EGYPT. Dr Mahmoud Mohieldin, the UN High-Level Champion for Egypt, met on Monday in Abidjn, with Dr. Patrick Verkooijen, the CEO of the Global Center on Adaptation (GCA), to discuss strategic plans for the year ahead leading into COP27 and how GCA can support the High-level Climate Champions’ efforts to deliver a successful COP in Sharm El-Sheikh.
They stressed that HLC and GCA should join forces to mobilize businesses and investors to deploy projects for adaptation and resilience in vulnerable communities such as Africa, Asia and LAR, with an opportunity to have a greater focus in Africa as the GCA’s main geography.
Both sides explored joint collaboration in upcoming venues/meetings with joint outcomes, including the upcoming Africa Regional Finance Meeting, GCA- High Level Dialogue on September, New York Climate Week and COP27.
Mohieldin and Verkooijen focused on the importance of adaptation in Africa and the role of the private sector. They discussed how efforts by the Global Center on Adaptation can help mobilize businesses and investors, to deploy projects for adaptation and resilience, particularly in Africa.
Furthermore, they explored the possibility that the GCA -through its Africa Adaptation Acceleration Program (AAAP)- can join the Race to Resilience campaign (R2R), which aims to catalyze action by non-state actors, which builds the resilience of 4 billion people by 2030 from groups and communities who are vulnerable to climate risks (coastal, rural, urban).
The campaign was launched by UNFCCC Secretary General and COP26 Presidency in January 2021 at the Climate Adaptation Summit that was organized by GCA, the center count with a world-first framework for assessing the efficacy of resilience actions for vulnerable communities, in the same time, science team of GCA has members that work with IPCC.
Mohieldin and Verkooijen discussed also the role of GCA in developing an agenda on Resilience Breakthroughs, which are multi-sector & stakeholder solutions aiming to create large scale adaptation and resilience impacts that push an agenda of adaptation and resilience targets in water, agriculture, cities, coastal/oceans systems.
They stressed the importance of joining forces in launching Resilience Breakthroughs that could respond to the priorities that are the pillars of AAAP, which include Climate Smart Digital Technologies for Agriculture and Food Security, Infrastructure Resilience Accelerator, Empowering Youth through Jobs and Entrepreneurship and Innovative Financial Initiatives for Africa.
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