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Programmes

plant-based
Vegan Food
Meatless Monday

Insights from Anuradhapura - dietary changes and shifting climate patterns

Loss and Damage
Risk Transfer
insurance

Strengthening risk management and institutional linkages for climate-resilient agriculture in Horowpothana

Loss and Damage Fund
Climate Finance
Mobilizing Finance

Sixth Meeting of the Board of the Fund for responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD): Operationalizing the Barbados Implementation Modalities

climate impacts
Climate Change
Climate Finance

Frontline and Forgotten: Why Climate Finance Must Fund Health Systems Now

climate communication
Health
Food Systems

Beyond the negotiations: SLYCAN Trust’s Climate Event Hub on the sidelines of SB62

Climate Finance
Mobilizing Finance
Loss and Damage

Unpacking Finance for Loss and Damage: Insights from the ClimaComms Dialogue in Bonn

Climate Finance
Loss and Damage Fund
Loss and Damage

Operationalizing the Fund for responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD)

Inclusion
Inclusive Processes
Indigenous Peoples

The Role of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities in the UNFCCC Process

marine and coastal
Climate Finance
Just Transition

Enhancing Participation and Access to Finance for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities

Disaster risk management
CDRFI
Partnerships and Stakeholder Engagement

Transforming climate resilience through collaborative action

finance
Adaptation
Mitigation

The Nexus of Climate Change, Sovereign Debt, and Climate Finance in Fiji

Disaster risk management
insurance
Loss and Damage

Enhancing Sri Lanka’s tourism sector resilience through climate insurance

Equity
Gendered Implications
Intergenerational

Vulnerable Populations in the Context of Climate Change and Mental Health: Who Suffers Most and Contributing Factors

Climate Policy
Climate Risk
Cross-Border

Scaling Early Action for Disaster Resilience: Insights from the Bhubaneswar Stakeholder Convening

Health
Adaptation
Loss and Damage

Climate Change as a Stressor: Understanding the Mental Health Challenges Associated with Climate Change

Resilience
Adaptation
climate action

The Climate-Mobility Nexus and the Thematic Targets under the Global Goal on Adaptation

Climate-Friendly Food Systems
Evidence Generation
plant-based

Building a More Resilient and Sustainable Food System in Sri Lanka: An Academic Perspective

Adaptation
Climate Risk
Disaster risk management

Building Flood Resilience in Sri Lanka’s Fashion and Apparel Sector: Insights from Biyagama

Climate Mobility
climate impacts
Stakeholder Engagement

Historias De (Im)Movilidad: Experiencias Procedentes De Costa Rica

Technology
Climate Finance
Adaptation

The Climate-Technology-Debt Dilemma: Financing a Sustainable Future

Climate-Friendly Food Systems
Climate Change
Climate Policy

Academic Consultation on National Policy Processes: Strengthening Sri Lanka’s Climate and Agricultural Resilience

ACE
Health
Healthy Lifestyles

Climate 2.0: Navigating Physical and Mental Wellbeing in a Changing Climate

plant-based
Vegan Food
Meatless Monday

An Afternoon at Colombo’s Best Plant-based High Tea!

Resilience
Adaptation
climate action

Negotiating Climate Finance at COP29: The New Collective Quantified Goal and the Way Ahead

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ICII Kathmandu 2024: Insurance as a Risk Transfer Mechanism in Climate Disaster Risk Management

CDRFI
climate communication
climate impacts

Developing compelling narratives for climate communication in inclusive insurance frameworks

Fashion and textile
Communication
Just Transition

How do fashion entrepreneurs preserve the integrity of their products amid ubiquitous greenwashing?

Fashion and textile
Action for Climate Empowerment
CDRFI

Building Climate Resilience in Sri Lanka’s Fashion and Apparel Sector: A Collective Effort

Tourism
Action for Climate Empowerment
CDRFI

The Impact of Climate Change on the Tourism Sector

Climate-Friendly Food Systems
Partnerships
sustainability

SLYCAN Trust celebrates Sri Lanka’s plant-based culinary heritage

CLIMATE CHANGE NEGOTIATIONS
global negotiations
COP29

COP29 Through Negotiators Eyes: Insights from Our Climate Fellows

UNFCCC
Stakeholder Engagement
fellowship

Navigating the Global Goal on Adaptation: Insights from the Negotiation Table

Resilience
Adaptation
Climate Risk

Human Mobility and the Global Goal on Adaptation: Possibilities and Considerations

