It is very easy to write a rap song
on a session titled “Show Me the Money”

it kind of writes itself

Show me the money, climate change is coming
We walkin’ slowly away from it, need to

be running so…
Show me the money, get the engine humming

The climate finance is coming for everybody
so…

Show me the money, it’s bigger than politics
Time for a climate change-compliant shopping

list
Show me the money, as temperature rise keeps

on
Keeping on, we can fight it with green bonds
So everybody show me the money

The UN WiFi sucks and the food lines are long
It’s time for radically honest dialogue

We need to subsidize how to end pollution
It’s time to show us the money like Cuba Gooding

Big bucks no juniors
Large stacks of papers

‘Cause 50% of GDP is linked to nature
To seize the opportunity the shifts must be

major
A tsunami of dollars and change

Is what we coming for
Let’s do what India did to coal

With the other fossil fuels
And we’ll reach the goal

I mean, it was a wide-ranging chat
So many amazing plans

With skillful moderation from Selina Abraham
She said “Get the 7 trillion in dirty subsidies

wiped off”
And don’t take too long or she’s gonna

switch your mic off

So bring this new paradigm in, finance against
climate

There no escaping the change, the tidal wave
is arrivin’

And rolling even faster, the only question
is can we keep up

Bring in the public/private finance
Just ask the Minister from Indonesia

Ask him what we needed
7 trillion with a “T” subsidizing pollution

We paying for more problems than actual solutions
This is cognitive dissonance, it’s quite confusing

The science, out here, more than proven
We gotta keep going in this direction

I can tell you we all losing
Green bonds are a great starter tool

For us to gradually move away from fossil
fuels

The benefits way greater than the possible
loss

Let me wrap my part up
Before Baba cuts my mic off

It’s happening in all countries, and in
all cities

The damage is everywhere, impacts are not
pretty

So let’s mobilize cash and get the climate
bonds chinging

Like “Cha-Ching” – that’s the initiative
from Sean Kidney

Y’all with me? So tell me people
Aare you down for the cause?

Canada banned harmful subsidies
Round of applause!

It’s an oil-producing country and yes, some
petrol will flow

But not with public funding
From Climate Minister Guilbeault

Whoah, we got the most capital than all time
Why would we spend more to invest in the planets

decline?
Shout out Cambodia, Canada, and UK for your

leadership
But we need conciseness from the rep from

Bhangledesh
I love the way that you was spittin’ all your

knowledge facts
We need collaboration, and that’s a fact
I said ‘collaboration’, shout out to Shawn
Kidney

Because he’s got the perfect name for donations

The move has to be radical, we have the patience
Of minimum requirements for climate changes

We have to get this done, and all we have
Our choice now are either the stick or the

carrot hand

‘Cause there’s no time to waste, people,
this is not a test

Private sector finance is essential, calm
the threat

We had it from the distinguished delegates
And honored guests

We heard from the Forestry Minister from Bangladesh

This is in the field we’re planting on
Quicksand we’re standing on

The European Union is coming through with
those financial bonds

And forgiving debts where the funding can
be repurposed

For environmental service, so what does a
Euro purchase?

So show me the money, climate change is coming
We walkin’ slowly away from it, need to

be running so…
Show me the money, get the engine humming

Climate finance is coming for everybody so…

Show me the money, bigger than politics
It’s time for a climate change-compliant shopping

list
Show me the money, temperature rise keeps

on
Keeping on, but we can still fight it with

green bonds
This is a honest dialogue so the comments
will not be censored

All of our governments gotta do better
But like the rep from Germany also said

We can’t just do it publicly
We also need the private sector
We need concerted effort; the change will
hard
It won’t magic appear like I do this card We need something like better rappers

And better political governmental actors
Shout Ms Abraham for moderation focussed on

solutions
She didn’t keeping score

That’s why she’s down with CiFOR

The Japanese delegation translated until their
time was done

But it was worth every second to hear that
Green Climate Fund

Japan showed us the money, that yen value
is killin’ it

Sustainability cash in till, $638 million

Plus you heard it from the Minister from Germany
6 Billion Euros in climate certainty

We can’t fish with a dipnet here, we gotta
catch whales

Like the Colombian Minister said: “Action
at scale”

We’re doing all we can but we need more
Shout out to Ecuador

Yo te entiendo, no necesita que traducir
Let’s protect the planet from the sky to the

sea floor
At the risk of being a broken record, we still

need more

There’s so much we all can accomplish, y’all,
we got this

Sustainable projects and carbon drawdown and
offsets

But investment is needed, the books, get some
debts off it

You heard it from Maria Susana Muhamad Gonzalez

That is an amazing name to rhyme

Maria Susana Muhamad Gonzalez, a wicked name
And debt-burdened countries will need systemic

change
And not just in little ways, human rights

are in place
The entire economic system needs to get rearranged

Efforts, practical
It’s gotta be realistic, not magical

We can’t do it ourselves, multilateral
I told you, it’s not a fantasy, this is actual

So how do we get it moving? Investors demand
confidence

Sean Kidney knows, he constantly talks to
all of them

And everyone agrees that 1.5 is the home base
So if there’s debt forgiveness, well that

is not for it’s own sake

A few assets will get wiped off the balance
sheet

Write down dirty coal stockpiles massively
That’s a critical act, this is a difficult

task
The question is: do we have will for a political

pact?

So how do we get it moving? Investors demand
confidence

Sean Kidney knows, ’cause he constantly talks
to all of them

And everyone agrees that 1.5 is the home base
So if there’s ‘debt forgiveness’, well

That’s not for it’s own sake

A few assets are gonna get wiped off the balance
sheet

Write down dirty coal stockpiles massively
That’s a critical act, and this is a difficult

task
The question is: does this room we have the

will
For the political pact?

Okay, some come, show go
Some show backbone, we’re halfway home

Countries still have to manage all their critical
cash flow

It’s a market economy, that’s known
Take it from the Minister from Gabon

Norway doesn’t want their sovereign wealth
cash blown

All we need to do is flow in a direction that’s
green

Cash Rules Everything Around Me – C.R.E.A.M.
So yes, it’s true, all of our countries

can dream
Just dream big and dream fast, ‘cause the

need is extreme

So, show me the money
Climate change is coming

We walkin’ slowly away from it, need to
be running, so…

Show me the money
Get the engine humming

Climate finance is coming for everybody so…

Show me the money
It’s bigger than politics

Time for a climate change compliant shopping
list

Show me the money, as temperature rise keeps
on

Keeping on, can we fight it with green bonds?
Either way you gotta

Show me the money

You got it

Make some noise for yourselves
Thank you all, we are Event Rap

This is Baba Brinkman
My name is Dex McBean

If you have time, if you see us around
Come by, shake a hand

We wrote that special for you