Climate finance and loss and damage at UNGA 81

Statements that raised Climate finance and loss and damage

1. 
   🇩🇲 Dominica · Day 1Sylvanie Burton

   • It is a call for us to build on that progress, strengthen our cooperation, and deliver the meaningful change that our people expect from us. A fundamental question that one must ask is, can the international system still deliver? For Dominica, this is not an abstract question. When a hurricane destroys our infrastructure, when international energy prices rise, when access to capital becomes more expensive, when global markets change, or when climate finance remains beyond our reach, the consequences are felt immediately in our homes, in our businesses, in our schools and hospitals, and in the very lives of our people. 8:20:40Copy

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   🇹🇻 Tuvalu · Day 4Feleti Teo

   • Fifthly, it calls for accessible, predictable, and needs-based climate finance. And sixthly, it supports science, technology, data, and knowledge systems that enable informed decision making and long-term planning for vulnerable countries. The declaration affirms that Tuvalu's nationhood is not negotiable, that our maritime rights are not erasable, and that our people should never be forced to choose between their homeland and their future. Mr. President, For the Sustainable Development Goals, SGG, Tuvalu is seriously concerned that the world is not on track to achieve them, because the consequences of such shortfall will be acutely felt by small island developing states. 3:14:27Copy

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   🇧🇧 Barbados · Day 3Mia Amor Mottley

   • The climate vulnerable countries need to mobilize approximately $490 billion each year by 2030. And yet, the current inflows are roughly $90 billion. As the young people in Barbados would say, the math simply ain't mathing. We must also correct the inequity of the borrowing costs that these countries face. 8:30:25Copy

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   🇫🇯 Fiji · Day 3Ratu Naiqama Tawakecolati Lalabalavu

   • And the task now, Your Excellencies, is implementation. Obligations recognized by the court must be reflected in national commitments, in the conduct of states, and in the outcomes of our negotiations. Climate finance must move from promise to access, from announcement to disbursement. The loss and damage fund must operate at a scale that reflects actual need. 6:49:42Copy

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   🇳🇵 Nepal · Day 3Balendra Shah

   • The Loss and Damage Fund, the Global Environment Facility, and other financing mechanisms remain grossly inadequate. Climate finance must not become another bureaucratic maze through which vulnerable countries spend years that they need help. When the house is burning, we do not ask family to complete 50 forms. We act. 11:35:48Copy

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   🇸🇧 Solomon Islands · Day 4Matthew Cooper Wale

   • Major emitters must make deep emission cuts and transition away from fossil fuels. Climate finance, including support for loss and damage, must be grant-based and channeled through our national budget systems. Project-based financing of climate action is unsustainable and out of step with the scale of a crisis we did the least to cause. Vulnerable countries should not have to choose between climate action and educating our children, caring for the sick, or securing food and water. 4:06:04Copy

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   🇰🇳 Saint Kitts and Nevis · Day 4Geoffrey Hanley

   • States must reduce emissions, strengthen adaptation, honor climate finance responsibilities, and cooperate with countries bearing consequences vastly disproportionate to their contribution to this crisis. Mister President, those contributions, lease, must not pay the greatest price. Our oceans must also move from promises to protection. Saint Kitts and Nevis ratified BBNJ agreement in twenty twenty-five. 9:07:35Copy

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   🇱🇨 Saint Lucia · Day 4Philip J. Pierre

   • It is a direct threat to national security, economic stability, food and water security, and human survival. While the world focuses on headline grabbing events like monster hurricanes, melting glaciers, and tidal waves, climate change is affecting Saint Lucia daily in small but significant ways, such as the unusual bouts of drought in the rainy season, unprecedented floods in the dry season, and stifling of our beaches and coastlines by sargassum. Our people contribute little to these global emissions, Yet these events constantly set back our people's development and and livelihoods and demand that we find the resources to reverse the damage. Saint Lucia calls for climate finance that matches the scale of the crisis. 4:27:57Copy

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   🇿🇲 Zambia · Day 5Mulambo Hamakuni Haimbe

