19th July 2024, COLOMBO – The Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Dilmah, the world renowned, family-owned tea company from Sri Lanka, to advance climate resilience and sustainable agriculture.
The MoU signing took place on 17th July 2024, and was signed by Mohamed Nasheed, the Secretary General of CVF and Dilhan Fernando, the Chief Executive Officer of Dilmah.
The MoU seeks to address climate challenges through several initiatives, including:
- Promoting sustainable tea cultivation practices that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, enhance soil health, and conserve water resources — aligning with Sri Lanka’s Climate Prosperity Plan that includes the objective of climate-resilient agriculture.
- Biodiversity conservation projects to protect natural habitats and species.
- Afforestation initiatives to restore degraded lands, sequester carbon, and improve ecosystem services.
- Programs to enhance the climate resilience of tea-growing communities, focusing on adaptive agricultural techniques and infrastructure improvements to withstand climate impacts.
About the Climate Vulnerable Forum and the Vulnerable-Twenty Group:
The CVF-V20 represents 68 members from small island developing states (SIDS), least developed countries (LDCs), low-to-middle income countries (LMICs) and fragile and conflict-affected states (FCS). Working together, the CVF-V20 aims to achieve climate justice through the realization of Climate Prosperity Plans, which contain ambitious economic and financial resilience strategies designed to attract investment and resources that advance the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals, 30×30 Global Biodiversity, and help keep the average global temperatures to the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C safety threshold.
