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“Paris, 30 November 2015 — A new initiative to build climate resilience in the world’s most vulnerable countries was launched today by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and 13 members within the UN system at COP21, the Paris Climate Conference. The new initiative will strengthen the ability of countries to anticipate hazards, absorb shocks, and reshape development to reduce climate risks.

The newly announced initiative, the UN Secretary-General’s Climate Resilience Initiative A2R — Anticipate, Absorb, Reshape — will help address the needs of the nearly 1 billion people, or a seventh of the global population, who live in at-risk coastal areas just a few meters above rising seas, as well as those living in areas at risk of droughts, floods, storms and other climate-related risks.

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15 November 2016 – As the United Nations Climate Conference under way in Marrakech, Morocco, (COP 22) is discussing implementation of the Paris Agreement, the UN is also seeking to build climate resilience through the Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s resilience initiative called A2R (Anticipate, Absorb, Reshape), launched a year ago.

15 November 2016 – As the United Nations Climate Conference under way in Marrakech, Morocco, (COP 22) is discussing implementation of the Paris Agreement, the UN is also seeking to build climate resilience through the Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s resilience initiative called A2R (Anticipate, Absorb, Reshape), launched a year ago.

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The UN Secretary-General's new Climate Resilience Initiative: Anticipate, Absorb, Reshape (A2R) is a global, multi-stakeholder platform aiming to accelerate action to strengthen climate resilience in support of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.  It forges synergies between different climate change adaptation efforts, as well as humanitarian, disaster risk reduction and development interventions, ultimately enhancing three fundamental capacities critical to climate resilience: Anticipate, Absorb, Reshape 

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Anticipate

 

The capacity to better anticipate and act on climate hazards and stresses through early warning and early action.

 
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Absorb

 

The capacity to absorb shocks by increasing access to climate risk insurance and social protection systems.

 
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Reshape

 

The capacity to reshape development pathways by transforming economies to reduce risks and root causes of vulnerabilities and support the sound management of physical infrastructure and ecosystems to foster climate resilience.

 

EVENTS

14/11/2016

Second meeting of the A2R Leadership Group on the margins of COP22 in Marrakesh, Morocco.

07 - 18/11/2016

The A2R Initiative is contributing to various events during the twenty-second session of the Conference of the Parties, COP22 in Marrakesh, Morocco.

24/09/2016

First official meeting of the A2R Leadership Group on the margins of the UN General Assembly in New York. (Agenda of the first A2R LG meeting)

23/09/2016

High-Level Launch of the A2R Leadership Group by the UN Secretary-General in the margins of the UN General Assembly in New York. (open the flyer to see more information about venue, time and composition of the A2R Leadership Group)

For queries, please send an email to info@a2rinitiative.org

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COMMUNICATION MATERIAL

NEW BRIEFING PAPER LAUNCHED
Anticipate, Absorb, Reshape: Current progress on three key capacities for climate resilience 

The UN Climate Resilience Initiative: Anticipate, Absorb, Reshape (A2R) promotes the strengthening of three key capacities for climate resilience: the capacity to anticipate and act on climate hazards through early warning and early action; the capacity to absorb shocks by increasing access to climate risk insurance and social protection; and the capacity to reshape development pathways by transforming economies to reduce risks and root causes of vulnerabilities and support the sound management of physical infrastructure and ecosystems. 

This briefing paper presents the key findings of a baseline analysis of progress of the three climate resilience capacities. The analysis reviewed the data available for 114 developing countries and represents one of the first contributions towards a global understanding of the current state of play on climate resilience.  The briefing paper also discusses the challenges –both conceptual and data-related –that this type of assessment faces and suggests ways of overcoming them. This paper aims to contribute to the broader discussion on metrics and methodologies for assessing climate resilience. 
 

A2R Brochure (PDF version)

Reshaping development pathways towards climate resilience

HELP US SOLVE SOME OF OUR MOST DIFFICULT PROBLEMS.

  In partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)'s Climate CoLab, we launched the first in a series of challenges for A2R.

Winners announced for the Anticipating Climate Hazards Contest, a MIT Climate CoLab contest run in partnership with the UN’s Climate Resilience Initiative: Anticipate, Absorb, Reshape (A2R). The Judges' & Popular Choice Winners have been selected from 95 proposals submitted to the contest. Congratulations to the winning proposals!

See more about the contest and the Winners

New challenge coming soon!

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"These are the people who did the least to cause climate change, yet they stand to lose their homes, their jobs, and even their lives because of the growing impacts of climate change.  That is why I have asked the UN system to put together a package of initiatives to address this urgent need."

- UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon