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Climate Weeks 2026 

Climate Weeks 2026  will take place in Yeosu, the Republic of Korea from 21 to 25 April 2026. SEI’s Programme Manager Wanaporn Yangyuentham and Communications Manager Charmaine Caparas will contribute to the sessions on multilevel governance for climate delivery, adaptation finance and effective climate communication respectively.

21 to 25 April 2026
Yeosu, Republic of Korea

Yeosu Expo Convention Centre 1

Building on the strong foundation laid in 2025 and past years, the 2026 Climate Weeks will continue to focus on accelerating the operationalization of decisions under the intergovernmental process into action on the ground and building momentum toward COP by facilitating targeted inputs to upcoming meetings.

In the format launched in 2025, the Climate Weeks bring together representatives of Parties and non-Party stakeholders in a global space that will combine several planned UNFCCC mandated meetings, as well as policy and high-impact dialogues, offering a unique opportunity to link the intergovernmental process and the discussions that will feed into COP with the real needs of implementation, while enabling the consolidation of activities to increase efficiency and impact.

The Climate Weeks are held twice a year in different regions, maintaining a global focus in scope and participation.  

In 2026, the Climate Weeks will take place as follows:

Climate weeks provide a structured yet flexible space for dialogue, capacity-building, and showcasing innovative solutions to support the intergovernmental process and urgent, inclusive, and coordinated climate action.

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SEI participants

Wanaporn Yangyuentham

Programme Manager

SEI Asia

Charmaine Caparas

Communications Manager

Communications

SEI Asia

Impact Dialogue “Enabled and Investable: Multilevel governance for climate delivery”

When: 14.00 – 15.30 (KST)

Where: Seminar Room 3, Yeosu Expo Convention Centre 1

Delivering on the outcomes of the first Global Stocktake (GST) and advancing national climate commitments requires coordinated delivery across all levels of government. The 2025 NDC Synthesis Report highlighted a significant shift toward shared implementation, with subnational authorities increasingly recognized as partners in planning, delivering, and monitoring climate action.

Recent global developments further reinforces this shift. Outcome of the COP 30 Local Leaders Forum, the Urban Ministerial Meetings and Global Climate Action Agenda, particularly the launch of a Plan to accelerate a multilevel, multisectoral, and participatory governance model for implementing the Paris Agreement under the CHAMP initiative reaffirmed the essential role of subnational action in driving implementation. These developments also emphasize the need for coordinated actions, clear roles, aligned resources, and strengthened access to finance to advance local climate projects and scale investment‑ready pipelines.

Against this backdrop, the Impact Dialogue “Enabled and Investable: Multilevel governance for climate delivery” brings together national and subnational actors, development finance institutions, private sector partners, academia, civil society and experts to explore practical ways to accelerate implementation, improve investment readiness, and support efficient, transparent delivery of climate goals, making climate action both enabled and investable at scale. The dialogue therefore focuses on how multilevel governance arrangements can help translate national climate commitments into investable subnational projects and scalable climate action.

SEI’s Programme Manager Wanaporn Yangyuentham will be a speaker for the discussion on strengthening coordination and financial frameworks across levels of government.

Knowledge and Foresight on Adaptation Finance

When: 15.00 – 18.30 (KST)

Where: Grand Hall, Yeosu Expo Convention Centre 1

In 2025, the Nairobi Work Programme (NWP)  convened a diverse group of knowledge holders in co-creating and synthesizing practical knowledge to inform adaptation financing at different levels for addressing current and future climate change impacts. The co-creation process took place over three virtual meetings, followed by an event at the second Climate Week in Addis Ababa in September 2025. The inclusive co-creation process generated practical knowledge on approaches to enhancing access to and mobilization of finance for adaptation (see informal summary report).

The NWP convened a fourth virtual meeting with the group in 2026 to discuss the pathways for these practical options. The proposed event at this climate week represents the next step in that process, moving from concept development to refinement, prioritization of the practical options and country-driven application by partners.

The key objective of the event is to convene diverse knowledge holders and adaptation finance actors to refine and prioritize practical options identified in 2025, and to explore pathways for country-driven application and experimentation.

SEI’s Programme Manager Wanaporn Yangyuentham will be a moderator for breakout groups at the Session 2: From pathways to uptake and country-driven implementation by relevant actors.

The Implementation Lab: Effective communication against climate mis- and disinformation

When: 12.30 – 14.00 (KST)

Where: Seminar Room 4, Yeosu Expo Convention Centre 1

The Implementation Lab: Effective communication against climate mis- and disinformation focuses on practical approaches to identify climate mis- and disinformation and protect the integrity of climate information for communicators and stakeholders at all levels who encounter these challenges in their day-to-day work. In the panel segment, experts and communicators, including content creators, will shed light on tactics and narratives of climate disinformation and creative ways to respond to them. Participants will then engage in break-out discussion, where they will share their own experiences and discuss various aspects of tactics for countering misinformation in their communities or amongst their audiences. A special focus will be on AI, exploring both its challenges and opportunities for .

SEI’s Communications Manager Charmaine Caparas will be a speaker for the Panel Discussion: Lessons from the Frontline of Climate Communication.