Events

I4CE and the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management has developed the G20 Sustainable Finance Progress (SFP) Framework to better understand how and where countries are making progress on sustainable finance. 

  Date: January 27th, 2026 Time: 3:00 – 4:30 (UTC+1) Co-hosts: International Development Finance Club (IDFC), Finance in Common, Climate Policy Initiative (CPI), E3G, Institute for Climate Economics () Format: Online.   Context:  Public Development Banks (PDBs) have made important progress in integrating climate priorities into their strategies over the last ten years, but growing […]

  Location: Side event room 5  Date: November 13th, 2025  Time: 11:30 – 13:00 (GMT-3) // 15:30-17:00 (Paris time GMT+1) Co-hosts: Institute for Climate and Society (iCS), E3G, CONCITO, Institute for Climate Economics (), Systemiq, Fundación Nacional de Cambio Climático de Honduras Format: High-level dialogue and moderated panel discussion   Context:  COP30 takes place at […]

Dates: 2nd – 4th September, 2025 Place: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Context: Ministries of finance have a key role to play in climate policy. Their core missions – ensuring fiscal sustainability, promoting economic growth, and allocating scarce resources efficiently – overlap with the risks and opportunities presented by climate impacts and action. Major progress has been […]

Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 demands an unprecedented scale-up of sustainable development finance. Current estimates place the SDG financing gap at approximately $4 trillion per year by 2030. The third IHLEG report estimates that development-aligned climate action in EMDEs, excluding China, will require around $2.4 trillion annually by the end of the decade.

Date: June 20, 2025 Time: 4:30-5:45 PM CEST Organised by , DEval, Climate Policy Initiative (CPI), World Resources Institute (WRI)  Event organised on the sidelines of the June Climate Meetings in Bonn (SB 62) The event will explore climate finance to EMDEs and discuss ways to reach the $300bn and $1.3tn targets via public and […]

Carbon pricing has proven to be a powerful tool not only for reducing emissions but also for generating substantial government revenues that can drive transformative change. This session has explored real-world examples of how carbon pricing revenues are being utilized to support broader sustainable development goals, from fostering green innovation to strengthening social equity. Drawing on cutting-edge research from [i4ce] and the IEA, speakers shared insights into strategies for balancing revenue use across competing objectives, such as ensuring community support, addressing distributional impacts, and maintaining political momentum. The discussion highlighted practical lessons and innovative approaches to maximize the impact of carbon revenues for a just and sustainable transition. This event was also be the opportunity to present the 2025 edition of the Global Carbon Accounts report, which presents carbon pricing trends through the lens of their current and potential contribution to scale up climate and development finance through carbon revenues.

Some Public Development Banks – particularly the largest multilateral development banks (MDBs) – have committed to making all of their operations aligned with the Paris Agreement, including financial intermediation. There are few existing pieces of knowledge around the impact of financial intermediation on Paris alignment of intermediaries, and even less so on its contribution to […]

Ensuring that the reformed financial architecture adequately responds to differentiated needs requires that countries play a central role in the identification of these needs and the implementation of the response provided. By adopting a country perspective (i.e. based on the experience of African countries), this side-event has shed light on the key considerations that the […]

The 5th Finance in Common Summit (FiCS) in Cape Town was the opportunity once more to to discuss how public development banks can align all their activities with the Sustainable Development Goals, the Paris Agreement, and the Global Biodiversity Framework. Though the central role of public development banks in driving the sustainability agenda is acknowledged […]

Making finance flows consistent with countries’ needs for their low-emission, climate-resilient development requires deep collaboration between governments, financial institutions, private companies, civil society organizations, and local communities. This event will take stock of existing and innovative tools that can be deployed to attract additional finance and enhance the impact of existing finance, in order to transform national ambitions into actionable investment plans. 

In collaboration with E3G and the IDFC Climate Facility, this event presents country platforms as a way to both improve the fitness-for-purpose of international climate finance relative to national priorities and to unlock more resources. The ongoing reform of the international financial architecture is placing PDBs in the spotlight as key players in mobilising and channeling resources towards low-emission and climate-resilient development, in line with country priorities. Yet, collaboration at the national and international level will be crucial in order to leverage their added value. 

The window of opportunity to remain below 1.5°C is rapidly closing. Public development banks (PDBs) need not only to increase the volume of climate finance, but also maximize the climate transformation achieved through their operations. Paris alignment commitments are crucial in this regard, but implementation requires continuous improvement and adjustments to adapt to an evolving context and real-world needs. The session will discuss best practices and shortcomings of existing approaches, drawing key directions for further progress towards a financial international architecture that sufficiently addresses our mounting climate crisis.

As part of the EU-funded European Union Climate Dialogues (EUCDs) project, the Institute for Climate Economics (I4CE) organises a global webinar on how carbon revenues can maximise benefits of carbon pricing and accelerate the climate transition. This activity is the final step of a broader process with the aim of supporting a switch to a comprehensive perspective, where carbon revenues are part of the implementation of low-carbon and climate resilient pathways. The webinar will be the opportunity to discover the findings of a study carried out by I4CE on this topic and to engage in a constructive discussion with diverse stakeholders on the lessons learned and way forward. 

This event will be the opportunity to share the findings of an upcoming publication by [i4ce] and NewClimate Institute on the role development banks should play in the early retirement of fossil fuel assets. The discussion will then allow development bank representatives to share their perspectives on how to best mobilise finance to enable an ambitious early retirement of fossil fuel assets. 

This event will present different approaches to overcome the financial hurdles attached to the implementation of national decarbonisation strategies, from a country perspective, and from the perspective of climate funds. 

Following introductory remarks on the investments & financing needs of developing countries, a panel discussion with representatives from developing countries and MDBs (Multilateral development banks) will cover the challenges in determining financing needs of countries, and the role different actors can play for increased ambition. 

Le rapport sur l'écart entre les besoins et les perspectives en matière d'adaptation aux changements climatiques est le baromètre annuel de référence sur les ressources nécessaires et effectivement mobilisées pour l’adaptation dans le monde. Cette question, longtemps uniquement posée dans les pays en développement s’affirme aussi comme un enjeu critique dans les pays de l’OCDE. 

The Finance in Common Summit in September will be an opportunity to focus more specifically on the role of national public financial institutions in the new global financial architecture, which is currently being thoroughly discussed. National public financial institutions represent the largest amount of public development finance and account for 12% of global (public and private) investments. They will have an important role to play in locally financing the transition and contributing to shape demand, as infrastructure investors, private finance mobilisers and investment innovators. Additionally, they can influence local market practice and disseminate alignment practices. 

In 2022, a global consensus was reached on the need to reform the global financial architecture, considered no longer “fit for purpose”. While most discussions focus on how to reform development finance institutions (DFIs), too little attention is paid to the concrete needs of developing countries and what the transition to low-carbon and resilient economies means for them.