Webinars
We are hosting a series of webinars in 2026, for you to learn more about the IMF and its climate impacts, international political processes around debt and climate, and global to local advocacy strategies.
Sign up for upcoming webinars below and scroll down to watch recordings of those you missed.
Upcoming webinars
Annual Meetings spotlight - IFIs in Asia
The exact content of this webinar will adjust with emerging priorities around the 2026 IMF-World Bank Annual Meetings in Bangkok, to align with Asian civil society mobilization efforts and upcoming research.
Speakers
Allies from the Asian debt movement & IFI watchdogs
Date & Time
TBC
Recordings
The IMF’s Climate Turn: Lending, Debt and Extractive Dependence
This webinar explored how IMF lending is shaping debt, climate policy and extractive dependence across the Global South. Drawing on the report The IMF’s Climate Turn: Lending, Debt and Extractive Dependence, speakers examined the gap between the IMF’s growing recognition of climate risks and the policies embedded in its lending programmes. The discussion highlighted how fiscal adjustment, debt repayment pressures and reliance on extractive sectors can constrain public investment and a just transition, while exploring alternatives including debt cancellation, grant-based climate finance, stronger public investment and meaningful participation of affected communities.
The webinar took place in September 2026, featuring the report’s authors alongside speakers from Menafem, Latindadd, CORAP and the Alternative Law Collective, bringing experiences from Egypt, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Latin America and Pakistan.
Read the report: The IMF’s Climate Turn: Lending, Debt and Extractive Dependence.
Presentations from Thomas and Alexandros (report authors), Emmanuel (CORAP), and Daniela (Latindadd).
IMF country cases - greenwashed austerity, grassroots resistance
This webinar explored how IMF lending conditions are shaping climate and development policy across the Global South, and how civil society movements are mobilising against austerity, debt dependency and fossil fuel expansion. Speakers reflected on country experiences from Bangladesh, Ecuador, Kenya, Senegal and Zambia, examining how IMF programs reinforce fiscal consolidation, subsidy reforms and debt repayment obligations under the language of “green transition” and “climate resilience,” while deepening social inequality and climate vulnerability. The discussion also highlighted grassroots resistance movements and explored alternatives including debt cancellation, collective action among Global South countries, climate reparations and people centred climate finance strategies.
The IMF, debt & climate in the multilateral context of 2026
In 2026, the year has started with major challenges to the UN and multilateral system but also important reform processes that put the spotlight on the debt-climate nexus. In the first webinar of our series, we’ll unpack some of these global arenas and their potential for advancing financial architecture reform, situating the IMF’s ongoing reviews of its surveillance and conditionalities work within outcomes of the 2025 Financing for Development Conference, the COP30 climate summit, and efforts to protect and build up spaces for decision-making that center the Global South.
The webinar took place in February 2026, featuring speakers from Recourse, MENA Fem, Christian Aid, Eurodad, and the Centre for Science and Environment.
Slides from Iolanda’s presentation & Federico’s presentation
An Advocacy Guide to the IMF and Climate Justice
At the launch of this website and guidebook, civil society experts provided an insider view to the IMF’s work on climate, its impact in countries across different continents, as well as practical insights on ways to influence the institution.
If you’re a climate expert who wants to better understand how the IMF works, why you should care and how to influence it, or if you’re an economic justice advocate who wants to get a better sense of how debt and austerity are related with climate change — this webinar is for you.
The webinar took place in June 2025, featuring speakers from Recourse, FARN, Christian Aid, MENA Fem Movement for Economic, Development and Ecological Justice, Climate & Community Institute, and Alternative Law Collective.