Climate finance: A credibility gap?
Join leading experts for the launch of a new report from DI exploring problems with current climate finance reporting and recommendations to strengthen transparency and accountability. What should count towards a New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance, and who should decide?
- 26 June 2024
- 12:30 BST
- Online event
Read our accompanying report: 'Climate finance: Earning trust through consistent reporting'
Read reportAt COP 15 in Copenhagen in 2009, developed countries agreed to provide US$100 billion in climate finance to developing countries each year. Fifteen years on, there is still no common definition of climate finance, leading to inconsistent reporting, a lack of faith in the headline numbers and a loss of trust by developing countries. As the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) prepares to adopt a New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance (NCQG) at COP 29 later this year, what should count towards the target? And who decides?
Development Initiatives (DI) is a global organisation harnessing the power of data and evidence to end poverty, reduce inequality and increase resilience. Join leading experts for the launch of a new report from DI exploring problems with current climate finance reporting and recommendations to strengthen transparency and accountability.
Speakers
- Moderator: Adrian Lovett , DI CEO
- Euan Ritchie , DI Senior Development Finance Policy Advisor
- Illari Aragon , Climate Justice Policy Lead, Christian Aid
- Sandra Guzmán Luna , Founder, Climate Finance Group for Latin America and the Caribbean
- Sunil Acharya , Asia Regional Policy and Campaigns Coordinator, Oxfam
- Colin McQuistan , Head of Climate and Resilience, Practical Action
Panel discussion with audience Q&A.
This event is part of London Climate Action Week .
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