The Nexus of Climate Change and Health

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Climate change can be seen as “the greatest global health threat facing the world in the 21st century.” With public health systems already operating under extreme weather conditions and climate impacts intensifying across the globe, the climate crisis has increasingly become a health crisis with a multitude of implications.

SLYCAN Trust Youth Newsletter - Empowering Youth for Climate Action: SLYCAN Trust Youth Team's Quarterly Recap

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As we transition into a new month in 2024, here’s a quick recap of the SLYCAN Trust Youth team's recent efforts during the last three months to engage youth more effectively and build their capacity within the climate action space.

SLYCAN Trust Newsletter January - February 2024 - Promoting Ethical and Sustainable Entrepreneurship

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SLYCAN Trust is happy to share with you our latest updates regarding our work on climate change, sustainable development, adaptation, resilience, just transition, social justice, and ethical and climate-friendly entrepreneurship. We thank all those who contributed to this newsletter, and appreciate your continued engagement, and inputs to make our newsletter a better one.‍

Information Brief: Enhancing Inclusion and Youth Engagement in Work Related to the Global Goal on Adaptation

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The Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA) was established in the Paris Agreement under Article 7 as an aspirational goal that is currently in the process of being operationalized. Throughout the Glasgow-Sharm el-Sheikh work programme, the need to consider gender equality and social inclusion has regularly surfaced in the GGA discussions as an important aspect to be embedded in the GGA framework.

Background Note - Interfacing the Global Goal on Adaptation with Other Processes and Finding Convergence

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The Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA) is an aspirational goal established under the Paris Agreement amidst concerns about the accelerating pace of climate change and the inappropriate scale and speed of current adaptation efforts. The GGA aims to enhance adaptive capacity, enhance resilience, and reduce vulnerability to the impacts of climate change with the view to contributing to sustainable development and ensuring a suitable response to adaptation, while also aligning with the mitigation goal of limiting the increase in global average temperature to well below 2 or 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels (Paris Agreement Article 7.1).

Background Note on Operationalizing the Global Goal on Adaptation

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This background note was jointly produced by Legal Response Initiative (LRI) and SLYCAN Trust to provide an overview of the Global Goal on Adaptation, the GGA work programme, and questions of adaptation finance, climate risk, and principles-based approaches.

Climate Change and Human Mobility in Sri Lanka: Climate Impacts on Labour Migration

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This policy brief provides an overview on climate change and labour migration in Sri Lanka, including trends of foreign employment, the role of remittances, gender aspects, the enabling environment, and a detailed case study on Sri Lankan labour migration to Kuwait.

Animals and Disaster Management in Sri Lanka

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Sri Lanka is vulnerable to the impacts of climate-related disasters, including floods, droughts, or storms. Such extreme weather events threaten not only human lives, livelihoods, and infrastructure, but also the lives and wellbeing of animals. This policy brief offers a starting point by outlining the relevant provisions in the current national disaster management framework and listing key needs related to animals that should be addressed before, during, and after disasters.

Integrating Human Mobility into Nationally Determined Contributions and National Adaptation Plans

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Climate change increasingly influences and shapes the patterns of human mobility across the world. From internal or international migration to disaster displacement and planned relocation, the impacts of climate change create new push and pull factors, exacerbate underlying vulnerabilities, and alter the interaction of aspirations, perceived opportunities, and decision-making related to human mobility. With regard to the integration of human mobility considerations into climate policies and processes, it is therefore critical to understand the context and multi-causal, multi-directional nature of these linkages between different forms of mobility and different impacts of climate change. This scoping paper aims to identify key aspects, elements, and considerations for enhancing the integration of safe and orderly human mobility into Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), National Adaptation Plans (NAP), and other climate-related policies, processes, and documents.

Youth Engagement and Capacity-Building on Climate Change Adaptation in Ghana

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Ghana's young and growing population offers challenges but also opportunities that will shape Ghana's development into the future, including efforts on climate change adaptation, resilience-building, and risk management. Among the key challenges are gaps in climate awareness and education, technical expertise, finance and support, and the enabling environment, including a high rate of youth unemployment.

Integrating Heat Stress Management into Climate Policies and Guidelines for Gender-Sensitive Heat Adaptation Plans in Sri Lanka

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Anthropogenic climate change is set to make heat stress more widespread and severe across the world, with South Asia identified as a critical hotspot.

The Role of CSOs for Scaling Up National and Regional Actions to Address Climate-Induced Loss & Damage

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Climate change affects livelihoods, lives, societies, and natural ecosystems in ways that exceed the limits of adaptation and overwhelm the coping capacities of vulnerable communities, groups, and countries. Treating loss & damage (L&D) as the third pillar of the Paris Agreement besides mitigation and adaptation is a key challenge for COP27 and beyond. It is important that all stakeholders push for enhanced recognition of L&D in negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and commitments for tangible support including in the form of new and additional funding for L&D, technical assistance, knowledge-sharing, and technology transfer.

