5th INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION CONFERENCE CAPE TOWN SOUTH AFRICA 18 - 21 JUNE 2018
SPECIAL SESSION PROGRAMME Advancing and strengthening the linkages between climate change DEA policy and research to support Policy and Research implementation and inform future adaptation research.
VENUE SESSION SUMMARY Level 2 The first part of the session will present the national response policy TIME on climate change, the adaptation research and sectoral Monday challenges specifically in South Africa. The presentation will share the 14h00 - 17h00 long-term adaptation scenarios outcomes- on climate change projections, risk and vulnerability assessment and adaptation options- including identified gaps and needs. It will then provide the ORGANISER/S update on the climate change adaptation research, followed by Mikateko Sithole, proposed future work focusing on integrated and nexus Department of Environmental Affairs approaches. This future work will explore how the research work (DEA) could serve the implementation of the national adaptation strategy, support the national determined contribution and provision of the PARTNER INSTITUTION/S climate information and services. The second part of the sessions will Wits University, South Africa take a discussion through opening statements by panel members, Stellenbosch University, South Africa followed by engagements to allow audience to engage with the Africa Climate Development Institute, findings and comment and contribute to shape the future South Africa adaptation research. Water Research Commission, South Africa SPEAKERS
CHAIR Tlou Ramaru, DEA Tlou Ramaru, Department of Opening presentation Environmental Affairs, South Africa Guy Midgley, Stellenbosch RAPPORTEUR Lessons from LTAS I & II Mikateko Sithole, Department of Environmental Affairs, South Africa Sibonelo Mbanjwa Towards the development of South Africa’s National Climate Change Adaptation Strategy in South Africa
Brilliant Petja, Water Research Commission Informing policy through evidence based research for increasing resilience and adaptive capacity of the water sector to changing climate
Coleen Vogel, University of the Witwatersrand Living with climate uncertainty in complex, political environments: the case of Johannesburg
Mark New, University of Cape Town Defining South Africa's Climate Change Adaptation Research agenda
Vhalinavho Khavhagali, Uuniversity of Cape Town Climate change adaptation research, policy and implementation in South Africa Country Level Impacts of Climate Change Workshop
S170 SESSION SUMMARY Climate risk assessments, adaptation planning The CLICC initiative endeavors to improve on a common process for countries to present the impacts of climate change at the national level, drawing on existing national assessments and other research material. The aims are to: VENUE 1.43 • Facilitate global understanding of country-level climate by informing national mitigation and adaptation planning TIME • Promote good practice and collective learning in assessing climate Monday impacts. 12h30 - 14h30 This session is an opportunity to share experiences, improve the ORGANISER/S technical approaches for country level assessment and Ying Wang, communication of vulnerability and impacts and; enhance country UN Environment interest and future participation in the CLICC initiative.
PARTNER INSTITUTION/S SPEAKERS Ghana Environmental Protection Agency, Ghana Jiang Tong, China Meteorological Administration, China United Nations Framework Convention Experiences from first round of CLICC pilots – China on Climate Change Secretariat, Germany Antwi-Boasiako Amoah, Ghana Environmental Protection Agency China Meteorological Administration, Experiences from first round of CLICC pilots - Ghana China Paul Desanker, Adaptation Programme of the secretariat of the CHAIR United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Paul Desanker, United Nations Supplement to the NAP Guidelines Framework Convention on Climate Change
Paul Desanker is a Manager in the Adaptation Programme of the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and is responsible for the subprogramme on National Adaptation Plans and Policy. Prior to his current position, he served as a member and Chair of the UNFCCC LDC Expert Group.
RAPPORTEUR Ying Wang, UN Environment
Fun and Games (and a lot of learning) with Ecosystem-based Adaptation
S40 SESSION SUMMARY EbA Ecosystem-based adaptation has received a lot of attention from conservation and development groups alike to help people adapt to the adverse effects of climate change. In this session the audience VENUE will participate in a simple, fun and interactive exercise to learn the 1.41 four “cornerstones” of EbA to help clear confusion on what EbA is and how it differs from other forms of adaptation involving natural TIME systems. The audience will also learn from brief cases studies and discussion on real-world EbA from Belize, Kyrgyzstan and South Africa Monday and will also learn about the state of the evidence base on EbA. 12h30 - 14h30 SPEAKERS ORGANISER/S Shaun Martin, Shaun Martin, WWF, USA World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) ABC’s of EbA
PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Mpfunzeni Tshindane, SANBI, South Africa German Society for International EbA Case Study from South Africa Cooperation (GIZ), Germany South African National Biodiversity Nadia Bood, WWF, Mesoamerican Reef Institute (SANBI), South Africa Ecosystem-based Approach in Furthering Coastal Management in Belize CHAIR Shaun Martin, WWF USA Paul Schumacher, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Senior director for climate change Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Germany adaptation and resilience at World Making the case for Ecosystem-based Adaptation in the Central Wildlife Fund with more than 25 years Asian high mountainous region experience in capacity building, international education, training and Hannah Reid, International Institute for Environment and leadership development. In his current Development (IIED) role he helps influence policy and Ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation: strengthening the practice by bringing climate change evidence and informing policy and ecological dimensions into the fields of conservation and sustainable development. He also provides guidance to WWF and partners on becoming "climate-smart”. He is a member of the boards of directors for the School for Field Studies and Emerging Wildlife Conservation Leaders, an advisor to ee360 for the North American Association for Environmental Education and America Adapts Media, and serves on the technical reference group on ecosystem-based adaptation for the Convention on Biological Diversity.
RAPPORTEUR Abigail Hehmeyer, WWF USA
Microfinance for climate adaptation: from readiness to resilience
S239 SESSION SUMMARY Finance Financing climate adaptation at scale remains a mystery to most. Private investment will narrow the finance gap but lags behind public investments. Finance institutions and climate-vulnerable households VENUE are central to the private investment sector, as are enterprises that 1.42 contribute to resilience building. But, developing countries still grapple with fundamental issues such as how to provide financial TIME services to those who are not able to access traditional financial institutions or who don’t understand that climate adaptation can Monday yield greater financial returns from their livelihoods. Microfinance can 12h30 - 14h30 address these challenges - particularly if concessional – e.g. loans offered at lower than market interest rates. ORGANISER/S Belynda Petrie, SPEAKERS Climate Investment Funds, OneWorld Oxford Policy Management, United Belynda Petrie, OneWorld Kingdom Microfinance for adaptation: From readiness to resilience
PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Takhmina Akhmedova, Government of the Republic of Tajikistan OneWorld Sustainable Investments, Positioning financing institutions as agents of change Climate Investment Funds Nadine Brown, Planning Institute of Jamaica CHAIR Microfinance for enterprise development in agriculture and tourism Sailas Nyereza, Climate Investment adaptation through the PPCR Funds Raul Alfaro-Pelico, Lead Climate Isidro Fote, Ministry for Land, Environment and Rural Development, Change Specialist, World Bank Mozambique Centralised approaches to disbursing community finance RAPPORTEUR
Michael Gerhard, OneWorld
The role of faith communities in adaptation
S6 SESSION SUMMARY Other - Faith Based response to adaptation Faith communities make up the largest Ngo in Africa. What is the role of Faith communities in responding to environmental degradation and climate change? Sharing some best practice models. Identifying strategies for mobilizing faith communities. VENUE 1.44 SPEAKERS
TIME Monday
12h30 - 14h30
PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS ORGANISER/S Rachel Mash,
Green Anglicans of Southern Africa
PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Southern Africa Faith Communities' Environment Institute (SAFCEI), Southern Africa
CHAIR Rachel Mash, Green Anglicans, Southern Africa Rev Dr Mash is the Environmental coordinator for the Anglican Church of Southern Africa (South Africa, Namibia, Swaziland, Angola and Mozambique). The church has started the Green Anglicans movement to mobilise this faith community in terms of worship practice, greening of local churches and advocacy actions on a local and regional level.
RAPPORTEUR Ncumisa Magadla, Green Anglicans, Southern Africa
Adaptive coastal planning - sharing techniques, tools and experiences
S80 SESSION SUMMARY Coastal zones and Deltas We aim at sharing a range of experiences in using pathways approaches to adaptation planning for coastal areas, and at addressing the associated practical challenges. The session will VENUE explore the following questions: 1.43 1. What are we learning from the engaged research in coastal TIME adaptation, that would make possible or not a paradigm shift Monday towards a dynamic adaptive policy making process? 15h00 - 17h00 2. How concretely do we bring the evidences from research and innovations into policy and practice? ORGANISER/S Christophe Briere, 3. Besides applicability, how can we ensure the sustainability and Deltares replicability of coastal projects following an adaptive policy planning approach? PARTNER INSTITUTION/S University of Southampton, United SPEAKERS Kingdom United Nations Development Pradeep Kurukulasuriya Programme (UNDP), Thailand On the common challenges for coastal planning authorities Victoria University of Wellington, New
Zealand Robert Nicholls
Sustainable coastal development, investment and planning CHAIR Sadie McEvoy, Deltares Christophe Brière Dynamic Adaptive Policy Pathways, concept and applications RAPPORTEUR Heleen Vreugdenhil, Deltares, The Judy Lawrence Netherlands National Coastal Hazards and Climate Change Guidance for addressing uncertainty and change using dynamic adaptive pathways planning
Climate risk assessments as a tool for enhanced adaptation action?
S179 SESSION SUMMARY Climate risk assessments, adaptation planning How can climate risk assessments advance and contribute to the implementation of nationally determined contributions (NDC)? During the interactive session, we will share lessons learned from applying the GIZ Vulnerability Sourcebook and its recent Risk VENUE Supplement in various countries and sectors. These practice 2.45 examples shall stimulate a lively discussion on how climate risk as- sessments can inform adaptation planning and decision making processes in different contexts. The session includes government TIME representatives from Thailand, Benin and Madagascar with detailed Monday insights into on-going risk assessments in their respective countries. 15h00 - 17h00 SPEAKERS ORGANISER/S Michael Brossmann, Marc Zebisch, Eurac Research Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale How to assess climate risk – and how this can contribute to enhance Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) adaptation planning and action Eurac Research, Italy PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Ministry of Public Health, Thailand Benjawan Tawatsupa, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand National Coordinating Office for Benjawan Tawatsupa is public health technical officer at the Health Climate Change (BNCCC), Impact Assessment Division, Department of Health, Ministry of Public Madagascar Health, Thailand. Her expertise is epidemiology and population Ministry of Health, Benin health, including health impact assessment from heat stress, air pollution and climate change. She has been actively involved in the CHAIR development of the (draft) Climate Change and Health Adaptation Michael Brossmann, Deutsche Plan (HNAP) for Thailand. Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH Jane Razanamiharisoa, National Coordinating Office for Climate A geographer by training, Michael Change (BNCCC), Madagascar Brossmann is an expert in climate Jane Razanamiharisoa is an environmentalist by training, with a change adaptation in the context of specialisation in environmental law. She leads the Climate Change international development cooperation. Adaptation Team within the National Coordinating Office for Co-author of GIZ’s Risk Supplement to Climate Change (BNCCC) within the Ministry of Environment, the Vulnerability Sourcebook, his focus Ecology, and Forestry (MEEF) in Madagascar. She is coordinating the areas are vulnerability & risk assessments, Steering Committee for the development of the national adaptation national adaptation planning and plan as well as the implementation of the three regional climate risk climate services. Michael is currently analyses conducted in Madagascar. Head of Component in a German- Malagasy adaptation project Adjinda Sourou, Ministry of Health, Benin implemented by GIZ, based in Adjinda Sourou is an environmentalist by training and a water and Antananarivo (Madagascar). sanitation specialist. He is the Climate Change Focal Point within the Ministry of Health. He has coordinated studies as part of the Libreville RAPPORTEUR Declaration on Environment and Health and has initiated the Nele Bünner, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Vulnerability Assessment and Climate Proofing Activities in his Ministry. Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH Marc Zebisch, Eurac Research Marc Zebisch is an expert in monitoring and modelling environmental dynamics and the consequences of climate change by means of remote sensing, GIS, computer models and interdisciplinary assessment approaches. He is co-author of the GIZ Vulnerability Sourcebook and its Risk Supplement and is involved in several climate risk assessments on national and sub-national scale. He is the head of the Institute for Earth Observation at Eurac Research in Bolzano, Italy.
Nele Bünner, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (Co-facilitator) An environmental and resource economist by training and specialized in climate change adaptation, Nele Bünner, adores working in multidisciplinary and mind-expanding settings. Working for GIZ since 2012, she is currently heading an adaptation-planning project in West-Africa. She is a passionate observer who likes looking past the surface of things and is seeking purpose in her actions.
Making Finance work for Agricultural Resilience
S34 SESSION SUMMARY Finance In this session we will focus on the potential of finance to support transformation, and the challenge of creating financial mechanisms that allow agricultural stakeholders to access credit and insurance VENUE products which can be used to increase resilience. A key objective 1.44 for the session is to stimulate increased dialogue between adaptation practitioners and forward-looking financiers, as well as TIME enabling South-South learning on resilience solutions across Africa, Asia and Latin America. Monday 15h00 - 17h00 SPEAKERS
ORGANISER/S Vanessa Otto-Mentz, Santam, S. Africa Ben Smith, Global Climate Adaptation Partnership Peter Johnston, UCT, South Africa
PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Ben Smith, GCAP, UK Econologic, South Africa
CHAIR Anton Cartwright, Econologic, South Africa The owner and manager of Econologic, Anton Cartwright, is an economist with a focus on the relationships between environmental degradation and human poverty. His work encompasses local economic development, international trade, land reform, climate change, and water resource management. In this capacity he has completed assignments for the World Bank, South Africa's National Treasury, The European Union, The Food and Agriculture Organization, DfID, WWF, IIED the Fairtrade Foundation and a range of local and international companies, NGOs and government departments. The focus of his Econologic work has been on sustainable trade, economic risk, local economic development and the green economy.
RAPPORTEUR Ben Smith, GCAP
Transnational City-to-City Learning to accelerate urban adaptation.
S188 SESSION SUMMARY Cities and Urban areas Responding to the challenge of climate adaptation and seizing the opportunities places complex demands on cities including decision makers, city planners, engineers, architects and citizens. These VENUE demands and the rapid changes occurring in cities, call for 1.42 accelerated learning through ‘learning from each other’ (peer learning). Transnational cooperation between cities is facilitated by TIME a novel approach of peer learning: transnational City-to-City learning. But what drives city-to-city learning and what are the Monday enabling conditions? Who will take the lead? This session aims to 15h00 - 17h00 bring together three active clusters of city networks from Europe, Arab countries and South Africa. ORGANISER/S Chris Zevenbergen, SPEAKERS IHE Delft Eleanor Chapman, ICLEI - Local Governments For Sustainability, PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Germany Global Centre of Excellence on Climate Co-creating climate adaptation responses in Europe: shared lessons Adaptation (GCECA), The Netherlands from the RESIN project South African Cities Network (SACN), South Africa Judith Rodriguez, Harvard University, United States of America Cities and Water: Sustainability and Resilience of Natural CHAIR Infrastructure Approaches to Flood Risk Chris Zevenbergen Chris Zevenbergen is professor at the Paola Sakai, University of Leeds, UK Water Engineering Department of Factors enabling city-to-city cooperation for climate change UNESCO-IHE and at TuDelft, The adaptation Netherlands. He worked as a researcher on various environmental issues related Sergio Antonio Ruiz, Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar, Ecuador to the building industry, such as Towards promoting urban governance to make climate resilience environmental impact assessments, intermediate cities in Latin America product development, emission modeling, testing procedures, building Dennis Bours, Independent Evaluation Office of the GEF (IEO), United codes and guidelines in the 1980s States of America followed by 20 years international Early lessons from the Global Environment Facility's Sustainable Cities research and consultancy in Integrated Approach Pilot (IAP) Program environmental engineering and water management. In the past 15 years he Kornelia Iipinge, University Of Namibia, Namibia has accumulated extensive national Harare, Lusaka and Windhoek City Learning Exchange Visits and international experience with integrated approaches to manage Sebastiaan van Herk floods in urban environments. He has a C2C learning to successfully implement and maintain Blue Green strong affinity with the ecological, socio- Infrastructures in cities across Europe economic, institutional aspects of urban planning and water management.
RAPPORTEUR
William Veerbeek, IHE Delft, The
Netherlands
Web-based platforms supporting climate action: Continuing to learn S87 and improve
Climate services, Knowledge SESSION SUMMARY transfer Web-based platforms can provide effective means of supporting climate action, but delivering such remains challenging. Sharing VENUE experiences and lessons learnt in addressing these challenges 1.41 through innovations and engagement are key to moving forward. This workshop builds on the outcomes of a workshop at the previous Adaptation Futures conference in Rotterdam: TIME http://www.climateadaptationservices.com/nl/af2016 Monday 15h00 - 17h00 This session will be comprised of 3-4 presentations addressing experience and lessons learnt in developing and delivering such ORGANISER/S platforms. A workshop would follow engaging participants in addressing questions related to the challenges and opportunities in Kim van Nieuwaal, delivering and using web-based platforms in supporting action, the Climate Adaptation Services characteristics of the platform and content valued, innovations
needed, and the roles Adaptation Futures Conferences can play in PARTNER INSTITUTION/S supporting platform development and delivery. MaREI Centre, University College Cork, Center for Sustainability Studies, FGV- EAESP SPEAKERS UKCIP, University of Oxford, Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, Roger Street, University College Cork, United Kingdom The Netherlands Recent developments and challenges, with reference to the EEA Climate Adaptation Services report Overview of climate change adaptation platforms in Europe Foundation, and the Roadmap for Climate Services by the European Commission
CHAIR Mariana Xavier Nicolletti, Sao Paulo School of Business Administration (FGV-EAESP), Brazil Kim van Nieuwaal, Climate Adaptation Case 1: The Brazilian portal: AdaptaClima Services (adaptaclima.mma.gov.br) Kim van Nieuwaal is strategic advisor at
Climate Adaptation Services (CAS) Barry O'Dwyer, MaREI Centre, University College Cork foundation. CAS has developed the Case 2: The Irish portal: Climate Ireland (www.climateireland.ie) Dutch national portal for climate adaptation and is also coordinator of Workshop the Dutch national Climate Effect Atlas. Do we need and, if so, how can we build and sustain a community Kim is one the lead authors of the Dutch of practice on web-based platforms to share and learn from each National Adaptation Strategy. He is also other with the aim of better informing climate action through director of Delta Alliance International. effective web-based platforms? What are the major challenges that
should be the focus of our attention? RAPPORTEUR Roger Street, University of Oxford
EU ADAPTATION STRATEGY
SESSION SUMMARY S251 The European Union is adapting to climate change at all levels of Policy governance. This session will focus on adaptation to climate change at the EU level. It will include EU support to adaptation at other levels of governance (international, national, regional, local, city) including links to research. VENUE 1.43 SPEAKERS
TIME Elena Višnar Malinovská Tuesday EU Adaptation Strategy 8h00 - 9h00 Rasmus Lauridsen A bank’s view on adaptation and related research ORGANISER/S
European Commission Paul Watkiss
Adaptation & Economics PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Timo Leiter CHAIR Urban adaptation Elena Višnar Malinovská, European Commission Elena Višnar Malinovská has vast previous experience at the EU Commission in Secretariat General covering energy, mobility, environment and climate issues; in Cabinet of Commissioner Janez Potočnik (Environment) and in DG Climate Action. Elena has Doctor degree (JUDr.) on free movement of professionals from University Thyrnaviens, Faculty of Law, Slovakia 2001 – 2002 and has been working with transposition of EU legislation (mainly environment and internal market). She has also worked as a freelance journalist for the Courrier des Balkans and spokesperson during the EU Slovak Presidency (2016).
