NASEO’s Financing Committee will host a session to discuss the climate financing provisions in the recently-passed Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. The IRA represents an opportunity for State Energy Offices to establish, oversee, and/or recapitalize entities that finance climate investments in their states using Federal funds as seed capital. Speakers will provide an overview of the provisions in the IRA pertaining to climate finance and discuss how State Energy Offices can best position themselves to take advantage of these funds to establish climate financing entities. The Committee will then engage in a discussion on next steps for this issue.

Speakers:

• Jeffrey Genzer, General Counsel, NASEO
• Mary Frances Repko, Staff Director, U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works (invited)
• Gwen Yamamoto-Lau, Executive Director, Hawaii Green Infrastructure Authority (invited)

To register for this session and for all questions and feedback please contact Sam Cramer at scramer@naseo.org.