Financing Circularity: Growing Opportunities for Financiers

Join us for this accelerator session organised in the framework of the World Circular Economy Forum in Gandhinagar, India.

This 2-hour session will present challenges and opportunities financing the circular economy. It is organised by the EU Circular Economy Resource Centre (EU CERC).

The session targets all financiers: development banks, commercial banks, fund managers and foundations and their clients. It is designed to be complementary to the other finance sessions. If you are a financier interested in a resilient future, we look forward to meeting you here!  Finance is always mentioned as a necessary input for more circular business. We will share some of the experiences of different financiers, who are actively creating and reaping the opportunities that the circular economy offers, for Better Clients and Lower Risk. Come and listen to their strategies, their tools, their practices.

Draft program 18 September 9.00-11.00hrs 

 9.00      registration 9.30      opening, introduction schedule and speakers
9.40      Enabel presentation of a new publication on Financial Mapping – the Opportunities of Circular Finance (Q&A last 5 minutes) 
10.00    Panel discussion with different types of financiers: a bank, a fund manager, a foundation who will present and discuss
(i) great examples of circular clients, (ii) the potential for more circular financing and (ii) what they need from others to finance more circularity (Q&A last 10 min) 10.55    closing (ending at 11.00)

This session is an accelerator session at the World Circular Economy Forum 2026 www.wcef2026.com. WCEF2026 will gather forward-looking thinkers and doers and present the gamechangers in the circular economy. The forum will be held from 15 to 18 September 2026 in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India. 

This session is organized by Enabel, the Belgian agency for international cooperation, as co-manager of the EU CERC. EU CERC is a five-year project funded by the European Union and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland, and implemented by the Sitra, Finnish Innovation Fund and Enabel. The Centre aims to increase the uptake of sound and inclusive circular economy policies and business models, based on peer-to-peer exchanges and partnerships between EU and partner’s country stakeholders.

MORE INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION HERE: https://www.eventbrite.be/e/financing-circularity-growing-opportunities-for-financiers-tickets-1995933844859?aff=oddtdtcreator

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