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.
Forum of Vulnerable Nations Calls for Dedicated International Funds for Climate Crisis Loss & Damage
Climate Vulnerable Forum High Level Meeting in Kinshasa delivers communique outlining unified priorities and expectations for the global COP27 climate talks KINSHASA, 4 October,
Climate Vulnerable Forum Global Parliamentary Group (CVF GPG) Inaugural Annual Dialogue brings together parliamentarians from climate-vulnerable nations
KIGALI, 11 October 2022: Parliamentarians from climate vulnerable countries convened at the first ever CVF GPG Annual Dialogue on 11 October 2022, to provide a
Vulnerable Nations Call on Payment for Climate Damages from World’s Wealthiest and Most Polluting Countries
The Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) & V20 have launched “Payment Overdue”, an online social media campaign to confront the global injustice of the growing fallout of the planetary climate emergency that affects the world’s vulnerable and least responsible populations most of all.
Mapping Report on Climate Change Laws and Policies in Climate Vulnerable Countries
Today the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) and GLOBE International publish the first detailed compendium of climate change laws and policies in 48 of the world’s 55 most climate vulnerable nations.
Climate change wiped out fifth of vulnerable countries’ wealth over last 2 decades – report V20 group of 55 economies reinforce demands for international funding for loss and damage
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.
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.
