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
Advisory Council Meeting for the Framework for Sustainable Finance Integrity
📅 Monday, April 21
CPI will host this invite-only roundtable session with members of our Framework for Sustainable Finance Integrity Advisory Council. The conversation will cover the opportunities and challenges for sustainable finance integrity within the current international financial architecture and macroeconomic conditions. Members will take stock of key climate finance initiatives, and discuss concrete, operational plans to move them forward.
Strengthening Country Platforms: Integrating Urban and Subnational Priorities for Climate Finance
📅 Tuesday, April 22; 11am – 1pm
CCFLA 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.
CPI’s Barbara Buchner, Bella Tonkonogy, and Jessie Press-Williams will speak at 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.
Mobilizing finance for adaptation and resilience – Addressing Systemic Risks to Safeguard Global Financial Stability
📅 Wednesday, April 23; 1pm – 2:30pm
CPI’s Global Managing Director, Barbara Buchner, will speak at an expert workshop hosted by the Atlantic Council and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), marking the first in a series of engagements leading up to COP30. This event will convene key financial actors—banks, insurers, investors, regulators, DFIs, and MDBs—to address the integration of climate risk into global financial stability frameworks. Building on initiatives like the TCFD, NGFS, and the Sustainable Insurance Forum, the workshop will explore the systemic, institutional, and asset-level challenges of climate adaptation, aiming to identify actionable solutions, accelerate adaptation finance, and support the mainstreaming of climate adaptation within the international financial architecture. The outcomes of this workshop will directly inform the COP30 agenda on finance, adaptation, and nature.
How Do Multilateral Funds Survive the Donor Retreat?
📅 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.
Speakers will include:
Clemence Landers, Vice President and Senior Policy Fellow, Center for Global Development
Janeen Madan Keller, Policy Fellow and Deputy Director of Global Health Policy, CGD
Federica Diamanti, Associate Vice-President, External Relations Department, International Fund for Agricultural Development
David Kinder, Director of Development Finance, Gavi
Bella Tonkonogy, Senior Director of Programs, Climate Policy Initiative
Valarie Dabady, Division Manager, Resource Mobilization and Partnerships, African Development Bank
Advancing Development through Resilience to Climate and Financial Risks
📅Wednesday, April 23; 4:00 – 5:00pm
Gates Foundation
As climate disasters grow more frequent and costly, and adaptation finance continues to fall short, this panel will bring together leaders from across the finance and development landscape to explore how financial risk transfer tools—such as insurance, guarantees, and catastrophe bonds—can drive investment in resilience. This discussion, hosted by Climate Policy Initiative and the Gates Foundation, will tackle pressing questions around managing climate-related financial risks, reducing the cost of capital, and unlocking resources for vulnerable regions. In the wake of record-breaking climate impacts and economic losses in 2024, this timely conversation will spotlight the financial innovations and policy reforms needed to safeguard development gains and accelerate climate action.
Speakers will include:
Bella Tonkonogy l Senior Director, Programs l Climate Policy Initiative
Paula Pagniez | Executive Director, Head Americas, Climate Risk and Resilience | Howden Group
Margarita Cabrera | Head of Climate Business, Operations Guarantees | MIGA
Isaac Anthony | Chief Executive Officer | CCRIF SPC
Private capital mobilisation: Assessing institutional drivers of development banks and development finance institutions
📅Wednesday, April 23; 4pm – 5pm
CPI’s Global Managing Director, Barbara Buchner, will participate in a high-level roundtable on “Private Capital Mobilisation: Assessing Institutional Drivers of Development Banks and Development Finance Institutions,” hosted by the OECD in partnership with the Independent High-Level Expert Group on Climate Finance. This event will convene multilateral development banks, DFIs, country shareholders, private sector leaders, and experts to examine how institutional mandates, governance, and incentives can better support private capital mobilisation. As part of the broader Baku to Belém Roadmap, the discussion will identify barriers and actionable solutions to scaling finance for sustainable development. Insights from the roundtable will directly inform a forthcoming OECD report to be released ahead of COP30.
High-Level Roundtable: Designing the Baku – Belém Roadmap to $1.3 Trillion for COP30
📅 Thursday, April 24; 1:30pm – 6:00pm
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
This event will unveil key findings from the Bezos Earth Fund-commissioned report: The State of Green Banks 2025. 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.
Speakers will include:
Barbara Buchner, Global Managing Director, Climate Policy Initiative
Boitumelo Mosako, CEO, DBSA
Doug Sims, Managing Director, Green Finance and Economic Development, Natural Resources Defense Council
Kavita Sinha, Director, Department of Private Sector Facility, Green Climate Fund
Nicolas Picchiottino, Secretary General, IDFC
Paul Bodnar, Director of Sustainable Finance, Industry, and Diplomacy, Bezos Earth Fund
