The Chair of
@TheCVF
is delighted to announce the appointment of HE
@MohamedNasheed
, Hon. Speaker of the People’s Majlis, Republic of Maldives🇲🇻, as CVF Ambassador for
#Ambition
. We invite everyone to welcome
@MohamedNasheed
, representing the most vulnerable to the climate crisis
We are deeply saddened by the passing of Professor Saleemul Huq - a true champion for the most vulnerable in the face of climate change. His legacy of justice, equity, and resilience will inspire generations. May his soul rest in eternal peace. He will be profoundly missed.
Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner, CVF Thematic Ambassador for Culture, says: "It has been a fight every time to get loss and damage to become a standing item at COP. We (the CVF) need to continue to hold the big emitting countries accountable."
#COP26
The Chair of
@TheCVF
is delighted to announce the appointment of HE Tosi Mpanu-Mpanu
@tosimm
from the Democratic Republic of Congo🇨🇩, as the CVF Ambassador for
#RenewableEnergy
🌞. We invite everyone to welcome
@tosimm
, representing the most vulnerable to the climate crisis
#1o5C
We, at the CVF, would like to express our sincerest gratitude for the collective spirit and solidarity shown by over 500 civil society groups and hundreds of individuals calling for the
#GlasgowEmergencyPact
to be part of the main outcome at
#COP26
"Now our collective task is translating words into action" stated
@MohamedNasheed
, Speaker of the Parliament and Former President of the Maldives, in his conclusion to the leaders' session of the
@V20Group
#VulnerablesFinanceSummit
@MohamedNasheed
@TheCVF
Ambassador for ambition: "I am delighted to see the start of the ‘Countdown to Midnight’ campaign - encouraging countries to submit updated NDCs, under the Paris Agreement, by the end of this year."
#MidnightClimateSurvival
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The Chair of
@TheCVF
is delighted to announce the appointment of Ms
@kathykijiner
, Climate Envoy of the Marshall Islands🇲🇭, as the CVF Ambassador for
#Culture
. We invite everyone to welcome
@kathykijiner
, representing the most vulnerable to the climate crisis
#1o5C
The Secretary-General
@MohamedNasheed
was afforded an audience yesterday with His Majesty King Charles III, in Buckingham Palace. The CVF and His Majesty share many concerns regarding the environment and the climate.
Congratulations Prime Minister
@miaamormottley
and Barbados for being selected as the next president of
@TheCVF
; and
@MohamedNasheed
for becoming the first CVF Secretary-General. 👏
Today we launch the
@TheCVF
Climate Survival Leadership Barometer. It shows which countries are delivering on their climate promises, and which ones aren't. See if your country is living up to its Paris Agreement commitments here:
#midnightclimatesurvival
In its 48th session, the Human Rights Council established the mandate for a special rapporteur on human rights and climate change. We would like to commend Bangladesh and Marshall Islands on their outstanding leadership.
The
#VirtualClimateSummit
proves that it is possible to successfully mobilise on a grand scale across sectors and continents in the interest of the planet and its peoples -
emissions free! Thank you for joining. Let us take this momentum to CoP24 and beyond. Your voice counts!
Live tweeting starts now!
#SheikhHasina
opens
@TheCVF
leaders event, with a powerful speech calling on all countries to take urgent action on the climate emergency before the end of 2020.
#midnightclimatesurvival
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
@SpeakerPelosi
: "This is an existential crisis. We see it as a public health issue. Clean air and clean water, especially for the most vulnerable. We see it as an economic issue, using green and clean technology."
@nakeeyat
, CVF Thematic Ambassador for Youth, delivers a call to leaders on behalf of 1.5 billion people at
#COP27
’s stocktaking plenary to standing ovation:
“Duty bearers, kindly up your game.”
👏👏👏
#PaymentOverdue
Read her message:
Secretary-General
@MohamedNasheed
met with Maldives Finance Minister Dr Shafeeq today. They had a positive and constructive discussion about Climate Prosperity Plans, debt issues, and raising capital for climate action.
@MoFmv
MEDIA ALERT: We will host a joint press briefing with a broad coalition of CVF Ministers and civil society leaders TODAY at 6.30pm GMT in response to the
#COP26
draft text released today. We invite the
@COP26
press corps to join us. DM for details.
