Pathways for resourcing community-led climate solutions

A multistakeholder dialogue promoted by Global South funds
There is growing recognition that Indigenous Peoples, women, youth, grassroots groups, environmental defenders, and locally rooted institutions are already delivering climate solutions. Yet despite their central role, these actors remain significantly marginalised and undercapitalised within global finance systems.
In the context of accelerating climate impacts, widening inequalities, pressures from extractive frontiers, and shrinking civic space, the outcomes of COP30, particularly the Baku–Belém Roadmap toward mobilising 1.3 trillion US dollars annually in climate finance, create a pivotal opportunity to strengthen more decentralised, inclusive, and place-based financial systems. Scaling locally oriented financial mechanisms, particularly Global South–led funds, is essential to making global climate finance more legitimate, effective, and grounded in the realities and priorities of frontline communities. Global South–led funds are at the forefront of this shift.
This event, convened by The Global South House during London Climate Action Week 2026, will bring together representatives from governments, multilateral funds, philanthropy, financial institutions, Indigenous Peoples' organisations, community-led funds, and civil society to examine how current financial architectures shape the flow of resources, and what it will take to redesign them in ways that support a more just and territorially grounded climate transition.
Programme
9:15 - 9:35 | Opening
9:35 - 10:25 | Framing the challenge: Structural inequalities in climate financing
10:25 - 10:40 | Coffee break
10:40 - 11:30 | Reconfiguring flows: Practices and emerging pathways
11:30 - 12:00 | Plenary: What does it take to finance differently?
12:00 - 12:05 | Closing
12:05 - 13:00 | Light lunch and networking

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