ONLINE | Innovation Fund Day : 1st Financing innovative clean tech conference
How can public and private investors join forces with the Innovation Fund to deliver the European Green Deal?
Organised by the Directorate General Climate Action (DG Clima) of the European Commission, the 1st Financing Innovative Clean Tech virtual conference will take place on 25 September 2020 and will bring together financiers and industry representatives to discuss how public and private investors can join forces to deliver the European Green Deal and repair economic damage from the COVID-19 crisis.
It will be a policy discussion on how public and private sectors can work together to scale up key innovative low carbon technologies that Europe needs to reach its decarbonisation objectives. The EC will present the Innovation Fund as a major instrument to implement the European Green Deal, the European Green Deal Investment Plan and the business case for financiers to co-invest into projects supported by it.
The first high level session “How to attract finance for clean tech”, starting at 9:30am, will be moderated by Mauro Petriccione, Director General DG Clima, and will have Cefic DG, Marco Mensink, as one of the panellists, who will bring the views on how the chemical industry and other energy-intensive industries can contribute to financing the technology needed to deliver the European Green Deal. The second high-level session will start at 11am under the topic “How can the innovation fund help?”.
For more information on the High Level session on Financing Innovative Clean Tech, please click here.
In view of the first deadline for submission of project proposals to the first call of the Innovation Fund by 29 October, DG Clima will also organise a webinar dedicated to the calculation on GHG emissions avoidance, and address other frequent asked questions from applicants related tothe application process. The webinar will take place on 15 September 2020, at 10.00 CET, and it will be web streamed (the link will follow soon). Read more here.