RAPPORTEUR Claus Kondrup, European Commission
Adaptation: instrument of conflict or a tool for cooperation?
S172 SESSION SUMMARY Governance Within the broad category of unintended, unanticipated or unforeseen impacts of adaptation interventions, this session seeks to explore the potential for adaptation interventions to create new VENUE dynamics of conflict, both within and between scales, and, in turn, 1.61 unpacks the potential for adaptation interventions to foster cooperation in contexts of conflict. This session will raise awareness of TIME the potential for adaptation to exacerbate conflict and, how adaptation interventions including REDD+ activities might serve to Tuesday strengthen cooperation including enabling community initiatives 11h30 - 13h15 and cooperation between communities and government.
ORGANISER/S SPEAKERS Claire Mathieson, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Sebastiaan Soeters, The Netherlands / Ghana Research (NWO) Understanding the Adaptation/Farmer-Pastoralist Nexus in Northern WOTRO Science for Global Ghana: Towards Appropriate Policy Actions Development, Parvin Sultana; Paul Thompson, Middlesex University, United Kingdom PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Adaptation, conflict and community based adaptive learning International Centre for Climate Change & Development (ICCCAD), Poshendra Satyal, School of International Development, University of Bangladesh East Anglia Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Exploring the dynamics of conflict and coperation over REDD+ in Research, Netherlands Mexico, Nepal and Vietnam
CHAIR Courtney Work, Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, Cambodia / Corinne Lamain, NWO-WOTRO Science The Netherlands for Global Development, The Entangled Cooperation: REDD+ and the politics of Carbon and Netherlands Conservation in Cambodia Corinne Lamain is a senior policy officer at NWO-WOTRO Science for Global Development, where she is coordinator of the DFID-funded research programme Conflict and Cooperation in the Management of Climate Change (CCMCC). She is also involved in the Food & Business Research programme, in which she is the coordinator of the Food & Business Global Challenges Programme. Furthermore, Corinne is also a PhD-researcher, focusing on the central theme of the CCMCC programme and she holds an MSc in International Development Studies.
RAPPORTEUR Claire Mathieson, NWO-WOTRO Science for Global Development, The Netherlands
After the Floods: Reactive adaptation and rebuilding for resilience in cities
S182 SESSION SUMMARY Cities and urban areas After the Floods will discuss the aftermath of major flood disasters in the world's megacities and how this influences their ability to adapt to future climate conditions and the urgency in emulating this in VENUE other cities around the world. Including a regionally diverse group of 1.44 megacities, the session will focus on recent weather events and how contrasting cities such as Houston and Mumbai are responding to TIME the after effects of major flooding. Objectives include looking at immediate emergency responses, rebuilding strategies, effective Tuesday flood management tools and the opportunity for political leverage 11h30 - 13h15 to undertake urgent and serious adaptation action going forward.
ORGANISER/S PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS Pedro Ribeiro, C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group Erick Michael Chambua, City of Dar es Salaam Erick Michael is a graduate with a BSc. Degree in Land Management PARTNER INSTITUTION/S and Valuation and a Fully Registered Valuation Surveyor. Since 2010, he City of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania has worked for Resettlement Action Plans for Dar es Salaam Water and City of Durban, South Africa Sewerage Authority projects. He is also involved with Environmental City of Lagos, Nigeria Control and Management issues and Responsible Investment in Property City of Lima, Peru and Lands. He has worked with the Office of the Chief Government Valuer, and Head, the Land Investment Unit at the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Human Settlements Development before. Currently, he is CHAIR working as City Valuer cum Urban Land Administrator with Dar es Salaam Pedro Ribeiro, C40 Cities Climate City Council. Leadership Group Pedro is the network manager of C40 Sean O’Donoghue, Ethekwini Municipality Urban Flooding Network. The network Dr. Sean O’Donoghue has a doctorate in marine pelagic ecology promotes peer exchange to improve obtained from the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) in 2010. In March the water management in cities, focus 2011, Sean joined eThekwini Municipality, or Durban, where he manages on the impacts of Urban Flooding. the Climate Change Adaptation Branch. A key focus of the Branch is Community Ecosystem Based Adaptation, providing work opportunities RAPPORTEUR for Durban’s indigent populations. Sean manages a number of research, inter-city and community partnership projects, and has led the C40 Adaptation Team development of the pilot EPIC programme at UKZN.
Michael Bankole, City of Lagos Michael Bankole is an Environmental Scientist with Lagos State Ministry of the Environment since Year 2000. In this time, he has worked in different areas covering topical issues such as Water & Sanitation, Municipal Solid Waste Management, Industrial Monitoring & Compliance, Climate Change and Environmental Advocacy. He has also been involved in the review, development, formulation and drafting of environmental technical papers and policy documents. Currently, he oversees the Climate Change Unit of the Ministry.
Valquiria Carolina Hidalgo Salcedo, City of Lima Valquiria Hidalgo holds a Bachelor in Geographical Engineering and is currently working as a technician of the Natural Resources Deputy (Division of Climate Change) of the Municipality of Lima. Valquiria has experience in GHG inventories process, and monitoring and evaluation of environmental planning and management documents, among others.
An urban equity and justice orientation to climate adaptation and S68 resilient transformations
Cities, settlements and key SESSION SUMMARY infrastructure This session focuses on emerging justice-based pathway for climate resilient transformations in cities. The papers in this session evaluate VENUE this ‘reorientation’ towards justice, which includes an understanding 1.43 of how vulnerable communities can participate in climate change decision-making, how adaptation interventions can yield more equitable benefits, and how future visions of climate resilient TIME development can prioritise the needs of economically precarious, Tuesday environmentally vulnerable, and politically marginalised 11h30 - 13h15 communities. A secondary objective of the session is to understand how local approaches to justice can serve as guides or exemplars for other cities that are embarking on alternative pathways towards ORGANISER/S climate resilience. Eric Chu, University of Birmingham SPEAKERS PARTNER INSTITUTION/S University of Cape Town, South Africa Kavya Michael, Indian Institute of Human Settlements, India Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Examining vulnerability and adaptive capacity in a dynamic urban India setting: A case study of Bangalore’s interstate migrant waste pickers
James Patterson, The Netherlands Open University, The Netherlands CHAIR Equity and justice in urban climate adaptation: results from a global Eric Chu, University of Birmingham, survey United Kingdom Eric Chu is a Lecturer in Planning and Roger Few, University of East Anglia, UK Human Geography at the University of Saying what we mean: transformation, radical change and/or social Birmingham. His research is on the justice politics of climate change governance in cities, with particular emphasis on the Eric Chu, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom globally comparative perspectives of The Dilemmas of Equity and Justice in Urban Climate Change socio-spatial change, development Adaptation planning, policy reform, and local environmental justice.
RAPPORTEUR Gina Ziervogel, University of Cape Town
Resilience epistemologies - do the science, tools and practices of S51 resilience open or close opportunity Cities, settlements and key for creative partnerships in urban risk infrastructure management?
SESSION SUMMARY VENUE 2.46 Resilience as an element of urban policy is diverse in its interpretation and application. Science and decision-support tools are similarly TIME diverse so that multiple expectations and objectives arrive once Tuesday resilience planning is proposed. This session will examine the ways in which science, data, decision-support tools and policy narratives 11h30 - 13h15 contribute to the shaping of dominant and alterative understandings of resilience, and how resilience is deployed from different actor ORGANISER/S viewpoints to project unresolved development challenges into Mark Pelling, contemporary urban political debates and practical project level King's College London, UK decision-making. Does resilience enable more joined up, evidence- based, inclusive processes and visions of urban development - or is PARTNER INSTITUTION/S this beyond the capacity and intention of the current generation of urban resilience professionals, activists and researchers? CHAIR A discussion on the multiple interpretations and deployments of Mark Pelling, King's College London resilience in urban settings and the influence of science, data and Mark Pelling is Professor of Geography, decision-support tools in this. A summary and blog will be posted on King's College London with a specialism the DFID funded Urban Africa Risk Knowledge website in social and institutional analysis for www.urbanark.org disaster risk management and climate change adaptation, predominantly in urban contexts of the global South. He SPEAKERS has been a coordinating lead author for the IPCC 5th Assessment Report, and Maud Borie, King’s College London, UK; Mark Pelling, King’s College SREX special report. He will be a London, UK;Gina Ziervogel, University of Cape Town, South Africa; coordinating lead author for the Human Keith Hyams, University of Warwick, UK settlements chapter in the 6th Imagining the Resilient City: effects of slum upgrading on the social Assessment Report. Mark also acts as a contract and social cohesion in Kibera, Nairobi Resilience Challenge Lead for the UKRI Global Challenges Research Fund. Arabella Fraser, Open University The state and the co-production of climate risk: implications for RAPPORTEUR resilience-building in informal urban settlements Maud Borie, King's College London Tim Ndezi, Centre for Community Initiatives, Tanzania Enhancing environmental risks knowledge through participatory mechanisms
Vera Bukachi, Kounkuey Design Initiative Initial findings from a three-year study on Community-Responsive Adaptation in Kibera, Nairobi. Submitted.
Alex Apotsos, Williams College Mapping social vulnerability in urban areas in South Africa
The Motion: Global development is not adapting to climate change
S23 SESSION SUMMARY Adaptation and development The session will ask three speakers to present arguments for and three to present arguments against a motion that development is adapting to climate change. It will take a historical perspective VENUE across a range of entry points to trace the narrative back in time, 2.63 and to look forward for understanding if and how development can adapt to a changing climate. The panellists have been chosen to TIME represent a range of geographies, genders and agendas – each will provide a different take to argue for or against the motion. Tuesday 11h30 - 13h15 SPEAKERS
ORGANISER/S Lisa Schipper, Oxford University PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS
PARTNER INSTITUTION/S
Overseas Development Institute, UK
CHAIR Thomas Tanner, Overseas Development Institute Tom Tanner is a development geographer working on adaptation and resilience in the developing world, mostly in South Asia. He is a policy and practice-oriented researcher who worked for the UN and UK DFID before building the climate adaptation programmes in research institutes in the UK - initially at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and more recently at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), where he is now a Research Associate. His research interests centre on understanding the political economy of climate and disasters policies, organisations and action. He also loves singing, playing music and kicking footballs.
RAPPORTEUR Marta Berbés-Blázquez, Arizona State University
Using Disruptive Technologies to Address Climate Disruption
S158 SESSION SUMMARY Climate Services The organizers of this workshop suggest the need to fight climate disruption with disruptive technologies, like distributed ledger technology and solutions that shift power away from powerful intermediaries to VENUE individuals. Currently, there is no integrated, coordinated, and highly 2.62 responsive platform with a design that creates clear incentives for developing (defined broadly) rules and standards for climate adaptation to organize the essential tools (technologies, practice, TIME metrics, exchange mechanisms and finance, in other words, climate Tuesday services) required to support effective global action on climate 11h30 - 13h15 adaptation. To move beyond ad hoc efforts and advance the adaptation side of the climate services ledger, the organizers contend that a new cross-cutting framework is needed. Our proposed ORGANISER/S integration of key components -- or "moving parts" -- suggests an Ira Feldman, immediate and more effective path forward by integrating technology, Adaptation Ledger policy and the financial sector. Numerous tools and methodologies are presently available to meet the challenge of climate adaptation, but PARTNER INSTITUTION/S these various components have yet to be linked up. This workshop will Climate-Check, Canada identify the recent advances in several key areas that, if harnessed Higher Ground Foundation (HGF), UK effectively, can come together to create an integrated approach. The organizers are convening this workshop at Adaptation Futures to seek
input from the community of practice on the prospect of synergizing CHAIR “Smart Standards" (an updated mode of developing voluntary Ira Feldman, Adaptation Ledger, USA standards), blockchain platforms, and other digital solutions with Ira Feldman is a US-based sustainability innovative adaptation finance, for example Vulnerability Reduction leader with an interdisciplinary skill set Credits (VRCs ™), to better align adaptation solutions and usher in a new and a global reach. He has over 25 years era of coordinated adaptation action. This workshop will provide for a experience as an attorney and peer-to-peer exchange of views among a multi-stakeholder range of management consultant focusing on expected participants. The resulting dialogue launched by this session environmental regulatory innovation, can lead to a systematic, applied creation of a suite of tools and strategic environmental management, testbeds combining all these elements in an innovative manner. sustainable business practices and corporate social responsibility. Ira is now SPEAKERS at the leading edge of the convergence of sustainability, climate adaptation and Ira Feldman, Adaptation Ledger, USA ecosystem services. Ira is a co-founder Introducing Adaptation Ledger and principal of Adaptation Ledger. Marek Soanes, IIED, UK RAPPORTEUR Can Blockchain Help Unblock the Flow of Finance to Vulnerable Ira Feldman, Adaptation Ledger, USA Communities?
Deborah Harford, Executive Director, ACT, Simon Fraser University, Canada Distributed ledger technology, smart contracts and climate action credit systems for integrated climate action
PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS
Marek Soanes, International Institute for Environment & Development (IIED), UK Marek Soanes is a researcher within the Climate Change Group of IIED. He focusses on climate finance for the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly for the Least Developed Countries. Marek is delivering readiness support to non-BAU institutions, such as ministries of local government, and investigating the potential for risk financing and green bonds to mobilise adaptation at scale.
Deborah Harford, Executive Director, ACT (Adaptation to Climate Change Team), Faculty of Environment, Simon Fraser University, Canada Deborah Harford co-founded ACT in 2006 to explore policy options for sustainable adaptation in a range of areas at risk from climate change impacts, including water, food, health, biodiversity, energy, infrastructure, and population displacement, and collaborates with a wide variety of organizations and individuals on resource development and outreach. ACT’s focus has expanded to include integrated climate actions that ensure that building resilience and reducing emissions are strategically aligned.
What do the intersections between resilience and wellbeing offer S55 development practice?
Health, wellbeing and the SESSION SUMMARY changing structure of communities Resilience' and ‘wellbeing' have rapidly worked their way to the top of the international development agenda. While they clearly have much to offer, both frameworks are multifaceted, conceptually fuzzy VENUE and oft-misrepresented. With that in mind, this session seeks clarity on what framings of resilience and wellbeing have to offer in relation to 2.61 development practice. More specifically, it explores the intersections, synergies, and trade-offs between wellbeing and TIME resilience. We look to identify practical examples of the opportunities Tuesday presented by their convergence, as well as understanding potential 11h30 - 13h15 trade-offs in the pursuit of resilience-building and/or wellbeing- enhancing investments. The session will be participatory in nature, based on a Campfire Session outline and drawing on a wide range ORGANISER/S of insights and perspectives. Lindsey Jones, London School of Economics PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS Overseas Development Institute, United Kingdom Lindsey Jones, London School of Economics and Political Science/Overseas Development Institute, UK PARTNER INSTITUTION/S
Building Resilience and Adaptation to Lindsey’s research focuses on a range of aspects related to climate Climate Extremes and Disasters change adaptation, disaster risk reduction and resilience. He has a (BRACED), United Kingdom background in international development and environmental Global Resilience Partnership (GRP), geography having spent many years working for the Overseas Sweden Development Institute (ODI) as a Research Fellow on issues relating
to adaptation to climate change and disaster risk reduction (where CHAIR he remains a Research Associate). Lindsey has previously held Nathaniel Matthews, Global Resilience research and policy positions at the United Nations Development Partnership, Sweden Programme, World Food Programme and the CGIAR Research Nate is a multidisciplinary scientist with Program on Climate Change, Agriculture And Food Security more than 30 peer-reviewed publications (CCAFS). on a broad range of topics across resilience, risk, water, energy, agriculture, Stephane Hallegate, World Bank and natural resource management. He has managed more than 170 projects Irene Kunamwene, University of Cape Town globally in more than 25 countries. Nate’s expertise has been recognized through Erin Coughlan de Perez, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre contributions to various global networks, as a management committee member of the Food, Environment, Energy Water Emily Wilkinson, Overseas Development Institute Network, a Lead Author in The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform Gina Ziervogel, Africa Climate and Development Institute on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), and a member of the IUCN / WWF thought leaders’ group on Nexus and the EAT Forum.
RAPPORTEUR Charlotte Rye, Building Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Extremes and Disasters (BRACED) A Gender-Responsive Approach to Adaptation - across policy, financing S99 and implementation
Gender SESSION SUMMARY
This conference session will demonstrate both the progress made VENUE and key challenges toward enhancing women’s empowerment and 2.43 gender equality in adaptation to climate change from policy to planning, and to financing and implementation. Expanding beyond acknowledging gender inequalities, this forward-looking session TIME seeks to provide participants with a broad understanding of the Tuesday need for and the challenges of implementing a gender-responsive 11h30 - 13h15 approach to adaptation. We propose to convene a World Cafe session to bring together academics, practitioners, and other ORGANISER/S organizational representatives to develop new insights into the challenges and best practices of mainstreaming gender Gabriel Chan, considerations in climate adaptation finance. University of Minnesota IUCN, Adaptation Fund, United States of America The session will feature several high-level speakers to introduce the key developments and challenges faced in practice. The World PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Café format will provide opportunities for session participants to connect across academic scholarship and practice through an IUCN, USA examination of specific lessons learned, best practices, and Adaptation Fund Board Secretariat, USA recommendations from experience with various finance
mechanisms, academic disciplines, decision-makers, and CHAIR practitioners on the “how-to.” Gabriel Chan, University of Minnesota Gabriel Chan is an Assistant Professor at SPEAKERS the University of Minnesota's Humphrey School of Public Affairs in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy. Young Hee Lee, Adaptation Fund Legal and Operations Analyst RAPPORTEUR Sophie Kutegeka, IUCN – International Union for the Conservation of Lindsey Forsberg, Samantha Holte Nature, Uganda Country Representative
Ina Lambert, UNFCCC Associate Programme Officer
Collaborative thinking and collective intelligence on nature based solutions S219 for climate change adaptation and EbA DRR: buddy projects coming together to reflect on actionable science for VENUE 1.63 and from Africa, Europe, Asia and
Latinamerica TIME Tuesday SESSION SUMMARY 11h30 - 13h15 An Action Agenda on Green infrastructure at the global level and ORGANISER/S the role nature based solutions can/cannot play in climate change Elena Lopez Gunn, adaptation. We bring the collective experience of 4 projects in 4 Icatalist, Spain different continents with a sum of around 15 to 20 case studies at different stages in implementation with very different contexts, so PARTNER INSTITUTION/S that we become buddy projects to speed up the uptake and sharing BC3, Spain of results as collective intelligence to generate actionable science University of Rhodes, South Africa that can be used to further develop our knowledge on the role that University of Leeds, United Kingdom nature can provide in climate change adaptation.
