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The Power of Resilience: Developing Local Sustainable Finance

Date: 23 September 2021 (Thu)
Time: 10:30 London | 11:30 Geneva/Cairo | 12:30 Nairobi | 16:30 Bangkok | 17:30 Beijing | 18:30 Incheon

Event Description

Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) has joined the programme Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030), a 10-year long initiative to strengthen the resilience of cities around the world.

This webinar brings together the main organisations supporting cities and municipalities around the world, as well as partners of the MCR2030. We will discuss how the challenges and opportunities for cities to become greener are impacted by the pandemic, and how resilience can set the tone and pace of developing sustainable finance.

Speakers
  • Opening Remarks: Sanjaya Bhatia, Head of Office UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) Global Education and Training Institute (GETI)
  • Moderator: Sean Kidney, CEO, Climate Bonds Initiative
  • Emani Kumar, Deputy Secretary General, ICLEI and Executive Director, ICLEI South Asia
  • Émilie Maehara, Deputy Executive Director of the Global Fund for Cities Development (FMDV), UCLG
  • Idan Sasson, Project Coordinator at Climate Policy Initiative, Leadership for Urban Climate Investment (LUCI), CCFLA
  • Aditya Bahadur, Research Associate, Global Risks and Resilience, ODI 

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