Le Bourget – Cities&Regions Pavilion – Green Zone – Workshop Room |   05/12/2015

The workshop will elaborate how to best create matchmaking opportunities between cities seeking access to finance for their low-carbon projects and investors that look for bankable city-level projects. The discussion will focus on a concrete public transportation project in the city of Balikpapan (Indonesia) that has been submitted under the ICLEI-led Transformative Action Program (TAP) to flag it to potential funders. South Pole and Gold Standard will present a pre-feasibility assessment for this project under the Low Carbon City Lab, and discuss the project’s suitability for result-based finance. Starting from this project, the participants will discuss lessons from TAP, the WWF Earth Hour City Challenge and a CDP project on how to enable matchmaking between investors and cities.

2. Confirmed participants
• Renat Heuberger, CEO, South Pole Group
• Victor Gancel, Program Manager Low-Carbon City Lab, Climate-KIC
• Maryke van Staden, Program Manager Low Carbon Cities, ICLEI
• Elyzabeth Emmy Head of Environmental Affairs, City of Balikpapan (TBC)
• Sarah Leugers, Director, Marketing and Communications, Gold Standard
• Kaveh Rashidi, PhD student, South Pole Group
• Carina Borgström Hansson, Global Lead Earth Hour City Challenge, WWF
• Juliette Daniels and Katie Walsh, CDP, Cities Managers