World Bank Group

11/18/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 11/16/2024 18:20

Safeguarding Human Development: Mobilizing Climate Finance for Social Protection

Climate change threatens to disproportionately impact vulnerable children and their families in all contexts, exacerbating conditions of poverty and eroding human development. While climate finance has become a topic of key importance for climate politics, it is critical to ensure that these resources can be effectively channeled to protect economically vulnerable households from the impacts of climate change.

Join UNICEF, together with the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of Population of Azerbaijan, and the World Bank Group to explore how Adaptive Social Protection can help protect human development and reduce future climate risks. Social Protection and climate finance experts will also talk about how to mobilize adaptation and Loss and Damage financing to strengthen social protection systems and resilience.

Moderator

  • Saja Abdullah
    Azerbaijan Country Representative, UNICEF

Speakers

  • Jochen Flasbarth
    State Secretary, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany
  • Loli Arribas-Banos
    Practice Manager, Social Protection Global Unit, World Bank
  • Anar Karimov
    Deputy Minister, Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of Population, Azerbaijan
  • Thomas Eriksson
    Director of the Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East Region, Green Climate Fund (GCF)
  • Tshewang Dorji
    Climate Change Specialist, Green Environmental Facility (GEF)