Overview
Join the DevelopmentAid webinar to find out about the rise of the green economy and the availability of green-climate financing.
Topics to be discussed:
- Opportunities and threats for Africa’s agriculture in the global green economy transition
- Assessment of green projects’ investments in agriculture
- Green Taxonomy as an opportunity for the financial sector
- Green economy transition in the eyes of donors, perhaps explaining how projects need to be green or greener, as well as climate-friendly
- Availability of green-climate financing as a demand-driven process towards greening the economy
- Examples from the field on how to introduce green – climate-friendly investments
Webinar speakers :
- Dr. Zelda Anne Elum, a private capacity consultant with Mothergold Ltd (Nigeria) – Dr. Elum is a seasoned lecturer and researcher with the Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Dr. Elum obtained an MSc (Agricultural Economics) from Imperial College London; a Ph.D. (Agricultural Economics) from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, India, and was a postdoctoral research-visiting fellow at the University of South Africa.
- Enrique Rebolledo Garza, Head of Climate Action, IDOM (Spain) – is a climate and green finance expert with more than 20 years of experience in designing and managing green and climate finance architecture, with some personal private equity participation. He has prepared several financing proposals for sustainable infrastructure, particularly in urban environments, and drafted internal policies and procedures to integrate climate risk assessments into investment processes, including climate and energy sector framework documents for the Inter-American Development Bank, and conceptualizing a climate risk certification scheme for the Fonplata / EIB project.
You will have the possibility to ask questions directly at the webinar.
HOST: Ana Marin, Sr. Business Development Manager, DevelopmentAid