Family Planning & The Environment

A success at COP28 in Dubai

At one of our COP28 events, The Rt Hon Andrew Mitchell MP, the UK Government’s Minister of State (Development and Africa), announced £16 million in funding, following several years of our campaigning. The funding announcement focused on the importance of reproductive choice as part of climate resilience building. The Minister was the keynote speaker at our event, “An undervalued pathway to climate resilience: Investing in family planning to empower women and girls.” At a recent Global Financing Facility for Women, Children and Adolescents (GFF) event, governments and philanthropies committed US$445 million in urgent funding to strengthen primary healthcare and improve the health and rights of women and children. These new investments from governments and philanthropies are a contribution towards the GFF’s ‘Deliver the Future’ campaign to secure access to essential health services for 250 million women, children and adolescents in the hardest to reach communities.

The UK had announced its new commitment to the GFF for a further £80 million over five years. At our COP28 event we learned that, for the first time, the UK government has used its International Climate Finance to boost its commitment to the GGF. 20 percent of the UK's funding to GFF, being £16 million, is to be sourced from the UK’s International Climate Finance. Watch our event and the announcement here.