Join us for a presentation on the current state of climate mitigation and adaptation finance in emerging markets, including current climate finance flows, their evolution, and how they compare to the realities in developed markets. We will explore the financial and institutional landscape, examining the climate finance ecosystem and its key stakeholders. The session will also address the challenges emerging markets face in accessing climate finance, as well as the real and perceived barriers to scaling it up. Additionally, we will discuss the rising role of sovereign ESG methodologies, their impact on capital flows to emerging markets, and alternative data sets measuring sovereign sustainability factors. The presentation will conclude with an open conversation on the way forward, highlighting areas researchers can focus on to better support climate transitions in emerging markets.
About the speaker
Dr. Ekaterina (Katya) Gratcheva is an Advisor on sustainable and climate finance at the IMF’s Capital and Monetary Market department focusing on implementation of the IMF’s Resilience and Sustainability Trust to help low-income and vulnerable middle-income countries build resilience to external shocks and ensure sustainable growth.
She is also currently a non-resident fellow in Princeton centers for Public Policy and Finance and for Energy and Environment. In her prior roles she led finance function in Climate Investment Funds that has mobilized over $70 billion for climate action in 72 developing and middle-income countries. Prior to that she held a number of senior positions in the World Bank focusing on providing policy advice to central banks, sovereign wealth funds and pension funds, facilitating long term finance through capital markets and strengthening the role of financial institutions in development finance, as well as managing World Bank’s assets and liabilities. She holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Harvard Kennedy School, a Master’s degree in Applied Mathematics from Moscow State University, and a doctorate in Operations Research from George Washington University.
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Related publications
IMF reports:
Chasing Elusive Sustainability: https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2024/05/17/Sovereign-Environmental-Social-and-Governance-ESG-Investing-Chasing-Elusive-Sustainability-549165
Global Financial Stability Report’s Chapter 3: Financial Sector Policies to Unlock Private Climate Finance in Emerging Market and Developing Economies: https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/GFSR/Issues/2023/10/10/global-financial-stability-report-october-2023
Scaling Up Blended Finance for Climate Mitigation and Adaptation in Emerging Market and Developing Economies: https://www.ngfs.net/sites/default/files/medias/documents/scaling-up-blended-finance-for-climate-mitigation-and-adaptation-in-emdes.pdf
World Bank reports:
Rethinking Sovereign ESG https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/694901623100755591/a-new-dawn-rethinking-sovereign-esg
Demystifying Sovereign ESG https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/842671621238316887/demystifying-sovereign-esg
ESG Factors and Sovereign Credit Ratings: https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/812471642603970256/credit-worthy-esg-factors-and-sovereign-credit-ratings
The Potential Implications of Economic and Social Rights for Sovereign Debt Investing: https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/099936405242333688/idu017beb32903a3c047db0a98506a37e5f395f1
Related resources
Sovereign ESG data portal: https://esgdata.worldbank.org/?lang=en
Changing Wealth of Nations: https://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/changing-wealth-of-nations
Human rights tracker: https://rightstracker.org/