#GlasgowEmergencyPact
The most climate vulnerable nations spanning four continents have adopted the "Dhaka-Glasgow Declaration", outlining their demands for
#COP26
, at a high-level leaders dialogue on Tuesday. Find out what they are asking for 👇
The world’s biggest emitting countries are steering our planet towards unbearable warming 🔥 Rich governments including the
#G20
say they want to keep 1.5°C alive – but they must urgently revisit and strengthen their 2030 targets 🎯
@MohamedNasheed
@mark_lynas
#COP27
@TheCVF
countries release their manifesto for COP26. Calls for the talks to proceed without delay; for adaptation funds to be forthcoming; for countries to announce ambition annually.
.
@MohamedNasheed
Hon’ble Speaker of the People's Majlis of the Maldives and CVF Thematic Ambassador for Ambition on webinar on
#ClimateChange
Priorities on
#Health
,
#HumanRights
and
#Labor
"the Climate Prosperity Plans aims to bring development and have economic outcomes"
CVF incoming Chair, Prime Minister
@miaamormottley
and incoming SG
@MohamedNasheed
just spoke at the Independent High-Level Expert Group on Climate Finance where the need for urgent debt reform and $10tr in finance for CVF countries was emphasised.
PRESS RELEASE: Climate vulnerable
#Pacific
nations want “action on the climate emergency at COP26”
Eight
@TheCVF
Pacific island nations have adopted a Regional Communique with a set of 16 recommendations to address the regions’ most urgent
#climate
change policy priorities.
CVF Ambassador
@MohamedNasheed
warns that
#COP26
is in danger of failing unless big emitters act urgently -- to increase their emissions cuts, and make good on their promises of climate aid.
Leaders of Bangladesh and Marshall Islands highlight how their countries are suffering from extreme weather and rising seas - and urge others to step up with more action on climate change
#cop25
@President_Heine
Midnight, 31 December is survival deadline for the climate & our futures. All countries are called to submit higher NDC Paris Agreement targets showing how they will act on the
#ClimateEmergency
. Let's see which leaders step forward to act.
#MidnightClimateSurvival
@TheCVF
Hon. PM of Bangladesh,
#SheikhHasina
and Chair of the
@TheCVF
and
@V20Group
suggests ambitious action plans by developed countries to reduce their carbon emissions, to keep the global temperature rise at 1.5 degree Celsius.
Maldives Foreign Minister
@abdulla_shahid
: “
#SheikhHasina
’s vast experience and exemplary leadership of Bangladesh on climate-related issues would be invaluable in advancing the work of this important forum.”
@TheCVF
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Incoming CVF SG
@MohamedNasheed
explains how big polluting countries are “climate cheating” when setting their emission targets, highlighting findings from the Traffic Light Report.
Read the full op-ed ➡️
#FairShareNow
This morning, rich discussions took place in the
@GCAdaptation
's office in Rotterdam during our High-Level Exchange on
@COP26
. Ministers shared a similar picture of the
@TheCVF
's role, key initiatives and objectives in shaping a successful outcome for Glasgow.
CVF Secretary-General
@MohamedNasheed
on
#COP28
: "We know our dream did not die in Dubai. With this UAE Consensus COP decision, the writing is on the wall: this is the beginning of the end of fossil fuels. What we now lack is time..."
➡️Full statement:
“The creation of the fund for
#LossAndDamage
is a major milestone even though the lack of any commitment to provide funding for L&D risks the creation of an empty bank account. (1/2) Ghana
@TheCVF
special envoy Henry Kokofu reaction to the latest Presidency cover decision
#COP27
@TheCVF
Summit will take place on 22 November 2018. The
#VirtualClimateSummit
will accelerate political action to ensure we meet the goals under the Paris Agreement. Watch how the world needs to come together:
H.E. Ilana Seid, Hon. Ambassador of Palau to the UN, says her country fully supports the priority of no new coal: "Coal usage is inconsistent with the Paris Agreement goals".
