Capacity-building Hub “Means of Implementation Day” Paris Committee on Capacity-building (PCCB) roundtable on coherence and coordination
| Date and Time | Event | Location | Description | Host(s) |
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| December 3, 2019 Tuesday 1:15pm-2:45pm | Advancing Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in climate finance | Global Environment Facilities (GEF)/Green Climate Fund(GCF) Pavilion | Speakers: Gender expert speakers, including GCF gender specialist, GEF gender specialist, representatives of UN women and UNFCCC Secretariat gender team | AF |
| December 4, 2019 Wednesday – December 5, 2019 Thursday | MULTIMEDIA EXHIBIT: Viewing Projects on the Ground: Adaptation Fund(AF) Fosters Innovation and Youth Engagement in Projects | Booth 13 | The AF has accumulated 12 years and running of often pioneering and innovative concrete adaptation projects on the ground. View videos and photos of projects. | AF |
| December 4, 2019 Wednesday 3pm-6pm | COP 25 stocktake on Pre-2020 implementation and ambition: Supporting enhanced implementation and ambition of climate efforts up to 2020 | Baker | This session highlights efforts of the UNFCCC process to enhance climate implementation and ambition up to 2020.
AF Speakers: Ms. Sylviane Bilgischer, Chair, AF Board |
UNFCCC |
| December 5, 2019 Thursday 2pm | Facebook Live Interview | UNFCCC Pavilion (Hall 8) | AF Launches New Scale-Up, Innovation and Learning Tools
Speaker: AF Manager |
UNFCCC |
| December 5, 2019 Thursday 3pm-4:30pm | SIDE EVENT: Bridging the gaps between Climate Finance Access and Building Resilience on the ground– Climate Finance Access and project development |
Room 2 | AF launches a suite of tools aimed at unlocking adaptation finance through Direct Access: a state-of-the-art e-learning course along with a study on “Bridging the Gap on Accreditation and Re-accreditation”.
Speakers: AF Manager, AFB Chair, Developing country representatives |
AF |
| December 6, 2019 Friday 1:15pm-2:45pm | SIDE EVENT: AF Fosters Innovation: Launches New Innovation Facility for Vulnerable Countries and Private Sector | Room 4 | Through its pioneering Direct Access modality, AF empowers countries to build their own capacities to respond to climate change. AF’s strategic pillars of Action, Innovation and Learning & Sharing are aligned with serving the Paris Agreement and SDGs.
Speakers: AF staff, business leaders, CSOs |
AF |
| December 6, 2019 Friday 4:30pm-5:30pm
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Lancement d’un module de formation en ligne sur (i) le processus d’accréditation, (ii) la mise en œuvre de la politique environnementale et sociale et (iii) la politique genre du Fonds d’Adaptation
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Institut de la Francophonie pour le développement durable (IFDD) Pavilion | AF Speakers: Mahamat Assouyouti, Silvia Mancini | IFDD |
| December 6, 2019 Friday 4:45pm-6:15pm
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How to effectively channel adaptation finance to those most vulnerable to climate change | Room 1 | Different stakeholders from civil society will present best practices and challenges for effectively chanelling resources to communities most vulnerable to climate change. The AF NGO Network will provide recommendations on how to overcome existing barriers in the adaptation finance landscape.
Speakers: CSOs from Africa, Asia and Latin America representing the AF NGO Network, AF Secretariat |
Indigo Development and Change/Adelphi Research (AR)/Development Alternatives (DA)/Germanwatch |
| December 9, 2019 Monday 10am-11am | Reduciendo las brechas entre el Acceso al Financiamiento del clima – Acceso a Financiamiento climático y al desarrollo de proyectos | Chile Pavilion | Speakers: Ms. Sylviane Bilgischer, Chair, AF Board, AF staff, Profonanpe, AGCID, Fundecooperación | AF |
| December 9, 2019 Monday 1pm-2:30pm | Community of practice for direct access entities (CPDAE) – Strengthening Climate Finance with the Community of Practice of Direct Access Entities globally | Capacity Building Hub in Hall 4 | Speakers: Mikko Ollikainen – Manager of the AF, Yannick Glemarec – Excutive Director at the Green Climate Fund, Claudia Godfrey – Chair of the CPDAE, Aissata Babou – Vice Chair of the CPDAE, Gabriel Quijandria – Viceminister of of Strategic Development of Natural Resources. Ministry of Enviroment of Peru | AF |
| December 9, 2019 Monday 1:15pm-2:15pm | AF Contributor Dialogue | Room 25 | AF Speaker:Ms. Sylviane Bilgischer, Chair, AF Board, Mr. Mikko Ollikainen – Manager of the AF | UNFCCC |
| December 9, 2019 Monday 2:30pm-3pm | PRESS CONFERENCE: AF Launches Suite of New Tools to Enhance Access to Climate Finance for Developing Countries and Foster Innovative Adaptation Practices | CHILOE in Hall 10 | Speakers from AF and implementing entities will provide examples of new learning tools that are available to promote accreditation of implementing entities as well as new grants that are available to foster innovation, action and learning in adaptation, including through the private sector. | AF |
| December 9, 2019 Monday 5pm | Climate Home News Video Interview
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RCCC Studio (in GEF/GCF Pavilion) | Interviewee: Mikko Ollikainen – Manager of the AF |
Climate Home News |
| December 10, 2019 Tuesday 9am-10am | Boosting the development of water and climate projects: partnering for incubation | Multilateral Development Bank Pavilion | AF Speaker: Mikko Ollikainen – Manager of the AF | International Network of Basin Organizations (INBO)/African Development Bank |
| December 10, 2019 Tuesday 1pm-2:30pm | Launch of bulletin by providers of readiness and capacity-building support for adaptation
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UNFCCC Pavilion | Speakers: CTCN Co-Chair, PCCB Co-Chair, AF Board Chair, Ministers from developing country Parties | AF/Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN)/PCCB |
| December 11, 2019 Wednesday 11am-11:30am | INVITATION Interview at Climate Action Studio COP25
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Hall 10 (in front of the Press Conference Room 1) | AF’s niche within the international climate finance landscape, its concrete, scalable projects on the ground to the most vulnerable communities that contribute to the goals of the Paris Agreement, pioneering Direct Access modality that builds country ownership in adaptation, and new emerging tools and grants it is offering in climate action, innovation and learning that multiply the impact of its work. | UNFCCC |