Climate Vulnerable Forum

Representing 74 nations on the frontlines of the climate crisis with @V20Group. CVF Presidency Chair: @miaamormottley 🇧🇧

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#BREAKING
Khalilur Rahman of Bangladesh ELECTED as President of the General Assembly at its 81th session (Sep 2026-Sep 2027) @UN_PGA

Total ballots: 190
Abstentions: 0

Votes obtained
Khalilur Rahman: 99
Andreas S. Kakouris: 91

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Participants explored risk layering through Caribbean case studies, assessing existing CDRFI policies & risk transfer mechanisms. The exercise highlighted how CDRFI strengthens disaster risk management by enabling institutions to manage risks more efficiently and comprehensively.

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The CARICOM in-person workshop has come to a close, but the commitment to charting a path toward climate prosperity remains steadfast. Discussions on the final day focused on adaptation finance, loss and damage financing needs, and risk layering.

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Geneva Oliverie of CVF-V20 Secretariat presented the proposed Regional Training Adaptation Hub for Caribbean, under the V20 Loss and Damage Funding Program. This aims to close protection gaps for MSMEs and communities, advance locally-led adaptation & social protection solutions.

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The first day ended with a networking session among the participating senior officials of CARICOM members, reiterating priorities in scaling concessionality, mobilizing private capital, promoting country ownership, and advocating for shock-responsive debt instruments.

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The CVF-V20 began its two-day in-person workshop in Barbados, bringing together Caribbean countries to discuss priorities and challenges in shaping climate finance architecture and shock-responsive financial instruments that support climate prosperity and disaster risk resilience

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The final session explored risk layering opportunities for the Caribbean, especially among MSMEs, cooperatives, smallholder farmers, and vulnerable households. This featured existing initiatives to address the critical protection gaps that persists at the meso and micro levels.

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This first #CVFScienceBulletin summarizes what we know, what remains uncertain, and what CVF-V20 governments should be doing now. Download here: 🔗https://t.co/dXfFHqMe9r

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A strong El Niño is highly likely to develop in the tropical Pacific, with a real possibility of rare "super" intensity. The next 18 months risk compounding food, water, health, and fiscal shocks on an already record-warm baseline. 🔗https://t.co/dXfFHqMe9r #CVFScienceBulletin

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The benchmarking visit reflects a deliberate shift in how climate-vulnerable countries approach governance reform, drawing on peer exchange and practical institutional lessons from across the Global South rather than relying solely on prescriptions from elsewhere. #CVFGPG

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A delegation of Gambian lawmakers traveled to Nairobi to study how Kenya built one of Africa’s most advanced climate governance systems, as The Gambia moves closer to passing its own climate change law. 🔗https://t.co/Bf43WDBZi1 #ClimateProsperity

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"Pakistan's Climate Prosperity Plan must not collect dust. It must collect checks."

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Country platforms, sovereign sustainability-linked bonds, and coherent national budgeting were put forward as the path forward.
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