CHAIR SPEAKERS Eureta Rosendberg, University of Rhodes, South Africa Eureta Rosemberg, Rhodes University Since September 2016 Eureta is a full Professor in the Murray & Roberts Chair of Environment A learning journey for change, including climate change: a and Sustainability Education at Rhodes collaborative social-ecological approach in a major landscape and University. She obtained her PhD in 1995 with catchment rehabilitation project in South Africa -Ntabelanga-Lalini a study exploring research methodologies for Ecological Infrastructure Project environmental education. At the time, she was appointed to the Murray & Roberts Chair Neil Coles, University of Leeds and tasked with building a cadre of The business case for NBS – Lessons learnt from current EU NBS projects environmental education professionals. With other colleagues, she developed a first Nosiwipe Angwala, Rhodes University, South Africa certificate course (the Gold Fields course) and the first SADC-wide course for Facilitating cooperative water quality management agenda environmental education practitioners. From through an environmental ethical perspective in a complex social- 2000, Eureta worked from Cape Town as a ecological system consultant. Her work included leading the stakeholder based development the Joanna Nelson, LandSea Science National Biodiversity Human Capital Nature-based climate adaptation, from headwaters to the sea, in Development Strategy. Eureta is a founding South African National Parks and US NationalAfrica and North member of the National Environmental Skills America Estuarine Research Reserves Planning Forum and her leadership roles include being Editor-in-Chief for the Southern African Journal of Environmental Education, Eulalia Gomez Martin, GERICS the International Reference group for the Using Participatory Modelling to assess the viability of Nature Based Resilience in the Limpopo-Olifants River Solutions: A case study of Medina del Campo river basin programme of AWARD and USAID, and coordinating the Researching Work and Monica Altamirano, DELTARES Holland Learning Conference for 2017. NAIAD and Water Funds Reflections on the Water Initiative and Investment in watershed services in the EU and LAC RAPPORTEUR Maria Sanz, BC3, Spain Elena Lopez Gunn, ICATALIST Collective intelligence: drawing lessons from existing projects to accelerate adoption of nature based solutions for DRR and CCA Embracing Complexity: The Challenges of Measuring and Defining S54 Adaptation Success
Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) SESSION SUMMARY
Being able to define and track climate adaptation success is an VENUE imperative for donors, implementers, and researchers alike. The past 2.41 decade has seen a rapid rise in scholarship and practice focused on measuring, tracking, evaluating and interrogating notions of “adaptation success”. Despite this rise, data-driven analyses of TIME adaptation options have been limited. This session will seek to identify Tuesday what constitutes success from different perspectives, question how 11h30 - 13h15 notions of adaptation success are constructed, and uncover what standard definitions “leave out”. We aim for a participatory session ORGANISER/S where each delegate will reflect on their own assumptions regarding adaptation success. Lisa Dilling, University of Colorado PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Columbia University, USA Farid Ahmad, ICIMOD, Nepal Disaster Management Training and Farid Ahmad is Head of ICIMOD’s Strategic Planning, Monitoring and Education Centre for Africa, South Evaluation Unit. His expertise includes the design of monitoring and Africa evaluation systems, programme effectiveness, result-based management, project management, training, CHAIR institutional development, participatory approaches, sustainable development, mountain research, knowledge management, Johanna Nalau, Griffith University, gender development, social inclusion, institutional development, Australia and climate change. Johanna Nalau is a Research Fellow at
Griffith University and IPCC AR6 WGII Kerry Bowman, University of Toronto, Canada Lead Author for chapter 15 Small Islands. Dr. Kerry Bowman has a Ph.D. in Bioethics, a fellowship in Cultural Dr Nalau’s research focuses on decision- Psychiatry and a Masters degree in Social Work. Dr. Bowman teaches making processes around climate risk Bioethics, Environmental ethics, and Climate change and human management, adaptation limits and health at the University of Toronto, holding appointments in Family ecosystem-based adaptation in and Community Medicine and The School of The Environment. particular.
Meaghan Daly, University of Leeds, United Kingdom RAPPORTEUR Meaghan Daly is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the U.K. ESRC Nuvodita Singh, International Centre for Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (CCCEP) at the Integrated Mountain Development University of Leeds. Her research focuses broadly on science-society (ICIMOD), Nepal interfaces, with an emphasis on understanding decision-making for climate adaptation in East Africa and the U.S.
Sara de Wit, InSIS, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Sara de Wit joined the Institute of Science Innovation and Society (InSIS) as a research fellow in February 2017. She is currently part of the Forecasts for Anticipatory Humanitarian Action (FATHUM) project. Trained in anthropology and African Studies, Sara has long- term fieldwork experience in southeast Madagascar, the Bamenda Grassfields in Cameroon and Maasailand in northern Tanzania.
Lisa Dilling, University of Colorado Boulder, USA Lisa Dilling is Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and Director of the Western Water Assessment. Her scholarship focuses on decision making, the use of information and science policy. Her research topics include drought and urban water management, climate adaptation in cities and on public lands, carbon management, and geoengineering governance.
Andries Jordaan,UFS-DiMTEC, Disaster Management Training and Education Centre for Africa, University of the Free State, South Africa Andries Jordaan is the Director at the Disaster Management Training and Education Centre at the University of the Free State. He is currently a leading scientist on disaster and disaster risks in Africa. His Masters and PhD students originate from 17 African countries.
Mark New, African Climate and Development Initiative, University of Cape Town, South Africa Mark New is Director of the African Climate and Development Initiative and AXA Research Chair in African Climate Risk. He is lead investigator on ASSAR (Adaptation at Scale in Semi-arid Regions), which studies effective adaptation in dryland areas and aims to define what “effective” means in the context of adaptation.
Anjal Prakash, ICIMOD, Nepal Anjal Prakash is Programme Coordinator of Himalayan Adaptation, Water and Resilience (HI-AWARE). He is coordinating lead author for the IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC) and Lead Author for the IPCC 6th Assessment Report. Specializations: climate adaptation; gender; water resources in South Asia.
Zinta Zommers, MercyCorps, United Kingdom Zinta Zommers is Head of the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance. She worked with the UN and was part of the UN Secretary General’s Climate Change Support Team. She is a lead author on the IPCC special report on land, and editor of “Resilience: The Science of Adaptation to Climate Change”.
Government Natural Resource Management supporting Ecosystem S48 based Adaptation
Terrestrial and freshwater SESSION SUMMARY ecosystems and their services In this session, we will reflect on the efforts for making Ecosystem Based Adaptation an integral part of South Africa’s Government led, VENUE Expanded Public Works Programme for Natural Resource 1.62 Management and to monitor this impact effectively. We will also discuss how this can contribute to transformative adaptation.
TIME SPEAKERS Tuesday 11h30 - 13h15 Christo Marais, Department of Environmental Affairs, South Africa Department of Environmental Affairs Natural Resource Management ORGANISER/S Transformative Investments in the Restoration and Maintenance of Sarshen Scorgie, Ecological Infrastructure while Addressing Socio Economic Conservation South Africa Challenges
PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Nadine Methner, African Climate & Development Initiative (ACDI), University of Cape Town, South Africa University of Cape Town, South Africa Department of Environmental Affairs, Building the Evidence-base for Investment in Ecological Infrastructure South Africa for Water and Livelihood Security
Giacomo Fedele. Conservation International, USA CHAIR Characteristics of transformative adaptation to climate change Christo Marais, Department of Environmental Affairs, South Africa Sarshen Scorgie Christo Marais grew up on a wine, Implementing the Land user Incentives model as EbA deciduous fruit and dairy farm near Robertson. In 1983 he obtained a diploma in forestry from the Saasveld School of Forestry, and in 1986 graduated with forestry, majoring in nature conservation from the University of Stellenbosch. In 1988 he obtained an honours and in 1998 a Ph.D. in Nature Conservation. He is currently Chief Director: Natural Resource Management Programmes in the Department Environment Affairs.
RAPPORTEUR Sarshen Scorgie, Conservation South Africa, South Africa
Improving resilience for food and health in Africa with science
S145 SESSION SUMMARY Food, fibre, and other ecosystem products The topic of this session is using relevant climate and weather information for food and health-related decision making in Africa. The goal is to present, and discuss with, relevant stakeholders the ongoing efforts in this topic to inform future programming. With major VENUE support from UK DFID, AgMIP has developed new fundamental 1.64 innovative protocol-based methodologies of regional integrated assessments, thereby enhancing the capacity of developing countries to address the challenges brought on by current and future TIME climate stresses. In Mozambique and Ethiopia, the WHO and USAID Tuesday are piloting work in the area of climate-sensitive health risks, as well 11h30 - 13h15 as including a broader focus on how to tackle regional health issues throughout Africa using a science-based approach. ORGANISER/S Cynthia Rosenzweig, SPEAKERS NASA GISS Columbia University United States Agency for International Sabine Homann-Kee Tui, International Crops Research Institute for the Development (USAID), United States of Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Zimbabwe America Linking regional integrated assessments with decision making for nutrition-sensitive, climate-resilient and sustainable farming systems in PARTNER INSTITUTION/S semi-arid Zimbabwe Climate Analytics, Germany World Health Organisation (WHO), Olivier Crespo, University of Cape Town, South Africa Switzerland Changes in South Africa’s staple basket by 2050
CHAIR Sithembile Ndema Mwamakamba, Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN), South Africa Delphine Deryng, Climate Analytics, Strengthening Evidence-Based Climate Change Adaptation Policies Germany in the Southern and East African Region Delphine Deryng is a Scientific Advisor at
Climate Analytics where she works on Sally Edwards, World Health Organization, Regional Office for Africa, strengthening the science-policy Republic of the Congo interface to improve production, Implementation of WHO Framework for Public Health Adaptation to dissemination and use of scientific Climate Change in Africa: Experience of Ethiopia information for adaptation planning. She holds a PhD from the University of East Eduardo Samo Gudo, National Institute of Health, Mozambique Anglia (2014) in the field of climate Integrating climate science into public health decision making in impacts and adaptation in the Mozambique agriculture sector.
Fernanda Zermoglio, Chemonics International, United States of RAPPORTEUR America Colin Quinn, USAID Climate Change and Health in Mozambique: Impacts on Diarrheal Disease and Malaria
Learning and action: building climate resilience in cities
S86 SESSION SUMMARY Cities and urban areas It is now widely recognised, that city governments are key actors for implementing sustainable climate resilience, adaptation, and mitigation policies. UN Environment’s Global Adaptation Network VENUE and GIZ’s global project ‘Cities Fit for Climate Change’, CFCC will 1.41 jointly facilitate the session and bring their experiences together. The aim of the session is to gather different local actors for a common TIME cause and facilitate exchange and learning among several cities and universities. The experiences showcased concentrate on the Tuesday CFCC partner cities and the EPIC-Africa Network (Educational 11h30 - 13h15 Partnerships for Innovation in Communities) with a focus on the eThekwini municipality, South Africa. ORGANISER/S Daphne Frank, GIZ; Barney Dickson, PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS UNEP, UN Environment Emmanuel Letebele, eThekwini municipality, South Africa Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Emmanuel Letebele has a Masters in Town and regional Planning Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Germany obtained from the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) in 2017. He is currently an Acting Manager in the Strategic Spatial Planning Branch PARTNER INSTITUTION/S of eThekwini Municipality. A key focus of his work and the mandate eThekwini municipality, South Africa of the branch is to develop the Spatial Development Framework for Educational Partnerships for Innovation the municipality recently including climate sensitive planning in Communities Network in Africa (EPIC- considerations. Africa), Zambia and South Africa Gilbert Siame, University of Zambia, Zambia CHAIR Gilbert Siame holds a PhD and a MSc. in city and regional planning Barney Dickson, UN Environment; from the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Dr. Siame is the Daphne Frank, GIZ convener of the MSc in Spatial Planning programme in the Dr. Daphne Frank, born in Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at the Guayaquil/Ecuador is expert in University of Zambia where he is also a co-founder and current international urban development issues. Director of the Centre for Urban Research and Planning (CURP). He She is Head of the project Cities Fit for is the founding coordinator of EPIC Africa. Climate Change at the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Telly Chauke, South African Local Government Association (SALGA), Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) in Bonn, South Africa Germany. She is an architect and urban Telly Chauke is a Specialist in Environment and Climate Change planner with more than 20 years of within the Municipal Services and Infrastructure Directorate and professional experience in the field. She responsible for facilitating support to municipalities on policy and published several articles and books practice related to environmental management and climate about urban and international change. She represents South African municipalities in national development. intergovernmental structures and forums and provides policy and technical advice to member municipalities. RAPPORTEUR
Zane Abdul, GIZ
2018 Forum of the UNFCCC Adaptation Committee: Integrating S165 climate change adaptation with the Decision-making options for Sustainable Development Goals and managing risk the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Climate resilient development pathways Reduction
SESSION SUMMARY
VENUE The UNFCCC Adaptation Committee promotes the coherent implementation of enhanced action on adaptation. 2.64 The international community made an unprecedented set of TIME commitments to pursue a sustainable future by producing three Tuesday landmark global agendas: The Paris Agreement; the Sustainable 14h15 - 16h00 Development Goals; and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. ORGANISER/S Having dedicated an expert meeting to the benefits of an Ina Lambert, integrated implementation of these agendas in 2017, the United Nations Framework Convention Adaptation Committee looks forward to introducing the key on Climate Change (UNFCCC) messages from its technical work, and to a constructive discussion
with a diverse audience on further ideas and opportunities to PARTNER INSTITUTION/S advance the three agendas in unison.
CHAIR SPEAKERS Maria del Pilar Bueno, UNFCCC Adaptation Committee Aisha Khan, Civil Society Coalition for Climate Change (CSCCC) Pilar is a researcher of the National Mainstreaming climate change adaptation and DRR into national Council of Scientific and Technical development planning in South Asia Research of Argentina (CONICET). Her specialty lies in the analysis, policy framing process and comparison of PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS external, national and subnational policies on climate change. She is Bettina Koelle, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre Climate Change Adaptation negotiator Bettina joined the Climate Centre in 2013 and is the focal point for for Argentina, Lead Coordinator of the Southern Africa, developing and facilitating approaches to G77 and China on adaptation issues at interactive learning and dialogue. Her work focuses on adaptation, the UNFCCC and Co-Chair of the including working on Future Climate for Africa, the Collaborative UNFCCC Adaptation Committee. Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia, and the UK- supported "BRACED" programme. A geographer by training, Bettina RAPPORTEUR has two decades of experience with interactive learning for adaptation, linking experience from the grass roots to the global UN Cecíla da Silva Bernardo, UNFCCC climate talks, with a special focus on innovative dialogue and Adaptation Committee capacity development. Bettina is also leading the Climate Centre team in Cape Town and is part of the steering committee of the AF.
Tufa Dinku, Research Scientist, Environmental Monitoring Program, International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), The Earth Institute at Columbia University Tufa is a climate scientist at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), part of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He has over 20 years of experience in climate science, and applications. Currently Dr Dinku leads IRI’s ENACTS (Enhancing National Climate Services) program.
Raul Alfaro-Pelico, The World Bank Group, PPCR Programme Lead Climate Change Specialist from the World Bank’s Climate Change Group, Raul has 20 years of professional experience in climate resilient development, environmental sustainability and energy. He is the WB Focal Point for the Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR) - Climate Investment Funds (CIF).
Moderator: Musonda Mumba, UN Environment Musonda is currently the programme Coordinator for UNEP’s Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) Programme within the Climate Change Adaptation team. Her responsibilities include providing technical expertise to governments globally, developing appropriate policy dialogue, guidance and other technical/programmatic support.
Communicating climate projections: Design approaches, interpretations S154 and applications
Communication, Information SESSION SUMMARY dissemination, Climate Services Climate change increases the frequency of extreme heat, droughts and rain. Communities, governments and businesses need to VENUE understand uncertain climate projections for making robust 2.43 decisions and attaining suitable developmental goals. Producers of climate information need to account for decision-contexts for providing user-relevant information. Integrating risk communication TIME expertise and transdisciplinary empirical research from academia, Tuesday meteorological agencies and climate service providers, the session 14h15 - 16h00 hosts i) design approaches and user-testing methods for evaluating communications of climate projections ii) ‘effective’ communication strategies and techniques in theory and practice iii) challenges ORGANISER/S arising from inter-individual and cultural differences in perceptions of Astrid Kause; Anna Steynor; Joseph communications and subsequent adaptation decisions. Daron, University of Leeds SPEAKERS PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Met Office, UK Anna Steynor, University of Cape Town, South Afica Understanding the operational context for climate services in African cities CHAIR Astrid Kause, University of Leeds, United Astrid Kause, University of Leeds, Priestley International Centre for Kingdom Climate Astrid studies how individuals Framing Climate Uncertainty: Frame Choices Reveal and Influence communicate and behave in the face Climate Change Beliefs of uncertain and complex challenges like climate change. This involves Neha Mittal, University of Leeds, UK transparent and simple communication Communicating climate change: Identifying climate change of scientific evidence, such as more or visualisations that are best understood by a user community less uncertain probability estimates. The aim of her work is both to identify Markus Berensson, C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, UK communication formats that are easy to From science to policy: communicating climate change in cities understand and transparent and to find out which individual characteristics (like Hasse Goossen , Climate Adaptation Services, The Netherlands numeracy, graph literacy, Visualizing future climate impacts for the Heineken brewery using the environmental values and political Copernicus Climate Service attitudes) shape perception of uncertain climate and medical evidence. She completed her PhD in Psychology and Decision Sciences in 2016 at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development Berlin and the University of Konstanz (Germany) and since 2017 is member of the Centre for Decision Research and the Sustainability Research Institute at the University of Leeds (UK).
RAPPORTEUR Anna Steynor, University of Cape Town, South Africa Different Perspectives on Direct Access and Concrete Adaptation S71 Interventions
Finance SESSION SUMMARY
This session consists of three parts: (i) presentation on an overview of VENUE how to access financial resources for projects and programmes to 1.64 adapt to climate change, particularly through the “direct access modality” pioneered by the Adaptation Fund(AF); (ii) a dynamic debate among the Panelists which consists of representatives of TIME National Implementing Entities (NIEs) to capture lessons learned from, Tuesday and challenges in accessing climate finance for adaptation actions 14h15 - 16h00 at local level; and (iii) interactive Q&A session between the speakers and audiences- aimed at enriching overall discussions and offering ORGANISER/S a great opportunity to learn from best practices, challenges and lessons learned from the different stakeholders involved in the Daouda Ndiaye, process. Adaptation Fund
PARTNER INSTITUTION/S SPEAKERS
CHAIR Tamara Greenstone, Micronesia Conservation Trust
Daouda Ndiaye, AFBSEC Soledad Moreiras, Unit for Rural Change of Argentina Daouda is Senior Climate Change
Specialist at the Adaptation Fund Board Michael Jennings, South Africa National Biodiversity Institute Secretariat, where he is coordinating the
Fund’s Results Based Management
Framework. His duties also include the technical review of adaptation project proposals submitted to the Fund and monitoring of the Fund’s portfolio.
