PRESS RELEASES
Caribbean Unites Around Climate Prosperity Agenda, Calls for Strengthening Climate and Disaster Risk Financing
Caribbean nations gathered in Bridgetown, Barbados on May 28 and 29 to advance solutions for closing climate financing and protection gaps, as the region faces escalating climate risks, mounting economic losses, and limited access to affordable finance.
African Parliaments Urged: Pull the Methane Emergency Brake
Methane reduction has emerged as one of the few climate interventions that can deliver measurable results this decade, and for vulnerable nations absorbing the costs of extreme weather, speed matters. In Nairobi in Ma, the CVF-V20 urged African lawmakers to turn that opportunity into policy.
Building Effective Support for Country-Led Approaches
In the margins of the Global Partnership Conference, the Climate Vulnerable Forum-V20 Finance Ministers (CVF-V20) Secretariat, Global Capacity Building Coalition (GCBC), and the Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office co-hosted a roundtable to discuss implementable reforms to support country platforms and other country-led approaches.
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.
V20 Finance Ministers Call for Concessional Capital and Debt Solutions to Achieve Development and Climate Goals
APRIL 16, 2024, WASHINGTON, DC: Ministers from the 68 climate-vulnerable developing countries that make up the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) have called for major reforms
V20 Central Bank Governors Begin New Working Group to Manage Financial Impact of Climate Crisis
APRIL 16, 2024, WASHINGTON, DC: Central Bank Governors from across the 68 nations that make up the V20 Finance Ministers of the Climate Vulnerable Forum
CVF Statement on Climate Heat
CVF Statement on Climate Heat By Mohamed Nasheed Secretary-General of the Climate Vulnerable Forum, former president of the Maldives The CVF notes with great concern
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
