COP28 Side Event: Climate Resilient Fiscal Planning

ADB Pavilion, Expo City Dubai, United Arab Emirates

The adverse impacts of climate change on human and natural systems will continue to intensify under observed and projected climate scenarios. Despite progress, adaptation gaps exist, and will continue to grow at current rates of implementation. Most adaptation responses are fragmented and incremental. There is a rapidly narrowing window of opportunity to enable climate resilient […]

COP-28 Side Event: Preparing for the Green Transition in Fossil Fuel Exporters

IMF-, WB Group-, FT Pavillion, Expo City Dubai, United Arab Emirates

The global energy transition poses macroeconomic challenges for fossil fuel exporting countries, including more uncertain hydrocarbon revenues, exports and investment inflows. How will these countries be impacted in the next decade and what policies can they adopt to harness opportunities in the transition to a lower carbon economy and mitigate possible macroeconomic disruptions? Panelists will […]

Launch event for the Just Transition Finance Lab

LSE’s Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment is establishing the Just Transition Finance Lab to be a world-leading centre for experimentation and excellence in the financial solutions needed for a just transition to a net zero and nature positive economy. The Lab will build on five years of research, convening and engagement […]

CFMCA Regional Convening for Asia-Pacific

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is supporting the Philippines’ Department of Finance (DOF), in partnership with the Coalition of Finance Ministers for Climate Action, led by the Netherlands and Indonesia as co-chairs, in organising and hosting the Regional Meeting of the CFMCA on 27–28 August 2024 at the ADB Headquarters in Manila, Philippines.  The […]

WTO Public Forum 2024

WTO, Rue de Lausanne 154, Geneva, Switzerland

The World Trade Organization is organizing its annual Public Forum in Geneva, Switzerland. The 2024 edition will explore how re-globalization can help make trade more inclusive and ensure that its benefits reach more people. On this occasion, our colleagues from the Sustainable Trade team will be co-presenting a session on “Trade as a catalyst for circular […]

International Green Finance Forum

Hotel Hilton Lima Miraflores Lima, Peru

The Ministry of the Environment and the Ministry of Economy and Finance of Peru are organizing the International Green Finance Forum to promote the mobilization of financial resources towards the implementation of activities that contribute to the transition to a more sustainable economy. The first day of the Forum will present the importance of green […]

CBD COP 16 Side Event: From Harm to Harmony: Redefining Agricultural Subsidies for Biodiversity Conservation

Cali, Colombia

UNEP, alongside BIOFIN and FAIRR is taking advantage of the Convention on Biological Diversity COP 16 in Cali, Colombia to organize an event focusing on harmful impact of public support to the agricultural sector as a key pillar of sustainable development. The purpose of this event is to catalyze stakeholder consensus on the “what”, “why”, […]

Finance for integrating climate and nature actions: driver to accelerate achieving net zero nature positive goals through policy coherence

Faith Pavilion Baku, Azerbaijan

The event focuses on how countries and financial institutions can leverage synergies between nature and climate investments to facilitate policy coherence and integrate financing that will accelerate net zero nature positive (NZNP) action. This discussion on NZNP finance and investment aims at increasing the global ambition to achieve targets in Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) for […]