 Hello everyone welcome thank you for joining in just one minute I'm going to hand it over to our moderator Dr Rebecca Shirley to kick us off and start the session. Welcome everyone, thank you all for joining us in our second dialogue on scaling locally lead adaptation. Welcome back first of all to those of you who are with us for dialogue number one, and a very hearty welcome to those of you joining us for the first time now. As I said is Rebecca Shirley, and I am the director of research data and innovation for Africa at the world resources Institute, and I am thrilled to be here as your moderator for today's discussion. As I hear from the Caribbean and the topics of solutions for adaptation to a changing climate, especially for islands is very close to me personally. So it's great to be with such an esteemed group of experts from the Latin community. So first in just a minute we will kick off our discussion with some opening remarks from a wonderful set of speakers, and then we'll have a short presentation from my colleagues on the different approaches for supporting locally lead adaptation. And then we're going to break out into smaller groups for discussion. And after all of that we will wrap up with our learnings and our insights before we close. Before they do it's my pleasure to introduce our speakers, and we are honored today to have three incredible champions for climate and locally lead adaptation with us. Before we kick off the discussion each speaker will have five minutes to share their insights and experience with us. Our first speaker is Alicia Herbert, the Special Envoy for Gender at the UK Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office, FCDO, to provide opening remarks. Thank you for joining us Alicia, the floor is yours. Thanks for that introduction, Rebecca, and it's an absolute pleasure to be part of this conversation today and indeed for the speaking remarks, not least because I am a product of the region, I was born and grew up in Trinidad and I grew up in Chicago and traveled very extensively throughout the region. So doing anything that involves Latin America and the Caribbean, you know, is very, very close to my heart. So as I said, real pleasure to be speaking as part of this regional dialogue on locally lead adaptation. In my role as a UK special envoy for gender equality and throughout my career and development. I have had the privilege of learning about the experiences of people and communities around the world who are the forefront of climate change. Climate related disasters and increasingly unpredictable weather events are having a profound and often devastating impact on lives and livelihoods ecosystems and economies. As we all know there's a wealth of knowledge held by local communities by women by young people by indigenous people, which is vital for successfully dealing with these impacts, combining tradition with innovation to build resilience. And this group heard a number of inspiring case studies at the first series of regional workshops in September, focusing on successful examples of peer to peer capacity building devolved decision making support for indigenous led action and promotion of innovative practices, just to name a few. We know that progress is already being made across the world. However, there's a limit to what can be achieved without the necessary enabling environment, and we as an international community must do more to help support and drive effective adaptation on the ground. And this is a critical aim of the UK's COP presidency. This requires amplifying the voices of those who are not often heard and making local communities agents of change. This requires change across all levels of society and across the development finance architecture. We must prioritize locally led adaptation and decision making and implementation, so that marginalized people and communities are empowered to protect their own future and finances available and accessible to those who need it most. We must learn from approaches like the LDC initiative for effective adaptation and resilience or life AR program, of which the UK is a supporter. And that program recognizes that countries, local communities, organizations and authorities are the experts in informing the decisions of how to prepare for climate change in their own context. Life AR is focused on supporting countries to develop tailored financial mechanisms to channel ultimately up to 70% of all climate funds to local levels. With Fiji and other partners, the UK presidency launched a task force on access to climate finance to align programmatic support behind national plans and to improve access to climate finance flows. The task force will develop a set of principles and recommendations to underpin and to guide a new approach to access with climate finance providers and recipients encouraged to sign up by the time of COP 26. The way in which we undertake research and use evidence must also change. For example, the adaptation research alliance is seeking to catalyze a paradigm shift so that research responds to local needs focuses on action and informed decision making. The alliance will seek to strengthen collaboration between Southern led local organizations and the global North to enhance capacity building. We encourage all of those engaged in building our collective knowledge base to endorse the alliance's results oriented adaptation research principles. In making locally led adaptation a central priority of COP 26. We not only want to amplify the calls for greater support for locally led action, but also to address the barriers that we strict and prevent finance flowing to local level. COP 26 in November just a few weeks away provides an ideal opportunity, a key opportunity to amplify the importance of locally led adaptation to share lessons about progress already made and to bring together donors, SIDS and LDCs on this agenda. We must ensure momentum is continued into the African COP 27 presidency and well beyond that. I look forward to continuing to work together to champion this crucial agenda. Thank you very much. Cheers. Thank you so much for those comments wonderful to share first of all from a Trini sister. It's wonderful. And great to see all of the many places that people are joining in from on the chat that was really excellent to hear about life AR, the alliance and the efforts on going at fcdu to support locally led adaptation and that that puts us in the perfect place for the rest of our conversation today so thank you so much for that. Next speaker is Crispin Dover, the program director for climate change and disaster risk management at the organization of Eastern Caribbean States Commission, the OECS. Crispin, thank you so much for joining us to share your brief reflections, the floor is yours. Thank you very much. And thank you for the, for the opportunity and good day everyone. This IPCC report paints a very somber picture for the region. A very somber climate future. Intensifying drought and hurricane sea level rise rising temperatures and decreasing precipitation are just some of the negative impacts of climate change that will manifest themselves in the region. To put a popular song by the ever popular body who feels it knows it. We're climate impacts are concerned, the people who feel it most directly, often those who live in small communities and who subsist on the products and services of proximate ecosystems. In other words, impacts are often localized and therefore require local solution. In the OECS we have recognized this reality. And for this reason, many of our adaptation interventions are community based and involved and involve local actors in the lead wherever possible. Such interventions focus on among others manual restoration and maintenance construction of climate resilient community structures, drainage and sustainable fisheries. In May of this year, the eighth counts OECS Council of Ministers, environmental sustainability adopted a regional climate change adaptation strategy and action plan. SICASAP embedded in this SICASAP is a recognition of the importance of acting locally with respect to adaptation, even while thinking nationally, regionally and globally. The fundamental to effective local million adaptation is the recognition of the value of ecosystem based approaches, which incorporate natural processes as part of the solution. Equally critical is the need for ensuring gender equality and social inclusion. In recognition of this reality, the OECS in 2020 released a toolkit that seeks to explain how people and communities in the Eastern Caribbean can be in stream ecosystem based adaptation, gender equality and social inclusion. The toolkit also included associated case studies. Further, the OECS is hoping to issue a call in the near future to member states for the submission of small equal resilience projects to support local adaptation action. Forums such as today's dialogue are essential to sharing experiences, empowering actors, and in general building momentum for locally driven adaptation. In understanding the local focus, there remains a role for actors, local, national, regional and international, government civil society, private sector and intergovernmental. It is good that many are represented today, and we look forward to an outcome, to outcome sorry that will advance the regional adaptation agenda. We look forward to further collaboration in the interest of building resilience in our region with these brief words I say thank you. And all of us for today. Thank you Crispin wonderful to hear about the toolkit and the resources that are now available through OECS it's really excellent. Now we'll move on to our third speaker. Our next speaker is Anne Sophie Charisola, the director of the climate action team at the United Nations. Anne Sophie please the floor is yours. Thank you. Thank you so much. And thank you for the invitation. It's really a pleasure to join you here at the second regional dialogue. To you from the UN headquarters in New York, and from my office on the 31st floor, I see the East River, and the many buildings under construction on the Brooklyn side of the river. These buildings will have a fabulous