Friendship News
Desk,
8 November, 2026
Friendship is
participating in the UNFCCC Conference
of Parties (COP31) for the sixth consecutive year, and seventh time
overall. The 31st edition of the UNFCCC conference will take place from 9 November
to 20 November 2026, in Antalya, Türkiye.
Friendship will
organise and/or take part in the following events, many of which are also
accessible online:
Connecting
Vulnerable Communities with High-Integrity Carbon Finance from Luxembourg
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Date: |
Wednesday, 11 Nov 2026 |
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Time: |
17:30 – 19:00 (local
time) |
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Venue: |
BENELUX-EIB (Blue Zone) |
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Description: |
The Luxembourg-based
NGOs ADA, Friendship Luxembourg and Graine de Vie Luxembourg have joined
forces to develop, alongside their local partners, a joint and coherent offer
of carbon credits from reforestation ad agroforestry projects implemented in
the Global South, mainly in Africa and Asia aimed, in particular, at SMEs. The consortium aims
to connect carbon finance with vulnerable rural communities and local
ecosystems, ensuring that carbon projects generate tangible local economic,
social and environmental benefits. By pooling project pipelines, technical
expertise and market knowledge, the consortium is also developing a
Luxembourg-based centre of expertise supporting the development and scaling
of high-integrity carbon projects. |
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COP31 Joint
Exhibition – AFA, CIRAD and Friendship
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Date: |
Monday, 9 Nov through Saturday, 14 Nov 2026 |
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Time: |
[Open] |
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Venue: |
COP31 Exhibition Booth (Blue Zone) |
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Description: |
Week 1 joint exhibition (9–14 November).
Three-part corkboard/posters; CIRAD 360° immersive Transhumance, Friendship
Climate Ludo and AFA spin-a-wheel and other interactive installations. |
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Event Link: |
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Nature as
Infrastructure: Scaling Coastal Ecosystem-based Solutions for Adaptation and
Loss & Damage
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Date: |
Wednesday, 11 Nov 2026 |
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Time: |
18:30 – 20:00 (local
time) |
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Venue: |
UNFCCC Official Side Events Pavilion – Room 1 (Blue
Zone) |
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Description: |
Coastal ecosystems
are essential infrastructure for climate resilience. Drawing on programs in
the Pacific, North-Brazil Shelf and Bangladesh, this panel explores how
coastal NbS can address climatic risks through adaptation, as well as support
recovery in coastal nations affected by Loss & Damage. |
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Event Link: |
Unlocking Climate
Finance for Bangladesh: Global Funds to Local Resilience
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Date: |
Monday, 16 Nov 2026 |
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Time: |
15:45 – 17:00 (local
time) |
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Venue: |
Bangladesh Pavillion (Blue Zone) |
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Description: |
Bangladesh faces
escalating climate risks and a substantial financing gap for adaptation and
resilience. The country needs $12.5 billion annually but can mobilize roughly
$3 billion. The event will explain how public, private, concessional and
blended finance can be better mobilised for vulnerable communities, and how
innovative instruments like green bonds and carbon-market access can help. It
aims to identify practical pathways for access to major global climate funds,
highlighting mechanisms that support locally led adaptation, nature-based
solutions and resilient livelihoods. |
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Links: |
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Round Table
Discussion on Integrated Climate Adaptation: Bangladesh and the Global Context
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Date: |
Tuesday, 17 Nov 2026 |
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Time: |
17:30 – 19:00 (local
time) |
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Venue: |
Children and Youth Pavilion (CYP – Blue Zone) |
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Description: |
Young climate
citizens from Bangladesh, Argentina, France and India show how learning, in
school and in the community, becomes local climate action. Pitches will cover
flood risk and community resilience, schoolwide ecosystem restoration, Ek
Beti, Ek Cycle (bicycles that keep rural girls in school) and how bridges
between youth across the global can prompt local action. Speakers then host
small-group reflections on local context, risks and actions. Together, the
audience turns their cards into a shared deck and adds one personal
commitment. Participants leave with a collective picture of local risks and
solutions, and ideas that schools, youth networks and communities can adapt
in climate-vulnerable settings worldwide. |
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Event link: |