India Climate Finance Forum
- Feb 19
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Updated: Mar 21
25-27 March, 2026 Mumbai, India
Image: Gateway of India, Mumbai
Climate and Energy Transition Finance in India
India’s climate transition represents a large-scale, multi-decade investment requirement, with capital demand exceeding USD 2 trillion by 2030. The primary constraint is no longer ambition or policy intent, but the availability of scalable financial structures that can absorb institutional capital across energy, water, mobility, waste, and natural capital.
Investor engagement over the past year—through the India International Climate Finance Forum in London and targeted corridors such as the India–Nordic Dialogue for Investments in Climate Action (INDICA)—has been consistent. Institutional allocators recognise the depth of India’s pipeline, but require greater clarity on risk allocation, credit enhancement, vehicle design, liquidity, and exit pathways before deploying capital at scale. The Forum now convenes in Mumbai to address these requirements directly. Positioned at the centre of India’s capital markets, the Mumbai edition focuses on capital stacks, aggregation platforms, debt and equity vehicles, private and structured credit, and market infrastructure required to convert deployment pipelines into investible portfolios.
The India Climate Finance Forum | Mumbai 2026 is designed to align domestic and international institutional capital with India’s climate missions by translating pipelines into portfolios and portfolios into allocations.
Programme At a Glance
Day 1: Wednesday, 25 March 2026 | Venue National Stock Exchange, Mumbai
Panel 1: Institutional Capital Allocation in a Constrained Global Environment
0930 - 1030 hrs IST
Open to: Financial Services industry only
Panel 2: Full Climate Capital Stack and Scaling Structures
1100 - 1215 hrs IST
Open to: Financial Services industry only
Panel 3: NSE-IX GIFT City as a gateway to climate finance for the Global South
1215 - 1315 hrs IST
Open to: Financial Services industry only
Roundtable 1: Equity Capital for Climate Assets | Listed Funds, Global Feeders, and IPO Markets
1415 - 1345 hrs IST
Open to: Financial Services industry only
Roundtable 2: Green Bonds as a Scalable Debt Asset Class | Structures, Investor Sentiment and Market Evolution
1615 - 1730 hrs IST
Open to: Financial Services industry only
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Day 2: Thursday, 26 March 2026 | Venue: Khaitan & Co, One World Centre, Mumbai
Roundtable 3: Market Makers | Liquidity, Price Discovery and Risk Transfer
0930 - 1100 hrs IST
Open to: All relevant stakeholder groups
Roundtable 4: Carbon Financing | Markets, Methodologies and Capital Integration
1130 - 1300 hrs IST
Open to: All relevant stakeholder groups
Roundtable 5: Labelled Products and Initiatives | From Sustainability Claims to Tradable Financial Instruments
1400 - 1530 hrs IST
Open to: All relevant stakeholder groups
Roundtable 6: Data and Governance | Meta-Data, Schemas, Capturing, data-integrity, and sharing infrastructure for Climate Capital
1600 - 1730 hrs IST
Open to: All relevant stakeholder groups
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Day 3: Friday, 27 March 2026 | Venue: Various
One on One meetings and Roundtable Dialogues with Regulators and State Governments 1000 - 1730 hrs IST
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Notes related to registrations and attendance
The Forum is an in-person event and there will be no live streaming.
Select speakers will be able to join virtually, and the panels will run in a hybrid format.
Some parts of the Forum are restricted to "by special invitation" only. Those who are invited to the restricted sessions (that are named)
Organisers reserve the right to limit access to all or select parts of the Forum
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