view on Manhattan, and none of them will have flooding insurance. Even if we know that these properties will be in fact flooded in a few years if nothing change. I'll be honest with you. This is the extent on my of my locally led adaptation experience. My job right now is to help lead the UN SG climate team at a global level and to mobilize all leaders, and that includes all of you on getting a few things done globally to make sure that you work at the local level is effective. I'm not going to repeat why previous colleagues have said yes we are in a dire situation and yes the region has been hit. You don't need me to explain that to you. The latest IPCC reports revealed that the situation will worsen at 1.5 degrees. We are currently around 1.1 and 1.2 and quite frankly all of us and again even here in New York. What is it that needs to be done at a global level to ensure again that the work at the local level is effective. First, you'll know that close the emission gaps. Which means that national pledges must collectively put us on track reduce emissions by half by 2030 compared to 2010 levels. We are very far from here. And in fact, the secretary general is now telling countries that they probably need to update on a regular basis without waiting for five years or 10 years. There, nationally determined contributions and probably their national adaptation plans as well as often as possible until we get on track. Number two, and this is something really that the secretary general has taken to heart and that my own boss, Selwyn Hart, that you know I'm sure he's from your region has been really pushing hard. We need to fix the adaptation finance gap, and that includes quantity and quality. All the people like yourself already on the front lines of this climate crisis you do have the first hand knowledge of the impact you're at best place to identify solutions. Maybe many of you of your colleagues are tackling the crisis. You're taking creative and impactful action to be performed, but you, or your colleagues often have to use their own resource. We are also very the key decision makers on finance, and this is wrong, because we know that with the right resources, local communities are a huge and untapped resilience building resource. They can deliver more context specific agile and diverse approaches. That's why we have been advocating and the secretary general in particular in his public as well as in his private meetings has been asking the following. One is asking all donors, and that includes governments and multilateral development banks to allocate 50% at least of their climate finance to adaptation. Since we've been asking for this we've seen two kind of reactions some donors telling us who this is very hard. This is very complicated. You don't know exactly what adaptation projects are more information. This is why we need you and the many, many example of adaptation projects you are working on to help us really push this call. I said that so far we've been a little disappointed. Well, more than a little actually by the lack of convincing response coming from MDB's and the World Bank in particular. We're a little surprised. I mean the World Bank is used working with targets, you know, on their portfolio, and we really hope, and again I'm counting on you that with your help and the help of many others. We'd be able to encourage the World Bank and other donors to move closer towards this target. As you may or may not know, we are currently adaptation finance is currently about 20, 25% of all climate finance, which is just wrong. We have seen some countries that have agreed to do more they have announced commitments of at least 50% and that's the Netherlands, that's Denmark, that's Sweden and we want to do that and quite frankly I'm, I'm counting on your help on that. What we see also that we think a lot again to allow for effective action at the local level, something that you all know about the problems to access finance and in particular adaptation finance we see many countries and also local communities struggling to access and provide existing financial resources. There are issues of eligibility of rate of capacity building that may be resolved. This week during the meetings at the World Bank and the IMF, the Secretary General met with the numbers of finance ministers and other leaders, and he started asking them for the following. One, he asked finance ministers to instruct the representatives at OECD to start work on the revision of eligibility thresholds for official development assistant to improve access to finance, in particular for low and middle income countries and for small island development states, that's more or less your region that would allow access to more finance. So we will continue to push for that I consider all of you friends and leaders of this course and we'd be happy to work with you to see how we can continue to help each other. And I really commend your work on these principles of local related adaptation action. Again, it also helps us a lot to push these issues with other leaders and really to do what we all need to do meaning connect the global with the local to make sure that we have the right instruments and that you have the right instruments to do your work. So you can count on us. We stand committed to working with you to protect the billions of people at risk, and I thank you very much for the invitation. Thank you. Thank you for those words on behalf of the UN. Thank you for that very enthusiastic show of confidence in local communities. Thank you for that charge to continue to push for for more financing for for stronger commitments from the communities. And I really appreciate that you emphasize not just the quantity but the quality of the finance. Thank you for all of that and thank you to all of our speakers, you've put us in a wonderful place to have this conversation. Now we can see in the chat folks are joining us from all over Latin America from all over the Caribbean. It's a really wonderful group that we have here is very promising. So quick exercise to get everyone warmed up for a great discussion ahead. This exercise which I'm just learning about myself as well as call a chat shower. So we have two questions for each question, we'd like you to type a very short response into the chat, but don't hit send just yet. We'll wait a moment and all hit send at the same time and have a shower of insights, hence the phrase a chat shower. So as you can see on the screen. The first question is, what is the change that you would like to see to scale up locally led adaptation. You can see all the various translations below so please type your answers don't don't hit send us yet. Over here you can see participation of youth women finance commitments, governments taking a stronger lead, improve access to finance, engaging local communities, regulations, more involvement more involvement more involvement of local communities. And then there's those participatory governance political will really wonderful. Thank you for these responses political will coming up quite a bit community empowerment youth empowerment wonderful. Great. So, that shows that we're all quick with the fingers, this is excellent so let's move on to our next question. So the next question is going to be. What is your biggest hope for locally led adaptation at COP 26 in just now. Two weeks, two weeks and a bit. What is your biggest hope for LA, what do you want to see happen for LA at the COP. I'll just pause for a few seconds so people can get their answers ready firm and I mean firm commitments I like that. Community commitments higher percentage immunity from middle agents alternatives to extractivism autonomy locally led communities being able to take on make the agenda. Evidence real concrete practices financial commitments. Let's talk more action. I think that sums it up. Wonderful. Thank you all for all these great thoughts, and we will revisit these questions in more detail in the breakouts and at the end. But before we break out into discussion and I can see that we're all really fired up to do that. We want to share a quick recap of our first dialogue and the principles of locally led adaptation. So with that up with a presentation on pathways for delivering and supporting locally led adaptation. So for this session, please feel free to add any questions or comments into the chat box during these presentations will have a short bit of time for our for our speakers to to address those. So let's begin by introducing a lean Marina Cunningham of CDP a central power la autonomia e desirio de los public pueblos indígenas the Center for the autonomy and development of indigenous peoples. I lean over to you. Thank you Rebecca and thank to all of you that are here today is really interesting all the answer that you are included in the chat as Rebecca say, and I'm going to do a very brief recap of the first dialogue. I'm going to introduce this dialogue is part of the scaling up locally led adaptation project of the locally led adaptation project in collaboration with the cop 26 presidency the adaptation action coalition and the race to resilience. This project aim to support the impact of scaling up state and not stay locally led adaptation by developing pathways to replicate scale up and finance locally led adaptation via delivery mechanics across Asia Pacific, Africa and Latin American Caribbean. So as you already hear, this is the second round of the dialogue, and this is specific for Latin America and the Caribbean, and the first rounds was in September, and we hear from 11 cases globally, and in the different region. They are delivering time at finance behind local priorities and facilitating locally led adaptation. These create very inspiring ideas for locally lead adaptation collaboration and initiative. They clearly show that it's not longer good enough for the international community to hide behind statement, because we always hear that it's too hard to support locally led adaptation. But during this first round of dialogue, we show, I just a gleam of the opportunity to radical transform the way adaptation and climate action is supported. The second, the second