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🗣️ EVENT REPORT | Dinner Dialogue on Oceans, Climate Change, and Health

📣 This week at New York Climate Week 2026, the COP31 Türkiye Presidency launched the action agenda. Oceans and health are among the key focus areas interlinked to climate change, as well as the need for means of implementation, including investment for relevant action.

📺 Rewatch the launch of the action agenda here: https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1o/k1o2gyovml
💪Find out more about the action agenda here: https://cop31.tr/action-plan

🔎 Our recent dinner dialogue, which was held back to back with the annual research gathering we organised with the Maritime Research Alliance in August, examined this nexus at the interface of evidence and policy.
Key stakeholders came together to discuss the links between oceans, climate change, security, and health—and, importantly, how research and evidence can help move these agendas from commitments to implementation.

🎯 The discussions highlighted critical gaps that need to be filled and key actions to be taken, including the need to:
1️⃣ Develop strategies for integrating health into climate and ocean processes;
2️⃣ Identify and address evidence gaps; and
3️⃣ Recognize and build upon opportunities and platforms for partnerships.
🗣️ Further work on these topics will continue at the Pre-COP in Fiji and Tuvalu from 5 to 8 October 2026. We will be at PreCOP ready to carry this discussion forward.

🔗 Find out more about the Pre-COP here: https://www.cop31-pacific.com/pre-cop

💪 Clima Trust —formerly SLYCAN Trust— works at the global, regional, and national level to foster transformative action towards climate resilience, sustainable development, and innovative solutions.
📜 Our detailed policy brief on oceans, climate change, and health will be out soon, with a full summary of the discussions.

🔗 See our new website here: https://climatrust.org
💡 Our Knowledge Hub remains accessible here:

https://www.climatrust.org/knowledge-portal/home

🌊 Find out more about our work on oceans here: https://www.climatrust.org/our-work-oceans

📧 Connect with us: [email protected]

🌏 What does the emerging 2026 El Niño mean for South Asia?

📢 We are pleased to partner with IWMI , Integrated Multi Hazard Early Warning Systems, ICIMOD , CEEW | Climate solutions from the Global South , and All India Disaster Mitigation Institute , with the support of the CGIAR Programmes on Climate Action and Sustainable Farming, for a webinar exploring what the latest forecasts tell us, what they could mean for South Asia, and how this matters for climate policy and action.
If you are interested in this conversation, join us!

🗓️ Date: 28 July 2026
🕒 Time: 15:00–16:30 IST
🔗 Register here: https://events.cgiar.org/ElNino-southasia-edition or check the link in our bio.

🗣️ On Monday, we held a networking reception on security, climate change, and human mobility as part of our Climate Event Hub programme at The Stage Gallery in Bonn, Germany.

🎯 The reception took place alongside the UN Climate Change June Climate Meetings and brought together negotiators, experts, practitioners, researchers, and advocates for an informal exchange on three guiding questions:

1⃣ What are the possible entry points for human mobility in the negotiations at ?
⁠2⃣ What are the possible benefits of a security lens when it comes to addressing the human mobility and climate change nexus?
⁠3⃣ How do we avoid a “securitization” of climate mobility?

🔎 In what was a rich discussion, respondents highlighted a number of entry points at SB 64 including adaptation, gender, the global stocktake, action for climate empowerment, and the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform. They also drew attention to ongoing Loss and Damage work despite there being no dedicated agenda item at SB64.

On security, respondents highlighted the linkages between conflict, climate change and human mobility, and stressed the need to avoid the intrumentalisation of climate-conflict casualty. They also discussed how the issue of fragility and conflict sensitivity has featured within UNFCCC negotiations and considered what underpins the views of different Parties and stakeholders on these matters.

🙏 We wish to extend our deepest gratitude to all those who were able to join us and thank you for the fruitful exchange!

📢 Join SLYCAN Trust at its Climate Event Hub through for a wide range of events and receptions.

🔗 Find the full programme of events here: https://www.slycantrust.org/climate-event-hub-sb64
Or check the link in our bio

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🤝 Last Sunday, SLYCAN Trust hosted a pre-SB64 reception and networking gathering at our Climate Event Hub at The Stage Gallery.

The reception brought together partners, collaborators, negotiators, experts, and other stakeholders to exchange and connect through work with SLYCAN Trust, including our ongoing engagement across different regions, thematic areas, and agenda items.

Through an informal evening of conversations, we had an opportunity to connect, exchange perspectives, and catch up before the start of the negotiations.

Thank you to everyone who joined us. We look forward to continuing the conversations throughout and beyond!

👋 The Climate Event Hub returns to Bonn during !

From 5–10 June, SLYCAN Trust together with and will once again turn into a hub for dialogue, collaboration, and storytelling on the sidelines of the UN Climate Change hashtag

Throughout the week, the Hub will host a diverse programme of discussions, workshops, receptions, exhibitions, and partner-led events exploring topics including climate finance, adaptation, human mobility, climate fiction, food systems, security, ocean governance and inclusive climate action.

🗓️ 5–10 June 2026
📍 The Stage Gallery, Thomas-Mann-Straße 41, 53111 Bonn

Alongside events organised by SLYCAN Trust, the programme will feature discussions on agrifood systems, traditional medicine, climate reparations, climate justice, and community-based responses to climate change.
Whether you are attending hashtag or based in Bonn, we invite you to join us throughout the week.

Explore the full programme and event details: https://lnkd.in/gAVeTVhc ( link in bio)

We look forward to welcoming you!

