Communication

The next EU budget and its role in leveraging private investment

11 June 2026

🎙️🌱 Sustainability Bridges – Episode 37

For this episode of Sustainability Bridges, we are happy to be joined by Peter Sweatman, CEO of Climate Strategy & Partners, member of Spain’s Sustainable Finance Council, former rapporteur for the G20 and EU Commission-UNEPFI, as well as author of over 25 white papers on financing the energy and climate transition.

Together, we explore:

  • What the proposal for the next EU Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) includes, and how effective design can mobilise private capital.
  • The main barriers currently holding back private investments from flowing on the scale needed for Europe’s sustainable transition.
  • How the InvestEU guarantees and the proposed European Competitiveness Fund (ECF) could help unlock significantly more private investment for the clean transition.

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