Rebecca GCA General Info

1. Accelerating Adaptation
Background on the Global Commission

2. About the Commission
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The Global Commission on Adaptation seeks to accelerate adaptation
action and support.
The Commission will elevate the political visibility of climate adaptation
and encourage bold solutions such as smarter investments, new
technologies and better planning to become more resilient to climate-
related threats.

3. Convening countries
• Argentina
• Bangladesh
• Canada
• China
• Costa Rica
• Denmark
• Ethiopia
• Germany
• Grenada
• India
• Indonesia
• Marshall Islands
• Mexico
• Netherlands
• Senegal
• South Africa
• United Kingdom
• Uzbekistan
• Vietnam

4. Commissioners
• Ban Ki-moon, 8th Secretary-General of the United
Nations
• Bill Gates, Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation
• Kristalina Georgieva, CEO, World Bank
• Achim Steiner, Administrator UNDP
• Petteri Talaas, Secretary-General, WMO
• Shri C.K. Mishra, Secretary, Ministry of Environment,
Forests and Climate Change, India
• Hilda Heine, President, Marshall Islands
• Keith Mitchell, Prime Minister, Grenada
• Akinwumi Adesina, President, African Development Bank
• Elhadj As Sy, Secretary General, IFRC
• Michelle Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for
Human Rights
• Patricia Espinosa, Executive Secretary, UNFCCC
• Christiana Figueres, Former Executive Secretary, UNFCCC
• Li Ganjie, Minister of Ecology and Environment, China
• Anne Hidalgo, Mayor, Paris
• Emma Howard Boyd, Chair of the Environment Agency, UK
• Naoko Ishii, CEO and Chairperson, Global Environment Facility

5. Commissioners, continued
• Peter Damgaard Jensen, CEO, PKA Ltd
• Agnes Kalibata, President, AGRA
• Loren Legarda, Chair, Senate Finance Committee, Philippines
• Strive Masiyiwa, Founder and Chairman, Econet Wireless
• José Antonio Meade, Former Finance Minister, Mexico
• Gerd Müller, Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development,
Germany
• Muhammad Musa, Executive Director, BRAC
• Cora van Nieuwenhuizen, Minister of Infrastructure and Water
Management, Netherlands
• Sheela Patel, Chair, Slum/Shack Dwellers International
• Feike Sijbesma, CEO, Royal DSM
• Francis Suarez, Mayor, Miami
• Andrew Steer, President and CEO, World Resources Institute
• Shemara Wikramanayake, CEO Designate, Macquarie Group
Ltd.
• Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director, Oxfam International
• Catherine McKenna, Minister of Environment and Climate
Change, Canada

6. Core Deliverables
• A Flagship Report, to be released in September 2019, that will
present a compelling vision of an agenda for scaled-up and
transformative adaptation.
• A set of Action Tracks representing key, tractable adaptation
challenges, including food security and rural livelihoods, finance, and
locally led adaptation.
• From late 2019-2020, a Year of Action to advance the
recommendations from the flagship report and the action tracks.

7. For more information, visit
gca.org/global-commission-on-adaptation