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18th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development (IGF)
A concerted effort to reach the goals of the Paris Agreement would require a quadrupling of critical mineral requirements for clean energy technologies by 2040. The mining sector must reposition itself to supply these critical minerals, while ensuring they are extracted and traded in a responsible manner.
Resilience Frontiers Lab at COP 27
Exploring Resilience Frontiers’ eight pathways to a desirable future, the creative programme at COP 27 took participants into a world of abundance, where nature and humanity thrive in harmony with each other.
Promoting and Expanding Implementation of the Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM)
Cooperative mechanisms such as Japan's Joint Crediting Mechanism contribute to achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement and realizing a decarbonized society, panelists of a side event argued.
Ocean Futures Lab
UN climate and biodiversity processes happen too often in siloes, each attracting a different set of experts and thus creating separate conversations. In an event on Ocean-based climate solutions, panelists called for much greater cooperation between biodiversity and climate international frameworks.
Accelerating Action for a Climate-resilient Future Through National Adaptation Plans
As countries strive to put climate adaptation at the heart of decision-making, tools such as the National Adaptation Plans process, established in 2010 under the Cancun Adaptation Framework, came under focus at a side event on the challenges of devising, implementing, and monitoring NAPs.
Empowering a Climate-Resilient Africa for the 21st Century: Articulating vision and opportunity
At what is being referred to as the "African COP," political, industry, and civil society leaders voiced strong condemnations of shortcomings in adaptation financing for Africa.
“When Will Leaders Lead?” The State’s Role in Mobilising and Directing Finance for Climate and Health
“The world has found it easy to make capital move, I don’t know how an inanimate object can have priority over a breathing person,” said Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley at an event on reimagining the financial architecture of climate action, calling for humane immigration and just trade policies.
Rio Conventions Pavilion at COP 27
The Rio Conventions Pavilion at COP 27 organized a series of events exploring land restoration, Africa’s NDC implementation in global food and energy crises, youth initiatives, and the Great Green Wall Initiative
Sharm El-Sheikh Climate Change Conference - November 2022
For the first time, countries agreed to recognize the need for finance to respond to loss and damage associated with the adverse effects of climate change, and quickly established a fund and the necessary funding arrangements, with the details to be worked out over the coming year.