Nationally Determined Contribution and its adaptation targets to build climate resilience of sectors such as health, water management, urban infrastructure and settlement, which are vulnerable to the adverse impact of climate change.
Kurunegala City is an intensively developing capital, located in the North Western Province of Sri Lanka. Like other world cities, the city of Kurunegala is facing socio-spatial climate vulnerabilities, including increasing extreme heat conditions, periods of flooding, air pollution, a decreasing drinking water supply, groundwater pollution, waste management issues, lack of sewage treatment and disposal facilities, and gradually diminishing urban biodiversity and recreation.
The Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN) was presented during the workshop on Climate Change Technology Development and Transfer, which took place in Colombo, Sri Lanka. CTCN Network and Capacity Building Manager Mr. Rajiv Garg introduced CTCN, presented innovative technologies for climate change mitigation and adaptation, shared good examples on CTCN requests. The participants discussed financial options and linkages with financial mechanisms, private sector involvement in climate change technology development and transfer.
The Private Financing Advisory Network (PFAN) provides guidance in areas such as economic feasibility, project structure, investment and financing, preparation of the business plan and introductions to investors. PFAN is one of few actors in this space addressing barriers to climate finance at the small and medium enterprises (SME) level in developing countries and emerging economies on demand and supply sides, i.e., shortage of bankable projects on the demand side and ability to assess risk and conservative lending culture on the supply side.
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Green is seeking a consultant(s) for a project on clean energy, air, water, and agriculture in the Asia-Pacific Region covering Cambodia, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Viet Nam.
The project will aim to catalyze green tech transactions that respond to current needs in the region, in an environmentally sustainable way. To do so, the consultant(s) should meet two key objectives:
There is ample evidence to suggest that Sri Lanka’s climate has already changed. However, the bigger question of national importance is what Sri Lanka’s climate will look like in 50 or 100 years and how prepared the country is to face such changes. This report reviews the status of climate change (CC) research/activities in Sri Lanka in terms of observed and projected climatic changes, their impacts on water resources and agriculture, CC mitigation and adaptation, and research needs.