In the lead up to the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development, the meeting will continue negotiations on the outcome document and invite observers to comment on the revised text.

Advancing sustainability solutions to climate challenges faced by hot and arid countries, the Earthna Summit 2025 will explore resilience to water scarcity, harnessing AI for smarter governance, and how the tradition-technology nexus can address food insecurity, among other issues.

Governments and other stakeholders completed their first full reading of the zero draft of the outcome document on financing for development, focusing on issues from illicit financial flows and reform of international financial institutions to corruption, official development assistance, and debt.

UN Member States started a three-year process to negotiate the convention and two protocols on priority issues. This process contributes to the discussion on reforming the architecture of the international financial system.