Spain has been chosen by the United Nations to host the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development, an event to be held in Seville between 30 June and 3 July 2025. The objective of the meeting is to boost policy implementation and mobilise financial resources by the international community to meet the commitments of the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals on a global level.
This will be the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development after Monterrey in 2002, Doha in 2008 and Addis Ababa in 2015, and Spain views the event as an inclusive space, where all countries sit together at the table and with the participation of all stakeholders, with an open, inclusive and transparent consultation process.
Our country’s selection as the conference venue demonstrates Spain's leadership in achieving consensus, openness to dialogue, building bridges between multiple actors and the support and solidarity of Spanish citizens.
Global challenges
The world has changed significantly over the past decade, with accelerated advances in digitalisation, a rapidly evolving global macroeconomic and financial landscape and growing systemic risks, especially related to climate change, pandemics and conflicts.
All these trends have affected financing for sustainable development across every policy area. Therefore, there has never been a greater need to hold an International Conference on Financing for Development to make progress towards adequate and sustainable access to finance.
Financing agenda
This financing agenda, which will be updated and expanded on at the conference, integrates key issues such as tax policies, international cooperation to combat illicit flows and tax evasion, Official Development Assistance (ODA), private finance, trade, debt sustainability, science and technology, and governance reform of the international financial system.
The conference will be instrumental in aligning the development agendas of the United Nations, international financial institutions and development banks, and all other relevant actors in this field.
Committed citizenry
The choice of Spain as the host country reflects, in addition to our country's leadership in achieving consensus, the support and involvement of our society.
In fact, Spanish citizens have always been committed to the fight against poverty and hunger, the eradication of inequalities and gender gaps, the promotion and protection of human rights, shared economic prosperity, environmental protection and climate action, peace and the construction of fairer and more inclusive societies where no one is left behind.
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