round of dialogue provide the space for a more rich discussion and advance understanding about the pathways enables and changes. One half is Mike on. Okay, thank you. So the second round is to show the pathway the enables and changes to scaling up replicate and collaborate in across different locally let me delivery mechanics, and how international climate finance can better support this pathway, including what he has a cop 26 should be. So after this round of dialogue, we look forward to practically advancing ideas for scaling up locally lead adaptation, including at the numbers events at cop 26. So here we see all these 11 examples about locally lead delivery mechanics that were presented during the first dialogue. I want to talk about all of these, because you can also go to the, to the link in the, in the YouTube and see also not only the Latin American dialogue but the dialogue from the other region. These 11 stories were examples or delivery mechanics supporting locally lead adaptation in Africa, Asia Pacific, and Latin America and Caribbean. These are good practice at how this, how is delivering the eight principle of the locally lead adaptation. There were just few examples. And both there are other and you can see in the map there are other examples around the war. We have over 100 examples. And I imagine you have more examples that you can even share with us later. So, for Latin America and the Caribbean, we have seen some examples. Like the global fund for indigenous people of the Pawanka fund that is a global indigenous people that fund that finance indigenous people initiative via grant making directly to indigenous people organization. We also saw the civil society in on grant team via critical ecosystem partnership fund from the Caribbean, canary, and utilizing canary original intermediary with local footprint and, and we also saw the example of the micro finance for resilient condo cooperation that is a private foundation with strong public and private sector collaboration seeking for support financial inclusion and sustainable in tourism and agriculture supporting MSMEs and CVOs with tailored credit and advisory service. And as I said before, we encourage all of you to continue in sharing other stories of delivery mechanics that you have. And there we have a template available. So if you want to share this information with us. So we see here the eight principle of locally lead adaptation. This is just a quick reminder. And the 11 case that we have a global global level, provide great examples of how of delivering against these eight principles. This global movement has led to a principle, which are intent to guide better locally lead practice. And we can see here that some of these principles are devolving decision making to the lowest appropriate level addressing structural inequities faced by women you disabled and excluded ethnic group, providing patients and predictable funding that can be accessed more easily. And we also have invest in local capabilities to live an institutional legacy, building a robust understanding of climatries and certainty through a combined of local traditional indigenous as well as scientific knowledge, flexible program and learning to address gender identity in adaptation, transparent financing and decision making process that are accountable, don't work to local stakeholder, and also the collaboration across sex store and level to ensure that different initiative and different sources of funding support So these are the eight principles and in all these 11 examples are supported by these principles and I, as I say before, I imagine they're going to be more examples around the glove. So, these are some of the headline that came from the first dialogue. Some of the relevant ideas. And I think there were more than this, but we just want to share some of this with you. And I think one of the most important is that Diane Black Lane from OCCIS is calling for a $1 billion fund for locally led adaptation action that I think is really important. And she said that all the subsides that exist for fossil fuel could be directly could be directed to especially locally led adaptation through NGOs and civil society group. I hope we can see some changes. Also, other other ideas is like the evolving decision making should be a strange in governance model voices from the ground need to be consistently include to keep response agile and responsive cohesion should will be built over time. Also local people time needs to be acknowledged rather than presumed they can participate for free opportunity cause of diverting action toward adaptation and local CSO often resource trap it. Also, it say that there is no way we can shift what is happening right now without locally led adaptation process. Locally led funding time or it's not need to be longer. And I think this is very important for indigenous people in our case, because we have we always advocate for that we have a different timing frame. Also about community and local organization should bear the financial risk but having to jump through onerous hopes designed for international organization that is one of the main issues with climate finance also one of the main challenge for for local organization and business as our social approaches are not working in our countries, even at one degree Celsius warming. So, and I think this is very important about local and traditional and indigenous group provide troughs and network need to deliver effective locally led adaptation based based on understanding the political economy possessing establishes network and understanding the surrounding natural environment. So I say these are just some of the ideas it was really a very recent robust discussion during the first dialogue. So, these are some of the questions that were arise during the first dialogue related to the principles also and our intermediaries needed for support and locally led adaptation most funds are too large large to go directly directly to the local level. Therefore, we need sustainable or better intermediaries more connected and accountable to local levels. For example, delivery mechanics concept. How are we going to define this delivery mechanics concept I think it's also one of the issues that local organization and indigenous people will always raising their commitment in their issues. And also how are excluded people actually involved in supporting decision making, especially people with disability and how our local people are organization supported to build resilience to longer term and more extreme climate change. So, and also it's important the, and the role of the local private sector, for example, and microfinance micro insurance cooperative impact and community investment. And for from this first dialogue we showed to the world that we can deliver climate finance more directly to local communities on the front line of climate change. And we dramatically move away from this international intermediaries architecture. There are no more excuse to say there is a lack of capacity, or that there is too costly to get climate finance to the local level. So, thank you, and Rebecca, I'm back to you. Thank you so much Eileen for this the resume and the premier dialogue, and those principles, the adaptation local mentee. Thanks Eileen for that recap. We now have anchor grander son, the senior technical officer at the Caribbean natural resources Institute canary, who will take us forward and present on the pathways to achieving locally live adaptation, which together with Eileen's presentation for the breakout group discussion that will follow. So anchor over to you. Thanks for that. So greetings firstly from sunny Trinidad and Tobago. It's lovely to see such a great turnout today for the dialogue. We provide some context for our breakout discussion today. I have been asked to provide a brief overview of the different pathways for scaling up locally led adaptation, or LLA for short. These pathways have been identified based on the findings from the 11 different case studies of innovative financing and governance models presented at the first dialogue and the various other examples that we've identified, which Eileen just did a very good recap of. And this is recessions really meant to guide our reflections on what are the different pathways for delivering LLA. What are the enablers that facilitate this process. How can international climate finance better support these pathways, and what should be our asset cop 26 to really scale up impact and enable frontline communities to adapt and build their own resilience. And we speak about pathways, what we're really speaking about a delivery mechanisms. These are the different means by which funding is channeled down to local levels to support community organizations, resource users, households, and other local actors. And these mechanisms exist because as Eileen mentioned, most climate funds are provided in large amounts that kind of really be accessed effectively by small local organizations. And so various institutions which may be government civil society or private sector are used to deliver these funds to the local level. And one of the key findings from the case study is that we really need a shift towards use of regional, national and subnational institutions, such as local banks, corporatives and local civil society organization to deliver finance for LLA, which are closer to the ground and more accountable in some ways to local actors, rather than some of the international institutions or intermediaries that currently dominate the finance landscape, like the UN agencies and multilateral development banks. Our homegrown intermediaries are most effective where they are able to provide direct access to finance and amounts suitable to local actors, for example via small grants or small and microloans, and to help these actors manage these finances. Where they're able to facilitate inclusive governance and ensure that the marginalized and most vulnerable groups have a voice in defining priority needs and strategies for adaptation and how funding is allocated. Where they're able to take climate information that is often complex and shared