| Date: | 27.11.2024 |
| Time: | 12:00 - 13:00 |
| Location: | Zoom |
Climate change is a growing concern for humanitarians. It is expected to cause a rapid rise in needs around the world, hitting the most vulnerable groups and communities the hardest. Sufficient climate finance is essential for increasing their resilience against extreme weather events and other harmful impacts that now appear inevitable.
Yet climate finance is more than money. A new CHA research paper argues that its humanitarian relevance depends on the way that needs are identified and resources distributed in the Global South. To fulfil its humanitarian promise, the climate finance system must prioritise the needs of the most vulnerable. More attention must be given to crisis-affected settings with little existing resources or know-how but high exposure to climate risks.
In this “Out of the box” lunch talk, CHA Research Fellow and the paper’s author, Dr. Iida-Maria Tammi, discussed international climate finance with two experts:
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- Sabine Minninger, Policy Advisor on Climate Change at Brot für die Welt
- Dr Gabriela Alberola, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the ClimateFiGS project at the University of Amsterdam and co-author of a UN Women study on gender-responsive climate finance
The speakers analysed the outcomes of COP29 and discussed more generally the challenges and opportunities related to the fair and needs-based allocation of climate funds. Special attention was afforded to fragile and conflict-affected settings.
Language: English.
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