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The Green Climate Fund aims to support transformational pathways to climate-resilient development, intends to reach those most vulnerable, and commits to a gender-sensitive approach. This session presents an important way of putting these commitments into practice: by engaging small grants funds. These funds can provide the much needed channel between large international institutions and local communities adapting to climate change, and assure financing reaches women and men to contribute to transformative climate action. But how to make this shift in how financing is delivered? The audience will be actively engaged in the discussion to come to concrete suggestions to strengthen local access and gender responsiveness of climate finance.
Globally, the area that is suffering desertification and land degradation is ever expanding. Unsustainable and often large-scale agricultural practices, including the copious use of pesticides and fertilizers, are a major driver of land degradation, aprocess that is further exacerbated by climate change, causing more erratic rainfall patterns, longer periods of drought and unpredictable growing seasons. This is very problematic not only for the hundreds of millions of people who directly depend on land and water for their livelihoods, but also for life on earth as a whole. It is clear that this process must be stopped and reversed, better sooner than later. But how to go about it?
In oktober 2022 publiceerde de Nederlandse regering een beleid ter uitvoering van de COP26-verklaring waarin ze beloofde om de overheidsfinanciering voor fossiele-brandstofprojecten in het buitenland eind 2022 stop te zetten. Helaas zitten er in het voorgestelde beleid nogal wat 'mazen' die het voor de Nederlandse overheid mogelijk maken om nog zeker een jaar grote fossiele projecten in het buitenland te blijven steunen. Deze projecten lopen vaak jaren en zullen nog tientallen jaren een negatieve impact hebben op de landen waar ze plaatsvinden.
