Chile's Ministry of Finance presented a 2024 annual review and 2025 challenges for the Public-Private Green Finance Roundtable, a forum created in 2019 to coordinate public and private sector work on sustainable finance. The update consolidated progress and next steps across five streams covering risk management, green financial products, portfolio decarbonisation, taxonomy implementation, and disclosure and compliance. Work completed in 2024 included training on portfolio decarbonisation and methodologies to calculate financed emissions, exploration of climate risk measurement approaches, clarification of frequently asked questions linked to General Rule (Norma de Carácter General, NCG) 461, and an assessment of domestic and international taxonomy development with case studies on financing construction and energy projects. For 2025, the ministry flagged plans to strengthen participation in the green products stream while mapping existing product offerings and their uses and constraints. In risk management, it highlighted a significant gap between practical implementation and integration into strategic processes despite progress in ESG policies, pointing to a need to strengthen supervision, tools, and ESG risk consideration in clients and suppliers. Other priorities include supporting financing for green projects through more favourable loans and credit lines for renewables and clean technologies, building dedicated internal capacity to implement the ministry’s taxonomy in financial institutions with support from certifiers or verifiers, and advancing disclosure work by prioritising relevant content and implementing NCG 519 alongside the ISSB’s IFRS S1 and IFRS S2 standards. To improve the Roundtable’s operation in 2025, the agenda includes using simulated real cases from participating institutions to increase engagement, expanding applied work in the thematic working groups (GTT) through case studies, pilots or simulations, collecting information early in the year to assess starting points and gaps, and producing end-products intended to guide implementation across topics.

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