Book Launch Discussion – 2024 Stories of Resilience: Local Adaptation in Practice

Following the book launch on the 13th, this event at COP29 will bring together climate finance providers and recipients to discuss current efforts, systemic change, and mutual accountability in scaling locally led adaptation.

Event description

2024 Stories of Resilience: Local Adaptation in Practice
What are development partners, multilateral institutions, and national governments doing, to support locally led adaptation (LLA) and channel flexible finance to climate vulnerable communities?
What have been their successes and challenges?
What systemic changes are necessary, to scale up LLA?
How can providers of finance be more accountability to poor communities?
What does the research community need to do, to be more responsive to the adaptation needs of climate-vulnerable communities?
What needs to change in the way we define and operationalize partnerships?
What does loss and damage finance have to do with LLA?

Find answers on these and many more questions on how to make adaptation more effective for vulnerable communities, at the launch of
2024 Stories of Resilience: Local Adaptation in Practice

Event Overview
COP29, dubbed the ‘finance COP’, will have a key focus on climate finance as negotiators are expected to conclude negotiations on a new collective quantified goal on climate finance. The Paris Agreement calls for this new goal to be agreed prior to COP30, from a floor of US$ 100 billion per year. In addition to quantity, however, discussions on ways of delivering the finance to vulnerable communities most in need are critical. Longstanding issues around access, flexibility, predictability and community-oriented monitoring and evaluation processes need to be resolved.  
 
For the launch event of the 2024 Stories of Resilience, a moderated discussion will take place between the providers and recipients of climate finance on: 

• Current efforts by climate finance providers, to support LLA.  
• Supporting systemic change to scale LLA. 
• Supporting mutual accountability.