![Infrastructure
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• The main goal: By 2025, all significant new and retrofit infrastructure
investments are resilient to climate change.
• Towards this end, the following priorities for action are proposed:
1. Update national technical codes and standards to account for physical climate
risks, adapting international best practice to local conditions.
2. All significant infrastructure projects will be screened to ensure that they are
resilient to climate change-related impacts
3. X countries [plus the EU] commit to “stress testing” their infrastructure networks
against the impacts of climate change, and developing appropriate response
measures
4. Increased uptake of risk finance and insurance mechanisms for infrastructure to
ensure rapid recovery after extreme events and facilitate private investment, as
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Accelerating Adaptation
- 1. Accelerating Adaptation Background on the Global Commission
- 2. Click to edit Master subtitle style “Without urgent adaptation action, we risk undermining food, energy and water security for decades to come. The costs of adapting are less than the cost of doing business as usual. And the benefits many times larger.” - Ban Ki-moon, 8th Secretary General of the UN
- 3. About the Commission Click to edit Master subtitle style The Global Commission on Adaptation seeks to accelerate adaptation action and support. The Commission will elevate the political visibility of climate adaptation and encourage bold solutions such as smarter investments, new technologies and better planning to become more resilient to climate- related threats.
- 4. Convening countries • Argentina • Bangladesh • Canada • China • Costa Rica • Denmark • Ethiopia • Germany • Grenada • India • Indonesia • Marshall Islands • Mexico • Netherlands • Senegal • South Africa • United Kingdom • Uzbekistan • Vietnam
- 5. Commissioners • Ban Ki-moon, 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations • Bill Gates, Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation • Kristalina Georgieva, CEO, World Bank • Achim Steiner, Administrator UNDP • Petteri Talaas, Secretary-General, WMO • Shri C.K. Mishra, Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, India • Hilda Heine, President, Marshall Islands • Keith Mitchell, Prime Minister, Grenada • Akinwumi Adesina, President, African Development Bank • Elhadj As Sy, Secretary General, IFRC • Michelle Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights • Patricia Espinosa, Executive Secretary, UNFCCC • Christiana Figueres, Former Executive Secretary, UNFCCC • Li Ganjie, Minister of Ecology and Environment, China • Anne Hidalgo, Mayor, Paris • Emma Howard Boyd, Chair of the Environment Agency, UK • Naoko Ishii, CEO and Chairperson, Global Environment Facility
- 6. Commissioners, continued • Peter Damgaard Jensen, CEO, PKA Ltd • Agnes Kalibata, President, AGRA • Loren Legarda, Chair, Senate Finance Committee, Philippines • Strive Masiyiwa, Founder and Chairman, Econet Wireless • José Antonio Meade, Former Finance Minister, Mexico • Gerd Müller, Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany • Muhammad Musa, Executive Director, BRAC • Cora van Nieuwenhuizen, Minister of Infrastructure and Water Management, Netherlands • Sheela Patel, Chair, Slum/Shack Dwellers International • Feike Sijbesma, CEO, Royal DSM • Francis Suarez, Mayor, Miami • Andrew Steer, President and CEO, World Resources Institute • Shemara Wikramanayake, CEO Designate, Macquarie Group Ltd. • Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director, Oxfam International • Catherine McKenna, Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Canada
- 7. Phases of the Commission 2INCEPTION AND LAUNCH ANALYSIS, ENGAGEMENT AND COALITION BUILDING YEAR OF ACTION Oct 2018 – Oct 2019 • Engage adaptation and development communities, convene action tracks, present Commission at high-level events and deliver the flagship report. Nov 2019 – Nov 2020 • Year of Action: use recommendations from the report and action tracks to catalyze political leadership, enhance adaptation commitments and mobilize finance. 0 1 May – Oct 2018 • Hire staff, develop fundraising, outreach and communications plans, invite Commissioners and Conveners to join, prepare discussion papers and more.
- 8. Nov 2020 COP26 & Enhanced Ambition Oct 2020 Adaptation Action Summit March 2020 Countries begin submitting enhanced NDCs Jan 2020 World Economic Forum Sept 2019 Launch of Flagship Report & select Action Tracks Jan 2019 Commission Davos event March 2019 One Planet Summit March 2019 Full drafts of background papers Summer 2019 Commission meeting to adopt report recommendations May 2019 Commissioner meeting to share report draft May 2019 Final drafts of background papers 2019-2020 Key Events April 2019 CBA conference Sept 2019 UNSG Summit
- 9. Flagship Report The report will present a compelling vision of an agenda for scaled-up and transformative adaptation, showing how investment in adaptation is a cornerstone of better development. The report will set out: • WHY adapting to climate risks and accelerated action is essential. • WHAT new actions need to be taken and what must be done differently. • HOW we can start working today to make the world a safer, better place.
- 10. Seven Action Tracks Click to edit Master subtitle style• Finance • Food Security • Infrastructure • Cities • Locally-Led Action • Nature-Based Solutions • Preventing Disasters
- 11. Finance Click to edit Master subtitle style • The main goal: To increase financial flows towards climate-resilient development by mobilizing additional resources and promoting systemic change in fiscal and financial systems. • Towards this end, the following priorities for action are proposed: 1. Accelerate climate smart fiscal policies. In partnership with the Coalition of Finance Ministers for Climate Action, the GCA will announce the creation of a new USD 75-100 million multi-donor trust fund to mainstream climate adaptation into national planning. 2. Improve climate risk pricing in the private sector. 3. Improve data, metrics, and standards for integrating climate risks into private and public decision-making.
