High-level government authorities and officials from international organizations, along with representatives of the private sector, development and commercial banks and multilateral and bilateral cooperation partners, will participate in the Roundtable on Climate Finance and the Energy Transition in Latin America and the Caribbean, which will take place on September 1-2 at the central headquarters of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile.
The event, which will be held using a hybrid format (in-person and virtual), is one of the five Regional Forums on Climate Initiatives to Finance Climate Action and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in preparation for the 27th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27), which are being organized by the United Nations System, the incoming Egyptian Presidency of COP27 and the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions.
The gathering will be inaugurated on Thursday, September 1 at 9 a.m. local time (UTC/GMT -4) by Amina J. Mohammed, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General (virtual); Sameh Shoukry, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Arab Republic of Egypt and President-designate of COP27 (virtual); Mahmoud Mohieldin, Special Envoy on Financing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and Climate Champion COP27 (virtual); León de la Torre, Ambassador of the European Union in Chile; and Mario Cimoli, Acting Executive Secretary of ECLAC.
The event will feature four thematic panels that will address, among other issues, the energy transition, electromobility, sustainable and equitable critical and strategic mineral supply chains for the energy transition, and climate financing for the resilience of Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and other vulnerable States.
It is hoped that the roundtable will activate processes for establishing investment agreements between those responsible for project portfolios in Latin American and Caribbean governments and financial institutions, by defining concrete opportunities to move forward on the region’s sustainable energy transition, the analysis of necessary policy changes, and the bottlenecks that exist for financing and the interaction with both public and private financing and investment sources to mobilize action towards COP27.
Members of the media are invited to follow this meeting via https://live.cepal.org/accionclimatica and ECLAC’s website.
The full programme of the event is available at the following link.
What: Roundtable on Climate Finance and the Energy Transition in Latin America and the Caribbean
Who:
When: Thursday and Friday, September 1-2, 2022
Inaugurating the event (Thursday, September 1 at 9 a.m. in Chile, GMT -4):
Where: ECLAC’s headquarters (Av. Dag Hammarskjöld 3477, Vitacura, Santiago, Chile, Celso Furtado conference room).
Virtual transmission on ECLAC’s website and at https://live.cepal.org/accionclimatica
