The session focused on the Climate for Peace Initiative and the Bridgetown Initiative and addressed inequalities, institutional barriers in accessing the necessary finance to alleviate climate-related security risks, debt relief, multilateral development bank reform, loss and damage, ideas for new funding mechanisms - solutions that meet the needs of communities most impacted by climate change. 

During this conversation, panelists identified potential pathways for improvement and pragmatic solutions to break down structural barriers to implement climate solutions. In anticipation of pacts and pledges expected at COP28, speakers outlined ways to mobilise climate funding to bridge the gap between needed and accessible climate funding for vulnerable and conflict affected contexts. 
 

Speakers:

• Christina Wegelein, Head of Division Climate and Security German Federal Foreign Office
• H.E. Amb. Thomas Amolo, Ambassador to Germany, Kenya 
• H.E. Amb. Ahmed Alattar, Ambassador to Germany, United Arab Emirates 

Moderated by Janani Vivekananda, Head of Programme Climate Diplomacy and Security, adelphi

Production: Laís Clemente Pereira 
Direction, camera and editing: Paulus Müller-Hahl (Lichtbilder) 
The production of this video is supported by the German Federal Foreign Office 
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Watch other videos from the Berlin Climate and Security Conference 2023:

• Best of Berlin Climate and Security Conference 2023
• Berlin Climate and Security Conference 2023: Conference opening and welcome speech
• Setting the stage: Climate solutions for fragile and vulnerable contexts
• Spotlight session: Climate for peace
• Advancing joint action on climate and food security
• Multilateral responses to climate related security risks
• Rule of Law Solutions at the Nexus of Climate, Conflict and Food Security
• Beyond Climate: How Nature Loss Undermines Peace and Security