Scoping Paper: The Role of Technology for Climate Change, Sovereign Debt, and Finance

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In the global effort to address climate change, technology represents a source of innovation that can provide effective solutions to urgent challenges. Climate technology encompasses several key functions that each play a crucial role for mitigating emissions, enhancing resilience, and promoting sustainable development across different sectors, including renewable energy, energy efficiency, transportation, infrastructure ,and sustainable agriculture. As part of SLYCAN Trust’s series of thematic modules on climate change, sovereign debt, and the global financial system, this scoping paper provides an introduction into technology under the UNFCCC process, the role of national actors and systems of innovation, and the nexus of climate technology, finance, and debt.This knowledge product was drafted by Thibyan Ibrahim with support from SLYCAN Trust’s research & knowledge management division.

Technical Briefing: Understanding the Global Goal on Adaptation

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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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SLYCAN Trust

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.

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

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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).

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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