This panel will explore what international financial institutions can do to mainstream climate finance and facilitate resource commitments for effective climate change mitigation and adaptation measures given the prevailing uncertain regulatory environment. The panel will discuss, among other things, the available public and private funding mechanisms for climate change mitigation and adaptation activities and related potential governance structures, assess existing and potential future financial mechanisms (including Kyoto mechanisms, such as the Clean Development Mechanism and Joint Implementation and Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMA)-based mechanisms, etc.) It will also debate the current regulatory impasse over climate change and its impact on climate finance and examine possible future regulatory efforts to promote climate finance at the international, regional, and domestic level.

Click here for additional event information. Speakers include: Keynote Speaker: Andrew Steer, Special Envoy for Climate Change, World Bank  Panelists: Richard B. Stewart, Professor at New York University School of Law; Charlotte Streck, Director of Climate Focus, Washington D.C.; Ismid Hadad, Chair of the Working Group on Financial Mechanisms on the National Council on Climate Change, Indonesia and Jean-Philippe Brisson, Counsel, Head of U.S. Climate Change and Environmental Law Practice, Linklaters, New York. Moderator: Charles Di Leva, Chief Counsel, Environmental & International Law, World Bank.