Unlocking Climate Capital: widening the policy toolkit and accelerating the use of blended finance in EMDEs for clean energy and broader climate action
Check out the priorities for action agreed at this session
CETEx – OECD Roundtable
Friday 7th November 2025, 16.30 – 18.30 local time (BRT / GMT -3)
Sustainable Innovation Forum, Climate Action Innovation Zone COP30, Labrador Room
Renaissance São Paulo Hotel, Alameda Santos, 2233, Jardin Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil
Private capital mobilisation for climate action and nature in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs) has been high on the on the international agenda for several years. But progress has been slow. The steps taken to reform the international development architecture and domestic enabling conditions to scale up mobilisation have not resulted in a step-change in financial flows at sufficient scale and pace.
Given the complexity of the challenge, a correspondingly wide-ranging policy and regulatory response is needed. Policy makers, regulators, bilateral donors, multilateral development banks (MDBs) and other development financial institutions (DFIs) therefore need to address outstanding blockages presented by internal private sector incentives, financial regulation, and wider market infrastructure, including by increasing the use of blended finance and other risk mitigation instruments and strengthening local capital markets in EMDEs.
The Centre for Economic Transition Expertise (CETEx), jointly with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), under its Clean Energy Finance and Investment Mobilisation (CEFIM) Programme, are jointly hosting a roundtable during Climate Action’s Sustainable Innovation Forum on Friday 7th November 2025 in São Paulo, Brazil.
This roundtable will discuss:
- Innovative policy and regulatory approaches and instruments to unlock private capital flows to emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs), including addressing regulatory barriers, reshaping credit rating methodologies, and leveraging central bank and reserve tools; and
- Concrete solutions for scaling up the use and effectiveness of blended finance for climate action in EMDEs, especially in clean energy.
The roundtable will convene senior experts and decision-makers from governments, central banks and financial authorities, as well as representatives from bilateral donors, MDBs and other DFIs, the private sector, academia, and civil society. The roundtable will conclude with a proposed tangible path forward for participants: further development of delivery pathways for priority areas identified, and agreement of a small number of concrete, impactful priorities for action to present to policymakers for implementation.
Speakers will include:
- Chris Skidmore, Chair, Centre for Economic Transition Expertise (CETEx)
- Mathilde Mesnard, Deputy Director, Environment Directorate, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
- Luiz Awazu Pereira Da Silva, Visiting Professor in Practice, Centre for Economic Transition Expertise (CETEx)
- Rob Patalano, Executive Director, Centre for Economic Transition Expertise (CETEx)
- Mohammed Saffar, Visiting Fellow, Centre for Economic Transition Expertise (CETEx)
- Geraldine Ang, Team Lead, Energy, Clean Energy Finance and Investment Mobilisation (CEFIM) Programme, OECD
- Sini Matikainen, Director, Economic and Fiscal Policy, Centre for Economic Transition Expertise (CETEx)
Participants will include representatives from international organisations, central banks, finance ministries, development finance institutions, and philanthropic foundations.
About the OECD
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is an international organisation that works to build better policies for better lives. Our goal is to shape policies that foster prosperity, equality, opportunity and well-being for all. We draw on 60 years of experience and insights to better prepare the world of tomorrow. Together with governments, policy makers and citizens, we work on establishing evidence-based international standards and finding solutions to a range of social, economic and environmental challenges. The OECD provides a unique forum and knowledge hub for data and analysis, exchange of experiences, best-practice sharing, and advice on public policies and international standard-setting. The OECD brings together Member countries and a range of partners that collaborate on key global issues at national, regional and local levels. OECD countries and Key Partners represent about 80% of world trade and investment. Through our standards, programmes and initiatives, we help drive and anchor reform in more than 100 countries around the world, building on our collective wisdom and shared values.
About the OECD CEFIM Programme
Launched in 2019, the OECD Clean Energy Finance and Investment Mobilisation (CEFIM) Programme works with selected emerging economies (Colombia, Egypt, India, Indonesia, South Africa, the Philippines, Thailand and Viet Nam) to mobilise private finance and investments in clean energy, including renewable energy, energy efficiency, clean hydrogen and industry decarbonisation. The CEFIM Programme is supported financially by the Governments of Canada, Denmark, and Germany, as well as Australia and Egypt. The CEFIM Programme provides tailored, demand-driven support to emerging economies, including targeted analytical work, stakeholder engagement, knowledge sharing and capacity building activities. Throughout its activities, the CEFIM Programme is engaging key public and private stakeholders to address outstanding barriers and assess and implement policy and regulatory priorities to strengthen domestic enabling conditions for clean energy finance and investment and unlock blended finance and other derisking instruments for clean energy financing.