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November 6, 2020

Green Horizon Summit to Accelerate the Race to Zero, Highlight Innovative Solutions.

• Summit on how to close the financing gap between net zero ambitions and reality to be hosted by the City of London Corporation, Green Finance Institute, and the World Economic Forum.

• All sessions would be live-streamed on the Forum’s website from 9-11 November.

• HRH, the Prince of Wales, and First Minister Nicola Sturgeon join leaders from business, civil society, and key international organizations, including the ECB, IMF, and UN, to discuss critical topics like ESG metrics, funding green investments, and accelerating investment in green innovation.

Photo: A Participant at the Inaugural Meeting of the Global Fourth Industrial Revolution Councils, 2019. Image provided by & Copyright © World Economic Forum / Stephen Porter. [File Photo]

Geneva, Switzerland, November 6, 2020 - The City of London Corporation, in collaboration with the Green Finance Institute and supported by the World Economic Forum, is hosting a virtual summit 9-11 November that will focus on green finance in the recovery from COVID-19.

The Green Horizon Summit will bring together leaders from government, business, and civil society to close the financing gap between net zero ambitions and reality. Each session will help drive forward the role of green finance in the recovery from COVID-19.

The Summit will cover five major themes:

• Reporting, Risk Management, and Return
• Financing the Energy Transition
• Infrastructure and Green Growth
• Financing Resilience and Adaptation
• Nature and Net Zero

All sessions will be live-streamed and captioned.

Featured speakers include:

• Michael R. Bloomberg
  Founder, Bloomberg LP & Bloomberg Philanthropies

• Christiana Figueres
  Founder, Global Optimism

• Larry Fink
  Founder, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer of BlackRock, Inc

• Kristalina Georgieva
  Managing Director, International Monetary Fund

• Antonio Guterres
  The Secretary-General of the United Nations

• Christine Lagarde
  President of the European Central Bank

The Forum will host day three (November 11) of the Summit. This ‘practitioners’ day’ will focus on putting the frameworks into place and funnel finance into a net-zero economy. It will feature a range of practitioners covering a new generation of asset managers, banking, big data, professional services to hear how we can make the transition a reality.

Key topics covered on this day include building common Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) metrics, shaping the future of work and skills, and accelerating and finance innovation that will facilitate the race to zero.

Source: World Economic Forum

|GlobalGiants.Com|

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