Our new global talk series on climate finance integrity

From Mexico City to Johannesburg to Bangkok, this year we are holding a series of talks across the globe on how to ensure that investment in the response to climate change really works, and is not undercut by corruption. Our global climate team has been analysing risks in the climate sector, and now we’re hoping to bring the right people to the table to discuss practical ways of overcoming them.

A number of these events will take place in Berlin – home to some of the most progressive environmental policy of recent years and its architects, one of the world’s largest contributors to climate finance, and a train’s ride away from the UN Climate Change Convention secretariat. The Berlin Climate Finance Integrity Talks series was designed to cut across sectors and disciplines and provide a non-politicised forum for climate policy-makers and practitioners to come together to jointly craft solutions to the problems that are already arising or anticipated.

Watch excerpts from the first talk in our Berlin series here

Focus of the series

• How can climate change-affected communities take more ownership over deciding where climate money is spent, and watch over delivery to ensure that it is effective?
• How can climate funds better guard themselves against corrupt abuse and have stronger, clearer and more coordinated procedures in place to deal with corruption if and when it happens?
• What does the foreseen shift in public-private blended investment mean for accountability – will stricter reporting be required of companies to bring it in line with requirements for government?
• How can climate data be made available, understandable and useful to all of the various groups that it affects?
• What systems and structures are needed to allow people to report on corruption that they witness in climate projects, and for their complaints to be duly followed up on?

These are just some of the questions that our talk series is touching upon. The latest in the series was held in Berlin from 9-10 September, dedicated to exploring options for strengthening citizen participation in climate project design and monitoring, as well as the various models for supportive complaints mechanisms for when things go wrong.

Resources

• Keep an eye out for the outcomes of last month’s Integrity Talk in Bangkok.
• Spanish speakers can learn more about our Mexico City Integrity Talk here.
• Read more about an event we co-hosted with the Heinrich Boell Foundation and the Pan-African Justice Alliance in Johannesburg here.
• Learn more about our Climate Finance Integrity Programme