Recent geopolitical tensions, coupled with cascading effects of climate change, call for the need to urgently scale affordable and accessible climate finance that can effectively reach the local level. At COP29, the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) was adopted, but was met with much disappointment from Global South countries as it failed to meet the quantity of finance necessary to meet the 1.5°C goal. In addition, countries are calling for more inclusive climate finance processes that put civil society at the forefront of climate finance decisions and that they have access to platforms and mechanisms that enable them to effectively advocate for their climate finance needs.
On 21 and 22 June 2025, SouthSouthNorth (SSN), the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the Huairou Commission, with funding from the World Bank’s Global Partnership for Social Accountability (GPSA) (the predecessor to the Civil Society and Social Innovation Alliance (CIVIC)), convened a two-day workshop in Bonn, Germany for the Green Accountability Platform Community of Practice.
The Platform provides strategic finance to 25 civil society organisations (CSOs) across Bangladesh, Mexico, Brazil, Senegal and Cameroon to make climate finance governance for mitigation and adaptation more transparent, participatory and accountable within their local contexts. The workshop brought together several of these implementing partners to investigate different accountability mechanisms for enhanced climate action, as well as to reflect on progress thus far, challenges and opportunities for increased transparency and accountability of climate finance in varying political and sectoral contexts.