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SUMMARY:GSMA webinar - Digitalising Innovative Finance: Carbon credits and results-based financing
DESCRIPTION:There is a large funding gap for essential services in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The OECD estimates that $6.9 trillion a year is required up to 2030 to meet climate and SDG objectives. While there is a broad consensus among the donor community that private capital should be mobilised to help fill the funding gap\, initiatives to ‘crowd-in’ private sector capital have so far fallen short of expectations. \nStart-ups and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) often struggle to access the right type of financing to achieve impact at scale. This is common in sectors that face regulatory risks such as utility services\, asset-heavy models (e.g. e-mobility\, energy or productive use equipment) or services targeting low-income customers (e.g. clean cooking\, water\, sanitation and hygiene\, or off-grid solar). \nThe GSMA Digital Utilities programme and Mondato Insights recently published a report on the role of digital technology in enabling access to innovative financing instruments to early-stage start-ups\, SMEs\, and service providers in LMICs. \nIn our two-part webinar series on the report\, we are focusing on some of the financing instruments that were covered\, and invite key experts and practitioners to share their perspectives. \nThis first webinar focusses on the role of digital technology in making access to results-based financing and carbon credits more efficient\, transparent and catalytic. \nWe will be joined by a great group of speakers from start-ups\, the private sector and enabling organisations that are directly involved in leveraging digital tools for significant results-based financing (RBF) and carbon credit programmes. \nSpeakers:\n- Zach White\, Senior Insights Manager\, GSMA Digital Utilities\n- Samuel Miles\, Consultant\, Mondato Insights & Chancellor's Fellow UC Berkeley\n- George Kibala Bauer\, Director\, GSMA Digital Utiltiies\n- Susan Smith\, VP Finance Solutions - Public Sector\, Odyssey\n- Stefan Zelazny\, Managing Director\, Access to Energy Institute\n- Kyle Hamilton\, Senior Manager - Strategy and Partnerships\, Nuru\n- Ben Jeffreys\, CEO\, ATEC\n- Daniel Kammen\, James and Katherine Lau Distinguished Professor of Sustainability\, University of California Berkeley
URL:https://www.hsfg.africa/event/gsma-webinar-digitalising-innovative-finance-carbon-credits-and-results-based-financing/
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