Resilience
Adaptation
climate action

Climate-Related Human Mobility in Ghana: Stories of Migration

human mobility
Adaptation
Climate Policy

Climate-Related Human Mobility and Local Adaptation Planning: Sectoral Implementation in Senegal

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Climate-Related Human Mobility in Costa Rica: Experiences from the Municipality of Esparza

Adaptation
Climate Mobility
Climate Policy

Climate-Related Human Mobility and Local Adaptation Planning: Provincial Adaptation Plans in Sri Lanka

risk management
Climate Risk
Climate Finance

Local-Level Access to Finance: Key challenges and considerations‍

Agriculture
climate communication
Education

Creative Entrepreneurship in Tackling Climate Change in Jaffna

plant-based
Vegan Food
Meatless Monday

A Plant-Powered Feast at Ranbath Organics with Meatless Monday: A Journey into Sri Lanka’s Plant-Based Cuisine

Resilience
Adaptation
climate action

Evidence-based policy processes: The role of country case studies for highlighting climate-induced human mobility in the UNFCCC policy processes

Resilience
Adaptation
climate action

Climate-Related Loss and Damage and Human Mobility in Ghana: From Evidence to Action

Entrepreneurship
Climate Change
Food Security

‘කන කෑමට මොන දේශගුණයක් ද ? දේශගුණික හා පරිසර හිතකාමී ආහාර පරිභෝජනයේ වැදගත්කම පිළිබඳ කතාබහක්

Communication
climate communication
Youth

Click to impact- Youth Driving Sustainability with Digital Platforms at SLYCAN Trust

plant-based
Vegan Food
Meatless Monday

Savoring Plant-based, Locally Sourced Coffee at Cafe Kumbuk

Vegan Food
plant-based
Meatless Monday

Exploring Ethical Food Systems at Climate 2.0

Youth

Climate change communication and media coverage

Action for Climate Empowerment
Youth
Disaster risk management

Disasters Expo Europe 2024: Climate change, risk management and public awareness

NAPS
National Adaptation Plans
Communication

Ensuring NAP inclusivity via partnerships and multi-stakeholder engagement

Fashion and textile
Action for Climate Empowerment
CDRFI

Understanding the Needs of Local Government in Building Climate Resilience in the Tourism Sector: Insights from Bentota, Sri Lanka

Tourism
Action for Climate Empowerment
CDRFI

Can Sri Lanka's Handloom Weavers Adapt to Rising Heat? A story from Maruthamunai, Ampara

UNFCCC
Stakeholder Engagement
Capacity Building

National Adaptation Plans at the Bonn Climate Change Conference 2024 (SB60)

UNFCCC
Stakeholder Engagement
Capacity Building

Capacity-Building under the UNFCCC: Discussions and Key Outcomes of the Bonn Climate Change Conference 2024 (SB60)

UNFCCC
Stakeholder Engagement
fellowship

The Importance of Youth Perspectives in Climate Change Negotiations: Insights and Anticipations

Resilience
Partnerships
Policy

Marek Szilvasi Appointed as Director: Programmes, SLYCAN Trust

vulnerable communities
Social Ptotection
COP28

The Nexus of Climate Change and Health: The UAE Declaration and the WHA Resolution

Adaptation
climate impacts
Climate Policy

The Nexus of Climate Change and Health: Key UNFCCC agenda items and workstreams

climate impacts
Climate Policy
COP28

The Nexus of Climate Change and Health: Interlinkages and Health in the Climate Negotiations

UNFCCC
Stakeholder Engagement
fellowship

Advancing the Adaptation Agenda: Key Outcomes and Challenges Faced

UNFCCC
Stakeholder Engagement
fellowship

Navigating the Complexities of Global Climate Change Negotiations: A Young Negotiator’s Experience at UNFCCC SB60

UNFCCC
Stakeholder Engagement
fellowship

Navigating Climate Change Adaptation at SB60: Through the eyes of a Pacific Islander

Disaster risk management
CDRFI
Partnerships

Building Resilience through Collaboration: Insights from a Local-Level Tourism Sector Workshop in Galle District

Global Goal on Adaptation
Climate Change Negotiations
UNFCCC

Operationalizing the Global Goal on Adaptation: Insights into the UAE-Belém Work Programme

Disaster risk management
CDRFI
Food Systems

Optimising sustainable finance in agriculture via Public-Private Partnerships

Resilience
EthicalX
Ethical Food Systems

Championing Change Through Collective Resilience-Building: Insights from the EthicalX: Climate & Innovation Hub

