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Abstract

Target

By 2027, hosting developing countries and communities in climate-vulnerable, fragile, and conflict-affected settings receive improved access to climate action, including capacity-building and financing. Refugees, other forcibly displaced and stateless people living in these settings receive comparable support for climate action as nationals, through their inclusion in all relevant laws, policies, plans and programming.

Key outcomes

Pledges made as part of the Climate Action Multi-stakeholder Pledge will contribute to strengthening the protection, preparedness, and resilience of refugees, other forcibly displaced and stateless people, and their host communities to climate impacts now and in the future.

The pledge encourages diverse stakeholders to take specific actions in the following thematic areas:

• Scaled-up accessible finance: Financial actors including donor countries, International Financial Institutions/Multilateral Development Banks, development, philanthropic and private sector actors will include refugees, other forcibly displaced and stateless people, and host communities within the scope of new and existing climate action financing decisions, windows, mechanisms, strategies and/or (sub-)windows including those living in fragile and conflict affected situations. Pledges are also encouraged to simplify access to grants, concessional finance, and innovative sources of climate financing for these vulnerable communities.
• Inclusive laws, policies, and plans: Hosting countries and countries of origin – with support from relevant stakeholders - will include refugees, other forcibly displaced and stateless people in the design and implementation of their climate action policies and plans, supported by concrete provisions and dedicated resourcing. This includes in the development of and updates to National Adaptation Plans, Nationally Determined Contributions, Disaster Risk Reduction Strategies, Early Warning Systems, and Early Action protocols for early action and anticipatory action. Pledges under this pillar will also contribute to enhanced protection strategies and durable solutions for refugees and people displaced across borders in the context of the adverse effects of climate change.
• Project pipeline based on good practice: Stakeholders will collaborate to generate a pipeline of projects and programmes based on good practice, local, and traditional knowledge, for these climate vulnerable communities, regardless of age, gender, or diversity, to lead and work with partners to develop solutions to the most pressing climate challenges they are experiencing. Pledges will contribute to a pipeline of projects and programmes that support government priorities and plans, and may build on existing climate action initiatives in displacement settings, including for fragile and conflict affected contexts.