WRI Senior Director, Finance and Private Sector Nick Robins will speak at an event organized by AFD.

The session will (1) recall why transformational finance is needed and present guiding principles for its characterization, without creating a rigid label or a new reporting burden; (2) examine concrete country-level examples to understand credible theories of change, enabling conditions, limitations and opportunities for replication; and (3) discuss how to strengthen the robustness of climate strategies and plans, including through forward-looking approaches such as the Climate and Nature Economic Policy Scenarios (CNEPS), identify systemic implementation barriers, and the role of country platforms. It will also examine how international climate finance processes (Baku to Belém Roadmap, Veredas Dialogue and Xingu Talks, Standing Committee on Finance work on the quality of climate finance, NCQG reporting) can recognize and incentivize finance with transformational effects.

Format: public, hybrid event (in-person audience of up to 50 people, remote speaker participation and livestream).