UNFCCC Side Event on Climate Change Adaptation:
LDCs, SIDS and SVEs
Date: 11 December 2009
Start time: 20:00 End time: 21:30
The Commonwealth Secretariat and the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) presented key research findings from their joint publication on trade, climate change and sustainable development: key issues for small states, least developed countries, and vulnerable economies.
Details
The session also explored how these issues might evolve post-Copenhagen, including national and vulnerable economic sectors perspectives, as well as a consideration on the essential need for effective financing mechanisms for utilization by the most vulnerable.
Issues discussed
- Research Findings on Trade, Climate Change and Sustainable
Development and Key Issues for Small States, Least Developed
Countries, and Vulnerable Economies - Climate Change Financing and Complementarities with Traderelated
Development Assistance - National and Vulnerable Economic Sectors Perspectives
Introduction by
Janet Strachan, Commonwealth Secretariat
Speakers
- Moustapha Kamal Gueye, UNEP /ICTSD
- Gloria Carrión, ICTSD
- Dr Edward Allison, WorldFish Centre, Malaysia