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Gambia Looks to Kenya’s Climate Playbook as Landmark Climate Bill Nears Passage
A delegation of Gambian lawmakers traveled to Nairobi this week to study how Kenya built one of Africa’s most advanced climate governance systems, as The Gambia moves closer to passing its own climate change law. Led by Hon. Yaya Gassama, Chairperson of The Gambia’s National Assembly Select Committee on Environment, Sustainable Development, and NGO Affairs, the delegation held two days of meetings with Kenyan parliamentary committees, the Ministry of Environment, the National Treasury, and Kenya’s Special Envoy for Climate Change, Ambassador Ali Mohamed.
Experts Urge Swift Delivery of Pakistan’s Climate Prosperity Plan
Senior government officials, multilateral development banks and finance institutions, and climate finance experts, convened at the Breathe Pakistan International Climate Change Conference 2026, issuing a call to urgently accelerate the delivery of Pakistan’s Climate Prosperity Plan and warning that financing gaps and implementation delays risk undermining the country’s climate resilience goals. The high-level session titled “Mobilising Climate Finance for Pakistan,” was held on May 6 and organized by Dawn Media in partnership with the Climate Vulnerable Forum and V20 Finance Ministers (CVF-V20) Secretariat and forms part of a broader national effort to translate climate ambition into concrete investment at scale.
100 Farmers in Sri Lanka to Receive Solar Irrigation Systems
Farmers in Sri Lanka’s North Central Province will soon gain access to affordable solar-powered irrigation systems through a new initiative launched by the Our Movement of Lanka (OML) and Pan Asia Bank, with support from the CVF-V20 Secretariat.
Climate-Vulnerable Countries Assert Carbon Market Leadership
Climate-vulnerable nations from across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Pacific convened today to spotlight concrete steps they are taking to harness high-integrity carbon markets as a driver of economic resilience and climate prosperity, demonstrating that they are not waiting for climate finance to arrive, but actively building the architecture to attract it.
V20 Central Bank Governors Advance the Lifeline Fund Following Political Launch at Spring Meetings
Central bank governors from climate-vulnerable countries today advanced the operational pathway for the Lifeline Fund, following its political launch at the 16th V20 Ministerial Dialogue on 14 April. The Lifeline Fund is a new multi-regional financial arrangement designed to provide rapid, targeted liquidity support to countries facing balance-of-payments pressures after climate shocks.
Global Shield Roundtable Calls for Coordinated Action to Strengthen Financial Resilience to Climate Risks
Climate-vulnerable countries, development banks, donors, regional risk pools, and private sector leaders gathered to discuss how multilateral financing can strengthen fiscal resilience and scale pre-arranged Climate and Disaster Risk Financing and Insurance (CDRFI) solutions.
COP28 CLOSING STATEMENTS: V20 Chair and CVF Secretary-General on the adoption of the UAE Consensus
14 December 2023, DUBAI: Ghana Finance Minister and V20 Finance Ministers Chair Ken Ofori-Atta and Former Maldives President and Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) Secretary-General Mohamed Nasheed
Tripling Renewable Power by 2030: A Legislators Dialogue
PRESS RELEASE 5th December 2023 | 17:30 – 18:30 GST Global Renewables Hub (GRH) – Blue Zone, Dubai Expo 2020 City ____________________________________________________________________________________ Dubai, 05 December
Parliamentary Accountability Summit at COP28
PRESS RELEASE Parliamentary Accountability Summit at COP28 Monday, 4 December 2023 Dubai, United Arab Emirates ____________________________________________________________________________________ The Parliamentary Accountability Summit brings together parliamentarians at COP28
CVF Global Parliamentary Group (CVF GPG) Convenes Second Annual Dialogue at the 147th IPU General Assembly
Date: 24 October 2023Time: 12.30 to 14.00 HrsVenue: Palace of the National AssemblyLuanda, Angola ____________________________________________________________________________________ CVF Global Parliamentary Group (CVF GPG) Convenes Second Annual
Migrants and Diaspora are Agents of Change for Climate Action: Migrants4Climate Award Winners Announced
Geneva — The Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF), the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the French Chair of the Global Forum on Migration and Development
Parliamentarians Dialogue at the ACS 2023
PRESS RELEASE Parliamentarians Dialogue brings together Legislators from across Africa at the Africa Climate Summit to advance Discourse on Renewable Energy, Green Growth, and Climate
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