The Adaptation Fund

41 Funders, Partners Endorse New Guiding Principles for Financing Climate and Health Solutions to Protect Health

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Saturday, December 2, 2023

DUBAI, UAE, Dec. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- A consortium of multilateral development banks and funders, countries, and philanthropies today published the Guiding Principles for Financing Climate and Health Solutions ("Guiding Principles"), announced at the World Climate Action Summit during the 28th session of Conference of Parties to the UNFCCC (COP28) in Dubai. The Guiding Principles establish a shared vision for financing that will rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions to improve health, protect people from the range of climate risks to health, and build resilient, environmentally sustainable health systems. The Guiding Principles were developed by the COP28 Presidency in collaboration with The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, The Green Climate Fund, The Rockefeller Foundation, The World Health Organization and the ATACH Working Group on Financing, and in consultation with over 50 financing partners and civil society organizations. The Guiding Principles have been endorsed by 41 organizations, with more expected following COP28.

Key Points: 
  • The Guiding Principles establish a shared vision for financing that will rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions to improve health, protect people from the range of climate risks to health, and build resilient, environmentally sustainable health systems.
  • The Guiding Principles acknowledge critical elements of accessible and effective financing and the need to mobilize additional funds for climate and health solutions.
  • Key pillars of the Guiding Principles include:
    Accelerating transformative climate and health solutions to save and improve lives now and in the future;
    Creating equitable, inclusive, accessible, and holistic approaches to climate and health financing and solutions;
    Building the core policymaking and implementation capacities of countries, communities, and financing institutions to deliver climate and health solutions.
  • "The Adaptation Fund is pleased to endorse the Guiding Principles for Financing Climate and Health Solutions.

How critical funding for the National Adaptation Strategy will help protect Canadians from climate-related threats

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Thursday, November 2, 2023

Today in Ottawa, 75 members and supporters of the Climate Proof Canada Coalition met with cabinet ministers and key members of opposition parties.

Key Points: 
  • Today in Ottawa, 75 members and supporters of the Climate Proof Canada Coalition met with cabinet ministers and key members of opposition parties.
  • They delivered climate adaptation recommendations and showed strong support for including funding for the National Adaptation Strategy in the upcoming Fall Economic Statement and Budget 2024.
  • "To deliver on the promise of our world-leading National Adaptation Strategy – and to better protect Canadians from climate-related threats and harm – requires government to invest at least $5.3 billion annually in the National Adaptation Strategy over the next six years."
  • Government should also expand existing program eligibility requirements so that First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities can better access initiatives related to the National Adaptation Strategy.

Government of Canada Confirms 2 Billion Trees Program is Exceeding Planting Goals, Announces New Agreements to Plant 56 Million Additional Trees

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Wednesday, August 2, 2023

To maximize these benefits, the government is continuing to deliver on its commitment to plant two billion trees.

Key Points: 
  • To maximize these benefits, the government is continuing to deliver on its commitment to plant two billion trees.
  • The Minister also announced 16 new 2 Billion Trees program contribution agreements totalling over $100 million that will support the planting of an additional 56 million trees in the years ahead.
  • Canada has signed agreements in principle and contribution agreements with seven provinces and territories that are already advancing our planting goals.
  • In just two years, the program has supported the planting of over 110 million trees across Canada.

Government of Canada releases first national-level disaster risk assessment

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Thursday, May 11, 2023

Today, the Honourable Bill Blair, President of the King's Privy Council for Canada and Minister of Emergency Preparedness, released the National Risk Profile , Canada's first public, strategic, national-level disaster risk assessment.

Key Points: 
  • Today, the Honourable Bill Blair, President of the King's Privy Council for Canada and Minister of Emergency Preparedness, released the National Risk Profile , Canada's first public, strategic, national-level disaster risk assessment.
  • It provides a national picture of disaster risks facing Canada, and the existing measures and resources in our emergency management systems to address them.
  • The report will increase resiliency in a few different ways:
    It provides decision-makers with a consolidated, national picture of disaster risk and associated capabilities, to understand how and where to intervene to build resilience.
  • The next phase of the National Risk Profile will focus on heat events, hurricanes and space weather.

Minister Blair welcomes final report from expert advisory panel on Canada's approach to disaster recovery funding

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Monday, April 17, 2023

The Government of Canada is committed to supporting Canadians whose lives are impacted when disasters strike, help communities recover, and, ultimately, increase our resiliency.

