Financing for the Global South: Getting Ready for NDC3.0 Implementation and Fostering International Partnerships

Regional Climate Foundation
November 15, 2025 | Saturday
10:00 to
11:00

This event is designed to present solutions to climate finance in developing countries of the Global South and provide a space for multi-layer stakeholders to deliberate on the way forward given the NCQG adopted last year and the NDC 3.0 submissions this year. Apart from keynote interventions by governmental and UN representatives, this event will also invite MDBs, philanthropic funders, private sector and civil society to explore actional pathways on financing for the global south, contributing to the roadmap towards 1.3T, international partnerships (such as south-south cooperation) for peer-to-peer exchanges and catalyze the climate actions at the national, regional and global level respectively.

  1. Carlos Lopes, COP30 Presidency Special Envoy for Africa
  2. André Guimarães, COP30 Presidency Special Envoy for Civil Society
  3. Balarabe Abbas Lawal, Minister of Environment,Nigeria
  4. Madam Madeleine Diouf Sarr, Director General, Department of Climate Change, Ministry of Environment of Senegal
  5. Zira John Quaghe, Deputy Head of Programmes, the African Climate Foundation
  6. Walters Tubua, Regional lead/Chef Régional, Regional Collaboration Centre, Western and Central Africa, United Nations Climate Change Secretariat
  7. Pablo Vieira, Global Director of NDC Partnership
  8. Erik Berglof, Chief Economist, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
  9. Li Xia, Deputy Director General, Foreign Environmental Cooperation Center, Ministry of Ecology and Environment of China (FECO)
  • The African Climate Foundation