Event

Climate Finance for People and Planet

Event Details

  • Date: –
  • Organiser: CIDSE

A dialogue on driving Ambition, Implementation and justice organised alongside the margins of SB64

UPDATE
This dialogue moderated by Winnie Nalubowa from CIDSE was the last of a series of Climate Relay Dialogues and was on assessing the current climate finance landscape. The event, held in Bonn, reaffirmed a powerful truth: meaningful climate action cannot happen without adequate, non debt creating, accessible and grant based finance. Participants agreed that the current climate finance doesn’t meet the needs of the people or the planet.

Dr Amaoh the African Group of Negotiators (AGN) Chair, emphasized that developing countries can only be ambitious with ambitious climate finance aligning to needs. Developed countries must meet their obligation under article 9.1c.

Musamba Mubanga, from Caritas Internationalis, highlighted the intersection between debt crisis and climate vulnerability. Countries are unable to respond to their climate action or development needs because of a huge part of national budgets spent on repaying debt.

Carolina Alves, from Inesc – Instituto de Estudos Socioeconômicos, highlighted mechanisms that risk deepening inequalities such as carbon markets which are considered part of the climate finance taxonomy in Brazil.

At CIDSE, we are proud to keep working alongside our members, allies, partners, and communities, amplifying voices from the ground up and being with them in the spaces where decisions are made. 

Format: In-person event
When: 11 June 2026, 19:00-20:00 CEST 
Where: St Winfried Church Hall, Sträßchensweg 3, 53113 Bonn
Language: English
How to participate: Places are limited. Register via THIS LINK by 10 June 2026 at the latest.


Background:
As SB64 gets underway, the question of climate finance sits at the heart of whether the world’s most vulnerable communities can adapt, recover, and build resilient futures. Yet access to adequate, just, and predictable climate finance remains deeply unequal. This dialogue brings together Catholic organisations, faith actors, civil society, and frontline community voices to examine what just climate finance must how climate finance can be made truly just, adequate, and people-centred and what we need to demand, together, on the road to COP31. 

Our conversations will explore: 

  • Where climate finance stands today — and what must change at SB64 towards COP31.
  • Debt justice and international financial architecture reform— ending the cycle where the most climate-vulnerable are also the most indebted.  
  • Connecting to local realities; testimonies from community leaders on how the current climate finance system affects their ability to adapt, recover from climate impacts, and build resilience.



CIDSE contact person: Winnie Nalubowa– Advocacy Assistant (nalubowa(at)cidse.org)

Additional information:
Light snacks and drinks will be provided.

This event is organised in the framework of the CIDSE Climate Relay Dialogues, a global journey of encounter and reflections convened by CIDSE to carry the spirit of COP30 in Brazil forward on the road to COP31.

Cover illustration: event flyer. Credit CIDSE.

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