Mobilization and Access to Climate Finance in the Arab Region

6-7 November 2019 | Cairo, Egypt

The workshop was organized under the auspices of the Needs-based Climate Finance Project (NBF Project) of UN Climate Change, with support from the UNFCCC-WGEO Regional Collaboration Centre for Middle East, North Africa and South Asia – RCC Dubai, in collaboration with the League of Arab States (LAS) secretariat and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UN ESCWA).

As encapsulated in the Paris Agreement, there is an urgent need to enhance the provision of finance, technology and capacity-building and to ensure predictability and alignment of finance for nationally defined climate and sustainable development goals.

In this context, the UNFCCC-WGEO Regional Collaboration Centre for Middle East, North Africa and South Asia – RCC Dubai, organized an inception workshop in Cairo to begin preparations to design an Arab States Climate Finance Mobilization and Access Strategy and exchange information on climate finance needs at the regional and country level.

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