UNEP's 2nd Workshop on the Environment brought together approximately 80 participants including ECAs, financial institutions, government officials, intergovernmental bodies and non-governmental organizations from 16 countries worldwide for an informative and interactive two-day event. The workshop focused on two distinct areas: Day one looked at design and implementation of monitoring provisions as a means to ensure identified environmental risks of a given project do not materialise. Day two built on the discussions of last year's workshop, identifying the financial risks and opportunities of climate change as they pertain to ECAs.

Overall, the workshop clearly provided a good opportunity for ECAs to share past experiences and to learn how to better implement their respective environmental guidelines in the future. ECAs were also encouraged to start thinking of innovative products they could offer to respond to the global challenge of climate change. Participants have since expressed great interest in a Third Workshop on the Environment and in possibly contributing to the formation of specific working groups to advance the discussions and ideas raised during the event.

Day One

• Monitoring Provisions Survey (PDF - 84 KB)
  Martina Otto, UNEP
  
  
• Case Study 1 - Environmental Monitoring Provisions
  Emmanuel Boulet, Coface (Presentation Leader)
  Mael Busson, Coface
  Antonella Gentili, SACE
  
  • OMIFCO - Introduction (PDF - 179 KB)
    
  • OMIFCO - Presentation 1 (PDF - 732 KB)
    
  • OMIFCO - Presentation 2 (PDF - 417 KB)
    
  • OMIFCO - Presentation 3 (PDF - 187 KB)
    
    
• Case Study 2 - Environmental Monitoring (PDF - 161 KB)
  Martin McKee, ECGD
  
  
• Interactive Session
  Participants were given the opportunity to design a monitoring system for a fictitious case
  > Full set of interactive session materials (including stakeholder identities) (PDF - 262 KB)
  
  
• Wrap up of Day one (PDF - 164 KB)
  Diana Smallridge, International Financial Consulting

Day Two

• Introduction (PDF - 85 KB)
  Andrew Dlugolecki, Andlug Consulting
  
  
• Significance of Kyoto Mechanisms for ECAs (PDF - 5.3 MB)
  Barbara Wieler, PwC
  Volker Klein, PwC
  
  
• Climate Change Impact of ECAs' Business (PDF - 690 KB)
  Ash Sharma, Energy for Sustainable Development Ltd.
  Saila Turunen, EKN
  
  
• Climate Change and the Financial Services Industry - Realising Value (PDF - 200 KB)
  Martin Whittaker, Innovest Strategic Value Advisors, Inc.
  
  
• Possible Solutions for the Kyoto Markets
  Aiko Bode, Gerling
  
  
• Overcoming Barriers to Wind Energy in Developing Countries (PDF - 803 KB)
  Karin M. West, European Wind Energy Association
  
  
• Export Finance for Wind Energy - An Exporter's Perspective (PDF - 698 KB)
  Andreas Wagner, GE Wind Energy
  
  
• Group Work
  Brainstorming for products and services ECAs could offer to encourage uptake of sustainable energy technologies and projects (see detailed summary of the Workshop)(PDF - 200 KB)

Related Document

Detailed summary of the Workshop (PDF - 200 KB)

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