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Equitably Covering the Cost of Decarbonization: Finance & Funding Solutions

Maryland has penciled out a combination of resources, partners, and plans to achieve decarbonization goals - but it may come with a significant price tag. This session examines matching resource to the need in available financing and funding options and looks at financing considerations in relation to implanting federally funded National Climate Investment Fund Green Banks.

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Duanne Andrade

Executive Director
Solar and Energy Loan Fund

Executive Director,

Solar and Energy Loan Fund (SELF)

Maria Duanne Andrade is the Executive Director of the Solar and Energy Loan Fund. She is a passionate advocate for social, environmental and economic equity and has spent the past 20+ years working on creating innovative financing models to unlock access to capital for underserved communities.

Before assuming the ED role, she Co-led SELF for 10 years as its Chief Financial and Strategic Officer helping grow the organization’s assets tenfold and positioning SELF national leader in climate equity lending. 

Duanne created SELF’s proprietary underwriting method based on ability to repay and led the development of innovative loan programs including the SEER Multifamily Rehab program to reduce energy burdens for low-income renters; and the SAGE Homes program to catalyze investments in “Green” affordable housing developments led by BIPOC developers.

Duanne thrives on challenging the status quo of traditional financing models and innovating to to advance access for underserved communities to benefits from an equitable “green economy”.

Duanne has a bachelor’s degree from NYU and an MBA from the Catholic University of Bolivia’s Harvard International Institute for Development Program and serves on several boards.

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PANELISTS

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Trenton Allen

CEO
Sustainable Capital Advisors

CEO

Sustainable Capital Advisors

As CEO, Trenton navigates the strategic direction of SCA while providing clients with subject-matter expertise on executing sustainable infrastructure projects. His extensive experience in the financial services industry allows him to identify the partners best suited for collaboration to create a more profitable, inclusive, and climate-resilient future. Trenton began his career at Public Financial Management, Inc., the nation’s largest financial advisor for state and local government. Starting as a consultant with no formal finance training, Trenton gravitated to quantitative roles building financial models and executing financial restructurings for electric utility clients. His passion for numbers led to a role leading the firm’s intensive finance training program and serving as head of the Quantitative Strategies Group. After leaving PFM, Trenton began a 10+ year career at Citi, focusing on traditional municipal utilities, public infrastructure, and the emerging landscape of sustainable infrastructure finance opportunities. Working at the forefront of sustainable infrastructure finance, Trenton executed transactions that foreshadowed the success of the domestic market for green bonds and the financing role of green banks. Additionally, Trenton has served as a thought leader/instructor at the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy at the University of Delaware, teaching a graduate-level sustainable infrastructure finance course.

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Beth Bafford

Vice President, Strategy
Calvert Impact

Vice President, Strategy

Calvert Impact

Beth leads Calvert Impact's strategy and new business development efforts to build financial products and services that accelerate private capital for the benefit of communities in the US and around the world. She is leading the organization's development of Climate United, a consortium of experienced community and green lenders applying to the National Clean Investment Fund program of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. She developed Calvert Impact's COVID recovery programs to build secondary markets for loans to unbanked small businesses and the organization's syndications and structuring advisory practice. She oversees corporate strategy, communications and impact management and measurement. Prior to Calvert Impact, Beth has worked across the public, private and social sectors at McKinsey & Company, the White House Office of Management and Budget, and UBS Financial Services. Beth serves on the Advisory Board for the CASE Initiative on Impact Investing (CASEi3) at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business, the Investment Committee for the Aaron and Lillie Straus Foundation, the Impact Investment Committee for the Baltimore Community Foundation, the Advisory Board of Higher Ground Labs, and the Board of Founders First Capital Partners. She lives in Baltimore with her husband and four young children.

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Kevin Kingston

Vice President
Siemens Financial Services

Vice President,

Siemens Finanancial Services

As Vice President at Siemens Financial Services, Kevin is responsible for leading equity investment teams in the Americas and representing SFS on the boards of SFS portfolio companies. His 20-plus-year career in energy and infrastructure has seen him leading large international project teams across the project lifecycle (development, acquisition, financing, asset management, engineering, construction and operations) on over $10 billion in diverse projects. Kevin is a registered professional engineer and has an MBA from Harvard Business School.

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Tom Peterson

Founder, President and CEO
Center for Climate Strategies
Adjunct Professor and Lecturer
Johns Hopkins University

Founder, President and CEO, Center for Climate Strategies

Adjunct Professor and Lecture, Johns Hopkins University

Tom Peterson is the President and CEO of the Center for Climate Strategies (CCS) and an Adjunct Professor at the Johns Hopkins’ University Energy Policy and Climate program. Since founding CCS in 2004, Tom has directed more than 100 high impact projects and collaboration initiatives in the US, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East, including numerous stakeholder-based policy planning and assessment processes for national and subnational governments that developed multi objective approaches for climate change mitigation and adaptation. He has authored many studies on climate change and energy solutions and innovation. At Johns Hopkins University he teaches graduate courses in climate adaptation, international climate policy, and energy and environmental security. Tom previously served as Senior Advisor to the White House Climate Change Task Force, Legislative Fellow to US Senator Joe Lieberman, Economist with the US EPA, and Vice President of DSL Capital Corporation. He holds a BS in Biology from the College of William and Mary, an MS in Environmental Management from the Duke University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin.

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