• Launch Event – the Extreme Heat Risk Governance Framework and Toolkit

    Luxembourg’s Pavilion, COP30 Belém, Brazil

    Global launch – Extreme Heat Risk Governance Framework & Toolkit, developed in response to appeals of nations / stakeholders for support in tackling extreme heat, and UNSG's Call to Action. Objectives: Commitments to integrated, multi-sectoral, multi-temporal action to prevent, mitigate and manage escalating extreme heat risks. Launch Framework and Toolkit. Showcase Luxembourg’s climate governance / […]

  • Counting What Matters: Cabo Verde’s Climate Budgeting for Resilient SIDS Futures

    Luxembourg’s Pavilion, COP30 Belém, Brazil

    Cabo Verde is leading by example in the global effort to combat climate change, despite being a SIDS with limited resources. While contributing only 0.002% to global greenhouse gas emissions, it has committed to ambitious climate goals as part of its NDC. However, achieving these goals depends heavily on the availability of national and international […]

  • Cabo Verde’s Climate Compass: Navigating Adaptation Across Institutions, Knowledge, and Communities

    Luxembourg’s Pavilion, COP30 Belém, Brazil

    Cabo Verde is setting a strong example in the global fight against climate change. As a small island developing state (SIDS) with limited resources and contributing only 0.002% to global emissions, the country has nonetheless committed to ambitious climate goals through its Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC). Achieving these goals—both mitigation and adaptation—requires strong coordination and […]

  • Impact of Climate Change on Gender Equality, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights and Gender-based Violence

    Luxembourg’s Pavilion, COP30 Belém, Brazil

    The presents the intersections of climate change, health, gender equality, and the rights of women and girls, drawing on evidence from South Sudan. Climate shocks such as floods and droughts disrupt fragile health systems, limiting access to sexual and reproductive health services, increasing maternal risks, and heightening exposure to gender-based violence, particularly in displacement settings. […]

  • Blended Finance for Inclusive Green Finance: Unlocking Capital for Climate Resilience

    Luxembourg’s Pavilion, COP30 Belém, Brazil

    This session (panel format) examines how blended finance, using public and philanthropic funding to mobilize private capital, can be a way to ensure sustainable financing for inclusive green finance (IGF) initiatives. The event aims to showcase how financial regulators and central banks in developing economies can create conditions for scalable and inclusive climate finance by […]

  • The impact of locally-led nature-based solutions, now and in the future

    Luxembourg’s Pavilion, COP30 Belém, Brazil

    It will start with testimonies about Friendship’s mangroves afforestation in Bangladesh to put the people living on the frontline of the climate crisis at the centre of the discussions. Friendship’s nomination as finalist for the Earthshot Prize highlights the relevance and efficiency of the Luxembourg international climate finance and its enabling role to pilot-test the […]

  • Tracking Water Resilience: Measuring Progress in WASH and through Transboundary Lens under the Global Goal on Adaptation

    Luxembourg’s Pavilion, COP30 Belém, Brazil

    This side-event will explore progress in enhancing climate resilience of WASH and in transboundary basins. Building on the UAE–Belém Work Programme on Indicators, the event will showcase how robust water-related indicators can strengthen measuring progress under the global goal on adaptation highlighting the benefits of climate-informed transboundary management and cooperation in adaptation in this respect. […]

  • Capital Meets Climate: Unlocking Investment by Connecting Governments, Philanthropies, and the Private sector

    Luxembourg’s Pavilion, COP30 Belém, Brazil

    This event will examine how catalytic capital can mobilize private investment to accelerate innovative climate solutions, generate impact at scale, and open new pathways for sustainable development. Guillaume Bonnel, CEO of SIFI, will open the session by outlining SIFI’s mission to leverage catalytic capital to drive innovation in impact investing. He will highlight SIFI’s platform […]