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L’article Carbon Farming Summit: bringing stakeholders together to accelerate climate action est apparu en premier sur I4CE.

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 (I4CE), Systemiq, Fundación Nacional de Cambio Climático de Honduras

Format: High-level dialogue and moderated panel discussion

Context: 

COP30 takes place at a pivotal moment for the global climate agenda. Ten years after the Paris Agreement, two years after the first Global Stocktake, and as Parties are expected to deliver updated  NDC3.0, (Nationally Determined Contribution) the world enters a decisive decade for implementation. While global attention has often centred on mitigation and overall climate finance volumes, success now depends equally on scaling up adaptation and resilience, especially for the most vulnerable, and improving the quality of finance to ensure that communities, economies, and ecosystems can withstand and thrive amid escalating climate impacts. 

Adaptation and resilience investments have become critical economic  and political priorities, shaping how countries, communities, and businesses navigate an era of worsening and more frequent climate shocks. 

The COP30 Presidency has placed implementation at the heart of its vision, emphasising the need to translate plans into tangible results on the ground. COP30  represents an opportunity to define what an implementation era for adaptation and resilience truly looks like: one that connects global ambition with local delivery and shifts from fragmented projects to long-term, nationally driven action, creating a virtuous loop. 

Held during the first week of COP30,  this dialogue offers a timely space to reflect on and inform efforts to accelerate adaptation. Panel sessions will explore new evidence on the economic and investment rationale for adaptation and resilience, leading examples of systemic approaches to finance adaptation and how coordinated outcomes from global processes can help spread such efforts.

The event will link national implementation and the Global Goal on Adaptation, Article 2.1(c), the Baku to Belem Roadmap, the Action Agenda and the G20, grounding these processes in practical investment cases that deliver social and economic returns. In doing so, it will explore how COP30 can lay the foundation for a decade of delivery where resilience and adaptation are prioritised alongside mitigation as part of a coherent implementation agenda.

Objectives

To explore how COP30 can mark the start of a new phase of implementation: one where adaptation and resilience are financed, country-led, valued, and delivered at scale; and dive-into how ongoing finance reforms inside and outside the COP process can channel resources and accountability toward lasting results beyond Belém.

L’article COP30 Official Side event – The Road From Belem: How COP30 will drive a ” New Era of Implementation” on Resilience and Adaptation est apparu en premier sur I4CE.

Date : Wednesay, October 29

Horaire : 8:30 to 10:00 (Paris time)

Format : conference, Sciences Po 

Organised by I4CE, Paris Climate & Nature Week

Objectif

There are countless studies highlighting the costs already observed or expected from the sudden impacts of climate change. However, proactive measures to prepare for and adapt to these impacts remain rare and insufficiently ambitious. 

The aim of this conference was to open a discussion on how to take into account the assessment of the costs of inaction in terms of adaptation in collective choices and investment decisions. The aim was to bring long-term and highly aggregated assessments down to the actual timeframe of decisions (e.g., the horizon of a mandate or a medium-term strategic plan) and to pay particular attention to who bears (or will bear) what costs and who will be the beneficiaries of adaptation. We need to sharpen our focus in order to move from assessments designed to raise awareness to data that is truly useful for comparing options, identifying those who could contribute to their implementation, and building economic models for climate change adaptation policies and projects. 

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L’article What role should the costs of inaction play in decisions on climate change adaptation? est apparu en premier sur I4CE.

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I4CE hosted an event as part of the Paris Climate and Nature week, taking place on October 27th- 29th at Sciences Po Paris. 

Date: Tuesday, October 28th, 2025

Time: 10.30 – 11.30 (Paris time) 

Place: Sciences Po Paris, 13 rue de l’Université, 75007 Paris, Salle Erignac. 

The New Collective Quantified Goal calls on developed countries to increase funding for climate, with a target of US$ 300bn per year by 2035. The Baku to Belém Roadmap outlining how this funding might be mobilized is still in the works, but concessional funding is certain to play a role. Yet with aid budgets facing widespread cuts, climate change risks being de-prioritized. In this context, the issue of allocation – how and where climate finance is delivered – is key. 

