2025 programme

The 2025 programme featured:

High-level plenary sessions with national and international government ministers and finance leaders
Challenge sessions where insurers, investors and regulators, as well as people delivering resilience at the frontlines, discussed in-depth on how best to respond to increasing climate risks, and mobilise and leverage finance and investment
Connections with colleagues and experts from across the worlds of finance, investment and government, plus an evening drinks reception

See the full programme below:

08:00

Registration/check-in (Foyer)

09:00

Setting the scene for the summit

Opening address

Portuguese translation

International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

09:45

Banking on resilience: can banks meet the climate adaptation finance challenge?

Challenge session

Alexander Kennedy

Mobilising capital for climate resilience: from risk to opportunity

Challenge session

Stephanie Pfeifer

British International Investment

Scaling resilience investment: showcasing solutions and delivering breakthrough action at COP30

Challenge session

Loretta Hieber Girardet

Ekhosuehi Iyahen

How can public and private actors deliver finance to climate-vulnerable communities?

Challenge session

Laurynas Vaičiulis

Farmina Hossain

MicroSave Consulting

Frontiers of financial innovation for climate-resilient agriculture

Challenge session

Tyler Ferdinand

Cristina Rumbaitis del Rio

11:00

Special session.

High-level riverside dialogue: Using insurance to shockproof economies – a flagship event with Barbados and the UK

By invitation only

Ekhosuehi Iyahen

Pepukaye Bardouille

Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

11:30

Financing climate resilience projects in cities

Challenge session

Priscilla Negreiros

Adriana Kocornik-Mina

Unlocking the full potential of National Adaptation Plans

Challenge session

Anjali Viswamohanan

Avinash Persaud

Jorge Gastelumendi

COP30 presidency

Resilience finance at scale: country platforms in fragile contexts

Challenge session

Bakhit Djamous Hassan

Ambassador Elshad Iskandarov

International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Who holds the power? Rethinking intermediaries in gender-just locally-led climate action

Challenge session

Global Alliance for Green and Gender Action (GAGGA)

13:00

Lunch (River room)

14:00

Spotlight: Lightning talks of key messages from other LCAW resilience events

International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

14:30

Aligning innovative financing instruments with national climate and nature priorities

Challenge session

Pauline Nantongo

International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

From Baku to Belém: how can COP30 unlock adaptation finance?

Challenge session

Institute for Climate and Society (iCS)

Building bridges: redirecting finance to informal settlements

Challenge session

Slum Dwellers International

Accelerating adaptation economics and financing for a well-adapted UK

Challenge session

Emma Howard-Boyd

From ideas to impact: who’s financing Africa’s climate-resilient future?

Challenge session

Amanda Brasil-Leigh

The investment case for resilience: new evidence and tools

Challenge session

Arend Kulenkampff

Pepukaye Bardouille

Quadrature Climate Foundation

16:00

Coffee break (River room)

16:30

What’s ahead – from London to Belem and beyond

Closing remarks

Ambassador Andre Correa do Lago

International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)