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Climate Vulnerable Forum Leaders Event
In conjunction with the United Nations General Assembly 2020, New York
7 October 2020, 9am – 11am (EDT)
In the presence of international dignitaries and the United Nations Secretary-General, Heads of State and Government and high level representatives of the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) met alongside the UN General Assembly on October 7, 2020, in a virtual format, and launched the “Midnight Survival Deadline for the Climate” initiative for all nations to deliver new and enhanced
Paris Agreement Nationally-Determined Contributions (NDCs) by midnight on 31 December 2020. Presided by CVF Chair, Her Excellency Sheikh Hasina, MP, Honorable Prime Minister of Bangladesh, and convened together with the Global Center on Adaptation (CVF secretariat), the CVF Leaders’ Event also served as an exchange on specific CVF programs, as well as key actions, concerns and issue items of critical importance for the Forum’s membership. The event addressed the vital need to ensure efforts to build climate resilience are integrated with COVID-19 pandemic responses and recovery: “build back better”, and promoted the strengthening of adaptation, and addressing of loss and damage and displacement caused by climate shocks, including mobilizing ahead of the 2021 Climate Adaptation Summit.
You can watch the video of the whole event here
To learn more about the Midnight Survival Deadline, click here
You can also access the individual speeches given that day on the following pages, by order of appearance:
- Honorable Chair H.E. Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of Bangladesh
- H.E. António Guterres, UN Secretary-General
- H.E. Ban Ki-moon, Chair of the Board, Global Center on Adaptation
- Ms. Patricia Espinosa, Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC
- H.E. David Kabua, President of the Republic of the Marshall Islands and CVF Troika Member
- H.E. Sahle-Work Zewde, Hon. President of Ethiopia and CVF Troika Member
- H.E. Iván Duque Márquez, Hon. President of Colombia
- H.E. Mia Amor Mottley, Hon. Prime Minister of Barbados
- H.E. Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen, Hon. Prime Minister of Cambodia
- H.E. Frank Bainimarama, Hon. Prime Minister of Fiji
- H.E. Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli, Hon. Prime Minister of Nepal
- H.E. Mohamed Nasheed, CVF Founder, Hon Speaker of the People’s Majlis, Maldives and CVF Thematic Ambassador for Ambition
- H.E. Loren Legarda, Philippines Hon. Deputy Speaker and CVF Ambassador for Parliaments
- H.E. Saima Wazed Hossain, Chairperson of the Bangladesh National Advisory Committee on Neurodevelopmental Disorders and Autism, and CVF Ambassador for Vulnerability
- H.E. Tosi Mpanu Mpanu, Chair of the UNFCCC Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) and CVF Thematic Ambassador for Renewable Energy
- H.E. Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner, Climate Envoy of the Marshall Islands and CVF Thematic Ambassador for Culture
- H.E. Al Gore, Founder and Chairman, Climate Reality Project and former Vice-President of the USA
- H.E. Lyonpo Yeshey Penjor, Hon. Minister for Agriculture and Forests of Bhutan
- H.E. Lamin Dibba, Hon. Minister of Environment and Climate Change of the Republic of the Gambia
- Hon. Dr. Henry Kokofu, Executive Director of the Environment Protection Agency of Ghana
- H.E. Simon Stiell, Hon. Minister for Climate Resilience, the Environment, Forestry, Fisheries and Disaster Management of Grenada
- H.E. Keriako Tobiko, Cabinet Secretary for the Ministry of Environment and Forestry of Kenya
- H.E. Baomiavotse Vahinala Raharinirina, Hon. Minister for Environment and Sustainable Development of Madagascar
- H.E. Dr. Jeanne d’Arc Mujawamariya , Minister of Environment of Rwanda
- H.E. Andrea Meza, Minister of Environment of Costa Rica
- H.E. Abner September, Minister of the Environment of Haiti
- H.E. Abdulla Shahid, Hon. Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Maldives
- Hon. Cora Van Nieuwenhuizen, the Minister for Infrastructure and Water for the Netherlands
- H.E. Emmanuel De Guzman, Secretary and Vice-Chairperson of the Philippines Climate Change Commission
- Hon Lord Ahmad Wimbledon, Minister for South Asia and the Commonwealth of the United Kingdom as COP26 Presidency
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