Key CSO-Led Actions and Recommendations for Addressing Adaptation Needs and Building Resilience

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As climate change affects societies, economies, and the environment, adaptation is becoming increasingly vital, particularly countries, groups, or communities highly vulnerable to climate change impacts. In addition to ambitious mitigation action, concrete support for adaptation is needed at scale and on all levels to address adverse climate impacts. Scaling up adaptation support and establishing a Global Goal on Adaptation as outlined in Article 7 of the Paris Agreement should therefore be a priority in negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and strengthened at all levels in- and outside the UNFCCC system

Key Asks and Civil Society Goals for COP26: Climate Finance

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This position paper outlines key asks and civil society goals on climate finance under the UNFCCC process, which have been gathered from representatives of developing countries and civil society through stakeholder consultations as well as desk research.

Key Asks and Civil Society Goals for COP26: Loss & Damage

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This position paper outlines key asks and civil society goals on loss & damage in the UNFCCC process, which have been gathered from representatives of developing countries and civil society through stakeholder consultations as well as desk research.

Key Asks and Civil Society Goals for COP26: Adaptation

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This position paper outlines key asks and civil society goals on climate change adaptation and adaptation finance in the UNFCCC process, which have been gathered from representatives of developing countries and civil society through stakeholder consultations as well as desk research.

Summary Brief: Entry Points for the Formulation of a National Adaptation Plan in Mozambique

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A summarized four-page version of key research findings from the country profile on Mozambique's national adaptation planning and NAP process. It analyzes the country context, climate change impacts, policies and processes, the institutional setup, development plans and priorities, coordination mechanisms, M&E, climate finance, and other key aspects related to adaptation planning and action. In addition, the profile identifies eight clusters of entry points for mainstreaming adaptation into other national and international processes, presenting an opportunity to support an inclusive and participatory NAP process that aligns with economic priorities and risks for adaptation actions, avoids duplication of efforts, and streamlines climate finance to integrate climate and development planning into a multi-stakeholder driven process.

Country Profile: Entry Points for the Formulation of a National Adaptation Plan in Mozambique

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A country profile to support an inclusive, participatory, evidence-based, and gender-responsive National Adaptation Plan process in Mozambique. It analyzes the country context, climate change impacts, policies and processes, the institutional setup, development plans and priorities, coordination mechanisms, M&E, climate finance, and other key aspects related to adaptation planning and action. In addition, the profile identifies seven clusters of entry points for mainstreaming adaptation into other national and international processes, presenting an opportunity to support an inclusive and participatory NAP process that aligns with economic priorities and risks for adaptation actions, avoids duplication of efforts, and streamlines climate finance to integrate climate and development planning into a multi-stakeholder driven process.

Summary Brief: Entry Points for the Formulation of a National Adaptation Plan in Malawi

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A summarized four-page version of key research findings from the country profile on Malawi's national adaptation planning and NAP process. It analyzes the country context, climate change impacts, policies and processes, the institutional setup, development plans and priorities, coordination mechanisms, M&E, climate finance, and other key aspects related to adaptation planning and action. In addition, the profile identifies eight clusters of entry points for mainstreaming adaptation into other national and international processes, presenting an opportunity to support an inclusive and participatory NAP process that aligns with economic priorities and risks for adaptation actions, avoids duplication of efforts, and streamlines climate finance to integrate climate and development planning into a multi-stakeholder driven process.

Country Profile: Entry Points for the Formulation of a National Adaptation Plan in Malawi

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A country profile to support an inclusive, participatory, evidence-based, and gender-responsive National Adaptation Plan process in Malawi. It analyzes the country context, climate change impacts, policies and processes, the institutional setup, development plans and priorities, coordination mechanisms, M&E, climate finance, and other key aspects related to adaptation planning and action. In addition, the profile identifies eight clusters of entry points for mainstreaming adaptation into other national and international processes, presenting an opportunity to support an inclusive and participatory NAP process that aligns with economic priorities and risks for adaptation actions, avoids duplication of efforts, and streamlines climate finance to integrate climate and development planning into a multi-stakeholder driven process.

Special Newsletter Issue: Focus on Food Systems

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Food systems are one of the most fundamental elements of human communities, societies, and economies, forming complex webs of food producers, supply and value chains, markets, and consumers. They are deeply interlinked with the defining global challenges of today: climate change, biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation, sustainable development and the eradication of poverty, and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Youth Engagement in Sri Lanka's Food Systems

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Food systems form complex webs of food production, supply, and value chain activities that play an integral part for food security and livelihoods of people across the globe. Youth are a key stakeholder group who rely upon the sustainability and stability of food systems for their health, wellbeing, nutrition, development, and livelihoods while also having the potential to engage and facilitate food system transformation. Youth have the power to change consumption and production patterns in a positive or negative direction. Therefore, youth engagement to find a way forward to build resilient food systems is paramount to ensure the health and well-being of the planet and of generations to come.

