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OECD workshop on financing sustainable chemistry
- Date
- 29-30 June 2026
- Time
- 10:00 - 18:00
- Location
- Conference Centre, OECD Boulogne
About
*A cocktail reception will take place on the evening of 29 June
The OECD workshop on sustainable chemistry will discuss enabling conditions, lessons, and financing approaches that could stimulate investment towards safer and more sustainable chemicals, building on experience from Green Finance and Investment (GFI) for climate mitigation and other environmental goals.
Governments, investors, industry stakeholders, civil society and financial institutions are invited to participate.
The workshop will:
Examine the current landscape, barriers and opportunities for investment in sustainable chemistry (with a focus on industrial and consumer chemicals).
Draw lessons from green finance and investment (GFI) — particularly policies, financial instruments and enabling frameworks that have contributed to mobilising investment in climate mitigation.
Identify policy levers, financial tools and institutional actions relevant to mobilising investment in sustainable chemistry.
Highlight existing initiatives and investor perspectives demonstrating emerging momentum and gaps.
Explore which enabling conditions for investment are currently in place and which require further development.
Agenda
Discover what the event is about.
This session will highlight historical experience with renewable energy finance and other climate mitigation sectors. Key themes will include the role of R&D support, feed-in tariffs, contracts for difference, de-risking through public financial institutions and investment vehicles such as infrastructure funds and green bonds.
This session will focus on the principal obstacles to scaling up investment in sustainable chemistry, highlighting areas where obstacles may yield solutions in coming years and previewing related discussions in Session four.
This session will explore key aspects of existing policies, initiatives, and investor activity supporting safer chemistry. Discussions will explore investor-identified risks, opportunities, reputational considerations and early niches where safer chemistry innovation is attracting investment. It will also consider whether specific policies would be needed to scale up such investment.
This session will synthesise workshop discussions to:
Assess takeaways from the background document on the potential applicability of lessons from GFI to financing sustainable chemistry;
Identify key gaps in the chemicals sector with respect to enabling conditions for financing and scaling up sustainable chemistry; and
Gather perspectives on priority areas for OECD analysis, based on views on the enabling policies, institutional frameworks, financial instruments, voluntary approaches, disclosure needs, and other actions that hold the most promise for scaling up sustainable chemistry and can realistically be established in coming years.
Based on the conclusions in Session 5, this session will discuss upcoming activities related to other initiatives and key actors, and consider:
Linkages with potential focus areas of future OECD work on financing sustainable chemistry; and
Potential next steps and future steps for coordination and cooperation.
