Scaling Climate Finance

What will you learn? The overall goal of this 5-hour, self-paced e-learning course is to increase participants’ knowledge and understanding of the climate finance system. By the end of this e-course, participants will be able to: Identify key climate finance sources, instruments and mechanisms and explain how these interact to enable climate action for mitigation and adaptation Explain the importance of different actors and stakeholders taking on different roles and responsibilities within the climate finance system Outline different measures, tools and approaches that can be used to coordinate public climate finance in a more efficient and effective way List innovative sources, mechanisms and instruments that can provide access to new pools of capital for climate action, including from the private sector Explain how applying a gender equality and social inclusion lens to climate finance can ensure investments to reach at-risk and vulnerable populations The e-learning course is designed and developed through a gender equality and social inclusion lens. Relevant case studies, examples and stories are used to demonstrate how gender equality and social inclusion can be embedded into climate finance-related planning, budgeting, and decision-making for mitigation and adaptation. Who should take this course? Many different actors have a role to play in scaling finance for climate action. While most of the tools, instruments and approaches are presented through a government or public sector lens, the course should be of interest to many different groups including: Policy, planning and technical staff responsible for managing or mobilising climate finance at the national and sub-national level (e.g. from central finance or planning ministries, relevant line-ministries, sub-national governments and parliamentarians) Individuals from relevant quasi-governmental organizations including state or central banks, state-owned enterprises and parastatals, supreme audit institutions and securities or exchange commissions Private sector stakeholders and market facilitations that impact and enable climate-aligned investments Practitioners from non-governmental organizations, civil society groups and regional or national think tanks and education and training institutes focused on climate-related issues Citizens interested in understanding how finance is a key enabler of climate action, to hold relevant actors to account While many of the case studies in the course are taken from the Asia-Pacific region, the tools, instruments and approaches that are featured can be relevant and applicable to individuals from all regions around the world.