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SLYCAN Trust Hosts Session on Gender-responsive and Inclusive Risk Management through Entrepreneurship in National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) during NAP Expo 2024 in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Climate & Innovation Hub
EthicalX

SLYCAN Trust appoints Dulanga Witharanage as Country Director for EthicalX

Sustainable Food Systems
Plant Based Entrepreneurship
Ethical Food Systems

‘At Plant Based Studios, sustainability means doing the right thing’: Sahan Bakmiwewa

CDRFI
insurance
Partnerships

Understanding the climate risk management ecosystem for paddy value chains in Sri Lanka

Climate Finance

Workshop Outcomes: Exploring the Climate Finance and Debt Nexus

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SLYCAN Trust hosts climate and risk financing and preparedness workshop for tourism sector

Climate & Innovation Hub
Climate-Friendly Food Systems
Entrepreneurs

SLYCAN Trust and Jetwing Hotels unveil ‘Plant-based Gastronomy’

Climate Finance
Climate-Friendly Food Systems
Ethical Food Systems

SLYCAN Trust unveils ‘Plant-Based Gastronomy: Tales of Sri Lanka’s Cultural Heritage’

Climate-Friendly Food Systems
Climate & Innovation Hub
Entrepreneurs

EthicalX spearheads Entrepreneurs’ Forum on Innovative and Climate-friendly Food Systems

Climate & Innovation Hub
Economic empowerment
EthicalX

SLYCAN Trust signs MoU with Environment Ministry

Climate Change
human mobility
Migration

Communities on the move

Climate Change
Climate Finance
Loss and Damage

Accessing finance for addressing climate-induced losses and damages

ACE
Action for Climate Empowerment
access to information

Empowerment of youth for long-term climate resilience

Entrepreneurship
risk management
Climate Change

Role of entrepreneurship in climate action

Plastic treaty
Plastic Pollution
global negotiations

Addressing the global plastic problem

Climate Change
Gender
gender empowerment

Achieving gender equality, equity and empowerment

UNFCCC
Climate Change
Loss and Damage

Transitional Committee on new funding arrangements for loss and damage holds its first meeting

Climate Change
Climate Science
Climate Risk

The Urgent need for urgent climate action

Gender
Just Transition
Resilience Building

Gender equitable just transition and economic empowerment

Climate Change
Loss and Damage
non-economic loss and damage

Climate change and non-economic loss and damage

Climate Risk
risk management
Entrepreneurship

Addressing climate and disaster risks in Sri Lanka’s Entrepreneurship

Climate Policy
insurance
Climate Finance

SLYCAN Trust Initiates Second Phase of Multi-Actor Partnerships for Climate and Disaster Risk Management in the Fashion Sector

Climate Policy
insurance
Tourism

Transforming Sri Lanka’s resilience in climate and disaster risk management

Adaptation
GGA
Global Goal on Adaptation

Dinner Dialogue on African Perspectives on the Global Goal on Adaptation

Entrepreneurship
Plant Based Entrepreneurship
innovation

Championing climate action via food entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship
innovation
MSMEs

“Cruelty-free production is a big part of my story”: Sajee Seneviratne‍

Entrepreneurship
innovation
MSMEs

SLYCAN Trust & EthicalX Launches Partnership with CLIMAFUGE

Loss and Damage
climate impacts
disasters

Towards funding arrangements and a global fund for loss and damage

Loss and Damage
climate impacts
disasters

Loss and damage and transboundary adaptation in the context of climate change

Entrepreneurship
Waste Management
EthicalX

‘Fashion is one ofthe largest environmental polluters out there’: Ruwanthi Gajadeera

Resilience
Adaptation
risk management

Climate Change and Human Mobility in Africa: The African Union’s Approach

Resilience
Adaptation
risk management

The Multifaceted Nature of Migration in Africa: Impacts, Policies, and Perspectives

climate impacts
vulnerable communities
human mobility

Pertes de dommages, mobilité humaine au cœur du partenariat entre SLYCAN Trust et le CNEDD du Niger

human mobility
mobilité humaine
changement climatique

Partage d’expériences sur les pertes et les dommages dûs au changement climatique

Entrepreneurship

Les perspectives régionales, les partenariats pour des villes et des communautés durables et résilientes grâce à des approches innovantes, entrepreneuriat et la relance verte au Niger

Health
Food

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Health
Food

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Health
Food

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Health
Food

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