Symposium

International Climate Finance: Innovation, Collaboration, and Challenges

Date

Thursday 10 April 2025 - Friday 11 April 2025

Address

Wijnhaven
Turfmarkt 99
2511 DP The Hague

Room

4.78 (Thrusday) and 2.14a (Friday)

Photo by Li-An Lim on Unsplash

International public finance is essential for global collaboration on climate change. With the deepening climate crisis and stagnant public finances, it is essential to maximize the impacts of limited resources, especially in the developing world. To this end, new public climate organizations have emerged, and existing multilateral and bilateral mechanisms have made innovations to improve climate finance.

To assess these trends, this symposium assembles experts in climate change finance from multilateral, minilateral, regional, national, and philanthropic organizations. The meeting enables searching practitioner-researcher exchange on innovative practices, lessons, actionable insights, and challenges ahead.

The symposium takes place at Leiden University (Campus The Hague) on 10–11 April 2025. Panels respectively address innovations in established multilateral climate finance, new climate finance donors, and academic and policy research on emerging trends of international climate finance.

Review the full programme here.

Registration

If you are interested in participating of this symposium, please reach out to Shiming Yang ([e-mail]) for more information and registration.

Programme Overview

Thursday 10 April

13:15 . 13:30: Welcome from GTGC coordinator Jan Aart Scholte

13:30 -15:00: Panel 1: Emerging public organizations in international climate finance

• Presenters: Michael Sampson, Jue Wang, and Shiming Yang from Leiden University
• Discussant: Charlotte Unger (Research Institute for Sustainability Potsdam)

15:00 - 15:30: Coffee Break

15:30 - 17:00: Panel 2: Innovations in climate finance of multilateral and national organization

• Panel: Gersom van der Elst (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Netherlands), Albert Bokkestijn (SNV/Dutch Fund for Climate and Development), Nancy Saich (European Investment Bank), and Gabriela Alberola (University of Amsterdam)

Friday 11 April

9:00 - 10:30: Panel 3: Innovations on climate finance: grant makers and implementers

• Panel: Donovan Storey (Climate and Clean Air Coalition), Daniel Tascon (Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet), Katherine Browne (Stockholm Environment Institute) 

10:30 - 11:00: Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30: Panel 4: Research on international climate finance

• Presenters: Charlotte Unger (Research Institute for Sustainability Potsdam), Donovan Storey (Climate and Clean Air Coalition), Katherine Browne (Stockholm Environment Institute), and Ruth Carlitz (University of Amsterdam)
• Discussant: Jue Wang

12:30: Conclusion of the symposium and lunch

This symposium is part of the GTGC Seedgrant project 'Transformations in Global Climate Finance'

• global transformations and governance challenges