Event and webinars presented in this section are for knowledge sharing purposes. Their listing does not represent an endorsement by the Initiative’s Supporting Institutions.
Our events and webinars
Discover events and activities organised by the Initiative.
Upcoming webinars
Supporting Institutions have the possibility to attend webinars related to climate mainstreaming:
Managing Uncertainty
Webinar
Date and Time TBC
(Supporting Institutions of the Initiative only)
Past webinars
- Sept. 18, 2018 Overview of current financial-sector and climate change related initiatives
- Oct. 5, 2018 How are public financial institutions institutionalizing the question of climate change?
- Nov. 7, 2018 Physical Climate Risk Assessment Approaches for Corporate Assets
- Nov. 19, 2018 Implementing Physical Climate Risk Assessment Approaches: Presentation of examples focusing on the assessment of physical risk at the project and strategic levels
- Jan. 10, 2019 2018 Climate and Financial Sector Round-Up
- March 28, 2019 Successfully Implementing the MDB-IDFC Common Principles for Climate Finance Tracking: Experience from Supporting Institutions
- April 25, 2019 French Central Bank’s Physical Climate Risk Report on Portfolio Assessment
- Sept 16, 2019 Stranded Assets and Carbon Lock-in
- Nov 6, 2019 Aligning with the Paris Agreement Objectives
- Jan 29, 2020, 2019 Climate and Financial Sector Round-Up: What Priorities for 2020?
- Feb 24, 2020 Managing Uncertainty
- April 1st, 2020 Assessment and Reporting of Intermediated Finance Climate Impact: Experience of IFC
- April 22nd, 2020 Managing the risks and opportunities of the low-carbon transition in South Africa
- April 27th, 2020 Experience sharing on TCFD reporting: open discussion
- May 12th, 2020 Experience sharing on how to develop a climate strategy within a financial institution?
- May 25th, 2020 Experience sharing on how to design a tailored capacity building program to upgrade staff skill?
Upcoming events
Supporting Institutions can attend expert workshops and public events related to climate mainstreaming:
Mainstreaming Climate to Align with Paris
Past events
- Dec. 7, 2015 – COP21 – Launch of the Initiative and release of the “2015 Emerging Practice” report
- Nov. 9, 2017 – COP23 – Side-event “Mainstreaming the Paris Agreement in the Financial Sector” and launch of the “Climate Mainstreaming Practices Database”
- Dec. 11, 2017 – One Planet Summit – “Mainstreaming!” event and release of the 2017 Climate Mainstreaming Practices Report
- Feb. 14, 2018 – Workshop “Climate Risk: From Assessment to Action”
- March 14, 2018 – 2018 Annual Assembly of the Initiative
- March 25, 2018 – Workshop “Building and Disseminating a climate strategy”
- Sept. 13, 2018 – Global Climate Action Summit – Release of the joint statement of the supporting institutions of the climate action in financial institutions initiative
- Nov. 28, 2018 – Climate Finance Day – Session on “mainstreaming climate action in financial institutions”
- Dec. 6-14, 2018 – COP24 – Series of over 30 side events
- Dec. 9, 2018 – COP24 – Paris Alignment Expert Workshop
- June 6, 2019 – 2019 Annual Assembly of the Initiative
- Sept. 24, 2018 – UN Climate Action Summit – Paris Alignment Expert Workshop
- Dec. 3-12, 2019 – COP25 – Series of over 20 side events
- Dec. 5-6, 2019 – COP25 – Series of discussion sessions on the management of climate-related risks
- Dec. 11, 2019 – COP25 – Paris Alignment Technical Discussion: Deep dive into the approach of the Multilateral Development Banks
Agenda of other events and webinars of the climate and finance community
Stay updated on other events and activities organised by other institutions and initiatives.
Conferences, summits and events
Sept 15-30, 2020 75th Session of the UN General Assembly, New York
Sept 21-27, 2020 New York Climate Week, New York (held virtually)
Oct 13-14, 2020 UNEP FI Global Roundtable, Mexico
Nov. 12, 2020 Finance in Common Summit, Paris
Jan. 25, 2021 Global Adaption Action Summit, Netherlands
Nov.1-12, 2021 COP26, Glasgow
Webinars
10 July 2020 | 9:30 – 11:00 BST Financing a Circular Recovery – a talk with investors leading on Circular Economy
This webinar will cover the EBRD’s and other financial institutions’ approaches to the circular economy and the tools they use to promote circular investments. The session will include a panel discussion on the opportunities for investing in the circular economy particularly in the context of the COVID-19 recovery.
Register here