Conference
SPARC at COP29
At COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, SPARC researchers will share new perspectives on how to scale up climate action and finance in some of the world's most climate-vulnerable places.
Event date and time 11th November 2024 12:00am +04
A lot of SPARC’s research looks at how to tackle the long-term drivers of crises, including climate disasters, in hard-to-reach or fragile contexts – places where people lack the institutions and support needed to anticipate, absorb or adapt to climate shocks, and where the state and international organisations do not always have a presence.
In these contexts, building people’s climate resilience requires more than additional finance and support for climate mitigation and adaptation: it also entails cross-sector efforts to address the poverty, instability and conflict which make people vulnerable to climate impacts in the first place.
At COP28 in 2023, SPARC was listed as a key part of the UK government’s package of solutions for scaling up climate action in fragile and conflict-affected places. At COP29, we will continue to share our new research on a range of topics:
- how addressing long-term drivers of climate vulnerability – including water scarcity, food insecurity, and land degradation and restoration – can help fragile and conflict-affected countries in the drylands to build their climate resilience;
- calculating losses and damages for countries across the Sahel and Greater Horn of Africa;
- understanding transboundary climate risks.
More information on SPARC participation at COP29 will be shared here as it becomes available. Please check this page for updates, or get in touch with our team at communications [at] sparc-knowledge [dot] org.
A mother leads her goats to pasture in the drought-afflicted Somali region of Ethiopia, 2022. Credit: UNICEF Ethiopia/Mulugeta Ayene.