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📍 On 21 May, SLYCAN Trust convened a Lighthouse Event on Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and the Multi-Actor Partnership in Sri Lanka, which brought together government institutions, the finance sector, development partners, technical experts, and other key actors.

The discussions reflected on 6+ years of work under the Multi-Actor Partnership initiated by SLYCAN Trust as part of a consortium supported by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).

Several themes emerged across the sessions:
🏛️ Sri Lanka has made important progress in building its climate and disaster risk finance architecture. But stronger coordination, clearer roles, and practical delivery pathways are further needed to turn policy frameworks into protection on the ground.

⚠️ Risk financing cannot remain reactive. Pre-arranged instruments, insurance solutions, contingency mechanisms, and longer-term recovery planning need to be better connected before disasters occur.

📊 Data remains a major gap, not only because it does not exist, but because it is often fragmented across institutions, sectors, and projects. Better access to hazards, exposure, vulnerability, loss, and sector-level data is essential for designing products, developing financing proposals, and decision-making.

💰 Access to climate finance remains difficult and challenging, in particular for adaptation and loss and damage. Stronger climate rationale, better project preparation, and blended finance approaches will be important to mobilise resources at the scale required.

🤝 Commercial banks, insurers, DFIs, and public institutions all have a role to play, but private sector solutions need an enabling environment, reliable data, risk-sharing mechanisms, and products that are affordable and relevant to users.

How can we strengthen risk management and finance in Sri Lanka in the face of increasing climate impacts?

The Lighthouse Event on Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and the Multi-Actor Partnership (MAP) in Sri Lanka on May 21 will bring together stakeholders from government, finance, academia, civil society, and development sectors to discuss partnerships, finance solutions, lessons learned, and future priorities for resilience-building.

🌐 While in-person participation is by invitation only, virtual participation is open through prior registration.

🔗 Register here: https://lnkd.in/gUbAkdgc or check the link in our bio

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🎉 We are pleased to look back at the High-Level Dialogue on Climate Change, Health, and Security organized by SLYCAN Trust in Berlin on Monday, April 20th.

Ahead of the 17th Petersberg Climate Dialogue, the event brought together high-level participants to discuss interlinkages with health and security and their integration into climate policy processes on the road to COP31.

Key areas of conversation included:
➡️The role of health-related issues in putting a human face to the climate crisis
➡️Health across existing UNFCCC agenda items and other formal and informal entry points
➡️ Moving from the identification of issues to concrete implementation and resource mobilization
➡️Means of implementation, the gap between donors and recipient countries, and the need for a closer dialogue on financing and support
➡️ The importance of a long-term analysis and vision on health and security in both climate policy and research

📋These contributions were part of a rich discussion among on challenges and strategic entry points for health and security in the context of climate policy processes.

🤝 Warm thanks to Wellcome Trust for their partnership and for hosting the event and a follow-up reception. We look forward to future collaborations.

🔊 Finally, we extend our thanks to all participants, including our keynote speakers Chair of SBSTA, Ambassador Adonia Ayebare, LDC Chair, Ambassador Adão Soares Barbosa, Chair of SBI, Julia Gardiner, AOSIS Climate Lead, Anne Rasmussen, and Chao Feng from Australia, for their insightful contributions.

As highlighted throughout the dialogue, there is a clear need to continue this conversation. Health and security will remain salient issues with implications for global, regional, and national climate action.

💬 How do you see the role of health and security at COP31 later this year?
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📢 CALLING ALL STORYTELLERS: There is less than just one month to submit your story to our contest: “Glimpses of Transformation: Creative Approaches for Crossing the Frontiers of Resilience.”

⏰ Deadline: 18 May 2026
📄 2,000 – 3,500 words (original and unpublished)
🗣️ English
✏️ Submit here: https://bit.ly/4sK2iUJ
🗣️ Do you write fiction about the future? Stories on the 🌍 ?
🌡️ We invite writers to imagine futures where:
1️⃣ Humanity lives in harmony with nature
2️⃣ Learning helps us become guardians of nature
3️⃣ AI, big data & digital tools support better understanding of Earth
4️⃣ Clean water, fresh air & fertile land are protected collectively
5️⃣ International systems protect the most vulnerable
6️⃣ Cities and communities integrate nature and circular design
7️⃣ Food systems regenerate nature and no one goes hungry
8️⃣ Finance supports sustainable, resilient futures

📖 Selected entries will be showcased alongside the in Bonn, Germany (3–10 June 2026) at the Climate Event Hub.

🔎 Glimpses of Transformation is a collaboration between SLYCAN Trust and its ClimaComms initiative and Resilience Frontiers (RF), an initiative under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The competition calls on writers to respond to the storylines of RF’s eight pathways of change.

🌎 Explore the eight pathways here: https://resiliencefrontiers.org/pathways/

📸 Find out more about ClimaComms here: https://slycantrust.org/climacomms-an-initiative-for-climate-communication

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🌎 Share your case studies at our “virtual South-South Dialogue Series on Gender-Responsive and City-Centric HMCCC Approaches”, in partnership with GIZ’s Global Programme on Human Mobility in the Context of Climate Change (HMCCC).

These dialogues aim to connect practitioners and policymakers working on HMCCC issues at the local level. Therefore, we are looking for case studies (e.g., project or work experience) on the following thematic areas:
1️⃣ Voluntary planned relocation in urban areas
2️⃣ Gender and social inclusion in the Asia-Pacific region
3️⃣ Data management and informed decision-making

Scan the QR code or click on the link in the bio

Further details will be provided at the time of selection.