Finance in Common 2025 Agenda

MAIN AGENDA

2025 FINANCE IN COMMON SUMMIT
Fostering Infrastructure and Finance for Just and Sustainable Growth

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07:30 – 09:00

REGISTRATION & WELCOME COFFEE

*Note: Registration will be available all day.

08 :30 – 09 :00

GLOBAL RESEARCH NETWORK (GRN) WELCOME

09:00 - 10:30

● GRN - Mobilising Private Capital: PDBs' Instruments and their Effectiveness

● INVESTING FOR IMPACT TOWARDS JUST & SUSTAINABLE GROWTH

● Innovative role of National Deposit and Development Banks ("Caisses des Dépôts")

● Role of Local Financial Institutions to unlock Energy Access

● Managing currency risk at PDBs

10:30 - 10:45

BREAK TIME

10:45 - 12:15

OPENING CEREMONY

12:15 - 13:45

● FiCS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Closed door session

● LUNCH

13:45 - 14:00

BREAK TIME

14:00 – 15:30

● Addressing the Urban Climate Finance gap: Partnering for Change

● Shifting the balance: why community led and locally owned development is key to ensure just energy transition

● GRN - Maximising the impact of PDBs in financing the transition - challenges & opportunities

● Private Sector Mobilisation for Sustainable Infrastructure

● FiCS Ocean Coalition - Getting ready for UN Ocean Conference

● ARENA - PDBs, Culture, Arts and Sustainable Development

15:30 - 15:45

BREAK TIME

15:45 - 17:15

LEVERAGING PDB INFLUENCE: OPPORTUNITIES FOR ACTION IN A PIVOTAL YEAR FOR SUSTAINABILITY

17:15 - 17:30

BREAK TIME

17:30 - 19:00

● GRN - How can PDBs work as a coherent system?

● Innovative Technical Assistance: Driving Impact Through Global Cooperation

● De-risking Climate Adaptation and Resilient Investments

● Towards COP30 - new mechanisms for scaling up climate finance

● G20 Infrastructure Investors Dialogue - Scaling Up Sustainable Infrastructure Investment through Blended Finance

● ARENA Sport & Art Performance

19:00

WELCOME COCKTAIL @ GRAND CAFE

From 07:30

REGISTRATION & WELCOME COFFEE

08:00 - 09:00

● infrastructure climate resilient fund (icrf)

● Partnering with Philanthropy for Higher Quality Innovative Finance

● Global Solidarity Levies Task Force Ministerial

● Fostering collaboration between PDBs to Advance Sustainable Food Systems

09:00 - 10:30

BY PDBs, FOR PDBs AND BEYOND: MAKING THE SYSTEM WORK IN A MORE INCLUSIVE WAY

10:30 - 10:45

Break Time

10:45 - 12:15

● Scaling Tools to Mobilise Private Investment in EMDEs

● FiCS Lab – accelerating innovative climate finance

● Just Transition and Social Investments

● ARENA HL SEGMENT SPORT TO CHANGE THE WORLD

12:15 - 13:00

● PRESS CONFERENCE

12:15 - 13:45

● Work as a system: enhancing interoperability among PDBs (Closed door session)

● Lunch

13:45 - 14:00

Break Time

14:00 - 15:30

LEVERAGING SUSTAINABLE TRANSITION FINANCE TO PROPEL GREEN INDUSTRIALISATION TRHOUGH CRITICAL MINERALS IN EMDEs

15:30 - 15:45

Break Time

15:45 - 17:15

Harnessing the value of Digital Infrastructure and Artificial Intelligence

● Nature and Biodiversity: Delivering Investments and Finance at Scale

● Advancing the next Generation of Country Platforms

● Greening Financial Systems: Unlocking Capital for Climate and Development

17:15 - 17:30

Break Time

17:30 - 19:00

Path to Climate Resilience – a SIDS and Caribbean Perspective

● Europe in Action for Sustainable Growth

● South African DFIs – Practical steps to improve transition investment collaboration and knowledge sharing

● Sustainable Development & Capital Markets: empowering PDBs

ARENA
15:30 – 16:30
Opportunities & legacy of
major sporting events

16:45 – 17:45
Innovative S4D financing
instruments

18:00 – 19:00
Impacts of Sport on
Education, Gender Equality
and Inclusion

19:30 - 20:30

By invitation only: FiCS Financial Innovation Lab networking event

From 7:30

REGISTRATION & WELCOME COFFEE

08:00 - 09:00

● Are Green Banks key to Unlocking Climate Finance?

● Financing Water: What if National PDBs were the Missing Link?

● Care Infrastructure – An opportunity for PDBs to pave the way for tomorrow’s equality

09:00 - 10:30

PDB TRANSITION FINANCING: FROM KNOWLEDGE TO OPERATIONS

10:30 - 10:45

Break Time

10:45 - 12:15

● Role of Credit Rating and Sustainability Regulation in Capital Allocation to PDBs

● Unlocking Sustainable Investments in Africa

● Empowering SMEs Through Innovative Finance: The Role of Development Banks in Advancing Inclusive and Sustainable Growth

● Sustainable Food Systems, Food Security and Nutrition

● ARENA Cultural and creative industries: how to unlock potential for jobs and growth?

● Infrastructure for Planetary Health

12:15- 13:45

● Unlocking PDB's potential for an Ambitious FfD4 Outcome (Closed door session)

● Lunch

13:45 - 14:00

Break time

14:00 - 15:30

CLOSING CEREMONY