with local actors in ways that they can easily understand and use it to inform adaptation. Where they're able to learn and can shift gears rapidly to deal with changing risks on the ground, both at present and into the future, and crucially are embedded at the national or local levels, so they can continue to provide support over the long term, as adaptation can take decades, not just a few years, as we know. In the first dialogue we heard about the 11 innovative case studies, and there's also all these other examples that have been identified for delivering early via these regional national and subnational institutions to give a few concrete examples to reflect on to the different pathways of delivery mechanisms. These included, for example, a global fund, which Eileen mentioned, which is the Planca Fund for Indigenous Peoples, where they actually provide grants and directly to Indigenous Peoples organizations and use really innovative careers such as cultural due diligence to guide grant making. There's also national funds such as Antioch and Barbados Sustainable Island Resource Framework Fund, Namibia's Environment Investment Fund, which provide grants and loans to a range of different entities from private households to enterprises to even local government communities, and use financing from international climate funds, but also endowment funds and even environmental levies to support climate adaptation, mitigation, as well as natural resource management. Eileen already mentioned the example of a civil society on granting where the critical ecosystem partnership funds Caribbean program is using a regional intermediary canary to provide 10 years of grant making. This is focused on protecting critical ecosystems and building climate resilience in the Caribbean and draws on funds from a global consortium, including World Bank. There are also interesting examples of microfinance and lending, where, for example, fund a corporation, a private foundation in Costa Rica, and supporting medium small and micro enterprises, as well as communities organizations in the agriculture and tourism sectors, providing tailored credit advisory services to really promote resilience at the local level and financial inclusion. Similarly, we have examples of even like various sort of grassroots level community resilience funds, but an example for example from Indonesia, where the Yakun Emergency Unit provides grants to women's groups so that they can better engage in planning at the local government level, particularly around disaster risk reduction and building resilience in their own communities. And so when we look across these different case studies, we see a number of different sort of journeys, which have led them to where they are, and have supported their scale up, taking different amounts of time and focusing on building different types of capacities to effectively support the economy, and working from small amounts of funding and eventually building up a track record where they're able to be recognized at national and even international levels and attract and leverage more mature and larger sources of funds from international climate funds like the adaptation fund, Green Climate Fund, World Bank and other development banks. I think an interesting thing that was mentioned earlier by Eileen and should be highlighted again, is that they often supported by risk taking donors, especially in the earliest stages, such as for land profits, or even small grant facilities like the Jeff small grant program that are willing to maybe take on a bit more risks. They were supported by different enabling environments. So for example, decentralization of funding to district or community levels, legal commitments that mandate for example a certain percentage of funds go to local actors, or national policies and specifically support local adaptation. And then if you really think about it across all these examples we've been able to identify the following categories of mechanisms for delivering LLE that are useful for us to reflect on as we go into the breakout groups. These have been can be sort of categorized firstly into state government led mechanisms, private sector led mechanisms, and civil society or grassroots mechanisms, as well as those that are based on partnerships among public, private or civil society. These are state or government led mechanisms for these national climate funds, which I already mentioned some examples from Antigua and Barbita and Namibia. There's also local government climate funds. There's social protection schemes that may be using for example cash transfers to support the most vulnerable and poorest. There's different private sector like mechanisms for us to think about, which include microfinance institutions, corporates, co-ops, local commercial banks, and then there's a civil society led mechanisms, where for example, you have the aggregating of local people savings, for example, urban poor funds, where poor households pull their money to support each other, for example, and we have a nice example of that. And actually in the Caribbean is similar to what we might call Susu or Boxhands. That's also a means that you can pull funding. There's also these community resilience funds and of course the civil society led grant making where national regional NGOs serve as intermediaries for larger funds. So moving into the first question for the breakout groups, we'd really like you to think about the different types of delivery mechanisms, state led, private sector led, and civil society led. And what are the range of enablers that support these different types of mechanisms and approaches to LA. Enablers could be a range of things. Thinking about whether there's a strong and established local presence, whether they're strong local networks, whether they're policy or regulations in place, whether there's a focus on building local capabilities and what type of capabilities, whether they're sort of robust financing mechanisms, and what are the key features of these, and whether they're committed resources, and even restaking donors that are willing to support the work. And then in terms of the second question we want to ask is how can international climate finance better support these elderly delivery mechanisms. These mechanisms have already been able to attract and leverage international climate finance successfully. There still exists a big gap in terms of what is needed on the ground, and the type of support that's being provided in terms of both quantity and quality. And here we really want to reflect on, on who could be these funders, and the different rules, ranging from philanthropists to bilateral, and to multilateral funders. And here we can even think about the big three that have been seeking to set up mechanisms to enhance direct access to local actors, like the adaptation funds climate innovation accelerator. The Green Climate Funds Enhanced Direct Access Program, and even the well-established Jeff Small Brands Program. And we also want to think about how these funders can better support LLE. And then finally, to wrap up, we really want to know what would be your key ask at COP26 for supporting LLE. In the first round of dialogue, as Eileen mentioned, there was a call from minimum of one billion US per year from Ambassador Black Lane from the Alliance of Small Island States Oasis. But is this enough? When we had the second rounds of dialogue in Africa earlier this week, there was a call for five billion US a year to pull directly to regional, national and subnational institutions. And what we want to hear from you today is, is this enough? And where should these funds go through? This will really help us to shape the ask for COP26 in Glasgow, which is just over two weeks away. So I think with that I'll stop and say thank you very much. If you have any questions before we head into the breakout, please put them into the chat and we'll try to answer them and make sure everyone is clear about this before we head into the breakout discussion. Thank you, Anka. That was a really helpful presentation. I thought the graphics were very helpful and also very aspirational in terms of what business unusual can apply for adaptation. And I really loved hearing about all those practical examples of funds that are at work today. As Eileen said, there is no longer any excuse but to support LLE adaptation. So that came through very, very clearly. I'm already learning so much from these presentations, and we are right on time to move on to the next section. So with all of that further, we'll spend the next 45 minutes or so in breakout discussions, which will be a chance to discuss some of the questions that I think has just walked us through and reflect on, and reflect on some answers together. So as Anka mentioned, we'll be asking ourselves what is required for progress on LLE, how international climate finance can support, and of course, Claire asks for COP as the adaptation community. So you'll be randomly placed into groups now. Again, if you want to be allocated to a Spanish-speaking breakout room, please mark or put ES at the end of your Zoom name so those working behind the scenes can help make that happen. So right now we should all be transported to our various Zoom groups. We'll all be looking at the same questions. And after that, we will regroup to hear back from the teams. Great, looks like we have most people back and some may have had to drop off. Of course, it's a long session this evening or this afternoon, depending on where you're calling in from. Okay, I don't see the numbers changing anymore. So let's go ahead and get started. Well, I hope that you all enjoyed your sessions as thoroughly as I enjoyed mine. I really appreciated that time that wasn't rushed to really explore those questions together. And my group had some really great ideas that came out of the conversation actually. So I'm looking forward to seeing what other groups had to say. So right now we're moving into our report back session. This will be the last thing that we do before we close out. And the way that we're going to do this is for each group there should be a nominee, someone who will, who