   • This is to mitigate the effects of climate change and protect lives and livelihoods. Those who have contributed least to climate change must not be left to bear its greatest costs. We therefore call for predictable, accessible and affordable climate finance, technology transfer and greater investment in adaptation and resilience consistent with the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities. For Africa, adaptation is not optional. 8:42:39Copy

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10. 
    🇧🇸 Bahamas (the) · Day 4Philip Edward Davis

    • The vulnerability index exists. The loss and damage fund exists. What is missing is the power shift to make them operational and real. Mr. President, the next context for power will not only be fought over land and sea, it will be fought over data. 6:35:39Copy

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    🇨🇩 Democratic Republic of the Congo · Day 2Judith Suminwa Tuluka

    • Its forests, landscapes, freshwater, and biodiversity, provide humanity with considerable ecosystem services. This world heritage will continue to be preserved, but we maintain that the communities that protect it ought to be able to benefit from it. Climate finance. in this regard is a fair solution. 12:06:16Copy

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    🇩🇯 Djibouti · Day 5Abdoulkader Houssein Omar

    • We must therefore accelerate the implementation of the Paris Agreement and strengthen our adaptation and resilience efforts, including through resilient coastal infrastructure, better protection for marine and coastal ecosystems, early warning systems, and simplified, predictable, and equitable access to climate finance. For Djibouti, climate action must not be separated from development. On the contrary, it must help to transform our economies. develop renewable energy, create jobs, and open up new opportunities for investment and innovation. 6:53:08Copy

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13. 
    🇲🇭 Marshall Islands · Day 4Hilda Heine

    • Adapting is costly and takes time, even as we've seen schools destroyed by rising seas, saltwater poisoning our wells, and disease outbreaks linked to environmental change. This injustice must be addressed. Our communities deserve restitution. The Marshall Islands and vulnerable people everywhere need sufficient, timely, and accessible finance for adaptation and loss and damage. 2:06:54Copy

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    🇻🇨 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · Day 4Godwin Friday

    • and set a country back. Small states cannot continue borrowing merely to replace what climate-related disasters repeatedly destroy. We cannot continue to walk up the down escalator pretending it is development. Mr. President, we renew our call for the full operationalization of the multidimensional vulnerability index. 8:11:05Copy

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15. 
    🇼🇸 Samoa · Day 4Mulipola Anarosa Ale Molioo

    • As the ICJ advisory opinion puts it, climate change is not merely an environmental concern, but an existential problem of planetary proportion that require urgent global action. The United Nations General Assembly welcome the unanimous ICJ advisory opinion and affirm its importance as an authoritative contribution to the clarification of existing international law. Climate finance is the bridge between ambition and action. It must be scaled up, easily accessible, devoid of burdensome condition, and responsive to the needs of the most climate vulnerable. 8:46:57Copy

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16. 
    🇺🇳 Secretary-General of the United Nations · Day 1António Guterres

    • For decades, Big Oil has treated the atmosphere as an open sewer and cashed in on the consequences. Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, five major Western oil companies have pocketed nearly half a trillion dollars in profits. Compare that with just $34 billion in international public adaptation finance for developing countries in the latest year reported. Meanwhile, everyday people are paying more for energy, food, and insurance. 43:31Copy

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    🇸🇨 Seychelles · Day 1Mathew Antonio Patrick Herminie

    • Seychelles, therefore, welcomes the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on climate change, reinforcing that climate action is rooted in international law, equity, and intergenerational crisis. Mitigation, adaptation, technology transfer, and loss and damage funding are not acts of charity. They are legal obligations. Our survival is inextricably linked to the health of the ocean. 9:04:27Copy

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18. 
    🇹🇴 Tonga · Day 4Lord Fakafanua

    • The Pacific loses an estimated of $500 million every year due to natural disasters such as cyclones, flooding, Early warning systems give communities time to prepare and reduce these losses. That may be a modest sum in global terms, but for Pacific nations, it is a heavy toll on our countries and our people. And yet the financing to prevent such losses still falls short. The Pacific Resiliency Facility, our own financing mechanism for building community resilience, needs a further $328 million in pledges to reach its initial capitalization target of $500 million. 8:31:39Copy

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19. 
    🇹🇿 United Republic of Tanzania · Day 1Deogratius Ndejembi

