Join GNDR’s COP29 activities detailed below (all times in AZT – GMT +4):
Financing Loss & Damage at the Local Communities’ Level
11 November, 18:30 pm – 20:00 pm, Host: GNDR, Venue: Side Event 9 (Blue Zone)
Co-organisers: International Alliance of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples of the Tropical Forests (IAITPTF), Nadam Foundation, Asia Pacific Regional Network for Early Childhood (ARNEC)
Climate-related L&D affects local communities on a very large scale, especially in vulnerable communities and countries. L&D funds currently under the UNFCCC aim to provide technical assistance to catalyse the operationalization of activities.
Whilst this technical assistance will increase understanding and help unlock capacities, it will be slow to change realities at the local level. Devoting funds to local communities directly is extremely important to enhance resilience and reduce the severe impacts of loss and damage.
This side event will reflect on the concrete ways L&D funds can reach local communities and how it can contribute to building climate resilience.
Moderated by: Becky Murphy, Head of Policy, GNDR
Speakers include:
- Adessou Kossivi, Climate Lead for GNDR & Togo Government
- Azmat Khan, Foundation for Rural Development & GNDR Member
- Yemi Katerere, ACBA African CSO Biodiversity Alliance
- Faith Nataya, International Alliance of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples of the Tropical Forests
- Adrian Cerezo – Yale University
- Abacca Anjain-Maddison, Deputy Chief Secretary of the Marshall Islands
- Christopher Rassi, IFRC
The Role of Youth and Indigenous Perspectives in Shaping Climate Resilience
11 November, 13:30 pm – 14:30 pm, Host: Resilience Hub (Blue Zone)
Co-hosts: IPAM, Build Change and Youth Africa Green Alliance
Climate change has resulted in exacerbating effects to natural ecosystems and communities worldwide. Local actions and decisions play a crucial role in building climate resilience. However, youth perspectives are usually underrepresented in these processes, in spite of their significant vulnerabilities in future impacts as well as their potential for innovative solutions. This side event seeks to highlight the importance of youth inclusion in local climate resilience efforts and decision making processes and showcase successful stories and models of youth engagement in climate action and decision-making at the city level.
Localising loss and damage: Local voice in climate finance
13 November 09:15 am – 10:30 pm, Host: ODI Venue: Climate, Peace and Transboundary Resilience Pavilion ( Blue Zone)
This session aims to provide space for CSOs and GNDR’s members from the Global South to share their expertise, experience and recommendations on loss and damage of those living on the frontline of risk. This will include a specific focus on those living in conflict affected and fragile states. As well as wider contexts to compare, contrast and provide cross learning with CSO representatives.
Resilience Rooted in Tradition: Integrating Indigenous and Local Knowledge for Adaptation and Loss & Damage Solutions
16 November, 13:30 pm – 14:30 pm, Host: Resilience Hub (Blue Zone)
Co-hosts: Government of Vanuatu, Fauna & Flora, IIED, Avina, BRAC
The interactive session will foreground the importance of incorporating Indigenous and local wisdom in decision-making on climate adaptation and loss & damage through voices from the Global South. It will explore the diverse perspectives on knowledge, how different knowledge types can be meaningfully integrated, and how we can assess the effectiveness of these efforts in relation to the 1st, 2nd and 5th LLA principles, ecosystem-based adaptation as well as in responding to loss and damage. It will also provide insights on how intensifying climate change has impacted indigenous approaches to resilience, and ultimately, how indigenous knowledge can set the agenda for resilience building, peace with nature, and better impact response rather than feeding into planning processes as a secondary input.
Paving the way for Resilient Solutions: The Leadership of Indigenous and Locally-Led Philanthropic Ecosystems
16 November, 15:00 pm -16:00 pm, Host: Resilience Hub (Blue Zone)
Co-hosts: Avina, Voices for Just Climate Action Alliance, WINGS, SouthSouthNorth, International Funders for Indigenous Peoples (IFIP)
Despite safeguarding 80% of Earth’s biodiversity, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs) receive less than 1% of global climate funding. Without equitable, flexible, and community-centred financing, IPLCs face limitations in harnessing their knowledge and practices to drive scalable adaptation and resilience. This session will address the urgent need to reform financial mechanisms that better serve local priorities, unlocking and amplifying climate responses that offer global benefits.
The Perilous Journey of those Displaced by Climate Change, and the Path to Safeguarding their Rights
19 November, 10:00 am – 11:00 am, Host: IOM, Climate Mobility Pavilion (Blue Zone)
This event will explore the lived experience of those facing displacement due to climate change and will discuss the concrete actions that need to be taken to protect those who are displaced.
Anticipatory Action to Avert, Mitigate, and Address Climate-related Loss and Damage
20 November, 16:30 pm – 17:30 pm, Host: Humanitarian Hub (Blue Zone)
Co-host: ActionAid
This session intends to engage different actors in the reflection around the Anticipatory Action. It will also explore the existing gaps and the possible solutions to fill the gaps. It will emphasize the importance of the inclusiveness in promoting anticipatory actions and question the funding mechanism to meet rapidly some shared objectives.
Our secretariat and members will be representing GNDR in panels and discussions across COP29. If you are interested in attending any of the above, please do come along or reach out to us for any questions. All Resilience Hub COP29 events will be live-streamed for global audiences.