#RegionalDialogue
The Secretary-General
@MohamedNasheed
met with Pakistan's Finance Minister HE Muhammed Aurangzeb, in Washington DC & briefed him on the
@TheCVF
's Climate Prosperity Plans and how we might be able to do a CPP for Pakistan.
@Financegovpk
"Our hard-fought development gains could be reversed if the 1.5 degree [climate] threshold is breached," warns
@loren_legarda
, noting the numerous typhoons that have battered the Philippines🇵🇭 in the past few weeks.
#MidnightClimateSurvival
#ClimateAction
"As legislators we can use this
@TheCVF
parliamentarians forum to learn from each other and to use our skills and powers to forcefully pursue a more ambitious approach to the global climate emergency," --
@MohamedNasheed
#MidnightClimateSurvival
We are very pleased about the creation of a dedicated
@UN_HRC
Special Rapporteur to protect and promote
#humanrights
in the context of the
#climatecrisis
at the
#HRC48
through a resolution adopted on 8 October 2021! Read our full press release below.
Day 4
@COP26
: world leaders call for the negotiating text to incorporate
@TheCVF
Climate Emergency Pact, to drive climate ambition, keep 1.5 alive, and ensure vulnerable countries receive the funds they need for adaptation and clean energy
@antonioguterres
@SaleemulHuq
Hon. Hassan Latheef, Chair of Maldivian Parliament’s General Purpose Committee "Importance of this forum knows no bounds as it helps the most vulnerable garner their issues. With a country as vulnerable as ours,
@MohamedNasheed
has always been on the forefront of climate action"
Friends & Colleagues of Prof. Dr. Saleemul Huq gathered this evening for a tribute at the
@LDCChairUNFCCC
Pavillion. Dr. Huqq was Chair of the CVF Expert Advisory Group and a true champion for the most vulnerable in the face of climate change. He will deeply be missed.
@ICCCAD
LIVE
#PetersbergClimateDialogue
@TheCVF
Member DRC led by
@Evebazaiba
Deputy PM & Minister for Env "You are talking about inequality, the forests in Congo Basin are very important, CO2 loans are cheap in & prices are low but income generated doesn't finance our adaption measures"
14 Countries devastated by a
#ClimateEmergency
and rights emergency today picked up
@TheCVF
call to the UN Human Rights Council to create a special rapporteur on
#climate
- “future generations.. will ask: what did we do?”
#HRC44
@RMIGeneva
🇧🇸🇧🇧🇨🇷🇫🇯🇬🇾🇭🇹🇯🇲🇱🇸🇲🇻🇵🇼🇸🇧🇹🇱🇻🇺🇲🇭
Live from
#BonnClimateConference
#SB58
! The CVF Secretariat Team is here for the next two weeks bringing the voice of vulnerable countries to the negotiating table. We are joined by our Chair from
@GhanaPresidency
Hon. Henry Kokofu. Reach out for more 🌳🌍
#climateaction
Day 5 @
#COP26
: the CVF outlines the importance of a delivery plan for the promised $100bn/year of climate finance for developing countries, to help them adapt to climate change and pursue green growth
Sec-Gen
@MohamedNasheed
met 🇧🇩High Commissioner Mustafizur Rahman in Delhi today. They discussed 🇧🇩's Climate Prosperity Plan, & arranging investment forum in India to drive capital to the plan's projects, including Bongoposagor Independence Giga Array wind project
@bdhc_delhi
Our CVF thematic ambassador for culture
@kathykijiner
reminds us of the crucial role that culture plays in catalyzing action for climate change. "Protection of our homes and lands is very much tied to our culture".
#RegionalDialogue
"People are no longer waiting for consensus - they are suing their governments, organizing school strikes. Gov'ts must send a signal they are responding to the
@IPCC_CH
1.5 report & enhance their NDCs
#COP24
@MohamedNasheed
: "We can’t let this crucial climate deadline slip, because the world is burning. The largest ice shelf in the Arctic has collapsed. There were so many hurricanes in the Atlantic this year they ran out of names in the alphabet."
#MidnightClimateSurvival
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Great ideas exchanged today between
@TheCVF
Presidency & CVF Parliamentarian leaders
@loren_legarda
@MohamedNasheed
@saberhc
! We're committed to promote global ambition delivery & South-South implementation. Happy to announce the CVF Global Parliamentarians mtg on Nov 25.
