Thank you very much distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, excellencies.
I would really like to thank the Netherlands for hosting this excellent summit. We have heard some brilliant submissions and real power to the messages that have been coming through. I also want to thank the Global Center on Adaptation – I see you have my friend Feike with you. And of course, Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, for his leadership in adaptation and resilience.
And I can tell you that as COP President this is a top priority indeed. And I know that it is the same for my dear friend Patricia Espinosa who you will hear from shortly as well.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) The world must take decisive action to build resilience to the devastating effects of climate change, U.S. climate envoy John Kerry told a global virtual summit Monday, pledging that President Joe Biden s new administration would play its role.
In a video message to the Climate Adaptation Summit hosted by the Dutch government, Kerry said, “We’re proud to be back (in the Paris climate accord). We come back, I want you to know, with humility, for the absence of the last four years, and we ll do everything in our power to make up for it.”
GCA announces key adaptation initiatives at Climate Adaptation Summit 2021
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ROTTERDAM, Netherlands, Jan. 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) today made a number of key announcements during the Climate Adaptation Summit (CAS2021) hosted by the Netherlands – the first international summit for global leaders aimed at triggering the systemic change required to accelerate adaptation action globally for a climate resilient world. During the Summit GCA s work was endorsed by a number of world leaders including Ali Bongo Odimba, President of Gabon; Nana Akufo-Addo, President of Ghana; Keith Mitchell, Prime Minister of Grenada; Carlos Alvarado Quesado, President of Costa Rica, Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of Bangladesh and Uhuru Kenyatta, President of Kenya.
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We Must Shape the post-COVID recovery to Address Climate Change, Too | Opinion Kristalina Georgieva and Ban Ki-moon On 1/25/21 at 2:29 PM EST
There is much to applaud in the global response to COVID-19: the hundreds of billions of dollars to reinforce healthcare systems and fund research that developed in record time not one, but several vaccines; the synchronized action of central banks and governments to prevent a full-blown global financial crisis; and the debt relief extended to low-income countries. Those were the right measures taken at the right time and they helped the world avoid a second Great Depression.
But as vaccination campaigns advance and economies move on the path to recovery, governments need to rethink the blanket support extended to individuals and businesses during the first phase of the pandemic. Millions of jobs have been destroyed by COVID-19. Many of these may be gone for good. Automation in manufacturing and logistics, and fast-movin