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Climate Adaptation Summit: Invest in early warnings and early action
Geneva, 26 January 2021- As climate change leads to an increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather, the need for effective early warnings and early action took centre stage at the Climate Adaptation Summit on 25-26 January.
The online event, hosted by the Netherlands, convened global leaders and local stakeholders. It launched a comprehensive Adaptation Action Agenda and heard of new financial pledges to initiatives to make the world more resilient to the effects of climate change.
“According to the World Meteorological Organization, there have been more than 11,000 disasters due to weather, climate and water-related hazards over the past 50 years, at a cost of some US$ 3.6 trillion,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the opening session.
António Guterres: 50% of all Climate Finance Needed for Adaptation unfccc.int - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from unfccc.int Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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).
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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.â¯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 that these countries receive relatively little direct public support to build resilience to climate change, and development assistance isÂ
being cut rather than expanded. As United Nations Secretary-General António GuterresÂ
noted at the recent UN Climate Ambition Summit, developed countries are not on track to meet their commitment to provide $100 billion per year to support developing countriesâ climate efforts.