Daouda has previously worked with multilateral and national institutions as a technical advisor on natural resources management issues and environment finance, including as a Regional Technical Advisor at UNDP’s Regional Centre for Western and Central Africa, supporting UNDP country offices in the design and implementation of biodiversity and land degradation projects. He has also worked as a research scientist for research and academic institutions. Daouda holds a PhD in Ecology and a Master's degree in Business administration.
RAPPORTEUR Young Hee Lee, AFBSEC
Early experiences with managed retreat
S39 SESSION SUMMARY Ocean and coastal ecosystems and their services This session will convene panelists involved in managed retreat, an adaptation strategy that reduces natural hazard risk by purposefully relocating people and structures. While managed retreat can reduce risk from rising sea levels, there are numerous questions about where, VENUE when, and how this strategy might be used appropriately, and how it fits 1.43 into a broader portfolio of adaptation measures. This session’s goal is to capture the breadth of approaches to managed retreat and lessons learned from early practice. The session will aim to highlight solutions TIME applicable across developed and developing country contexts and to Tuesday connect practitioners’ and researchers’ perspectives. 14h15 - 16h00 PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS ORGANISER/S Camille Manning-Broome and Justin Kozak, Center for Planning Miyuki Hino, Excellence Stanford University The Center for Planning Excellence is leading the outreach and engagement strategy for the first community-scale, climate-induced PARTNER INSTITUTION/S resettlement project in American history. In the past 60 years, the community of Isle de Jean Charles (IDJC) has lost more than 90 percent of its land mass due to sea level rise, erosion, subsidence, and CHAIR tropical storms. Center for Planning Excellence is working with the IDJC Katharine Mach, Stanford University, community to help plan the move to higher ground. USA Katharine Mach is a Senior Research Ricardo Safra de Campos, University of Exeter Scientist at Stanford University. She leads Dr. Ricardo Safra De Campos, an Associate Research Fellow at the University the Stanford Environment Assessment of Exeter, will discuss a study examining planned relocation in West Bengal Facility (SEAF). From 2010 until 2015, in India for communities seeking relocation due to coastal flooding. Mach co-directed the scientific activities Interviews with key actors show that government action is explained by a of Working Group II of the combination of risk aversion within political systems to avoid perceived negative consequences, and a lack of government accountability. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate study suggests that while there may be a growing demand for planned Change, which focuses on impacts, relocation in places affected by environmental change, its implementation adaptation, and vulnerability. is likely to be uneven, with profound socioeconomic implications for those living in such localities. RAPPORTEUR Miyuki Hino, Stanford University, USA Stephane Hallegatte, World Bank Stephane Hallegatte is a lead economist with the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery at the World Bank. His research interests include the economics of natural disasters and risk management, climate change adaptation, urban policy and economics, climate change mitigation, and green growth. Hallegatte will reflect on his extensive experience in disaster risk management efforts in developing countries, including approaches to improving socioeconomic resilience and managing exposure to natural hazards.
Miyuki Hino, Stanford University Miyuki Hino is a PhD candidate at Stanford University. She will discuss ongoing research on managed retreat. The first study is a global comparative analysis of how retreat has been interpreted and applied thus far around the globe, indicating key social and political drivers for if and how it takes place. Further work investigates the use of property buyouts in the United States: under what conditions property buyouts are likely to occur, areas suitable to such an intervention, and the consequences of buyouts for surrounding communities.
How to Train for Better Access to Climate Adaptation Finance
S97 SESSION SUMMARY Finance The future costs of climate change adaptation are huge. To access climate finance a more business/finance-oriented approach and capacity to formulate bankable projects is required. VENUE 2.62 This session connects funders with potential project owners and beneficiaries (e.g. local governments, civil society organisations, TIME universities, research institutes, SMEs) in a dialogue to better Tuesday understand each other’s interests and the problems they face in relation to climate adaptation finance. These learnings will support 14h15 - 16h00 the design of the ‘climate adaptation finance’ course; link the training content and process to the needs, identify who to ORGANISER/S cooperate with and explore interest of funders to boost adaptation Ingrid Gevers, finance. Wageningen Environmental Research (WUR) PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS
PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Leigh Cobban, ACDI, South Africa Trinomics, The Netherlands Leigh Cobban manages education projects at the African Climate Trinomics, EU and Development Initiative (ACDI) at UCT. Her work includes University of Cape Town, South Africa overseeing the existing student and professional programs; supporting new curriculum development; and building ACDI’s CHAIR understanding of best practice in climate change education in Ingrid Gevers, Wageningen Centre for Africa. Recently Leigh has worked with others at ACDI, UCT’s Development Innovation Graduate School of Development Policy and Practice, and Ingrid Gevers is a capacity development SouthSouthNorth, to conceptualise a training programme that builds expert at Wageningen Centre for the capacity of African countries to access the Green Climate Fund. Development Innovation. She designs and facilitates learning trajectories in Hans Bolscher, Trinomics, EU climate change, exploring the interface Hans (1960) is a Dutch economist and senior consultant in the field of with disaster risk management, fisheries, climate, climate finance and (renewable) energy. Today, one of the water & food security. She likes to inspire leading experts in climate finance and climate finance tracking. He people to change their practices is the former director Climate and Industry at the Ministry of through constructive dialogue and Environment and former Director at Economic Affairs at the Dutch reflection. The development of tailor government, as such responsible for national and international made innovative training material, climate and renewable energy policy development. Hans has a long games and tools are central in her work. background in international development, amongst others as former founder of FairTrade (FLO). Since over 25 years he is deeply involved RAPPORTEUR in the discussions on environment, climate, energy and finance Hans Bolscher, Trinomics related issues. Hans has been leading very relevant climate finance tracking projects for the government of France, Belgium, Danmark and the Netherlands. He works in close cooperation with the OECD and the Research Collaborative on climate finance. He was project director for the ground breaking EU project “Shifting Finance to Climate Finance”. He has teached on climate finance in a variety of settings. Hans is currently working a senior partner at Trinomics. Hans is often asked to chair and/or moderate conferences and workshops. Next to fluency in Dutch, English, German and French, he has a working knowledge of Portuguese and Spanish. Hans is also Chair of the non- executive board for 2 renewable energy companies and director of a sutainable investment fund. Interdependencies of Systems: Adapting Cities to Cascading Effects S83 A Triggered by Climate Extremes
Cities and Urban areas SESSION SUMMARY
Climate extremes create the potential for cascading effects VENUE threatening urban populations’ security by undermining the 2.61 sustainable utilization of water, energy, food resources and services. Cascading effects depend on specific social-institutional, economic, technological, and environmental factors. Hence, their TIME diffusion is mediated by context specific interdependent Tuesday vulnerabilities in city’s governance and critical infrastructural systems. 14h15 - 16h00 We invite a diversity of tools, methods, cases, best-practices and lessons-learned on the: ORGANISER/S Patricia Romero-Lankao, • Mediating role, in mitigating risks, of interdependent infrastructural Institute for Sustainable Urban systems and factors occurring inside and outside city boundaries Transformations (ISUT) & National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) • Influence of governance on policies, actions and infrastructural C40, Cities Climate Leadership Group, supports on risk mitigation and adaptation
PARTNER INSTITUTION/S SPEAKERS Urban Futures at NCAR, USA C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, David MacLeod, City of Toronto/C40 Climate Change Risk Network United Kingdom Strategies to engage interdependent internal external infrastructure organizations in climate risk management – 10 years of experience CHAIR from the trenches. Patricia Romero-Lankao, Mexico/USA, ISUT/NCAR Hastings Chikoko, C40 Regional Director for Africa Paty examines the intersection between Connecting the dots: understanding climate impacts on critical urbanization, cities, and risks. In infrastructure and its effects in cities particular, she studies the how people's capacities to adapt and mitigate risks, Mzukisi Gwata, City of Johannesburg, South Africa while pursuing life goals, change over Opportunities for analysing sectoral interdependencies in climate time. She leads the Urban Futures change adaptation plan update initiative and was lead-author to the Nobel prize-winning IPCC Fourth Patricia Romero Lankao, NCAR; Rachel Norton, CU Denver Assessment Report. Food, Energy, and Water Systems, Cascading Effects, and Risk to People and Places – Insights from Boulder County Colorado RAPPORTEUR Snigdha Garg, C40, USA/India; Neuni Vicki Barmby, City of Melbourne/C40 Farhad, C40, USA The importance of a partnership approach to ensure we are adapting well to climate change.
PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS
David MacLeod, City of Toronto C40 David MacLeod works in the City of Toronto's Environment and Energy Division, providing strategic policy direction and co- ordination on climate change risk management. David has focused on collaboratively managing risks associated with extreme weather in Toronto across many sectors. His work engages infrastructure and social service providers on issues of business continuity, cost avoidance and consideration of vulnerable populations.
Siobhan Kerr, University Of Maryland College Park, USA Siobhan Kerr is a PhD Candidate at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy. Her research focuses on the determinants of hurricane recovery, with a particular focus on the way that socio- economic inequalities impact community recovery processes and outcomes.
Patricia Romero Lankao (ISUT/NCAR)
Rob Koeze, Waternet, City of Amsterdam / C40
Mzukisi Gwata, City of Johannesburg, South Africa/ C40
Rachel Norton (CU Denver)
Vicki Barmby, City of Melbourne / C40
Migration & Displacement in Climate Hotspots: Adaptation or Loss and S11 Damage?
Migration SESSION SUMMARY
This session explores interconnections between climate risks, VENUE population mobility, adaptation and loss and damage. Migration 1.62 can be a successful adaptation when people move out of harm’s way to places with more sustainable livelihood opportunities. However, migration can also result in losses and damages for TIME migrants themselves, places they come from and host communities. Tuesday This is particularly the case when people are displaced by sudden- 14h15 - 16h00 onset disasters as well as when places are at risk of becoming permanently uninhabitable due to slow on-set disasters. This session ORGANISER/S provides a platform for presenting research evidence and discussing legal and policy implications. Kees van der Geest, University of Hawai'i SPEAKERS PARTNER INSTITUTION/S International Development Research Kees van der Geest, University of Hawaii Centre (IDRC), Canada The role of climate change and ecosystem services in the migration decisions of Marshallese Islanders CHAIR Amina Maharjan, Internationl Centre for Integrated Mountain Michele Leone, International Development (ICIMOD), Nepal Development Research Centre (IDRC) Dr. Leone got a PhD in physics of complex Migration and adaptation in the context of environmental change: systems from the UNESCO ICTP and the lessons from interdisciplinary work in South Asia International School for Advanced Studies of Trieste, Italy. He has worked as research Mark Tebboth, School of International Development, University of East scientist applying complex systems theory Anglia & Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and tools to real world development Everyday mobility and changing livelihood trajectories: implications problems in computer sciences, biology and for vulnerability and adaptation in the semi-arid regions of Africa and economics. He left Europe in 2005 to then India work as senior lecturer, consultant and project manager in Malawi, Kenya, Mozambique, Burundi, Cuba and Madagascar. He joined IDRC in 2010, where he is Senior Program Specialist for Climate Change. He is based in the IDRC regional office for sub-Saharan Africa located in Nairobi, Kenya. He works on program management, evidence-based decision making, and complex decision making under uncertainty. More recenlty, his interests have converged towards the linkages between ecosystems and environmental change and human decison making at the basis of mobility and migration.
RAPPORTEUR Bettina Koelle, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre
Showcasing and learning from Forecast-based Financing case S218 studies
Climate Services SESSION SUMMARY
Forecast-based Financing (FbF) is an innovative financial mechanism VENUE for triggering humanitarian preparedness before a disaster, based on 2.41 weather and climate forecasts. FbF has grown rapidly from initial pilots implemented by Red Cross Societies to a systematic humanitarian mechanism and processes embedded within TIME government agencies. Tuesday 14h15 - 16h00 This session will take the form of a ‘marketplace’ where the audience is encouraged to move between and converse with different ORGANISER/S research teams showcasing 1) FbF in a variety of country-contexts Liz Stephens, (Kenya, Mozambique, Nepal, Uganda and Zambia) , and 2) a University of Reading breadth of different thematic topics from both applied and theoretical social and environmental sciences. PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Red Cross Red Crescent Climate SPEAKERS Centre, team members based in Uganda and Mozambique Chris Garimoi Orach, Makerere University School of Public Health, Practical Action Nepal, Nepal Department of Community Health and Behavioural Sciences; Shuaib Lwasa, Makerere University, School of Forestry, Environmental and CHAIR Geographical Sciences, Department of Geography, Geo Informa Liz Stephens, University of Reading, A case study of FbF Implementation in Uganda United Kingdom Liz Stephens is a Senior Research Fellow Madhab Uprety, Practical Action Consulting South Asia; Dilip at the University of Reading and Director Gautam, Practical Action Consulting South Asia; Puja Shakya, of the DfID / NERC funded Forecasts for Practical Action Consulting South Asia; Sumit Dugar, DfID Nepal; Anticipatory Humanitarian Action Sanchita Neupane, Practical Action Consulting South Asia; Damodar (FATHUM) project. Liz’s research focusses Ka on developing flood forecasting Moving towards Forecast-Based Flood Preparedness in Nepal: capabilities and using these forecasts for Linking Science of Predictions to Preparedness Actions decision-making. Maureen Ambani, Kenya Red Cross Society; Martin Todd, Sussex RAPPORTEUR University; Olivia Todd, Sussex University Towards FbA in Kenya: The Forecasts for Preparedness Action’ Sara de Wit, Oxford University, UK; (ForPAc) project Harriet Aber, Makerere University,
Uganda Irene Amuron, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre; Patricia Nambuka, Zambia Red Cross Society Advocating for national institutionalization of Forecast based Financing in Zambia
Arielle Tozier de la Poterie, German Red Cross and Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Colorado, USA; Arlindo Meque, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre; Janio Dambo, Mozambique Red Cross Society; Anne-Catherine Vanhove, Ce Research meets practice: experiences and lessons from FbF in Mozambique
Emily Wilkinson, ODI Forecasting hazards, averting disasters: implementing forecast- based action at scale
Joy Waddell, Stellenbosch University; Carinus de Kock, Stellenbosch University, South Africa The importance of reflecting on the local risk context
Andrea Ficchi, University of Reading, UK Advances in forecasting extreme events
Tobias Pforr, University of Reading, UK Problems of Uncertainty in Forecast-based Financing
Anne-Catherine Vanhove, 1Centre for Evidence-Based Practice, Belgian Red Cross; Emmy De Buck, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine, KU Leuven, Belgium; Philippe Vandekerckhove, Belgian Red Cross and Faculty of Medicine and Hea How a systematic review of potential early actions and stakeholder engagement can contribute to an evidence-base for Forecast- based Financing projects
Emily Boyd, Lund University; Izabela Delabre, Zoological Society of London How are environmental futures being colonized? Who owns the future?
PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS
Irene Amuron, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre Irene joined the Climate Centre in 2016 as a technical adviser on forecast-based financing, having pioneered the concept in her home country of Uganda in her previous role as disaster risk reduction manager with the Red Cross society there. Irene provides technical guidance to National Societies setting up their own FbF programmes.
Erin Coughlan de Perez, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, The Netherlands Erin is manager of the Climate Science team at the Climate Centre. Since 2011 Erin has provided technical support for the interpretation and use of climate information by disaster managers worldwide. Based at Columbia University, Erin has published several papers on decision-relevant forecasting of climate extremes.
Social learning and evaluating its impacts in participatory adaptation S164 planning
Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) SESSION SUMMARY
This session will address the two central questions of: VENUE 2.63 1. How do you evaluate learning in participatory planning processes, and TIME 2. How do you measure whether this learning has any subsequent Tuesday impact on adaptation? 14h15 - 16h00 The presenters will share their experiences using different approaches ORGANISER/S and tools for evaluating the learning and impacts of participatory Sadie McEvoy, adaptation planning processes in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Pacific, Deltares and North and South America. These short presentations will be structured to answer the session’s two central questions. Second, an PARTNER INSTITUTION/S interactive voting exercise will be used to engage participants in Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial sharing their experiences and perceptions. Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia SPEAKERS National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), United States of Erin Bohensky, CSIRO Land and Water, Australia America What do scenarios achieve, and how do we know?: Assessing stakeholder perceptions and learning in a participatory adaptation CHAIR planning process James Butler, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Philip Thornton, CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, (CSIRO), Australia Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), Kenya James Butler is a sustainability scientist Evaluating learning in methods to scale up agricultural interventions based with CSIRO in Australia. He applies participatory action research to analyse Chelsea Combest-Friedman, NOAA complex development problems in the Evaluating Participatory and Process-based approaches in climate Asia-Pacific region, with a focus on adaptation - Examples from a regional applied research teams livelihoods and climate resilient development. He aims to generate Edmond Totin, ASSAR Project, Universite Nationale d’Agriculture du capacity for innovation and change, Benin and to evaluate the impacts of this Can scenario planning catalyse transformational change? process. Evaluating a climate change policy case study in Mali
RAPPORTEUR Seona Meharg, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia
Transforming agri-food systems: moving from science to action
S166 SESSION SUMMARY Food security Incremental adaptation efforts may not be sufficient to protect smallholder farmers’ assets, livelihoods and food security; rather much more drastic action will be required. The concept of VENUE transformational adaptation in agri-food systems has gained traction 1.61 in response to challenges faced by farming communities. But, how can transformational change in agri-food systems be facilitated at TIME scale? This session will highlight results from a systematic review of literature on transformational change in agri-food systems, thus Tuesday capturing lessons from case studies around the world. Based on these 14h15 - 16h00 lessons, opportunities for facilitating transformational change at scale in agri-food systems will be presented. ORGANISER/S Bruce Campbell, SPEAKERS CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)
PARTNER INSTITUTION/S PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada
Women in Global Science and
Technology,
CHAIR Mark Howden, Australian National University Mark Howden is the Director of Climate Change Institute, Australian National University
RAPPORTEUR Bruce Campbell, CGIAR
Urban adaptation and coastal protection – institutional challenges S3 and governance strategies in a Cities and Urban areas rapidly urbanizing world
SESSION SUMMARY VENUE 1.44 Aim of the session is to discuss potentials and pitfalls of delivering urban coastal adaptation through the involvement of private investors in large-scale projects. Protecting coastal cities from TIME climate impacts requires resources beyond what public Tuesday administrations can provide. Involving private investors in large-scale 14h15 - 16h00 projects will however radically change the role of local governments in delivering adaptation. ORGANISER/S The session features three invited contributions featuring: 1) Matteo Roggero, conceptual tools; 2) international case studies from Germany, the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin Netherlands, China and the Maldives; 3) results from the World Bank
City Coastal Resilience Africa Project. The talks are followed by a PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Panel Discussion.
CHAIR SPEAKERS Matteo Roggero, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin Matteo Roggero, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany Dr. Roggero works as postdoctoral The "part" of the deal: institutional insights on delivering public urban researcher in the Research Economics adaptation through private finance Group, Faculty of Life Sciences,
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany. Alexander Bisaro, Global Climate Forum, Germany A social scientist by training, Dr. Roggero Leveraging public finance for coastal adaptation through land has delivered several publications on the reclamation projects: a comparative analysis topic of climate adaptation and water governance from the perspective of Lorenzo Carrera, World Bank, United States institutional economics, focusing City Coastal Resilience in Africa: from theory to practice particularly on transaction costs.
PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS RAPPORTEUR Alexander Bisaro, Global Climate Forum Christophe Brière, Deltares Senior advisor – Coastal Engineering & Management, Multi-hazard Risk Assessment & Coastal Adaptation Planning; Regional coordinator, Maghreb & West-Africa
Vertical integration in adaptation: understanding institutional barriers S116 A and enablers to government and non- Poverty, livelihoods and government actors engaging across sustainable development scales
SESSION SUMMARY VENUE 1.63 Vertical integration is seen as the process of creating linkages between the national and sub-national levels. One of the enabling TIME factors for vertical integration is the institutional arrangements that Tuesday link different levels of decision-making, through which coordination, capacity building and communication between different levels 14h15 - 16h00 occurs. This session focuses on multi-level governance experiences and how they can inform institutional arrangements for adaptation. ORGANISER/S Specifically it will explore the lessons learnt with regards to successful Gina Ziervogel, modes of governance, information-sharing, participation and the University of Cape Town impacts on and implications for local communities. Importantly, it will ask what additional complexities adaptation brings to cross-scalar PARTNER INSTITUTION/S governance given the need to imagine and plan for long-term Indian Institute for Human Settlements climate change in the context of the sustainable development (IIHS), India goals, particularly for the most vulnerable. International Institute of Sustainable Development (IISD), Canada SPEAKERS
CHAIR Wendy Conway-Lamb, University of Canberra Gina Ziervogel, University of Cape Town Inclusive multi-level adaptation in Vietnam: a deliberative approach to bridging the local-global adaptation governance divide RAPPORTEUR Edmond Totin, National University of Agriculture (Benin) Governance of resources: Is there space for implementing the land policy under complex customary tenure practices?
Meg Boyle, Penn State University Assessing the Impacts of National Climate Self-Differentiation on Subnational Governance of Food Security and Climate Adaptation
Abrar Chaudhury, University Of Oxford Implementation is the Adaptation Territory
Vertical integration in adaptation: understanding institutional barriers S116 B and enablers to government and non- Planning government actors engaging across
scales
VENUE SESSION SUMMARY 1.63 Vertical integration is seen as the process of creating linkages TIME between the national and sub-national levels. One of the enabling Tuesday factors for vertical integration is the institutional arrangements that 16h30 - 18h15 link different levels of decision-making, through which coordination, capacity building and communication between different levels occurs. This session focuses on multi-level governance experiences ORGANISER/S and how they can inform institutional arrangements for adaptation. Gina Ziervogel, Specifically it will explore the lessons learnt with regards to successful University of Cape Town modes of governance, information-sharing, participation and the impacts on and implications for local communities. Importantly, it will PARTNER INSTITUTION/S ask what additional complexities adaptation brings to cross-scalar Indian Institute for Human Settlements governance given the need to imagine and plan for long-term (IIHS), India climate change in the context of the sustainable development International Institute of Sustainable goals, particularly for the most vulnerable. Development (IISD), Canada SPEAKERS CHAIR Gina Ziervogel, University of Cape Town Salma Hegga, Adaptation At Scale In Semi Arid Regions (ASSAR), University of Cape Town RAPPORTEUR Capacity of Local Level Actors to Participate in Water Governance: Insights from North Central Namibia
Susannah Sallu, University of Leeds Assessing the Integration of Climate Change and Development Strategies at Local Levels: Insights from Tanzania
Inke Schauser, Federal Environment Agency Germany Pathways, triggers and actors in building climate change resilience
PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS
Cristina Rumbaitis del Rio, Action on Climate Today, United States of America Cristina Rumbaitis del Rio is the Regional Programme Manager for Action on Climate Today, a UK-AID supported climate change programme that seeks to mainstream climate change resilience in South Asia. Previously she was a Senior Associate Director at The Rockefeller Foundation in New York, and led initiatives on Climate Change Resilience and Ecosystem Services.
Angie Dazé, International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), France Angie Dazé is a member of the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Global Network Secretariat, based at the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD). Her work on NAPs focuses on linking national and sub- national adaptation processes, as well as on integration of gender considerations. Harnessing indigenous and traditional knowledge for adaptation in low-input S174 conditions
Food, fibre, and other ecosystem SESSION SUMMARY products Smallholders and marginalized rural communities are the groups at the center of attention of this session. They are many, but their VENUE landholdings are small, remote, and often marginalised in 1.42 adaptation policies and actions. In this session we will show examples from Southern Africa, South Asia and the Pacific that by integrating their ideas (indigenous and traditional knowledge) and rights (in TIME particular food sovereignty) we can enhance resilience and Tuesday adaptive capacity in these settings. 14h15 - 16h00 PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS ORGANISER/S Johanna Nalau, Leshwin Koopman, Tra Tra Vallei Boerder (member of the Right to Griffith University Agrarian Reform for Food Sovereignty Campaign): Brot für die Welt (Bread for the world), Agroecology as an approach to adapt to climate change: The Case Germany of in Wupperthal, South Africa
PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Stephen Greenberg, African Center for Biodiversity (Acbio), African Center for Biodiversity (ACB), Agro-ecology and food sovereignty as central approaches to South Africa secure food supply in the face of climate change Surplus Peoples Program (SPP), South Africa Brendan Mackey, Griffith Climate Change Response Program, Griffith International Centre for Climate University, Australia. Change and Development (ICCCAD), Integrating subsistence food security and forest conservation: lessons Bangladesh from Tanna Island, Vanuatu
Saleem Huq, Director, International Centre for Climate Change and CHAIR Development (ICCCAD), and Senior Fellow, International Institute for Johanna Nalau, Griffith University, Environment and Development. Australia; Ellen Kalmbach, Bread for the Ecosystem based adaptation and community based adaptation World, Germany experiences in Bangladesh Dr Johanna Nalau is a Research Fellow at
Griffith University and IPCC AR6 WGII Lead Author for chapter 15 Small Islands. Dr Harry May, SPP, South Africa Nalau’s research focuses on decision-making Facilitator processes around climate risk management and ecosystem-based adaptation in particular. Dr. Ellen Kalmbach is a Climate Change Adaptation Advisor at Brot für die Welt, Germany, a globally active development NGO. Dr Kalmbach’s work focuses on supporting partner NGOs in integrating climate change adaptation into their development projects, in particular in rural, low-income conditions.
RAPPORTEUR Ellen Kalmbach, Bread for the World, Germany
Diversity in application: Understanding how adaptation and S38 disaster risk reduction are linked in Decision making options for different countries and regions managing risk SESSION SUMMARY
VENUE The occurrence of numerous extreme climate events, including cyclones, floods, and heat waves in the last two years, has reinforced 1.41 the need for greater dialogue and action on synergising CCA and DRR. This session will explore the challenges and successes in TIME improving coordination between these two spheres of endeavour Tuesday drawing on cases from the global north and south. By highlighting 14h15 - 16h00 different experiences from around the world, and encouraging contributions from a diversity of stakeholders, we aim to identify the key themes that have emerged in implementation, allowing ORGANISER/S participants to discuss these topics and learn from the cases. Sheona Shackleton, University of Cape Town and Rhodes SPEAKERS University
Amy Pieterse, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Africa Department of Environmental Affairs Opportunities and challenges for disaster risk reduction and climate (DEA), South Africa change adaptation coordination within the South African University of Oxford, UK intergovernmental planning system University of Lisbon, Portugal
Ebinezer R. Florano, University of the Philippines, National College of CHAIR Public Administration and Governance, Philippines Tally Palmer, Institute for Water Cluster Approach to Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Research, Rhodes University Reduction at the National Level: The Case of the Philippines
RAPPORTEUR Rupak Kumar Jha, Department of Humanities and Social Science, IIT, Taryn Pereira, Environmental Monitoring India Group and Rhodes University, South Do the generic and disaster specific adaptation measures reduce Africa; Nick Hamer, Rhodes University fatalities from floods? An empirical assessment from Bihar, India South Africa PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS
Lisa Schipper "Lisa Schipper is Research Fellow at the Environmental Change Institute (University of Oxford). Lisa’s work focuses on adaptation and socio-cultural vulnerability to climate change and natural hazards in developing countries. Lisa is Co-ordinating Lead Author of Chapter 18 (Climate Resilient Development Pathways) of IPCC Working Group 2 for AR6. "
Mario Pulquério Mário Pulquério is a researcher working at University of Lisbon, he has participated in a range of national and European projects on climate change adaptation for the biodiversity and water sectors and on the development of regional climate change scenarios. Currently, he is the coordinator of Horizon 2020 project PLACARD.
How can effective CSO/CBO engagement and support to S147 community-based adaptation CbA enhance the implementation of
transformative adaptation projects?
VENUE SESSION SUMMARY 2.63 The session showcases best practices and challenges of civil society TIME engagement in transformative adaptation projects emphasizing: 1. Tuesday Developing and designing a local methodology focusing on how to 16h30 - 18h15 get the community to think about adaptation; 2. Realising successful mechanisms for multi-stakeholder engagement when planning and implementing adaptation projects; 3. Effectively channelling ORGANISER/S resources to the local level and meeting compliance criteria. The Julia Grimm, aim of this participative discussion is to identify, upscale and Germanwatch replicate best practices; to identify solutions to overcome current Adaptation Fund NGO Network, challenges in adaptation funding mechanisms; and to share experiences of civil society engagement in adaptation projects PARTNER INSTITUTION/S financed by climate funds. SouthSouthNorth (SSN), South Africa PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS CHAIR Simbisai Zhanje, SouthSouthNorth, South Shannon Parring, Indigo Development and Change Africa Shannon is the director of Indigo and is leading the climate change Simbisai has experience in climate adaptation programme. She is responsible for community liaison, change governance in East and documentation and knowledge management, and she is involved Southern Africa. She has worked on in the climate change preparedness workshops that Indigo runs in projects related to mainstreaming the Suid Bokkeveld. Shannon has facilitated training workshops on climate change into national community-based adaptation and has been involved in managing development planning and promoting adaptation processes from community to policy level. dialogue and partnerships between policy and climate science. Simbisai’s Fiona Percy, CARE International/ LTSA, Senior Technical Advisor work is currently focused on climate Climate and Resilience Learning finance and monitoring and learning Team leader and technical advisor in climate change adaptation, from SSN’s programmes resilience, climate services, agriculture and natural resource management. Fiona Percy is the coordinator of CARE’s Adaptation RAPPORTEUR Learning Programme in Africa, leading multi-country innovative Louise Vaughan, SouthSouthNorth, development of practical approaches, knowledge brokering and South Africa advocacy in relation to community-based adaptation and user- centred climate services across multiple actors and levels.
Ilaria Firmian, Environment and Climate Knowledge and Capacity Development Officer - Environment and Climate Division (ECD), International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Ilaria Firmian has a degree in Anthropology and a MA in Cooperation and Development. She currently works as Knowledge and Capacity Development Officer responsible for strengthening knowledge sharing and learning activities associated with Environment and Climate-related projects and programmes in IFAD and for fostering partnerships with selected knowledge centers and networks on climate and environment.
Farai Hove, Programme Development Officer, ChoiCe Trust Farai, a Forester and registered Certificated Natural Scientist, has 16 years experience in sustainable community development. Her areas of expertise include sub-granting, organisational development, institutional capacity building and project management. Farai previously worked for CARE International in Zimbabwe and South Africa. Currently she is working as a Programme Development Officer with CHoiCe Trust in Limpopo on the Community Climate Change Adaptation Small Grants Facility (SGF) project.
Marek Soanes, Researcher, Climate Change Group, IIED Marek is a researcher within the Climate Change Group of IIED. He focusses on climate finance for the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly for the Least Developed Countries. Marek is delivering readiness support to non-BAU institutions, such as ministries of local government, and investigating the potential for risk financing and green bonds to mobilise adaptation at scale.
Fazal Issa, Programme Manager, FORUMCC (Tanzania) - AF NGO Network Mr. Issa works at ForumCC, a Civil Society network on climate change in Tanzania, a Partner of Adaptation Fund NGO Network and a Member of Pan-African Climate Justice Alliance. Prior to this post, he worked at United Nations Association of Tanzania. He has significant experience working with climate change adaptation project on-ground with communities and Civil Society. He has also been engaging at national, regional and international climate change processes and negotiations on adaptation and finance. Fazal has Masters of Science from Mzumbe University and Bachelor degree on Political science from University of Dar es Salaam.
Identifying transferable lessons from coastal communities' transformational S72 adaptation pathways
CbA SESSION SUMMARY
Coastal communities are experiencing unprecedented threats and VENUE uncertain futures as sea levels rise and natural hazards intensify. 1.44 There are now many case studies of coastal communities’ attempts to implement flexible adaptation strategies while being robust to multiple uncertain futures. This session seeks to discuss and capture TIME lessons from case studies that have attempted transformational Tuesday responses involving, for example, resettlement or cultural (socio- 16h30 - 18h15 economic) change. In particular, lessons on how goal ambiguity (conflicts), uneven distribution of power, and interactions in societal ORGANISER/S systems of values, rules and knowledge constrained responses and were overcome will be focused on. Lessons will be widely shared Russell Wise, afterwards Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) SPEAKERS PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Center for Planning Excellence, USA Russell Wise Rohan Hamden and Associates, Adaptation pathways to date and emerging approaches to Australia enabling transformation
CHAIR Rohan Hamden, Rohan Hamden and Associates Using Sea Level Rise Projections with community based planning Russell Wise, Commonwealth Scientific methodologies in the Torres Strait. A case study of innovation of the and Industrial Research Organisation use of adaptation pathways (CSIRO)
Dr Wise is a Sustainability Economist at James Butler, CSIRO, Australia CSIRO, Australia. Russ has over 15 years Priming and evaluating capacity for transformational adaptation of experience focused on enabling pathways in the Torres Strait Islands, Australia decision-making under uncertain and transformational change. He has led the Camille Manning-Broome, Center for Planning Excellence development of novel concepts, tools On the Ground at the Resettlement of Isle de Jean Charles, Louisiana and processes (e.g., adaptation pathways) to support climate adaptation policy, planning and action PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS in Australia, PNG and Indonesia. Russell Wise RAPPORTEUR Dr Wise is a Sustainability Economist at CSIRO, Australia. Russ is an Seona Meharg, Australia National authority in climate adaptation focused on enabling decision University making under uncertain and transformational change. He has led the development of novel concepts, tools and processes (e.g., adaptation pathways) to support policy, planning and action in Australia, PNG and Indonesia.
James Butler James is a sustainability scientist researching complex development problems in the Asia-Pacific region, with a focus on trans-boundary issues linking northern Australia, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. He applies concepts of social-ecological systems, resilience, transformation and well-being to explore alternative livelihood development pathways and trade-offs through participatory action research.
Rohan Hamden Rohan is a Director of XDI: The Cross Dependency Initiative, which provides infrastructure risk assurance services based on climate change science, infrastructure engineering and advanced statistical methods. Rohan began his career in Government as a fire fighter. After nearly 15 years, his last role in Government was as the Director of the Climate Adaptation Program for South Australia.
Camille Manning Broome Camille leads a team that connects researchers with practitioners and the public, so they can collaboratively create adaptation strategies that support communities to prosper amidst climate change impacts. Through her leadership, adaptation policies and programs in Louisiana and beyond are informed by best practices in land use, development, mitigation, and recovery planning.
Interdependencies of Systems: Adapting Cities to Cascading Effects S83 B Triggered by Climate Extremes
Cities and Urban areas SESSION SUMMARY
Climate extremes create the potential for cascading effects VENUE threatening urban populations’ security by undermining the 2.61 sustainable utilization of water, energy, food resources and services. Cascading effects depend on specific social-institutional, economic, technological, and environmental factors. Hence, their TIME diffusion is mediated by context specific interdependent Tuesday vulnerabilities in city’s governance and critical infrastructural systems. 16h30 - 18h15 We invite a diversity of tools, methods, cases, best-practices and lessons-learned on the: ORGANISER/S Patricia Romero-Lankao, • Mediating role, in mitigating risks, of interdependent infrastructural Institute for Sustainable Urban systems and factors occurring inside and outside city boundaries Transformations (ISUT) & National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) • Influence of governance on policies, actions and infrastructural C40, Cities Climate Leadership Group, supports on risk mitigation and adaptation
PARTNER INSTITUTION/S PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS Urban Futures at NCAR, USA C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, David MacLeod, City of Toronto C40 United Kingdom David MacLeod works in the City of Toronto's Environment and Energy Division, providing strategic policy direction and co- CHAIR ordination on climate change risk management. David has focused Patricia Romero-Lankao, Mexico/USA, on collaboratively managing risks associated with extreme weather ISUT/NCAR in Toronto across many sectors. His work engages infrastructure and Paty examines the intersection between social service providers on issues of business continuity, cost urbanization, cities, and risks. In avoidance and consideration of vulnerable populations. particular, she studies the how people's capacities to adapt and mitigate risks, Anna Taylor, University Of Cape Town, South Africa while pursuing life goals, change over Anna Taylor is based at the University of Cape Town, conducting time. She leads the Urban Futures research on urban governance, decision making, co-production initiative and was lead-author to the and processes of climate change adaptation, particularly in Nobel prize-winning IPCC Fourth southern African cities through embedded research. She also works Assessment Report. with the Stockholm Environment Institute, bridging environmental science and policy making internationally. RAPPORTEUR Snigdha Garg, C40, USA/India; Neuni Arjun, Srinivas, Indian Institute For Human Settlements, India Farhad, C40, USA Samir, Bhattacharya, Cuts International Samir Bhattacharya is Assistant Director in Jaipur based NGO, CUTS International. There, he leads CUTS Africa work and country teams of Ghana, Kenya, and Zambia. Samir Bhattacharya holds M-Phil (M2) in Environment Economics, titled " Sustainable Development in Emerging and Developing Countries" from CERDI, University of Auvergne 1, France.
Andrea, Godshalk, Washington University in St. Louis, USA Andrea Godshalk is a doctoral student in Sustainable Urbanism at Washington University in St. Louis, where she earned a Master in Landscape Architecture and a Master of Urban Design as a Mr. and Mrs. Spencer T. Olin Fellow. Her research and design work investigates urban resilience through social-ecological system dynamics.
Ernita van Wyk, ICLEI, South Africa Ernita van Wyk is a professional officer at ICLEI-Africa and ICLEI’s Cities Biodiversity Center. Her interests are in social-ecological systems and issues around nature-based benefits in urban environments. She is passionate about how people and institutions value and interact with the natural environment to support healthy, vibrant urban communities.
Deborah, O'connell, Csiro Australia
Linking the NAP process and NDCs to accelerate enhanced adaptation S90 action
Planning SESSION SUMMARY
This event aims to discuss how to assure that existing knowledge, VENUE methodology and progress on the NAP process can be linked to 1.43 countries NDCs, and how to orient on best practice with this regard, in order to identify synergies and accelerate enhanced adaptation action including adaptation finance. It is therefore situated within the TIME larger context of integrating the post 2015 agendas into coherent Tuesday national development plans and policies for sustainable and 16h30 - 18h15 climate-resilient development.
