Roundtable: Reshaping the Narrative and Toolkit to Align the Financial System with Climate Goals
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 who are invited to intervene. It will also be open to Forum participants attending in person, but will be held 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. Space for this roundtable is limited.
