The Peace Piece: "Not Reinventing the Wheel: What Lessons Can Climate Funds Learn from Development and Peacebuilding Actors?" (A Path to The Hague Event)
Nov 16, 2023
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Geneva Peacebuilding Platform
online
What can climate finance actors learn from development and peacebuilding? Join @SIPRIorg's upcoming webinar exploring this question, unpacking how they can better work together in conflict and fragile affected states to deliver effective climate finance.
Climate finance offers opportunities to increase resilience, reverse environmental decline and build peace. However, for climate finance to support peace, it must be sufficient, reach fragile and conflict-affected states and fund projects that are conflict-sensitive and peace-positive. At the moment, it does not. Barriers such as donor risk appetite, state capacity, project compliance and bureaucratic process hinder progress in this space.
While there is an increasing awareness within multilateral development banks, climate funds and national governments of these challenges, they are often approached as novel. Yet much can be learnt from the experience of the peacebuilding and development community about managing risk and designing and implementing projects in fragile settings.
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Background: On 3 December, CoP28 will feature Peace as a thematic convening day for the first time in the annual climate change conference's history. How does Peace connect to climate change policy? What is the impact of climate change on communities already affected by tensions or violent conflict? What adaptation, mitigation, or other natural resource management actions are possible to support the development of resilient individuals, households, and communities? And what can negotiators at CoP28, or decision-makers around the world, do to address these challenges? This year, join The Peace Piece: Primers for Peace at CoP28, a biweekly webinar series designed to answer these questions and explore other topics related to peace, conflict, and climate change.