Case Study: The Nexus of Climate Change, Sovereign Debt, and Climate Finance in Ghana

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Key sectors of Ghana's economy and society are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, which are already causing significant loss and damage (L&D). At the same time, the country faces macroeconomic challenges that include a rising fiscal deficit and unsustainable debt. This case study illustrates the complex nexus of climate change, sovereign debt, and the global financial architecture, posing unique challenges for climate-vulnerable developing countries. On one hand, there is a need to invest in climate change adaptation and long-term resilience-building without adding to the existing debt burden and economic challenges; on the other hand, new and additional finance is also required to respond to climate-induced L&D that could otherwise lead to emergency borrowing when costs exceed available domestic budgets. The impacts of climate change on Ghana can become drivers of new debt, and existing debt can slow down or prevent ambitious climate action and resilience-building. To prevent a vicious cycle, it is crucial to understand these dynamics at the national as well as global level. Non-debt-inducing finance as well as innovative financial instruments and frameworks are necessary to effectively address climate change in developing countries and ensure key principles such as equity, justice, and common but differentiated responsibilities (CBDR). As a climate-vulnerable developing country now exiting its 2022 selective debt default, Ghana provides a real-life case study on challenges, dimensions, and solution pathways.

SLYCAN Trust Newsletter - September 2024 - Managing Climate Risks Across Sectors: Fashion, Food Systems, and Health

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Welcome to the latest edition of our newsletter, where we highlight some of our recent work on climate risks across key sectors, such as fashion, food systems, and health. As the impacts of climate change intensify, these sectors face new challenges, but also opportunities to adapt, innovate, and build long-term resilience. Our latest updates explore these opportunities with a focus on supporting vulnerable communities and driving systemic change. We hope you enjoying reading.

Summary Report: Sectoral Inception Workshop on Climate and Disaster Risk Management and Finance in Sri Lanka’s Fashion Sector

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Summary Report: Thematic Dialogue on Public-Private Partnerships for Optimising Sustainable Financing in the Agriculture Sector

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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.‍

Discussion Brief: Climate Change and Sovereign Debt

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The intersection of escalating debt burdens and intensifying climate change impacts creates significant challenges, particularly for developing countries of the Global South which have to service existing debt obligations while addressing urgent climate-related issues, which constrains fiscal space and impedes resilience-building efforts. Finding solutions to these challenges will be pivotal to achieving sustainable development, effectively adapting to climate change, and addressing climate-induced loss and damage (L&D). Within this context, SLYCAN Trust actively engages with key stakeholders to scale up research and build capacities surrounding debt sustainability and climate policy processes. This includes the hosting of a fully hybrid workshop on February 7th, 2024, in London. The event was attended by a diverse array of participants from more than twenty countries, including UNFCCC negotiators and government representatives, academia and think tanks, the private sector, civil society organisations, lawyers, and philanthropic organisations. This discussion brief summarizes the main areas of discussion as well as key inputs and takeaways from this event and will feed into the larger knowledge outputs of SLYCAN Trust's work programme on climate change, sovereign debt, and the global financial system.

Briefing Note: Human Mobility in National Adaptation Plans (updated version)

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Human mobility increasingly takes place in the context of climate change. Accordingly, climate action and policy processes need to incorporate human mobility and acknowledge the different ways in which it can become relevant: as an adaptation strategy, as an obstacle to long-term resilience, as maladaptation, or as a form of climate-induced loss and damage (L&D).

Scoping Paper: Understanding the Intersection of Sovereign Debt, Climate Finance, and Loss and Damage

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Sovereign debt is a fundamental financial aspect for governments and a readily used tool to facilitate development processes. As countries grapple with the challenges of climate change, the reliance on external debt to fund climate initiatives increases. However, this can become a double-edged sword when unsustainable debt levels hinder investments in climate resilience.

Case Study Brief: Climate-Induced Loss and Damage and Cultural Loss in Maldives

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The impacts of climate change, in particular slow-onset events such as sea level rise and ocean acidification, cause mounting economic and non-economic losses and damages to Maldives, even at the current level of warming. Sea level rise connected to climate change has caused land loss due to coastal erosion and inundation in islands across Maldives, making it one of the most severe climate impacts the country continues to face. All inhabited islands in Maldives are reporting coastal erosion. Homes and critical infrastructure are near the coastline due to the small size of the islands, exposing them to erosion and other coastal hazards.

