Race to Resilience partner Scale for Resilience is championing access to climate finance, access to information and capacity building alongside YAPU Solutions, by providing technical assistance to support farmers to increase production, reduce risks and access micro credits.
Lloyds Banking Group has announced it will no longer directly finance the development of new oil and gas projects, in a first for a UK bank.
The fifth and final Regional Finance Forum of 2022 concluded in Geneva, Switzerland, on Monday, 17 October, with a focus on unlocking finance for critical raw materials (CRMs).
The importance of regional cooperation to enhance the sustainable management and financing of critical raw materials (CRMs) – intrinsic to low carbon transitions – will be the focus of the fifth and final regional finance forum of 2022.
In Preparation for COP27, Dr. Mahmoud Mohieldin, UN Climate Change High-Level Champion for COP27, emphasized in a roundtable discussion the necessity of innovative mechanisms for environmental projects with hybrid finance from public and private sources, as well as the importance of enhanced roles for non-state actors in this field.
The fourth of five Regional Finance Forums will take place in Beirut, Lebanon on 15 September and will focus on the opportunities and initiatives in climate finance in the context of the SDGs.
With the global population expected to reach 8 billion by November, and 8.5 billion by 2023, we must prioritize fulfilling the increasing demand for food, water and energy by 2030, said Dr Mahmoud Mohieldin, UN Climate Change High Level Champion for Egypt this week.
GFANZ, a practitioner-led, global coalition of financial sector institutions working to accelerate the world’s transition to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, has announced the formation of its Africa Network and the creation of an Advisory Board to bolster transition finance opportunities on the continent.
UN Climate Change High-Level Champions for COP26 and COP27, Nigel Topping and Dr. Mahmoud Mohieldin, will attend the 2nd edition of Egypt-International Cooperation Forum (ICF) and the Meeting of African Ministers of Finance, Economy and Environment for COP27 on 7-9 September.
Making good on promises — proving that ambitious targets are for real and are being backed by immediate implementation — is the theme of this year’s Climate Week NYC.
In record-breaking attendance numbers, more than 2,000 delegates flooded to Libreville, Gabon, to attend Africa Climate Week between 29th August and 2nd September – the last of the regional climate weeks before COP27
The third of five Regional Finance Forums will take place in Santiago, Chile from 1-2 September with the theme of highlighting critical opportunities for investment in clean technologies.
As senior government officials and non-state actors attend 2022 Africa Climate Week in Libreville, Gabon (29 August – 2 September) a reflection on Africa’s untapped potential to provide solutions to the global climate crisis, by Ibrahim Thiaw, Acting Executive Secretary of UN Climate change.
The 2022 edition of Africa Climate Week commenced on Monday 29 August, and will run until Friday 2 September in Libreville, Gabon.
With just 75 days until COP27, the second ‘Regional Finance Forum’ will take place in Bangkok on 25 August with the aim of unleashing climate finance from public and private sectors at speed and at scale.
The first of five Regional Finance Forums took place this week in Addis Ababa with the aim of crowding-in capital at the pace and scale required to meet the finance adaptation and mitigation needs for Africa.
LACCW 2022 will be held from 18-22 July in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic and will engage and empower stakeholders to drive climate action across countries, communities and economies.
