstrom, Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
• Ilan Goldfajn, President, Inter-American Development Bank [nature]
• Masatsugu Asakawa, President, Asian Development Bank
• Lord Zac Goldsmith, Former UK Minister for Climate and Environment
• Naoko Ishii, Director, Center for Global Commons
• Valerie Hickey, Global Director of Environment, Natural Resources and Blue Economy (ENB), World Bank Group
• Sabine Mauderer (NGFS chair from January 2024 and Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank)
• Mark Versey, CEO, Aviva Investors
• Jo Tyndall, Director for the Environment Directorate, OECD
• Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, WTO Director General (Global Commission on Economics of Water co-chair)
• Akinwumi Adesina, VP/ Chair, AfDB
• Saroj Kumar Jha, World Bank Director of Global Water Practice
• Frank Elderson, Board Member of the European Central Bank
• Mariana Mazzucato, Economics of Innovation and Public Value Professor at University College London

Event partners / organizers

COP28 Presidency, UN Climate Change High-level Champions, The World Bank Group