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Issue-based Coalition on Climate Change and Resilience

IBC on Climate Change and Resilience

Issue-based Coalition on Climate Change and Resilience

SDGs
Cover of Goal 1 No poverty
Cover of Goal 2 Zero hunger
Cover of Goal 03 Good health and well being
Cover of Goal 4 Quality education
Cover of Goal 5 Gender equality
Cover of Goal 6 Clean water and sanitation
Cover of Goal 7 Affordable and clean energy
Cover of Goal 8 Decent work and economic growth
Cover of Goal 9 Industry, innovation and infrastructure
Cover of Goal 10 Reduce inequalities
Cover of Goal Sustainable cities and communities
Cover of Goal 12 Responsible consumption and production
Cover of Goal 13 Climate action
Cover of Goal 14 Life below water
Cover of Goal 15 Life on land
Cover of Goal 16 Peace, justice and strong institutions
Cover of Goal 17 Partnerships for the goals
Co-Chairs
UNDRR
UNEP
Observers
UNFCCC Secretariat
Members
FAO
WFP
UNOPS
UNDP
OCHA
ECLAC
ILO
IOM
PAHO
UNDRR
UNFPA
UNHCR
UNICEF
UNODC
UN WOMEN
UNDCO
UNESCO
UN-HABITAT
UNIDO
DPPA
WMO
UNEP

The Issue-based Coalition on Climate Change and Resilience (IBC-CCR) of the Regional Collaborative Platform for Latin America and the Caribbean aims to enable United Nations agencies to work together to support a coherent and aligned implementation of the Global Agendas, including the 2030 Agenda, the UNFCCC, including the Paris Agreement, and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030. This IBC aims to strengthen and streamline inter-agency coordination and UN system accountability on climate change, resilience, and disaster risk reduction (DRR) at the regional and sub-regional levels.

The IBC-CCR supports this integrated approach for the implementation of climate change and resilience through joint programming, regional sectoral coordination mechanisms, intergovernmental processes, and knowledge exchange, and upholds the principle of “Leaving No One Behind” as a core approach that guides its work.

Notably, the group also serves as an entry point for the United Nations system at the regional and country levels to access general technical support on climate change, disaster risk reduction, and resilience from the region, considering as well the need for an inclusive and green COVID-19 recovery.

Services

• Provision of technical assistance for the development of inter-agency programming and advocacy on climate action and disaster risk reduction, wildfires, green economic transformations, El Niño event and gender-environment integration.
• Develop joint approaches to address climate change and build resilience, including inter-agency work in Amazonia subregion and in small island developing States (SIDS).

• Share documents, lessons learnt and good practices and support United Nations country teams, as necessary and possible, with information, tools, resources, and technical reviews (on issues, such as climate change, disaster risk reduction, wildfires, green economic transformations, El Niño event, and gender-environment integration).
• Provide updates on negotiations and agreements, and analysis of regional implications of multilateral environmental agreements.
• Share analysis of policy coherence disaster risk resilience/climate change adaptation/sustainable development (already available for 16 Caribbean countries).
• Share analysis of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and of long-term strategies.

• Provide informational resources about the biodiversity framework.

• Training sessions for United Nations country teams and/or external counterparts (as requested through the Resident Coordinators) on: United Nations Plan of Action on Resilience and United Nations country teams support for Sustainable Development Cooperation Frameworks and Common Country Analysis.
• Webinars and technical meetings on: climate change, disaster risk reduction, wildfires, green economic transformations, El Niño event, and gender-environment integration.
• Webinars on disaster risk reduction, financial mechanisms, and resilient infrastructures.

• Dissemination of key messages related to the environmental dimension of sustainable development, climate action, resilience and disaster risk reduction (through policy briefs, toolkits, webinars, technical documents, etc.), especially on: Early Warning for All, the Santiago Network on loss and damage, comprehensive risk management, COP29 and COP30 to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and COP16 to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity.

• Development of joint positioning within the IBC on Climate Change and Resilience in regional events, especially on: Santiago Network on loss and damage, COP29 and COP30 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Latin America and the Caribbean Climate Week, and COP16 to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, Early Warning for All, the Forum of Ministers of Environment of Latin America and the Caribbean, among others.
  • Community on Climate Change and Resilience

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