Evidence for Climate Action (E4CA) is a global platform for sharing the latest evidence on climate action. Anchored at the ‘evidence pavilion’ at COP30, E4CA will bring together the evaluation functions of multiple organizations for a diverse program on lessons learned from multiple climate interventions. A series of in-person and virtual sessions will feature discussions on a range of key issues, from adaption and climate finance to forestry management and the role of Indigenous peoples and local communities. With accelerating implementation at the core of COP30, insights from evaluative evidence on what is working, what is not, and what has the potential to scale, are vital for informing the way forward.
Events
All times are Belem time (GMT-3)
Monday, November 10, 2025
COP thematic days: Adaptation, Cities, Infrastructure, Water, Waste, Local Governments, Bioeconomy, Circular Economy, Science, Technology, and Artificial Intelligence.
10:00 – 10:30 | Virtual
REPLAY Integration of Adaptation in Water and Food Security Programs
By: Policy and Operations Evaluation Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands (IOB-Netherlands)
10:45 – 11:15 | Virtual
REPLAY Building Water Resilience: How Evaluation Evidence is Shaping Africa's Climate Adaptation Frontline
By: Independent Development Evaluation, African Development Bank (AfDB-IDEV)
11:30 – 12:00 | Virtual
REPLAY Inter-American Development Bank Group Support to Climate Adaptation 2016-2022
By: Office of Evaluation and Oversight, Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)
12:15 – 12:45 | Virtual
REPLAY Understanding Resilience and M&E of Interventions: Insights from the Climate Resilience Alliance
By: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
13:00 – 13:30 | Virtual
REPLAY Climate policies that achieved major emission reductions: Global evidence from two decades
By: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
14:30 – 15:00 | Virtual
REPLAY Evidence for Climate Action (E4CA) Opening
By: German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval); and Independent Evaluation Group, World Bank Group
Tuesday, November 11, 2025
COP thematic days: Adaptation, Cities, Infrastructure, Water, Waste, Local Governments, Bioeconomy, Circular Economy, Science,Technology, and Artificial Intelligence.
10:00 – 10:30 | Virtual
REPLAY Mainstreaming Green Growth and Climate Change in AfDB’s Interventions: Coherence, Policy Gaps, and Adaptation Needs
By: Independent Development Evaluation, African Development Bank (AfDB-IDEV)
10:45 – 11:15 | Virtual
REPLAY Delivering Sustainability and Climate Resilience through Investments in Urban Environment
By: Independent Evaluation Department, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
11:30 - 12:00 | Virtual
REPLAY Climate adaptation in the most vulnerable contexts
By: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
12:15 - 12:45 | Virtual
REPLAY The State of Evidence on Climate Change, Biodiversity, and Livelihood
By: International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) and United Kingdom Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA-UK)
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
COP thematic days: Health, Jobs, Education, Culture, Justice and human rights, Information integrity, Workers, Global Ethical Stocktake, Equity
10:00 – 10:30 | Virtual
REPLAY From Invisibility to Impact: Rewiring Climate Action for Urban Children Making Slums Central to Adaptation, not an Afterthought
By: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF); and EvalSDGs
10:45 – 11:45 | Virtual Flagship
REPLAY Partnering with the Private Sector: Evidence-based Insights into Mobilizing Investment for Renewable Energy
By: Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)
12:15 – 12:45 | Virtual
REPLAY Public Opinion on Carbon Pricing and Revenue Uses in East Africa
By: Expert Group for Aid Studies, Sweden Development Assistance (EBA Sweden)
13:00 – 13:30 | Virtual
REPLAY Evaluating Transformational Climate Finance Initiative: The Case of the TFSC Program
By: Agence Française de Développement (AFD)
14:30 – 15:30 | In-person at the Evidence Pavilion
Resilience, Climate Change Adaptation, and Climate Risks in the Global Environment Facility Trust Fund
By: Independent Evaluation Office, Global Environment Facility (GEF)
Thursday, November 13, 2025
COP thematic days: Health, Jobs, Education, Culture, Justice and human rights, Information integrity, Workers, Global Ethical Stocktake, Equity
10:00 – 10:30 | Virtual
REPLAY Climate Finance Readiness: Evaluation of the Adaptation Fund Readiness Programme
By: Technical Evaluation Reference Group, Adaptation Fund (AF)
10:45 – 11:15 | Virtual
