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Climate change mitigation and adaptation will require increased flows of private capital and more effective leveraging of public capital especially to and within developing nations. What role does domestic law and regulation play in enabling public-private climate finance? How can law-makers and regulators support the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement? To date, policy-makers and practitioners have largely focused on project transactions and climate aid. While these are valuable, truly systemic change will require an integrated framework of domestic law and regulation that is ‘fit for purpose’ to de-risk, unlock, mobilise, leverage and mainstream public-private climate finance in-country. This level of change presents a new challenge for many law-makers around the world. Yet learning from the experiences of early-movers can equip all participants to help other countries initiate their own legal and regulatory reforms so we can build critical mass for a truly global transformation.
This was a public event ahead of a closed workshop focusing on Global South-South exchange and capacity building for ‘legal readiness’ for climate finance. It was supported by a King’s Together Grant comprising an all-female leadership team from across Law (with Dr Megan Bowman and Dr Katrien Steenmans), Geography (with Dr Helen Adams), and King’s Business School (with Prof Juliane Reinecke).
Speakers:
- Keynote: Mr Leonardo Beltrán, Deputy Secretary of Planning and Energy Transition, Ministry of Energy, Mexico
- Mr. Perumal Arumugam, Programme Officer, Sustainable Development Mechanisms programme, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Secretariat
- Mr Steven Malby, Head of the Commonwealth Office of Civil and Criminal Justice Reform within Governance and Peace Directorate, Commonwealth Secretariat