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The time has come to unlock climate finance for cities. On all continents, there are cities ready to take climate action. Their leaders have developed climate strategies and detailed plans that will allow urban emissions to be reduced significantly – from housing, transport and industry. These city climate plans also set out how the daily lives and climate resilience of citizens and communities will be improved at the same time, with better designed neighbourhoods and services that enable low-carbon, climate resilient living and working. What’s needed is public funding and private finance. This roundtable is an opportunity to bring together representatives of cities and investors, as well as a small number of supply chain leaders, to explore several innovative climate finance initiatives and demonstrators and to determine what is needed to bring more finance forward for implementation without delay.

There are several UK partners attending New York Climate Week who have been driving forward the climate finance agenda in the UK including 3Ci, Arup, the former Deputy Mayor of London and SDCL who partnered with Greater London Authority to create London EDGE fund (£100 million for decarbonisation projects across London), Ameresco, and the former Mayor of Bristol who led Bristol City Leap (£1billion low carbon energy infrastructure public-private partnership with Ameresco).

When & Where:

Wednesday, Sept 25th, 2024

New York

In-person event: Closed