SOFF at COP30: Building Momentum for Collective Action
COP30 marks an important milestone for the Systematic Observations Financing Facility (SOFF) — a moment to showcase progress, announce new commitments, and launch an innovative finance mechanism to help close the world’s most critical weather and climate data gaps.
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Key Events
11 November | Time to Scale Up: The Urgency to Close the Weather & Climate Data Gap
Date: Tuesday, 11 November 2025
Time: 17:00 – 18:00
Location: UNFCCC Pavilion, Blue Zone
Organized by: UNFCCC & SOFF Secretariat
This high-level SOFF event will launch the SOFF Action Report 2025, showcase country progress, and announce new pledges and growing international support to close the most critical weather and climate data gaps worldwide.
Speakers include:
H.E. Maxime Prévot, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belgium; H.E. Sara Aagesen Muñoz, Vice-President of the Government of Spain and Minister for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge; H.E. Neale Richmond TD, Minister of State for International Development and Diaspora of Ireland; Afke van Rijn, Vice-Minister for the Environment and International Affairs of the Netherlands; Celeste Saulo (WMO); Inger Andersen (UNEP); Florence Rabier (ECMWF); Marcos Neto (UNDP); Noura Hamladji (UNFCCC); and others.
The event will be livestreamed directly on the home page of the SOFF website, making it accessible to audiences around the world.
Download the concept note of the SOFF High-level event – 11 November
Concept Note14 November | Closing the Data Gap: Innovating Finance for Systematic Observation
Date: Friday, 14 November 2025
Time: 15:30 – 16:30
Location: Axis 6 Thematic Room, Blue Zone
Organized by: COP30 Presidency & SOFF
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.
Download the concept note of the SOFF Innovative Finance event – 14 November
Concept NoteSOFF across COP30
In addition to its two flagship events, SOFF will be featured across several other sessions throughout COP30, demonstrating its role in bridging science, finance, and implementation.
10 November
Earth Information Day
Plenary intervention jointly with ECMWF
12 November
Philanthropy & the Private Sector: Scaling Public–Private Solutions from the Global South
Featuring the new impact bond as a model for mobilizing private capital for a global public good.
13 November
Turning Data into Action: Water at the Heart of Climate Action
Highlighting how accurate weather and climate data strengthens early warning and resilience.
14 November
Weather, Water & Climate Information for a Resilient Future
Showcasing SOFF as a UN innovative finance solution bridging data and delivery
Download the full agenda of SOFF at COP30
