Report of the Standing Committee on Finance. Addendum. Forum of the Standing Committee on Finance
This document contains a summary of the 2026 Forum of the Standing Committee on Finance, on financing climate action for water systems and the ocean, held in Sydney from 21 to 22 September. It captures the key discussions, encompassing trends and gaps in climate finance for water systems and the ocean; structural and systemic barriers affecting the flow of such climate finance; enabling environments, as well as financial instruments and approaches, for scaling up such climate finance; solutions for addressing barriers to the provision and mobilization of finance for and investment in climate action for water systems and the ocean; and delivery of and access to resources by local actors and communities
This is an advance distribution version of the document. The official English version with identical content and the translations into the other official United Nations languages will be made available as soon as issued by the United Nations Office at Geneva.