PRESS RELEASES
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.
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.
VFP Committee Begins Oversight of Five-Year Climate Adaptation Initiative
The CVF-V20 Secretariat recently welcomed the newly appointed members of the V20 Funding Program (VFP) Committee during a two-day orientation session, officially launching their work to oversee a five-year initiative supporting innovative climate change adaptation across CVF-V20 member countries.
CVF-V20 Parliamentarians Urge Enabling Frameworks to Turn Climate Ambition Into Renewable Energy Investments
Legislators and energy regulators from CVF-V20 countries joined global counterparts at the IRENA Legislators and Regulators Forum, held during the 16th IRENA Assembly on January 10, to advance legislative and regulatory solutions designed to accelerate renewable energy deployment while delivering inclusive, resilient development.
Advancing Renewable Energy Leadership at the 16th IRENA Assembly
The Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF), the World Future
Council (WFC), and the Global Renewables Congress (GRC) are proud to participate in and
support the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) at the 16th IRENA Assembly in Abu Dhabi, taking place from 10 to 12 January 2026.
CVF Youth Fellows Call for Urgency, Ambition, and Accountability at COP30
Youth and climate justice advocates from the Global South demanded greater ambition, faster timelines, and stronger accountability on the sidelines of COP30 in Belem.
Statement of the Barbados CVF-V20 Presidency on COP30
Barbados makes five specific calls at the High-Level Segment of COP30 in Belem Brazil: (1) Fix the finance; (2) Fill the Fund for responding to Loss and Damage; (3) Save our small islands developing states (SIDS), also known as Large Ocean States; (4) Pull the Emergency Methane Brake; (5) Collaborate through a Coalition of the Willing.
Country Platforms Take Center Stage at COP30
Country Platforms are emerging as a practical mechanism to turn Climate Prosperity Plans (CPPs) into real, investable, and coordinated action.
This was emphasized during the high-level discussion titled “Role of CPP Country Platforms as Means of Implementation” convened on the sidelines of COP30 by the Government of Pakistan, in partnership with the Climate Vulnerable Forum and the V20 Finance Ministers (CVF-V20).
