CLIMATE VULNERABLE FORUM

• –Members: Comprised of 58 countries from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Pacific.
• –Purpose: Serves as a platform for highly vulnerable countries to collaborate on addressing global climate change, emphasizing South-South cooperation.
• –Leadership: Governed by a rotating chair held for a standard two-year term.
• –Current Chair: Ghana (2022-2024), the second African nation to lead after Ethiopia.
• –Establishment:
• -Inaugural Meeting: Near Male’, Maldives in November 2009.
• –Significant Declarations
• -Manila-Paris Declaration: Adopted during the CVF High-Level Meeting at UNFCCC COP21
• -2016-2018 Roadmap: Outlined goals and strategies for the Forum’s progress.
• -Commitments:

               At UNFCCC COP22, members pledged to ambitious climate actions, aiming for maximal resilience and striving for 100% domestic renewable energy production as rapidly as possible.