Feb 4, 2021
LONDON – Like the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change is a problem countries must work together to address or “all nations will feel the reverberations,” the United Nations’ climate chief warned on Wednesday.
The novel coronavirus has ignored national borders and “climate change respects them even less,” Patricia Espinosa said in an online lecture for the London School of Economics.
“Many places that thought they would be completely free of the effects of climate change … are already feeling it,” said Espinosa, executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change.
But rising national isolationism, including in the face of the pandemic, is making vital global cooperation harder, she said.
Principles for locally led adaptation
Eight principles for locally led adaptation have been developed to help ensure that local communities are empowered to lead sustainable and effective adaptation to climate change at the local level. IIED is among over 40 governments, leading global institutions and local and international NGOs that have already endorsed these principles and are advocating their endorsement by others.
Two women harvest Chayote fruits and vines to make nutritious meals for their family. Local adaptation priorities, such as conserving and using crop biodiversity, can help manage climate change impacts (Photo: Qiubi, via Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0)
Empowering local stakeholders to lead in adapting to climate change gives communities on the frontline of climate impacts a voice in decisions that directly affect their lives and livelihoods.
‘SA can’t leave its shift to a low-carbon future to chance’
25 Jan 2021
Building resilience: South Africa is dependent on fossil fuels, but the switch to a more sustainable economy requires protecting people’s livelihoods. (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg/Getty Images)
Without international and private finance, South Africa’s path towards building a low-carbon, climate-resilient economy will be “very limited”, according to the chief executive of the National Business Initiative (NBI), Joanne Yawitch.
This is a result of the poor state of the economy, worsened by the fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic, Yawitch said at the launch of the Just Transition Finance Roadmaps in South Africa and India project. Both are coal-dependent countries.
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London Says, $1 Billion To Shut All Your Coal Plants Is a ‘Just Transition’
Jan 25 , 2021 (EIRNS) On Jan 20, the U.K.’s CDC Group the government-owned “investment” arm of the Foreign Office, founded in 1948, with a special focus on Africa and South Asia (and nothing to do with public health). On Jan. 19, the Grantham Research Institute of London School of Economics and CDC Group hosted a webinar of the Just Transition Financial Roadmap, launched in 2018 by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and Environment and Initiative for Responsible Investment at the Harvard Kennedy School. The webinar, “Just Transition Finance Roadmaps in South Africa and India: Project Launch,” led in establishing a $1 billion fund for “sustainable” investments, in their words, “facilitate a just transition to zero emissions growth in the coal-dependent economies of South Africa and India.” Joining these Malthusians in their launch were
RELEASE: 40 Governments and Leading Institutions Commit to Support Locally Led Climate Adaptation
Press Release - January 24, 2021
Climate emergency threatens to push 130 million people into extreme poverty by 2030, yet local people are often left out of decisions and funding; Momentum emerges to shift status quo
Forty governments, leading global institutions and local and international NGOs, including the United Kingdom and Irish governments, UN Development Programme, Climate Investment Funds, Zurich Investment Group, BRAC and Slum Dwellers International, have committed a new set of principles to ensure climate adaptation is led by local people. ‘The Principles for Locally Led Adaptation’ are launched today at the start of the Climate Adaptation Summit (25 January).