With the world still struggling to close the massive financing gap for sustainable development, GGGI is putting sustainable finance at the center of the conversation during Global Green Growth Week (GGGWeek) 2025. 

The Sustainable Finance session at GGGWeek 2025, taking place Thursday, October 30, from 15:00 to 18:30 KST, builds on the outcomes of the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4). At FFD4, governments and partners set key objectives: closing the $4 trillion annual SDG financing gap, reforming the international financial architecture, scaling up domestic resource mobilization, and catalyzing climate and biodiversity finance. Now comes the harder part—figuring out how to do it. 
 
GGGI has been in this space for a while.

Since 2015, GGGI has mobilized over USD 14.5 billion in green investment commitments globally, including more than USD 8 billion for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) to support countries’ Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Through a wide range of instruments and technical advisory services, GGGI has helped develop 176 green finance products, unlocking public, private, and blended capital to accelerate the region’s transition to sustainable development. Among them are groundbreaking, “first in market” initiatives such as the world’s first certified resilience bond, the world’s largest debt-for-nature swap, and Asia’s first Sovereign Sustainability Linked Bond. 

This commitment was evident during GGGI’s participation in FFD4: “At GGGI, we are deeply committed to helping unlock this potential. We are proud to be working with several of today’s panelists to deliver real, on-the-ground impact to advance sustainable financial solutions in emerging markets,” emphasized GGGI’s Director-General Sang-Hyup Kim during the event.

Building on these global commitments, the Sustainable Finance session at GGGWeek 2025 will convene policymakers, development banks, private financiers, and innovators to translate FFD4’s calls to action into practical solutions. Discussions will explore how to unlock subnational finance, embed climate and nature resilience in infrastructure, and integrate debt, climate, and biodiversity finance solutions for countries in vulnerable situations. The session will feature three thematic panels: 

1. Unlocking Subnational Financing to Close NDC and SDG Financing Gaps

This panel will examine how local authorities and national development banks (those quasi-sovereign players that often sit between policy and implementation) can help unlock investment aligned with climate plans and SDGs, building responsive financial ecosystems at the local level, where the need is greatest and the impact immediate. 

2. Green Contracts, Resilient Outcomes: Embedding Nature and Climate into Infrastructure Development

This panel will explore shifting infrastructure finance toward climate-resilient, nature-positive, and socially inclusive approaches. Case studies will show how public-private partnerships (PPPs), blended finance, and AI-driven tools integrate resilience into planning, procurement, and risk-sharing frameworks. 

3. Breaking the Triple Trap: Integrating Climate, Biodiversity, and Sovereign Debt Solutions for Resilient and Inclusive Economies

This panel will analyze how sovereign debt strategies can align with climate and biodiversity goals, drawing lessons from recent transactions and emerging innovations. Exploring debt-for-nature mechanisms, innovative finance models, and technology tools that link debt sustainability with environmental outcomes will map a forward-looking vision for integrating sovereign finance into the global climate and biodiversity agenda.

It’s all connected. Finance that works at the local level. Infrastructure that lasts. Debt strategies that make space for resilience. The big idea isn’t new, but it’s urgent: financial systems must evolve if we’re going to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, the SDGs, and the Global Biodiversity Framework. 

The Sustainable Finance session at GGGWeek 2025 is more than a technical discussion, it’s a call to action. Achieving the Paris Agreement, the 2030 Agenda, and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework requires more than political will. It requires a financial system that works for people and the planet. 

About Global Green Growth Week 2025: Sustainable Finance Session 

Date: 30 October 2025 

Time: 15:00 – 18:30 (KST) 

Location: GGGI HQ and Online 

More information: https://globalgreengrowthweek.gggi.org/program/sustainable-finance/ 

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