10:00 – 10:20

(20 min)

Opening Remarks

Martin Frick, Senior Director for Policy and Programme Coordination on behalf of Patricia Espinosa, Executive Secretary, UNFCCC

Introductory remarks by the co-facilitators

10:20 – 11:10

(50 min)

Plenary discussion on the two mandated topics

This session started with a two-part scene-setting presentation that provided latest findings relating to the scale and scope of climate finance required to limit the temperature rise and insights on enhancing the effectiveness of climate finance. Subsequently, a panel of experts was invited to engage in a discussion moderated by the co-facilitators

Scene-setting presentation

Part I – Insights on finance for mitigation actions (Click here to download the slide)
(Keywan Riahi, Program Director of Energy, The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis)

Part II – Insights on finance for adaptation actions (Click here to download the slide)
(Charlene Watson, ODI; co-author of the 2018 UNEP Adaptation Gap report and the 2018 SCF Biennial Assessment and Overview of Climate Finance Flows technical report)

Guiding questions for the panel

1. How do you understand the issue of provision of financial and technical support, in the context of “holding the temperature increase under 2/1.5 degrees”?
2. What are the elements that enhance the effectiveness of climate finance, including from the providers’ and recipients’ perspectives?
3. What are the ways to ensure greater predictability of climate finance required to address needs and priorities of developing countries?

Sli.do comments and questions

11:10 – 12:10

Breakout group discussions

Session format: Each breakout group’s discussion kicked off with a quick introduction to provide context to the discussion, followed by interactive discussion and exchange of perspectives within the groups. Each group was supported by a dedicated moderator.

Questions for breakout group discussions

Group 1 – Provision of financial and technical support

Moderator: Ambassador Janine Felson (Belize)

• What considerations should be given in the provision and technical support  in relation to the long-term temperature goals?
• What are the emerging insights in preparing climate finance strategies and plans for climate action in the context of NDCs, NAPs and/or other national climate change strategies? How are they being used in the provision of financial and technical support through multilateral and bilateral channels?  
• What are the lessons learnt in utilizing difference sources and instruments of climate finance to address the needs and priorities of developing countries?
• How can countries, both developed and developing, further enhance their enabling environments and policy frameworks, and what the best practices that can be replicated?

Report back

Group 2 – Mobilization, delivery of and access to climate finance

Moderator: Saleemul Huq (International Institute for Environment and Development)

• What are the lessons learnt so far in facilitating developing countries’ access to bilateral and multilateral climate finance, and where are the challenges and gaps?
• How can provision of financial and technical support effectively assist developing countries to access international climate finance?
• What insights have been gained from the mobilization and delivery of climate finance?

Report back

Group 3 – Effectiveness of climate finance

• What are the lessons learnt in enhancing the effectiveness of climate finance in developing countries, while ensuring country ownership?
• What are the lessons learnt from integrating climate action in national budget and planning processes? How do those lessons relate to national resource mobilization for climate action?
• What are the experiences in monitoring and evaluating the results and impacts of adaptation and mitigation projects and programmes? In this regard, what are the best practices and challenges?

Report back

Group 4 – Predictability of climate finance

• How can predictability of public and private climate finance be enhanced?
• What are the insights that can be obtained from the biennial submissions from developed countries on their strategies and approaches to scale up climate finance?
• How can the updated approaches and strategies be more useful in terms of the level of detail and the type of information contained therein?

Report back

12:10 – 12:50

(40 min)

Plenary report-back

Sli.do Questions and comments received

12:50 – 13:00

(10 min)