    • These ambitions may not be realized if the international financial architecture is not made to work for development. Currently, when developing countries are accelerating progress, they are restricted by high borrowing costs, rising debt burdens, and limited access to affordable long-term financing. Tanzania stresses that improvements must be made to ensure expansion of concessional financing, mobilization of private investment, improved access to development and climate finance, and giving developing countries a stronger voice in the global financial decision-making. It is without a doubt that political commitment is paramount in undertaking focused investment. 9:45:34Copy

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20. 
    🇧🇿 Belize · Day 5John Briceño

    • New stressors such as the unprecedented influx of sargassum along our coasts have already made responses. Managing them requires innovation, capable institutions and strategies that are properly financed. Yet even the best national effort will fail short without coordinated international cooperation. Mr. President, We are less than four years from 2030. 1:00:26Copy

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    🇬🇭 Ghana · Day 3John Dramani Mahama

    • governments are forced into a tragic choice to service predatory debt or to serve their people. We demand reform. We need long-term, affordable, and accessible concessionary financing that enables developing economies to invest in human capital, in industrialization, and climate adaptation. Mr. President, Africa does not seek charity. 1:10:49Copy

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    🇲🇬 Madagascar · Day 3Michaël Randrianirina

    • Third, greater effectiveness in responding to climate and humanitarian emergencies. The multilateral system we seek should guarantee the fulfillment of climate finance commitments. It should serve both as a catalyst and a guarantor to ensure that developed countries in the North honour their commitments on climate finance. Particularly for the most exposed nations, it's also important to link emergency assistance with long-term structural investments. 56:06Copy

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23. 
    🇳🇦 Namibia · Day 2Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah

    • It is through sustainable climate financing that we will be able to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 13 to combat climate change. Against this backdrop, it's very important to focus on water in 2026, particularly as climate change intensifies drought, floods, desiccation, and land degradation across Africa. As an arid country, Namibia continues to promote the prudent use and conservation of water, integrated water resource management, groundwater recharge, and greater investment in sustainable water infrastructure. We also underscore the importance of the implementation of the Namib Declaration adopted at COP11 in Windhoek as part of our collective response to desertification and land degradation and drought. 7:20:20Copy

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    🇳🇱 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) · Day 3Rob Jetten

    • The need to accelerate and scale up our efforts is only too clear. and that demands our common commitment. The Netherlands wants to build practical partnerships with other countries, so we are once again making funding available for this purpose. And at the same time, we need to adapt to climate shocks that can no longer be avoided. 10:03:05Copy

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    🇳🇬 Nigeria · Day 3Kashim Shettima

    • We inhabit the only planet known to sustain human life, and as long as that scientific fact holds, we cannot pretend that we are insulated from conflicts elsewhere, geography offers no exemption from the consequences of a fractured world. Mr. President, we reject the false choice between development and climate action. Developing countries must industrialize, eradicate poverty, and expand energy access through low carbon pathways supported by technology transfer, capacity building, and climate finance. Africa contributes less than 4% of the greenhouse gas emissions, yet we are disproportionate consequences. 7:17:55Copy

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26. 
    🇵🇼 Palau · Day 2Surangel Whipps

    • We need financing that reaches communities without adding debt, adaptation finance that is accessible to countries already bearing the cost of the problems they did not create, and full support of the loss and damage and the special circumstances of SIDS. This means grant-based and concessional finance, grid readiness and storage, productive energy use, and support that respects our circumstances while enabling delivery at scale. Those who contributed the least to this climate crisis yet confront the worst threats of rising sea levels must not be burdened with debt simply to purchase a life jacket for their survival. International financial institutions must look beyond income and account for vulnerabilities of SIDS, Climate exposure, remoteness, narrow economies, and limited access to affordable finance must be considered. 3:52:13Copy

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    🇵🇦 Panama · Day 2José Raúl Mulino Quintero

    • But this does not mean that we don't have to face strong droughts followed by heavy rain that causes flooding. This leads us to a reflection that that is there's a lot of support for nations that assume the objective of decarbonization. But the fact is that we don't benefit from any type of economic aids, despite the fact that we remove more carbon from the world than we produce. So it will be the Panama Canal itself that grew under Panamanian hands and that saw billions of dollars of investments to build the Rio Indio project. 6:15:19Copy

