Issued following the Climate Vulnerable Forum High-Level Exchange on COP26
As we mobilize for COP26 and beyond, as most climate threatened nations, we are also calling on the international community for 7 urgent and essential actions to:
- Address the emergency of adaptation action which cannot wait: full engagement of donors and international funding support behind the AU-endorsed, GCA, African Development Bank and AAI-led Africa Adaptation Acceleration Program (AAAP), the most ambitious and urgently needed initiative for driving transformational adaptation action on the ground across the African continent, in addition to similar programs building on the prototype of AAAP in all other vulnerable regions of Central, South and East Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America and the Pacific.
- Launch an Emergency Coalition for Climate Resilient Debt Restructuring to harness debt servicing payments to ensure existing infrastructure of fiscally constrained vulnerable nations is rendered climate resilient and consistent with a rapid transition to 100% renewable energy, avoiding financial losses for all concerned.
- Create at the Human Rights Council’s 48th Session this September-October 2021 a United Nations Special Rapporteur for climate change, to complement the vital work of the Special Rapporteur on the Environment, in light of the devastating impact of the climate crisis on the fundamental human rights of the most vulnerable people on Earth, and to promote efforts to enhance protection of the rights of the most vulnerable.
- Support and economic cooperation for the development and implementation of CVF members’ national Climate Prosperity Plans (CPPs) to enable a strategic investment pathway for delivering robust socio-economic development optimized with maximum ambition for climate adaptation and low- or carbon neutral- development, starting with the Mujib CPP of Bangladesh, named in honor of the Father of the Nation, Shiekh Mujibur Rahman.
- Establish the IUCN ‘Climate Crisis Commission’ at the World Conservation Congress at Marseille, France, on 3-11 September 2021 because the climate crisis is also the most significant future driver of the planetary ecological crisis and nature-based solutions will be indispensable to climate change adaptation and mitigation.
- Stimulate transnational cultural and youth contributions to international dialogue and action to respond to the climate crisis, including “Ñaat? When Is Now. Seeding Climate Action through the Arts” which links poetry and murals reflecting on national and regional demands for climate action, and people’s lived experiences of the climate crisis.
- Mobilize enhanced action and support from the international community to address climate-driven migration and displacement, through the Migrants4Climate initiative, with burden sharing of rehabilitation of climate migrants or displaced people due to coastal and river erosion and other impacts of the climate crisis in most vulnerable nations.
Read the full manifesto of the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) for COP26.
