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  • 09 July, 2020

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Climate Vulnerable Forum

Climate Vulnerable Forum

It is an international partnership of countries highly vulnerable to a warming planet. The forum serves as a South-South cooperation platform for participating governments to act together to deal with global climate change.

The Forum first met in the Maldives in November 2009.

Other initiatives are taken by CVF to deal with climate change:

**Vulnerable Twenty (V20) Group of Ministers of Finance of the Climate Vulnerable Forum is a dedicated cooperation initiative of economies systemically vulnerable to climate change. It was established on 08 October 2015 at Lima, Peru. Its primary objective is to promote the mobilisation of climate finance.

**Survive Thrive #1.5C aims to promote actions to keep warming below 1.5°C and urges people to get involved and keep updated on limiting global warming to 1.5°C.

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