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🤝 Meet our partners 🤝 Since 1997, Euroquality - Tinexta Group has been a leading French service provider specializing in the setup and management of innovation and collaborative projects. With offices in Paris and Bordeaux, they bring a wealth of experience and a strong network of partners to our initiative. 🔹 Role in CLIMATEFIT: Euroquality - Tinexta Group is dedicated to CLIMATEFIT results outreach, communication, and dissemination, ensuring our findings reach a broad audience and inform sustainable finance policies, as well as supporting all the consortium with the management of the project.   👉 Access our website to learn more about Euroquality and what they do in the project: EQY – ClimateFit (climatefit-heu.eu)   This is it for our Technical partners…Next week, you will start learning about our Local Facilitators 🌟 Team members: Amandine Josseron and Johanna Mahele World Climate Foundation | University of Antwerp | SEI — Stockholm Environment Institute | CMCC Foundation - Centro Euro Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici | ICLEI Europe |Actierra | @SustainAdvisory Srl | Forum per la Finanza Sostenibile (ItaSIF) |Ramboll | Euroquality - Tinexta Group |ENVIROS, s.r.o. | Ambiente Italia S.r.l.|Agency ENERGAP| AdEPorto - Agência de Energia do Porto | Alba Local Energy Agency - ALEA| Diputación Provincial de Ávila | Agence du climat, le guichet des solutions | COMUNE DI BRESCIA | Vlaamse Gewest |Ville et Eurométropole de Strasbourg | @Alba Iulia Smart City | Stad Genk |Embuild - The Belgian Construction Association | Paris Europlace | Fondul Roman pentru Eficienta Energiei | CINEA - European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency

🐝 Biodiversity represents a crucial factor in mitigation (thanks to the absorption of CO2) and adaptation to climate change.    🦋 Forum per la Finanza Sostenibile - ItaSIF has just released the paper “Sustainable finance and biodiversity”, aiming at enhancing the understanding of the topic and increasing awareness of the economic and financial value of biodiversity.    🐛 Biodiversity and climate change are profoundly interconnected. Indeed, climate affects ecosystem balances: under a scenario aligned with the 1.5°C target increase in global average temperatures, the negative consequences on biodiversity are less severe than under a scenario of a 2°C target increase. Biodiversity, in turn, determines significant climate effects and is a crucial factor in mitigation (through CO2 absorption) and adaptation (Finance for Biodiversity Foundation 2023).     🍃For example, coastal, riverine, and mangrove forests are crucial in protecting against extreme climate events. Tree roots provide defence against waves and act as natural reservoirs during heavy rainfall; conversely, in areas where forest cover has been reduced or even eliminated, there is an increase in landslides and property damage (Dunn Rutherford and Liske 2021).     🔎 Read the full paper here 👉 https://lnkd.in/dmZHr5wj 

📢 NEW LAUNCH | Enabling framework conditions (EFCs) are vital for scaling national and subnational climate finance. They provide regulatory clarity, enhance institutional capacity, mitigate investment risks, promote stakeholder engagement, and improve access to finance, thus supporting long-term sustainability. The CCFLA/#UrbanAct Assessment Tool is designed to help governments improve their access to climate finance by evaluating their enabling framework conditions (EFCs). 🔗 Learn more about the tools and download, here: https://bit.ly/EFCs Further information is also available at United Nations ESCAP’s Inclusive, Low Carbon, Resilient, Smart and Sustainable Cities: https://lnkd.in/gFiNgqEX #UrbanAct #UrbanClimateFinance #NetZeroCities #EFCs #EnablingFrameworkConditions #SustainableCities #GreenGrowth #ClimateAction #MultiLevelClimateAction Jessie Press-Williams Priscilla Negreiros Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH International Climate Initiative Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) TU Dortmund University University of Stuttgart

🌍 We are thrilled to announce that CLIMATEFIT has successfully launched a workshop to kick off investment strategies with lead cases in Flanders (BE), Brescia (IT), Strasbourg (FR), and Alba Iulia (RO). 🎉 The workshop brought together local facilitators, public authorities, and project partners to: 🔹 Discuss regional priorities for investment strategies 🔹 Equip participants with the knowledge and tools to overcome investment barriers 🔹 Engage local governments and develop effective partnerships By addressing both theoretical and practical aspects, we aimed to facilitate impactful investment projects. Involving public authorities in our investment strategy methodology is crucial, and we plan to cover all twenty territories in the coming months with similar workshops. These workshops mark a significant step forward in our mission to create a robust investment strategy for climate adaptation financing. We are excited about the journey ahead and look forward to working closely with our partners to build resilient and sustainable communities. 🌱🤝

Adaptation is about change management, and most people aren't instinctively good at change. This paper unpicks the issues and identifies the skills that will carry organisations forwards.

