La Red ha organizado más de 50 talleres y seminarios en diferentes países de la región. Toda la documentación de interés discutida en dichos eventos se encuentra accesible a través del siguiente listado.
On July 2, 2025, this side event within the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development (30 June - 3 July 2025), will address climate change in line with the Paris Agreement to contribute to build a just, climate-resilient, and carbon-neutral global economy by mid-century. Climate finance is a cornerstone of this transition, ensuring both adaptation and deep decarbonization efforts are effective and inclusive.
Organizer and co-organizers: Latindadd, Red Sur, the Nelson Mandela School of Business and Brazil's Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (IPEA) and Instituto de Economia da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (IE-UFRJ), with the support of Canada’s International Development Research Center (IDRC) and of the Global Afro-descendant Climate Justice Collaborative (GADCJC).
Background: At the 4th Financing for Development (FfD) Conference, the international community will work toward adopting a joint outcome document to guide the future implementation of the FfD agenda. This document aims to strengthen policy coherence and alignment with the Paris Agreement, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and other internationally agreed development frameworks. For many developing countries, this means reaffirming the right to development and national policy space—as emphasized since Monterrey—while also advancing international reforms to address systemic challenges and structural disparities. Key priorities include scaling up domestic resource mobilization, catalyzing additional financing, and expanding the role of regional and national public development banks.
During preparatory sessions, several governments from the Global South emphasized that progress on the SDGs depends not only on domestic policy efforts but also on a more equitable international financial architecture and robust global public financing. Brazil has taken a leadership role in this space through the G20 and in the lead-up to COP30, notably with the launch of the COP30 Circle of Finance Ministers—an important initiative under Brazil’s COP30 presidency to support the development of the Baku to Belém Roadmap, aimed at mobilizing USD 1.3 trillion for climate action.
Addressing climate change in line with the Paris Agreement requires an unprecedented mobilization of resources to build a just, climate-resilient, and carbon-neutral global economy by mid-century. Climate finance is a cornerstone of this transition, ensuring both adaptation and deep decarbonization efforts are effective and inclusive. Without robust, inclusive, and consistent financing approaches, the credibility and feasibility of net-zero targets remain at risk. Furthermore, current climate finance mechanisms risk reinforcing existing inequalities. In a world grappling with multiple, overlapping crises, financing solutions must be systemic, integrated, and equitable.
This session will convene government representatives, experts, and researchers to share recent climate finance experiences and insights from Latin America and Africa. It will explore the key barriers hindering the scale-up of equitable climate finance, including gender-blind approaches, and examine how these issues intersect with all pillars of the FfD process and the broader COP30 agenda. The session will put forward actionable solutions to ensure that climate finance contributes meaningfully to gender equality, accelerates SDG implementation, and advances the goals of the Paris Agreement.
Proposed agenda:
Part 1: Exploring opportunities for increased sovereign finance and climate finance innovations for a just transition (40´)
Carola Mejía, Climate Justice, Transitions and Amazon Coordinator, LATINDADD
Herman Kamil, Debt Management Unit, Ministry of Economy and Finance, Uruguay
Carolina Grottera, Director of the Executive Secretariat of the Ministry of Finance, Brazil
Mariama Williams, Senior Strategic Advisor, Global Afro-descendant Climate Justice Collaborative (GADCJC),
International Development Research Centre, IDRC of Canada.
Part 2: Development banks, high-impact climate change mitigation and adaptation and green industrial policies (40’)
Nimrod Zalk, Chief Research Officer, Climate and Development, Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance (NMSG), South Africa
Luis Miguel Galindo, Professor, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico
Moderation: João Carlos Ferraz, Brazil, South American Network on Applied Economics/Instituto de Economía, Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro (IE/UFRJ).
On November 11 and 12, 2024, the T20 Brasil community and G20 representatives will gather at the Itamaraty Palace in Rio de Janeiro for the T20 Brasil Summit. Over two days, leaders of national and international think tanks, members of academia, representatives of the public and private sectors, and civil society will discuss the main public policy recommendations that the engagement group formulated throughout the year for the leaders of the G20 countries.
La Red Sudamericana de Economía Aplicada (Red Sur), en conjunto con el Instituto de Economía de la Universidad Federal de Río de Janeiro (IE/UFRJ), el Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (IPEA), el Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social (BNDES), con el apoyo del Centro Internacional de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo (IDRC) de Canadá, organizan un espacio de reflexión y diálogo sobre temas críticos como la deuda pública, el financiamiento, el cambio climático y los cuidados. Este evento se enmarca en la preparación para las cumbres del G20 y COP30, reconociendo la importancia de estos temas en el avance de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS).
The event was organized by ERF in collaboration with the IDRC, on the side of the annual meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Morocco in October 2023. It convened about 25-30 participants in a hybrid format that allowed other participants to join online and participate in the discussion.
El lunes 2 de octubre de 2023 expertas y expertos de tres países latinoamericanos y de tres países africanos aportaron sus perspectivas locales al debate global sobre deuda pública y ambiente, resumiendo los resultados del proyecto “Reestructuración de la deuda pública para la recuperación socioeconómica y la sostenibilidad en África y América Latina”, coordinado por la Red Sur con el apoyo de IDRC y la participación clave de centros de investigación de Uganda, Nigeria, Etiopía, Bolivia, Paraguay y Honduras. El debate aportó miradas enriquecedoras desde el Sur Global a la luz de lo que se está discutiendo en ámbitos multilaterales como el Banco Mundial y el FMI. Te invitamos a ver la Transmisión en vivo por Youtube,
On October 2, experts from African and Latin American countries contributed with their local perspectives to the global south view on the prospects for public debt and the environment, summarizing the results of the project "Restructuring Public Debt for socioeconomic recovery and Sustainability in Africa and Latin America" (AVAILABLE HERE). It was Livestream on Youtube (in English) and held in English and Spanish via Zoom with open participation to the public.
The findings of the global research project "Restructuring Public Debt for socioeconomic recovery and Sustainability in Africa and Latin America" are available. The project was led by the South American Network of Applied Economics / Red Sur with the support of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the participation of research institutions from Africa and Latin America. The research is based on in-depth studies in Ethiopia, Nigeria, Uganda, Bolivia, Honduras and Paraguay.
The project proposes policy alternatives for post-pandemic public debt management and introduces new fiscal tools considering countries’ commitments made under the SDGs and the Paris Agreement on climate change. These alternatives aim to foster an inclusive economic recovery that promotes a green structural transformation in the Global South. The background papers on the analytics of debt, equity and the environment are the following:
On 4 July 2023, the work was brought together in an ERF organized online Webinar, with FDL, Red Sur, and IDRC: ‘Growing Out of Debt: Perspectives from Developing Countries Around the World’ to present findings from this research, highlight tensions and trade-offs generated by the debt difficulties across the countries studied, and explore policy recommendations from a Southern perspective.
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DÍA: Miércoles 24 de mayo. HORARIO: de las 04:00 a las 07:00 EST.
Ramiro Albrieu, Senior Researcher at Red Sur, participates in the Middle East and North Africa Regional Conference "Stabilization and Adjustment: Towards Inclusive and Sustainable Policies in MENA" held on May 3, 2023 prior to the ERF 29th Annual Conference, presenting the cases of the IDRC - Red Sur project "Restructuring Public Debt for Socio-economic Recovery and Sustainability".
