Keynote: Closing the green finance gap – how agentic AI is creating a faster path to net zero for cities

Despite record levels of climate capital globally, cities continue to struggle to connect place-based climate projects with the finance needed to deliver them. The barriers are well known. From project complexity, fragmented funding landscapes, inconsistent data to the sheer transaction cost of bringing deals together. Lord Marvin Rees of Easton OBE, and former Mayor of Bristol, a leading voice on equitable, place-based climate delivery shares how AI is being used to match place-based climate projects with finance and funding to create a faster, clearer path for cities.

Key talking points:

• This session offers city leaders a clear-eyed assessment of what AI-enabled green finance can realistically deliver
• The roadmap to accelerating the route to bankability and bringing transparency to a market
• How can agentic AI beginning to dismantle these barriers?