Mauricio Vázquez

Oct 24, 2024 | odi.org | Manisha Shetty Gulati |Yue Cao |Amir Khouzam |Mauricio Vázquez

In 2022, fragile and conflict-affected countries received only one quarter of the climate finance they need. In the coming months, we must see a meaningful shift towards closing this gap. What is common to Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen? Besides being classified as fragile and conflict-affected situations, they are among the 25 countries which are most vulnerable to climate change and which have the lowest capacity to adapt to and cope with climate shocks.

Jul 24, 2024 | odi.org | Mauricio Vázquez

Climate security narratives are encouraging us to focus on the symptoms, not the causes, of climate vulnerability in conflict-affected countries. The recent news that Somalia was elected to become a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council has generated headlines. As one of the most climate-vulnerable countries in the world, Somalia’s accession offers an important opportunity for the country to bring a more hopeful narrative on climate and security.

Jul 22, 2024 | devex.com | Mauricio Vázquez

The recent news that Somalia was elected to become a nonpermanent member of the United Nations Security Council has generated headlines. As one of the most climate-vulnerable countries in the world, Somalia’s accession offers an important opportunity for the country to bring a more hopeful narrative on climate and security. Somalia is viewed as a tentative but emerging success storyin the increasingly fragile Horn of Africa.

Dec 18, 2023 | thenewhumanitarian.org | Mauricio Vázquez

Republish this articleLaunched at COP28 earlier this month, the Climate, Relief, Recovery and Peace Declaration marks the first clear recognition by a UN climate conference of the specific climate vulnerabilities of people living in areas of protracted crisis. Signed by over 80 states and 40 organisations so far, it calls for “bolder, collective action” to scale up climate finance and action in these settings.

Dec 3, 2023 | odi.org | Mauricio Vázquez |Yue Cao

The COP28 Climate, Relief, Recovery and Peace Declaration should be seen as a call to change the way development and humanitarian organisations work in fragile and conflict-affected countries – not as a funding opportunity to keep doing more of the same. Just two years ago, the conversation about scaling up climate action in conflict-affected countries was barely a whisper.