NDF at the UN Climate Conference (COP27)

📣 We are happy to announce that Nordic Development Fund gets the WWF Green Office seal! NDF is officially #green from the inside out with their new WWF Green Office Environmental Management System, encouraging the organisation to mainstream sustainability across its operations. Read the full article and the interview with NDF's Environmental and Social Safeguards Specialist Juha Seppälä. ▶️ https://www.ndf.int/new…/ndf-gets-wwf-green-office-seal.html WWF WWF Suomi #Sustainability #GreenOffice #GoGreen

World Bank has announced at #COP27 a new #BlueEconomy program that will catalyze financing and respond to development challenges in coastal-marine areas in #Africa. “We are very happy that the Nordic Development Fund (NDF) financing to the World Bank for the #WestAfrica Coastal Areas Management Program Scale-Up Platform has supported the design of the new and innovative blue carbon project for #Ghana. It has unlocked financing from both the public sector as well as from the #...Nordic private sector which has the potential to be replicated to the coastal landscape and to other countries in Africa. We look forward to engaging further with the World Bank and many other partners to promote sustainable and resilient blue economy, including through initiatives like the BE4RAP,” said Martina Jägerhorn, Program Manager at Nordic Development Fund. Read the article on Modern Diplomacy:

Less than half of the United Nations 193 member states are covered by early-warning systems that can better anticipate severe droughts, heat waves, tropical storms and floods. #EarlyWarningsForAll At #COP27 in #Egypt, nine donor countries and Nordic Development Fund (NDF) pledged $50 million to launch the program. By 2027, U.N. officials aim to raise $3.1 billion to complete the effort to ensure that every country has a robust early-warning system. "We have billions of dolla...rs of satellites flying around, but that’s not sufficient. We have huge dark spots in terms of data coverage. In some parts of #Africa you don’t know if there’s going to be more rain or less rain because we don’t have enough data.”, says Markus Repnik, SOFF Director at World Meteorological Organization. Read the full article: