The IDFC Pavilion hosted IDFC members and partners Side Events throughout the two weeks of the COP26 to exchange on Development Finance Institutions alignment on the Paris Agreement, the nexus between Climate and Biodiversity and the role of development banks in Climate Action. Consult the full IDFC Pavilion Programme of Events.

See below the list of our Day by Day Side-Events & replays :

Monday 1^st November, 2021

• Replay available : Fostering access to sustainable urban mobility through efficient low-emission transport Part I /Part II  (Central American Bank for Economic Integration CABEI + Green Climate Fund GCF)

Tuesday 2^nd November, 2021

• Replay available: Innovative Instruments for Green Financing Part I / Part II (Trade and Development Bank TDB + KfW)
• Replay available: Outcomes Finance in Common Summit Part I  / Part II (Finance in Common Summit FICS, Agence Française de Développement AFD) including a lunch reception
• Replay available:  Presentation of BOAD’s 2021-2025 Environment and Climate Finance Strategy Part I / Part II
• Replay available: IDFC – A key player for financing the transition towards low-carbon and climate-resilient development Part I / Part II (IDFC) followed by a cocktail reception

Wednesday 3^rd November, 2021

• Replay available:  Understanding and managing transition risk for development banks Part I / Part II (Agence Française de Développement AFD)
• Replay available: The Role of National PDBs in Financing Green Transition Part I / Part II   (VEB.RF)
• Replay available: Creating fiscal resilience in the face of climate disasters: the West African Approach  Part I / Part II (Banque Ouest Africaine de Développement BOAD + KfW Development Bank)
• Replay Available: Financing W-MSMEs for a Green, Resilient, and Inclusive Recovery in the Central American Region Part I / Part II (Central American Bank for Economic Integration CABEI)

Thursday 4^th November, 2021

• Replay available:  Southeast Asia Energy Transition Dialogue: Challenges and Opportunities to a Low Carbon Pathway in the region (Southeast Asia Energy Transition Partnership)
• Replay available: Shifting US$ 5.8 trillion of real-estate investments towards Paris-alignment – the role of development banks (Agence Française de Développement AFD/PEEB)
• IDFC closed event:  IDFC Annual Meeting
• Replay available: Facilitating Energy Transition Through Sustainable Finance (VEB.RF)

Friday 5^th November, 2021

• Replay available: Just do it: How to implement Paris Alignment successfully (KfW Development Bank)
• Replay available: Just transition or how to make the transition acceptable (Finance for Tomorrow)
• Replay available:  Empowering action through scientific literature: highlights from IPCC 6^th Assessment Report and dialogue with youth and PDBs (Agence Française de Développement AFD)
• Replay available:  Facing the Effects of Climate Change and Increasing Resilience in Central America (Central American Bank for Economic Integration CABEI)
• Replay available : Official side event on UNFCCC Pavilion “Public Development Banks: maximizing their potential to boost a sustainable recovery” with IDFC CEOs and Finance in Common Secretariat

Saturday 6^th November, 2021

• Replay available: Impacts at scale or the genesis of the Green Swan (Agence Française de Développement AFD + IUCN + Posaidon + Microsoft + GCF + BNP PARIBAS) (Agence Française de Développement AFD)
• Replay available:  Climate/Biodiversity convergence: how to measure and increase Climate finance with biodiversity co-benefits? (Agence Française de Développement AFD+ International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD))
• Replay available: How to unlock barriers to scaling-up climate finance for more transformative climate finance (Agence Française de Développement AFD + Climate Policy Initiative CPI)
• Replay available: Conservation Trust Funds as Boosters for Nature Based Solutions (Legacy Landscapes Fund + KfW Development Bank)

Monday 8^th November, 2021

• Replay available: Adapt’Action – Lessons learned and perspectives (Agence Française de Développement AFD)
• Replay available: Climate change an umbrella for livelihoods in coastal marine areas and island territories? (Development Bank of Latin America CAF) – can be watched also on CAF streamlink
• Replay available: Catalyzing Green Recovery (Development Bank of Latin America CAF) – can be watched also on CAF streamlink
• Replay available:  How are PDBs increasing their contribution to the Adaptation Goal of the Paris Agreement? (MCI)

Tuesday 9^th November, 2021

• Replay available: Gender and Climate Nexus within the Perspective of Development Banking (Industrial Development Bank of Turkey TSKB)
• Replay available: Is social the new green? Connecting climate action and social investment (Council of Europe Development Bank CEB)
• Replay available: Making Climate Finance Work in an Uncertain World (Agence Française de Développement AFD + Climate Action in Financial Institutions Initiative)
• Replay available: Assessing company transition with deep decarbonization pathways in Brazil and Mexico – lessons learned from the ACT-DDP Project (Agence Française de Développement AFD + Fonds français pour l’environnement mondial FFEM)
• Replay available: Catalyzing Climate Action in Cities (Development Bank of Latin America CAF) – can be watched also on CAF streamlink

Wednesday 10^th November, 2021

• Replay available: The role of DFI’s in mobilizing resources to a net-zero objective (Brazilian Development Bank BNDES)
• Replay available: Managing Water Challenges in the developing economy: A DFI approach (Development Bank of Southern Africa DBSA)
• Replay available: Supporting Long-term Strategies: Some Lessons from Country Experiences and Implications for Development Banks (Agence Française de Développement AFD)
• Replay available: Financing our Global Health Commons
  (Agence Française de Développement AFD + Center for Global Development)
• Replay available: E-Mobility and Low Carbon Transportation (Development Bank of Latin America CAF) -can be watched also on CAF streamlink

Thursday 11^th November, 2021

• Replay available: The role of Public Development Banks to finance the climate transition in cities (FMDV + Agence Française de Développement AFD + CDG)
• Replay available: What are the levers to boost financing of the energy transition and resilience in Africa? (Climate Chance)
• Replay available: Operationalisation of Paris Agreement (IDFC + German Watch + New Climate + I4CE + WRI)
• IDFC closed event: IDFC – Climate Tool Box – Preparing the way for Paris Alignment
• Closed Event: Paris Alignment technical workshop: Assessing the alignment of financial intermediaries (MCI)

Friday 12^th November, 2021

• Replay available: IDFC Climate Facility: Presentation of CF achievements (IDFC)
• Replay available: The Amazon: Integrated actions for sustainable development (Brazilian Development Bank BNDES)
• Replay available: Implementing green budget tagging: Feedbacks on benefits and issues (Agence Française de Développement AFD)