will provide the report back on behalf of their group. And we're going to pose questions to each of the groups to help pull out those insights. So to ask this report back is not sort of a summary so no need to cover everything that was discussed of course you have members of the organizing team in each of the groups that were taking notes. Rather, the point here is to really synthesize some of the key topics that we discussed. And so please, you know, focus on being additive to comments that might have come before you as we're going through this report out period. So I want to ask a question first to groups, probably let me just start with groups one and two. And in the question in the in the breakout sessions we had talked about changes that are needed at different levels at the national level and so on. I'd like to understand what is one change needed for national government systems to support locally that adaptation better that stood out from your group's discussion. The group one if you could tell us a little bit about what your group discussed on national government systems and how they can better support locally that adaptation. I'm wondering which one is the group one. I have a Mario that he will be doing the, the recap, and we took some notes. I'm going to share just to Mario to, to follow some of the main issues. Adelante Mario. Well, that's what I don't recognize the first question when they said it, because, well, how about the question that we raised. What are the factors that make it easier to scale the local pace. In the discussion, we talked a little bit about the necessity and strengthening of local networks, the exchange of experiences, teaching practices that develop in communities, more research and agnostic case study, more inclusion of the social groups, the policy of the state, to highlight precisely the activities that many groups of women have initiatives. For example, in the Brazilian dry corridor, where the climate change arrives before other regions, the examples in the coastal area, in Uruguay, we talked about the necessity to take into account the ecological and cultural diversity of the territories in the context of socio-economic and territorial that generates the different opportunities. And all this, to help even with the issue of financing and communication between the actors. I don't know if I can go to the next question. That's good for now. That helps us answer. I think we got your thoughts on the specific support needed from national government in terms of inclusion of social groups and supporting on local networks. So I'll come back to group one to answer some of the questions in a bit. Thank you so much for that. Group two, I believe, which was moderated by step. If you could come on and answer the same question for us, I want to stay on the topic of the national government systems. What were a couple of changes from the national government system specifically that your group discussed. Well, we had a very diverse and just excellent breakout session. Almost everyone participated. A lot of themes and insights were shared. But two that I can bring out to answer this question are first, this, this topic and issue of improving the way we communicate about climate adaptation and liquid adaptation. This is a theme that just kept coming up again and again and for all the questions really to that we really need governments and people representing local groups to emphasize the human face of the effects of climate change to go beyond talking about finance and dollar amounts and, and to really, to really bring it back to the values and the human side of climate change and the people who are severely threatened and endangered by climate impacts. And, and for this, it's really essential to bring in local actors and to have them be the ones who are sharing and communicating what is happening, the great work. And measures that they're already implementing instead of having, for example, consultants kind of representing these things on their behalf. So that is, that is one the communication and really putting people and local actors at the center. Another theme that came up in that is relevant to this question is involvement of the private sector so it's really critical that governments and other actors understand the language of the private sector and are able to bring them into these conversations into forums and where they feel like they fit in and that they're part of the solution and that they have a role to play when it comes to climate adaptation. So these are just two of the things that I would like to share right now and I'll let the other groups go next. Thank you Stephanie. Great. So we're going to come back to some of that in a bit I want to get to the other groups, group three which I believe was, was moderated by anchor. So let's move on to the international climate finance space which was kind of what question two was about. And let's hear from your group anchor what stood out as one change that's really needed for the international climate finance community to support Emily. So thanks for that, Rebecca. I think I will be presenting because I didn't have any takers to present on behalf of the group. So we talked about a number of things but one of the first things we talked about is for those that are actually applying directly to some of these climate funds. It would be nice to really have them think about how to streamline and make their application processes much less onerous, you know, not having separate very different types of, you know, applications that require different types of things. You know, if everything was actually quite similar even one application process which is probably very hopeful, you know, it could just make it so much simpler in order to easily apply for these funds and not have to relearn different systems for every different when a lot of the times they're asking for similar types of things. The second thing we talked about is really thinking about the criterion indicators that are being used to actually both evaluate proposals for once proposals and projects approved, evaluating what's the actual impact on the ground in terms of both process and outcomes. And so for example, in evaluating proposals, we had a group, the Pawanca Fund was represented in our breakout group, and they were talking about the fact that we think about environmental and social safeguards, but don't necessarily think about other things like cultural indicators, and other things that really should be considered in terms of looking at the proposal and not just the technical content. And I think the same goes for measuring success. You know, if we only thinking about getting lots of funds out of the door, and that's your measure of success that's really just capturing one aspect of it. What's the actual quality of change that's happening on the ground. Are we actually addressing structural inequalities. Are we actually building local resilience. So those are some of the things that we discussed in terms of changes we would like to see from international climate finance community. Thank you, Aaynqa. Super succinct on streamlining the process and on measures of success and indicators that really helps back to what we spoke about in dialogue one. So that's really excellent. Next for I'm going to ask the same question of you that was Marik's group. And if you we could stay on the topic of the international climate finance space and what's needed to support L&E. Marik. Thanks, Rebecca. So yeah, I'm also reporting back for a group some fantastic discussion. And hopefully we'll have a little bit more time to go over some of those build on some of those fantastic report backs on the first question. And some of those ideas I guess building on our anchors we really had, I guess a real strong call to recognize that those are the frontline of climate change those that most need the funding that is being pledged from climate finances are the ones that actually have the least time to spend access in these fundings we need international actors to really think about what is it required for local actors really access this funding and make sure this access criteria is really tailored for their needs. And we really need to recognize that this whole processes and learning by doing process and adaptation is going to be here for the next 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 100 years is not just a project for four years, or even less. We need the funding to be recognized that we need adaptation to be taking place consistently over time. And therefore it needs to be private needs to be programmatic and needs to be working with facilitators who can mobilize local communities, and therefore needs to be accompanied by the right institutions to make that happen. It's a two way process and therefore going back to a final point is really we need donors to be asking local actors what is it that we need to be doing to reform and change. We need them to work with local institutions and say how do we need to change our processes and our access criteria to really work for local adaptation. Yeah, I think that covers it probably and but my group please do pop stuff in the chat if I missed anything else. That that links to a lot of things that was said in my group as well. Around, what do we need to do to change and thinking about what the what the international climate finance community itself can be doing. Great. So that's so we've covered the national level we've covered international level. I believe there were two more, two more groups in total. The next group group five which I think was Tamara. Let's move into now some questions around challenges so of course we know that there are challenges to making some of these changes that have been discussed by the groups previously. I'm curious did your group have any ideas on the how how to address some of these challenges can conditions that can support these changes. Yeah, sure. Thanks so much Rebecca and I'm also reporting since I didn't have any volunteers for my group but but but yeah we had some really great idea so likewise would like to invite members of my group to to pop in additional thoughts into