REPLAY Counting Money vs. Counting Impact – Evaluating EBRD's Green Economy
By: Independent Evaluation Department, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
11:30 – 12:00 | Virtual
REPLAY Delivering the Climate Finance Accelerator Programme
By: Department for Energy Security & Net Zero, United Kingdom (DESNZ-UK)
12:15 – 12:45 | Virtual
REPLAY What Works to Build Green: Evidence from the Market Accelerator for Green Construction (MAGC)
By: Department for Energy Security & Net Zero, United Kingdom (DESNZ-UK)
14:30 – 15:30 | In-person at the Evidence Pavilion
Evidence for a just transition
By: Instituto Veredas; Accenture; and German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
16:00 – 17:00 | In-person at the Evidence Pavilion
From Evidence to Climate Action: How evaluation serves as a lever for climate action
By: Independent Evaluation Office, Global Environment Facility (GEF); and Agence Française de Développement (AFD)
Friday, November 14, 2025
COP thematic days: Energy, Industry, Transport, Trade, Finance, Carbon markets, and Non-CO2 gases, Energy Efficiency, Just Transition
10:00 – 10:30 | Virtual
REPLAY Powering a Resilient Africa: Lessons from the Evaluation of the AfDB’s Renewable Energy Support
By: Independent Development Evaluation, African Development Bank (AfDB-IDEV)
11:30 – 12:00 | Virtual
REPLAY Evidence for Climate-Resilient and Sustainable Transport Systems in Africa
By: Independent Development Evaluation, African Development Bank (AfDB-IDEV)
12:15 – 12:45 | Virtual
REPLAY Climate-proofing buildings: Evidence from housing renovations to meet mitigation targets and challenges to optimize public support
By: Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB)
13:00 – 14:00 | In-person at the Evidence Pavilion
Future Ecosystems for Africa
By: United Nations University (UNU); and African Synthesis Centre for Climate Change, Environment, and Development (ASCEND)
14:30 - 15:30 | In-person at the Evidence Pavilion
Informing Evidence-Based Policy, Planning and Investments: Evidence Gap Map on Sustainable Energy
By: Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All)
16:00 – 17:00 | In-person at the Evidence Pavilion
The use of evaluations to steer climate policy and support the update and implementation of the NDC 3.0 process
By: German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval); German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS); and Initiative for Climate Action Transparency, United Nations Office for Project Services UNOPS (ICAT)
Saturday, November 15, 2025
COP thematic days: Energy, Industry, Transport, Trade, Finance, Carbon markets, and Non-CO2 gases, Energy Efficiency, Just Transition
11:30 - 12:30 | In-person at the Evidence Pavilion
Strengthening Climate Action through Bilateral and Multistakeholder Finance Evaluation
By: German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval); and Agence Française de Développement (AFD)
13:00 - 14:00 | In-person at the Evidence Pavilion
Scalability of Adaptation Actions
By: Technical Evaluation Reference Group, Adaptation Fund (AF)
14:30 - 15:30 | In-person at the Evidence Pavilion
What Works in Nature-Based Solutions: Multi-Scale Evidence for Impact
By: Independent Evaluation Office, Global Environment Facility (GEF); Climate Investment Funds (CIF); and Initiative for Climate Action Transparency, United Nations Office for Project Services UNOPS (ICAT)
16:00 – 17:00 | In-person at the Evidence Pavilion
Rescuing 1.5ºC – Latest Evidence on Global Temperatures, the Emissions Gap, and Key Global Response Measures
By: Climate Analytics-PIK; and UN Environment Programme (UNEP)
Monday, November 17, 2025
COP thematic days: Forests, Oceans, and Biodiversity, while spotlighting Indigenous peoples, Local
and traditional communities, Children and Youth, and Small and medium entrepreneurs
and traditional communities, Children and Youth, and Small and medium entrepreneurs
10:00 - 10:30 | Virtual
REPLAY Spatial Evidence for Climate Action: Generating Insights through Geospatial Analysis
By: Independent Evaluation Group, World Bank Group (IEG)
10:45 - 11:45 | Virtual Flagship
REPLAY Indigenous Peoples, Biodiversity, and Climate - Part 1: Lessons Learned
By: Independent Evaluation Group, World Bank Group (IEG); Independent Evaluation Unit, Green Climate Fund (GCF); and Independent Evaluation Office, Global Environment Facility (GEF)
12:00 - 13:00 | In-person at the Evidence Pavilion
Indigenous Peoples, Biodiversity, and Climate - Part 2: From Evidence to Action
By: Independent Evaluation Group, World Bank Group; Independent Evaluation Unit, Green Climate Fund (GCF); and Independent Evaluation Office, Global Environment Facility (GEF)
14:30 - 15:30 | In-person at the Evidence Pavilion
