Events

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.

Launch of the State of the Climate Investment Report (second edition). Accelerating the climate transition is a central part of securing both the EU’s strategic autonomy and meeting the mid-to-long-term goals to decarbonise the economy, as the EU pledges to stay on course towards climate neutrality. This ambition requires both public and private climate investments but also policy tools. It also requires a clear understanding of the level of investment needed in different sectors to meet the EU decarbonisation targets and how those investments develop year-on-year.

    Date: 2025-06-17 Time: 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm Format: online + on site Context Together with its partners, hosted the session “Upscaling adaptation finance at national and European scales: costs, economic and fiscal rationale” at the next European Conference on Climate Change Adaptation (ECCA), which took place in June in Rimini, Italy.   […]

Climate-related risks to the financial system have risen sharply in recent years. Growing regional policy uncertainty, geopolitical tensions, and economic instability increase the likelihood of a delayed transition – or, in the worst case, no transition. Financial supervisors have repeatedly warned that these scenarios pose the most significant risks to banks and the overall stability of the banking system.

The carbon farming summit gather experts, economic actors, and decision makers to share knowledge and experiences about the carbon farming. It aims at upscaling solutions and enabling the multiplication of climate actions across the EU in the land-based sectors.     Dates : 4th to 6th march  Location : Dublin    was involved in 3 sessions of […]

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 […]

The transition to climate neutrality has become a central objective for EU policy-making. Targets and policies to achieve it have been advanced and accelerated over the past 4 years. Despite the crises faced since 2020, the EU is making the shift from incremental changes and refinements to the transformative policies needed for a net-zero emissions future – seeking to become more resilient and competitive through a successful transition. The move to clean energy and new technologies is being spurred on in other parts of the world, with ac like the USA and China actively financing the transition. Partners around the world are watching EU policy developments closely – which increasingly have international implications (#CBAM). With the implementation of the Paris Agreement moving forward, new contributions are expected in financial and policy terms. The next legislative cycle needs to take crucial decisions on how to move EU policy forward in this context.

Update on EU progress to climate neutrality: towards a more competitive and secure Europe. This year’s EU-wide progress report, the second of its kind by the European Climate Neutrality Observatory (ECNO), comes at a political juncture, being published shortly after the 2024 EU elections. While the composition of the EU’s legislative body will undoubtedly change, we expect that most representatives in the European Parliament will still agree on the necessity of the transition as envisioned in the Green Deal - not just for the sake of emission reductions, but also to guarantee Europe’s international competitiveness and its political autonomy. 

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.

The European Green Deal has been a top priority for the European Union. Since 2019, EU institutions set ambitious targets, adopted bold carbon pricing reforms, and passed hotly debated legislation. The Green Deal’s success will be measured by its capacity to trigger structural changes in the EU economy, to deliver prosperity, resilience and social fairness while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In practice, this means millions of companies, local authorities and families investing to renovate buildings, acquire heat pumps, buy electric cars, and modernise transport and power networks.

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.  

In 2022, a global consensus was reached on the need to reform the global financial architecture, considered no longer “fit for purpose”. 2023 will be busy with many events organised to address different parts of the financial architecture reform agenda. The Spring Meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund represent the first key milestone in this agenda.

The Green Finance Research Advances is an International Research Conference for academics and professionals, co-organized by Banque de France and the Institut Louis Bachelier, with the participation of Finance for Tomorrow and the Institute for Climate Economics-I4CE.

La 6ème édition de la conférence annuelle “Green Finance Research Advances”, organisée par la Banque de France en partenariat avec l’Institut Louis Bachelier..

7 – 8 DECEMBER @ 9H00 – 17H00  Location: Auditorium ACPR Banque de France 23, rue de Londres, 75009 Paris, 75009 France   Co-organised by Banque de France and Institut Louis Bachelier.     Organisers: ILB Banque de France