The current state of climate finance | Stories to Watch 2025

Increasing climate finance and growing ambition is a virtuous cycle. We need to unlock both. In this year's Stories to Watch, Ani Dasgupta, President and CEO of World Resources Institute, breaks down the key challenges - and potential solutions - to this global effort. At COP29 in November, the world's leaders came together to focus their attention on a bold new climate finance goal: How do we help countries make the critical transition to clean energy that the climate needs, while also building the resilient communities and infrastructure to deal with the climate change impacts that we're already seeing across the globe? At COP29 in Baku they agreed to a goal to reach at least 300 Billion annually by 2035-though much more is needed than that. 2025 is an incredibly important year for climate and nature. Before COP30 in Belem, countries are submitting new climate plans. Without certainty that adequate finance will be available, many developing countries will be reluctant to put forward ambitious plans. But if we find ways to ensure climate finance can flow, more countries can join the race to the top. Get more information from WRI's latest Insights article➡️ https://go.wri.org/stw-2025-yt About WRI: WRI is a 501(C)(3) non-profit and a trusted partner for change. Using research-based approaches, we work globally and in focus countries to meet people's essential needs; to protect and restore nature; and to stabilize the climate and build more resilient communities. We aim to fundamentally transform the way the world produces food, uses energy and designs its cities to create a better future for all. We work across several topics affecting people, nature and the climate. 🌍 Official website: https://www.wri.org 🔗LinkedIn:   / world-resources-institute   📱 Instagram:   / worldresources   🙏🏼 Facebook:   / worldresources   🦋 Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/worldresourc... 🐦 Twitter: https://x.com/WorldResources 🌎 Sign up for WRI Digest: https://go.wri.org/4hwQ0Kp 0:30 Intro 3:00 Climate Finance 8:00 Climate Impacts 13:00 Where do emissions come from? 17:00 Job Creation 20:00 How can we get to the 1.3 trillion dollars? 26:00 Private investment 35:00 Biodiversity #StoriestoWatch #climatefinance #climateadaptation #environment #sustainability #greeneconomy #cop29 #cop30 #privateinvestment #privatecapital #climatechange #ClimateFinance #PrivateInvestment #PrivateCapital #GreenEconomy #SustainableFinance #ClimateChange #EnvironmentalImpact #ClimateAdaptation #Sustainability #EcoInvestment #GreenFinance #InvestmentForChange #ClimateAction #SustainableDevelopment #CleanEnergyInvestment #ResilientEconomy #GreenInvesting #ClimateSolutions #ImpactInvesting #FutureOfFinance