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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has launched the Adaptation Action Coalition, partnering with Saint Lucia, and Egypt, Bangladesh...

Somaliland Sun Red coloured countries are most vulnerable The world can emerge stronger from the interconnected health, economic, and climate crises, but success will require bold, urgent, and far-sighted action Somalilandsun: The year 2020 changed everything. The world now faces interconnected health, economic, and climate crises that have no historical parallel. These converging threats affect everyone, but are especially devastating for vulnerable developing countries. The tragedy is th...

New Global Coalition launched to address impacts of Climate Change Prime Minister Boris Johnson will launch the Adaptation Action Coalition, a new international coalition to tackle the impacts of climate change. From: 25 January 2021 Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to announce a new international coalition to tackle the impacts of climate change. In a virtual address to the Netherlands-hosted Climate Adaptation Summit, the first ever global summit focused solely on adaptation and resil...

Geneva, 25 January 2021 – The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) announced today a major expansion of one of the world’s only means of channeling international funds directly to frontline disaster responders. The announcement of plans to at least double the size of the IFRC’s Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) […]

Australia will sign up to two international agreements that aim to integrate climate risk into investment decision-making including through pricing risk, Sussan Ley will announce. 

A close reading of 112 projects representing 13% of global adaptation finance in 2013-17 found the 25 donor countries collectively overreported the amount supporting climate adaptation by 42%. Under the UN climate process, the developed world has committed to mobilise $100 billion of climate finance a year by 2020, with a balance between mitigation (carbon-cutting) and adaptation projects. At the last count in 2018, they delivered $16.8 billion in adaptation finance, according to the OECD ...

Climate Adaptation Summit 1pm-10pm on Monday; 9am-1.30pm on Tuesday Online Whats up Our climate is changing. Droughts, floods, forest fires, rising sea levels and heatwaves are becoming alarmingly common. It is up to us to come up with solutions for a better and safer world. Attend the virtual Climate Adaptation Summit (CAS), live-streamed from Groningen. The Netherlands hosts the world’s first-ever Climate Adaptation Summit Adapting and working together to become more resilient to climate c...