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A Framework for Enhancing International Climate Finance Flows | ThinkTwenty (T20) India 2023 – Official Engagement Group of G20
August 1, 2023 - This Policy Brief proposes an institutional arrangement that can build on existing practices, institutions, and domestic acceptance to create a global network of risk reduction instruments for climate finance.CEO David Rusnok from Climate & Company, together with Manish Kumar Shrivastava (Senior Fellow, Earth Science and Climate Change Division, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), Heiner Lupke (Senior Researcher, DIW Berlin), Samantha Keen (Researcher, Strengthening National Climate Policy Implementation project), and Karsten Neuhoff (Head of the Climate Policy Department, German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), prepared this policy brief about a framework for enhancing international climate finance flows. The mobilisation and disbursement of climate finance at the scale and speed required to meet global targets is hindered by high cost of capital. At the root of this high…
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Elisabeth has worked in over 20 years in Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Mexico, China, Australia, Madagascar, Mozambique, Germany and Greece. As an advisor, project manager, researcher and senior consultant she has worked for GIZ, KfW, OECD, ADB, the University of Freiburg. She joined the team as External Advisor in 2022 and has been coordinating Climate & Company’s international portfolio since April 2025. She is joining the leadership team, enhancing further our international portfolio.
Her range of expertise includes international development cooperation, forests, biodiversity, deforestation-free supply chains, finance and local development. During her PhD in Forestry, she pursued the question of whether it is worth for smallholders to plant trees in the Amazon. During her years at GIZ she coordinated the programs Triangular Cooperation and Academic Cooperation in Brazil and prepared and advised projects all over the world from GIZ headquaters.
Since 2000 Lisa lives in Greece with her husband and three kids, speaks German, Portuguese, Spanish, English, French, and likes to believe her Greek continues to improve. She enjoys swimming, horses, working in the quintal (tree-garden) and having a noise-free coffee-break from time to time.
Most of all she enjoys fostering impactful collaborative action in global partner networks, where she usually represents the pragmatic voice on how to bring great ideas for a sustainable future into practice.