LocationsConvener: UNDP and UNCDF
Inclusive Climate Finance Dialogue for a Resilient Asia-Pacific
August 26, 2025
Event Details
August 26, 2025
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August 28, 2025
Pullman Hotel, Bangkok
Asia-Pacific is one of the world’s most climate-vulnerable regions — home to 13 of the 30 most at-risk countries — and stands to lose a large share of GDP under a high emissions scenario unless action is accelerated.
Climate finance is therefore essential: existing flows meet only a fraction of adaptation needs and the region faces a persistent finance gap that undermines resilience-building, inclusive development and the achievement of NDCs and NAPs.
This Regional Dialogue brings together governments, financiers, development partners, philanthropy and local actors to surface practical financing pathways, align public and private resources, and scale locally led solutions that protect the most vulnerable.
Organized by the UNDP Climate Finance Network and UNCDF with support from the UK Government through the FCDO and the Swedish Government through Sida, the Dialogue aims to turn financing commitments into measurable, equitable action on the ground.
- Strengthen collective leadership in climate finance by showcasing effective national and local practices, data insights, and governance models for more accountable and impactful climate financing.
- Accelerate NDC and NAP implementation by exploring new financing pathways aligned with shifting regional priorities and global dynamics.
- Promote inclusive and adaptive financing models by identifying innovative policies, mechanisms and instruments that expand access to under-represented groups and leverage alternate financing mechanisms.
- Foster South-South collaboration through peer learning, co-creation, and regional partnerships to scale up climate finance solutions.
- Sustaining momentum in climate and development finance
Exploring innovative strategies to mobilize and align financing with climate and development goals amid fiscal constraints and shifting priorities. - Enhancing inclusive climate budgeting and public financial management
Strengthening climate-responsive budgeting and public financial systems to ensure resources reach vulnerable populations and support inclusive outcomes. - Aligning fiscal policies for inclusive climate transitions
Integrating climate finance into national fiscal frameworks and aligning fiscal instruments with climate equity and policy agendas. - Scaling equitable adaptation finance and locally led solutions
Addressing distributional inequities in adaptation finance and promoting mechanisms that empower local actors and integrate inclusive knowledge systems. - Leveraging financial instruments and unlocking private capital
Creating enabling conditions for inclusive climate investment through innovative instruments, blended finance, and digital tools that support underserved groups. - Advancing transparency, data, and accountability
Improving equity and impact verification through disaggregated data, open finance tracking, and inclusive monitoring systems.
Explore the agenda — download the PDF or click any day or session below to expand full session details, speakers and objectives.
Assess the changing finance landscape and agree practical steps to sustain and scale climate ambition across the Asia-Pacific region. List of speakers:
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Compare national realities, surface priority gaps and identify practical pathways to close the adaptation finance shortfall. Speakers list:
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Presentation: Climate Finance Priorities and Pathways for Adaptation and Resilience
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Launch the ECPFM findings and debate how climate-sensitive PFM can be retooled to deliver measurable NDC/NAP outcomes. Speakers include:
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Presentation: Effectiveness of public financial management (EPFM
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Stocktake CBT reforms across Asia-Pacific, spotlight what has worked, identify constraints and outline steps to make tagging drive better spending and results. Speakers include:
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Presentation: Climate Budget Tagging in Nepal, Philippines, and Tonga
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Explore fiscal and tax tools—from pricing to transfers—that mobilize resources equitably and reduce risk for climate investments. Speakers include:
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Presentation: Modelling the economic impact of climate change
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Map coordination gaps and highlight mechanisms that align incentives, share risk and blend capital across public, private and philanthropic actors.
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Share regulatory, market and institutional reforms that create bankable pipelines and sustained private-sector engagement. Speakers include:
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Presentations: Climate Finance Innovation Lab; Strategic framework for blended finance Convergence
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Spotlight guarantees, green bonds, insurance and other instruments that expand finance for adaptation and resilience in emerging markets.
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This session deepens peer-to-peer partnerships — across countries, institutions, and sectors — as an approach to taking some steps from the workshop. By sharing knowledge, experiences, and innovations, peers can unlock new pathways for mobilizing resources, enhancing capacity, deepening social inclusion and impact and scaling solutions.
Themes include:
Inclusion is a strategic advantage. Investing in women—at the frontlines of climate adaptation—is just and smart economics. This session will explore how we can retool financial services and development strategies to improve access, reduce risks, and enhance resilience, followed by the launch of the Gender, Climate, and Inclusive Finance Collective (G-CLiC). Speakers include:
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Presentations: The inclusion dividend; Gender and Climate Finance Collective
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This session will examine the role of transparent data, evidence-based reporting, and disclosure standards in fostering trust between governments, investors, and citizens. Speakers include:
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Presentations: Indonesia dashboard overview; Philippines dashboard overview; Introduction to IPSASB, UNFCCC on transparency
Video: UNFCC "What is transparency?"
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The session will showcase effective solutions for integrating local adaptation plans into governance, planning and finance systems to accelerate climate action. Speakers include:
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Presentation: Climate-resilient development in Indonesia
Video: The Long Term Benefits of Locally led adaptation in Bhutan
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Explore how digital public infrastructure, GIS, payment platforms and information tools can increase transparency, inclusion and direct flows to local actors — and the associated risks to manage. Speakers include:
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Presentation: Innovation in the Solomon Islands
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