USAID Webinar: Catalyzing Finance for Climate Action

Catalyzing finance for climate action is essential to achieving goals for limiting global warming. USAID can play a pivotal role across partner countries by supporting activities that catalyze and crowd in private capital to climate-focused investments. This event featured two innovative cases examples of donor support for climate finance- the Climate Resilience and Adaptation Finance and Technology Transfer Facility (CRAFT) and the BioCarbon Initiative for Sustainable Forest Landscapes (IFSL). Panelists from USAID offer insights and discuss the relevance of these experiences to the Agency’s climate strategy.  

Speakers:
Gillian Caldwell, USAID Climate Change Coordinator and Deputy Assistant Administrator Bureau for Development, Democracy, and Innovation (DDI) 
Sashi Jayatileke, USAID Senior Climate Finance Advisor Center for Energy, Environment and Infrastructure 
Roy Parizat, World Bank, BioCarbon Fund Initiative for Sustainable Forest Landscapes 
Jay Koh, Co-founder & Managing Director of The Lightsmith Group 
Robin Young, Senior Investment Advisory, USAID/ INVEST