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Capacity-building Hub: High-level event on building cooperation for scaling climate finance - expanding successful approaches together
17 Nov. 2025
15:45h - 17:15h
BRT/UTC-3
Belém, Brazil
Brazil
Special event room - Tapajos, Area C
Area C
English
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Capacity-building Hub: High-level event on building cooperation for scaling climate finance - expanding successful approaches together
17 Nov. 2025
15:45h - 17:15h
BRT/UTC-3
Belém, Brazil
Brazil
Special event room - Tapajos, Area C
Area C
English

Background

Developing countries continue to face persistent challenges in accessing and effectively utilizing climate finance to implement their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and National Adaptation Plans (NAPs). These challenges often stem from limited institutional capacity, fragmented coordination mechanisms, and insufficient engagement across key stakeholder groups. In response, the Paris Committee on Capacity-building (PCCB) selected “Capacity-building for holistic investment strategies, bankable projects, and stakeholder engagement to strengthen the implementation of NDCs and NAPs in developing countries” as its 2025 focus area. 

Objectives

  • Diagnose critical capacity gaps that prevent developing countries from accessing climate finance, examining technical, institutional, and ministerial-level constraints that hinder the development of bankable projects and investment strategies. 
  • Showcase coordination models that effectively connect capacity-building providers, national institutions, and financing mechanisms to deliver results on the ground. 
  • Chart pathways for systemic improvement by exploring opportunities to harmonize assessment tools, optimize sequencing of interventions, and strengthen coordination through the PCCB to maximize the impact of capacity-building investments. 

Agenda 

 Structure  

  Time/Duration 

  Segment  

  Speaker & affiliation 

  Moderator – Alejandro Kilpatrick, UNFCCC 

  15:45-15:50 

Opening remarks 

 Abze Djigma, PCCB   Co-Chair 

   15:50-16:20 

Diagnosing and         addressing capacity gaps  

 Dr. Achala Abeysinghe,   GCF
 

Arghya Sinha Roy, ADB 

 

 Amanda McKee, NDC Partnership  

 

Emilie Beauchamp NAP   Global Network 

 

Gregor Sahler, GIZ 

   16:20-17:00 

Pathways to increasing    the effectiveness of the capacity-building landscape 

  17:00-17:10 

  Q&A 

 

  17:10-17:15 

  Closing remarks 

Sophie de Coninck, Means of Implementation Director, UNFCCC