the chat I think one one challenge and solution that came out and that came across. Most of the questions actually that we discussed was the you know the challenge of lack of local input and sort of accountability for actually using that input and making sure that that input from local partners is actually taken into account and informing the decisions as the challenge and and one idea that came out was sort of having having oversight committees or having different sort of steering committees that would bring in representatives from from local partners. Provide that oversight provide input. So having kind of form formal mechanisms like a like a committee that would ensure that that representation and that input from local partners actually kind of gets applied and as informing relevant decisions and we talked about this in the context of both sort of national level processes but then also thinking ahead to how it could be applied to international as well. That's a great idea, take a note of that. And I want to ask the same question of group six, which was Ebony and clear that was my group. Ebony and clear. What were some of the things that we discussed as and our group did have quite a number of these ideas actually solving some of these challenges with we're talking about. Well, I'll have them go first and then Ebony you jump in if I've missed that one of the critical points. So, there was there was thought around how to get access to be easier for using really focusing on the countries and communities within those countries that are experiencing greater shock and then work with in those locations with those people to develop sustainable projects and a recognition that data requirements are challenging but actually that's part of what needs to be funded. And one of the ideas that came out earlier that's very relevant is around developing comprehensive nationwide plan so if each country was being supported to develop that country wide plan, then the donors would be in a situation where they are required in some ways to really back those plans and to work with them and build the, build the capabilities around those plans. And there was also a couple of points around representation I think it's just worth thinking about briefly, but you know that local voices are really critical to bringing those alternative solutions to the forefront at the national level regional and international level, that process of representation needs funding. So, we need the donors actually stepping up on funding that represents representation, so that it's effective. And that would, that would perhaps go some way to donors also beginning to understand those local partners and begin to take risks because they're, you know, when they've got good representation, this you can begin to build trust at the different levels. So that's me trying to collect a few ideas into a couple of points but Ebony please. No, I mean clear that was absolutely perfect I was going to mention the point around risk taking and really pouring greater risk taking effectively and that's kind of in both directions that's including decision makers, taking risks by engaging close to the local communities, but also there was some good points around local communities, needing to take risks themselves by, for example what's happening your finance minister about these issues which was a fantastic idea. And then clear already mentioned that there was a really good ask around encouraging a seat at the table for CSOs to be involved in these decision making processes. So, I think all that was given that could be a bit of a standard I guess in that the Jeff through this small grants program in Jamaica was sort of funding people to attend meetings and conferences I think and that helped to bring those voices into those forums. So that could be an example of where similar asks we made, but otherwise it was a great recap plan I think nothing further from me. What I liked about that conversation was the asks don't have to be these humongous things right this is such a practical ask and something that can be actioned on almost immediately so I really appreciated that that component of the of the conversation. I think I've gotten through all the groups with with round one, and we have the second half of our 40 minutes I'm going to do a second round of questions. So I'm coming back to group one, I believe that was Mario was speaking for group one. I wanted to ask if your group got to particular asks for for locally led adaptation at COP 26. What are some of the specific asks that you guys came up with. There is a special request and it is to put it in respect to the position of several countries, for example, Nicaragua has prepared a document to request from the COP that Central America and the region of the Caribbean is considered as a highly vulnerable region for climate change and that to support and facilitate financing and not only is the position of Nicaragua and Central America but also in the case of Uruguay there is the fact that it has been shown that it is a country that is more affected by the global conditions of climate change than the of the own condition of what the country produces. So it is definitely a position of recognition of those who are talking that they are going to request. At the same time, it is asked to facilitate financing for more vulnerable communities to see precisely a promotion for local production change to enhance the food of the regions, less industrialized and more natural production. And I think that all of us are assuming a little bit of that petition. I don't know if you want to add anything. No, I think it's complete. Thank you Mario. Thank you so much Mario. Thanks Aileen. I'm going to turn back to group two now, which was Steph again same question if you can tell us what was some of the specific asks and ideas for COP 26 that came out of your group. Well similar to what Mario said, facilitating access to finance that came up in our group a few times. And just that there are too many levels too many hoops and it's just a very unclear pathway sometimes to the finance. Someone said for example that the GCF only has three projects per country in the Caribbean which is nowhere near enough for the level of vulnerability that the region faces. There is also an ask for a change in how mechanisms are existing right now, one in which people who are at the forefront of climate impacts are the ones who have more decision making role so it came up that academics researchers and indigenous peoples in particular are being left out of these, these decision making scenarios. And let me see if there was one other. One was this. Again this issue of communication across sectors and having more clarity on policies agreements what countries are actually doing and also how the private sector and private companies can contribute. Thank you for that Steph. Great. So now let me move on to group three, which was anchors group. Anchor, did you, did your group have any particular thoughts on enablers so that that that meaning the challenge solutions to address some of the challenges that we've been talking about throughout the session now, whether that's at the national level or the international level. So in terms of enablers. I think many of the neighbors already identified the ones that were, at least discussed previously when we went through the first round, but we did have a nice discussion around some of the specific enablers for some society led mechanisms. And I think one of the things people noted is that there's still some sort of lack of real awareness around what's really working on the ground and what's not. It's very helpful to have better documentation and sharing of what is working in terms of locally led adaptation, which I think is nice to hear given the work that the global consortium that's working on LLE is trying to capture these different examples of innovative models, and really document and share them so people have examples of work that can be scaled up and replicated. So I think that was one of the key things, and that linked it really to a point around sort of better monitoring and evaluation and learning to really feedback into the sort of decision making and planning that's happening around adaptation. And another key point was also around really supporting capacity building. So now just thinking about strengthening organizations and institutions which is obviously really key, you have to have strong CSOs and other types of local actors to really deliver effective adaptation, but also thinking about the tactical capacity, which is linked to that point about not being aware of what's working well, you know, and so building up technical capacity, and therefore providing funding that's really sort of supporting that capacity building and that technical assistance to really be able to understand the issues and effectively address them, because you don't want to make the problem worse, you want to really understand what you should be doing and drawing on the best available science, as well as local and indigenous knowledge and solutions that exist. So those were some of the key things that were highlighted, and people felt that pay-to-pay learning and support is actually quite a powerful tool for supporting some of that capacity building as well, whether it's pay-to-pay for CSOs, but also pay-to-pay for the government and private sector in terms of building on what other people have been doing successfully. So I think I'll end there. Brilliant, brilliant. And then any unique asks for COP that came out of your group? In terms of unique asks, I think we jumped, we didn't really jump. We had a bit of a discussion and then we kind of went to that sort of big question of, is the one billion per year enough? And is that something that we could have reasonably asked for? And I think the feeling was that it probably isn't enough, although people were like, we need to do some research. I'm not even sure exactly how much is being asked for, what's the gap specific to locally led adaptation. I think there was a bit of pessimism, which is probably kind of important to share in terms of the realism of it. Some people