Regional round tables “Towards COP27: Catalysing climate finance and investment flows to ramp up climate action and advance the Sustainable Development Goals”

Abstract

Ahead of COP27, scheduled to take place in November 2022, the UN system, leveraging its convening power, network of experts and influences at regional levels, seeks to organize a series of round-tables bringing together key stakeholders from public and private sectors, to address financing bottlenecks and to showcase both the success stories of private sector investments in climate areas and investment-ready climate initiatives in Member States. Public and private climate finance must flow at the necessary scale and pace and ensure the already stretched fiscal space of most developing countries to invest in climate action and sustainable development is not further overburdened. With a focus on SDGs 7, 9, 13 and 17 as vehicles for change, the round-tables aim at taking a holistic approach towards financing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in the new global environment.