Green Building Development and Financing Green and Energy Efficient Buildings in China

This presentation provided a brief introduction to the work of the Wuppertal Institute, as well as an overview of green building development in the People's Republic of China. This includes the market growth and environmental impacts of the PRC's building sector, green building policy framework, and green building market. It also examined the investment gaps for green and energy-efficient buildings, drivers for private investment through green financing, and financing innovations for green building and energy efficiency.

Market Accelerator for Green Construction (MAGC) Using EDGE Online Tool

This presentation discussed the United Kingdom's international climate finance efforts, highlighting its Market Accelerator for Green Construction program in partnership with the International Finance Corporation (IFC). The program provides technical assistance and concessional finance to drive financing and construction of more energy-efficient green buildings.

Katherine Foster

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Katherine Foster is CIO of the Sustainable Digital Finance Alliance a partnership between the UN Environment Program and Ant Financial Services Group, harnessing emerging technologies for sustainable finance. A former Canadian diplomat specialized in human security and climate, Katherine later became Innovation Lead then Business Development Lead for the EU’s Climate-KIC.

Verena Streitferdt

Verena has over 10 years of work and research experience in the field of policy advisory/project development especially on the topics of energy efficiency: policy & finance, energy/climate policy and urban governance in the South East Asian context. In her PhD research, she explored how far the public sector can assist to optimize energy efficiency finance initiatives by analyzing in-depth two energy efficiency finance programs, one focused on ESCOs and one on banks.