Private capital mobilization and co-financing
By: Independent Evaluation Office, Global Environment Facility (GEF)
16:00 – 17:00 | In-person at the Evidence Pavilion
Lessons from Financing Forestry Programs
By: Independent Evaluation Office, Global Environment Facility (GEF); Climate Investment Fund (CIF); Independent Evaluation Unit, Green Climate Fund (GCF); and Technical Evaluation Reference Group, Adaptation Fund (AF)
Tuesday, November 18, 2025
COP thematic days: Forests, Oceans, and Biodiversity, while spotlighting Indigenous peoples, Local
and traditional communities, Children and Youth, and Small and medium entrepreneurs
and traditional communities, Children and Youth, and Small and medium entrepreneurs
10:00 - 10:30 | Virtual
REPLAY Assessing Forest Conservation with Geospatial Evaluation Tools
By: Agence Française de Développement (AFD)
10:45 - 11:15 | Virtual
REPLAY Evaluation of the Green Climate Fund in Latin America and the Caribbean
By: Independent Evaluation Unit, Green Climate Fund (GCF)
11:30 - 12:30 | In-person at the Evidence Pavilion
Harnessing Geospatial Tools to Measure and Monitor Climate Action and Biodiversity Protection
By: Agence Française de Développement (AFD); and Independent Evaluation Office, Global Environment Facility (GEF)
14:30 - 15:30 | In-person at the Evidence Pavilion
High-level round table
By: Independent Evaluation Office, Global Environment Facility (GEF); Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ); and UN World Food Programme (WFP)
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
COP thematic days: Agriculture, Food Systems and Food Security, Fisheries, and Family Farming.
Women, Gender, Afro-descendant, and Tourism
Women, Gender, Afro-descendant, and Tourism
10:00 - 10:30 | Virtual
REPLAY Evaluating Food Systems Transformation with a Systems Thinking Lens: The GEF Experience
By: Independent Evaluation Office, Global Environment Facility (GEF)
10:45 - 11:15 | Virtual
REPLAY The Effects of the World Food Program's Integrated Interventions on Resilience and Food Security
By: UN World Food Programme (WFP)
11:30 - 12:00 | Virtual
REPLAY Linkages Between Nutrition and Climate Actions
By: International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
12:15 - 12:45 | Virtual
REPLAY Efficacy of providing anticipatory cash assistance within days of a flood in Bangladesh and Nepal
By: UN World Food Programme (WFP)
14:30 - 15:30 | In-person at the Evidence Pavilion
Built to last? Sustainability of results of adaptation projects
By: Technical Evaluation Reference Group, Adaptation Fund (AF); and UN World Food Programme (WFP)
16:00 - 17:00 | In-person at the Evidence Pavilion
Climate Finance of the Past and the Future: Findings from the Performance Reviews of Climate Funds and Foresight Study
By: Independent Evaluation Unit, Green Climate Fund (GCF)
Thursday, November 20, 2025
COP thematic days: Agriculture, Food Systems and Food Security, Fisheries, and Family Farming.
Women, Gender, Afro-descendant, and Tourism
Women, Gender, Afro-descendant, and Tourism
10:00 - 10:30 | Virtual
REPLAY Evaluation of Country Ownership in the Green Climate Fund
By: Independent Evaluation Unit, Green Climate Fund (GCF)
10:45 - 11:15 | Virtual
REPLAY Solutions for Resilient Environmental Management in Small Island Developing States
By: International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
11:30 - 12:00 | Virtual
REPLAY Nature-Positive Production: Where Climate and Biodiversity Meet
By: Independent Evaluation Group, World Bank Group (IEG)
12:15 - 12:45 | Virtual
REPLAY State of the Evidence on Climate Actions
By: International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie)
13:00 - 14:00 | In-person at the Evidence Pavilion
Demand-side engagement for climate action: Fostering evidence use in policy-making
By: Instituto Veredas, Pan-African Collective for Evidence (PACE)
Friday, November 21, 2025
COP thematic days: Agriculture, Food Systems and Food Security, Fisheries, and Family Farming.
Women, Gender, Afro-descendant, and Tourism
Women, Gender, Afro-descendant, and Tourism
11:00 – 11:30 | Virtual
REPLAY Evidence for Climate Action (E4CA) Closing - What Have We Learned?
By: German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval); and Independent Evaluation Group, World Bank Group
Disclaimer: The views expressed in each of the sessions are entirely those of the individual speakers and do not represent the official view of E4CA or any of its constituent organizations. While reasonable efforts have been made to ensure that the contents of each session are factually correct, E4CA does not take responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of any of the content of each of the sessions.