Kerry was among world leaders who converged virtually on the Netherlands for the summit seeking to galvanize more action and funding to adapt the planet and vulnerable communities to the effects of climate change.
“We saw the heat waves. We saw the fires. We saw the (melting) Arctic,” top NASA climate scientist Gavin Schmidt said earlier this month about the effects of the warming. Adaptation is not an option, it is an urgent task for this generation and those to come,” Chile President Sebastián Piñera said in a video message.
The Netherlands-based Global Center on Adaptation last week called on governments and financers around the globe to include funding for adaptation projects in their COVID-19 recovery spending.
Executive Director for Green Africa Youth Organization (GAYO), Joshua Amponsem is calling on global leaders to empower the youth on climate change adaptation by introducing mandatory climate change education in schools.
He made the call at the 2021 Climate Adaptation webinar hosted by the Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte.
The objectives of the Summit include enhancing ambition on adaptation where Joshua Amponsem emphasized the need to increase investments for youth in Global South where adaptation is needed the most.
“I speak to you today, on behalf of the hundreds of thousands of young people brought together by the GCA to produce a ‘Youth Call to Action’ because while we must continue to accelerate progress towards a net zero world, young people, especially young women and those from indigenous communities, are already feeling the impacts of climate change.
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Betty Njeru |
January 27th 2021 at 12:20:06 GMT +0300
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Published: 28 Jan 2021 04:01 AM BdST
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John Kerry, the US special presidential envoy for climate, has discussed climate change and the possible US-Bangladesh collaboration about the global issue with Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen. );
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Momen recalled Kerry’s vital contribution to the Paris Agreement on climate change and welcomed the decision of the US to return to the accord during a phone conversation on Tuesday, the foreign ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.
The foreign minister described the actions taken by Sheikh Hasina s government on mitigation, adaptation and measures to strengthen resilience.
Kerry recognised the extraordinary challenges faced by Bangladesh due to climate change and frequent natural disasters.
Include funds for climate adaptation projects in post COVID-19 recovery urges environment group
Paris accord commits 195 countries and other signatories to reduce carbon pollution, monitor and report their fossil fuel emissions.
Jan 26, 2021 09:24:59 IST
An organization that promotes efforts to adapt the environment to cope with the effects of climate change is calling on governments and financiers around the globe to include funding for adaptation projects in their COVID-19 recovery spending. The appeal was published Friday in a report issued by the Netherlands-based Global Center on Adaptation before an online summit starting Monday that will launch an agenda for boosting the planet’s resilience. “As governments begin spending trillions of dollars to recover from the pandemic, the world has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to build a more resilient, climate-smart future by integrating climate adaptation into their response and recovery plans,” the centre said in its repor