Join heads of state, senior government ministers, finance and business leaders, and civil society to discuss how we supercharge effective finance for climate resilience
Climate change is the most critical business and social challenge the world faces. Communities across the world are experiencing devastating climate shocks, from storms and flooding to droughts and deadly heat.
The costs of these climate impacts will only increase, and every community, industry and government needs to consider how to improve their capacity to respond to climate disasters and how to finance the significant investments required for resilience-building.
At the community level, this means keeping people safe and protecting local economies from disruption. At the international level, this includes ensuring that global financial and economic systems are resilient to climate risks.
Mobilising finance for climate resilience is now high on the international policy agenda, but key stakeholders from government, finance and delivery organisations rarely meet to discuss practical steps to drive this vital effort.
Mobilising finance for a resilient future
This one-day event brings together stakeholders across the resilience and finance ecosystems to discuss opportunities to unlock finance for climate resilience at all levels, from the local to global.
Plenary sessions will feature national and international political, financial and resilience leaders, changemakers and financial experts who are working at the national and global levels to find solutions for mobilising climate-resilience finance.
We will explore expert insights and innovative solutions that can deliver a global financial response to increasingly frequent and extreme climate events, growing debt, and challenging insurance markets.
We will consider how to foster an enabling environment by deepening cooperation between international development banks, central banks, major financial institutions, and private and public capital.
We will confront the severe resilience challenges facing the world’s cities and highlight London’s leadership in addressing the global challenge of climate change.
A pivotal moment on the road to $1.3 trillion
This summit comes at a moment when financing for resilience to climate change is high on the international agenda. The UN climate conference COP29 in Baku called for countries to collaborate to scale up climate financing from public and private sources to at least US$1.3 trillion per year by 2035, including finance for adaptation and resilience.
The "Baku to Belem Roadmap to $1.3T" is now in development and will be a central topic at the next climate COP in Belem, Brazil, this December. To meet the $1.3 trillion challenge, politicians, financiers and civil society must find innovative and creative ways to mobilise a wide array of financial resources for resilience-building at local, national and multilateral levels.
This challenge is especially acute for developing economies, which face the double challenge of reducing their high vulnerability to climate risks while building basic infrastructure, managing debt and developing sustainable economies.
London Climate Action Week marks the halfway point between the climate COPs, and this summit is a key opportunity to discuss next steps and build collaboration across all sectors for delivering global solutions.
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