International Conference Banque de France - FERDI - AFD: The role of the financial sector in combating climate change in Africa

Date(s)November 03, 2025 > November 05, 2025
LocationEn ligne
Organiser(s)Banque de France - Ferdi - AFD

November 03, 2025 > November 05, 2025, En ligne

The Banque de France, FERDI, and the French Development Agency (AFD) organized an international conference on “the role of the financial sector in combating climate change in Africa” from November 3 to 5, 2025, online.

3 webinaires répartis sur 3 jours

Location: Online
Date: November 3 to 5, 2025

↪ Conference consisting of three webinars held over three days.
↪ Simultaneous French–English interpretation.

Following an initial conference held in July 2021, which highlighted Africa’s disproportionate vulnerability to climate change and the need to mobilize all stakeholders to finance mitigation and adaptation, this new edition will revisit and deepen the same theme.

It examined the role of financial intermediaries—banks, insurance companies, investment funds, rating agencies, central banks, and development banks—as well as public financing, in catalyzing private capital to combat climate change in Africa.

Objectives

Analyse the current and potential role of the international and continental financial sectors in combating climate change in Africa, focusing on the mandates of financial actors — banks, insurance companies, investment funds, rating agencies, national and multilateral development banks, regulators, and central banks — as well as the role of public funding in mobilising private finance.
Identify the obstacles and opportunities for financing a just and inclusive climate transition and adaptation, without crowding out development and poverty reduction financing.
Explore innovative economic and financial models adapted to African socio-economic realities (e.g. green tontines), and compare them with those implemented in Northern countries.
Propose concrete and realistic recommendations to strengthen the financial sector’s contribution to the fight against climate change in Africa.

Program

Webinar 1. What is the role and impact of private financial intermediaries in the fight against climate change in Africa?

Monday, November 3, 2025 | 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. (UTC+1)

↪ Role of the private financial sector in combating climate change
↪ Measuring and regulating climate finance
↪ Assessing the effects of climate change on investments

Welcome remarks:

Agnès Bénassy-Quéré, Second Deputy Governor, Banque de France
Patrick Guillaumont, President, FERDI
Thomas Melonio, Chief Economist and Executive Director for Innovation, Strategy and Research, Agence Française de Développement (AFD)

Keynote:

Paul Derreumaux, Honorary Chairman, Bank of Africa (BOA)

Moderator:

Djedjiga Kachenoura, Climate and Sustainable Finance Coordinator, Proparco

Panelists:

Nabil Badr, Deputy Director of Banking Supervision, Bank Al-Maghrib
Tomas Hos, Senior Analyst, TOSSD Secretariat, OECD
Ali Mbaye, Professor, Cheikh Anta Diop University
Aude Verries, Head of Green & Sustainable HUB, CNP Assurances Group

Intervention Patrick Guillaumont - Conférence Banque de France - Ferdi - AFD 2025pdf (487 KB)

Webinar 2. The role of public development banks in mobilizing and allocating finance for climate change mitigation

Tuesday, November 4, 2025 | 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. (UTC+1)

↪ The role of international and domestic public development banks
↪ The leverage effects of public resources
↪ Public development banks in the financial architecture of development

Moderator:

Laurent Clerc, Deputy Director General for Statistics, Studies and International Relations, Banque de France

Introduction:

Audrey Rojkoff, Director of Climate and Nature, French Development Agency (AFD)

Panelists:

Thomas Revial, Head of Multilateral Affairs and Development at the Treasury
Komlanvi Moglo, West African Development Bank (BOAD) Chairman Representative at the International Development Finance Club
Mohamed Ali Bensouda, Secretary General, Caisse de Dépôt et de Gestion of Morocco
Kampeta Pitchette Sayinzoga, Director General, Development Bank of Rwanda

Webinar 3. What role should central banks and banking supervisors play in combating climate change?

Wednesday, November 5, 2025 | 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. (UTC+1)

↪ Banking supervision and macroprudential tools
↪ Financial stability
↪ Monetary policy and climate risk integration

Keynote:

Laurent Clerc, Deputy Director General for Statistics, Studies and International Relations, Banque de France

Moderator:

Bruno Cabrillac, Director General, FERDI

Panelists:

Aivo Andrianarivelo, Governor, Central Bank of Madagascar (Banky Foiben’i Madagasikara)
Yvon Sana Bangui, Governor, Bank of Central African States (BEAC)
Raphaël Poignet, Adviser to the Representative of the European Central Bank on the Supervisory Board
Amadou Sy, Deputy Director and Division Chief in the African Department and Regional Studies Division, IMF

Conclusion:
François Villeroy de Galhau, Governor of the Banque de France