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Finance at COP30
Scaling nature-positive finance at COP30
Our priorities for financial institutions

Limiting global warming to 1.5°C is crucial. Financial institutions, central banks and regulators need to maintain and strengthen their existing commitments, shifting away from environmentally harmful activities and scaling up finance for climate and nature action.

This requires significant mobilisation across all sectors and reallocation of finance from all available sources - public and private, domestic and international - to deliver net zero emissions by 2050.

We urge all financial institutions, regulators and policymakers to take the necessary steps to transition to a resilient, nature-positive, net-zero global economy.

Private Financial Institutions

  • Align financial flows with 1.5°C limit pathways by:​

  • Setting credible, science-based Net Zero Commitments​

  • Developing and implementing credible climate and nature transition plans across all asset classes and financing vehicles​

  • For insurers: become catalysts for a green, fast and fair transition through their underwriting business. To be published at COP30: white paper from WWF CH and UK about the increasing insurance protection gap.​

Policy Makers

  • Implement the necessary regulatory frameworks for corporates and financial institutions to deliver on their climate and nature transition plans and achieve a 1.5C degree transition of the entire economy​

  • Advocate for a phase out and repurpose harmful subsidies, including fossil fuel subsidies through engagement of COP30 Circle of Finance Ministers, Coalition of FInance Ministers for Climate Action, G7 and G20​

Central Banks, Financial Supervisors and Regulators

  • Recognize the Climate-Nature nexus​

  • Publish own transition plans for a low-carbon and nature-positive economy that are transparent and measurable​

  • Apply precautionary approach using all micro and macro prudential supervision tools available​

  • Utilise their monetary policy toolkit to address environmental and social risks while phasing out the most harmful sectors​

  • Impose higher capital requirements to financial institutions lending, investing and insuring companies with always environmentally-harmful activities​

Public Development Banks & International Financial Institutions

  • Recognize and commit to act on the global climate change, biodiversity loss and poverty challenges​

  • Improve environmental and social risk management frameworks and their applications​

  • Set up ambition short, medium and long term net zero, nature positive targets​

  • Provide additional and new financing mechanisms for climate adaptation and mitigation to meet the Baku to Belem Roadmap objective to scale finance to $1.3 trillion

 

Towards COP30

In Belém at COP30: Aaron Vermeulen, Global Finance Practice Leader, WWF

Aaron Vermeulen, Global Finance Practice Lead, WWF International © WWF

WWF Sustainable Finance Showcase

Follow for the latest on our work on sustainable finance.

 
WWF Sustainable Finance at COP30

Find details of select WWF finance events at COP30 below and on the WWF Sustainable Finance LinkedIn Showcase page - and details of all WWF COP30 events here.

Landscape Finance

A new investment model for resilience and prosperity

📅 November 14th, 11:30–12:30 BRT 
📍 WWF Pavilion, Blue Zone, COP30, Belém, Brazil 

The world faces a trillion-dollar-a-year biodiversity finance gap – a shortfall that threatens ecosystems, economies and communities. Bridging it requires a radical shift in how we invest. 

The Landscape Finance Approach offers a powerful remedy. By connecting ecosystem and value chain resilience with stronger business and financial performance, it unlocks the potential to scale investment in the land-, sea- and riverscapes critical to global supply chains. 

At this high-level COP30 session, an expert panel will share insights on how innovative financial tools – from blended finance and green bonds to debt-for-nature swaps and carbon finance – can be tailored to local needs to transform risks into opportunities and investments into resilience and prosperity. 

WWF, Conservation Capital and the Sustainable Finance Coalition will also release a new guide to the Landscape Finance Approach, complete with deep dives, case studies, a practitioner playbook, and an investor white paper.

Follow livestream here:
https://www.youtube.com/@WWFClimate

Insurance Protection Gap

Tackling the insurability challenge across geographies

📅 November 10th, 15.00-16.00 BRT
📍 House of Insurance, Belém, Brazil

WWF policy brief launch and high-level panel event at the Global Sustainable Insurance Summit with Aaron Vermeulen (Global Finance Practice Leader WWF), Laurence Tubiana (CEO ECF), Michel M. Liès (Chairman Zurich) and Dyogo Oliveira (President CNseg, Brazil) with Butch Bacani (Head of Insurance UNEP) moderating. The event will explore how insurers are integrating sustainability into underwriting and investment portfolios to build resilience and manage climate and nature-related risks.  

Convened by UNEP and CNSEG, the Summit at the Casa do Seguro (House of Insurance) covering three thematic days, will bring together leaders from the insurance, finance, regulatory and policy communities to drive a just, inclusive and sustainable transition.

Follow livestream via the Casa do Seguro website during COP30.

REGISTRATION and more information:
https://www.unepfi.org/industries/insurance/cop30/

Fireside chat

📅 November 15th, 16.10 BRT
📍 House of Insurance, Belém, Brazil

Interactive session (fireside chat) on WWF's policy brief with Aaron Vermeulen (Global Finance Practice Leader WWF) and Butch Bacani (Head of Insurance UNEP).