Risk-informed Early Action Partnership: from commitment to action (11 May 2021 | WP1931V)
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In collaboration with Risk-informed Early Action Partnership Launched at the UN Climate Action Summit (UNCAS) in September 2019, the Riskinformed Early Action Partnership (REAP) brings together an unprecedented range of stakeholders across the climate, humanitarian and development communities with the aim to make 1 billion people safer from disaster by 2025.
Building on the REAP Framework for Action and prior engagement of senior stakeholders, this high-level dialogue “The Risk-informed Early Action: from Commitment to Action”, co-hosted with the Wilton Park and with co-sponsorship from the Governments of the United Kingdom and Saint Lucia, brought together existing and prospective country partners to prepare and discuss commitments towards achieving REAP’s ambitious targets in the run-up to UNFCCC COP26.
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Protecting people and nature from the effects of the climate crisis
COP26 President Alok Sharma s video speech on averting, minimising and addressing loss and damage caused by climate change at the Risk-informed Early Action Partnership s From commitment to action event.
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Excellencies, colleagues, friends.
Good afternoon, I am delighted that so many of you are with us for this event on the Risk-Informed Early Action Partnership.
Just after I became UK Secretary of State for International Development in 2019, Hurricane Dorian struck.
And the reports that came back were terrible to hear.
It goes without saying that if we can minimise such suffering and devastation, then we must.
In run-up to COP 26, Petersberg dialogue and G7 start fleshing out commitments on adaptation
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Arguing that the world stands “at the edge of the abyss” on climate, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres issued an urgent new call to ministers at the Petersberg Climate Dialogue that ended Friday to do more to balance climate finance for adaptation and mitigation.
Adaptation in the developing world alone was now estimated to cost US$ 70 billion a year, Mr Guterres said by video link, and this could rise to US$ 300 billion by 2030.
“I reiterate my call to donors and multilateral development banks to ensure that at least 50 per cent of climate finance is for adaption and resilience”, he added, noting that money for adaptation to developing countries currently represents only just over 20 per cent of all climate finance.