This panel brought in various perspectives (think tanks, aid agencies, government) to explore the intersection of climate and development finance in this rapidly evolving context.

Panelists discussed the situations where official development aid (ODA) and more broadly concessional finance remain an effective and even a necessary instrument in order to attain development and climate objectives. 

The discussion focused on: 

• Present the different and sometimes diverging narratives on climate finance and its intersection with development. 
• Find convergence by narrowing in on the types of investments (in terms of sectors, instruments, geographies) which should be considered priorities for climate and development finance. 
• Explore how national needs assessments could be refined to maximize the mobilization of official development aid, along with other resources to support a low-carbon, climate-resilient development. 

Four panelists representing diverse organizations (think tank, development aid agency, government, and international organization) shared their outlook. 

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L’article Making the case for effective climate & development finance : official aid and beyond est apparu en premier sur I4CE.

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 made toward ministries of finance taking ownership of climate strategies, yet significant gaps remain: many strategies lack investment needs estimates, funding options, or clarity on public-private roles, and climate plans (NDCs, LTSs, NAPs) are often misaligned with national development or fiscal frameworks.

Peer-to-peer discussions are key to reduce these gaps, share best practices, discuss practical hurdles and interests of green budgeting tools such as green debt, pollution pricing, private mobilization strategies, taxonomies, budget tagging or green public procurement.

Regional cooperation, both between countries within a region and between regional platforms, is also a major factor of success in reducing policy gaps, improving overall knowledge, raising the profile of climate action in Ministries of Finance, converging towards regional shared agenda and dealing with the regional specificities of climate action.

Objective:

This workshop aims to foster an exchange of experiences among senior officials from Ministries of Finance across Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and to chart a collective path ahead, through concrete, pragmatic discussions. It also aims to build on LAC regional collaboration experiences, notably the LAC Regional Climate Change Platform of Economy and Finance Ministries, to shape the workplan of the upcoming African Platform of Finance Ministers.

Format:

In-person event, by invitation only. The workshop includes plenary thematic sessions, comprising presentations of country experiences followed by discussions, as well as small group exchanges.

This South-South exchange is an initiative of the 2050 Pathways Platform and the French Development Agency (AFD) in collaboration with the Coalition of Finance Ministers for Climate Action and the Institute for Climate Economics (I4CE).

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L’article Ministries of Finance in the climate change agenda: a South-South exchange est apparu en premier sur I4CE.

Date: Thursday 3 July 2025,

Time: 10:30 am -12:00 pm

Organizers and co-hosts

• Institute for Climate Economics (I4CE)
• ODI Global
• Frankfurt School of Finance and Management (FS)
• International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) 

Location: FIBES Sevilla Exhibition and Conference Centre, Room Side event 18

Contact information for inquiries

Solène Metayer

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Description of the event

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.

These figures offer valuable signals for raising awareness and structuring international negotiations. However, they often fall short of guiding concrete country-level action or supporting effective mobilization strategies. Several key limitations undermine their practical usefulness.

Many estimates rely on either an incremental, climate-additive costing approach or a holistic, development-pathway framing. Yet, the distinction between these logics is often left implicit or blurred in the final figures, limiting interpretability and comparability.

Existing global estimates frequently overlook cost of capital dynamics, institutional capacity requirements, and realistic allocation scenarios. They answer “how much is needed,” but not “how it should be delivered” – a crucial gap as the quality of finance takes center stage in current policy debates. Needs assessments rarely translate into guidance on how specific financing instruments, sources, or institutional actors can support particular project types, country contexts, or policy priorities.

The objective of the event was to discuss these challenges from three complementary angles:

• Unpacking existing estimates: We will critically assess the construction, assumptions, and limitations of major financing needs assessments, to enhance their usefulness for international negotiations, better support mobilization strategies, and ultimately support SDG and climate outcomes more effectively.
• Enhancing adaptation figures: While climate change adaptation is vital to integrated climate-development strategies – especially in EMDEs –, it remains underrepresented in financing needs assessments. This session will refocus attention on this critical gap.
• Tracking progress and adapting strategies: We will explore how to report progress on complex, cross-cutting initiatives such as the G20 Sustainable Finance Roadmap. This means complementing the measurement of finance volumes with qualitative assessments that can track moving targets at country level across the sustainable finance policy landscape.

