30 Jan 2025 | 14:00 – 16:30 (Athens time)
Athens

Despite great progress in low-carbon technologies, global investments and decarbonization efforts are still falling behind what is required. The objective of this workshop – co-organized by E3Modelling and the PRISMA project – is to identify bottlenecks slowing down the climate transition with a particular focus on financial aspects. The meeting brings together leading climate transition researchers and scientists with practitioners from the finance and technology fields to discuss the financial requirements of the low-carbon transition and how to spur the technological advancements required for net-zero.

• Welcome and introduction of the workshop. Panagiotis Fragkos (E3Modeling) and Massimo Tavoni (CMCC)
• The impacts of the cost of capital on the transition towards net-zero. Bjarne Steffen (ETH)
• The role of climate risk influencing short and medium-term financial and economic decisions. Leonidas Paroussos (E3Modelling)
• Latest update of the long-term NGFS scenarios. Elmar Kriegler (PIK)
• Reaction from PRISMA’s Advisory Board members
• Intervention by Greek finance experts
• Open Discussion

This meeting is part of a project that has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme under grant agreement No 101081604 – PRISMA.

Views and opinions expressed are however those of the speaker(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.