Bloomberg New Energy Finance Roundtable Day Results

The Bloomberg New Energy Finance Roundtable Day on Climate Finance and Energy Access, held in partnership with UN-Energy, took place in New York on 7 April 2011. It brought together over 150 Thought Leaders and Delegates from 30 countries, representing a full range of stakeholders working on climate and clean energy solutions globally: policy- makers, negotiators, regulators, investors and executives from the energy and equipment supply industries.

The Roundtable Day was initially convened to tackle two specific challenges: the design of a public-private partnership system for climate-related finance that could reach the $100bn per annum scale, identified in the Copenhagen Accord; and to identify how such a system could be designed to route funding to distributed as well as centralised energy solutions – towards universal energy access. The focus of the day was on stakeholder participation as essential for ensuring the stability and delivery of any system. We put forward some thoughts on methods of engagement.

Other related efforts also emerged. As an example, The UN has designated 2012 as the International Year of Sustainable Energy for All, and the Roundtable Day offered an opportunity for UN-Energy to invite support for that initiative.

The body of this document – known as The Boathouse Sessions results book – describes the progress of the day, issues discussed and detailed output from the two interactive exercises.

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