Climate finance is central to meeting international legal climate obligations and driving policy and operational change on climate action locally, transnationally, and globally. The outcome of the 29th meeting of the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) (COP29) in Baku Azerbaijan, November 2024 (dubbed the ‘Finance COP’) was a new global finance goal and a framework for raising ambition for climate finance in the run-up to COP30 in Belém, Brazil in November 2025. The agreement for a New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) commits developed countries to ‘lead’ on mobilising at least US$300 billion in climate finance annually by 2035 and sets into motion a pathway to work towards a scaling up of finance to US$1.3 trillion a year by 2035.

This event, organised under the auspices of the Warwick Climate Governance and Policy Nexus (NEXUS), the Warwick Sustainability Spotlight and the Climate Finance for Equitable Transition (CLiFT), will critically review the outcomes of COP29, assess the current state of climate finance negotiations and policy discussions leading into COP30, and to discuss just and equitable climate action. The event is also supported by the Centre for Law, Regulation and Governance of the Global Economy (GLOBE) and the Institute for Global Sustainable Development (IGSD).

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This session aims to foster capacity-building in climate finance and policy research, facilitating engagement between academics and key stakeholders involved in multilateral climate finance negotiations. ECRs will gain skills in creating evidence-based policy solutions while interacting with experts and policymakers.