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    🇸🇱 Sierra Leone · Day 1Julius Maada Bio

    • Accessible and predictable climate finance, support for adaptation, and effective arrangement for loss and damage are obligations of justice. They are also investment in global stability Fairness in transformation depends on the institutions that govern it. Sierra Leone, therefore, supports the UNH initiative and wider reforms that make this organization more effective, accountable, and responsive. Efficiency matters, and reform must preserve the capacity to act. 7:55:39Copy

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    🇸🇴 Somalia · Day 3Hassan Sheikh Mohamud

    • Sustainable development requires strong institutions. In Somalia, we have created institutions capable of translating international commitments into national results. These include the National Climate Fund, through which Somalia is mobilizing and coordinating urgently needed climate finance. The Independent National Human Rights Commission established to strengthen the protection and the promotion of human rights, and the Somali Disaster Management Agency establishment, which is on the front line of responding to the humanitarian crisis in Somalia. 2:37:47Copy

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30. 
    🇹🇷 Türkiye · Day 1Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

    • Distinguished members, We all derive our livelihood and the source of our life from nature. But our world stands on the threshold of serious environmental and climate-related threats. Air, water and soil, and also many living species, are being affected by climate change. While developing countries and the Pacific region are experiencing the climate crisis to their very core, they unfortunately face serious difficulties in accessing the funding they need. 3:17:49Copy

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    🇦🇴 Angola · Day 1João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço

    • These challenges are inherently complex and further exacerbated by climate change, which has a severe impact on Africa with severe and prolonged droughts, floods, desertification, food insecurity and population displacement. This situation clearly illustrates the need to establish predictable, affordable and additional climate financing without further aggravating the debt of developing countries. Today, peoples and nations have an opportunity to make a qualitative leap in their overall living conditions through fair financing mechanisms for development and tools provided by artificial intelligence in order to improve education, health, agriculture, public service, scientific research and economic productivity. In this regard, I consider that the Global Digital Compact opens new prospects for cooperation to bridge the digital divide expand digital public infrastructure, promote training and innovation, strengthen cybersecurity, and build more inclusive, secure, and human-centered governance of artificial intelligence. 6:31:39Copy

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    🇦🇿 Azerbaijan · Day 4Jeyhun Aziz oglu Bayramov

    • COP29 provided a good example of this approach in practice. As host and presidency, Azerbaijan guided negotiations toward ambitious and balanced outcomes, while working to ensure that all voices were heard. The conference delivered several historic agreements, including the tripling of the global climate finance goal, full operationalization of Article 6 carbon market mechanisms, and further advancement of arrangements supporting the loss and damage fund for vulnerable communities affected by climate change. Our efforts to advance climate action likewise did not end with COP29. 9:57:12Copy

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33. 
    🇧🇩 Bangladesh · Day 3Tarique Rahman

    • Although Bangladesh has contributed little to global carbon emissions, it is bearing the adverse consequences of climate change. In these circumstances, Bangladesh has chosen the path of building resilience and developing the capacity to survive and adapt. Therefore, Bangladesh expects stronger global cooperation at COP31 on climate justice, climate finance and adaptation support. The government of Bangladesh has strengthened its programs for environmental protection. 9:39:04Copy

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    🇨🇻 Cabo Verde · Day 5Francisco Avelino Vieira de Carvalho

    • It is also a question of justice, because those who have contributed the least to this crisis cannot continue to bear some of its most serious consequences. Science has shown us the way forward. we must translate this valuable knowledge into decisions and actions. And Cabo Verde has tried to do its part. 1:23:24Copy

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    🇨🇫 Central African Republic · Day 2Faustin Archange Touadera

    • There cannot be lasting security without climate security. There cannot be climate security without climate justice. My country will bring three demands to the 31st Conference of the Parties in Antalya, Turkey. that the loss and damage fund become fully operational and accessible, that adaptation financing should no longer be the forgotten stepchild of climate finance, and that the countries of the Congo Basin, the second largest lung of the planet, should finally be justly compensated for the services they provide to humanity by protecting their ecosystems. 5:58:21Copy

