Photo Release

UNFCCC DESIGNATES LEGARDA AS 1 OF 2 ADAPTATION CHAMPIONS: Senator Loren Legarda, UNISDR Global Champion for Resilience, and Fekitamoeloa Katoa ‘Utoikamanu, Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States, were designated as National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Champions by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). They were presented to international press during the side event “Championing NAPs – Advancing National Adaptation Plans” at the 23rd UN Climate Change Conference (COP23) in Bonn, Germany. The designation of Legarda and ‘Utoikamanu as NAP Champions is the first in the process of UNFCCC, signifying the urgent need to promote the importance of resilience and facilitate linkages with external contexts to climate change adaptation.