CoP-PF4SD Conference 2025: Mobilising private finance towards 2030 and beyond

February 4, 2025


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Auditorium
Feb 4, 2025
8:20 AM8:50 AM
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Practical insights - showcasing effective platforms and initiatives (1)

Veronica ChauBCGPartner and DirectorRoss Ferguson MOBILIST ProgrammeSenior Private Sector AdviserCécile GoubetInstitut de la Finance Durable (IFD)Managing DirectorDaniel PrestonIndiana UniversityClinical Professor
Description
This session will highlight how collaboration and co-operation can help scale the mobilisation of private finance, by showcasing three concrete examples of effective platforms & initiatives. These enrich the blended finance ecosystem by reducing information asymmetries, increasing operational efficiencies, and fostering greater collaboration. The aim is to share key insights on and from these solutions, to increase co-operation around them and consider ways to replicate them.
Auditorium
Feb 4, 2025
9:20 AM10:30 AM
Online

High level Panel – why are we still talking, and not delivering more mobilisation?

Peter CrippsEnvironmental FinanceEditorMary Beth GoodmanOECDDeputy Secretary-GeneralNavid HanifUnited Nations Department of Economic and Social AffairsAssistant Secretary-GeneralBaron WaqaPacific Islands ForumSecretary-GeneralSteve WaygoodAviva InvestorsChief Sustainable Finance Officer
Description
The high-level panel will provide the opportunity to reflect on the current development finance architecture. It will address the challenges that hinder the mobilisation agenda and the effective use of blended finance. The discussion will focus on creating actionable momentum.
Auditorium
Feb 4, 2025
11:00 AM12:00 PM
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Plenary session: How can development actors unlock private sector flows to get capital flowing towards climate adaptation action in developing countries?

Constance ChalchatBNP ParibasGlobal Chief Sustainability Officer, BNP Paribas CIBPilar GarridoOECDDirector, Development Co-operation DirectorateAstrid ManrothWorld BankHead, G20 Global Infrastructure FacilityChristopher MarksMUFG Bank Ltd.Head of Growth Markets, Blended Finance and ECA EMEADharshan WignarajahClimate Policy InitiativeDirector
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In collaboration with ENVIRONET Unlocking finance from private sources for adaptation is essential to contribute to scaled-up climate financing, and blended finance constitutes a key approach for achieving this. This session will discuss how to collectively scale financing for adaptation, considering massive needs, existing efforts and respective potential pathways. It will leverage the upcoming OECD Blended Finance Guidance for Climate Change Adaptation, that provides concrete recommendations for development finance actors to better design blended finance interventions and mobilise private finance towards key adaptation needs and priorities. More specifically, the Guidance focuses on framing the role of blended finance for adaptation in key adaptation sectors, and explores the use of traditional and innovative financing instruments with the potential to amplify the resources towards climate change adaptation.
Auditorium
Feb 4, 2025
1:15 PM2:15 PM
Online

Breakout Session 1-A: What lessons can be learnt from the GSSS bond market?

Rahul GhoshMoody's RatingsManaging DirectorParoche HutachareonPublic Debt Management Office, ThailandBond Market AdvisorAdnane LekhelAmundi Head of Institutional Structuring - Senior Portfolio ManagerMiguel NavarroWorld BankManager Financial Products and Client SolutionsBarbara OldaniNatureFinance, SSDHLead of Sustainability-Linked Sovereign Debt Hub (SSDH)Emma RaiteriOECDPolicy Analyst
Description
By linking scale with impact, green, social, sustainability and sustainability-linked (GSSS) bonds hold immense potential for mobilising private finance towards sustainable development. Yet issuances are largely not happening in the countries or regions that have the greatest financing needs, and which could therefore benefit the most from these instruments. At the same time, investors are often reluctant – or disincentivized – from investing in issuances from developing countries. The session will explore the incentives and disincentives for both issuers and investors to enter the GSSS bond market. The discussion will focus specifically on the role that development actors and other key stakeholders can play in overcoming the barriers and increasing the attractiveness of GSSS bonds, to ultimately scale up the use of these instruments in the mobilisation of private finance.
BB1
Feb 4, 2025
1:15 PM2:15 PM
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Breakout Session 1-B: Taking stock: the reform of MDBs and the mobilisation of private finance

Isabelle Braly CartillierInter-American Development BankLead specialist - Structured PartnershipsCarleigh ChiavielloNewmarket CapitalAnalystSiby DiabiraInternational Finance Corporation - World Bank group Head of Western Europe Hans Peter LankesODI GlobalDeputy Chief Executive and Managing DirectorNancy LeeCenter for Global DevelopmentDirector for Sustainable Development Finance
Description
As the world faces a convergence of crises, MDBs’ resources are in greater demand than ever. Calls to reform the international financial architecture underscore the urgency. MDBs not only need additional resources, but they also need to use these resources more effectively. This session sets out the role of the MDBs in mobilising private capital in developing countries, by outlining their current role in the development finance architecture. It will highlight the importance of the MDB reform agenda – and how to ensure that pathways to deliver reform live up to their potential and mobilise private finance at scale. It will also dive into how MDBs can more effectively use their balance sheets to mobilise more private finance.
Auditorium
Feb 4, 2025
3:00 PM4:00 PM
Online

Breakout Session 2-A: How can data and transparency enable private financial flows to developing countries?

Gary ForsterPublish What You FundCEOMatt KaczmarekBlackRockManaging DirectorAnne LaibleBMZ - German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and DevelopmentSenior Policy OfficerHélène MacéProparcoDirector for Private Finance MobilisationMatt RobinsonMoody's RatingsAssociate Managing DirectorHaje SchutteOECDDeputy DirectorLouise WalkerForeign Commonwealth and Development OfficeHead, Private Sector and Capital Markets Department
Description
Lack of data is a key barrier that prevents private capital from flowing to emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs). The session will focus on the challenges and opportunities of demystifying emerging markets through data to help investors better price risk and make data a lever of private investment. It will focus on the specific data needs of the private sector for different instruments and via different mobilisation channels. The discussion will also zoom in on potential pathways ahead in ensuring that these needs are met – especially by outlining the roles that different market players can play. Finally, it will highlight the role that transparency can play in making lending decisions and managing exposure risks, thereby attracting private investors, and ensuring regulatory compliance.
BB1
Feb 4, 2025
3:00 PM4:00 PM
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Breakout Session 2-B: At the crossroads between crises and development: the role of blended finance in crises and conflict-affected contexts

Soren Peter AndreasenIFU - Danish Investment Fund for Developing CountriesDeputy CEORomina BanduraCenter for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)Senior FellowMartina BrandliEuropean Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)Blended Finance EconomistYuriy ButsaMinistry of Finance of UkraineGovernment Commissioner for Public Debt ManagementMichał FaleńczykOECDHead of the OECD-Ukraine Liaison OfficeMaryna RymkinaHorizon CapitalInvestment Director, Impact & ESG Advisory
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The development community agrees on the need to address conflicts and crises, as global security is a prerequisite to sustainable development. This session will dive into the role and potential of blended finance in conflict and crises-affected contexts, with focus on Ukraine. It will outline the current landscape of blended finance in these contexts and highlight the main challenges and opportunities for development finance providers to unlock additional resources for reconstruction and development. In particular, the session will explore how international development actors can better implement blended finance instruments and approaches to address these crises and build resilience.
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