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The Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Ruffe, whose nation hosted the Climate Adaptation Summit 2021, was one of many leaders to advance critical shifts toward adaptation. Photo by EU2016 SK/Flickr
The Netherlands hosted the Climate Adaptation Summit (CAS) 2021, marking the first time world leaders gathered at a global event focused solely on adaptation and resilience. As a platform for new commitments and renewed affirmations, CAS served as a key steppingstone to other major climate events throughout 2021, including November’s COP26 in Glasgow.
The summit came at a time as climate impacts are accelerating around the world, disproportionately affecting vulnerable communities. In the last two decades, natural disasters linked to extreme weather accounted for 475,000 deaths and $2.6 trillion in damages. Many countries are still falling well behind targets set by the Paris Agreement and failing to adequately support countries most affected by climate change.
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Minister of Environment Dr Hussain Rasheed Hassan. PHOTO: MIHAARU FILES
Shahudha Mohamed
28 January 2021, MVT 19:22
Minister of Environment Dr Hussain Rasheed Hassan, on Thursday, announced that Maldives aims to reduce its carbon emissions to 26 percent by 2030.
He made this declaration speaking at the virtually held Climate Adaptation Summit 2021, in the attendance of 18,500 participants, including 50 ministers, 30 world leaders and 50 international organisations.
In his speech, the minister acknowledged the increasing challenges faced by low lying island nations, such as Maldives, due to the impending climate crisis, and noted that measures required to mitigate the effects of climate change require a considerable amount of funding.
Executive Director for Green Africa Youth Organization (GAYO), Joshua Amponsem is calling on global leaders to empower the youth on climate change adaptation by introducing mandatory climate change education in schools.
He made the call at the 2021 Climate Adaptation webinar hosted by the Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte.
The objectives of the Summit include enhancing ambition on adaptation where Joshua Amponsem emphasized the need to increase investments for youth in Global South where adaptation is needed the most.
“I speak to you today, on behalf of the hundreds of thousands of young people brought together by the GCA to produce a ‘Youth Call to Action’ because while we must continue to accelerate progress towards a net zero world, young people, especially young women and those from indigenous communities, are already feeling the impacts of climate change.