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Green Energy Africa Summit 2022 was held live in Cape Town. We welcomed C-level executives from across the energy sector, including Utilities, Regulators, Service Providers, Independent Power Producers, International Finance and Investors as well as Ministers and Government officials to discuss the acceleration and adoption of renewable and low carbon energy.

Working towards a robust UN plastics treaty

Join the largest gathering of delegates before INC-3 at a forum for multi-stakeholders to work collaboratively towards a robust UN plastics treaty.

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About this event

In 2022, the U.S. experienced 18 separate climate disasters, each costing more than $1 billion in damages. This tally greatly underestimates the true cost of climate change – and its impact on workers. In a new study, the national nonprofit Commonwealth is examining the impact of climate change on workers, their financial security, and, ultimately, the places they work.

Companies have become increasingly cognizant of their impact on climate change in the environment in recent years, but a new area of study is the impact of climate change on workers – and its implications for worker productivity, employers’ bottom lines, and employees’ financial security.

Join us on Wednesday, October 11, 2023, at 3:00 p.m. ET to better understand the impact of extreme and unusual weather on workers living on low and moderate incomes – and, in particular, the impact on their financial situations.

In this conversation, our friends at Commonwealth will bring together experts for a first look at this original, new research about the realities of how climate change is currently and will continue to affect workers’ health, well-being, and living situations and host a robust discussion on what actions employers, policymakers, and financial institutions can take to mitigate this impact.

Time: 3:00 PM ET

Amid economic uncertainty and intensifying cross-border crises, the need for global finance to deliver on the SDGs is more important than ever. Only a miniscule amount of the overall capital held by private financial institutions flows into emerging markets and developing economies. Global banks, institutional investors, and asset managers hold over $400 trillion in assets under management – many multiple times the capital of global development banks combined.

What will it take to attract more private sector investment in developing countries? What are the opportunities for expanding the pipeline of investible projects in EMDEs? In this event, IFC and other leading global investors will offer lessons learned from successful partnerships and explore innovative ways to mobilize new private sector capital where it is needed most.

This event will be broadcast live from the Annual Meetings in Marrakech, with simultaneous interpretation available in Arabic, French and Spanish.

Grameen Foundation centers its work on three outcomes: increased agency, income and entrepreneurship opportunities, and resilience against shocks. For this year’s International Poverty Day event, we want to explore resilience: What happens after the life of a program, and do the women we serve continue to see real change? Four years ago, we worked with Comfort, a single mom of five who was struggling to feed her family and manage a small cocoa farm. She was seen as an outcast in her community. She couldn’t afford to send her children to school. We invite you to learn more about Comfort, how we worked with her, and what her life has been like since.