EIB at COP26

EIB President Werner Hoyer tells us why he is feeling more optimistic after a few days at COP26 in Glasgow. President Hoyer explains how the EIB as the EU's climate bank is putting global partnerships to support climate innovation. He also explains how supporting countries on their paths to a zero-carbon future is at the top of the agenda for the EU's climate bank.

It’s high up on the COP26 agenda but can we still save our precious biodiversity? Stientje Van Veldhoven, Vice-President of the World Resources Institute, and Ambroise Fayolle, Vice-President in charge for Climate and Development at the European Investment Bank, tell us why they believe it’s not too late to act!

Fighting climate change and protecting biodiversity: Hans Bruyninckx, Executive Director of the European Environmental Agency, and Chris Hurst, Director General of Projects Directorate at the European Investment Bank, talk about how to speed up climate action and make finance available for environmentally meaningful projects.

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Stephen O'Driscoll, EIB Head of Environmental, Climate and Social Policy, and Nicolette Bartlett, from the Carbon Disclosure Project, help us understand how to make sure that "Paris Alignment" is more than just a buzz word. They explain how companies can be supported in the low carbon journey with good reporting systems and initiatives announced at COP26.

Gender smart investing make both business and climate sense! Exploring the climate-gender nexus with Jessica Espinoza, Co-Chair 2X Challenge, and Tania Colantone, Social Development Specialist at EIB at COP26. They tell us what is behind the new “2X Collaborative” and its new investor guide launched at COP26 by partners EIB, EBRD and the CDC Group. And three years on from the 2X Challenge we chart the progress so far.

Find out how the EIB supports gender equality and women’s economic empowerment.

At COP26, we talk with Cinzia Losenno, adaptation expert at the European Investment Bank. She argues that financing adaptation is the only way to go through this climate crisis and explains how, at the EIB, we are ready to meet the challenge.

Nancy Saich, EIB Chief Climate Expert, and Nathan Fabian, Chair of the EU Platform for Sustainable Finance Platform, get into the nitty-gritty at COP26 on how to measure green and not-so-green investments. They explain what’s behind the numbers.

Cutting CO₂ and supporting green activity in every aspect of business is one of the biggest challenges being debated at COP26. Elina Kamenitzer, Head of the Climate Office-Operations at EIB, and Claire Coustar, Head of ESG at Deutsche Bank, talk about how public and private finance institutions can work together to help companies decarbonise especially in developing countries.

"We native people, we are alive. Governments should see us here and allow us to live", says Telma Taurepang, General Coordinator of the Indigenous Women of Brazilian Amazon, about the importance of protecting forests - the lungs of the earth.

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"From COP26 I expect a greater sense of urgency and stronger commitment. Embrace life - embrace the planet," says famous Marine Biologist Sylvia Earle, asking for more responsibility for the climate we have at COP26.

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Artist and Advisor for Climate Emergency to the Government of Tuvalu talks about what he expects from COP26, the urgency of taking climate action and suicide penguins at conversations@COP26.

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Whatever we do - or rather don't do, will reflect on the newer generations: "She will suffer the consequences, probably more than I will," says an unnamed father at COP26, hoping that we leave a better planet for his young daughter and all the coming generations.

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"I am from Argentina - I am 19 years-old. Today I think it is important that countries reach an agreement because the most devastating consequences are coming in the global south".

"How clearer can it be? I am 21 years-old. The coral reef I used to go as a kid is dead".

"We can't live with coal - we can't live in a black future".

These are the voices of young people here at COP26.

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