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On June 29, the Microfinance for Ecosystem-based Adaptation (MEbA) Project won the new annual UNEP Kipepeo Award. This award recognizes teams and projects demonstrating exceptional efforts and performance to achieve UNEP’s goals. The MEbA Initiative won the Kipepeo award in the category “environmental impact” being selected from overall 55 nominations. ...

On April 14 and 15, the official closing events of the training phase of the MEbA Biodiversity Platform were held, one for Latin America and one for West Africa. The events provided a holistic picture of the MEbA approach as an example of a desirable and timely embodiment of green ...

During the first Climate Adaptation Summit in January 2021 Antonio Gueterrez urged the world to channel 50% of all climate financing towards climate resilience as agreed upon in the Paris agreement. Currently only 5% of climate financing go into adaptation. In line with this pledge, the UNFCCC Race to Resilience ...

On January 25-26 the first (virtual) global Climate Adaptation Summit was hosted by the Netherlands. This high-level event dedicated to the role of Climate Adaptation in international climate politics also serves as a preparation of the #COP26 taking place in November in the United Kingdom and will from now on ...