The Coalition of Finance Ministers for Climate Action will host its 13th Ministerial Meeting as a high-level plenary meeting at the World Bank’s Spring Meetings on Wednesday, 23rd of April, 2025. The discussion will center on the crucial role of Finance Ministries in delivering ambitious climate action and sustained economic prosperity within conditions of limited fiscal space and a complex and shifting geopolitical landscape.  

 

This year’s Spring Ministerial Meeting will feature a ministerial roundtable, opening with scene-setting remarks from the Co-Chair Ministers (Finance Ministers of Indonesia, The Netherlands and Uganda as incoming Co-Chair), followed by brief landscape perspective on the topic by an eminent economist. The main plenary session will feature interventions from Ministers of Finance (only) from member countries, with the World Bank President and the IMF Managing Director to conclude the plenary discussion with their reflections on the ministerial discussion. The event will end with the formal handover of the Co-Chairmanship from Indonesia to Uganda.