Keynote: Financing the energy transition, how ECAs can become change makers

Katharine Morton

Head of Export, Project and Development Finance

Eric Usher, head of the UNEP Finance Initiative, discusses how government, multilateral agencies, corporates, and financial institutions can help realise emission reduction targets and climate goals. Getting the transition right involves ECAs becoming change makers.

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