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    🇹🇩 Chad · Day 4Abdelmadjid Abdelrahim Mahamat

    • The President of the Republic, the Marshal of Chad, Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno, as guarantor of these institutions, remains determined to maintain peace, to build national cohesion, and to create conditions for sustainable shared development. Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, today, countries in the South are feeling the full brunt of climate change. Lake Chad is one of the most salient symbols of this, Its being vulnerable directly affects the means of subsistence of millions of people. We would therefore urge developed countries to uphold their commitments in terms of adaptation, resilience, loss and damages and technology transfer financing. 11:31:21Copy

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    🇪🇬 Egypt · Day 4Moustafa Kamal Madbouly

    • There can be no just transition if ambition is dissociated from fair implementation. Climate action must go hand in hand with development, poverty reduction and job creation. Adaptation, water security, and food security must receive the priority they deserve, especially in Africa and the countries most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Drawing on Egypt's experience in hosting the climate conference in Sharm el-Sheikh and the decision it adopted, we can affirm that the gap no longer lies in diagnosing the problem, but in implementation. 7:56:21Copy

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    🇸🇿 Eswatini · Day 2King Mswati III

    • Therefore, climate action must be accompanied by climate justice. We call for stronger international cooperation in climate adaptation, resilience, technology transfer, capacity building and access to predictable, affordable climate finance. We must protect our environment not only for our present generation, but for those yet unborn. In our region, we are currently confronted by what has been predicted as one of the most severe El Nino weather patterns on record. 9:38:33Copy

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39. 
    🇬🇦 Gabon · Day 5Marie-Édith Tassyla-Ye-Doumbeneny

    • President Restoring trust also involves reforming the international financial architecture, making it more equitable, inclusive and better tailored to today's challenges. Without this reform, it is becoming almost impossible to mobilize development funding, particularly green finance. Gabon, a country with extensive forest cover and a low deforestation rate, as well as being a major carbon sink, therefore calls for greater recognition of its contribution to global climate regulation and the ecosystem services that it provides to humanity. These must be properly valued and give rise to fair, adequate, predictable and sustainable financing. 7:31:38Copy

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    🇬🇲 Gambia (Republic of The) · Day 3Mohammed Jallow

    • National electricity access is at 90%, universal access targeted by the end of 2026. We are expanding our solar energy in schools and health facilities, modernizing our electric network, and advancing a 150-megawatt solar park. We have also adopted our first national disaster mitigation plan. But we urge that our national ambition be supported by international action to make climate finance accessible, predictable, and adequate, including through the sustained implementation of the new collective quantified goal on climate finance and effective management to address loss and damage, build climate resilience, and a fairer international order in which those who have contributed least to the climate crisis are not left to bear the greatest burdens. 4:43:42Copy

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    🇬🇹 Guatemala · Day 4Carlos Ramiro Martínez Alvarado

    • A country particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change knows that adaptation, risk management and the protection of rural livelihoods require national efforts, but also financing and cooperation commensurate with the needs, capable of building capacity and delivering results. Defending multilateralism does not mean defending the status quo. The United Nations must become more effective, representative, transparent and responsive to people. It must make better use of its resources, reduce duplication and respond more swiftly without weakening the purposes for which it was created. 12:10:06Copy

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    🇭🇹 Haiti · Day 4Alix Didier Fils-Aimé

    • The fact that those who historically contributed the least are among those who are paying the heaviest price, often to the detriment of their own development. Resources. devoted to adaptation and resilience need to be commensurate with these challenges. No people must have to choose between responding to an emergency and financing its development. 6:52:36Copy

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    🇯🇲 Jamaica · Day 5Kamina Johnson Smith

    • We've also submitted our updated nationally determined contribution, completed our long-term strategy for a low-carbon, climate-resilient future, and advanced our national adaptation plan. But national ambition must be matched by international action. We must revive 1.5. Climate finance must become more accessible, affordable, and predictable. 8:02:54Copy

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    🇰🇮 Kiribati · Day 4Taneti Maamau

