Scaling up Financing for Clean Energy, Sustainable Landscapes, and Climate Adaptation

The amount of development assistance available for clean energy, sustainable landscapes, and climate adaptation is relatively small. National governments have multiple, urgent, competing needs for public expenditures, recently exacerbated by the global pandemic and economic recession. Increasing investments in climate mitigation and adaptation will require greater private sector engagement, more access to international and domestic capital markets, and new sources of financing from institutional investors and impact investors. Development assistance organizations can play a major role in leveraging new private sector financing, but will have to adopt new approaches to scale up impacts.

This webinar will present highlights from the USAID-funded Climate Economic Analysis, Development, Investment, and Resilience (CEADIR) Activity’s Climate Finance Assessment: Opportunities for Scaling Up Financing for Clean Energy, Sustainable Landscapes, and Adaptation. It will describe experiences of USAID and other development assistance organizations to expand investment from the private sector and other sources. The webinar will highlight options for improving enabling environments, strengthening information and capacity, and creating or strengthening financing mechanisms and instruments.
 

Please join ClimateLinks and CEADIR on August 6, 2020 at 9:00 AM EST for a discussion led by three authors of the Climate Finance Assessment. 
 

Dr. Glen Anderson (Senior Development Economist, Winrock International) has 28 years of experience in climate change adaptation and finance and environmental policy and currently leads the climate resilience efforts in Peru under the State Department-funded Private Investment for Enhanced Resilience (PIER) project. Previously, he was CEADIR’s climate adaptation lead, team leader for a USAID-funded activity on climate adaptation and finance in Central Asia, and Chief of Party for the USAID-funded Climate Change Resilient Development (CCRD) activity. Dr. Anderson has co-authored books on international development and climate services—Vulnerable States: Redefining the Development Challenges and Valuing Weather and Climate: Economic Assessment of Meteorological and Hydrological Services. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his B.A. in Economics from the University of Washington.
 

Dr. Eric Hyman (Economist, USAID Economics and Market Development Center) has 40 years of experience in environmental and natural resource economics, project design, monitoring and evaluation, cost-benefit analysis, environmental and social impact assessment, small- and micro-enterprise development and finance, and private and public sector capacity development. He received his Ph.D. and M.R.P. in Environmental Planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a B.A. in Economics and Environmental Science from the University of Virginia at Charlottesville.
 

Charlotte Mack-Heller (Director of Natural Capital, Resonance Global) leads work on partnerships, private sector engagement, finance, and innovation in climate resilience; energy; natural resource management; sustainable fisheries; biodiversity; land management; and water, sanitation, and hygiene. She previously served as Climate Change Specialist for CEADIR and CCRD and was acting director of the Millennium Challenge Account-funded Participatory Mapping and Planning project in Indonesia. She holds an M.S. in Natural Resource Management, an M.P.P. in International Policy from the University of Michigan, and a B.S. in Environmental Science from the University of Delaware.

The webinar will be moderated by CEADIR's Chief of Party Pablo Torres.

Pablo Torres (Senior Climate and Energy Program Manager, Crown Agents USA) has managed CEADIR since July 2015. He has 16 years of international development experience. He holds a Master of Environmental Management from Yale University and a B.S. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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