R.A.C.E. 2023, with HSBC: COP28 - Official Opening Ceremony

[Music] your highnesses excellencies distinguished guests Salam alaykum welcome everyone to the final day of the Abu Dhabi Finance week 20123 my name is Sarah Cocker and I will be your MC today and delighted to guide you through our very exciting program now today is a pivotal part of the Abu Dhabi Finance week's agenda race sustainable Finance Forum will incover the concrete actions by Forward Thinking financial institutions and their work that we see driving the Net Zero agenda The Forum will address critical factors such as regulation collaboration and a viable ecosystem it's running in parallel with cop 28 this this year's Edition and is sponsored by HSBC today we're going to discuss topics such as green Finance Bridging the US dollar trillion climate financing Gap and of course the flourishing role of Youth in sustainability within today's agenda you'll see four sessions they will be programmed by Economist impact as well of course as the other high level adgm program through the private roundtables and all of the high level discussions we're going to have here right on this stage we're going to be talking to government officials Banks financiers uh VCS and of course all the critical stakeholders from across the sustainability landscape as we continue the important transition to Net Zero