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16 March 2021
High Level Climate Champions
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We Won't Get To Zero Without Resilience
The race to zero emissions may be gaining steam, but the climate crisis is already hitting rural and coastal communities, agribusinesses, smallholder farmers and others across the developing and developed worlds. If we want to create a healthier, cleaner, more liveable world with no more than 1.5°C of warming, we need to race to greater resilience at the same time.
Floods, droughts, extreme heat, wildfires and other impacts are affecting communities, businesses and livelihoods around the world. But the effects differ from place to place. They are local, and they require local solutions that enable people to live, work and thrive in spite of the growing challenges.
This is why we’ve launched the Race to Resilience, a campaign that will catalyze action from the private sector and local governments to enhance the resilience of 4 billion people who are most at risk from the climate crisis by 2030. As a sibling to the Race to Zero, the Race to Resilience will deliver a step change in global ambition across urban, rural, coastal and oceanic resilience, while advancing the principles of locally-led adaptation already supported by more than 40 organizations.
The people living and working in impacted communities understand best how to build their own resilience. Yet, they rarely have a voice in the decisions that affect them. Under the locally-led adaptation principles, decisions are devolved to the lowest appropriate level, structural inequalities are addressed, and the focus is on investing in local capabilities that will create an institutional legacy of work and expertise.
Building resilience is not just the right thing to do - it’s the smart thing, too. According to the Global Commission on Adaptation, investing US$1.8 trillion this decade in developing early warning systems, climate resilient infrastructure, improved dryland agriculture crop production, mangrove protection and resilient water resources could generate $7.1 trillion worth of net benefits.
For example, spending $800 million on early warning systems for storms or heat waves in developing countries could help avoid $3-16 billion in damage every year. Protecting mangroves helps avoid $80 billion per year in losses from coastal flooding and protects fisheries, forestries, tourism and other industries and livelihoods.
Such investments could strengthen the world’s economic recovery from Covid-19, creating jobs and bolstering public health. Yet stimulus spending so far still favours carbon-emitting measures over green initiatives by four-to-one, the Global Commission on Adaptation cautioned.
The Race to a Resilient COP 26
The run-up to November’s COP26 summit in Glasgow offers the opportunity to spread the focus from just cutting emissions to building resilience as well as mitigating the crisis. It’s an opportunity to meet UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ call for half of all climate finance to be spent on resilience and adaptation.
To meet escalating risks, global adaptation funding should reach around US$300 billion per year in 2030 and $500 billion 2050, but it was still around $70 billion 2020, according to the UN Environment Programme.
The Race to Resilience will work to support the UK government’s effort to turn political commitments made through the UN’s Call for Action Adaptation and Resilience into on-the-ground support for vulnerable communities. As the COP26 presidency, the UK launched the Adaptation Action Coalition in January alongside Egypt, Bangladesh, Malawi, the Netherlands, Saint Lucia and the UN.
We will announce the first set of Race to Resilience partner initiatives on 30 March, just ahead of the UK’s Global Summit on Climate and Development on 31 March. At the same time, we will unveil a diverse line-up of Race to Resilience ambassadors who will be tasked with mobilizing more members and amplifying their work.
But we’re still looking for more resilience initiatives to join the campaign, more members to join the initiatives and more ambition from all the private sector and local government actors who can drive greater national ambition ahead of the COP.
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In Case You Missed It...
a.. 15 UN entities endorsed the call for a universal right to a healthy environment, arguing that it will support efforts to leave no one behind, ensure a just transition to an environmentally healthy and socially equitable world and realize human rights for all.
a.. In the first of two podcast episodes of the new Race to Zero series, the Outrage & Optimism team speaks to COP26 President Alok Sharma, UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa, COP26 High-Level Champion for Climate Action Nigel Topping, Occidental Petroleum Chief Executive Vicki Hollub and others.
a.. China built more new wind energy capacity in 2020 than the whole world combined in the year before, leading to an annual record for wind farm installations despite Covid-19, the Guardian reported.
a.. Multilateral engagement is key to responding to Covid-19 and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed told European Parliament Vice-President Heidi Hautala.
a.. Zero-emissions shipping fuel needs to account for 5 percent of the international mix by 2030 in order to decarbonize the shipping sector in line with the Paris goals, according to analysis by the Global Maritime Forum’s Getting to Zero Coalition.
a.. The UN has adopted a framework for measuring economic prosperity and human wellbeing that includes the contribution of nature - thereby ensuring that forests, wetlands and other natural capital is recognized in economic reporting.
Mark Your Calendars
a.. Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue, hosted by Germany, 16-17 March
a.. Zero Carbon City International Forum, hosted by Japan, 17-18 March
a.. Green Building Council Australia’s Transform, 17-31 March
a.. Global Climate Strike, Fridays for Future, 19 March
a.. Ministerial on Climate Action, hosted by China, EU and Canada, 23 March
a.. SDG Global Festival of Action, presented by the UN SDG Action Campaign, 25-26 March
a.. FT’s Climate Capital Live Summit: The Race to Net-Zero, 30 March
a.. Global Summit on Climate Development, hosted by the UK, 31 March
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