London Climate Action Week: Inclusive Green Finance / Webinar

Centre for Sustainable Finance at SOAS University of London and AFI are organizing London Climate Action Week on 30 June at 9 AM (UTC).

How can financial services in general and digital finance in particular allow vulnerable groups to better address climate risks, enhance their resilience to climate-related economic shocks, and use financial tools to reduce environmental degradation and mitigate climate change? 

This London Climate Action Week event will discuss the role that inclusive green finance can play in boosting resilience of those at the bottom of the economic pyramid and reduce their vulnerability to global environmental change, and how it can contribute to advancing a just transition. It will also consider policies that central banks and regulators can adopt to enhance inclusive green finance. 

Presentation: Inclusive Green Finance: From Concept to Practice 

• Laura Ramos, Policy Manager, Inclusive Green Finance, Alliance for Financial Inclusion 
• Ulrich Volz, Director of the Centre for Sustainable Finance and Reader in Economics, SOAS, University of London & Senior Research Fellow, German Development Institute 

Panel discussion 

• Shamshad Akhtar (tbc), Chair of the Board of Directors of Karandaaz Pakistan & Former Governor of State Bank of Pakistan 
• Veronica Bayangos (tbc), Director of the Supervisory Policy and Research Department at Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas 

• Patience Yeboah-Nkansah (tbc), Assistant Director, Other Financial Institutions Supervision Department, Bank of Ghana 
• Najwa Mouhaouri (tbc), Lead of the Green Finance Unit at Bank Al-Maghrib 

 If you would like to join this event please register using this link.  

Should you have any questions regarding the event, please reach us at afievents@afi-global.org.

AFI’s Inclusive Green Finance (IGF) workstream is part of the International Climate Initiative (IKI)  supported by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU), based on a decision of the German Bundestag.