Location: The Climate Challenge Lab Room, the Climate Action Arena, Madinat Jumeirah Conference Centre, Dubai 

This roundtable aims to address how to raise the capital needed to invest in new technologies across industries towards net-zero targets, and will focus on transition finance including how to scale up the blended finance solutions required. There will be a particular focus on the relationship between the UK and Asia. The discussion will address how to leverage different forms of financing, barriers to overcome and the role of policy and regulation.

The discussion will be chaired by Prof. David Aikman, Director of the Qatar Centre for Global Banking & Finance at King’s College and confirmed speakers include: Dr Mukund Rajan, Chairperson of ECube Investment Advisors, Ecube India; Amit Puri, Global Head Sustainable Finance, Standard Chartered Bank; and Luanne Sieh, Chief Sustainability Officer, CIMB.