In autumn 2015, the international community drew up 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These were followed by National Action Plans established at the national level to ensure the goals could be achieved by 2030. However, climate change now stands in the path of achieving the SDGs and will specifically affect the poorest populations in the countries that are most at risk from climate change. Although extreme weather events such as tropical storms, droughts and floods threaten these people’s harvests, income and livelihoods, climate risk insurance can help to reduce their vulnerability. In the event of a disaster, insurance can quickly provide funds to help the injured parties deal with their situation as well as to bolster emergency responses and strengthen social protection systems.

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Climate finance is one of the thorniest issues on the UN climate change agenda. Developed countries claim to be complying with their financial commitments, while developing countries continue to ask where the money is. To overcome this recurring discussion, the parties must first hammer out and agree on some rules for the accounting of climate finance.

We, the undersigned three Danish NGOs, namely CARE Denmark, DanChurchAid and Oxfam IBIS, decided to commission the present report. We wanted to learn more about Danish climate finance, whose reporting methods are adhering to OECD guidelines and to standard practices among developed countries in general. Consequently, the conclusions are relevant for a much broader audience than our three organisations. Understanding the limitations of current reporting rules and practices is an important step in designing better climate finance accounting modalities for the future. This is already on the agenda of the UN climate negotiations. Accordingly, the recommendations of this report serve to illuminate an important debate. The conclusions of the report give rise to four recommendations on how to proceed in these difficult negotiations.

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Now that the Paris Agreement has established goals and a framework for the long-term global response to climate change, the time has come for its fast, ambitious and effective implementation. If temperature increase is to be kept below 1.5°C, the appropriate policy course must be firmly embedded within the next ten years.

This brochure sets out practical proposals for the shaping of the NDC Partnership with a view to unlocking its transformative potential and enabling it to become a catalyst for ambition, effectiveness and participation in NDC implementation in developing countries.

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In the midst of the situation facing the peoples of the Middle East, ACT Alliance members are working to bring hope, dignity and resilience to crisis affected populations and those living in deprivation.

This photo-book is an attempt to bring the stories of hope amid the gloomy context that populations of the Middle East have had to endure, some having lived as internally displaced persons and as refugees in both host communities and camps within the region and beyond.

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A Workshop on Climate Change Disaster Risk reduction & Adaptation in the Pacific Region was held in Nadi, Fiji, from 14 to 17 September. Co-hosted by the Pacific Conference of Churches (PCC) and ACT Alliance, the workshop was supported by ACT members Brot für die Welt and Church of Sweden.

Representatives from PCC secretariat; member churches from French Polynesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu; ACT secretariat and regional office, the Pacific, Australia and New Zealand Forum (PANZ) and Germany, and international experts have attended the workshop

According to the ACT Regional Representative, Asia and the Pacific, Anoop Sukumaran, « the workshop succeeded in bringing together member churches, institutions and organisations of ACT Alliance and the Pacific Conference of Churches (PCC) to discuss and build up capacity on climate change associated disaster risks, and challenges and approaches to foster climate resilience and climate protection in terms of both, policies and programs at local, regional and international levels ».

Furthermore, the workshop enabled exchanging lessons learned, identifying synergies and entering into a dialogue on possible future co-operations between ACT and PCC members to better protect the most vulnerable due to climate change.

The Tokatoka Declaration n Climate Change Disaster Risk reduction & Adaptation has been developed at the end of the workshop.

Read the document here: tokatoka-declaration-final