Spotlight On: How do We Accelerate the Involvement of Banks in Innovative Solutions?

Banks are often hesitant to engage with emerging solutions, citing regulatory constraints, technical unfamiliarity, or insufficient scale. This session unlocks how commercial banks, public finance bodies and innovation programmes can work together to build bank-ready projects, channel capital to early commercial technologies, and reduce perceived risk.

• What will give banks greater confidence in financing innovative climate technologies?

• How can innovators work more effectively with banks and public finance institutions to structure investable propositions?

• Where are blended, catalytic or public–private finance models already helping first-of-a-kind projects move forward?