Accelerating Investment for Climate Adaptation and Resilience

12:30/45 -13:15/30 / 12 November 2020 / HIGH-LEVEL EVENT 5
Led by CDC Group from the United Kingdom

Accelerating Investment for Climate Adaptation and Resilience The event will bring together financial institutions with a public mandate, governments, the private sector, the Global Centre for Adaptation (GCA) and other key organisations, to identify ways for accelerating private sector finance for adaptation and resilience. The event provides the launch pad for greater public private collaboration within the context of the international COVID-19 response to stimulate private sector investments and catalyse domestic markets for the business solutions needed to address local adaptation and resilience needs, including supporting those that are most vulnerable to climate impacts.

SPEAKERS
Nick O’Donohoe, Chief Executive Officer, CDC Group
Ban Ki-moon, Chair of the Board, Global Center on Adaptation (GCA), 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations
Nisreen Elsaim, Chair, Sudan Youth Organization on Climate Change; Chair of UN Secretary-General’s Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change
Anne-Marie Trevelyan MP, UK’s International Champion on Adaptation and Resilience for COP26 Presidency

MODERATOR
Zeinab Badawi, Broadcaster, BBC World

VIDEOS
Amina J. Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General, United Nations