July Events Blog: From Canada to Spain to Japan

Explore our July schedule of events and see where our representatives will be making an impact around the world. If you'd like to connect with someone from our team during these engagements, please contact us at info@climatebonds.net. 
 

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This month’s speakers & participants:  

• Sean Kidney, CEO and Co-founder
• Ana Diaz, Global Energy Transition Lead
• Reyes Tirado, Agri-Food Standard Lead
• Yumiko Watanabe, Japan Programme Lead
• Yuuki Hosoya, Programme Analyst 

Events led or co-hosted by Climate Bonds: 
 

3 July | Online 

• Climate Bonds Initiative Q2 Partner Roundtable | 15:00 BST – Representative: Sean Kidney (speaker) 
  *Closed-door session 
   

3, 17 & 31 July | Online

• Transition Finance Workshop Series | 16:00-17:00 JST – Representatives: Yumiko Watanabe and Yuuki Hosoya (speakers) 
  *Invitation-only technical workshops  
  *Co-hosted by Kamakura Sustainability Institute and Climate Bonds Initiative 

7 July | Toronto  

• Climate Bonds Initiative × OMERS – Sustainable Finance Briefing | 10:00 ET – Representative: Sean Kidney 
   

8 July | Montreal

• Montreal: Climate Bonds Initiative × NBC – Internal Briefing | 14:00 ET – Representative: Sean Kidney  
   

22 July | Tokyo 

• At the Intersection of Climate and Finance – Shaping the Future of Transition Finance with Stakeholders | 14:00–16:50 JST – Representatives: Sean Kidney, Yumiko Watanabe (speakers) and Yuuki Hosoya (attendance)
  *Invitation-only seminar hosted by AIGCC, PRI, and Climate Bonds Initiative
   

Other events featuring Climate Bonds:


30 June- 3 July | Seville 

Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) 

 
30 June 

• [Side event] Mobilizing Finance for Sustainable Development: Prospects and Challenges of Innovative Financing Instruments | 12:30 CEST – Representative: Sean Kidney (attendance) 
  *Organised by The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), in collaboration with the UN regional commissions, ECA, ECE, ECLAC, and ESCAP 
   
• [Side event] Energy Transition Financing at a Crossroads: Asia Pacific’s Critical Decade for Action | 14:30 CEST – Representative: Ana Diaz (attendance) 

1 July  

• Multi-stakeholder round table 2: “Leveraging private business and finance” | 10:00 CEST – Representative: Sean Kidney (attendance) 
   
• [Side event] Exploring 2050 Pathways for Sustainable Finance | 13:30 CEST – Representative: Sean Kidney (speaker) 
  *Global coalition of partners,  FiCS, OECD, UNEP FI, ALIDE (association of Latin American development banks), Instituto Clima e Sociedade (ICS - Brazil) and ECF 
   
• [Policy Dialogue] Enabling the Transition: Global & Interoperable Sustainable Finance Policy – Panel 2: Towards interoperable sustainable finance taxonomies | 14:30 CEST – Representative: Sean Kidney (speaker) 
  *Organised by UN DESA, UN-supported PRI, UNEP-FI, Taskforce on Net Zero Policy 

2 July  

• [Side event] Financing an Equitable, Fair, Inclusive and Resilient Future | 08:30 CEST – Representative: Sean Kidney (speaker) 
  *Led by Club de Madrid, CIPÓ Platform, and the Impact Coalition for IFA Reform. *Supporters include: Climate Bonds Initiative, the Bridgetown Initiative, CAF, UN-Habitat, IEA, IE University, Alinnea, Climate Emergency Collaboration Group, The Development Guarantee Group, and the Coalition for the UN We Need (C4UN) 
   
• OECD Roundtable on Mobilising Finance for Clean Energy & Climate Action in EMDEs: Potential of Country Platforms, & Role of Financial Regulators & Supervisors – Representative: Sean Kidney (attendance) 
   
• [Side event] Financing Frameworks for Just Transition | 16:30 CEST – Representatives: Reyes Tirado (speaker) and Sean Kidney (attendance)  
  *Organised by the Ministry of Finance of Brazil, International Labour Organization 
   

3 July  

• Multi-stakeholder round table 5: “Realizing a development-oriented sovereign debt architecture” | 15:00 CEST – Representative: Sean Kidney (attendance) 
   
   

7 July 

• Toronto: Sustainable Finance Market Update & Discussion | 12:00 ET – Representative: Sean Kidney (speaker) 
  *Organised by National Bank Financial Markets 

8 July 

• Montreal: Women in Climate Breakfast | 08:00 ET – Representative: Sean Kidney  
  *Hosted by Sun Life Financial 
   
• Montreal: Investors & Issuers Roundtable | 12:00 ET – Representative: Sean Kidney 
  *Hosted by National Bank of Canada 
   

11 July 

• London: Chinese Climate Finance Law: Enhancing Institutional Understanding and Linkage | 11:30 BST – Representative: Sean Kidney (speaker) 
  *Private, invitation-only roundtable hosted by King’s College London and Peking University School of Transnational Law under Chatham House Rule 

More events to come in August.    

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'Till next time,   

Climate Bonds.