Welcome

MC - Georja Calvin-Smith, Writer, TV Journalist

Matthew Gamser, CEO, SME Finance Forum

Opening Remarks

Makhtar Diop, Managing Director and EVP, International Finance Corporation (IFC)

Keynote

Vivek Pathak, Director and Global Head of Climate Business, International Finance Company (IFC)

Keynote: Green Finance and SMEs – The same path to resilience and sustainability

Speaker:

Dr. Barbara Buchner, Global Managing Director, Climate Policy Initiative

The finance gaps and finance barriers for SMEs share much with green finance. In this keynote, Dr. Barbara Buchner, Global Managing Director of Climate Policy Initiative, will provide an overview of where the world stands on overall global climate finance and why there aren’t more green finance activities. She will also outline where the policy and finance communities can focus their collaborative efforts to scale SME finance that is sustainable and resilient and share concrete opportunities to support and scale green SME efforts.