Day: Thursday July 13th, 2017.
Time: 08:00 – 10:00 am (time in Costa Rica)
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Agenda
Introduction.
Ana María Majano. Coordinator of LEDS LAC Secretariat, Tropical Agriculture Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE).
Maria Laura Vinuela. Team Lead, Regional Collaboration Center Panamá and St. George’s.
Daniel Galvan. Technical Officer, Regional Collaboration Center Panamá
Can crowd based finance and lending contribute to the long-term objective of the Paris Agreement? Grant Kirkman. Team Lead, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Secretariat. | Download presentation
Raising project finance the alternative way. Markus Schwaninger. CFO, Ecoligo. | Download presentation
Financing mitigation projects in South America and Africa. Johanna Lesk. Project Manager, Bettervest. | Download presentation
Innovative Climate Finance Partnerships. Alexandra Soezer. Climate Change Technical Advisor, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). | Download presentation
About the webinar
In order to finance climate change mitigation and green growth, both developed and developing countries will be required to seek out a combination of financial sources, including but not limited to carbon pricing. The financial risks and rewards connected to renewable energy projects in developing countries need to be shared across a larger number of financial institutions, individual investors, and public entities both in developing and developed countries to respond to a reality where a wealth of projects in developing countries contributing to mitigation and green and sustainable growth fails to attract the investments they need. Crowd-funding can be part of a new and emerging set of solution, but they need to get to scale.
The webinar aims at raising awareness among project developers and the private sector on how crowd-investing and crowd-funding platforms can represent a source of finance that catalyzes the implementation climate change mitigation projects, including the CDM, in the Latin American and Caribbean regions. The webinar will be held in English. If you have any questions about this event, please contact the Secretariat of the LEDS LAC Platform: info@ledslac.org.
About the panelists
Grant heads up relations for sustainable development finance at the UNFCCC Secretariat in Bonn, Germany (Sustainable Development Mechanism’s programme). Prior to joining the UN, Grant was Director Business Resilience & Sustainability at Siemens, Senior Specialist – Mergers, Acquisitions, Leveraged and Acquisition finance at Environ Ramboll, and Business Development Manager at Siemens – Fujitsu. He holds a Phd summa cum laude in Biochemistry, a MSc in Finance and Statistics and a Bachelor of Economics.Markus Schwaninger is the co-founder and CFO at Ecoligo, a solar utility that provides low-cost solar energy to businesses in Africa. He worked as Project Manager for the German Agency for international Cooperation (GIZ) and was responsible for advising solar companies entering the markets in Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania and Myanmar. He studied Business Engineering with a focus on Renewable Energies and Finance at KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) in Karlsruhe, Germany. Also is a Certified Expert in Climate & Renewable Energy Finance, which is a post-graduate degree from Frankfurt School of Finance & Management.Project manager at Bettervest. She studied renewable energy technology at the University of Applied Sciences in Nordhausen, Thuringia, Germany, and has a Bachelor of Engineering. The focus of her studies was on solar energy, wind energy, geothermal power and biomass/biogas. Her bachelor thesis was about the reuse of wastewater heat and the recycling of grey water in a passive house to make the house even more energy efficient.She is currently working with the Low Emission Capacity Development Programme. She supports countries in the design of Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions in a variety of sectors. Alexandra has been working with MDG Carbon, UNDP’s corporate framework for carbon finance for almost 7 years. Alexandra did her PhD in Environmental Sciences at the Austrian Institute of Technology with a specialization on fluctuating micro-climatic stresses on plants.