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🌿 Mangroves: Natural Guardians for Sri Lanka's Coastlines! 🌊 Discover how mangroves are a powerful ally for risk reduction and climate change adaptation in Sri Lanka! From carbon sequestration to shoreline stabilization, these ecosystems play a crucial role in protecting coastal communities. They support biodiversity, sustain fisheries, and offer a cost-effective solution for coastal protection. 🤝 Let's work together to conserve and restore these vital ecosystems for a resilient future. #MangroveConservation #DisasterRiskReduction #ClimateResilience #SriLankaCoasts #SustainableSolutions Dennis Mombauer Vositha Wijenayake Adaptation Fund Mangroves Ecosystem SLYCAN Trust Youth Kavindu Ediriweera Dulanga Witharanage Thilini Gunathilake Mayantha Madurasinghe Shifaz Ameer ClimaComms

☀️ Rising day- and nighttime temperatures, #heat waves, and heat stress 🥵 are increasingly prevalent due to #climatechange and can cause severe impacts on human #health, #livelihoods, and wellbeing as well as natural ecosystems. 👏🏿We welcome the UN Secretary-General's Call to Action on this important thematic area for climate change #adaptation, addressing #lossanddamage, mitigation, and a #justtransition! ➡️ SLYCAN Trust researches how heat affects different sectors, such as the #fashion and garment industry in countries like #SriLanka 🇱🇰, and how #riskmanagement instruments can protect those who are vulnerable--such as #entrepreneurs, artisans, small businesses, or workers in textile factories. This builds on our research on #urban heat adaptation plans, climate #risktransfer, and non-economic loss, as well as our work on entrepreneurship, youth, gender, health, human mobility, and other relevant thematic areas. UN Climate Change COP28 UAE COP29 Azerbaijan EthicalX: Climate & Innovation Hub SLYCAN Trust Youth The Adaptation Research Alliance weADAPT Learn - Share - Connect World Adaptation Science Programme Anticipation Hub Climate and Health Alliance CLIMAFUGE Global Shield against Climate Risks Insurance Development Forum Descartes Underwriting Kay Tuschen Vositha Wijenayake Dennis Mombauer Marek Szilvasi

📣 #Senegal 🇸🇳 has kicked off its in-country process under the G7/V20 Global Shield against Climate Risks with the first stocktaking workshop on Tuesday and Wednesday in Dakar. ➡️ Pre-arranged financial solutions (such as #insurance) can be an important part of the toolkit for managing #climaterisks in an increasingly complex and changing environment 🌍. For these solutions to be effective, it is vital to design and implement them through #inclusive, #evidence-based, and multi-stakeholder-driven processes. 👋 Our fellow Gabriel Pierre D. NDIAYE was at the workshop to contribute to a successful outcome that will help build long-term #resilience in Senegal and protect those who are most vulnerable to climate change impacts and climate-induced #lossanddamage. EthicalX: Climate & Innovation Hub ClimaComms Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) & Vulnerable Twenty Group (V20) UN Climate Change COP28 UAE COP29 Azerbaijan Insurance Development Forum Access to Insurance Initiative (A2ii) The Geneva Association ReliefWeb Anticipation Hub

🌍🇧🇩 Our team members Kavindu Ediriweera, Dulanga Witharanage & Henry Mitchel were a part of the cohort attending the South Climate Conclave: Sylhet Chapter, focused on Sustainable Energy to Mitigate Climate Change last week. 🗓️The event, organised by GenLab in collaboration with SDJF (Sri Lanka), ORF (India), ISSR (Nepal), and NUSAN, is part of the Climate Action Champions Network (CACN) supported by the U.S. Department of State. 50 cohorts from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka participated in a hackathon to refine problem statements, brainstorm ideas, and develop solution-based pitches. ♻️The conclave also brought together South Asian policymakers, climate experts, researchers, and stakeholders to discuss regional climate policies and the potential for sustainable energy solutions through cross-border collaboration and capacity-building measures. #ClimateAction #SustainableEnergy #SouthClimateConclave #CACN #ClimateChampions #Genlab

Have you signed up for ClimaComms x SLYCAN Trust Youth upcoming chat on Small Actions: BIG Impact yet? Happening at the Climacomms lab! 🌍 Let's explore how #individual actions can integrate into #global efforts for nature conservation and #climateaction. Discover the power of small actions in creating a big impact and learn about the enabling environment that supports these efforts. Registrations now open (QR Code) #ClimateAction #NatureConservation #SustainableFuture #Climate2.0 #SLYCANTrust #Climatecommunication #Sustainableliving #Ecoconsciouslifestyle ClimaComms SLYCAN Trust Youth Aisha Wahab Narthanie Serasinghe Dulanga Witharanage Dennis Mombauer Vositha Wijenayake Kavindu Ediriweera Mayantha Madurasinghe Thilini Gunathilake Shifaz Ameer

