Understanding Climate Finance
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Understanding Climate Finance
Climate Finance is finally getting the spotlight that it deserves on the global stage as a method to combat climate change. But what is climate finance? Is it really helping?My name is Faheem Noor Ali and I am exploring the intersection of climate and capitalism to see how we can invest...
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Blended Finance as a powerful tool in Development Finance
Development Finance has always needed to evolve with the needs of the time, but where is it succeeding or failing? I am joined by Dalburg’s Kusi Horn...
IDB Invest’s Energy Chief talks about opportunities in Latin America and Carribean
Elizabeth Robberechts, Chief of Energy and Infrastructure at IDB Invest, joins the podcast this week to talk about how they look at investments and in...
How can Web3 and Regenerative Economics fight climate change?
The concepts of Web3 and Regenerative Economics is new to many of us, but both can play a key role in addressing climate change. Anna Lerner, CEO of...
How World Bank’s MIGA insures climate project in challenging environments
The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) is the political insurance arm of the World Bank Group and provides a number of financial products...
The UK’s Climate Finance Accelerator and its innovative approach to technical assistance
Accessing climate financing at scale can prove challenging because of a lack of track record or visibility to attract the right investors. Ian Callagh...
Upstream Investing: Don Purka shares how IFC goes deeper in emerging markets
Don Purka, Principal Investment Officer for Energy at IFC, describes how IFC's shift to investing "upstream" in emerging markets to address the market...
How British International Investment looks to address climate change through investment
What is Britain doing to address international climate change? Geoff Manley, from the newly minted British International Investment, talk about the d...
FinDev Canada on investing and strategy moving forward
What is FinDev Canada and what does it do? Since its inception a few years ago, FinDev Canada has been committed to making impactful investments in A...
How the US Development Finance Corporation (DFC) works globally?
The US DFC is a relatively new Development Finance Institution since it evolved from its predecessor, OPIC. This has meant a greater emphasis on clim...
IDB Natural Capital Labs Greg Watson shares the critical role NC plays in climate change and development
Why is Natural Capital investing so important? IDB’s Natural Capital Lab lead Greg Watson shares the priorities of the IDB around investing into natu...
Canadian Commercial Corporation’s Antony Rizk on Canadian exporters
The Canadian Commercial Corporation (CCC) is truly a unique Crown corporation that allows Canadian companies to compete for government-to-government c...
IDB Lab’s Anita Fiori shares how they invest in start ups in Latin America and Caribbean
IDB Lab’s is a unique entity within the DFI community because of the early stage investments they can make. Anita Fiori leads IDB Lab’s venture capit...
Dutch investor FMO’s Floor van Oppen explains FMO’s work in blended finance
We’re back in the Netherlands, this time with the Dutch Financial Institution, FMO. A user of blended finance before it was known as blended finance,...
Canada at COP26: Reflections from Canada's Climate Change Ambassador Patricia Fuller
Ambassador Patricia Fuller is Canada’s Ambassador for Climate Change and was a member of Canada’ delegation to COP26 in Glasgow. She shares her impre...
Recap on COP26 and Climate Finance for 2021
In the final episode for 2021, Faheem and Rachel reflect on the conversation with Ambassador Fuller and share more information that came out of COP26...
Darren Moens explains Climate Fund Managers’ unique approach to climate investments
Climate Fund Managers is about to launch their second fund focused on water, oceans and sanitation. In this episode, Darren Moens explains to Rachel S...
Denise Odaro, IFC’s IR head, talks about Treasury and ESG among its partners
What is the role of IFC Treasury and how does it work with Financial Institution to advance Climate objectives? This week we are joined by IFC’s Head...
Impact Investors and DFIs- A Canadian example of how to work with DFIs
In this episode, we welcome back Alexa Blain, co-founder and Managing Partner of Deetken Impact. She follows up on her Climate Finance Roundtable Disc...
Michelle Hallack (BID) décrit le potentiel de l’hydrogène pour les régions de l’Amérique latine et des Caraïbes
La spécialiste principal de l'hydrogène à la Banque interaméricaine de développement parle de l'hydrogène comme source d'énergie renouvelable. Michel...
IDB's Michelle Hallack described the hydrogen potential in Latin America and Carribean
The InterAmerican Development Bank's Senior Specialist on Hydrogen joins the podcast this week to talk about hydrogen as a renewable energy source. M...