    • But national action must be matched by international action. We call for greater ambition, stronger support for adaptation and climate finance that is adequate, predictable, and accessible. particularly for small island developing states. Kiribati recognizes the importance of international law in addressing climate change. 31:30Copy

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    🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan · Day 1Sadyr Zhaparov

    • Today, they have largely dried up. For us, this example must serve as a clear warning. Taking this opportunity, I officially call upon the United Nations, international financial institutions, and donor countries to support our initiative to establish under the auspice of the organization the special joint trust fund for the preservation of Lake Issyk-Kul. In order to demonstrate our commitments through concrete actions, we are prepared to contribute 10 million US dollars from the state budget to this fund. 3:47:27Copy

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    🇱🇦 Lao People’s Democratic Republic · Day 5Thongsavanh Phomvihane

    • Mr. President, the gap between commitment and delivery on climate change equally tests the credibility of multilateralism. Although the Lao PDR has contributed only a small share of global greenhouse gas emissions, our people are increasingly affected by floods, droughts, and extreme weather conditions. The Lao PDR remains fully committed to the Paris Agreement and its nationally determined contributions. However, Climate ambitions must be matched by adequate, predictable, and accessible climate finance, technology transfer, and capacity building to enable vulnerable developing states to adapt, build long-term resilience, and pursue low carbon growth pathways. 2:08:13Copy

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    🇱🇧 Lebanon · Day 4Nawaf Salam

    • But those efforts require a fairer and more equitable international economic order, one that offers them genuine opportunities to advance. Mr. President, our shared responsibility is equally evident in the face of the profound transformations our world is undergoing. Climate change threatens the lives and livelihoods of millions. Those countries that have contributed least to it bear its gravest consequences. 1:24:58Copy

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    🇱🇸 Lesotho · Day 4Samuel Ntsokoane Matekane

    • To cope with these climate-related challenges, we call upon developed countries to honor their commitments by providing new, adequate, predictable, and accessible climate finance. Further, we urge developed countries to transfer environmentally sound technology and to strengthen capacity of developing countries to effectively mitigate and adapt to the adverse effects of climate change. Climate justice demands nothing less. Just energy transition is therefore an imperative if humanity is to be spared from the terrible threat of climate change. 2:54:15Copy

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    🇱🇷 Liberia · Day 3Joseph Nyuma Boakai

    • Liberia contributes virtually nothing to global emission, yet our communities face coastal erosion, flooding, and disrupted agricultural cycles. My country also harbors 42% of the remaining Upper Guinea rainforest, a vital global carbon sink that we maintain on behalf of all humanity. Climate responsibility must be paired with climate justice. We call on industrial nations to honor their financial pledges and operationalize loss and damage mechanisms. 3:09:41Copy

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    🇲🇻 Maldives · Day 4Hussain Mohamed Latheef

    • That means finance must reach those who need it at the scale, at the speed, and on the terms needed to build resilience. This is why COP31 in Antalya must be a COP of delivery. Implementation must be the measure of commitment. We must move faster, we must speed up 2030 agenda, and we must turn our words into measurable progress for SIDS. 50:41Copy

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    🇲🇱 Mali · Day 6Abdoulaye Diop

    • We therefore call on member states to focus on adaptation, on access to climate finance, on indigenous technologies and solutions tailored to Sahelian realities. We advocate stronger links between efforts to combat desertification, food security initiatives, water management, conflict prevention, and resilience building. Mr. President, the world is experiencing extraordinary technological advances, including generative artificial intelligence. It is something that comes up in debate after debate. 36:43Copy

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    🇲🇺 Mauritius · Day 4Dhananjay Ramful

    • We look forward to this crucial global issue being addressed by the international community as a matter of urgency. We also call for enhanced, accessible and predictable climate finance accompanied by comprehensive capacity building and disaster risk management for the most vulnerable. I also wish to highlight that Mauritius is currently conducting a constitutional review exercise, which will include giving constitutional protection to the rights of nature. Mr. President, the crisis in development financing is deepening. 11:11:52Copy

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    🇫🇲 Micronesia (Federated States of) · Day 5Aren Palik

