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Sustainable Investment Forum 2016

Venue

Westin New York at Times Square
270 West 43rd Street | New York, NY 10036

The Sustainable Investment Forum will progress the dialogue on the development of effective public- private funding mechanisms for scaling low carbon innovation and the way in which they can to come together to achieve the aims of the Paris agreement.

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The Sustainable Investment Forum, organized by Climate Action, will unite 300 stakeholders from national and regional government, international finance, private industry and carbon management sectors for a day of high level discussion and debate during New York Climate Week.

The appetite for sustainable investment is growing…

  • The UNEP Inquiry concluded that $53 trillion needs to be invested to achieve the aims of the Paris Agreement
  • Ban Ki-moon has urged global business leaders to double investment in wind and solar energy to $600bn a year by 2020
  • The Green Infrastructure Investment Coalition aims to scale green bond investment from $40 billion to $1 trillion

Information:

www.sustainableinvestmentforum.org/

Organizer:

Climate Action
www.climateactionprogramme.org/

Contact:

Anna Watson,
Head of Conference Production
Climate Action
T: +44 (0)20 7871 0173
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Categories

  • Development
  • Innovation
  • Solar energy
Languages: English