The discussion was grounded in three research initiatives:

1. An analysis of financing needs estimates for EMDEs, focusing notably on the IHLEG climate and development figures. This work is led by I4CE as part of a wider Bruegel-CEPR report.

2. An on-going work by ODI on adaptation financing needs, and how this discussion should feature on the current climate and development finance talks.

3. A new generation of sustainable finance indicators to allow G20 public actors to comprehensively track their contribution towards achieving the G20 Sustainable Finance Roadmap. This project is conducted by a consortium made up of the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management (FS), GFLAC, I4CE and IISD.

The event will feature 45 minutes of presentations of insights from the three initiatives above, and 45 minutes of panel discussions and reaction by financial institution representatives and relevant policy-makers from Planning and Finance Ministries.

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L’article FFD4 Side-event – Scaling up sustainable development finance: unpacking global estimates, supporting effective mobilization est apparu en premier sur I4CE.

Date: June 20, 2025

Time: 4:30-5:45 PM CEST

Organised by I4CE, 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 private finance for adaptation and mitigation using emerging evaluation methods and more efficient use of finance for impact, alignment, equitable distribution, and transparency.

As public budgets face growing pressure and shifting priorities, there is a pressing need for stronger evidence on which climate finance approaches are most effective, for whom, and what can be scaled or replicated. Understanding the quality of climate finance is crucial to making the most of limited resources and ensure the delivery of tangible, on-the-ground results.

L’article Advancing the Baku to Belém Roadmap: Mobilizing High-Impact, Transformational Finance in EMDEs est apparu en premier sur I4CE.

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• Date: June 11, 2025

• Time: 12:00 PM-1:00 PM (GMT-5)

• Organised by I4CE and ICAP at Innovate4climate 2025

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.

L’article Harnessing Carbon Revenues: Helping Countries to Meet Broader Policy Objectives est apparu en premier sur I4CE.

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.

With the second edition of our State of Europe’s Climate Investment report, we take stock of the development in investments supporting the climate transition in EU27. Our report assesses the real-economy annual investments needed to meet the 2030 targets set out in the Green Deal and Net Zero Industry Act for the energy, buildings, transport and clean tech manufacturing sectors. We track the actual investments in those sectors in the EU economy, highlight the deficits and analyse challenges to mobilise investments.

Based on the investment gap, the questions emerge: how do we mobilise sufficient public funding and private capital to accelerate the climate transition? Where should the money come from? What are the policy solutions needed to support the climate transition in times of significant budgetary constraints? And what would a long-term investment plan for Europe’s climate transition look like in the current geo-political situation?

Join us online for a lively debate on the solutions required going forward.

Date : 3 June, 2025

Time: 10:00-12:30 AM (Paris time)

Format: online

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L’article Investing in Europe’s climate transition est apparu en premier sur I4CE.

Date: 2025-06-17

Time: 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm

Format: online + on site

Context

Together with its partners, I4CE 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.

Description

Understanding adaptation costs is crucial for effective climate policy, yet national assessments across Europe remain inconsistent. This session explores methodologies for estimating adaptation costs and monitoring adaptation financing, drawing on insights from international and national initiatives. Panelists showcased best practices from adaptation cost assessments, including macroeconomic and fiscal analyses of adaptation finance. Through expert presentations and interactive discussions, the session identified key policy implications, challenges, and enablers for scaling up adaptation finance. By fostering knowledge exchange and co-developing future research needs, this session enhanced the evidence base for adaptation planning and budgeting at the national and European scale. Key insights will feed into a short think piece, providing actionable insights for policymakers and researchers to strengthen adaptation finance and preparedness in the face of climate change.

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L’article Upscaling adaptation finance at national and European scales: costs, economic and fiscal rationale est apparu en premier sur I4CE.