    • Mr. President and Excellencies, The challenges that impede our sustainable development are increasing. We must respond by implementing science-based emission reductions, scale up national climate commitments, and accelerate transition to renewable energy. We demand accessible and predictable adaptation grant financing to support investments in resilient infrastructure. We must operationalize the loss and damage fund. 37:33Copy

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    🇲🇦 Morocco · Day 1Nasser Bourita

    • This effort has extended to the African continent, which suffers from the devastating effects of climate change. The Royal Initiative to establish three African Climate Commissions for the Congo Basin, the Sahel region, and the African Island States has generated promising momentum to strengthen African climate action and coordination among the states of the continent in addressing these challenges. However, addressing climate change cannot rely on national effort alone. It requires the provision of affordable and accessible financing, technology transfer, and genuine international solidarity, enabling developing countries to fulfill their responsibilities towards present and future generations alike. 12:16:12Copy

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    🇲🇿 Mozambique · Day 2Daniel Francisco Chapo

    • that resilience is now an environmental, economic, and food security, social for development issue, and increasingly one of peace and security in all the world. We therefore reiterate the need to increase funding for adaptation, facilitate access to climate funds, operationalize the loss and damage mechanisms, and invest in early warning systems and resilient infrastructure. Mozambique remains highly vulnerable to extreme weather events, floods, inundations, cyclones, and we are concerned with the El Nino that might have potential severe impact in the central and southern parts of the country, especially when it comes to drought, food insecurity and livelihood. The preparedness and international cooperation will be essential to mitigate these impacts in a context where humanitarian needs are already facing a severe funding shortfall in the whole world. 9:00:02Copy

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    🇲🇰 North Macedonia · Day 4Hristijan Mickoski

    • The green transition is essential, but if we make it socially unsustainable, we will lose the political support that is necessary to implement it. If we make it technologically dependent on a handful of sources, we will create new challenges while addressing old ones. If we expect poorer countries to move at the same pace without providing them with equal access to capital and technology, we will create injustice instead of a transition. That is why future climate policy must at the same time be environmental policy, economic policy, and social policy. 3:49:58Copy

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    🇵🇰 Pakistan · Day 4Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif

    • Mr. President, developing countries are in dire need of timely debt relief, affordable long-term financing, and a stronger voice in global financial institutions. Development must receive the same urgency as security. Ladies and gentlemen, Is it not an irony of fate that Pakistan contributes less than 1% of global emissions, yet repeatedly bears the horrific consequences of climate change? Developed countries must therefore honour their climate finance commitments without delay, fund loss and damage speedily, and ensure support for adaptation and resilience. 5:25:01Copy

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    🇵🇭 Philippines · Day 5Ma. Theresa Lazaro

    • We call for the effective implementation of the Paris Agreement, the full operationalization of the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage, and strengthened implementation of the Sendai Framework. Put a face to the pursuit of sustainable development With the 2030 agenda less than four years away, only 36% of accessible SDG targets are on track. Achieving these goals requires renewed political will, stronger partnerships with the private sector, reform of the international financial architecture, and a United Nations development system responsive to the evolving needs and priorities of developing countries. Consistent with the Compromiso de Sevilla, we call for stronger international cooperation to mobilize development financing, facilitate technology transfer, and strengthen capacity building. 2:41:27Copy

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    🇸🇹 Sao Tome and Principe · Day 5Ilza Maria dos Santos Amado Vaz

    • Sao Tome and Principe, therefore, reaffirms its commitments under the Paris Agreement, its nationally determined contribution, and its national adaptation plan, while stressing that their implementation requires adequate, predictable, and accessible resources. We also maintain that the vulnerability of small island states should be assessed beyond per capita income, taking into account their specific characteristics and structural constraints. In this context, we call for the multidimensional vulnerability index to be translated into concrete eligibility criteria for concessional financing. We likewise advocate for the full operationalization of the fund for responding to loss and damage and simpler, more effective access to the Green Climate Fund. 8:18:20Copy

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    🇿🇦 South Africa · Day 3Ronald Ozzy Lamola