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.

Primer: Landslide Risk, Human Mobility, and Climate-Induced Loss and Damage in Sri Lanka

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The rising frequency and intensity of disasters and other impacts related to climate change, including landslides, pose a significant challenge to countries and communities around the world. Sri Lanka, a tropical South Asian island nation, is particularly vulnerable to landslides due to its geographical and topographical characteristics.

Research Report: Strengthening Sri Lanka's Ecosystem for Climate and Disaster Risk Management and Finance

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Climate change increasingly shapes a complex landscape of compound, cascading, and covariate risks that affects all economic and societal sectors, including food systems, rural livelihoods, settlements, infrastructure, tourism, and trade. Particularly for climate-vulnerable developing countries such as Sri Lanka, it is vital to identify and manage these risks through accessible, proactive, anticipatory, and evidence-based approaches that can protect development gains as well as human lives, livelihoods, wellbeing, and prosperity.

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).

Information Brief: Climate-Induced Loss and Damage and the Global Stocktake

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The loss and damage (L&D) theme needs to be explicitly included in the GST as a fourth pillar. Although L&D has been discussed since the drafting of the UNFCCC in 1991, it still needs to progress on climate negotiations and financial support adequately. Three decades later, the GST presents a unique opportunity to highlight on a collective level the gaps, needs, and challenges to averting, minimizing, and addressing L&D towards 2030. Worldwide, evidence-based decisions on L&D are critical to allocating the increasing means of implementation (finance, technology transfer, and capacity building) required in a warming future. This publication has been developed as part of SLYCAN Trust's work programme on loss and damage and the global climate change fellowship programme..

Human Mobility in National Adaptation Plans

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Human mobility increasingly takes place in the context of climate change. Accordingly, climate action and policy processes need to incorporate human mobility and acknowledge the different ways in which it can become relevant: as an adaptation strategy, as an obstacle to long-term resilience, as maladaptation, or as a form of climate-induced loss and damage (L&D).

Enhancing Innovative Climate Risk Transfer and Agricultural Insurance Mechanisms in Sri Lanka

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Climate change impacts are already felt across many vulnerable developing countries and are projected to have particularly devastating effects on economies and people relying heavily on agriculture and natural resources. In Sri Lanka, the impacts of climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the current economic difficulties have highlighted the need for enhancing existing risk management and protection systems, including robust risk transfer solutions. Risk transfer instruments such as insurance mechanisms can be part of an effective and comprehensive climate risk management framework for countries and regions and can help to protect and build the resilience of individuals, households, communities, and economic sectors. This paper provides an overview of the enabling environment for agricultural risk transfer in Sri Lanka and identifies potential ways to increase insurance market penetration for smallholder farmers in the country, particularly related to legal and regulatory frameworks and the potential introduction of new and innovative insurance products.

The Farmer's Perspective: Climate Risk and Risk Management in Sri Lanka's Agriculture Sector

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Sri Lanka’s food systems revolve around the production of rice as a main staple crop. In addition, fruits and vegetables, grains, meat, fish, and dairy are also important sources of food security. 27.1% of the country's total population engages in agricultural activities, and agriculture accounted for 7.4% of total GDP in 2020.

Addressing Climate and Disaster Risk in Sri Lanka: Crop Insurance Schemes

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Since 1958, the Government of Sri Lanka has invested in crop insurance schemes. This was initiated with a pilot project in selected areas and later expanded to several nationwide agricultural insurance schemes. Initially managed by the Crop Insurance Board, these schemes are now overseen by the Agriculture and Agrarian Insurance Board (AAIB) as well as the NationalInsurance Trust Fund (NITF), which has been contributing to crop insurance fund maintenance since its establishment under the National Insurance Trust Fund Act in 2006.

