Events

Training on Counting Climate Finance

20 September 2018
Mandaluyong City
Philippines

In 2015, ADB pledged to double its annual climate financing to US$6 billion by 2020, with US$4 billion for climate mitigation and $2 billion for climate adaptation.

Through its Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management Thematic Group and Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management Division, ADB organized a Training on Counting Climate Finance to help enhance the capacity of staff to integrate climate change into the Bank’s operations.

The training was also supported by ADB’s other sector and thematic groups including energy, transport, urban, water, and agriculture.

Program and Learning Materials: 
Date Session / Activity Presentation Material Speaker(s)
20 Sep 2018 Welcome Remarks Bambang Susantono
20 Sep 2018 Session 1: Overview on Climate Change: The Politics and Finance Climate Change: The Politics of Action and Finance
Tracking and reporting financial flows is needed to help measure the effectiveness of climate actions. This also helps in building trust ... 		Preety Bhandari
20 Sep 2018 Session 2: MDBs Approach and Methodology on Counting Climate Finance and the ADB Project Cycle Climate Finance Tracking: Joint MDB Approach
Multilateral development banks (MDBs) in 2012 worked together to develop methodologies for tracking their climate finance flows. This helps... 		Esmyra Javier
20 Sep 2018 Session 2: MDBs Approach and Methodology on Counting Climate Finance and the ADB Project Cycle Counting Mitigation Finance-MDB Approach
For an activity to be considered under climate mitigation, it should help promote the reduction of green house gases (GHG) emission or enhance... 		David Elzinga
20 Sep 2018 Session 2: MDBs Approach and Methodology on Counting Climate Finance and the ADB Project Cycle Adaptation Finance
Climate adaptation finance is the cost of activities undertaken to lower the current and expected risks to or vulnerabilities of the project... 		Xianfu Lu
20 Sep 2018 Session 3: Sectoral/Thematic Approach to Climate Finance Tracking (Mitigation and Adaptation) Climate Finance Accounting for Agriculture and Natural Resources (mostly adaptation)
Agriculture and water sectors are likely to be the primary avenue of risk from climate change. This presentation discusses the methodology... 		Nathan Rive
20 Sep 2018 Session 3: Sectoral/Thematic Approach to Climate Finance Tracking (Mitigation and Adaptation) Adaptation Finance (Energy)
This presentation elaborates on the application of the joint multilateral development bank approach in the energy sector. It also discusses... 		Xianfu Lu
20 Sep 2018 Session 3: Sectoral/Thematic Approach to Climate Finance Tracking (Mitigation and Adaptation) Counting Climate Mitigation Finance in Energy Sector
This presentation elaborates on the application of the joint multilateral development bank approach monitoring climate finance. It also discusses... 		David Elzinga
20 Sep 2018 Session 3: Sectoral/Thematic Approach to Climate Finance Tracking (Mitigation and Adaptation) Adaptation Finance (Transport)
This presentation provides an overview of transport issues, and how these feed into ADB’s Sustainable Transport Initiative. It outlines the... 		Charles Rodgers
20 Sep 2018 Session 3: Sectoral/Thematic Approach to Climate Finance Tracking (Mitigation and Adaptation) Mitigation Finance (Transport)
This presentation provides an overview of transport issues, and how these feed into ADB’s Sustainable Transport Initiative. It outlines the... 		Ki-joon Kim
20 Sep 2018 Session 3: Sectoral/Thematic Approach to Climate Finance Tracking (Mitigation and Adaptation) Adaptation and Mitigation Finance (Urban and Water)
This presentation provides an overview of urban and water issues, and tackles how urban and water priorities fed into ADB’s livable cities... 		Virinder Sharma

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