    • our prosperity, and our hard-won development gains. In the last year, 2 million people in the Southern African Development Community suffered the combined and debilitating impact of floods, cyclones, wildfires, and disease outbreaks. Our responses are severely constrained by a climate finance architecture stacked against developing nations. Global action on disaster resilience and predictable financing for a just energy transition is essential if international cooperation is to deliver for all. 12:05:14Copy

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    🇸🇷 Suriname · Day 1Jennifer Geerlings-Simons

    • High forested and low deforestation countries like Suriname should not first have to lose forests before climate finance institutions recognize the value of protecting them. Conservation costs cannot be borne only by the countries protecting ecosystems whose benefits are shared globally. So I will continue my plea for just and effective climate finance. Because our forests are under even more pressure than when I addressed this meeting last year. 7:28:50Copy

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    🇹🇳 Tunisia · Day 5Mohamed Ali Nafti

    • Tunisia once again firmly rejects becoming either a transit country or a destination for irregular migrants who are victims of human trafficking networks. Believing that climate change is a major factor affecting development, security, and stability, Tunisia emphasizes that addressing this challenge requires a genuine climate justice particularly since developing countries bear severe consequences despite their limited historical responsibility for emissions. Accordingly, countries with the greatest responsibility must fulfill their commitments regarding climate finance while maintaining a clear distinction between climate financing and development financing. Tunisia believes that achieving climate justice Comprehensive development and pandemic preparedness and response requires reform of the international financial architecture to make it more equitable, inclusive, and fair, thus ensuring developing countries have easier and fairer access to financing and enabling them to invest in scientific research, technology, innovation, and digital transformation, thereby reducing their debt burdens, strengthening their resilience, and empowering them to rely on their own capacities in shaping their future. 6:08:57Copy

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    🇿🇼 Zimbabwe · Day 3Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa

    • As droughts, floods, and declining threaten water, food and energy security, developed countries are called upon to honour their climate finance commitments in line with common but differentiated responsibilities. Mr. President, Zimbabwe welcomes the recommendations of the Secretary-General's Panel on the Critical Energy Transition Minerals and the country support mechanism. Critical minerals must become a foundation for inclusive development with value addition and a beneficiation at source, along with development of regional value chains being highly prioritized. Zimbabwe has more than 40 critical and rare earth minerals, and we have made bold decisions towards a mutually beneficial extractive industry. 29:56Copy

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    🇲🇼 Malawi · Day 6George Chapatula Chaponda

    • We call for the full and effective operationalization and capitalization of the loss and damage fund. 2:17:56Copy
    • Major historical and current emitters must honor their climate finance commitments by providing accessible, predictable, grant-based and highly concessionable financing, rather than relying on debt-creating instruments that further burden vulnerable countries already struggling to cope with the consequences of a crisis they did little to cause. 2:18:05Copy
    • Mr. President, Malawi therefore calls for enhanced, predictable and easily accessible climate finance with greater emphasis on adaptation and disaster risk reduction. 2:18:35Copy

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    🇻🇺 Vanuatu · Day 6Odo Tevi

    • Therefore, when we speak about climate finance, development finance, disaster resilience, and sustainable development, we are not asking merely for charity. 6:22:01Copy
    • That partnership must include predictable and accessible finance for adaptation and for addressing loss and damage. 6:22:17Copy
    • They will trust it when climate finance reaches vulnerable communities. 6:35:32Copy

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    🇬🇩 Grenada · Day 6Ingrid Jackson

    • Climate financing must become more accessible, predictable, and responsive. 5:16:46Copy
    • Greater access to concessional financing, climate finance, disaster risk financing, and innovative financial instruments can help countries move from vulnerability to resilience and from recovery to sustainable growth. 5:18:08Copy

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    🇧🇯 Benin · Day 6Marc Hermanne Gninadoou Araba

    • building resilience and the issue of loss and damage for all of these to be addressed urgently, given the urgency of the reality our people are already facing. 6:52:21Copy

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    🇸🇸 South Sudan · Day 6Cecilia Adout Majok Adeng

    • South Sudan, therefore, reiterates its call for predictable and accessible climate financing, investment in adaptation, resilient infrastructure, renewable energy, agriculture, and technology transfer. 5:38:21Copy

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