The Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance at COP29

The Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance and many of our members will be at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan to share expertise and evidence advocating for the needs of climate vulnerable communities across the globe. This event page provides the details for where we will be, what we’re doing, and what action we are calling for.

The 29th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, COP29, will run from 11th – 22nd November 2024. While there are always many negotiating tracks and policy issues occurring at COPs, COP29 has been dubbed ‘the Finance COP’ because the new climate finance goal – the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) – is the big decision item.

What needs to happen at COP29

Members of the Alliance will be in Baku, sharing evidence from our resilience-building programmes and engaging with the following policy areas:

• NCQG
• Loss and Damage
• Adaptation and the Global Goal on Adaptation
• Climate action in Fragile and Conflict affected states (FCAS)
• Early Warnings for All initiative

See here for more on what needs to happen at COP29 to make progress towards a resilient future.

Hear from the Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance at COP29 events

14 November, 15:00 – 16:30 AZT – Last push for an ambitious and equitable NCQG that meets developing countries needs

With very little time left to reach an agreement, this event looks at the steps to achieve an ambitious, equitable and fit-for-purpose NCQG: ensuring public grant-based finance is the bulk of the goal, firmly based on the principles of equity and CBDR-RC, to truly meet developing countries’ needs. More details can be found here.

15 November, 18:30 – 20:00 AZT – Closing the finance gap: adaptation finance flows and connections with L&D to the local level

This side event will explore urgently needed solutions to deliver climate finance to local levels. The discussion will focus on community accessing finance to local level on adaptation connection with loss and damage, emphasizing scale, community access, and gender-responsive action.

18 November, 16:45 – 18:15 AZT – A Holistic Approach to Finance for Climate-Resilience and Just Development: From Evidence to Action

Addressing the urgent need for climate resilience and justice, this event presents a model-based assessment of equitable financial needs for mitigation, adaptation, and loss and damage. Taking a holistic approach, it explores how quantitative insights and justice-focused pathways can be translated into action.

Please check back for updates as more events are confirmed.