Reflecting on COP27: scaling up climate finance and ensuring a just transition

While COP26 revolved around what needs to be done to secure global net zero by 2050, COP27 focused on how to move from pledges to implementation. Mobilising finance is critical to delivering urgent action and has become one of the key aims of Egypt’s COP27 presidency.  This year’s climate summit intended to amplify the voices of developing countries and raise the topics of sovereign debt for nature and climate investment, reducing the cost of green borrowing, scaling up financing for both adaptation and resilience, loss and damage, and ensuring a just transition.   In this podcast, OMFIF’s Sustainable Policy Institute Head Emma McGarthy talks to Alex Michie, Head of Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ), on the key outcomes of COP27, the state of climate finance and moving from commitments to tangible action, GFANZ framework for transition planning and driving co-operation, convergence and forging the path to COP28.