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Safeguarding Human Development: Mobilizing Climate Finance for Social Protection

Adaptive social protection can protect economically vulnerable children and families, safeguard human capital, and reduce climate change risks. Climate finance specialists will share insights on mobilizing adaptation and Loss and Damage financing to strengthen social protection systems and resilience.

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.

Time (UTC+4): 17:00 - 17:45 in Baku, Azerbaijan

Time (UTC-5): 8:00 - 8:45 AM in Washington, DC

Location: World Bank Group Pavilion at COP29

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)

Date: November 18, 2024

Time: 08:00 AM - 08:45 AM ET

Location: World Bank Group Pavilion at COP29 and Online