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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.

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…

What are the Limitations of the Existing Financial Instruments to Address the Risks of Loss and Damage and What Could Be Other Options/Solutions Considering the Best Practices Around?

6 September 2016
Forum participants enumerated the limitations of existing financial instruments, which include, among others, a lack of accessible and adequate data and a common understanding about how to characterize loss and damage. Contingency funds are also mostly loan-based. To address these limitations, they…

What is the Role and Importance of Enabling Environments (e.g. Policies/Strategies, Institutions, Capacity) to Effectively Apply Financial Instruments to Address the Risks of Loss and Damage?

6 September 2016
Forum participants identified the major stakeholders of financial instruments that address loss and damage. They also discussed strategies and options that can be taken to create an enabling environment for financial instruments.

European Union's Experiences in Policy, Funding and Financing Instruments Addressing Loss and Damage

6 September 2016
The European adaptation strategy deals with adaptation and resilience. Financial instruments are part of the whole package, while research and innovative approaches are considered to close existing knowledge gap.

Outcomes of the Break-out Groups

6 September 2016
Forum participants enumerated the limitations of existing financial instruments, which include, among others, a lack of accessible and adequate data and a common understanding about how to characterize loss and damage. They also discussed strategies and options that can be taken to create an…

Making Risk Finance an Integral Synergizing Element of Comprehensive Risk Management: Philippines’ Experience

6 September 2016
Enhancing the comprehensive risk management (CRM) is key to addressing loss and damage associated with climate change impacts. As a part of CRM, risk finance such as insurance should be designed in a way that creates synergy with risk control. To that end, building incentive mechanisms for risk…

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.