SLYCAN Trust Research Newsletter 1/2022 - Climate Change and Human Mobility

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Climate-related human mobility is an increasingly important topic on the local, national, and global level, including in the UNFCCC process. It takes many forms, such as internal environmental migration, disaster displacement, climate-driven labour migration, planned relocation, seasonal agricultural migration, permanent exodus from rural areas, transboundary pastoralist movements, trapped populations, and voluntary immobility. Human mobility affects millions of people around the world, including those who move, their family members, the communities they leave behind, and host populations taking in climate migrants and the displaced. It connects to different sectors as well as cross-cutting considerations such as gender, youth, the informal sector, social protection, and just transition, rendering it a complex thematic area that needs to be addressed with holistic, equitable, participatory, intersectional, and transdisciplinary approaches.

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.

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.

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

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A country profile to support an inclusive, participatory, evidence-based, and gender-responsive National Adaptation Plan process in Chad. 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 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 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.

Linking Agroforestry Systems to Climate Action and Sustainable Development

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Agroforestry systems present an integrated solution to climate change, biodiversity loss, environmental degradation, and the need for poverty reduction, universal food security, and sustainable development.

SLYCAN Trust Research Newsletter 1/2021

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Climate resilience encompasses a multitude of dimensions, perspectives, and insights. Resilient people and livelihoods, resilient economies, and resilient natural systems are vital pieces of a larger puzzle that must be solved if humanity is to move toward a brighter future

Climate Risk Management and Finance in Sri Lanka

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Climate risk and climate-induced loss and damage pose severe threats to Sri Lanka's agriculture sector and its rural population. Under the project "Multi-Actor Partnership on Climate and Disaster Risk Financing and Preparedness in the Context of the InsuResilience Global Partnership," SLYCAN Trust is engaging with key actors and stakeholders to conduct research and build capacities for risk management, risk transfer, and risk finance. This discussion brief provides a summary of some findings from this process.

Household Profiles and Resilience Indicators for Climate Risk Transfer in Sri Lanka

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Implementation of NDCs for Renewable Energy in Sri Lanka

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The South Asian region and its economic development are highly dependent on the energy sector. To ensure that development is sustainable, it is important that the actions taken to enhance and improve the energy sector are based on renewable energy sources, include regional cooperation, and contribute to collective development through sharing of resources. This research report focuses on identifying gaps in policies and regulations in Sri Lanka to implement the country's Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) for renewable energy, with a primary focus on solar and wind energy.

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.

Working Paper: Climate Change and Human Mobility - Impacts and Actions Across Sectors

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Climate change affects human mobility, livelihoods, and well-being across different sectors, including water resources and irrigation, human health, ecosystems and biodiversity, risk management, food systems, sustainable development, education, human settlements, gender, vulnerable communities, and social protection. Moreover, these sectors are intricately linked to local, national, regional, and global processes, including the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement and the Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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.

Interview with Dr. Punyawardena - Food Security, Climate & Disaster Risk Management - World Food Day 2020

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Interview with Prof. Marambe - Agriculture, impacts of climate change and food security - World Food Day 2020

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Sri Lanka's Livestock Sector and Climate Change

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Sri Lanka's livestock sector plays an important role for food and nutritional security; climate change; sustainable consumption, production, and development; rural livelihoods; human health; animal welfare; and the environment. It is vital to integrate the livestock sector into Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), National Adaptation Plans (NAPs), and policies to increase resilience, food security, and rural livelihoods while minimizing adverse impacts.

Sustainable Development Goals and Localised Indicator Development

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Localization of Sustainable Development Goals

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Although the SDGs are built on the experience and lessons learned from the Millennium Development Goals, the scope of the 2030 agenda is far broader than the MDGs. The 2030 Agenda provides a framework for collective action to be implemented by all countries and all stakeholders, acting in collaborative partnership.

Regional Workshop on Identifying and Addressing Policy Gaps and Needs for Climate Action and Achieving Sustainable Development

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On September 17th and 18th, the Climate Change Secretariat of the Ministry of Mahaweli Development and Environment, SLYCAN Trust, Prakriti Resources Centre, ICCCAD, and the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research organised a two day regional stakeholder workshop at Galle Face Hotel, Colombo. The workshop focused on addressing policy gaps and needs in the implementation of National Determined Contributions (NDCs) at the national and regional level. It also focused on building synergies between NDCs, National Adaptation Plan (NAP) processes, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.

Integration of SDGs, the Sendai Framework, DRR, and NDCs for Effective Developmental Planning

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