Finance Day is an annual event held during the Conference of the Parties (COP) to drive public and private finance for countries that are most vulnerable to climate change to build resilience. 

As many as 4.5 million dead, major economies shut down, businesses crushed… The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic caused panic and hardship, but it also accelerated change. Although the capacity for devastation had been so much greater in previous pandemics that the population in Europe clearly shrunk, this pandemic took the world by surprise that historians …