What happened at the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4) and what does it mean for climate action? What are ‘solidarity levies’ and how might they help close the climate finance gap? What is needed to ensure someone actually reads the ‘Baku to Belém Roadmap to 1.3T’ after COP30?

To find answers to these and other burning climate finance-related questions, Anna speaks to Joe Thwaites (Senior Advocate, International Climate Finance, Natural Resources Defense Council) and Tom Evans (Senior Associate, Global Solidarity Levies Task Force).

To learn more about climate finance, please see these Chatham House outputs:

‘Closing the climate finance gap: How to raise the money the world needs to support climate action’ (research paper, available here)

‘Taxing high-emitting sectors could help pay for climate-induced loss and damage’ (expert comment, available here).

Climate litigation is both a strategic tool for climate action and an increasingly common part of the litigation landscape. Recent legal rulings have huge potential implications for the accountability and financial liability of big emitters, including both corporations and national governments.

Anna and Ruth talk to Joana Setzer, climate litigation and global environmental governance expert at London School of Economics’ Grantham Research Institute. Joana explains the growth in climate litigation, describes landmark cases and tells us what we might expect from climate litigation in the future.