The Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance (the Lab) is an investor-led initiative that identifies, develops, and launches promising solutions to drive public and private investment to action on climate change in emerging economies.

One of the core members and funding partners of the Lab is The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). Understanding how innovative climate finance solutions are a significant catalyst to increasing public and private finance to promote sustainable and resilient agriculture practices with smallholder farmers globally, IFAD joined the effort to help build the Lab’s expertise in sustainable agriculture.

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Webinar #3: Enhancing impact of AFOLU finance instruments
Wednesday, September 29 2021, 12:00-13:00 GMT (14:00-15:00 CEST)

This is the third webinar in the Climate Finance for Sustainable Agriculture: The Lab Webinar Series. It presents the Manual for enhancing environmental and socio-economic impact assessment of Lab-support instruments, which contains methodological guidelines for impact assessment of Lab instruments focused on agriculture, forestry, and land use (AFOLU). It also presents early findings of the Climate Policy Initiative’s brief Government Tools and Agricultural Lab Instruments showing how complementary approaches and designs (i.e. connections with government tools) to financial instruments can further offer opportunities for them to overcome barriers.

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Speakers and Panelists:

• Daniela Chiriac, Senior Analyst, Climate Policy Initiative
• Rosaly Byrd, Program Coordinator, Climate Policy Initiative
• Amath Pathe Sene, Director, IFAD
• Hugues GOA, Director, ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development