The Secretary-General joined climate finance advisers and technical experts from the Commonwealth Climate Finance Access Hub in a virtual meeting to mark the success of recent applications in Tonga and Antigua and Barbuda.
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Commonwealth countries celebrating successful applications for climate funding, following support from Secretariat
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The Commonwealth has signed a new agreement with NDC Partnership to support Zambia and Belize with their climate action plans.
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Commonwealth to support Zambia and Belize to enhance climate action
The Commonwealth Climate Finance Access Hub has helped Tonga secure a grant of over $1.6 million USD from the Green Climate Fund to help the country adapt to climate change.
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Commonwealth helps Tonga become first Pacific Island to receive adaptation planning grant
The Commonwealth Climate Finance Access Hub has supported Mauritius to secure a €600,000 grant to help smallholder farmers adapt to the changing climate in Mauritius.
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Commonwealth support secures grant to help Mauritian farmers adapt to changing climate
The Commonwealth Climate Finance Access Hub has successfully helped Jamaica to secure a grant of over US$270,000 to integrate gender concerns into their climate action planning process.
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Commonwealth helps Jamaica secure grant to promote gender responsive climate action
The tranquil waters and palm-lined beaches in Barbados mask a rising threat. That this same water can engulf and endanger all if ample action is not taken.
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Drought-hit Barbados aims for one million trees to mitigate climate impact
Climate change will be high on the agenda when Commonwealth Heads of Government meet in Rwanda this year - more than three decades after their predecessors recognised the threat and drew up a visionary action plan to avert the crisis.
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Commonwealth commitment to environment has deep roots
The Secretary-General will reassure Caribbean leaders that the Commonwealth will keep fighting for bold climate action on the global stage.
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Secretary-General will attend CARICOM summit in Barbados to spur speedy climate action
The Commonwealth Climate Finance Access Hub has successfully helped Tonga to secure a grant from the Green Climate Fund to reform the country’s solar electricity body.
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Tonga secures nearly $500k grant to improve solar electricity generation
Cyclones in the Caribbean and Pacific, devastating bushfires in Australia, recurrent floods and droughts in Asia and Africa, increasingly bring tragic loss of life to our nations and communities, causing irreparable damage to centuries old ways of life.
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Extreme Events Are Reversing Development Goals
The Commonwealth Secretary-General has called for raised ambitions and intensified climate action in light of sobering reports by the world’s top climate scientists.
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More ambition needed to avert climate crisis
One of Seychelles’ youngest executives is calling for countries to put more trust in young people as leaders on climate change issues.
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Young CEO empowers women, youth in climate fight
2 December 2019 to 13 December 2019
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Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland will be leading a delegation to the UN Climate Change Conference, COP25 to be held in Madrid, Spain, from 2 to 13 December.
One of Sri Lanka’s most widely-acclaimed artists has a message for young people in the Commonwealth: “move together” in the fight against climate change.
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Sri Lankan artist sounds climate alarm in new paintings
In an increasingly changing environment and warming climate which threatens the very existence of mankind, good data and information on exactly what is happening has never been more important.
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Blog: Leading the fight from above: Space technologies for enhanced climate action
The Commonwealth has entered into an innovative partnership with a UN agency to enhance climate action and disaster preparedness via satellite earth observation.
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Commonwealth enters new partnership to enhance climate action in small states
The Commonwealth Climate Finance Access Hub has helped Tonga secure a grant to put the country on the path towards low carbon emissions and climate-resilient development. The Green Climate Fund grant will pay for a two-year ‘readiness programme’ preparing Tonga’s National Designated Authority to better engage with the Green Climate Fund and manage activities sponsored by the fund in the country.
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Tonga receives $500,000 climate readiness grant from Green Climate Fund with Commonwealth support
An increasingly important aspect of Commonwealth cooperation to fulfil our collective commitment to sustainable development is our work on halting - and wherever possible - reversing the very severe desertification and degradation which occurs when land is used carelessly or too intensively.
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Blog: Commonwealth nations are cooperating to reverse land degradation and desertification
“We are in trouble. We are in deep trouble with climate change. Climate change is running faster than we are and we must catch up sooner rather than later, before it is too late”. United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres at UNFCCC, COP 24
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Blog: Leading the fight from above: Space technologies for enhanced climate action
The Secretary-General has expressed solidarity with the people of The Bahamas in a visit to the islands of Abaco and Grand Bahama which were hit by Hurricane Dorian last month.
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Secretary-General vows to help The Bahamas on climate crisis during visit to hurricane hit islands
The Commonwealth has helped Jamaica secure a grant to assist it towards establishing the first ever Caribbean green bond. The grant, valued at over $500,000, will pay for a ‘readiness initiative’ involving an analysis of the development and operation of a green bond market and the creation of regional green bond guidelines in accordance with international standards.
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Commonwealth helps Jamaica secure $500,000 climate grant
The Commonwealth has launched a regenerative climate change model that marries the ancient wisdom of indigenous groups with emerging innovations, technologies and scientific approaches. Common Earth, is the programme that will create a network of projects that could be replicated and adapted to any community, country or region.
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Game on! Commonwealth steps up battle on climate change with regenerative solutions model
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The all day event will be held at Marlborough House, London on Thursday 3 October. Convened by the Commonwealth and its implementation partner on regenerative development, the Cloudburst Foundation, it will be the official launch of Common Earth - an international consortium aimed at collectively creating and harnessing strategies to restore the damage caused by climate change and achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
World-renowned environmentalists, scientists, climate change experts and indigenous groups will meet on October 3 in London to create a roadmap for pioneering, country-led solutions to climate change. The event, convened by the Commonwealth and its implementation partner on regenerative development, the Cloudburst Foundation, will officially launch Common Earth.
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Global experts to create regenerative climate action roadmap
A 14-strong international panel working to accelerate action for ocean protection features seven Commonwealth member countries.
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Commonwealth countries taking lead on ocean-based climate action