Working Paper: Addressing Climate and Disaster Risk through Inclusive and Participatory Mechanisms

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Policy gaps and needs analysis for the implementation of NDCs on adaptation and loss and damage in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka

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The Paris Agreement requires Parties to prepare, communicate, and maintain successive Nationally Determined Contributions. Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka have submitted their NDCs with different sectors covering mitigation, adaptation, and loss and damage. However, these three countries face different gaps and needs for the implementation of these commitments, such as those related to laws and policies, institutional and technical capacity, or means of implementation. This research identifies gaps and needs for the implementation of adaptation and loss and damage components of NDCs in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka as the result of legal and policy analysis, expert interviews, small group consultations, and national and regional multi-stakeholder workshops.

Issues Paper: Challenges and Opportunities for a Just Transition

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Issues of just transition should be a core component of climate action, sustainable development, and the transformation of societies and economies. This paper outlines key challenges and opportunities for a just transition in the energy and food sector as well as several cross-cutting topics, including gender, youth, social inclusion and protection, and a just COVID-19 recovery.

Policy Brief: Civil Society Engagement in the NDC Review Process

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Civil Society Organisations are a key stakeholder in national and international climate processes. They play a crucial role in contributing to bringing ground-level vulnerabilities into decision-making processes, providing technical support and research, advocating for ambitious action, creating awareness, building capacities, and enhancing resilience of the most vulnerable populations. To ensure that CSOs engage in a consistent and regular manner and enable them to contribute constructively to the NDC review and other climate-related processes, this policy brief identifies a number of key gaps, needs, challenges, and recommendations.

Summary Brief: Entry Points for the Formulation of a National Adaptation Plan in Uganda

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A summarized four-page version of the key research findings from the country profile on Uganda's National Adaptation Plan process. Includes the country context, focus sectors, development priorities, key adaptation needs and policies, and six identified entry points. This research product was developed by Southern Voices on Adaptation in partnership with EMLI as national implementing partner and SLYCAN Trust as technical partner.

Country Profile: Entry Points for the Formulation of a National Adaptation Plan in Uganda

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A country profile to support an inclusive, participatory, evidence-based, and gender-responsive National Adaptation Plan process in Uganda. It analyzes the country context, climate change impacts, policies and processes, the institutional setup, development plans and priorities, coordination mechanisms, M&E, climate finance, and other key aspects related to adaptation planning and action. In addition, the profile identifies six entry points to connect Uganda's NAP process to other national and international processes, presenting an opportunity to support an inclusive and participatory NAP process that aligns with economic priorities and risks for adaptation actions, avoids duplication of efforts, and streamlines climate finance to integrate climate and development planning into a multi-stakeholder driven process. This research product was developed by Southern Voices on Adaptation in partnership with EMLI as national implementing partner and SLYCAN Trust as technical partner.

Summary Brief: Entry Points for the Formulation of a National Adaptation Plan in Tanzania

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A summarized four-page version of the key research findings from the country profile on Tanzania's National Adaptation Plan process. Includes the country context, focus sectors, development priorities, key adaptation needs and policies, and nine identified entry points. This research product was developed by Southern Voices on Adaptation in partnership with FORUMCC as national implementing partner and SLYCAN Trust as technical partner.

Country Profile: Entry Points for the Formulation of a National Adaptation Plan in Tanzania

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A country profile to support an inclusive, participatory, evidence-based, and gender-responsive National Adaptation Plan process in Tanzania. It analyzes the country context, climate change impacts, policies and processes, the institutional setup, development plans and priorities, coordination mechanisms, M&E, climate finance, and other key aspects related to adaptation planning and action. In addition, the profile identifies nine entry points to connect Tanzania's NAP process to other national and international processes, presenting an opportunity to support an inclusive and participatory NAP process that aligns with economic priorities and risks for adaptation actions, avoids duplication of efforts, and streamlines climate finance to integrate climate and development planning into a multi-stakeholder driven process. This research product was developed by Southern Voices on Adaptation in partnership with FORUMCC as national implementing partner and SLYCAN Trust as technical partner.

Summary Brief: Entry Points for the Formulation of a National Adaptation Plan in Niger

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A summarized four-page version of the key research findings from the country profile on Niger's National Adaptation Plan process. Includes the country context, focus sectors, development priorities, key adaptation needs and policies, and four identified entry points. This research product was developed by Southern Voices on Adaptation in partnership with National Platform for CSO on CC and Sustainable Development as national implementing partner and SLYCAN Trust as technical partner.

Country Profile: Entry Points for the Formulation of a National Adaptation Plan in Niger

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A country profile to support an inclusive, participatory, evidence-based, and gender-responsive National Adaptation Plan process in Niger. It analyzes the country context, climate change impacts, policies and processes, the institutional setup, development plans and priorities, coordination mechanisms, M&E, climate finance, and other key aspects related to adaptation planning and action. In addition, the profile identifies four entry points to connect Niger's NAP process to other national and international processes, presenting an opportunity to support an inclusive and participatory NAP process that aligns with economic priorities and risks for adaptation actions, avoids duplication of efforts, and streamlines climate finance to integrate climate and development planning into a multi-stakeholder driven process. This research product was developed by Southern Voices on Adaptation in partnership with National Platform for CSO on CC and Sustainable Development as national implementing partner and SLYCAN Trust as technical partner.