🌍Adaptation and Resilience are vital to tackling the escalating impacts of climate change. As one of the four core dimensions of the FAST-Infra Label, it plays a crucial role in ensuring investments in infrastructure meet current needs while preparing for future challenges. With the climate adaptation financing gap in developing countries estimated at $194-366 billion, United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI)'s new framework provides a Five Dimensional Framework for Investors to measure the impact of Adaptation and Resilience and accelerate private sector involvement.📊💡 Read the full report here https://lnkd.in/diFDbJGm #ClimateChange #Resilience #Adaptation #Infrastructure #FASTInfra #ClimateAction #SustainableInvestment #ClimateFinance #DisasterRiskReduction #TCFD #UNEPFI #FutureReady #Sustainability #GreenFinance #ClimateAdaptation #ClimateResilience #FASTInfra #FutureProof #ClimateFinance

🤝 Meet our partners 🤝 🏢 About Ramboll: With a strong commitment to sustainable solutions, Ramboll is an engineering company leveraging deep local insight and a robust global knowledge base to create sustainable societies and drive positive change for clients and partners. As partner for Sustainable Change, Ramboll helps stakeholders achieve their goals and navigate the transition to a more sustainable future. 💡 Role in CLIMATEFIT: Ramboll will play a crucial role in supporting stakeholder engagement across territories using a systemic and catalytic approach to climate resilience funding and financing. Additionally, Ramboll will oversee the Fast track mechanism for the four leader case studies, ensuring they progress as front runners throughout the project. 🌍💼🌱 #EUMissions #HorizonEU #MissionClimateAdaptation World Climate Foundation | Research Group for Urban Development - University of Antwerp | SEI — Stockholm Environment Institute | CMCC Foundation - Centro Euro Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici | ICLEI Europe | Actierra | SustainAdvisory Srl | Ramboll | Euroquality - Tinexta Group | Enviros Group | Ambiente Italia S.r.l. | Agency ENERGAP | AdEPorto - Agência de Energia do Porto | Alba Local Energy Agency - ALEA | Diputación Provincial de Ávila | Agence du climat, le guichet des solutions | COMUNE DI BRESCIA | Departement Omgeving | Ville et Eurométropole de Strasbourg | Municipiul Alba Iulia | Stad Genk | Paris Europlace | Fondul Roman pentru Eficienta Energiei | CINEA - European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency Team members: Alice FERRANT, Louise de Torcy, Benoît BULLIOT, Noémie Autran

The Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) announced its collaboration with The World Bank and the Government of Bangladesh to improve climate-resilience and gender-responsive urban infrastructure and urban management capacities as part of the US$560 million World Bank’s Resilient Urban and Territorial Development Project #RUTDP. Read the full press release: https://lnkd.in/e6wCbPx6

IFC - International Finance Corporation is anchoring a $300 million #greenbond issuance by Georgia Global Utilities through a subscription of $40 million, to improve outdated water infrastructure and equipment and expand the country's water network. This issuance—the largest ever by a Georgian private company— is expected to lead to enhanced water services for 1.3 million people, approximately 35 percent of Georgia's population. https://lnkd.in/ey4JxHBg

Join CCFLA's Priscilla Negreiros, Jessie Press-Williams and other sector experts for the launch of the Urban-Act National and Subnational Assessment Tools, and learn from countries and cities about their efforts to create the ideal conditions for urban climate finance. Sustainable multi-level financing for urban climate action hinges on having strong enabling framework conditions (EFCs) in place. These EFCs ensure regulatory clarity, bolster institutional capacity, reduce investment risks, encourage stakeholder engagement, and enhance access to finance for lasting sustainability. 📅 Wednesday 31 June 2024 🕓 15:00 - 16:00 (Bangkok time, GMT+7) ↘ Register here: https://lnkd.in/gAHa6uM4