Climate finance leadership in a fragmented world

Arrival and badge collection – Welcome coffee

EBRD Opening Remarks

Following introduction by the Master of Ceremony, welcoming the audience, Odile Renaud-Basso, EBRD President, will deliver an opening address. The presidential address will be followed by an intervention from Francis Malige to set the strategic tone of the conference

Fireside Chat: What Defines Financial Sector Resilience in an Age of Climate Change?

EBRD led interview with a high-level panellist.

Plenary Panel: Climate Finance Leadership: Mobilising Capital for a Green Economic Transition

Strategic discussion on the future of green finance in driving sustainable transformation including key learnings from recent climate negotiations, highlighting the need for mobilizing climate finance, and focus on value creation opportunities for the Financial Sector.

Networking coffee

Innovation Labs: The role of insurance in managing climate risk and unlocking new business opportunities for green finance

This session explores the critical role of insurance in accelerating the green transition by de-risking climate investments, enhancing financial resilience, and creating new business opportunities. It will explore innovative products, including parametric insurance.

Innovation Labs: Beyond Green Bonds: exploring new labels to drive decarbonization

Interactive discussion on trends, new instruments, and investor appetite in the green capital market. In this session bring together issuers from our countries of operation, market association and advisors to the table to discuss how the recent evolution in the green capital market and emergence of specific labels, can further drive systemic sectorial decarbonization, with a special lens on financing the energy system decarbonization.

Networking lunch

Innovation Labs – Greening global trade - Driving sustainability across the value chain

Global supply chains are in the midst of a green transition - and commercial banks are right at the centre of this shift. As multinational buyers push suppliers to cut emissions, and regulators tighten expectations around the reporting of financed emissions, banks face a new strategic question: how do we finance the transition of entire value chains, not just individual clients? This session will draw on the experience of industry leaders to spotlight how green supply chain financing is becoming a core driver of competitiveness, resilience, and long-term client value for banks. Join us to identify where the most significant bottlenecks lie and explore future growth opportunities through the lens of leading financial institutions, standard setters, and cutting-edge solutions providers all working to achieve end-end supply chain sustainability.

Innovation Labs – Digitalisation and AI in the green transition

Digitalisation, covering data infrastructure, automation, analytics, and Artificial Intelligence, is increasingly a practical lever for Banks to (1) unlock new green and transition investment opportunities through better client insights, product design, and deal origination; and (2) improving internal efficiency by streamlining processes across credit assessment, risk management, monitoring, and regulatory reporting. For many PFIs, scaling these benefits is constrained by real-world challenges: evolving regulation and disclosure expectations, difficulty measuring and tracking green asset ratios or similar portfolio alignment metrics, and gaps in data availability and quality. This session will provide a business-oriented exchange of practices between and for PFIs, focusing on what is working in implementation and what isn't, including governance, data strategies, operating models, and partnerships. The session will close with practical next steps and structured prompts to enable peer networking and follow-up collaboration.

Investing in the adaptation economy

This interactive discussion examines the evolution of financial institutions’ approaches to climate adaptation and resilience, from a risk mitigation exercise to a valuable commercial opportunity. Themes explored include emerging market opportunities in adaptation finance, how financial institutions can leverage their risk processes to build capacity to develop their adaptation finance business, and what policy transformations will speed the growth of this market—already expected to increase from approximately $1 trillion today to $4 trillion by 2050.

Networking coffee

Strategising for Success: Effective Transition Planning

This session will explore the implementation of transition planning, drawing on case studies and reflecting on experiences across the EBRD’s regions to understand opportunities realized and challenges faced as financial institutions work towards achieving best-in- class corporate climate governance.

EBRD Closing Remarks

Final reflections, key takeaways, and closing remarks.