COP26 side event: Mobilising finance for clean tech deployment

During the event, the first three successful projects from the first call for small-scale projects have signed their grant agreement and present their activities. The projects focus on the decarbonisation of flat glass production, the provision of innovative renewable heating to industrial applications, and the direct capture of CO2 through water.

Following the signature ceremony, project promoters and financiers from both public and private sector around the world discussed how to accelerate investments in technologies with a recognised potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions but which are currently too expensive to get to scale and compete with fossil-fuel based incumbent technologies. The discussion will not only focus on financing clean tech in Europe, but also in the US and developing countries. 

Conference Agenda (Central European Time)

15.30: Introduction (Mauro Petriccione, Director General, DG CLIMA, European Commission)

15:35: Presentation of the first three projects awarded a grant under the Innovation Fund and signature ceremony:

• Dirk Beckers, Director, European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA)
• Nicolas Graveline, Head of International Development, NewHeat, (project Decarbomalt Croatia)
• Karl-Josef Ollfisch, Senior Project Director, Saint Gobain Glass (project Batch and Cullet Preheating technology)
• Edda Sif Aradóttir Pind, CEO, Carbfix (project Silverstone)

16.00: Panel discussion

• Ann Mettler, Vice President Europe, Breakthrough Energy
• Thomas Östros, Vice President in charge of energy, European Investment Bank
• Jean-David Malo, Director, European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA)
• Susanne Pedersen, Director of UNEP DTU Partnership

16.25: Q&A