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COP30 side-event: Financing systemic climate effects

Financing systemic change requires mobilising and reorienting larger financial flows towards low-emissions and climate-resilient development pathways. The event discussed proposed approaches to achieve greater impact presented by WRI and CPI, ultimately allowing financial institutions to go beyond individual projects and to act on systemic levers enabling Paris-aligned investments, as shared by AFD, EIB, and IFC.

Key takeaways from the event:

  • Transformational finance can mobilise four levers of action: enabling public policies, actor-level transformations, innovation, and capacity building. Adopting a transformational finance approach requires both strategic changes (e.g. setting ambitious targets for the share of transformational finance) and operational adjustments (e.g. using project screening tools to maximize long-lasting transformational climate impact).
  • Many financial institutions already strive to achieve systemic impact. This can be done through a focus on scalable and replicable impact – particularly by supporting innovation – or investments to support the enabling environment (e.g. removing barriers to investments).
  • Being transformational and achieving a wider impact on systems is about delivering tangible results on several SDGs in addition to climate, and about supporting clients to develop integrated climate plans.

Supporting presentation: Financing systemic climate effects_COP30_18112025

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