The current climate emergency is part of an unprecedented ecological crisis. It is the biggest threat to human survival that we have faced so far, since it represents a risk not only to the ecosystems’ balance and services, but also to the economic growth and the population’s well-being.

In this context, the G20 functions as a place of discussion and debate for the main decision makers of the world when it comes to global climate governance. Particularly, when we take into account that the main subjects for discussion during 2024, both within and outside the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), will revolve around climate finance, through the negotiations about the New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance (NCQG) and the operationalization of the Loss and Damage Fund, with the World Bank as a financial intermediary fund.

This report, published in april 2024, analyze the climate change agenda of the G20 presidencies from 2017 to 2023, focusing on how climate finance has been addressed