ORGANISER/S Expert inputs will be followed by a panel discussion and a Q&A Na-Hyeon Shin, session with country representatives, as well as the NAP Global Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Network and the NDC Partnership. Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS PARTNER INSTITUTION/S NDC Partnership, NAP Global Network Sarah Alhaleeq, Ministry of Environment, Jordan Canada/Switzerland, Ministry of Sarah Alhaleeq is the Head of the Adaptation Section at the Climate Environment of Jordan Change Directorate at Ministry of Environment. She has been working in the Jordan, National Commission of Natural climate change field since 2014, where she started as a technical assistant and worked at the adaptation interface under the Director. She has Protected Areas (CONANP) majored in electrical engineering/communications and electronics fat the Mexico, Jordan University for Science and Technology. Ms. Alhaleeq is involved in the NAP process in Jordan and all the relevant activities. CHAIR Andrea Kuhlmann, Deutsche Anne Hammill, NAP Global Network Gesellschaft für Internationale Anne Hammill is the Director of the Resilience Program at IISD and directs the Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Global Network Secretariat. Much of her Andrea Kuhlmann is currently the Head work focuses on understanding how better environmental management can build resilience to climate stress and contribute to peacebuilding. of Project of the GIZ M&E Adapt project Anne’s most recent work has been in developing and applying decision- and leading the area of adaptation to support tools for climate change adaptation, conducting participatory field climate change within the Climate research on livelihoods and climate change, and building the capacity of Policy Support Programme of GIZ - governments and civil society to integrate climate risk into policies and field Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale projects. She has also been working with organizations in Eastern and Central Zusammenarbeit. She has more than 18 Africa to understand and address the links between conservation activities years of experience in international and conflict. development cooperation, with duty stations in Bolivia, Laos, India, Mexico Anika Terton, International Institute for Sustainable Development and Germany. Her work mainly focused (IISD) on rural and agricultural development, Anika Terton is a Project Manager with IISD’s Resilience program. Her areas sustainable natural resources of expertise include undertaking research, analysis, and engagement activities with most of her work focused on understanding the risks and management and adaptation to opportunities that climate change and variability poses to developed and climate change. developing countries, and on building capacity of local communities, regional and national policy makers to better manage those risks. Anika is RAPPORTEUR engaged in a diverse set of issues ranging from adaptation to climate Andrea Kuhlmann, Deutsche change in the Canadian Prairies, national adaptation planning in Gesellschaft für Internationale developing countries, ecosystem-based adaptation, climate-resilient cities Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and North American climate change mitigation policies.
Representative of CONANP Mexico (National Commission of Natural Protected Areas) Managing tree cover: conflicting local versus global perspectives
S227 SESSION SUMMARY Biodiversity Highlight the risk of perverse incentives driven by mitigation demands that will result in maladaptive ecosystem management associated with potential risks that can compromise a range of goods & services. VENUE 1. Opening Remarks 1.62 2. The Bonn challenge and ‘plant a tree to save the world’ approach TIME Tuesday 3. Lessons from Alien Invasive Clearing Programme 16h30 - 18h15 4. Afforestation and Potential Risks – Ecosystem disservice
ORGANISER/S 5. Ecosystem based Adaptation (EbA) and adaptive management Barney Kgope, of natural afforestation Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) 6. Facilitated discussion - audience participating
PARTNER INSTITUTION/S 7. Closing Remarks South African Environmental Observatory Network (SAEON), South Africa SPEAKERS Stellenbosch University, South Africa Barney Kgope, Department of Environmental Affairs, Pretoria, South CHAIR Africa Ecosystem based Adaptation (EbA) and adaptive management of Barney Kgope, Department of natural afforestation Environmental Affairs, South Africa In 2000, Barney Kgope joined the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) William Bond, Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town in Cape Town. Barney has co-authored The Bonn challenge and ‘plant a tree to save the world’ approach several papers, reports, a chapter in a book and has also contributed to chapter 4 of the Michele Toucher and Byron Gray of the South African Environmental Fourth Assessment report (AR4) of the Observation Network and the Centre for Water Resources Research, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and Susan Janse Van Change (IPCC) the world authority on Rensburg of the Centre for Water Resources Research, Univers climate change issues. In 2004 he won the Afforestation and Potential Risks – Ecosystem disservice? Compton Prize for the best published scientific paper in the South African Journal of Botany. He has presented papers at Christo Marais national and international. He has Department of Environmental Affairs, Cape Town, South Africa collaborated with several scientists both The Working for … Programmes in South Africa, managing tree cover: nationally and internationally. Barney is conflicting local versus global perspectives – Balancing water, currently the Director for Biodiversity Risk carbon, productive potential of land and biodiversity. Management in the Biodiversity & Conservation Branch at the National Department of Environmental Affairs. His current portfolio covers global change issues that include climate change, land degradation, alien invasive plants to mention a few.
RAPPORTEUR Tony Knowles, Cirrus Consulting Group
Mapping the frontiers of adaptation research and practice
S60 SESSION SUMMARY Knowledge transfer This is a forward-looking session that will identify the frontiers of climate change adaptation research and practice. These frontiers will be identified through a multi-sector discussion between donors, VENUE researchers and NGOs, and will be informed by learning in a number 2.46 of large-scale research and practice programs, including CDKN, BRACED, PROVIA and CARIAA. Panelists will also share their long term TIME experiences with collaborative efforts toward climate action. The session will be organised as a round table discussion, followed by Tuesday break out discussions centered on each speaker. 16h30 - 18h15 PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS ORGANISER/S Georgina Cundill Kemp, Jian Liu, Chief Scientist of UN Environment, Kenya. International Development Research Founding Director of the International Ecosystem Management Partnership Centre (IDRC) of UN Environment (2010-2016), co-founder of PROVIA (2008 – 2010), Deputy UN Environment, Kenya Secretary of the IPCC (2005-2008), Director of the Chinese Ecosystem Research Network and Deputy Director General at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Department for International Shehnaaz Moosa, SouthSouthNorth, South Africa Development, United Kingdom Shehnaaz is a Chemical Engineer with extensive experience on donor- funded programmes. She was the African Regional Lead for the Climate & CHAIR Development Knowledge Network (CDKN), looking to inform climate compatible development within policy and action. Shehnaaz is also the Musonda Mumba, UN Environment lead for the Climate Resilient Infrastructure Development Facility and currently leads the Southern Africa Climate Finance Partnership. Dr. Musonda Mumba, UN Environment, Kenya Eva Ludi, International Development Institute, United Kingdom Eva is Head of the Water Policy Programme. She has over 15 years of Dr Musonda Mumba has extensive experience in research and policy particularly related to climate change adaptation, adaptive capacity, water and food security, sustainable rural experience of working on adaptation development and sustainable natural resource management. Eva is the issues globally, in particular ecosystem Principal Investigator of the Pathways to Resilience in Semi-Arid Economies based adaptation (EbA). Her interests in (PRISE) consortium, one of four consortia funded under the Collaborative climate change adaptation have been Adaptation Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA). both scientific and political. She is the UN Environment Focal Point on Mountain Elizabeth Carabine, Embassy of the Netherlands in Uganda Ecosystems, and is a policy advisor to the Dr Carabine has 14 years of experience in research, policy and Collaborative Adaptation Research programming in the private and public sectors, primarily in East and West Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA). Africa. During this time,. she acted as the Research Coordinator for the first phase of the Knowledge Manager of the Building Resilience and Adaptation for Climate Extremes and Disasters program (BRACED), was a lead researcher in the Collaborative Adaptation Initiative in Africa and Asia program (CARIAA) up to 2018 and led research projects to support the RAPPORTEUR Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN). Georgina Cundill Kemp, International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Robert Hofstede, International Development Research Centre, Canada Dr Hofstede is the Associate Director, leading the Climate Change programme within the Agriculture and Environment division of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC). Previously, he directed IUCN’s regional programme for South America, and also worked for the Consortium for the Sustainable Development of the Andean Ecoregion (CONDESAN).
Methods for enhancing the co- production and application of S127 science-based evidence into Terrestrial and freshwater adaptation planning in LDCs and SIDS ecosystems and their services; Ocean and coastal ecosystems SESSION SUMMARY and their services; Water; Food, fibre, and other ecosystem The proposed session examines challenges associated with the co- production and application of science-based evidence for robust products; Cities, settlements and adaptation planning in LDCs and SIDS. A keynote presentation and key infrastructure; Health, four short interventions will highlight key gaps related to four themes: wellbeing and the changing (1) knowledge co-production; (2) science-policy communication structure of commun barriers; (3) in-country scientific awareness and capacity building; (4) autonomous adaptation and the role of the private sector. At a world café, participants will then share their views and explore solutions for improving LDCs and SIDS capacity to produce and use VENUE scientific information to support the development of national 1.42 adaptation strategies.
TIME SPEAKERS Tuesday 16h30 - 18h15 Adelle Thomas, University of the Bahamas, The Bahamas & Climate Analytics, Germany (Presenter); Kouassigan Tovivo, Climate
Analytics Lomé, Togo (Presenter); Sarah D’haen, Climate Analytics, ORGANISER/S Germany (Co-author); Delphine Deryng, Climate Analytics, Delphine Deryng, Germany Climate Analytics Co-production and application of science-based evidence for robust adaptation planning: Barriers and lessons learned in the PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Caribbean and Pacific SIDS and West African LDCs Plan-Adapt, Germany University of the Bahamas, The Bahamas PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS Climate Analytics, Germany Adelle Thomas, University of the Bahamas, The Bahamas, & Climate CHAIR Analytics, Germany Delphine Deryng, Climate Analytics, Adelle has worked on intersections between climate change Germany adaptation, environmental protection and development. Her Delphine is a Scientific Advisor at research centres on adaptation and loss and damage including Climate Analytics where she works on knowledge, awareness and perception of the public about climate strengthening the science-policy change; assessing opportunities, barriers and limits to adaptation; interface to improve production, and challenges facing small islands in managing loss and damage. dissemination and use of scientific information for adaptation planning. She Martin Rokitzki, Plan Adapt, Germany & Climate Analytics, Germany holds a PhD from the University of East Martin has 16 years of professional experience working for inter- Anglia in the field of climate impacts and governmental and non-governmental development and adaptation in the agriculture sector. environment organisations (amongst others UNEP, GIZ, FAO, UNCCD, IFAD, ACF, Oxfam GB) in over 30 countries across Africa and Asia. He RAPPORTEUR has provided scientific advice on climate change adaptation and Martin Rokitzki, Plan Adapt & Climate natural resource management to a wide range of actors. Analytics, Germany Omagano Shooya, Climate Analytics, Germany Omagano supports the science team with research on climate change adaptation. She holds a MSc. in Climate Change and Development from the University of Cape Town under the African Climate and Development Initiative. Omagano also has experience working with ‘grassroot’ communities under the Community Based Natural Resource Management programme in Namibia.
Kouassigan Tovivo, Climate Analytics, Togo Climate Policy & Adaptation Expert at Climate Analytics, Kouassigan works on the implementation strategies of low-carbon and climate- resilient development especially adaptation planning processes (NAPs) in African Least Developed Countries (LDCs). He holds two Masters degrees respectively from Poitiers University (2010) and the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (2013).
What does transformative adaptation look like?
S231 SESSION SUMMARY Finance The objective of this open session is to develop a collective picture of what “transformative adaptation” looks like in 2018. In the context of particular climate funds, the term “transformative” can refer to VENUE catalyzing the transformation of market-based economies by 1.61 influencing the supply of and/or demand for goods and services that contribute to adaptation and mitigation. For others, “transformative” TIME is used to signify a need to raise the level of ambition of adaptation efforts; or to address systemic inequalities that contribute to or Tuesday worsen vulnerability to climate change, e.g. discrimination against 16h30 - 18h15 women or lack of land tenure by small farmers.
ORGANISER/S PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS Caroline Petersen, United Nations Development Pradeep Kurukulasuriya, UNDP Programme (UNDP) Pradeep will be our Moderator, introducing the session and inviting panel members to speak for 3 minutes each, to share their vision of PARTNER INSTITUTION/S what truly transformative adaptation looks like, drawing on examples International Centre for Climate from their experience. After this, there will be time for the panel Change and Development, members to interact with each other, and the discussion will then be Bangladesh opened to the floor. South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), South Africa Saleemul Huq, ICCCAD
CHAIR Daouda Ndiaye, Adaptation Fund Caroline Petersen, UNDP Global Environmental Finance Mandy Barnett, SANBI Ms Caroline Petersen is a Senior Advisor in UNDP’s Global Environmental Finance Unit, Architesh Panda, Independent researcher and also in the Green Commodities Programme. From 2014 to 2016 Caroline was Jerry Velasquez, Green Climate Fund acting Global Head of Ecosystems & Biodiversity for UNDP, leading a team of Caroline Petersen, UNDP Regional Technical Advisors in Istanbul, Addis Ababa, Panama and Bangkok, supporting a large portfolio of projects under implementation, and helping countries access over $400 million of new Global Environment Facility (GEF) funds for biodiversity and sustainable land and forest management, including ecosystem-based adaptation and mitigation. More recently Caroline has been involved in UNDP’s support to countries in accessing the Green Climate Fund. Caroline has a Masters from the London School of Economics, and prior to UNDP worked for the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) in a programme for conservation of the Cape Floristic Region.
RAPPORTEUR Caroline Petersen, United Nations Development Program
Addressing poverty and climate change in the 21st century: can S128 Adaptive Social Protection support Poverty, Livelihoods and adaptation? Sustainable Development
SESSION SUMMARY VENUE 2.44 National social protection (cash and in-kind support) programmes often help build capacities of vulnerable individuals and households to absorb socio-economic shocks. Can these platforms be designed TIME to also help beneficiaries absorb climate shocks, become more Tuesday resilient and adaptive in the longer- term? At the grassroots level, 16h30 - 18h15 social protection beneficiaries are usually the worse affected by climate vagaries, yet lack the wherewithal to undertake adaptive measures. This session will bring together actors working in the areas ORGANISER/S of poverty, social protection, resilience, adaptation and public Aditi Kapoor, investment to share knowledge and experiences for setting the basis Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre for a future joint agenda. (RCRC CC)
SPEAKERS PARTNER INSTITUTION/S
Food and Agriculture Organisation (TBC) CHAIR Climate change adaptation and social protection
RAPPORTEUR PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS
Aditi Kapoor, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, India
Stephane Hallegatte, World Bank, Washington DC, USA Lead economist with the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR), his research interests include risk management, climate change adaptation, urban policy and economics and green growth. Lead author of IPCC AR5, he led the Bank report on climate and poverty, just before the Paris climate meet.
Saleemul Huq, Director, International Centre for Cllimate Change and Development, Bangladesh & Senior Fellow, International Institute for Environment and Development, United Kingdom An expert on the links between climate change and sustainable development, particularly in development countries. Lead author on adaptation and sustainable development for IPCC AR3 report and of adaptation and mitigation for IPCC AR4 report. He is researching the least developed countries' vulnerability to climate change and adaptation measures.
Diyad Hujale, Programme Coordinator & Learning Manager, Mercy Corps, Kenya/Uganda An expert in humanitarian emergency and resilience as well as advocacy and governance. Long-standing experience of working with local communities, especially pastoralists Has worked both with NGOs and the private sector.
Finance and nature for change: grasping opportunities in S221 transformative adaptation and Finance disaster risk management for positive
social and environmental impact
VENUE SESSION SUMMARY 2.62 SPEAKERS TIME Tuesday Maria Jose Sanz (Basque centre for climate change BC3, Spain), 16h30 - 18h15 Juan Chang (Green Climate Fund), John Matthews, (AGWA), James Dalton (IUCN), FAO (person TBC); Elena Lopez Gunn (ICATALIST, Spain ORGANISER/S -NAIAD Project), Monica Altamirano (DELTARES, Holland), Finance and nature for change: grasping opportunities in Maria Jose Sanz, transformative adaptation and disaster risk management for positive Basque Centre for Climate Change social and environmental impact (BC3)
Alliance for Global Water Adaptation,
United States of America
PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Deltares, The Netherlands
CHAIR Monica Altamirano, Deltares
RAPPORTEUR Butler County Community College (BC3)
Strengthening resilience to the health risks of climate change in low and S74 middle income countries
Health SESSION SUMMARY
To manage current and prepare for future challenges, health VENUE systems need to make fundamental shifts in their conceptualization 2.43 of problems, partnerships, and practice. One particularly vulnerable region is the Mekong Delta. A technical assistance project is improving the knowledge and understanding of the relationship TIME between climate change and human health; strengthening human Tuesday resource skills in coping with climate change adaptation in the 16h30 - 18h15 health sector; and sharing knowledge products and promoting advocacy in the region. The session will explore innovations in the ORGANISER/S process, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation of health adaptation to highlight approaches to advance sustainability and Kristie L. Ebi, environmental stewardship. University of Washington
PARTNER INSTITUTION/S SPEAKERS
CHAIR Kristie L. Ebi Best practices on conducting vulnerability and adaptation Eduardo P. Banzon, Asian Development assessments in settings with constrained resources in the Greater Bank Mekong Subregion Dr. Banzon is Senior Health Specialist in the Asian Development Bank; Clinical Kathryn Bowen, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, and Associate Professor of the University of University of Melbourne, Australia the Philippines College of Medicine; Lessons learned on training and capacity building for climate Research Associate Professor of the UP- change and human health: approaches in the Greater Mekong National Institutes of Health; a faculty Subregion member of the Ateneo Graduate School of Business; and adjunct faculty in Asian Jeremy J. Hess, Emergency Medicine, University of Washington Institute of Management. Tracking adaptation engagement, adaptive capacity, and the
provision of essential public health services at the local level RAPPORTEUR Kathryn Bowen, Australia National Christopher Boyer, University of Washington, USA University A monitoring and evaluation framework for health adaptation in Cambodia
Using and evaluating participatory scenario tools for adaptation
S124 SESSION SUMMARY Methodologies Presenters and participants share their experiences of participatory scenario methodologies in the context of their respective adaptation projects. The session explores what evidence there is for VENUE the impact of these methodologies in practice and how outcomes 2.41 and impacts might be measured. Participants should leave the session with; 1) a better understanding of the different types of TIME participatory scenario frameworks that are being applied in adaptation, and which might be the most appropriate methodology Tuesday to choose for different intended outcomes; and 2) with new 16h30 - 18h15 questions about where the field of participatory scenarios methodologies can and should go next. ORGANISER/S Teresa Perez, SPEAKERS University of Cape Town Edmond Totin PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Can scenario planning catalyse transformational change? Wagenining University, The Netherlands Evaluating a climate change policy case study in Mali Michigan State University, United States of America Saskia Werners Universite Nationale d’Agriculture du Using scenarios to develop adaptation pathways to inform Benin, Benin adaptation policy and practice in developing countries Pegasys Consulting, South Africa Jeremy Richardson CHAIR Use of participatory scenarios within climate change risk assessments: Karen Goldberg, Reos Partners, South The case of Nondvo Dam Swaziland Africa Karen has worked for Reos Partners since Laura Schmitt Olabisi 2013. She provided coaching, Combining Quantitative Modeling and Scenario Planning for facilitation and capacity development Exploring the Future support on the Transformative Scenario Process to the ASSAR (Adaptation at Dorothy Tembo Scale in Semi-Arid Regions) project in Participatory Scenario Planning for Creating Useful and Use-able four different countries. She holds a Weather and Climate Information: A Case Study from Malawi Masters in Sustainability Leadership from the University of Cambridge, UK. Graeme Riddell Scenarios for the exploration of disaster risk and adaptation planning RAPPORTEUR – considering changing exposure and vulnerability
Teresa Perez, University of Cape Town Torsten Grothmann Evaluation of participatory adaptation processes in Germany: The potential to increase collective efficacy beliefs
Teresa Perez Using scenarios in qualitative research with translators
Creating new narratives for integrated approaches to CCA, DRR and S114 transformation
Cities, settlements and key SESSION SUMMARY infrastructure Narratives play an important role in CCA, DRR and sustainable transformation. Narratives can change attitudes and behaviour VENUE when connected to beliefs and values. Narratives have the potential 1.41 to encourage actions and collaboration.
