Building on the success of the inaugural Green Investment Financing Forum in 2014, the OECD held its 2^nd Green Investment Financing Forum on 19-20 May 2015 at OECD Paris. In this defining year for climate change policy and low-carbon investment, OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría welcomed senior government officials and key actors in financing green infrastructure investment for a targeted discussion under the Chatham House Rule.

The Forum addressed new developments relating to green investment banks. It also highlighted promising investment channels with a special focus on green bonds and de-risking approaches to facilitate green infrastructure investment by institutional investors in OECD countries, emerging economies and developing countries.

• Agenda
• Speaker biographies
• Presentations 

 

AGENDA

First day - 19 May 2015

9:00-9:10	Opening remarks by Mr. Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General
9:10-9:40	Keynote address by The Hon. Al Gore, Former U.S. Vice President
9:40-10:40	Session 1: Public action to catalyse private investment for green growth
11:00-12:30	Session 2: Investment needs and risk-return profiles of sustainable energy investments: Market evolution
14:00-15:15	Session 3: Facilitating domestic green investment: Policy frameworks and public financial institutions
15:15-16:45	Session 4: The role of public financial institutions to enhance the flow of private green investments from developed countries to emerging economies and developing countries
17:00-18:15	Session 5: Green bonds – mobilising the debt capital markets for sustainable energy
18:15-18:25	Closing remarks by Mr. Rintaro Tamaki, OECD Deputy Secretary-General

Second day - 20 May 2015

9:00-9:05	Welcoming remarks by Mr. Simon Upton, Director, OECD Environment Directorate
9:05-9:30	Keynote address by Mr. Tom Steyer, Investor, Philanthropist and Advanced Energy Advocate
9:30- 11:00	Session 6: Institutional investor roundtable on sustainable energy financing
11:30-13:00	Session 7: The financial system and markets: Aligned with the low carbon transition?
13:00-13:15	Closing remarks

Green Investment financing forum - pAST EVENTS

• 2017 4th Forum
• 2016 3rd Forum
• 2014 Inaugural Forum
• Related event: 2015 Workshop-OECD Green Investment Bank

 

further reading

• Publication: Mapping Channels to Mobilise Institutional Investment in Sustainable Energy, 2015
• OECD work on financing climate change action 
• OECD work on investment for green growth and institutional investors and long-term investment
• Generation Investment Management
  
• Aviva Roadmap for Sustainable Capital Markets
• UNEP 4th Report of the Inquiry: Design of a Sustainable Financing System: The Coming Financial Climate
  
  

BLOG

• Let's talk money: what will it take to save our planet? OECD Insights
• All environment related blogs

 

CONTACTS

• For more information, please contact Robert Youngman and Hideki Takada, OECD Environment Directorate.