6th Annual Green Bank Congress 2018 | Green Bank Network | 28 November 2018 | Ritz Carlton Pudong, Lujiazui, Pudong, China, 200000

The annual Green Bank Congress brings together green finance practitioners, commercial bankers, development banks, private sector infrastructure companies, international climate organizations, government officials and others from around the world to discuss ways to increase deployment of low carbon, climate-resilient infrastructure through greater private investment.

The IPCC’s fall 2018 report finds that if the 1.5˚C goal is to be met, investments in low-carbon energy technology and energy efficiency will need to increase by roughly a factor of five by 2050 compared to 2015 levels. This will require an unprecedented mobilization and redirection of domestic and international capital. In short order, successful strategies will have to be adapted and scaled and new financial instruments will have to be deployed to apportion risk in novel ways. Stable and effective enabling environments will have to be put in place that are nevertheless sufficiently flexible to account for rapid change.

Crucially, each unit of public or donor money will have to be used to mobilize multiples of private capital. Expert, specialized financial intermediaries known as Green Banks (sometimes referred to as green finance facilities or green development funds) can be a focal point for facilitating the climate finance ambition and market transformation demanded by the Paris Agreement, while delivering multiple SDG-focused benefits to governments and companies.
Against this backdrop, the Sixth Annual Green Bank Congress provides an exciting opportunity to understand the success stories and the lessons learned by the growing collective of Green Banks around the world, which, from a limited capital base, are mobilizing on average more than 3 times public capital invested while generating sufficient profits to sustain and grow their own operations.

2018 Speakers

Dr. Ma Jun
Member of the Monetary Policy Committee, People’s Bank of China

Kobad Bhavnagri
Head of APAC Economics & Policy, Bloomberg NEF

2018 Partner

• Tsinghua University Centre for Development and Finance