The session’s objective is to explore with the participants the use of TIME narratives to promote collaboration. The objective is to raise Tuesday awareness, to build capacity and to share knowledge and 16h30 - 18h15 experiences.
ORGANISER/S Project PLACARD’s mission is to be a platform for dialogue, Ingrid Coninx, knowledge exchange and collaboration between the CCA and Wageningen Environmental Research DRR communities. Narratives is one of the working streams to foster (WUR) collaboration between CCA and DRR communities.
PARTNER INSTITUTION/S SPEAKERS Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), UK ICLEI, Germany Ingrid Coninx, Wageningen Research, Julia Bentz, University of Lisbon Red Cross Red Crescent Climate How to build successful narratives – a cookbook by PLACARD Centre, South Africa project.
CHAIR Julia Barrott; Sukaina Bharwani, Stockholm Environment Institute Ingrid Coninx, Wageningen Overcoming disparities in language: Exploring varied use and Environmental Research, The interpretation of words in the Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) Netherlands and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) fields Wageningen Environmental Research develops climate services to support Eleanor Chapman, ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability government, business and NGO’s to (European Secretariat) adapt to climate change. Ingrid Coninx Local stories, global agenda: knowledge exchange among is project manager and adaptation researchers and local government practitioners working towards expert, working in multi-level climate resilience. governance contexts. She is specialised in stakeholder engagement and Brigitte Rudram, Bettina Koelle, Red Cross Red Crescent, Climate collaborative governance. Ingrid is Centre partner in the PLACARD platform where Creative Narratives for a Changing Climate; Youth and the Y-ADAPT she contributes by her expertise on Approach narratives. PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS RAPPORTEUR Julia Barrott, Stockholm Environment Ingrid Coninx, Wageningen Environmental Research, Netherlands Institute, United Kingdom Wageningen Environmental Research develops climate services to support government, business and NGO’s to adapt to climate change. Ingrid Coninx is project manager and adaptation expert, working in multi-level governance contexts. She is specialised in stakeholder engagement and collaborative governance. Ingrid is partner in the PLACARD platform where she contributes by her expertise on narratives.
Bettina Koelle, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, South Africa. Bettina Koelle is a senior learning specialist in the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre. She is developing and facilitating approaches to interactive learning and dialogue. A geographer by training, Bettina has two decades of experience with interactive learning for adaptation, linking experience from the grass roots to the global UN climate talks.
Eleanor Chapman, ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability (European Secretariat), Germany Eleanor is part of ICLEI-Europe’s Sustainable Resources, Climate and Resilience team. Originally trained as an architect, she has a keen interest in the framing and enactment of urban development discourses and is currently facilitating engagement between researchers and local government practitioners in Europe as part of the project RESIN – Climate Resilient Cities and Infrastructures.
Sukaina Bharwani, Stockholm Environment Institute, UK, Sukaina Bharwani is an inter-disciplinary researcher in Social Anthropology and Computer Science which provides her with a unique range of qualitative and quantitative skills linking vulnerability, livelihoods, and adaptation with biophysical analyses in innovative ways. Her current research involves a country pilot study for the Future Climate for Africa (FCFA) programme, intended as a follow- on to the Climate Science Research Partnership (CSRP) with the UK Met Office Hadley Centre. The new programme’s aim is to produce and enhance the availability and accessibility of robust and ‘decision relevant’ climate information products to inform climate- resilient investment, policy and strategies across sub-Saharan Africa. Case studies will focus on urban adaptation in coastal cities of Accra and Maputo.
Brigitte Rudram, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre. Brigitte Rudram is a technical adviser for the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre. Specialising in youth engagement, she is leading the development of the Climate Centre’s youth strategy. Her work focuses on interactive learning and uptake for youth on climate resilience, promoting participatory, inclusive design and evaluation. She holds MSc Climate Change and Development from the Institute of Development Studies, UK.
Community engagement for adaptation of coastal communities
S207 SESSION SUMMARY Coastal zones and Deltas This session aims to discuss theoretical and practical considerations around community engagement in coastal adaptation to climate change. We plan to have a moderated panel discussion around key VENUE challenges in community engagement and how these have been 2.41 addressed - what has worked (or not) and what we have learnt. We plan for this session to be moderated to facilitate considerable input TIME from the audience in terms of posing questions to be discussed. The relevance of this topic comes from the panel’s mix of academics Wednesday and practitioners from different country contexts where they are 8h00 - 9h00 activity involved in local communities.
ORGANISER/S SPEAKERS Anne Leitch, Griffith University Daryl Colenbrander, City of Cape Town, South Africa State-centric governance in the coastal risk and vulnerability PARTNER INSTITUTION/S domain, South Africa: a recipe for disaster?
CHAIR Camille Manning Broome for Planning Excellence, Louisiana, USA. Anne Leitch, Griffith University, United Adaptation in coastal Louisiana, USA: Louisiana’s Strategic Actions Kingdon for Future Environments (LA SAFE) Program Anne Leitch is a coastal and social science researcher at the Griffith Centre Daniel Ware, Griffith University, Australia for Social and Cultural Studies, Griffith Working with communities to design ecosystem-based adaptation a University, Australia case study from Tanna Island in Vanuatu
RAPPORTEUR Anne Leitch, Griffith Centre of Culture and Social Studies, Griffith University, Australia Kerrie Foxwell-Norton, Griffith University, Engaging to adapt to climate change hazards in a coastal Australia community in Queensland, Australia
Decision making guidelines to help infrastructure planners deal with S58 climate uncertainty: a case study of Infrastructure the hydropower sector
SESSION SUMMARY VENUE 2.43 This session will explore the practical application of decision scaling climate resilience approaches in the infrastructure sector to aid decision making under uncertainty. TIME Wednesday Mott MacDonald will share details of the draft World Bank 8h00 - 9h00 hydropower climate resilience guidelines. The World Bank will give an update on the guidelines piloting phase and roll out plans and give ORGANISER/S a call to action for their use. Jessica Brislin, Mott MacDonald Objectives:
PARTNER INSTITUTION/S • Disseminate guidance on how the hydropower infrastructure sector can undertake climate resilience assessments using a bottom World Bank, USA and Kenya up decision-scaling approach.
CHAIR • Give a call to action for responsible national and regional Jessica Brislin, Mott MacDonald Climate authorities to use the World Bank climate resilience hydropower Resilience Initiative, UK guidelines. Currently based in Cambridge, UK, Jessica is an environmental scientist with public and private sector experience in SPEAKERS climate change strategy, adaptation planning, environmental and Keith Macpherson, Mott MacDonald: Water Consultancy Division sustainability assessment and urban Development of Climate Resilience Guidelines for the Hydropower masterplanning. Experience includes Sector major multi-sector planning and infrastructure projects such as the TBD (World Bank or EBRD) Durban Aerotropolis and Ngqura Port Piloting climate resilience hydropower guidelines: An update from and she is a recipient of the IAIAsa the World Bank National Hidden Talent Award for environmental innovation.
RAPPORTEUR Anna Tuddenham, Mott MacDonald Climate Resilience Initiative, UK
Enhancing collaborative resilience in cities: The Medellin Collaboration for S63 Urban Resilience
Cities, settlements and key SESSION SUMMARY infrastructure The Medellin Collaboration for Urban Resilience (MCUR) is collaborating to strengthen the resilience of cities and human VENUE settlements around the world by supporting local, regional and 2.46 national governments in achieving the global commitments set out in the SDGs, the New Urban Agenda, the Paris Agreement and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. The session will present TIME the MCUR model, how it cooperates and shares knowledge and the Wednesday tools it uses to enhance resilience in its focus cities. It will show 8h00 - 9h00 experiences and lessons learned from an ongoing collaboration to support cities in building resilience and adapting to climate change. ORGANISER/S Alfredo Redondo, SPEAKERS C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group on behalf of Medellin Collaboration for Amanda Ikert, C40 Cities, USA Urban Resilience (MCUR) Ongoing collaboration and projects at the Medellin Collaboration for Urban Resilience PARTNER INSTITUTION/S UN Habitat, Spain Nathan Engle, World Bank, USA C40, Cities Climate Leadership Group, Technical and financial support: The World Bank’s City Resilience United Kingdom Program
Marcia Guambe, UN-Habitat, Mozambique CHAIR Building urban resilience: The case of Maputo Esteban León, UN-Habitat Head of the City Resilience Profiling Alex Johnson, Accra Metropolitan Assembly, Ghana Programme, UN-Habitat Accelerating climate action: the case of Accra as an MCUR pilot city
RAPPORTEUR Marcia Guambe, UN-Habitat, PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS Mozambique Kevin Austin, C40, United Kingdom C40’s Deputy Executive Director. Kevin oversees all of C40's programme delivery, operations and finance functions as well as contributing to global thought leadership and innovation in urban climate change issues.
Nathan Engle, World Bank, USA Senior Climate Change Specialist, Climate Change Strategy & Operations Team at The World Bank
Amanda Ikert, C40 Cities, USA Director, Water and Adaptation Initiative
Marcia Guambe, UN-Habitat, Mozambique Urban Resilience Specialist, CRPP Coordinator in Maputo, Mozambique
Improving Data Access for Climate Preparedness Through Public-Private S199 Partnerships
Methodologies SESSION SUMMARY
VENUE SPEAKERS 2.45 Lauretta Burke, World Resources Institute TIME Partnership for Resilience and Preparedness (PREP) – Visualizing data Wednesday to build climate resilience
8h00 - 9h00 Nambi Appadurai, WRI India PREPdata Application: India ORGANISER/S Josh Tewksbury, Cheikh Mbow, START International Future Earth PREPdata Application: Africa
PARTNER INSTITUTION/S World Resources Institute, India/USA START International Inc., United States of America
CHAIR Lauretta Burke, World Resources Institute
RAPPORTEUR Cheikh Mbow, START International Inc.
Integrating climate change adaptation into the development of S146 the health sector in Africa
Health SESSION SUMMARY
This session will explore how development organizations are working VENUE to integrate climate change adaptation into the health sector in 2.62 Africa. Climate change has been called “the biggest global health threat of the 21st century,” and is expected to cause an additional 250,000 deaths annually worldwide between 2030 and 2050 due to TIME malnutrition, malaria, diarrhea, and heat stress. In Africa, through Wednesday taking adaptation measures, the threat of climate change on many 8h00 - 9h00 diseases and other health outcomes can be reduced significantly. This session examines how various international development ORGANISER/S organizations, including the World Bank, the World Health Organization, the United States Agency for International Colin Quinn, Development, and the World Meteorological Organization, are United States Agency for International working to address climate and health challenges in Africa. Development (USAID)
PARTNER INSTITUTION/S PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS The World Bank, United States of America (USA) Tegan Blaine, United States Agency for International Development, World Health Organisation (WHO), United States of America Republic of Congo Sally Edwards, World Health Organization, Regional Office for Africa, CHAIR Republic of the Congo
Colin Quinn, United States Agency for Timothy Bouley or Raúl Alfaro-Pelico or Amelia Midgley, World Bank International Development (USAID), USA Group, United States of America Colin is a climate change advisor at
USAID, where he focuses on how climate Joy Shumake-Guillemot, World Meteorological Organizations, impacts health in Africa, and strategies Switzerland to limit the those impacts.
RAPPORTEUR Colin Quinn, United States Agency for International Development
Multidimensional Framework And Methods- Migration Related to S92 Climate Change, Food Security and Migration Violence
SESSION SUMMARY VENUE 2.63 The session aims to discuss modes of collaboration, co-production of knowledge and its application within the context of migration related to Food Security, Climate Change and Violence. Discuss TIME theories, methods and strategies acknowledging the difficulties of Wednesday assuming causal chains and assigning weight to each of the 8h00 - 9h00 indicators to predict migration trends. We see a wide but disconnected research field, one that could benefit from a cross validation and organization of its data. To map out hierarchy ORGANISER/S between different drivers, their interactions, and how those affect Srijna Jha, decision making for migration. Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) SPEAKERS PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Jadavpur University, India Srijna Jha, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), East West University, Bangladesh Germany M3 Multidimensional Framework and Response Matrix for Migration
CHAIR Shouvik Das, Jadavpur University, India Srijna Jha, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Climate Induced Migration and Displacement: A Study in the Landscape Research (ZALF), Germany Mahanadi Delta
Researcher & Project Coordinator, Md Rezwan Siddiqui, East West University, Bangladesh Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Adaptation Process of the Climate Change Migrants in the Dhaka Landscape Research (ZALF). Topics: Metropolitan Region Evaluation of agricultural technologies, scaling-up strategy, mapping bottlenecks and opportunities, decision support-tools, ScalA, migration in the context of food security, climate change and violnce. Projects: TRANSEC -Analyzing the food-value chain in Tanzania for Climate Change and Food Security, M3-Multidimensional Framework & Response Matrix for Migration related to Climate change, Food Insecurity & Violence
RAPPORTEUR Izabela Liz Schlindwein, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF)
PANORAMA Solutions for a healthy planet – learning from each other's S36 successes on ecosystem-based EbA adaptation
SESSION SUMMARY VENUE 2.64 Learning from each other’s success – this is the concept of PANORAMA – Solutions for a Healthy Planet. PANORAMA is a partnership initiative to document and promote examples of TIME inspiring, replicable solutions across a range of development topics, Wednesday enabling cross-sectoral learning and inspiration. It allows practitioners 8h00 - 9h00 to share their stories, get recognized for successful work, and learn how others have tackled problems across the globe, by encouraging reflection on and learning from proven approaches. ORGANISER/S This platform houses a number of thematic portals including the Arno Sckeyde, Ecosystem-based Adaptation Solutions portal. A theme presentation Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale of the portal (online demonstration)will show that inspiring and Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) replicable solutions can be found everywhere on this planet and that EbA or “green solutions” are a state-of-the-art-reply to climate PARTNER INSTITUTION/S change impacts and deliver a multitude of benefits for societies, International Union for the Conservation economies and environment. These concrete examples will trigger of Nature (IUCN), Switzerland/United a discussion among participants and presenters in order to learn from States of America solutions that have worked, avoid previous mistakes, adopt South African National Biodiversity successful strategies and exchange knowledge on the topic of Institute (SANBI), South Africa (ecosystem-based) adaptation.
CHAIR SPEAKERS Arno Sckeyde, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Germany
RAPPORTEUR PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS Mathias Bertram
The Barometer of Sustainability as a tool to Food Systems adaptation: S205 promoting food security while Risks, adaptation and meeting the sustainable development sustainability for systems goals
SESSION SUMMARY VENUE 2.61 The Barometer of Sustainability is a methodological tool to indicate the state of the sustainable development and environmental and TIME societal well-being. Food Security and Natural Resources indicators Wednesday (i.e., food consumption, income, agriculture production, forest change, etc.) aggregated into thematic/dimensional indices have 8h00 - 9h00 performance scales generated for each of them. As available data vary in different countries, an exchange of information between ORGANISER/S academic and non-academic stakeholders on food systems Camille L. Nolasco, indicators used in the barometer will be relevant to improve this tool. National Institute for Space Research We expect participants to share their perceptions on the indicators’ (INPE) importance in their countries. National Institute for Space Research (INPE) and National Institute for Space SPEAKERS Research (INPE), Brazil
PARTNER INSTITUTION/S PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS CHAIR Camille L. Nolasco, Earth System
Science Centre (CCST)/National
Institute for Space Research (INPE),
Brazil
Camille L. Nolasco received a PhD in
Earth System Science by the Brazilian
National Institute of Space Research
(INPE). Her current research focuses on
Food and Nutrition Security, Sustainable
Food Systems, Global Environmental Changes, Nitrogen Cycling and Food-
Water-Energy Nexus.
RAPPORTEUR Gisleine Cunha Zeri, Earth System Science Centre (CCST)/ National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Brazil
It’s not just about data – Demand- driven climate services for better S132 adaptation decision-making
Adaptation planning and SESSION SUMMARY implementation The provision of tailor-made climate services and products for decision-making is essential for knowledge-based adaptation. This VENUE session seeks to display ways to create, manage and sustain 2.46 demand-driven and relevant climate services in different country and sector contexts, with a focus on infrastructure, agriculture and urban development. Thereby, opportunities to strengthen the TIME interface between users and providers of climate services to ensure Wednesday uptake into decision-making is addressed. In addition, potential 9h15 - 11h00 recommendations for developing a climate service governance architecture, adapting existing planning procedures and regulations will be discussed which aim at enhancing the systematic ORGANISER/S consideration of climate services in future infrastructure projects, Niklas Baumert, agricultural and urban planning. The session will provide two keynote Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale speeches, four case study presentations, as well as a final fishbowl Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) discussion with experts from Costa Rica, India, Brazil, the UK and Germany. PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Colegio Federado de Ingenieros y de SPEAKERS Arquitectos de Costa Rica (CFIA), Costa Rica Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) (German Vladimir Naranjo Castillo, Colegio Federado de Ingenieros y de Hydro-Met Service), Germany Arquitectos de Costa Rica (CFIA) Ministry of Environment (MMA), Brazil Keynote on user perspectives of Climate Services Met Office, United Kingdom Andreas Becker, Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) CHAIR Keynote on provider perspectives on Climate Services Niklas Baumert, Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Ramkumar Bendapudi, Water Organisation Trust, India Germany Agro-meterological services in semi-arid India: Lessons from Niklas Baumert holds a PhD in geography innovating in service delivery Watershed Organisation Trust and is an expert for climate change adaptation in the context of applied Adriana Silva de Brito, Ministry of the Environment, Brazil (MMA) research and development Challenges for enhancing climate services for the adaptation of cooperation. He is specialized in risk and Brazils Port Infrastructure & Power Networks vulnerability assessments, climate service governance, climate proofing, Joseph Daron, Met Office, UK & Richard Jones, Met Office, UK and early warning systems. He has Co-exploration and co-production of climate services: examples significant regional experiences in Latin from Met Office projects in the Philippines and southern Africa America, Asia and South-Eastern Africa. Clemens Haße, German Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt – RAPPORTEUR UBA) Chandni Singh, Indian Institute for KliVo - The German Portal for Climate Adaptation – Climate services Human Settlements (IIHS) and adaptation governance perspectives in Germany
PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS
Vladimir Naranjo, Colegio Federado de Ingenieros y de Arquitectos de Costa Rica (CFIA)
Andreas Becker, Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) Andreas Becker is head of the Precipitation Monitoring Unit and Global Precipitation Climatology Centre of the Deutscher Wetterdienst where he coordinates the development of climate service products in support of adaptation to extreme precipitation, as well as research on global energy & water cycles.
