Climate Adaptation Talks | Episode 4 with Cinzia Losenno
Europolis: The Global Europe Podcast by ECDPMShow Notes
In this podcast series, which features episodes in English and French, we want to explore the strategies that different countries are using to adapt to an increasingly volatile climate. In each episode – up until the run-up to the first-ever Climate Adaptation Summit in 2021 – one of our experts will talk to a guest about their projects and ideas to maximise the potential of climate adaptation.In our fourth episode, San Bilal, ECDPM’s head of Programme on Trade, Investment and Finance, talks to Cinzia Losenno, Senior Climate Change Specialist at the European Investment Bank (EIB).They discuss the EIB’s ambition of becoming the EU climate bank, its brand new Climate Bank Roadmap 2021-2025 and the role finance can play in climate adaptation efforts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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