Sentences with phrase «un adaptation funds»

Instead, we need the UK to help us adapt to climate change through democratic and representative institutions, like the UN Adaptation Fund.

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Shot over four years, from 2013 to 2017, the film follows former Kiribati president Anote Tong on his world tour — with stops at the UN and multiple climate change conferences — to educate foreigners about the situation in Kiribati and to encourage climate change adaptation funding.

For example, the UN Capital Development Fund's Local Climate Adaptive Living Facility (LoCAL) helps build the capacity of local governments, who are on the front lines of adapting to climate change, to access and utilize adaptation finance.

He is currently the National UN CC: Learn Coordinator of Ghana and Technical Advisor of the Adaptation Fund Project.

[BALI] The UN has announced approval for an adaptation fund to bolster the defences of poor countries that lack the money, technology and human resources to cope with climate change.

«Developing countries should benefit from the adaptation fund,» said Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN's Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

«The UN has funding for adaptation, to help people to survive and thrive in the face of climate change.

Whereas money is slow to materialize in the UN Funds, the World Bank does have funds and is spending them as part of their Climate Adaptation ProFunds, the World Bank does have funds and is spending them as part of their Climate Adaptation Profunds and is spending them as part of their Climate Adaptation Program.

The Daily Star: As the release of the UN climate change fund for vulnerable countries is being delayed, Bangladesh should implement adaptation programmes with assistances from its development partners through bilateral arrangements, according to experts.

Many negotiators from developing countries and activists across the globe pushed instead for a dedicated climate fund under the UN Climate Convention that would put the adaptation and mitigation needs of people in developing countries first — an institution based on sound environmental integrity, socioeconomic justice, and efficacy.

Countries have pledged a little over $ 10 billion to the UN's climate adaptation fund.

Staff of local governments, research organisations and NGOs participating in the UN Habitat Cities and Climate Change Programme and in 2 CDKN - funded projects were trained on the potential impacts of urban agriculture and - forestry on climate change adaptation and mitigation, and on practical methods for monitoring them; climate - smart urban agriculture technologies; and the design and assessment of alternative strategies for the development of urban agriculture as part of city climate change strategies.

Such a representative body already exists in the Adaptation Fund Board with its 32 members including representatives from all UN country groupings.

UN News Center: Senior United Nations officials hailed the opening in the Republic of Korea today of the UN-backed Green Climate Fund as a significant step in the collective effort to support mitigation, adaptation and resilience measures in developing countries.