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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.
Recognizing Migrant and Diaspora Contributions to Climate Action: Migrant4Climate Award 2023
Geneva, 7 August 2023 – The Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF), under the Ghana Presidency leadership, the International Organization for Migration (IOM), and the Global Forum
The Climate Vulnerable Forum Calls on Major Polluting Nations to “Course-Correct”
High-Level Meeting of the Climate Vulnerable Forum in New York City delivers Communiqué outlining unified priorities and expectations for the global COP 28 climate talks
CVF Global Parliamentary Group at the Risk Reduction Hub of the High-Level Meeting of the General Assembly on the Midterm Review of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030
New York, USA 17-19 May 2023: The Chairperson of the CVF Global Parliamentary Group (CVF GPG) participated as a speaker during the Risk Reduction Hub
African parliamentarians participate in capacity building workshop for action towards cop28
Accra, Ghana 4-5 May 2023: The African Parliamentary Network for Climate Action (APNCA) organized a capacity building workshop for parliamentarians, in collaboration with the Climate
CVF GPG bilateral meeting with Members of US Congress and Speaker Nancy Pelosi
A Delegation of the Climate Vulnerable Forum Global Parliamentary Group (CVF GPG), led by its Chairperson, Honourable Dr Emmanuel Marfo, met with the delegation from
New Health Data Shows Unabated Climate Change Will Cause 3.4 Million Deaths Per Year by Century End
Climate Vulnerable Forum and Lancet Countdown Launches Health Data Explorer at COP27 12 November 2022, Sharm el Sheikh – Unabated climate change will cause 3.4
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