This coming May 9-10, the World Bank, Green Climate Fund, and Transparency International, together with several other partners, are jointly hosting a Symposium on Supranational Responses to Corruption: Integrity in Climate Finance and Action. The event will take place in London. The symposium theme is a timely one. At the most recent Global Conference of State Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, states and financial institutions committed to record-breaking financing for climate solutions across sectors, and established the structure of the long-awaited Loss & Damage Fund to help developing countries. But corruption and fraud remain significant risks to public and private investments across developed and developing countries, and this means that the vast mounts of money that will be needed to address global climate change may be exposed to substantial integrity risks.
The conference organizers have recently published a call for contributions, and they are encouraging practitioners and scholars from all relevant areas (finance, law, economics, technology, sociology, etc.) and sectors (government, private sector, academia, financial community, non-profit, international organizations, etc.) to submit proposals. The organizers particularly encourage proposals that take an interdisciplinary or cross-sectoral approach.
Proposed contributions should be submitted to IntegritySymposium@worldbank.org by February 4, 2024–two weeks from today.
We hope that many of you will consider submitting proposals and join our efforts to support a creative, efficient, and coordinated evolution of integrity policies to tackle the specific challenges arising from climate finance and action, helping ensure that the deployed resources are going where they are sorely needed.
GAB | The Global Anticorruption Blog 
Thanks for the reminder on the May symposium Matthew, I am drafting my proposal as I speak! For me, by far the biggest storm cloud on the horizon of climate finance is the craze for carbon credits/offsets which threatens to inundate Africa with bogus projects and corporate greenwashing initiatives. However, the WB (with its corporate sector-trained boss, but this predated him I’m sure) is one of the key supporters (along with Davos-man and finance capital in general) of the carbon credit concept (‘the voluntary carbon market’). If you like, I could write a short think-piece on the integrity risks that both carbon credit enthusiast and (especially African) governments managing the process are going to face/are already facing. What say you?
Thanks,
Brian Cooksey (Tanzania). Member of TI and public interest litigation advocate on climate change and corporate investments in Tanzania and Uganda. (Google EACOP/TotalEnergies).
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Thanks for the reminder on the May symposium, I am drafting my proposal as I speak! For me, by far the biggest storm cloud on the horizon of climate finance is the craze for carbon credits/offsets which threatens to inundate Africa with bogus projects and corporate greenwashing initiatives. However, the WB (with its corporate sector-trained boss, but this predated him I’m sure) is one of the key supporters (along with Davos-man and finance capital in general) of the carbon credit concept (‘the voluntary carbon market’). If you like, I could write a short think-piece on the integrity risks that both carbon credit enthusiast and (especially African) governments managing the process are going to face/are already facing. What say you? Thanks, Brian Cooksey (Tanzania). Member of TI and public interest litigation advocate on climate change and corporate investments in Tanzania and Uganda. (Google EACOP/TotalEnergies). Reply ↓ https://globalanticorruptionblog.com/2024/01/18/upcoming-symposium-on-integrity-in-climate-finance-call-for-contributions/comment-page-1/?replytocom=84597#respond