CPI at the 2025 World Bank Group/IMF Spring Meetings
Climate Policy Initiative experts will host and present at several events during the 2025 Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund.
All times below are EST
Strengthening Country Platforms: Integrating Urban and Subnational Priorities for Climate Finance
📅 Tuesday, April 22; 11am – 1pm
CCFLA, AIIB, and the SDSN Global Commission will launch a new paper on integrating urban priorities into country platforms. While country platforms are emerging as a key tool for mobilizing climate finance, most do not systematically engage cities—despite their crucial role in climate action. This paper presents a practical framework to bridge this gap, drawing on case studies from Egypt, India, Brazil, and Bangladesh.
This high-level discussion will bring together policymakers, MDB representatives, financiers, and city leaders to explore how country platforms can better incorporate urban investment needs.
Please contact caroline.dreyer@cpiglobal.org if you are interested in attending this event.
Finance Ministers at the Forefront: Driving Economic Prosperity, Sustainable Development and Climate Action Amid Constrained Fiscal Environments
📅 Wednesday, April 23; 8am – 9am
World Bank
The Coalition of Finance Ministers for Climate Action will host its 13th Ministerial Meeting as a high-level plenary meeting at the World Bank’s Spring Meetings on Wednesday, 23 April. The discussion will center on the crucial role of Finance Ministries in delivering ambitious climate action and sustained economic prosperity within conditions of limited fiscal space and a complex and shifting geopolitical landscape.
CPI’s Global Managing Director, Barbara Buchner, will represent CPI at this meeting.
Multilateral Concessional Funds in the Global Aid Crisis: Are Their Models in Need of an Overhaul?
📅 Wednesday, April 23; 2pm – 3pm
CPI’s Senior Director Bella Tonkonogy will join a panel discussion at the Center for Global Development’s (CGD) on multilateral concessional funds. As the global aid landscape faces increasing pressure from declining donor resources and rising development needs, this event will explore whether the financial models of concessional funds require an overhaul. Panelists will debate key policy questions, including how these funds can adapt to reduce reliance on donor support, improve allocation models, and enhance coordination across institutions. Drawing from recent CGD research, the discussion will contribute to shaping the future of concessional finance.
High-Level Roundtable: Designing the Baku – Belém Roadmap to $1.3 Trillion for COP30
📅 Thursday, April 24; 9am – 1:30pm
At COP29 in Baku, the New Collective Quantified Goal outcome reached a key decision of launching the “Baku to Belem Roadmap to $1.3 trillion” aiming at scaling up climate finance to developing country Parties” (“Roadmap”). While this is a complex task in the current global context, the Roadmap can be a meaningful instrument to address climate and investment opportunities and challenges.
Work on the development of the Baku to Belem Roadmap takes into account the outcomes of the Brazilian G20 Presidency including the MDB Reform Roadmap, the operational review of vertical climate funds and contributions to advancing the understanding on the use of country platforms to scale up and accelerate climate and development action.
Building on these outcomes and to support the work on the Roadmap to 1.3T, the Institute for Climate and Society (iCS), Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) and CONCITO, in collaboration with the Brazilian Ministry of Finance are co-organizing a high-level convening to gather insights and recommendations by key climate finance, policy and private sector experts to inform the formulation of the Roadmap.
Green Banks: Unlocking Global Sustainable Growth
📅 Friday, April 25; 9am – 11am
Moderated by CPI’s Global Managing Director, Barbara Buchner, this event will unveil key findings from the Bezos Earth Fund-commissioned report, Green Banks: Trends and Taxonomy – Learnings from Green Financing Structures Around the World. The discussion will explore how green banks can help countries mobilize climate finance, strengthen domestic capital markets, and advance national climate goals. A panel of leaders from green finance institutions worldwide will share insights on best practices, emerging trends, and the role of green banks in accelerating the global transition to a low-carbon economy.
Please contact caroline.dreyer@cpiglobal.org if you are interested in attending this event.
Friends of CPI Networking Reception
📅 Friday, April 25; 4:30pm – 7:30pm
A networking event hosted by CPI. Please contact caroline.dreyer@cpiglobal.org if you are interested in attending this event.
