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Webinar - What counts as climate adaptation finance? Unlocking a multi-billion-dollar opportunity for financial institutions

Organiser: UN Environment Programme, Finance Initiative (UNEP FI)

Extreme weather is now the top long-term global risk, and the need for climate adaptation is rapidly becoming recognized as a financially material concern.  

Meeting this demand will require hundreds of billions of dollars annually, creating a significant opportunity for banks, insurers and investors. Yet many financial institutions still face a core challenge: how to clearly identify, define and scale adaptation investments in practice. 

A lack of consistent, widely understood definitions makes it difficult to integrate adaptation into investment and lending decisions. Sustainable finance taxonomies can help address this gap but applying them effectively remains complex. 

This webinar introduces UNEP FI’s new Adaptation Finance Taxonomy Playbook, designed to support policy, compliance, investment and underwriting teams at financial institutions in navigating these challenges. Join to gain practical guidance, explore real-world case studies, and discover tools that can help translate adaptation ambition into actionable financing strategies.

You can find more information here and register via this link.

Webinar - Clean Energy Solutions for Data Center Demand

Organiser: World Resources Institute (WRI)

Across the U.S., data centers are driving rapid new power demand for the first time in decades, with real consequences for costs, reliability, and emissions. This webinar will highlight a set of innovative solutions — including on-site and procured clean energy sources, flexible operations, and technologies to free up grid capacity — that can mitigate costs and ease grid strain, rather than compounding it, across locations.

Join the WRI U.S. Polsky Energy Center for a discussion with developers, utilities, and technology providers about practical approaches and technologies that can quickly and affordably get more clean energy into the grid, deliver benefits and minimize harm to communities, and meet the looming challenge of rising demand.

Speakers: 

• Jeff Bladen, Head of Energy, Verrus
• Bill Messner, Senior Infrastructure Program Director, Portland General Electric
• Daniel Padilla, Strategy and Business Development Lead, EmeraldAI
• Michelle Levinson, Senior Manager, WRI U.S. Polsky Energy Center
• Lori Bird, U.S. Director, WRI Polsky Energy Center (moderator)

You can find more information and register via this link.

Webinar - China’s 15th Five-Year Plan: Implications for sustainable investment and green transition

Organiser: UN Environment Programme, Finance Initiative (UNEP FI)

This public webinar, co-hosted by UNEP FI and Eco-Business, discusses the potential impacts of China’s recently passed 15th Five-Year Plan on green finance and the green transition in China—and implications for the rest of the world.

China’s 2026–2030 Five-Year Plan is the latest in its primary macro-policy framework, shaping priorities across economic, social and environmental spheres. The 15th FYP is especially consequential because it will define the path of China’s development during the decade leading up to 2035, a key year for China’s domestic modernization and climate goals and for its international climate commitments, including its Nationally Determined Contribution to the Paris Agreement.

Topics to be discussed include:

• An overview of the climate and environmental policies within China’s 15th FYP
• How / whether the 15th FYP can accelerate the green transition enough to meet China’s climate and sustainability goals
• Implications of these policies for the future of green finance and the green transition in China, the Asia-Pacific region, and globally

This session is designed for financial practitioners, policymakers, regulators, supervisors, investors, sustainable finance professionals and other stakeholders interested in China’s green transition, green finance and sustainable investment.

You can find more information here and register via this link.

Webinar - Demand Growth in Spain: Drivers and Barriers

Organiser: Aurora Energy Research

Electricity demand has a material impact on power prices and renewable investment economics, and is increasingly central to broader economic and industrial policy. However, regulatory roadblocks such as delays in permitting and tariff structure are currently limiting demand growth and distorting price signals for large consumers.

In this Public Webinar, we will focus on the impact of electricity demand on power prices, as well as how this affects investment signals and industrial competitiveness in Spain.
The discussion will be structured around the following questions:

Webinar - Unlocking flexibility at scale: Emerging technologies for modern power systems

Organiser: International Energy Agency (IEA)

The IEA’s Digital Demand-Driven Electricity Networks (3DEN) Initiative, the IEA 4E TCP Efficient, Demand Flexible Networked Appliances (EDNA) Platform are co-organising a webinar to explore how new approaches and technologies to unlock demand-side flexibility at scale to support secure, efficient, and decarbonised power systems.  The session with present new findings with recent EDNA research, case studies, market and technology insights on demand flexibility protocols; plug-in battery energy storage systems (balcony storage); and data centres and flexibility.

You can find more information here and register via this link.