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"People in countries experiencing protracted crisis and a high level of climate vulnerability receive a lower proportion of their total ODA as climate finance than other climate-vulnerable countries. They also receive less finance from multilateral climate funding mechanisms and less per capita multilateral climate finance: US$1 per person, compared to US$4.88 per person in the most climate-vulnerable countries not experiencing a long-term crisis." #finance #funding #climate https://lnkd.in/eQngQ8vX

The disparity between global humanitarian needs and the available cash funding has reached alarming levels. A holistic approach to addressing this includes proactive investing in climate adaptation and resilience, effective utilization of nonfinancial contributions, and diversifying funding sources. Read up on the perspective from Camille McConaughy, David Young, and Soeren Palumbo here

Climate vulnerability, extreme poverty, and food insecurity are increasingly concentrated in a handful of conflict-affected states the International Rescue Committee (IRC) works in, like Somalia, Mali, and Yemen. “These climate-vulnerable, conflict-affected communities are increasingly left out of global efforts on climate action, even efforts specifically designed to support low-income countries. Conflict-affected countries receive a third of climate finance compared to non-conflict-affected countries. Even when funding does reach these most at-risk communities, traditional approaches to climate finance often fund programs and approaches that don’t work in conflict settings and disproportionately funds emissions mitigation instead of adaptation, anticipatory action, and resilience.” Four key gaps must be addressed: “Improving subnational and community-level risk mapping of the intersection of poverty, climate, and humanitarian risk;  Unlocking more funding to support adaptation and climate resilience in climate-vulnerable, conflict-affected countries;  Rethinking and expanding delivery partners to include local civil society groups best positioned to support hard-to-reach communities;  Investing in innovation to test and scale solutions that insulate people against the worst impacts of the climate crisis, such as climate-resilience agriculture, anticipatory cash, and community-based disaster-risk reduction.” #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #climatefinance #climateadaptation #climateresilience #conflict ##humanitarian #humanitariancrisis #poverty #povertyalleviation #foodsecurity #globalfoodsecurity

How can #peacebuilding contribute to #climateresilience ? Drawing on research by Mercy Corps and others, Jon Kurtz and I present three key pathways through which aid actors can use peacebuilding programming to reduce violence and strengthen communities' resilience to climate change's impacts. In this paper we highlight the role of environmental conflict resolution, strengthening social cohesion, and integrating peacebuilding and livelihood support.

World Water Day 2024’s theme: water for peace is timely and essential, drawing attention to and advocating for the role that water management can play in peacebuilding. I recently had the privilege of being part of a design team on the same topic and this article from SIPRI fundamentally emphasises the same most peacebuilding practitioners would like to see #sustainablepeace. - Its common knowledge that water scarcity can increase tensions and conflict risk. The Pacific Institute’s Water Conflict Chronology lists 285 conflicts in which water issues have acted as a trigger since 2020 - In theory, looking at these conflicts reducing water scarcity should reduce conflict risk. However, peace is complex. A purely technical fix may have limited impact on conflict risk, especially in the long term. - Water scarcity itself does not cause conflict; conflict only happens if water scarcity exacerbates existing social, cultural, political or economic fault lines. Thus, successful and sustainable peace efforts must address these root causes. - However, to move from water for peace to water for sustainable or positive peace, and to ensure the water management challenges of the future can be managed effectively and peacefully, projects need not only address attitudes behaviours and contexts as per it’s important to institutionalize their gains, ideally through accountable authorities and utilities. #waterforpeace #peacebuilding #sustainablepeace #positivepeace