Session to include: What steps can be taken by financiers, funders and clients to de-risk investments to make major and strategically significant infrastructure projects more attractive and bankable for those organisations looking to invest in them. What can the IFIs do practically to de-risk and leverage in investment? The role of clients in funding projects. Managing risk and dealing with uncertainty. Bridging the world’s multi-trillion-dollar investment gap in order to achieve net zero by 2050.

How can the key issues of lack of funding, climate change and technology challenges be addressed and overcome to encourage investment in the major infrastructure the world badly needs?

Speakers to be drawn from financiers and funders, the MDBs and IFIs, consultancy firms working in the field and also politicians and/or government officials.
 

Moderator: Manish Kothari, Board Member, FIDIC - USA