Date: 18 June 2024
Time: 09:00 – 10:30
Duration: 90 minutes
Format: Marketplace with pitch presentations and roundtable discussions
Location: TBD
About the event
This marketplace aims to connect UTM cities with international financiers and project preparation facility providers to foster urban climate finance. The in-person event facilitates face-to-face networking opportunities and dynamic idea exchange resulting in collaborative solutions for sustainable urban development. During the marketplace selected cities will have the opportunity to pitch their project ideas to a jury composed of financial experts.
Portuguese and Spanish to English interpretation will be available at the event.
Speakers
Speakers:
- Jaume Marques Colom, Officer – Innovative Finance, ICLEI World Secretariat
- Nicola Iezza, Finance & Funding Helpdesk Manager, Global Covenant of Mayors
- Giorgia Rambelli, Director Mission Innovation Urban Transitions Mission, GCoM
Jury members:
- Adaptation Fund (tbc)
- IDB (tbd)
- Cecília Guerra, Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean (CAF) (tbc)
- Agustin Botteron, City Advisor for the LAC Region for the GCoM-Gap Fund partnership
- John Michael LaSalle, Senior Program Associate, CCFLA
List of cities:
- Puerto Montt, Chile
- Belo Horizonte, Brazil
- Rosario, Argentina
- Avellaneda, Argentina (tbc)
Agenda
Time | Discussion Item | Presenter/Facilitator |
20’ | WELCOME AND OPENING | |
8’ | Welcome and Introduction to TAP | Jaume Marques Colom, ICLEI World Secretariat |
5’ | Overview of UTMC and Finance & Funding Help Desk | Nicola Iezza, GCoM |
7’ | Setting the scene: Need for urban climate Financing – a city perspective | Quelimane (tbc) |
65’ | PROJECT PITCHING & FEEDBACK | |
5’ | Introduction to the jury members | Nicola Iezza, Finance & Funding Helpdesk Manager, Global Covenant of Mayors |
60’ | Each city will have 5 minutes to pitch their project to the jury and the audience. | |
Puerto Montt, Chile – Plan de Inversiones en Infraestructura de Movilidad y Espacio Públic | ||
Belo Horizonte, Brazil – Projeto Piloto para o Parque-aterro, no escopo do Plano de Manejo da Central de Tratamento de Resíduos Sólidos – CTRS BR-040 | ||
Rosario, Argentina – Dry biodigestion of municipal solid waste: pilot project for the expansion of MSW treatment and energy use in the Environmental Treatment Centre of the city of Rosario | ||
Avellaneda, Argentina – Proyecto Planta Solar Fotovoltaica Avellaneda – Hacia el 100% Energías Renovables (tbc) | ||
5’ | WRAP UP AND CLOSING REMARKS | Giorgia Rambelli, GCoM |
Registration
If you want to participate to the live event in Sao Paolo, Brasil, please register at the link below:
