About this learning event

This workshop aims to strengthen participants’ analytical capacities and equips policymakers across central banks, ministries of finance, and ministries of environment to make informed decisions on climate and green transition. As climate and nature-related risks represent a new type of systemic threat, understanding their financial and fiscal implications is crucial. These risks can create significant disruptions for institutions and have lasting, potentially irreversible impacts.

Climate change and green transition can pose far-reaching macroeconomic consequences, affecting key sectors such as agriculture, energy, transportation and public health. Beyond potential direct physical damage, they generate transition risks such as labour market disruption, inflationary pressures from carbon pricing, as well as systemic financial risks that can destabilize public finances, banking systems and insurance markets. These compounding risks threaten long-term growth, fiscal stability and development prospects.

The workshop brings together participants from key institutions involved in this process - central banks, ministries of finance, and ministries of environment. It creates dedicated space to discuss how these institutions can cooperate on climate-related matters: how responsibilities should be distributed among them, what tools each institution uses to manage climate-related risks, and why data sharing between them matters.

Faculty

Lecturing experts will include: Bank of Slovenia, Bank of England, World Bank, and Institute of Macroeconomic Analysis and Development of the Republic of Slovenia (IMAD). Additional will be announced closer to the event.

Who should attend

The workshop is designed for analysts and researchers from central banks (macroeconomic analysis, research, financial stability, prudential supervision), ministries of finance (macro-fiscal, budget, fiscal risks management units), ministries of the environment (policy planning/implementation units), as well as other public institutions working in this area.

Practical information

Flights, transfers, accommodation in Slovenia, and meals during the event will be fully funded for up to three selected officials from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo*, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia. Officials from other countires are also welcome to apply as self-funded participants, for whom the CEF will provide meals during the event.

The event will be held in English language, without the provided translation. Certificates of attendance will be issued upon completion.

Partners

This event is delivered as part of the ''Greening Human Capital of Public Institutions of the Western Balkans'' project implemented by the CEF and supported by the Ministry of the Environment, Climate and Energy and the Climate Change Fund of Slovenia.