Background paper
Roundtable: Reshaping the Narrative and Toolkit to Align the Financial System with Climate Goals
October 2025
Read the background paperRoundtable: Reshaping the Narrative and Toolkit to Align the Financial System with Climate Goals
Oct 8, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 2:00 PMConference Room CC13
Oct 8, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Conference Room CC13
Description
Despite global progress on climate action, efforts to manage climate risks through mitigation and adaptation are not on track to meet climate goals. Exceeding the 1.5°C target of the Paris Agreement may trigger several tipping points, leading to severe and irreversible climate change. We need to align finance with climate goals, including by unlocking financing for the low-emissions, resilient transition and redirecting finance away from activities that undermine climate mitigation and resilience goals. Yet, recent OECD work points to a continued overall low degree of alignment of finance with climate goals. As a result, under business-as-usual, we are headed towards a delayed and disorderly transition at best, or towards a hothouse at worst. Urgent and systems-wide, transformational actions across sectors are needed to transition the financial system with climate goals, while ensuring energy security, energy access and affordability, job creation, economic resilience and broader sustainable development goals. This roundtable will discuss, in an open and interactive format: (i) key priorities to implement transformative policy interventions and other catalytic levers despite the challenging geopolitical environment and (ii) options to reshape the narrative to align the financial system with climate mitigation and resilience goals.
This session will include selected participants invited to intervene. It will also be open to public Forum participants but will be conducted under the strict Chatham House Rule: participants are free to use the information received without revealing the identity or affiliation of the speakers or other participants. This session will not be live-streamed or recorded and will be available for in-person attendance only. As space for this roundtable is limited, in-person Forum participants have received an email inviting expressions of interest to participate in this roundtable on the evening of Tuesday, 30 September (CEST). Following this call, only individuals who have received a confirmation/invitation email will be allowed to enter the roundtable room (CC13). If you have not received a confirmation email from us, we invite you to join the parallel session on future-proof real estate investment, taking place at the same time in Conference Centre Room CC15.
