By Evans Njewa, LDC Chair Today marks ten years since the adoption of the Paris Agreement, when countries came together affirming to strengthen global cooperation to address the climate change emergency and to protect current and future generations across the world. A decade on, with COP30 freshly behind us and my term as LDC Chair coming [...]
Hon. Ana Paula Chantre de Carvalho Pereira, Minister of Environment of Angola flanked by other officials At a high-level #COP30 side event held at the Angola Pavilion in the Blue Zone, Least Developed Countries (LDCs) called for a decisive global shift from promises to tangible delivery in climate adaptation support. The event, themed “Scaling [...]
“By integrating gender and youth perspectives in our work, we can create more inclusive, resilient, and effective climate policies that address the unique challenges faced by our communities.” These were the opening words of Evans Njewa, Chair of the Least Developed Countries (LDC) Group on Climate Change, as he officially launched the Voices of Resilience campaign [...]
Evans Njewa, Chair of the LDC Group Climate change is not a distant threat — it’s an urgent crisis affecting the world’s most vulnerable nations, particularly the 45 Least Developed Countries (LDCs) that I represent. These nations, already struggling with poverty and limited resources, are bearing the brunt of a crisis that they have contributed to [...]
The Least Developed Countries (LDCs) have the largest and most rapidly growing youth population worldwide. Youth from the LDCs are not only amongst the most vulnerable, young women and men, girls and boys, can also be important agents for change if informed and empowered. In light of the 28th Conference of Parties (COP28) taking place in [...]
The first woman to chair the LDC Group in UNFCCC negotiations, Madeleine Diouf Sarr discusses what is needed to enable greater representation of women from the least developed countries in international climate decision-making spaces Madeleine Diouf Sarr is the first woman to chair the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) Group since it began negotiating as a bloc within the UN Framework [...]
Sonam P Wangdi Some weeks ago, torrential rains swept across Haiti for three days, taking lives as rivers across the centre and northern parts of the island overtopped their banks, affecting thousands.For me, it brings back sad memories of last year’s monsoon season as Least Developed Countries (LDCs) across South East Asia grappled with unusually heavy [...]
Cecilia Silva Bernardo I have been working on climate change in my home country of Angola for the past ten years. I don’t know how I fell in love with climate adaptation – the process of preparing and adjusting to actual and expected climate changes – but something drew me to it. In December 2016, the [...]
Manjeet Dhakal The coronavirus pandemic adds yet another shock to the multiple challenges that more than a billion people living in the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) already face in day-to-day life. It is much more than a health crisis. It has the potential to create devastating health, social, economic and environmental crises that will leave a [...]
By Sonam P. Wangdi Earth Day 2020 and we are living amidst two global crises. We face a pandemic and a changing climate, both with devastating and far reaching impacts. Both disproportionately impacting the poor and vulnerable, and magnifying existing challenges. The theme for Earth Day is climate action, recognizing that climate change presents a grave [...]
By Sonam P. Wangdi Nestled in the foothills of the Himalayas, surrounded by wispy clouds and ancient forests that go on for miles, there lies my home country of the Kingdom of Bhutan. A small, pristine oasis of only 800,000 people, well known for its Gross National Happiness Index, Bhutan ranks highly in economic freedom, ease [...]
Tenzin Wangmo and Manjeet Dhakal Rules alone will not get us anywhere; we need urgent and more ambitious climate action 2019 will be a critical year for carrying forward the momentum on climate action generated last year through COP24, the Talanoa Dialogue and the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C (1.5°C Special Report). Although [...]
Xaysomphone Souvannavong is deputy director of the Division of Climate Change Promotion in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic Department of Climate Change, Lao PDR. She is also a junior climate negotiator– representing Lao PDR at the UN climate change talks. In this blog, she explains how a recent training workshop she attended gave her the tools to [...]
