Closing the Data Gap: Innovating Finance for Systematic Observation
Part of the COP30 Action Agenda, this session will announce the Systematic Observation Impact Bond, a pioneering financial instrument that mobilizes innovative finance to close the global weather and climate data gap. It will also launch a Mutirão — a collective action and a coalition to strengthen weather and climate observation systems as a global public good.
Speakers include:
Ambassador André Corrêa do Lago (COP30 Presidency, tbc); Dan Ioschpe (Climate High-Level Champion, tbc); Satu Santala (Nordic Development Fund); Markus Repnik (SOFF); Thelma Krug (COP30 Science Committee); Aïda Diongue-Niang (Agency for Civil Aviation and Meteorology, Senegal); and senior representatives from UNEP, ECMWF and others.
More information: https://www.un-soff.org/cop30/