- 12. Food Security Click to edit Master subtitle style • The main goal: By 2030, 300 million small-scale agricultural producers and rural dwellers in low- and middle-income countries enhance their resilience to climate shocks and extreme events, increase household incomes and food security, and reverse ecological decline – in line with several SDGs. • Towards this end, the following priorities for action are proposed: 1. Upscale investments in climate-resilient agricultural R&D 2. Support the reform of policies, such as land use and agricultural subsidies, that incentivize adaptation solutions, 3. Improve access to financial services, insurance and social protection 4. Expand the coverage and use of climate-informed digital farmer advisory services 5. Improve access to a package of integrated adaptation technologies and agro- ecological practices
- 13. Infrastructure Click to edit Master subtitle style • The main goal: By 2025, all significant new and retrofit infrastructure investments are resilient to climate change. • Towards this end, the following priorities for action are proposed: 1. Update national technical codes and standards to account for physical climate risks, adapting international best practice to local conditions. 2. All significant infrastructure projects will be screened to ensure that they are resilient to climate change-related impacts 3. X countries [plus the EU] commit to “stress testing” their infrastructure networks against the impacts of climate change, and developing appropriate response measures 4. Increased uptake of risk finance and insurance mechanisms for infrastructure to ensure rapid recovery after extreme events and facilitate private investment, as part of financial protection strategies
- 14. Cities Click to edit Master subtitle style This action track will focus on four main areas: Resilient Cities for All • Enhance climate action in vulnerable regions with marginalized and vulnerable populations such as slum dwellers, informal workers, youth, ethnic minorities and women. All the Resilient Cities • Advance climate action in small and medium-sized cities, with a focus on Africa and Asia. Regional and National Cooperation – Focus on Water Security • Water supply and watershed management is a key area for regional and national level cooperation between cities and surrounding areas which has the potential to be mutually beneficial. Finance • Many organizations are already involved in trying to improve access to climate finance for cities because cities lack creditworthiness and can not access many international funds directly.
- 15. Locally-led Action Click to edit Master subtitle style • The main goals: 1. By 2030, increase the volume of devolved funding available by XXX to local actors to identify, prioritize and implement and monitor climate adaptation solutions. That devolved will be flexible, long term in nature, risk-tolerant inclusive, transparent and accountable both to communities and investors. 2. By 2030, XXX countries have put in place inclusive polices and structures that support devolve decision making on adaptation investment to local governments, community- based organizations, civil society organizations and federations and incorporate local perspectives into national level development planning, adaptation planning and NDC implementation.
- 16. Nature-Based Solutions Click to edit Master subtitle style • The main goal: 400 million women, children and men benefit from reduced climate impacts as a result of nature-based solutions and increased ecological resilience by 2025. • Towards this end, the following priorities for action are proposed: 1. Five countries execute high-impact, large-scale nature-based solutions to build climate resilience for at least 25% of the population. 2. 50 cities implement new nature-based solutions as part of city-wide plans for building adaptation and resilience in order to benefit 50% of the population. 3. XX industry leaders adopt practices for initiating and expanding the use of nature- based solutions in supply chains, business operations and beyond. 4. National and city governments, non-governmental organizations and local communities have access to finance for catalyzing nature-based solutions for adaptation through the establishment of quick-start finance and project preparation facilities
- 17. Preventing Disasters • The main goal: Scale up in our ability to act ahead of extreme weather events in order to substantially reduce mortality, human suffering and the economic impact of disasters. Investment in early warning systems will be systematically coupled to investment in our ability to take early action, making the “last mile” the first mile. • Towards this end, the following priorities for action are proposed: 1. Match the amount invested in early warning system infrastructure and institutions with investment in early action in ‘last mile’ communities, building on the existing CREWS initiative. 2. Scale up financing mechanisms connected to effective early action plans. 3. Ensure people are prepared to take action through investment in awareness raising efforts on changing climate risks and early action measures. 4. Strengthen and harmonize national climate and disaster regulatory frameworks. 5. Focus on a hidden killer: Scale up heatwave early warning systems and action so that millions more people are covered by new or improved heatwave early warning systems, connected to longer-term risk management systems. (Note this goal requires specific action within each of the above areas of work). 6. Establish social protection systems help people anticipate, absorb and adapt to the impacts of climate extremes.
- 18. Year of Action The Commission will facilitate a Year of Action, starting in late 2019 and going through 2020, to advance the recommendations from the flagship report and the action tracks. The Climate Adaptation Action Summit on 22 October 2020 in the Netherlands will take stock of progress so far and challenges ahead. The Global Commission will sunset, while the Global Center will continue beyond 2020.
- 19. Immediate next steps • Global Commission meeting in Dhaka, 9-10 July • Worldwide launch of the Flagship Report, 10 September (“Follow the Sun”) • Action Track announcements, UNSG Summit 23 September • COP25 in Chile, November
- 20. For more information, visit gca.org/global-commission-on-adaptation