Glasgow: The Canadian authorities has introduced that it’s going to present C$10 million in funding for the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Global Network to help developing countries in accelerating their efforts to construct resilience to the impacts of climate change.
Steven Guilbeault, Canada’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change, introduced the funding on Tuesday on the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) through the COP26 Africa Adaptation Acceleration Summit.
“It is about climate change as folks expertise it on their doorsteps, it is about how human beings can obtain an honest high quality of life within the face of unprecedented climatic upheaval. We’re right here at COP to be certain that adaptation reaches the individuals who want it essentially the most, the place they want it essentially the most,” stated Guilbeault in his remarks on the COP26 Africa Adaptation Acceleration Summit.
This funding responds to calls from developing countries, together with small island developing states and least-developed countries, for elevated monetary help in climate adaptation to put together for and scale back their vulnerability to the impacts of climate change.
The NAP Global Network was established in 2014 to help developing countries in advancing their nationwide adaptation planning and implementation, in flip progressing climate change adaptation efforts all over the world.
“We are thrilled to welcome the Canadanian authorities’s renewed help for the NAP Global Network to assist developing countries put together for climate affect and obtain a sustainable future,” stated Anne Hammill, Senior Director of the Resilience Program on the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), which hosts the NAP Global Network Secretariat.
“Through NAP processes, countries are accelerating efforts to put adaptation on the coronary heart of determination making and safe a affluent future in a altering climate.
This funding builds on a earlier CAD 4 million dedication by the Canadian authorities to the NAP Global Network to present help to small island developing states and sub-Saharan African countries with a give attention to utilizing adaptation to promote gender equality.
The new funding will, amongst different varieties of help: Provide technical help to countries in placing adaptation on the coronary heart of determination making, prioritizing essentially the most weak and have interaction civil society extra instantly in adaptation planning and motion, working with girls’s actions, Indigenous communities, amongst others.
The NAP Global Network is a multi-funder initiative, and Canada’s funding builds on greater than CAD 12 million in financing from Austria, Germany, Ireland, the UK and the US to scale up help for NAP processes as a crucial software within the efforts to construct resilience to climate change.
There has been vital progress this yr in developing countries’ NAP processes. The UN reported final week that 129 of the 154 developing countries have NAP processes underway, and 30 developing countries have submitted NAPs to the UNFCCC.