As explained here, world govts. must submit better 2030
#ClimateAction
target NDCs under
#ParisAgreement
by the year-end. The next date to formally submitt them is 2025. Countries that don’t submit could be off the hook for 5 years!
#MidnightClimateSurvival
Sec-Gen met Ghana's new finance minister &
@V20Group
Chair, Mohammed Amin Adam. Discussed
@TheCVF
priorities: investments & debt restructuring for climate prosperity, debt-for-nature swaps, carbon exchanges, as well as the upcoming CVF XII Ministerial in Washington.
@MoF_Ghana
Congratulations!
@RMIMission
with leadership by
@President_Heine
, officially communicated a new ambitious Commitment (NDC) to the
@UNFCCC
a year in advance becoming a front runner in saving the planet. Nothing less is acceptable response to the science &
#IPCC
report. Why wait?
Dr. Antwi Boasiako Amoah took the floor on behalf of Ghana &
@TheCVF
to congratulate the
@COP28_UAE
Presidency on the adoption of the Loss and Damage Fund, recalling Ghana & the CVF’s
#PaymentOverdue
Campaign in establishing the Fund 👏💲
PAYMENT IS OVERDUE 📢Communities most threatened by the 🌍 climate crisis suffer the most L&D & receive no agreed intl help. Join CVF’s
#PaymentOverdue
Campaign asking for L&D funding and sharing of solutions to right this wrong!
#TimeToPayUp
More info➡️
“I will continue to call for justice and solidarity in addressing the climate crisis. All your nations face worsening climate impacts. Science has long warned that we need to limit temperature rise to 1.5°C. Beyond that we risk calamity”
@antonioguterres
#VulnerablesFinanceSummit
The
#VirtualClimateSummit
is right around the corner. 24 hours of political statements, thematic panels, and input from prominent figures fighting to keep climate change at
#1o5C
. Join us and
#StepUp2018
at on November 22
Happening NOW:
@TheCVF
is conveying the Forum's Heads of Delegation for a Dinner Meeting to create a dialogue that contributes to the COP27 discussions. We have no time to waste!
High Commissioner of Samoa to Fiji, H.E. Ali’ioaiga Feturi Elisaia at our Pacific
#RegionalDialogue
, says: "We need to find how we can convince the rest of the world that climate change, like covid-19, waits for no man." 1/2
@TheCVF
Secretary-General
@MohamedNasheed
met HE Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali, Bangladesh's Finance Minister. They had a good discussion about 🇧🇩 Mujib Climate Prosperity Plan and having an investment forum for the mitigation & adaption projects within the plan.
@MohamedNasheed
: "We in
@TheCVF
may be climate vulnerable but we are not victims. We are leaders. As Ambition amb. it is my job to take our climate prosperity plans to form the nucleus of a high ambition coalition including the biggest nations."
#MidnightClimateSurvival
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🙏🏽His Majesty Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu'izzaddin Waddaulah of Brunei Darussalam, for delivering his country's
#ClimateAction
plan (NDC) under the Paris Agreement, in 2020, and helping to stop the climate crisis!
#MidnightClimateSurvival
H.E.
@MohamedNasheed
- Former President of the Maldives, Speaker of the People’s Majlis and CVF Thematic Ambassador for Ambition CVF statement in solidarity with Germany Flooding Victims
@abdulla_shahid
: “I would like to echo the words of President
@ibusolih
in his statement at the Secretary General’s Climate Action Summit last year: ‘We are asking you to do better, to do more.’”
#MidnightClimateSurvival
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.
@saberhc
, MP, Honorary
@IPUparliament
President and Chair, Bangladesh Parliamentary, Committee on the Environment, Forest and Climate Change welcomes the high-level and says "we are really looking forward to the discussions."
#RegionalDilaogue
#COP26
Webinar on
#ClimateChange
Priorities on
#Health
,
#HumanRights
and
#Labor
H.E. Dr. A. K. Abdul Momen, M.P. Hon’ble Foreign Minister, Government of Bangladesh: "Discussions on loss and damage will remain high in our agenda"