Organizers
Background
The rise in climate-related natural disasters and the impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic have disrupted the already too slow pace of partner country access to climate finance. In many parts of the world, it is still possible for communities to adapt to higher temperatures and changing weather patterns, but they have not received enough resources to do so, according to the IPCC. Finance in particular is one of the biggest barriers to adaptation, as it is to enhance low-carbon pathways in many developing countries.
Against this background, capacity development efforts to support countries access climate finance need to increase in pace, scale, effectiveness and sustainability. Climate finance, notably for climate change adaptation, needs to catch up decades in a matter of years. The UNFCCC COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow advanced efforts to address the current shortfall in climate finance, and the OECD DAC Declaration on a new approach to align development co-operation with the goals of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, also commits DAC members to ‘working with relevant bilateral and multilateral finance institutions to improve access’, notably through capacity development.
Objectives
- Looking at the current bottlenecks that partner countries experience to access finance.
- Exploring effective and innovative mechanisms to support partner countries, efforts to support the capacity of the private sector of partner countries and initiatives that are helping SIDS access climate finance.
Moderator
- Alejandro Kilpatrick, Manager, Capacity-building subdivision, UNFCCC
Opening remarks
- Roberta Ianna, Paris Committee on Capacity-building co-chair
- Jens Sedemund, Head of DAC Environment Secretariat OECD
Speakers
- Amanda McKee, NDC Partnership
- Karen McNamara, University of Queensland Australia
- Antwi-Boasiako Amoah, Environmental Protection Agency, Ghana
- Nadege Trocelie, Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN), UNFCCC
- Labanya Jena, Commonwealth Secretariat
Presentations
- Silvia Mancini, The Adaptation Fund - EN
- Snigdha Nautiya, Arizona State University - EN
- Fatou Dyana, Bureau de Mise à Niveau - (EN) (FR)
- Kirsty McNichol, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade - Australian Government - EN
- Hannah Binci, Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office - EN
- Paula Rolffs, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit - EN
- Aditya Bahadur & Clara Gallagher, International Institute for Environment and Development - EN
- Marie Liere, Landscape Resilience Fund - EN
- David Simek, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development - EN
- Jevanic Henry, The Commonwealth - EN
- Maxime Souvignet, United Nations University - EN
