Financing the Transition: The CEE perspective
Date: 4 December 2023
Time: 14.00 – 15.30 h
Location: Bulgarian Pavilion at COP28
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This event aims to bridge the gap between the smallest and most innovative businesses and financing institutions, policymakers, visionaries from Europe and globally.
The purpose of the event is threefold:
- Explore and discuss key SMEs’ needs and challenges to scale up and stay competitive
- Share key trends, financing mechanisms and instruments for financing the transition of countries and companies in the region
- Discuss exposure and vulnerabilities to climate change alongside viable policies, practices and trends.
Speakers:
Empowering CEE SMEs in their climate action: challenges and needs
- Transport: Cargo drones
- Circular economy: How biotech innovation unlocks the decarbonisation of agriculture
- Construction: Sustainable and movable housing
- Zero Waste: Biodegradable packaging
- Digital solutions: Climate reporting
(Dronamics, Nasekomo, Nomad Cabins, Teda Pack, Plan A)
Enablers’ role: financial instruments & tools to manage the transition
- Available funds in support of the transition
- Private investment: tools and instruments
(DG “European Funds for Competitiveness”; Bulgarian Development Bank Chair; Fund of Funds; Postscriptum Ventures; Telelink Investments; Bulgarian Stock Exchange; Bankers Without Boundaries; Webit Foundation; SAP)
Transition finance: policy trends and instruments
- LSE, Grantham Institute on Climate Change: Brendan Curran, Senior Policy Fellow, Sustainable Finance
- Cambridge Institute for Sustainable Leadership: Nina Seega, Director for Sustainable Finance
- EBRD
- EPG, Energy Policy Group, Romania & UNECE, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, Andrei Covatariu
Moderator:
Ms. Tsvetelina Kuzmanova, Senior Policy Advisor, Sustainable Finance, E3G
Host of the event:
Ministry of Innovation and growth