🌿 Join us for an engaging session hosted by Climate 2.0 by SLYCAN Trust! 🌍 Explore how individual actions can integrate into global efforts for nature conservation and climate action. Discover the power of small actions in creating a big impact and learn about the enabling environment that supports these efforts. Registrations now open (QR Code) #ClimateAction #NatureConservation #SustainableFuture #Climate2.0 #SLYCANTrust

📣 Mabel Zúñiga is another member of our Global Climate Change #Fellowship programme, a young negotiator from #Panama 🇵🇦 and SLYCAN Trust fellow. ▶️ Read this blog post about her experience at the Bonn Climate Change Conference 2024 (#SB60) in June and advancing the #adaptation agenda, including on the Global Goal on Adaptation (#GGA)! Gabriel Pierre NDIAYE Esther Mireku Francis Opolot Thibyan Ibrahim Vositha Wijenayake Kavindu Ediriweera Dennis Mombauer Marek Szilvasi Nicolás Zambrano Gabriel S.J Mara UN Climate Change COP28 UAE COP29 Azerbaijan United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) The Adaptation Research Alliance weADAPT Learn - Share - Connect World Adaptation Science Programme Global Shield against Climate Risks Mohamed Nasr Dr Stephen Minas Sadya Ndoko Adaptation Fund #GNS #GlobalNegotiationsSupport

📣 Another member of our Global Climate Change #Fellowship programme is Gabriel S.J Mara, a young Fijian 🇫🇯 negotiator and G77 and China coordinator on National #Adaptation Plans. ▶️ Read this blog post about his experience at the Bonn Climate Change Conference 2024 (#SB60) in June and key takeaways from the #NAP agenda item! Gabriel Pierre NDIAYE Mabel Zúñiga Francis Opolot Kavindu Ediriweera Vositha Wijenayake Thibyan Ibrahim Dennis Mombauer Marek Szilvasi Nicolás Zambrano UN Climate Change COP28 UAE COP29 Azerbaijan United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) Global Shield against Climate Risks The Adaptation Research Alliance Loss and Damage News Tracker Mohamed Nasr weADAPT Learn - Share - Connect Anticipation Hub ReliefWeb Sadya Ndoko #GNS #GlobalNegotiationsSupport

📣 How can we communicate the #climatecrisis in #creative, #innovative, and #artistic ways? ▶️ ClimaComms aims to explore this important question and engage with partners and collaborators through a range of activities. For example, this includes: 💬 Climate 2.0 dialogues (with SLYCAN Trust Youth and other partners) 📸 Photography exhibition on #lossanddamage and #humanmobility in #Ghana 🇬🇭, #Maldives 🇲🇻, Sri Lanka, and #Uganda 🇺🇬 (see below) 👕 Multimedia #fashion exhibition on climate-friendly fashion, cultural heritage, and young designers from #SriLanka 🇱🇰 with EthicalX: Climate & Innovation Hub and CLIMAFUGE 🎬 #Filmmaking on sustainable and climate-smart entrepreneurship in the fashion sector and issues of #culturalloss 📰 #Media and journalism, working with climate #communicators 📚 #Climatefiction and the #climatecrisis jn literature (e.g., Dennis Mombauer "The House of Drought") 🎶 #Musical compositions (WIP) 🎭 #Theater (e.g., Amazon Theatrix) 📧 If you are interested in this question and would like to engage, please let us know: climacomms@slycantrust.org SLYCAN Trust UN Climate Change United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) COP28 UAE COP29 Azerbaijan weADAPT Learn - Share - Connect Mongabay ResilienceLinks FARM-D Anticipation Hub ReliefWeb Climate Communications Coalition Climate Change and Migration Coalition Climate Migration Council Loss and Damage News Tracker The Adaptation Research Alliance World Adaptation Science Programme

📣 It was a great experience to work with a wonderful group of committed negotiators during the UN Climate Change Bonn #ClimateChange Conference 2024 (#SB60) through our Global Climate Change #Fellowship programme and the Global Negotiations Support (#GNS) initiative! 🌍 ▶️ Read this blog post from Esther Mireku, a young negotiator from #Ghana 🇬🇭 and a SLYCAN Trust fellow and research associate since 2023, about her experience at the June sessions and how to navigate the complexities of multilateral #negotiations on #lossanddamage! Osman F. Yong, MSc, MPhil Gabriel S.J Mara Mabel Zúñiga Francis Opolot Kavindu Ediriweera Thibyan Ibrahim Nicolás Zambrano Gabriel Pierre NDIAYE Vositha Wijenayake Dennis Mombauer United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) Global Shield against Climate Risks The Adaptation Research Alliance Loss and Damage News Tracker COP29 Azerbaijan Mohamed Nasr weADAPT Learn - Share - Connect Anticipation Hub ReliefWeb Marek Szilvasi Sadya Ndoko