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Expert Forum Climate Finance

June 5, 2025 at ESMT Berlin
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Join us for the third edition of our annual Expert Forum, where leading policy makers, academics, and investors come together to drive solutions for the climate crisis.

June 5, 10:00 am to 6:30 pm
Followed by a networking dinner (invite-only)

Why Attend?

Focus on adaptation and mitigation finance

Sponsored by the Gates Foundation, the event will cover risk-return strategies in climate finance, scaling first-of-a-kind finance, green industrial policy and innovative public-private partnerships.

High-level participants

Engage with policy makers, academics and investors (including development finance institutions and foundations.)

Opportunity for networking

Taking place the same week as Super Return Berlin, Europe's largest venture capital and private equity gathering.

This year's topics

  • Climate Investments and Competitiveness: Risks, Returns, and Realities
  • Sustainable Finance and ESG
  • Addressing Climate Change transcends Politics
  • Green Guarantees: Mobilizing Private Capital for Sustainable Development
  • Financing Resilience by unlocking Capital for Climate Adaptation
  • Green Industrial Policy: Scaling the Industries of the Future
  • Book reading: Capitalism broke the Climate. Now it can fix it

Previous years' events

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Expert Forum Adaptation and Mitigation Finance

2024
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Alternative asset classes such as infrastructure equity and debt, forestry and real estate offer stable long-term investments in real assets that can support climate resilience and adaptation efforts. They also have a low correlation with other asset classes. The various strategies deliver key diversification benefits that public markets alone cannot. Attractive risk/return profiles and a well-balanced and resilient risk landscape also go towards making alternative assets a valuable tool for generating sustainable returns in the actively managed portfolios of institutional investors.

Thomas Bayerl
Global Head of Illiquid Assets and Member of the Board of Directors, MEAG KAG
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European climate tech faces a growth investment crisis. We must bridge the gap and fund scalable technologies for a regenerative future.

Morgan Sheil
Head of Impact, World Fund
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With climate extremes increasingly part of our lived experience, resilience and adaptation have moved up the priority list. Now we must get better at designing commercial solutions by turning loss avoidance into bankable revenue.

Hans Peter Lankes
Managing Director and Deputy Chief Executive, ODI
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Green industrial policies are strategic to drive sustainable economic transformation by investing in clean and circular solutions that are economically attractive and environmentally friendly. By scaling innovative startups, investors decarbonize our industries and enhance energy security to strengthen the competitiveness and long-term resilience of the European economy.

Dr. Isabelle Canu
Partner, Green European Tech Fund
 This is a photo of Lars-Hendrik Röller, ESMT Berlin.

Closing the climate finance gap is crucial to ensuring a successful, resilient, and just transition. Green Guarantees can play a significant role in scaling up climate financing by de-risking investments in environmentally sustainable projects, such as renewable energy, energy efficiency, or climate-resilient infrastructure.

Lars-Hendrik Röller
Chairman of the Green Guarantee Group, Founder & Chair, Berlin Global Dialogue

Contact

Olga Almqvist bio

Olga Almqvist

Senior Manager of the Societal Impact Financing Initiative (SciFi), ESMT Berlin
Keerthana Shekhar bio

Keerthana Shekhar

Assistant to the ESMT Institute for Sustainable Transformation and Reporting Assistant, ESMT Berlin
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