Media Advisory | Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development

Media Advisory

Curtain-raiser press briefing

25 June 2025, 12:30 p.m. EDT

Live on http://webtv.un.org

The Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4), to take place in Sevilla, Spain, from 30 June to 3 July 2025, will bring together world leaders to advance solutions to financing challenges threatening the achievement of sustainable development. Governments, international organizations, financial institutions, businesses and civil society will come together to commit to financing our future through a renewed global framework for financing for development.

Rising debt burdens, falling investment, and shrinking aid are among the financing challenges confronting the world today. With progress on the Sustainable Development Goals off track and rising systemic risks, including due to climate change and conflicts, the Conference provides a once-in-a-decade opportunity to mobilize finance at scale and reform the rules of the system to put people’s needs at the center.

The Conference is expected to adopt the Compromiso de Sevilla, an intergovernmentally negotiated outcome, which was approved for adoption by consensus at the Fourth Preparatory Committee Meeting for FFD4 on 17 June.

The Conference will mark the beginning of implementation of the outcome document, signaling a new phase of collective action on financing for development. Coalitions of countries and diverse stakeholders will announce ambitious commitments and concrete solutions under the Sevilla Platform for Action that will boost the renewed financing framework and setting out a turning point from dialogue to delivery.

Who:

Amina J. Mohammed , United Nations Deputy Secretary-General

H.E. Mr. Héctor Gómez Hernández, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Spain to the United Nations

H.E. Mr. Chola Milambo, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Zambia to the United Nations

What: Press briefing on expectations for the upcoming Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development.

When: Wednesday 25 June, 12:30 p.m. EDT

Where: UN Press Briefing Room, S-237, UN Headquarters, New York (watch live on http://webtv.un.org)

Key links

Social media

Engage via social media by using the hashtag #FinancingOurFuture and #FFD4, and by following these accounts:

Media contacts

UN Department of Global Communications | Martina Donlon | donlon@un.org

UN Department of Global Communications | Alex del Castello | alexandra.delcastello@un.org

UN Department of Global Communications | Martin Samaan | samaanm@un.org

UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs | Geneva Damayanti | geneva.damayanti@un.org

UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs | Helen Rosengren | rosengrenh@un.org

UN Office for Partnerships | Francyne Harrigan | harriganf@un.org