Approaches Financing for Energy Efficient Buildings in Cities

Topics:

• Should cities be engaged in building energy efficiency retrofit finance? If so, how? Short term? Long term?
• What do cities need in order to be successful in this role (e.g. technical assistance, access to private sector investors, resources)?
• How can cities best encourage private investment in energy efficiency?
• How can we best mitigate risk to make these investments more palatable?
• To what extent is performance-based lending being explored by cities / their partners?

Speakers

• Opening: David Miller, Former Chairman of the C40 and Former Mayor of Toronto Advisor to the President of the World Bank, Canada
• Sander Vester, Advisor for Corporate Finance, City of Amsterdam
• Peter Boyd, COO, The Carbon War Room
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• Sebastian Lange, Associate Human Settlement Officer, UN-HABITAT Download Slides Download Summary
• Satoshi Chida, Director of Urban and Global Environment Division, Tokyo
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• Christopher Flensborg, Head of Sustainable Products and Product Development, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AG, Stockholm
• Yvonne Lynch, Sustainability Policy Coordinator, Melbourne
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• Adam Zimmerman, Senior Vice President, Enterprise Cascadia
• Closing: David Miller, Former Chairman of the C40 and Former Mayor of Toronto, Advisor to the President of the World Bank, Canada