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Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2020 09:40:58 +0000

Starting today! 7th OECD Forum on Green Finance and Investment, 6-9 October...

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Join us this week to discuss green finance and investment!

The 7th annual OECD Forum on Green Finance and Investment will explore mobilising finance to green the COVID-19 recovery and maintaining momentum for green, sustainable finance and investment

6-9 October | Virtual event

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Starting at 11:00 CET today, join the 2800+ registered participants and 120 speakers, as the 7th annual OECD Forum on Green Finance and Investment gets underway with scene-setting interventions from Angel Gurría, Kwasi Kwarteng, Inger Andersen, Laurence Boone and Tracey Crowe.

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Read the programme (PDF)

Meet the speakers

Jane Ambachtsheer

Global Head of Sustainability, BNP Paribas Asset Management

Thierry Déau,

Founder and CEO, MERIDIAM, President of Finance for Tomorrow

Inger Andersen

Executive Director,

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Frank Elderson

Executive Director, Supervision, De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB); Chair, Central Banks and Supervisors Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS)

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Minister of Finance,

Indonesia

John Glen

Economic Secretary,

HM Treasury (and City Minister),

United Kingdom

Full list of speakers

New OECD Green Finance and Investment reports released today...

Green Infrastructure in the Decade for Delivery: Assessing Institutional Investment

This report provides a first-of-its-kind detailed quantification of infrastructure investments by institutional investors and delivers policy guidance to scale up institutional investment. OECD experts will present the findings during a dedicated Forum session at 15:00 on 8 October.

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Developing Sustainable Finance Definitions and Taxonomies

This report maps sustainable finance definitions and taxonomies in five jurisdictions. It also identifies preliminary taxonomy design considerations to help policy makers develop and grow sustainable finance markets to help achieve environmental and sustainable development goals.

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Special thanks to our sponsors, including:

The government of Japan

Meet all our sponsors

Investing in nature can help protect us from a future pandemic...

Biodiversity finance is critical for delivering the transformative changes needed to halt and reverse the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services. Meanwhile, OECD analysis shows that government support that is potentially harmful to biodiversity is around USD 500 billion a year, and that happens to be more than five times the spending that is allocated to protect biodiversity, which amounts to around 85 billion per year globally. In the age of COVID-19, we need urgent action on biodiversity for sustainable development.

Watch the highlights from our Secretary-General's video message presented at the UN Summit on Biodiversity on 30 September 2020.

New report: OECD Environmental Performance Review of Greece 2020

The report assesses Greece’s environmental performance progress towards its environmental objectives since the last Review in 2009; mainly Greece’s progress in reducing its dependence on fossil fuels, deploying renewable energy sources and on its climate and energy targets. It looks at the risks facing the tourism and agriculture sectors from climate change, and at how Greece is handling other challenges such as air pollution, waste management, and growing pressures on fresh water supplies and biodiversity.

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Making the green recovery work for jobs, income and growth

A green recovery will significantly enhance the resilience of economies and societies in the face of both the severe recession and accelerating environmental challenges. Why is tackling this challenge now more important than ever? And how can governments step up action?

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OECD policy responses to Covid-19

What are the impacts and consequences of the coronavirus pandemic on our lives and our societies – and what are some of the solutions we can find to boost our healthcare systems, secure our businesses, maintain our jobs and education, and stabilise financial markets and economies?

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