kind of noted that they were not anywhere close to getting 300 billion per year asked in reality. And so with any pledges to say that we're going to get one billion, even five billion per year really kind of translates to actual financing on the ground. So, you know, but there's still the idea that it should be an ask and I guess that the one billion or five billion, you know, actually even be enough if we really want to address these issues. Yeah. So that was my group. Please feel free to share anything in the chat if I missed anything for the rest of my group. Feel free to drop things into the chat all of the information all of the comments are being collected. Marek, I'm coming back to you to ask a similar question around enablers and wanting to get not just perspective on the challenges but some solutions. So any solutions any enablers that came out of your group chat on the on the challenges that we've been discussing. There are a few enablers and quite a few in the cutting across the board so I guess for civil society. We say we need to put policy in place that really recognizes and includes those that have previously been excluded from decision making not just that ceases in my vulnerable groups but sees there's them as solution holders as those who have the experience and the knowledge to address adaptation from the civil society side to actually recognizes that within policy, but they're the ones who hold a significant amount of the knowledge. From the private sector, it was mentioned that obviously we have an ongoing movement on corporate with social responsibility but moving into environmental and social governance issues and that provides an opportunity with a growing calls for regulation on the private sector and to integrate local adaptation I guess a growing call for business to understand how do they that and this is an opportunity to enable it to really support that those that move for regulation that strong regulatory call within the private sector. And from the international climate finance space, we didn't have a specific ass to cop and I really I guess just building on our anchors point I really, I like that realism of it how do we even get to know what the ask it really is, and I think that's really a great point and we know probably the hundred billion is it's not even sufficient it provides fantastic that's a lot solidarity but and is that really enough when we have trillions and capital markets flowing that are doing bad stuff, let alone the hundred that's meant to be doing some good stuff so I think that's a really really great to have a sense of realism and that I guess maybe just to on the international space. I would also be delivering, I guess a democratization of climate finance it can't just go to national governments and also needs to go to other sectors of society to support innovation redundancy and adaptation to support more grassroots So I guess that and there's many more fantastic ideas that emerge I guess hopefully that summarizes it in our group and again, yes by group please do pop in the chat. And if I've missed anything or you or you've come up with it in the space a fantastic ask to ask. Great, we've just got our last 10 minutes or a quarter of the time left so where we're doing very well on time. I'm going to move into groups, five and six, which would be back to tomorrow. To ask, you know, questions we touched a bit on international finance at the top and I want to come back to that. Tomorrow I might have asked you this was with the desk you're ready about international climate finance perhaps I'll flip it around and ask you about the national this time. Sorry, yes, so you're what you talked about in terms of the national national challenges and changes that are needed at the national government level. Yeah, and I think we talked about the challenges last time as well I mean I think, you know we talked about, you know, the things that come up often when we talk about when we talk about what's needed for local education in terms of simplified processes, simplified reporting it and access to finance I think one thing, maybe that I'll highlight just that came out of our group so you know to avoid summarizing all of the great ideas that came out. But one thing we did focus on was the importance of traditional and local knowledge I see in the chat that that this was a theme that was discussed in a lot of groups. But we talked about sort of, you know, on the one hand, the importance of education and capacity building but on the other hand sort of recognizing that the the importance and value of local expertise and the role that traditional knowledge can play. And, and not just recognizing it but maybe thinking about some more formal mechanisms for bringing in traditional knowledge so how we might update or revise some of the planning, planning and decision making processes so that they're not just informed by kind of scientific knowledge, but that that we also are really intentionally bringing in traditional knowledge. And I know other groups mentioned this as well but but that also kind of touching on some of the cultural competencies and pieces there and recognizing those those factors as well so. So recognizing kind of the value that those can bring to adaptation planning processes and having some more formal mechanisms for for actually making sure that those that expertise and that information gets gets brought into inform decisions. Brilliant, thank you. And just before we close any, any other asks for cop that came out of your group tomorrow. Or have we covered everything so far. Yeah, you know we we had a really rich discussion on questions one and two. We spent a little bit less time on on question three so maybe members of my group have now that they've had some time to think about it they might have some ideas that they can pop in the chat but we did sort of cover, you know, the big picture of the need for more adaptation financing and more kind of. You know, compared with mitigation financing, especially with regard to a sins. And we also talked about kind of some of these similar ideas of, of what it could look like to have sort of revise some, some planning processes to, to make sure that representatives local groups are included. And maybe have more frequent revision of plans to make sure that we're including these key factors for supporting la. Okay, so last but not least Claire and Ebony I'm going to come back to you to see if you have I mean we've covered so much now with this with this synthesis and this report back. But were there any final ideas that came out of our group on the national governance and the national government level or the international climate finance level in terms of changes that are needed to support. And I'll try and try and bring in I tried to summarize some of those points earlier but to emphasize I think the need for comprehensive national level plans, thinking about how to intervene across all the vulnerable communities in a country. The need to recognize those civil society actors who can bring together that local knowledge and inform the development of those plans and really build on community local indigenous understandings of where the risks are and why and how to, how to prepare for them how to reduce that risk. There was a huge emphasis within our discussions around the international level around the importance of patient and flexible support. And I think we've heard that again and again and indeed it has its own principle as a result that until that flexibility is there. It's impossible to do the adjustment and shifting of approaches that one needs to when you're working at that local level, bringing together different actors and different ways to really work to people's strengths. So the third point that I'd like to make was one which I really think we should possibly make one of our top asks of the cup was to put representatives of LDCs and small island developing states in the funds that are that are providing climate finance. There's more understanding of actually the limits and the, and the, the challenges that are faced by these very capable but very small governments when you've only got a few staff in a department in one nation, compared to, you know, many 10s of people in another nation is going to need different ability to respond to all these requirements from these funds. So we need to get those who actually understand the challenges for the LDCs and for the SIDS as part of the delivery of getting finance out the door and to these, to these locations. I don't know if you've got anything to add there, Ebony or whether we've finished on that one. It's a perfect time to finish on clear. Thanks. Excellent. Great. And for any of the six of you or anyone else on who was part of the conversation with this synthesis and summary have we captured the breadth of everything that was discussed are there any last ideas that haven't yet been represented. I would like to chip in for 10 seconds. Okay. Rebecca, thank you. I have an idea. In our group communication education indigenous knowledge so many things came. I have a simple suggestion to make. When you look at COP 26 aiming for a more and more involvement financially and otherwise, it's worthwhile to think reverse. That is 100 plus LLA locally led, you know, initiatives should go back to the concerned people in their own languages. It will greatly help in networking the local, no stakeholders enable us financial private and everybody. And it costs nothing to bring back these best practices back home. Please take it seriously so that it's going to help in a big way. So this is what I want to appreciate. Thank you very much. Thank you so much for that. We really appreciate it. Wonderful. Well, I have thoroughly enjoyed this conversation I think just to summarize some of the points that I'm hearing and we have, we have no takers in the background, taking all of these notes and we'll, we'll compile all of this. But I think something to coming out clearly. I think it's sounding like there's a lot of the international climate finance space can be doing to further streamline the process for less create more availability of funds but what