The aim of 4^th CJ seminar series is to explore how to accelerate climate action and build resilient economies. Globally, climate change remains a big challenge to humanity and its impacts are vast, interlinked and widely documented. These impacts vary across regions, with developing countries bearing the heaviest brunt. Vulnerability to climate change continues to increase as a result of multiple factors, including heavy dependence of livelihoods and economic activities on rain-fed agriculture and natural resources; natural fragility ecosystems, which continues to place a heavy toll on developing nations. These challenges are further exacerbated by poorly developed infrastructure (especially water, energy, ICT and transport) that can hardly survive extreme weather events such as floods and drought; and weak economies, relatively lacking in financial and technological resources for climate adaptation and mitigation.

One of the fundamental climate change discourses is anchored in the Paris Agreement - which speaks to global efforts to significantly reduce the global warming, by a concerted by, especially the developed nations, to reduce Green-House Gas emissions. Implementation of the Paris Agreement requires economic and social transformation, based on the best available science. The Paris Agreement has been a front runner discourse calling for:

• Building technology frameworks: Establishing technology frameworks to provide overarching guidance to the well-functioning technology mechanisms.
• Enhancing financial commitment: Providing financial assistance to countries that are less endowed and more vulnerable, while encouraging voluntary contributions by other Parties.
• Building capacity: Emphasis on climate-related capacity-building for developing countries and enhanced support for capacity-building actions in developing countries.