Webinar >> Blended Finance for Water & Climate: When theory meets practice

French Water Partnership / Partenariat Français pour l'Eau

Blended finance for water and climate: When theory meets practice.

French Water Partnership
Thank you for your registration to the webinar : "Blended finance for water and climate: when theory meets practice, taking place on August 27, 2020, from 3 pm to 4:30 pm CET.
The webinar will take place in English.
You will receive the link to access the webinar one week before August 27 (this link should not be shared with others; it will be unique to you).
Please submit any questions to: adriana.salazar@partenariat-francais-eau.fr
*See the programme and list of speakers here : https://urlz.fr/dyxP
 
Best regards, and we look forward to welcoming you on August 27.
 
The Secretariat of the French Water Partnership

Vast additional public and private funds will be required to deliver the Paris Agreement and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Blended finance is emerging as an important financing solution to accelerate action, but it must be scaled-up. The French Water Partnership is pleased to invite you to its upcoming webinar on ‘Blended finance for water and climate: when theory meets practice’, taking place on August 27, 2020 from 3pm to 4:30pm CET.The webinar will bring together a diverse cross-section of public and private actors applying blended finance solutions to address water and climate change-related challenges. Experts and practitioners will discuss the potential of blended finance and lessons learned through three current case studies, a moderated virtual roundtable, and an audience Q&amp;A.Speakers from:<ul><li>OECD</li><li>1001fontaines</li><li>Safi Sana</li><li>The Nature Conservancy</li><li>French Development Agency</li><li>Convergence Finance</li><li>Union for the Mediterranean</li><li>Waterpreneurs</li><li>Global Environment Facility</li></ul><ul></ul>Rationale and description :<ul><li>Vast additional public and private funds will be required to deliver the Paris Agreement and achieve the SDGs. </li><li>Blended finance is emerging as an important financing solution to accelerate action, but it must be scaled-up.</li><li>This webinar will discuss the potential of blended finance and lessons learned through practitioner perspectives, current case studies, and an audience Q&amp;A.</li></ul>The webinar will bring together a diverse cross-section of public/private blended finance actors (funders, NGOs, policy-makers and solution providers, including non-water actors), applying blended finance solutions to address water and climate change-related challenges.Objectives : <ul><li>Showcase the crucial role of blended finance to narrow the financing gap to address water-related climate change challenges and advance sustainable development, in the Global South in particular.</li><li>Help bridge the space between blended finance theory and practice (and from investors to beneficiaries)through concrete and current case-studies, by facilitating the exchange of experiences, and by identifying gaps, needs, obstacles, lessons learned, and the key preconditions for a blended finance ‘enabling environment’.</li><li>Identify opportunities for cross-fertilization, scaling-up, and replicability.</li><li>Contribute to advancing knowledge by producing recommendations for policy and research.</li></ul>

Ticket sales have ended

Webinar >> Blended Finance for Water & Climate: When theory meets practice

More events from French Water Partnership / Partenariat Français pour l'Eau

Discover more events from French Water Partnership / Partenariat Français pour l'Eau, from Business to other experiences you might love.

Still looking for the right event?

Explore all online events to browse and filter by date, category, and more.

Ticket sales have ended

Webinar >> Blended Finance for Water & Climate: When theory meets practice

More events from French Water Partnership / Partenariat Français pour l'Eau

Discover more events from French Water Partnership / Partenariat Français pour l'Eau, from Business to other experiences you might love.

You might also like...

Browse more events with different dates, prices, and formats to find your next great experience.

Still looking for the right event?

Explore all online events to browse and filter by date, category, and more.