COP29 Daily Bulletin: Implementing Climate Finance Strategies for Sub-National Island Jurisdictions and Overseas Territories

Implementing Climate Finance Strategies for Sub-National Island Jurisdictions and Overseas Territories
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Today's Island Innovation Events @ COP29

In Baku? Today’s not-to-be missed side events are:
Implementing Climate Finance Strategies for Sub-National Island Jurisdictions and Overseas Territories
Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) and Subnational Island Jurisdictions (SNIJs) are stuck in a grey area in the legislative climate finance area when it comes to funding adaptation programmes. Join us in this session focused on identifying and solving these gaps and implementing the solutions needed for the prosperity of OCTs and SNIJs.…
Building Resilience in Pacific Small Island Developing States: A Pathway to Climate Justice
This event will highlight the critical importance of building resilience in Pacific Small Island Developing States (SIDS) through climate adaptation, sustainable agricultural practices, and capacity building. Speakers from the Pacific Islands will share insights on leveraging traditional knowledge and climate science to drive ambitious climate action aligned with the 1.5-degree Celsius temperature goal. The session will also emphasize the need for gender equity, youth engagement, and social incl…
Organiser(s): Island Innovation
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Empowering SIDS Youth: Driving Climate Justice Through Interregional Collaboration
The side event will emphasise the leadership role of young voices from Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in climate justice efforts. This event aims to provide a platform for participants to exchange their unique insights, challenges, and solutions in response to the climate impacts affecting SIDS globally. Through interregional dialogue, participants will share strategies on addressing biodiversity loss, food security, and sustainable development while discussing the intersection of climate…
Organiser(s): Island Innovation
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Response to Climate Change: The Special Case of Small Island UK Overseas Territories – Finance for Innovation and Research
​​The UK has a collection of small island Overseas Territories spread across the Caribbean, Atlantic, Pacific, Antarctic and the Indian Ocean known as UKOTs. As custodians of 94% of the UK's unique biodiversity and stewards of the sixth largest marine estate globally, UKOTs have a crucial part to play in global environmental conservation and climate resilience efforts. At the same time, the UKOTs are grappling with some of the most extreme impacts of climate change. Through this event, the UKOTs…
Organiser(s): United Kingdom Overseas Territories Association (UKOTA)
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Yesterday, the Island innovation team attended CALSTART‘s networking session in the We Mean Business Pavilion Breaking Barriers: A Networking Event to Bring Together the Zero-Emission Transport and Energy Sectors. CALSTART was one of our sponsors for the Virtual Island Summit in September.

 

At noon, we explored the specific position and challenges of Sub-National Island Jurisdictions (SNIJs) in tackling climate change and protecting their ocean ecosystems. The event took place at the Extreme Hangout Pavilion with speakers Adelina de la Jara Valido (Maritime Cluster of the Canary Islands), Minister Christine Scipio (Minister for Environment, Natural Resources and Planning, Saint Helena) and James Ellsmoor (CEO of Island Innovation).

Caribbean Climate Leaders Jeshua Bardoo, Tyrell Gittens and Genesis Whitlock spoke on a panel with youth advocate Aquanjé Robinson about the impactful youth-led initiatives created to foster climate resilience across the Caribbean.

"There is hope here in Baku. This cannot be the future to which we resign island nations", says Saint Kitts and Nevis

Yesterday, Hon. Dr. Joyelle Clarke, Minister of Sustainable Development, Environment and Climate Action and Constituency Empowerment, took the stage to address a powerful message during the Leader statements at COP29. She highlighted the severe impacts of climate change on SIDS and called out the inequities in climate finance, noting that SIDS received just 0.2% of global climate adaptation finance last year.

 

Hon. Dr. Clarke outlined Saint Kitts and Nevis’s unwavering commitment to sustainability, emphasising the imperative of decarbonising energy infrastructure, climate-proofing their utilities infrastructure and forging strategic partnerships. She invited all island nations to convene in Saint Kitts and Nevis next year for the Global Sustainable Island Summit, co-hosted with the Island Innovation team while underscored the urgent need for concerted global action.

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Today's island events at COP29

The Island Voices @ COP29 is also a platform to share information about island-related events during COP29. Here are some of today’s island related events:

NGIC – Women are the Solutionaries for Climate Crisis’

20 November, 1:00-2:30 PM (Baku)
Location: UNDP Pavilion
Org: UNDP

Providing inclusive climate risk insurance in the Caribbean through microinsurance

20 November, 9:30-11:00 AM (Baku)
Location: CARICOM Pavilion
Org: CCRIF SPF, MCII

If you have relevant COP29 updates or announcements, please contact us via [email protected], and we’ll be happy to share them (keeping in mind we have to limit promotional content).

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