Media invitation: World leaders must make headway for adaptation - there are no alternatives
The year 2024 is of paramount importance for our future. We face an urgent need to handle the climate crisis, within the broader range of Sustainable Development Goals. This year’s high-level meetings leading up to COP29 will focus on climate finance, aiming to address the substantial funding gaps.
To kick-start these discussions DanChurchAid, E3G, International Institute for Environment and Development, CONCITO, NDC Partnerships, and UN Foundation are coming together to co-host the virtual event ‘Integrating Climate and Development for Adaptation Finance’ in Copenhagen on the 20th of March, to provide inspiration for the Copenhagen Climate Summit.
“Adaptation finance must be at the heart of the negotiations towards COP29. Adaptation to the consequences of climate change is a question of survival. We need to adapt to a new reality, where droughts, rising sea levels, and heatwaves are becoming increasingly commonplace,” says Secretary General in DanChurchAid, Jonas Nøddekær.
“The countries most vulnerable to climate change have been clear about what they need to adapt to it - more money, on fairer terms and channelled to local people who are best placed to use it. Governments meeting in Copenhagen have a chance to put down a marker for stronger climate outcomes later this year and to show they're taking lower-income nations seriously”, says Ebony Holland, IIED’s nature-climate policy lead.
“The decisions that governments make this year will shape if, how, and how much finance is delivered over the next decade and beyond. We need to make sure that finance is adequate to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and a climate resilient future for all,” says Cristina Rumbaitis del Rio, Senior Advisor, Adaptation and Resilience, UN Foundation.
“Globally all stakeholders must come together behind a coherent framework for climate finance as presented by the Independent High-Level Group on Climate Finance to massively upscale funding for integrated climate and development action. Country owned climate plans (NDCs) that integrate adaptation and long-term development plans must be turned into investment plans by 2030,” says Chairperson of the Board of CONCITO Mrs Connie Hedegaard.
“Adaptation has received too little political attention for too long. The climate and development ministerials have shone a light on the reforms needed to how we do adaptation finance to shift towards more systemic resilience investments. Denmark, Samoa and their co champions of the adaptation finance vision agreed at last year’s ministerial have a chance to drive a scale up and improvement in adaptation finance over the next couple of years as countries prepare their next climate policy updates.” Says Alex Scott, Climate Diplomacy and Geopolitics Programme Lead at E3G.
“We must be striving for our climate and development goals concurrently and linking the two. For developing countries, in particular, adaptation and resilience are both a priority and a tremendous challenge. The NDC Partnership supports countries efforts to raise ambition in ways that are implementable and financeable, through effective coordinated support of more than 220 members. This collaborative response provides developing countries with efficient access to a wide range of resources to adapt to and mitigate climate change and foster more equitable and sustainable development,” says Pablo Vieira, Global Director of the NDC Partnership.
Streaming: For online participation registration is needed. Send an email to copenhagenevent@dca.dk and request a link for streaming of the event.
Run of Sow for A Two-Part High-Level Event on
I. Copenhagen Climate Ministerial on the Road from Dubai to Belém
II. Integrating Climate and Development for Adaptation Finance
March 20th, from 14:00 to 16:30
Location: DanChurchAid, Meldahlsgade 3, 1613 Copenhagen V
Registration: For registration, send an email to copenhagenevent@dca.dk
Part I Copenhagen Climate Ministerial on the Road from Dubai to Belém,
Organized by CONCITO for the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC, Simon Stiell, and Danish Minister for Development Cooperation and Global Climate Policy, Dan Jørgensen, will provide their perspectives on the road from Dubai to Belém in the run up to the Copenhagen Climate Ministerial on 21 - 22 March 2024, moderated by Deputy CEO Jarl Krausing from CONCITO, followed by a Q & A session.
Part II High Level Debate on Integrating Climate and Development for Adaptation Finance,
Co-organized by DanChurchAid, E3G, IIED, CONCITO, NDC Partnerships, and the UN Foundation
Reaching the goals of the Paris Agreement, within the broader Sustainable Development Goals, requires accelerated action around mitigation, adaptation, loss and damage, sustainable development and massive up-scaling of finance from all sources. However, adaptation efforts are falling behind. Applying an integrated programmatic approach to climate and development will keep adaptation center stage of both planning and finance.
In the run up to the Copenhagen Climate Ministerial on 21-22 March 2024, DanChurchAid, E3G, IIED, CONCITO, NDC Partnerships, and the UN Foundation are organizing this ‘HybridHigh Level Panel on integrating Climate and Development for Adaptation Finance’ building on ongoing processes such as the Climate and Development Ministerial and the NDC Partnership to formulate concrete recommendations to accelerate and enhance adaptation finance access and delivery by integrating climate and development agendas.’ The deliberations will focus on the following topics:
- An integrated and programmatic approach to climate finance and enhanced access to climate finance.
- Revision of and enhancing adaptation links in the NDCs.
- Scaling up all sources of finance including external and private domestic finance.
Co-host summary of key messages from the panel discussion will be sent to the Copenhagen Climate Ministerial.
Programme:
Part I Copenhagen Climate Ministerial on the Road from Dubai to Belém.
14.00 - 14.02 Welcome by Jonas Vejsager Nøddekær, Acting Secretary General of DCA
14.02 - 14.05 Introduction by Moderator Jarl Krausing, Deputy CEO of CONCITO
14.05 - 14.12 Perspectives from Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary, UNFCCC
14.12 - 14.19 Perspectives from Dan Jørgensen, Minister for Development Cooperation and Global Climate, Policy, Denmark
14.19 - 14.40 Q & A
14.40 - 14.45 Closing remarks by Executive Secretary Stiell and Minister Jørgensen
14.45 - 15.00 Coffee break
PART II High Level Debate on Integrating Climate and Development for Adaptation Finance.
15.00 - 15.05 Introduction to session on Integrating Climate and Development for Adaptation Finance by Moderator Paula Larrain.
15.05 - 15.10 Welcoming remarks Ms Lotte Machon, State Secretary for Development Policy, DK
15.10 – 15.17 Keynote by Ana Toni, Secretary for Climate Change, Brazil. Brazilian approach to adaptation as G20 Presidency
15.17 - 15.25 Presentation of key messages from virtual workshops by Mattias Sôderberg, DanChurchAid
15.25 - 16.15 Panel Debate
● Ana Toni, V Secretary for Climate Change, Brazil
● Evans Njewa, LDC Chair, Chief Environmental Officer of Malawi
● Toeolesulusulu Cedric Pose Salesa Schuster, AOSIS Chair, Minister for Natural Resources,
Environment and Lands of Samoa
● Romeo Bertolini, Deputy Director of Country Engagement for the NDC Partnership
16.15 – 16.25 Q & A
16.25 - 16.30 Concluding remarks and closure
