The round table aims to raise the issue of increasing green financing for Ukraine's transition to clean energy, decarbonisation, energy efficiency, environmental projects while minimizing the negative impact on the environment with the participation of local banks and international financial organizations. 

🔥What are we going to talk about:

📍What is the relevance of the development of green financial instruments, the activities of the European-Ukrainian Energy Agency and the Smarter Finance For Families project.

📍EU Taxonomy: Regulation (EU) 2020/852 (Taxonomy) on the establishment of a framework to facilitate sustainable investment.

📍The role of International Financial Institutions in the development of green financing in Ukraine.

📍Examples of existing "green" financial instruments: "Green" mortgage, Loan Guarantee Fund for Industrial Energy Efficiency in Ukraine, ESCO.

📍How to determine for banks that the project is really "green" - PFAN program.

🔥 SPEAKERS:

✔️Oleksandra Gumeniuk, Director of European-Ukrainian Energy Agency;

✔️Maria Kolganova, Acting Director of the Independent Association of Banks of Ukraine;

✔️Ted Kronmiller, Expert of Smarter Finance for Families;

✔️Oleksiy Parkhomchuk, Investment Director, Representative Ukraine, Investment Fund For Developing Countries;

✔️Serhiy Porovskyy, Principal Expert on Energy Efficiency Financing and Policy, UNIDO;

✔️Oleksiy Savin, Director of the Department of Ecological Reengineering and Implementation of Resource Saving Projects of JSB “Ukrgasbank”;

✔️Tetyana Gryaznova, Director of Economics and Finance of D.Solutions (YASNO brand);

✔️Bogdana Diaconu, Senior Specialist, Corporate Affairs, Communication and Public Relations Directorate, Raiffeisen Bank in Romania;

✔️Monica Ardeleanu, Ph.D., Executive Director and Research Director, Romania Green Building Council

✔️Rostyslav Maraikin, PFAN Regional Coordinator Eastern Europe & Central Asia.