IIED at the 2025 Bonn Climate Change Conference (SB 62)
The 62nd session of the UNFCCC Subsidiary Bodies (SB 62) will take place in Bonn, Germany, from 16-26 June 2025. A pre-sessional coordination week will run from 10-15 June.
A session at the Bonn Climate Conference in 2023 (Photo: UNclimatechange, via Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
At the 2025 Bonn Climate Change Conference, IIED’s climate diplomacy team will be on the ground to support the Least Developed Countries (LDC) Group in securing more ambitious and inclusive global climate action.
Our experts will provide strategic, technical and capacity-building support to LDC negotiators across key issues including finance, adaptation, loss and damage, transparency and just transition.
We are working to ensure that finance gets to where it’s needed most, advocating for accessible, grant-based finance and fair distribution of the $1.3 trillion climate finance target through the Baku to Belem roadmap.
We will push for a Global Goal on Adaptation that reflects local realities.
We will also co-organise and have experts speaking at a side event on the impact of investment treaties and investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) provisions on achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement, including to align finance flows with low emission, climate-resilient development.
Throughout the conference, we’ll amplify the voices and leadership of those most affected by climate change, working to restore trust in multilateralism and deliver meaningful outcomes from the negotiations.
What is the Bonn Climate Change Conference?
It’s a key mid-year meeting under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), bringing together governments, experts and stakeholders to advance work ahead of the annual climate Conference of the Parties (COP).
SB 62 will play a critical role in shaping outcomes for COP30 in Belém, Brazil, especially on finance and adaptation. The conference provides a space for technical negotiations, preparatory discussions and informal consultations that feed into global climate decision-making processes.
Events (Bonn, Germany)
All timings CET (BST+1)
Monday 16 June
Addressing investment treaties to achieve Article 2.1(c) of the Paris Agreement
Side event
Time: 3-4.15pm
Venue: Berlin Room
Hosted by: IIED, E3G, SEATINI, CIEL, South Centre
Speakers include: Elisa Morgera, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Climate Change; Niki Kryger, South Africa Department of Trade, Industry and Competition; Peter Horne, Australian Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade; Hamed El-Kady, UNCTAD; Eunjung Lee, E3G; Camilla More, IIED; Herbert Kafeero, SEATINI Uganda (TBC); Melissa Blue Sky (moderator), CIEL
Investment treaties with investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanisms protect investments that are not in line with Paris Agreement goals. They can also divert public funding from the energy transition and climate resilience.
This event will discuss ways to align international investment law with climate action.
Further reading: Investor-state dispute settlements: a hidden handbrake on climate action
Wednesday 25 June to Thursday 26 June
The future of climate and disaster risk finance: from evidence to action
Expert dialogue (invite only)
Hosted by: Climate Disaster Risk Financing and Insurance (CDRFI)
Organising partners: Munich Climate Insurance Initiative, United Nations University, Climate Vulnerable Forum, Global Shield against Climate Risks, UC Davis
In 2021, through a cycle of consultations among decision-makers, scholars and experts, the strategic evidence roadmap for CDRFI was developed, outlining key research questions, evidence standards, and calls to action for climate and disaster risk finance. Three years after its inception, significant changes and calls for reform of the international financial architecture addressing climate risks call for reflection.
IIED joins this expert dialogue, to take stock of the latest global evidence to reaffirm existing commitments, distil actionable learnings and examine implications for current and future initiatives aimed at closing the financial protection gap.
Further reading: Reframing transformational adaptation in the UNFCCC: lessons and pathways | Understanding barriers to women’s participation in the UN climate negotiations: perspectives from the least developed countries | Addressing climate and conflict-related loss and damage in fragile states: a focus on Mali
Contact
Anne Schulthess ([email protected]), marketing manager, IIED's Communications Group
