London Climate Resilience Finance Summit 2025
Financing climate resilience has become a global priority, and the London Climate Action Week (LCAW) is a key platform for climate finance discussions. The London Climate Resilience Finance Summit during LCAW was a pivotal moment in the climate finance agenda.
9 Montague Close, London SE1 9DD
In-person, as part of London Action Climate Week
The inaugural Climate Resilience Finance Summit will convene high-level leaders to drive action on financing climate resilience (Photo: John Englart, via Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0)
Positioned at a pivotal moment in the climate finance agenda, the 2025 Climate Resilience Finance Summit shaped strategies for mobilising the US$1.3 trillion resilience finance goal set at COP29.
Financing climate resilience has become a global priority as climate change impacts intensify and become more frequent. Governments, businesses and financial institutions must act, yet many challenges remain: coordinating diverse stakeholders, addressing acute needs in vulnerable regions, and balancing financial risks with investment opportunities.
Interest in resilience finance has surged with growing engagement from central banks, investors, insurers and policymakers. Major global events, including COP29, have underscored the urgent need to scale up finance for adaptation alongside clean energy investments.
As people and businesses increasingly feel the negative impacts of climate change, the job of financing resilience-building is a high priority. Households, businesses and governments in every country need to act, requiring full engagement of a broad set of organisations. But many challenges remain.
As climate resilience takes centre stage at LCAW 2025, the London Climate Resilience Finance Summit brought together global finance leaders to drive action, spark unexpected partnerships and showcase the power of collaboration
– Tom Mitchell, IIED executive director
London Climate Action Week (LCAW) has become a key platform for climate finance discussions. In 2025, the inaugural Climate Resilience Finance Summit convened high-level leaders to drive action, aligning with global milestones such as the UN’s Finance for Development Conference and COP30, the 30th UN Climate Change conference in Belém, Brazil from 10-21 November 2025.
Heads of state, senior government ministers, finance and business leaders, and civil society discussed how we supercharge effective finance for climate resilience.
The one-day summit was designed to meet the critical unmet need for radically scaled-up finance for resilience through:
- Driving greater focus on finance for climate resilience through all parts of the finance ecosystem
- Building shared understanding and commitment around global needs and solutions, and
- Presenting London domestic and international leadership on climate-resilience finance.
Event coverage
Watch a playlist of the recorded livestreams from the plenary sessions below and on IIED's YouTube channel. Edited versions of the recordings will be available shortly.
A selection of photos from the summit. Click on any of the images to expand them and scroll through the gallery (Photos: Benjamin Mole/IIED, via Flickr)
The summit featured:
- High-level plenaries with voices from the UK and across the globe
- ‘Challenge’ sessions that will engage the different experiences in the room around problem solving different issues, and
- Participation from a wide range of organisations in the climate resilience finance ecosystem, including the Majority World.
Insurers, development agencies and governments from the most at-risk and impacted countries have repeatedly highlighted that climate-resilience finance – in terms of scale, access and quality – must rapidly gain the same attention as finance for renewables and be embedded with plans for economic or business growth.
Contact
Clair Grant-Salmon ([email protected]), head of marketing and events, IIED's Communications Group
