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Localizing Global Agendas: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development including Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Action

27 September 2016
This presentation examines global climate pacts like the Paris Agreement and Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030. It looks at climate change and disaster risk reduction in the context of the sustainable development goals. Lastly, it underscores the importance of an integrated…

Scaled-up Sustainable Transport in Support of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development

13 September 2016
Learn about the opportunities and responsibilities presented to the transport sector by existing global processes on sustainable development and climate change. This presentation discusses the key global processes targeted by the Partnership on Sustainable, Low Carbon Transport in 2016. It also…

Intended Nationally Determined Contributions and Transport Mitigation Potential

12 September 2016
Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) are climate pledges that countries have made before the Paris Agreement on Climate Change in 2015. Transport-related climate actions were also included in the INDCs. Learn about INDCs of developing countries in Asia particularly greenhouse gas…

Accessing Climate Finance to Support Low-Carbon Actions

12 September 2016
Learn how to use nationally appropriate mitigation actions as instrument to catalyze climate finance. This presentation discusses the role of climate finance to achieve sustainable transport. It also explains how to integrate climate finance into traditional financing for the transport sector.

What Makes Social Protection Systems Adaptive?

6 September 2016
Poor households are more likely to be affected by disasters, and have been found to lose relatively more than non-poor people. Adaptive social protection programs can protect poor households from climate and other shocks.

New Financing Approaches, Instruments and Opportunities that Address the Risks of Loss and Damage

6 September 2016
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the insurance industry has been working with institutional investors in promoting risk modelling beyond insurance. The aim is to offer parametric risk transfer to organizations (e.g., NGOs, development banks, microfinance providers, municipalities…

Risk Transfer Schemes Including Insurance Products and Tools

6 September 2016
Risk transfer schemes can be utilized most efficiently when used as part of comprehensive, needs-based risk management solutions. Forum participants identified the schemes that can help address the losses and damages caused by climate change. The output also enumerates challenges and opportunities…

Disaster Risk Finance Insurance incl. Cat and Resilience Bonds

6 September 2016
No country can fully insulate itself against extreme natural disasters, despite prevention and mitigation efforts. A balanced mix of financing, therefore, is needed.

Experiences of the G7 Climate Risk Insurance Initiative: InsuResilience

6 September 2016
The G7 Climate Risk Insurance Inititative—InsuResilience—aims to increase by up to 400 million the number of poor and vulnerable people who have access to direct or indirect insurance coverage by 2020. To reach this objective, the initiative will boost indirect insurance while developing and…

Social Facets of Climate Risks

6 September 2016
What are the social aspects of the risks of loss and damage, particularly vulnerable countries, populations and the ecosystems they depend upon? In this presentation, Mark New of the African Climate and Development Initiative, University of Cape Town explains the social facets of climate risks.