Key Points: 
  • The Government of Canada is committed to supporting Canadians whose lives are impacted when disasters strike, help communities recover, and, ultimately, increase our resiliency.
  • The report outlines the panel's findings and recommendations on how to modernize the DFAA program to not only support disaster recovery, but also to help build more resilient communities in a changing risk environment.
  • The panel also provided special considerations on how best to align the program with broader disaster mitigation and climate adaptation work.
  • The eight-member advisory panel is composed of experts from the public sector, academia, non-profit organizations, Indigenous communities, and the private sector.

Minister Wilkinson Announces New Programs That Combat the Risks Canadians Face From Flooding, Wildfires and Coastal Erosion in Support of Canada's First National Adaptation Strategy

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Thursday, November 24, 2022

Climate change is warming southern Canada at twice the global average and approximately three times as quickly in the North.

Key Points: 
  • Climate change is warming southern Canada at twice the global average and approximately three times as quickly in the North.
  • Minister Blair announced over $1.6 billion in new federal spending to support climate adaptation.
  • Launching a Climate Resilient Coastal and Northern Communities program to:
    support systems-based approaches to adaptation actions in coastal and northern regions, building on the Climate Change Adaptation Program .
  • Canada's National Adaptation Strategy gives us a world-leading and unified path forward not only to adapt but also to thrive under changing conditions."

Government of Canada announces funding for research project to improve Canada's resilience to flooding

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Thursday, November 24, 2022

That is why the Government of Canada is making investments to strengthen Canada's resilience to climate change and reduce the impact of flooding on our communities.

Key Points: 
  • That is why the Government of Canada is making investments to strengthen Canada's resilience to climate change and reduce the impact of flooding on our communities.
  • "Flooding, and the risk of repeat flooding, can have a significant impact on our sense of security.
  • The Strategy represents a shared vision for climate resilience in Canada, supports improving resilience to flooding, and complements investments in this research project.
  • Of the over $585,000 in federal funding announced today:
    $270,000 will come from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.

College for Creative Studies Announces Keynote Speakers, Agenda for Global Cumulus “Design for Adaptation” Conference in Detroit

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Tuesday, October 11, 2022

Neil Hawkins, president of Fred A. and Barbara M. Erb Family Foundation , will engage Ollikainen in a dialogue following his keynote.

Key Points: 
  • Neil Hawkins, president of Fred A. and Barbara M. Erb Family Foundation , will engage Ollikainen in a dialogue following his keynote.
  • Climate Change is deeply intertwined with global patterns of inequity, and adaptation plays a key role in reducing exposure and vulnerability, said Maria Luisa Rossi, CCS Chair of Systems Design Thinking and Design for Adaptation conference chair.
  • This conference will help guide our design approach and thinking on how to accelerate adaptation over the next decade.
  • Design for Adaptation is supported by Fred A. and Barbara M. Erb Family Foundation , SBN Detroit and DTE Energy Foundation.

Engaging Canadians on a National Adaptation Strategy to build a climate-ready economy and communities

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Monday, May 16, 2022

The Government of Canada has committed to finalizing the National Adaptation Strategy by fall 2022.

Key Points: 
  • The Government of Canada has committed to finalizing the National Adaptation Strategy by fall 2022.
  • The National Adaptation Strategy is central to our work in preparing for climate emergencies.
  • To inform the development of the National Adaptation Strategy, the Government of Canada has been engaging and consulting with provinces and territories, municipal governments, and Indigenous Peoples and organizations.
  • The National Adaptation Strategy is being designed for ongoing evaluation as we make progress and take action.

Parliamentary Secretary Naqvi and MP Zuberi tour 2019 spring flooding sites and provide update on mitigation efforts

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Tuesday, May 3, 2022

PS Naqvi and MP Zuberi also met with Stphane Ct, Mayor of L'le-BizardSainte-Genevive, and Dimitrios Jim Bies, Mayor of Pierrefonds-Roxboro.

Key Points: 
  • PS Naqvi and MP Zuberi also met with Stphane Ct, Mayor of L'le-BizardSainte-Genevive, and Dimitrios Jim Bies, Mayor of Pierrefonds-Roxboro.
  • Emergency Preparedness Week runs May 1-7, 2022, and this year's theme is "Emergency Preparedness: Be Ready for Anything!".
  • "The communities of Pierrefonds and L'le-BizardSainte-Genevive showed incredible resilience in the wake of significant flooding in 2017 and 2019.
  • The Task Force will also consideroptions to assist homeowners with potential relocation for those at the highest risk of repeat flooding.