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From Concept to Implementation: Lifeline Fund Enters Operationalisation Phase
Following the political launch of the Lifeline Fund on the margins of the 2026 Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund, the Central Bank Governors Working Group convened a high-level technical meeting on 9-10 July 2026 in Bridgetown, Barbados to undertake detailed deliberations on principal design parameters of the Fund’s operational framework. The two-day meeting culminated the virtual consultation sessions on the Lifeline Fund conducted in May and June with V20 central banks.
Call for Applications: The V20 Climate Prosperity Fellowship Program (2026-2027)
The V20 Climate Prosperity Fellowship Program is designed to provide mid-career officials with opportunities for peer-learning, building cutting-edge technical skills to integrate climate change into their work, and supporting their leadership in advancing innovative solutions. The CVF-V20 has consistently emphasized the need to reform the international financial architecture to unlock opportunities on the ground to promote climate prosperity. Through weekly webinars, interactions with experts, residencies, and immersive exercises, V20 Climate Prosperity Fellows will have a unique opportunity to work together in advancing a fit for purpose international financial architecture.
Vulnerability to Viability: New compact will unlock affordable finance for climate-vulnerable countries
The world’s most climate-vulnerable countries are positioning themselves to access more affordable capital with longer repayment rates under a new Vulnerability to Viability (V2V) Compact, in partnerships with development finance institutions, led by the OPEC Fund for International Development (OPEC Fund). The V2V Compact was launched at the OPEC Fund Development Forum in Vienna today.
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.
CVF Presidency Welcomes the UN Human Rights Council climate resolution
PRESS RELEASE 14 July 2021 CVF Presidency Welcomes the UN Human Rights Council climate resolution GENEVA, Switzerland – 14 July 2021: The Climate Vulnerable Forum
Vulnerable economies call rich nations to avert global climate-COVID economic threat
48 most vulnerable economies demand “2020-2024 delivery plan” for the missing $100 billion annual Paris Agreement climate assistance The V20 group launch ambitious “Climate Prosperity”
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
