Day: Thursday, July 13, 2017.Time: 08:00 - 10:00 am (Costa Rica time) Check the time according to your location: http://bit.ly/2tlHXZt
Agenda
Introduction.
Ana María Majano. Coordinator of the LEDS LAC Secretariat, Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE).
María Laura Vinuela. Head of the Regional Collaboration Center of Panama and St. Georges.
Daniel Galván. Panama Regional Collaboration Center Technical Officer
Can crowdfunding schemes contribute to the long-term goal of the Paris Agreement? Grant Kirkman. Team Leader, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). | Download presentation
Increasing project financing in 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. Technical Advisor on Climate Change, 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 need to seek a mix of financial sources, including but not limited to carbon pricing. The financial risks and rewards associated with renewable energy projects in developing countries must be shared among a greater number of financial institutions, individual investors and public entities to attract the investments needed. Crowd-funding instruments can be part of a set of new and emerging solutions, but they need to reach scale.
The seminar aims to raise awareness among project developers and the private sector on how crowdfunding and crowd-investing platforms can represent a source of financing to catalyze the implementation of climate change mitigation projects, including the CDM in the Latin American and Caribbean regions. The seminar will be held at English. If you have any questions about this event, please contact the LEDS LAC Platform Secretariat: info@ledslac.org.
About the panelists
He leads the Sustainable Development Finance Relations team at the UNFCCC Secretariat in Bonn, Germany (Sustainable Development Mechanism program). Prior to joining the UN, Grant was Director of Business Resilience and Sustainability at Siemens, Senior Specialist - Mergers, Acquisitions at Environ Ramboll and Business Development Manager at Siemens - Fujitsu. He holds a PhD in Biochemistry, an MSc in Finance and Statistics and a BSc in Economics.Markus Schwaninger is co-founder and CFO of Ecoligo, a utility company offering low-cost solar power to businesses in Africa. He worked as a 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. He is also a certified expert in climate energy and renewable energies, which is a postgraduate degree of the Frankfurt School of Management and Finance.project manager at Bettervest. He studied renewable energy technology at the University of Applied Sciences Nordhausen, Thuringia, Germany, and holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree. His studies focused on solar energy, wind energy, geothermal energy and biomass/biogas. His bachelor thesis was about wastewater heat reuse and greywater recycling in a passive house to make the house even more energy efficient.He currently works with the Low Emission Capacity Building Program. She supports countries in designing 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 completed her PhD in Environmental Science at the Austrian Institute of Technology with a specialization in fluctuating micro-climatic stresses in plants.