Vincent Duijnhouwer discusses EBRDs Climate Finance commitments
The European Bank for reconstruction and development has made aggressive Climate Finance commitments. In this special episode, Climate Finance Trade C...
Vincent Duijnhouwer discute des engagements de la BERD en matière de financement climatique
La Banque européenne pour la reconstruction et le développement (BERD) a pris des engagements majeurs en matière de financement climatique. Dans cet é...
Supply of Capital in Climate Finance
On May 25th, Christian Wray, CEO for JCM Power, moderated a panel with Paulo Martelli (FinDev Canada), Elizabeth Robberechts (IDB Invest) and Nuru Lam...
Demand of Capital in Climate Finance
The second session of the Climate Finance Roundtable on May 25th has Paulo Martelli (FinDev Canada) and Christian Wray (JCM Power) switching roles fro...
Blended Finance Solutions for Climate
Blended Finance plays a critical role in helping bridge the gap between the supply and demand of finance in climate project finance. Chris Clubb (Conv...
US and Canada Climate Finance Policy
In this final session of the Climate Finance Roundtable on May 27th, Faheem Noor Ali moderates a discussion on US and Canadian Climate Finance policy...
IFC Wind expert Sean Whitaker discusses opportunities in Renewable Energy
Sean Whittaker, Principle Renewable Energy Specialist with the International Finance Corporation, the private sector financing arm of the World Bank G...
Sean Whitaker, spécialiste principal pour les industries d’énergies renouvelables à la Société financière internationale, offre un aperçu des opportunités dans le secteur des énergies renouvelables
Sean Whitaker, spécialiste principal pour les industries d’énergies renouvelables à la Société financière internationale, la fenêtre pour le secteur p...
Kruskaia Sierra-Escalante shares how IFC is pioneering modern DFI Blended Finance
The International Finance Corporation has deployed a total of $1.6 billion in concessional donor funds to support 266 high-impact projects in over 50...
Jérémie Dumon explique comment la Société financière internationale est devenue chef de file en matière de financement mixte
La Société financière internationale a déployé un total de 1,6 milliard de dollars en fonds concessionnels afin de soutenir 266 projets à fort impact...
Paulo Martelli, Chief Investment Officer for FinDev Canada, shares their investment philosophy.
Paulo Martello is the CIO for FinDev Canada, Canada’s Development Finance Institution which came about three years ago. In our conversation, Paulo sh...
Stéphanie Émond, VP Impact et Opérations à FinDev Canada, présente l’approche stratégique d’investissement de FinDev Canada.
Stéphanie Émond est VP Impact et Opérations à FinDev Canada, l’institution canadienne de financement du développement qui a vu jour il y a environ tro...
Olivier Mussat, Chief Investment Officer for IFC’s Global Energy Group, shares IFC investment priorities
Olivier Mussat, CIO for the International Finance Corporation’s Global Energy Group, is a lead in a team that oversees a portfolio of over $11bn of en...
Olivier Mussat, Directeur des investissements du Groupe des Énergies Globales de la Société financière internationale (SFI), partage les priorités d’investissement de la SFI
Olivier Mussat, Directeur des investissements du Groupe des Énergies Globales de la Société financière internationale, gère une équipe qui supervise u...
Canadian Executive Director's Office at the World Bank Group
Canada is a founding member of the World Bank Group, is the eleventh largest shareholder in the WBG and holds a permanent seat on the 25-member Board...
Le Bureau de Directeur exécutif pour le Canada au Groupe de la Banque mondiale
Le Canada est un membre fondateur du Groupe de la Banque mondiale (GBM), il est le onzième plus grand actionnaire et occupe un siège permanent au Cons...
Peter Mockel, IFC Principal Industry Specialist, discusses Energy Storage Investing
Peter Mockel, Principal Industry Specialist for embedded systems with IFC’s Climate Business Department, talk to us about IFC’s approach to grid scale...
Shari Friedman discusses Climate Business at the International Finance Corporation (IFC)
The International Finance Corporation, the private sector investment arm of the World Bank Group, has more-than doubling the share of climate-related...
Blended Finance and IDB Invest
Blended Finance plays a critical role in Climate Finance and making strong and impactful climate projects investible. That is why part of Canada’s $2...
Financement mixte et IDB Invest
Le financement mixte joue un rôle essentiel dans le financement climatique et permet d'investir des projets climatiques forts et percutants. C’est la...