Position Paper: - Addressing climate risks through social protection - October 2024

What is the Climate Centre’s vision for the social protection agenda? Up to 2024, the Climate Centre’s social protection team worked in 35 countries1 exploring and establishing the role of social protection in addressing climate risks. [...] contingency plan for floods protection and disaster A pilot of this model is and landslides in risk management, and on currently being taken collaboration with social the experience of forward by IADB and the protection and disaster COVID-19, the Climate government. [...] • Social protection’s role in loss and damage: This briefing paper has been drafted to help increase understanding of the role of social protection in loss and damage, for the Technical Expert Group on Comprehensive Risk Management, under the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage, and inform the work plan of the executive committee of the WIM. [...] • Climate funds and social protection: What is the progress to date? This report reviews the role of climate finance in social protection and provides an overview of the types of social protection-related projects funded by adaptive and multi-focus funding. [...] Supporting concrete action and innovation: Building on the Climate Centre’s diverse technical expertise on climate policy, science and programming and its linkages with both the humanitarian and development sectors, we are well-placed to support initiatives like these: • Design and implementation of climate risk informed policies and programmes through analysis and assessments of social protection.