what came up clearly was me to streamline the process this came up clearly in Dialogue one and to have more meaningful measures of success. What does it mean to be supporting a local adaptation and how do you, what are the indicators. Some very clear hows came came out. So, so the idea from tomorrow's group around the oversight committees to ensure input from local communities, the idea to send more local people to to the major forums like crop and so on to support that effort. And of course there was the conversation around hiring more local people into the finance organizations or finance institutions, having people from the region actually running the programs. And so thinking about one one one quote I like from today was the changes needed not just at our level but at their level too. That's what I heard someone say and so I think we've round out to a number of ways in which the climate finance space itself could be changing to support locally lead adaptation. We moved into the national level then after that. And what I found really interesting from these conversations is you could see from all the perspectives that have been raised is that there's actually a very clear area where government and state level institutions are actually quite important. There's a very clear talking about the idea around the comprehensive planning. This came out again from our group and we were talking about someone what someone made it the given example of green affordable housing plans going on in St Lucia and moving people from low lying areas to higher to higher ground. But you know building in, in, in, in hilly areas and high grounds can have very, very disastrous effects in terms of runoff and flooding. And so you can immediately we're in order to do something like that. A centralized planner would be required, but of course joined from an informed by local perspectives. We talked about better coordination but to communication around and between groups, linking national strategies directly to actions that are happening at the local level all of that is what would actually be you know required by by national governments we also spoke a bit about the need to communicate better and more clearly to document first of all and then to communicate more clearly what's actually happening at the local level to put to capture examples that can be scaled up and to communicate more broadly and clearly about those examples, all of these are areas where the national government and state led actors can actually have a role to play. So the, so the, the, the conversations not so much government step aside and let locally led, let local communities do their thing but really here's how to fall in place, and you can almost see sort of a clear action agenda for governments to support locally led adaptation coming out of the conversation so that was brilliant. So we asked specifically for for cop I think we were where we're all of course, you know, talking about the commitment is the hundred billion per year enough, clearly, clearly not as as mark was making that comparison to where we're funding and investment is globally right now. So how do we understand what is the gap we that that that brought us to the point on data, and the fact that we that data and information services are crucial missing missing gap or missing space in all of this conversation. I mentioned myself I'm fully behind that a brilliant article was posted in the in by carbon brief, just a few days ago, which looked at the top 100 papers in the client top 100 most influential papers in the climate in the climate space, capturing about 1300 authors, over 75% of those authors are from the global north. So the global south, all of the global south is representing some 25% of our climate scientists, I think about 1% of that was from Africa. So, so data and information, and, you know, support for for the sciences support from for knowledge creation in the global south, hugely important democratization of that finance also important. So one of the key highlights that that came out of our conversation. Also that we need to recognize recognize the community groups that are engaged in all of this work. One final thing that came up came across was that they're actually the legislation speaks to locally led groups, oftentimes, but then for some reason they're not on the radar. They need to recognize their work is not being documented so they need to recognize groups came out clearly. So need for more finance in terms of quantity need to ensure that the finances high quality to reach and support partners which means simplifying the processes, simplifying the reporting being more patient more flexible, and themes of course around, you know, the importance of integrating local traditional knowledge recognizing cultural factors, and so on. So these are just some of the of the ideas that that came out from the conversations really really brilliant and very rich conversation I want to thank everyone for sticking with us thus far we have almost everyone that was there at the beginning of the call still here two hours plus later, almost two and a half hours later so thank you all for that. And thank you so much for participating and helping us to advance this important conversation. So we're going to do one last chat shower to close us out asking the same question. What would be your one ask for locally led adaptation at cop. You can see here on the on the on the screen. What would be your one ask for LLA at cop let's see if your thoughts have changed at all, given everything that we've learned today. So type your answers, at least 1% of climate finance for indigenous people specifically defined metrics. Simple adaptation financing. Access to funding, bottom up strategies improving the narrative demonstration of real examples of how this is operating how it's functioning, raising more, raising more available funding mechanisms for communities. Wonderful well that is all incorporating bottom up approaches all of the answers are coming through. And it's all very much aligned with with what we've talked about so I think we're all we're all landing on the same page and speaking with a common voice here. Help for cooperatives, simple processes that comes across very very clearly from dialogue one and dialogue two as a major need. Great. Well, we hope that you've enjoyed today's session, we hope that you continue to stay involved in the discussion in the lead up to cop 26 and beyond. So there's a couple of ways you can do this. Of course, you are your institution can endorse the principles for locally led adaptation, and join the local lead adaptation community of practice. How to do that well endorsing the principles is pretty easy. We have a short form, which we will share the link to in the chat, and we can include your logo. We just ask that you share what you're learning on your locally led adaptation journey through the community of practice so I believe someone should share that link in a second into the chat. You can also stay involved by participating in one of the many locally led events that are happening at cop 26. Those of you who will be there, including through the resilience hub on the locally led adaptation hub. Let me thank you all tremendously for your time for your thoughts for your perspectives. We hope that you each took something away new from this conversation as well, even though you're all the experts we hope that you're able to learn something from your peers through this dialoguing. The team is behind the scenes I mentioned collecting all of this valuable insight for its outputs, and we will surely be in touch on those in the very near future. It's a pleasure to facilitate this rich conversation. So for me from WRI from our partners, we want to thank you so much, and please have a good day from whatever part of the globe you're calling in from tomorrow and miraculously pass it back over to you to see if there any closing remarks or logistics you'd like to take care of. Thank you so much Rebecca. If you could just go back to the previous slide with the four events. But firstly just thank you so much for attending this session it's been fantastic, and this has been the final one in our dialogue and it's all been absolutely fantastic. And so thank you to all the facilitators of the groups Rebecca for moderating. Rebecca and Eileen for presenting so just one final note, if you are going to be a cop. There are a number of events which we've got on the screen here that are going to continue this local adaptation dialogues that we've been having. And on Monday the eighth voices from the front line hosted by the COP26 presidency will hear from some of those that have been involved in these dialogue series. And we hope to re strengthen this call to action for more local adaptation, and the resilience hub and the LLA hub itself that will be really supporting discussions and small talks on local adaptation we hope to see you there. There will be numerous sessions continuing these discussions over both of those spaces and development climate days is a way to engage virtually they will be fully virtual sessions and if you can't be a cop. It will be virtually virtual, which will have a session of financing local adaptation conflict and fragile states, and how to really get the private sector working for local adaptation and one final note the resilience hub will all be hybrid events that means they will be physical and virtual engagement will be possible. And I think we'll pop in the chat again, how to go and register for the resilience hub. So, and if you're not at the COP, don't worry you can continue to be engaged. Thank you so much. And we hope to continue this discussion with you. And please do get in touch. If you'd like to directly talk about this further. Thanks so much. Tomorrow, anything else from you before we close. No, I think that's it. Thank you so much Rebecca and thanks everyone for for joining. I learned a lot and really appreciate everyone joining this really rich discussion. Well, with that, we are we are officially closing session. Thank you all so much. Good day. Take care, be safe, and we will all be in touch soon. Thank you.