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CVF LAC Ministerial Dialogue Videos
CVF LAC Ministerial Dialogue Videos H.E. A.K. Abdul Momen, Minister of Foreign Affairs, People’s Republic of Bangladesh Honduras: HE Liliam Rivera, Secretary of State in
Extreme Threats for Most Vulnerable as Nations Fail on Paris Promises
Sajida Begum stands outside her home in Munshigong, Bangladesh that collapsed in the Super Cyclonic Storm Amphan last 20 May 2020 ● Just 40% of
Sotto, Velasco, Legarda, Chatto join solons global call for climate action
25 November 2020, DHAKA — Senate President Vicente “Tito” Sotto III, House Speaker Lord Allan Velasco, House Deputy Speaker Loren Legarda, and House Committee on Climate Change Chair Edgar Chatto last night met virtually with fellow lawmakers from the 48-member-nation Climate Vulnerable Forum to call for more ambitious climate action globally.
Parliaments in Climate Vulnerable Countries Submit Motions Urging 2020 Climate Action Targets
Inaugural CVF global parliamentary meeting commences with concerted joint effort for securing “climate prosperity”. Parliaments pursuing motions calling on world’s governments to deliver on Paris
Year-End Global Climate Deadline: Over Three Quarters of Countries Committing to New Targets
Over 150 countries including 120 since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic committed to make stronger Paris Agreement targets in 2020, suggesting countries understand the importance of ‘building back better’, a CVF tracker tool shows ahead key international deadline
Midnight Climate Survival Press Release
Climate Vulnerable Countries Call on all Nations to Submit Improved NDCs by Midnight on 31 December 2020 – a Survival Deadline for the Climate 7
Ghana Leads Climate Vulnerable Forum
The Bangladesh Presidency of the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) ended its two-year term, and passed the CVF Presidency to Ghana, in a ceremony held today. The CVF Presidency represents 55 of the most climate-threatened countries, in their global fight against the climate emergency.
Climate Vulnerable Forum releases Climate Survival Leadership Barometer tracking national climate targets
The report, entitled Climate Survival Leadership Barometer, as a new resource for how Paris Agreement NDC targets can be evaluated, discloses the evaluation criteria employed under the CVF’s ‘Midnight Survival Deadline for the Climate’ initiative. That initiative monitored in real time each country’s national targets, submitted up until midnight on 31 December 2020, to hold governments accountable for their obligations under the Paris Accords.
IPCC climate mitigation report highlights need for massive change to current emissions reduction pledges
The findings of the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group III Report, ‘Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change’, confirms that the last decade recorded the highest increase in global emissions in the history of the planet.
CVF reacts to IPCC report on climate impacts and adaptation
CVF Ambassadors reactions in response to IPCC Working Group II report, “Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability”
Vulnerable Nations Demand Climate Emergency Pact from COP26
Climate vulnerable nations adopt ‘Dhaka-Glasgow Declaration’ outlining their demands for COP26
Climate Vulnerable Forum launch Global Parliamentary Group
Climate Vulnerable Forum launch Global Parliamentary Group.
