Day 5 at COP29 Azerbaijan with Ministry of Environment & Climate Change 🇸🇴 and the excellent Director General talking about the importance of data and local led adaptation for people displaced by climate change! UN Environment Programme UNDP Somalia UN in Somalia UNTMIS

Join us at the EAC Pavilion, #COP29Baku 📢 Event: Tapping Deep Aquifers for Climate Change Adaptation in Somalia. 🗓 Date: 19th November 2024 ⏰ Time: 04:00 - 05:30 PM 📍 Venue: EAC Pavilion #COP29Azerbaijan

Highlights from COP29 in Baku: Minister of @Moecc_somalia, H.E. Amb. Khadija Mohamed Al-Makhzoumi, engages with global leaders to address urgent climate issues. #ClimateAction #COP29

CCCPA concluded its engagements at COP29 Azerbaijan w/ an insightful session focused on enhancing trainings for personnel in peace operations to better understand #climate, #peace & #security in partnership with La Francophonie

Successful event that attracted the World Attention: Two hour recoding event during the COP29. Developing and submitting NDC 3.0: Somalia’s path to climate resilient d... youtu.be/TcTfxhocdDw?si… via YouTube, @NDC Partnership, @ODI Global Risk and Resilience, Ministry of Environment & Climate Change 🇸🇴

Highlights on climate change, prolonged droughts, and land degradation, threatening livestock and livelihoods due to pasture loss. #ClimateAction #LandDegradation

At COP16 Riyadh with the Ministry of Environment & Climate Change 🇸🇴 and SomReP and UN Political and Peacebuilding Affairs discussing land degradation and desertification! Great to see colleagues again!

At COP16 Riyadh conference, i had the privilege to meet with christophe hodder , UN environmental advisor to Somalia, during the launch of Somali pavilion at COP16.

Today, I had the honor of officially inaugurating the Somali Pavilion at #COP16Riyadh , Saudi Arabia, alongside Deputy Minister and Members of Parliament. The Pavilion showcases Somalia's efforts in addressing climate challenges, combating desertification, and strengthening

In #Garowe recently, United Nations experts attended the 6th #Puntland Environment and Climate Change Conference, with the two-day event bringing stakeholders together to discuss issues such as #biodiversity, #climate resilience and #environmental justice - important topics for #Somalis'

2/8 Al-Shabaab uses water strategically during extreme weather events like the 2023 drought. Our “Mapping Conflict” video shows how the group builds dams and canals to control resources and pressure people in areas it dominates. crisisgroup.org/global/mapping…

5/8 Deforestation in Somalia for wood burning and charcoal production has led to devastating consequences. It worsens drought and floods and has also funded the militant group Al-Shabaab in the past. We filmed bags of charcoal and wood transported outside Kismayo.

6/8 Our Future of Conflict team provided top-notch quantitative data and analysis to shed light on the links between conflict and climate stresses. Check the Data Annex of the Report, where we explain our metholodgy📊 #ConflictAnalysis crisisgroup.org/africa/horn-af…

8/8 Cautiously engaging Al-Shabaab on shared climate challenges could pave the way for peace. By prioritising water and services in all areas, Somalia’s government can meet people’s needs, build trust, and lay the groundwork for dialogue with the militants to end the conflict.

This is a great report by Nazanine Moshiri and Crisis Group which looks at the relationship between climate peace and insecurity. Do have a read and let me know what you think? UNTMIS UN in Somalia UN Environment Programme

We equally have seen this in the river breakages and water control systems in hirshabelle state !

This is what an FAO in Somalia Green Climate Fund program is rally going to look at next year. How do we help adaption to this climate disaster !

The Ministry of Environment & Climate Change 🇸🇴 and Ministry of Energy and Water Resources Somalia and SODMA Somalia are working so hard and are seeing progress !

#climatesecurity

Due to the right wing nature and unbiased approach of this platform and specifically Elon Musk I am going to come off this platform and move over to bluesky. I urge all #Somali colleagues to do the same to all for free speech to continue.