Riya Amin

Climate finance access is a critical issue for Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and Least Developed Countries (LDCs), but a common conception of the problem is lacking. Without a clear shared understanding, efforts to reform access risk addressing symptoms rather than root causes. This briefing makes the case that access challenges stem from intersecting structural, supply, and demand problems, and that 2026 presents a critical opening to tackle intersectional barriers to access.

Blog 04 Nov 2025 Pre-COP, which took place in Brasilia last month, was an opportunity for Parties to identify common ground, surface tensions, test positions, and build a collective vision for a potential COP30 outcomes package (E3G proposes what such a package could look like in this Briefing). Pre-COP made some strides: it provided updates on the Action Agenda and the Baku-to-Belém Roadmap, as well as constructive breakout sessions on three of the priority negotiation issues.

Financing adaptation and resilience was a key topic at this year’s Pre-COP and in Washington, DC at the IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings. Governments and institutions increasingly recognise the necessity of elevating efforts to address climate impacts alongside mitigation but also the existential nature of adaptation for vulnerable countries – and for our collective future prosperity.