What is the Path to COP?
Since 2019, GEFI has engaged across COP25, COP26, COP27, COP28, and COP29 and has become the go to partner for finance industry stakeholders seeking to effectively navigate and leverage the UNFCCC COP process to drive climate finance.
GEFI is an UNFCCC Accredited Observer Organisation with extensive experience in building practically-focused COP programmes. Along with traditional finance, our programmes incorporates broader perspectives and themes such as the just transition, blended finance, nature and biodiversity, Islamic finance and the SDGs.
Over the last 3 years, through our Path to COP campaigns, we have built an ecosystem of over 100 financial institutions, regulators and service providers and engaged with over 3000 finance professionals.
GEFI has been appointed by host governments and regulators to deliver their post COP programmes to help embed climate finance within the domestic financial markets.
Our Path to COP Campaigns
The structured 9-month initiative will seek to raise awareness and drive action across summits, round tables, capacity building, advisory, research and though leadership.
As well as building momentum across our summits and round tables, The Path to COP29 campaign saw the launch of the GEFI Insights Series, a thought leadership series focused on nature finance and climate finance.
The largest finance-focused campaign for COP28, backed by global financial institutions and thought leaders in green and sustainable finance.
To help build momentum towards the climate summit, all GEFI activities throughout 2020 and 2021 will be aligned to COP26 as part of the Path to COP26
“The Path to COP is an inclusive global campaign open to all and we invite financial institutions and financial services stakeholders from across the globe to get involved.
Dame Susan Rice
Chair, Global Steering Group
Global Ethical Finance Initiative
“The financial services sector has a fundamental role to play in delivering universally supported targets such as the Paris Agreement and the UN SDGs”
David Pitt-Watson
Former Co-Chair, UNEP FI
Key Outputs
Global Islamic Finance SDG Taskforce
Scottish Taskforce for Green and Sustainable Financial Services
Sustainable Development Goals Financial Products
Who we work with
- Financial Institutions
- Financial Centres
- Host Governments
- See the full list of our historic partners below
Path to COP: Driving Climate Action Through Finance
With finance firmly embedded on the COP agenda we have built upon our previous successes to ensure the finance sector takes decisive action ahead of COP. Our Path to COP campaigns seek to encourage and support financial institutions to a just transition from commitment to implementation, measurement and reporting.
Our Path to COP initiatives create a vibrant ecosystem of stakeholders, fostering collaboration through stakeholder mapping, best practices, and brand profiling. They address key themes such as climate, nature, and Islamic finance, using workstreams like capacity building, strategic initiatives, and research. Through pre-COP roundtables, official and fringe sessions, and post-COP reflections, the initiative ensures the finance sector is actively engaged. Advocacy, advisory roles, media partnerships, and tailored advertising amplify the impact of these efforts.
Media Partner
Host Financial Centre