Richard Jones, Met Office, United Kingdom Richard Jones is a Science Fellow and manages work on generating and applying regional climate information and modelling systems for its deployment worldwide for constructing climate scenarios and applying them in assessing climate impacts and vulnerability. He is the Lead author of the Regional Context chapter (21) and the Summary for Policy Makers of the IPCC Working Group 2 contribution to Assessment Report Five.
Clemens Haße, German Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt – UBA Clemens Haße is a specialist in the field of climate adaptation at the Federal Environment Agency in Germany. He was involved in the Setup of KomPass, the national Competence Centre for Climate Impacts and Adaptation. He accompanied the development of the German National Adaptation Strategy and he coordinates different research project for social and economic issues on climate change adaptation. Clemens Haße has a diploma in environmental management and environment economics from the University of Potsdam.
Adriana Silva de Brito, Ministry of Environment, Brazil (MMA) Adriana works as Environmental Analyst in the Ministry of Environment (MMA) and has been involved in the preparation of the Brazilian National Adaptation Plan (NAP) as well as the National Adaptation to Climate Change Capacity Strategy on behalf of the Climate Change and Forests Secretariat (SMCF). As environmental scientist, she served as associate professor at the Federal University of Pará and the Amazon Higher Studies Institute with a focus on environmental education, ecology and environmental legislation.
Applications of earth observation data for risk management and S43 resilience building
Food, fibre, and other ecosystem SESSION SUMMARY products Engaging a variety of climate data providers and users interested in the use of Earth Observation (EO) data to strengthen and develop climate services, the session will encourage participants to discuss VENUE the potential of using existing and emerging earth observation data in combination with other types of data (e.g. socioeconomic). Data 2.41 providers, as well as current users and emerging EO data users will participate in the discussion to ensure a range of different viewpoints. TIME A key objective for the session is to promote the interaction between Wednesday data providers and data users and to uncover challenges and 9h15 - 11h00 enabling factors for data use to support climate resilience building.
SPEAKERS ORGANISER/S Laura Canevari, Acclimatise Yana Gevorgyan, NOAA/GEO, U.S. Improving Food Security with Earth Observations: GEO Global Agriculture Monitoring Initiative (GEOGLAM) PARTNER INSTITUTION/S
Group on Earth Observations (GEO), Krishna Malakar, IDP in Climate Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Switzerland Bombay, India NOAA’s National Centers for Understanding factors associated with weather warning responses in Environmental Information, United marine fishermen States of America
Space4Climate, United Kingdom Shona Paterson, Future Earth Coasts
How can Earth Observation Data support sustainable development CHAIR in the Caribbean? Mmboneni Muofhe, GEO, South Africa Mmboneni Muofhe, GEO Co-chair and Neuni Farhad, C40 Head of South Africa's Delegation to Using Earth Observation Tools for Cities: Challenges and GEO, South Africa Opportunities
RAPPORTEUR Madhuri Gotety, Aalborg University Briony Turner, Space4Climate, Institute Identification and Classification of Coastal Towns and Cities: for Environmental Analytics, UK Prioritising the implementation of Coastal Climate Change Adaptation Initiatives in Denmark
Angelica Nardo Caseri, Cemaden Probabilistic rainfall nowcasting warning system for flash flood risk management
John Firth Earth observation: Supporting strategic climate resilience building in financial services
Briony Turner Climate Data Store: authoritative hub of climate information for understanding past and future impact of climate change across a variety of market sectors.
Sönke Kreft, UNU Applying the ECA approach to climate insurance
John Firth How best to engage potential users with National Centers for Environmental Information’s (NCEI) climate and weather data
Beth Greenaway Wind Storm Information Service (WISC) – enhancing the insurance sector’s understanding of the nature of windstorms over the European continent.
PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS
Yana Gevorgyan, NOAA/GEO, U.S. Yana Gevorgyan is a Senior International Relations Specialist at U.S. NOAA Satellite and Information Service. Ms. Gevorgyan manages the participation of the United States government in the intergovernmental Group on Earth Observations (GEO). She co- authored the GEO Strategic Plan for 2016-2025: Implementing GEOSS and provides thought leadership in the development of action plans to implement GEO’s strategic objectives.
Geoff Busswell, MRAeS, FRAS, Telespazio VEGA UK Ltd Geoff has a PhD in Astrophysics and his career in the space sector spans CGI, the Satellite Applications Catapult and Telespazio. In 2015 Geoff joined Telespazio VEGA UK where he is of Head of Sales & Marketing for their Satellite Systems & Operations Business Unit. Geoff has since built a leading European company position in using satellite solutions for the climate change marketplace across sectors such as agriculture, maritime and insurance.
Laura Canevari, Acclimatise, U.K. Laura has extensive experience consulting on and researching climate change risks and adaptation opportunities in the private sector. As business development and market analyst associate, Laura’s main objective is to align the company´s climate services to the needs of clients, in particular financial institutions.
Beth Greenaway, UK Space Agency, U.K. Beth Greenaway is Head of Earth Observation and Climate at the UK Space Agency where she leads on Earth Observation policy, strategy and funding. Beth devised the UK Environmental Observation Framework and was fundamental to production of the Data Sharing Action Plan through the GEO Data Sharing Working Group. Beth brings a broad knowledge and enthusiasm for the whole Earth Observation system, facilitating growth and innovation and solutions to societal issues.
Tegan Blaine, USAID, U.S. Tegan Blaine is a Senior Climate Change Advisor at USAID, where she provides strategic thinking and technical analysis on climate change for the Africa region. Prior, she worked at McKinsey and the U.S. Department of State. Tegan has a Ph.D. in climate from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. She also taught math and physics in Tanzania.
Climate Change Adaptation policies and their implementation in LDCs: S137 Prospect for Sharing, Learning and Governance Collaboration across the globe
SESSION SUMMARY VENUE 1.61 The session will consist of presentations on the following topics: - Topic-1: Assessing climatic vulnerability of the Least Developed TIME Countries (LDCs) and highlighting needs of the local communities - Topic-2: Climate change adaptation policies in the LDCs Wednesday - Topic-3: Community Based Adaptation (CBA) case studies from 9h15 - 11h00 LDCs
- Topic-4: Building South-South and South-North knowledge transfer ORGANISER/S and collaboration Feisal Rahman, Objectives: International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) - Share cross-country experiences, and improve knowledge on successful adaptation policies and interventions PARTNER INSTITUTION/S - Enhance understanding about integrated approach, process and International Institute for Environment institutions required to sustain the socio-economic development and Development (IIED), United - Develop consensus on South-South and South-North collaboration Kingdom to facilitate knowledge generation and dissemination
CHAIR SPEAKERS Saleemul Huq, International Centre for Climate Change & Development Dennis Bours (ICCCAD) Director of the International Centre for LDCF and SCCF; Highly relevant adaptation funds with a strong value Climate Change & Development (ICCCAD) proposition, but resource-starved since 2009 and intends to support growing capacity of Bangladesh stakeholders, while Sharmala Naidoo enabling people and organizations from Financing climate resilient transboundary water projects in SADC: outside to benefit from training in case studies and lessons learned from the GCF Bangladesh. Dr. Huq is a Senior Fellow at the International Institute for Environment & Jack Dyer Development (IIED) in the UK, where he is Climateproofing the Future of Resources, Ports and Supply Chains. involved in building negotiating capacity and supporting the engagement of the What Africa Could Learn From South Pacific Climate Change Least Developed Countries (LDCs) in Resilience! UNFCCC, including negotiator training workshops policy, as well as research into Saliha Dobardzic vulnerability and adaptation to climate Supporting Policies for Climate Change Adaptation in LDCs with change in the least developed countries. Dr. Multilateral Finance Huq has published numerous articles in scientific journals, was a lead author of the Geronimo Gussmann chapter on Adaptation and Sustainable Multi-Level Governance of Adaptation to Sea-Level Rise in the Development in the AR3 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Maldives Change (IPCC), and was one of the coordinating lead authors of Mark Abkowitz ‘Interrelationships between adaptation and Building Community Resilience and Adaptive Capacity Using an mitigation’ in the IPCC’s AR4. Integrated Assessment Framework RAPPORTEUR Md Nadiruzzaman, Independent Shababa Haque University, Bangladesh Experiencing climate change from disability perspectives Defining and measuring effective adaptation
S237 SESSION SUMMARY Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) It will look at what has worked and what has not worked in the context of defining and measuring effective adaptation. Lessons will be drawn from the 2017 Adaptation Gap Report released by UN VENUE Environment at COP23, and build on international experience in 1.44 setting standards for adaptation.
TIME SPEAKERS Wednesday 9h15 - 11h00 Henry Neufeldt, UNEP-DTU GAP report
ORGANISER/S Chu Thi Thanh Huong Example of national scale indicators from Vietnam Shu Liang Dr. Yasuaki Hijioka, NIES Jesse Renema, Local adaptation measuring experiences from Japan Global Centre of Excellence on Climate Adaptation (GCECA) Lindsey Jones Success example with communities on the ground via BRACED PARTNER INSTITUTION/S initiative
CHAIR Timo Leiter Assessing effectiveness through adaptation metrics? Conceptual Shu Liang views and insights from practice Thematic Group Facilitator, GCECA
RAPPORTEUR Sebastiaan van Herk, Bax and Company
Face to Face with warming cities
SESSION SUMMARY S79 Unlike Europe and the United State of America, risks of extreme heat Cities and urban areas events are less understood in developing countries. In India, extreme temperatures appear among the top most disasters and are reported to cause enormous suffering including mortality and illness, yet their impact remain under reported. In Africa, a recent study VENUE indicates increased intensity and frequency of heat waves in many 2.63 parts of the continent between 2015 -2006. Poor housing conditions, constrained health systems and limited access to income further TIME increase the vulnerability of the urban poor to extreme heat. Wednesday Drawing from different case studies, we will brainstorm practical actions and suggest feasible research priorities and policy options 9h15 - 11h00 towards adapting cities to extreme heat risks.
ORGANISER/S SPEAKERS Eddie Wasswa Jjemba, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre Erin Coughlan (RCRC CC) Global predictability of temperature extremes
PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Amy Kirbyshire International Council for Local Tackling extreme heat in cities: scaling up India's Heat Action Plans Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) Africa, South Africa Steffen Lohrey Overseas Development Institute, United Heat waves and the global urban poor Kingdom
CHAIR Meggan Spires, ICLEI-Africa
Meggan manages teams working on ICLEI’s Resilient City, Low Carbon and BiodiverCity agendas. Meggan works with ICLEI’s partners to enable resilient development that benefits society, particularly vulnerable communities who face significant socio-economic and ecological challenges. Having served as a municipal official in South Africa, Meggan recognises the vital role that sub-national government play in achieving international and local ambitions. Meggan is dedicated to developing innovative solutions to challenges faced in Africa.
RAPPORTEUR Roop Singh, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre
Fostering Effective Investment and Private Sector Engagement in Climate S88 Information Services in the Climate services Developing World
SESSION SUMMARY VENUE 1.62 This session will provide an exploratory and provocative discussion drawing on perspectives from national meteorological agencies, research institutions, private sector and international donors to TIME unpack the barriers to effective investment and models to foster such Wednesday investment. Key questions to be examined include: 9h15 - 11h00 · What are the main institutional, financial, and technological ORGANISER/S constraints in the developing world that inhibit effective and sustainable investment in climate services? Alex Apotsos, United States Agency for International Development (USAID) · Which business models are currently being employed for sustainable climate services delivery in the developing world? PARTNER INSTITUTION/S · How can the private sector effectively engage in the SouthSouthNorth (SSN), South Africa sustainable and effective production and delivery of climate University of Cape Town, South Africa services?
CHAIR Alex Apotsos, USAID SPEAKERS
RAPPORTEUR
Anna Steynor, University of Cape Town PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS
Hotspots 2.0: Innovation for Climate Resilient Development
S82 SESSION SUMMARY Planning Scale-up of innovations for climate-resilient development still remains a challenge in developing countries. This is attributed to inter alia failure by relevant authorities to make appropriate institutional VENUE adjustments that would facilitate scale up of the innovations. It is 1.42 therefore unlikely that any meaningful progress towards climate resilient development will be made in an area or sector unless TIME deliberate efforts integrate proven scale-up options. Using tested case studies of scale up options formulated around climate services, Wednesday ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA), ICTs and food value chains, the 9h15 - 11h00 session will showcase adaptation innovations that have been successfully deployed in the global south. ORGANISER/S Evans Kituyi, SPEAKERS International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Elizabeth Carabine, Overseas Development Institute (ODI), United Kingdom PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Value Chain Analysis for Resilience in Drylands (VC-ARID): an innovative territorial approach to climate-resilient economic CHAIR development Evans Kituyi, International Development Research Center (IDRC) Eelco Baan, SNV Netherlands Development Organisation, The Evans Kituyi is a programme officer in the Netherlands Agriculture and Environment Sector Transformation and Accelerating Investment in Climate Smart programme at IDRC, based at the Technologies and Practices to achieve Impact @ Scale Regional Office for Sub Saharan Africa (ROSSA). Evans overseas a portfolio of Lorena Pasquini, University of Cape Town, South Africa research projects that generate options Using nodal governance and social network approaches to for climate resilient development. He is evaluate gaps and opportunities in the governance of ecosystem- associated with the Collaborative based adaptation Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA). Russell Wise, CSIRO Land and Water, Australia Adaptation pathways for seascapes: integrating politics, decision- RAPPORTEUR making and capacity-building in Papua New Guinea
Amanda Lewis, CRS, Senegal Teferra Endalamaw, Hawassa University, Ethiopia Enhancing household resilience to drought vulnerability: action research for revitalizing institutions and farming system
Amanda Lewis, Catholic Relief Services, Senegal Building Climate Resilience in Niger and Mali through BRACED SUR1M
Managed Retreat as Extreme Adaptation
S157 SESSION SUMMARY Coastal zones and Deltas The planned relocation of the population and critical infrastructure (i.e. managed retreat) of some coastal communities will be necessary in response to environmental change. Other communities VENUE will also need to consider managed retreat within a continuum of 2.61 options for preparedness and resilience planning. Managed retreat can result in severe adverse consequences if poorly planned or TIME implemented in an ad hoc manner as a belated last-ditch response to environmental changes. There is little credible guidance for Wednesday managed retreat in coastal communities. This presentation 9h15 - 11h00 addresses the increasingly urgent need for community-level input into the development of resilience strategies, policy guidance and ORGANISER/S regulations, including but not limited to the managed retreat option. Ira Feldman, To plan for managed retreat, communities must understand the greentrack strategies range of options and develop a basis for informed decision-making, Climate Adaptation Scholars (tm) including both scientific and socio-cultural perspectives. Community Network, USA leaders in various sectors and policymakers must work together to build capacity as they develop the policies and regulations that will PARTNER INSTITUTION/S govern managed retreat. These policy and regulatory approaches are needed to avoid serious damage to the social and economic Northeastern University and ASAP, USA fabric of the affected communities. In this presentation, a “bottom- Institute for Local Innovations (ILI), USA up” approach to managed retreat will be distinguished from a “top-
down” policy or regulatory approach developed without local CHAIR stakeholder input. The goal of this session is to take managed retreat Ira Feldman, greentrack strategies, USA off the back burner and begin a serious consideration of this extreme Ira Feldman is a US-based sustainability adaptation approach. Managed retreat will be appropriate for leader with an interdisciplinary skill set some communities, but not others. How to decide whether and a global reach. He has over 25 years managed retreat is "on the table" is a key goal our discussion. The experience as an attorney and presenters will articulate different aspects of managed retreat so management consultant focusing on that attendees will be able to inform the dialogue in their own environmental regulatory innovation, communities. strategic environmental management, sustainable business practices and SPEAKERS corporate social responsibility. Ira is now at the leading edge of the convergence of sustainability, climate adaptation and Lisa Granquist, PhD, Beach Policy, USA ecosystem services. Among other Implementation Approaches for Managed Retreat leadership roles, Ira serves as the Policy Committee co-chair of the American Ira Feldman, J.D., greentrack strategies, USA Society of Adaptation Professionals Agenda Setting for Managed Retreat Policy and Regulation (ASAP). PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS RAPPORTEUR Lisa Granquist, Beach Policy, USA Lisa Granquist, Beach Policy, USA Lisa Granquist is a leading expert on climate adaptation and resilience in coastal zones. She holds a PhD from the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern University. Her research focused on the capacity of local regulations and governance to facilitate coastal resilience in Massachusetts. Lisa serves as the Policy Committee co-chair of the American Society of Adaptation Professionals (ASAP).
Small Grants, Big Impacts: the power of small grants funds in financing S108 gender and grassroots responsive Climate resilient development climate actions pathways SESSION SUMMARY
VENUE The Green Climate Fund aims to support transformational pathways to climate-resilient development, intends to reach those most 2.62 vulnerable, and commits to a gender-sensitive approach. This session presents an important way of putting these commitments into TIME practice: by engaging small grants funds. These funds can provide Wednesday the much needed channel between large international institutions 9h15 - 11h00 and local communities adapting to climate change, and assure financing reaches women and men to contribute to transformative climate action. But how to make this shift in how financing is ORGANISER/S delivered? The audience will be actively engaged in the discussion Annelieke Douma, to come to concrete suggestions to strengthen local access and Both ENDS gender responsiveness of climate finance.
PARTNER INSTITUTION/S PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS African Women’s Development Fund, Ghana Theo Sowa, African Women’s Development Fund, Ghana Theo Sowa is an independent advisor and consultant, specialising in CHAIR international social development. She is currently the CEO of the African Annelieke Douma, Both ENDS, The Women’s Development Fund, mobilising financial, human and material Netherlands resources to support African women and the work of the African women’s Annelieke Douma is senior programme movement to advance women’s rights and gender equality in Africa. officer and coordinator of the Global Alliance for Green and Gender Action Joëlla van Rijn, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Netherlands Joëlla van Rijn is a climate change expert and diplomat at the Dutch Ministry within Dutch non-governmental of Foreign Affairs. In her actual assignment she focuses on international organization Both ENDS, focusing on finance for climate in developing countries. She is involved in the setup of water management, gender equality, the new Dutch Climate Fund and other financial instruments to mobilize and climate adaptation and finance. private investment in light of the Paris Agreement. She monitors the Green Climate Fund and supports Southern CSOs to engage Daan Robben, Both ENDS, The Netherlands in climate finance decision-making Daan Robben is a climate finance policy advisor at Both ENDS, with a processes. specific focus on Green Climate Fund. Both ENDS promotes local access, gender equality and the inclusion of southern CSOs in GCF decision-making RAPPORTEUR processes. He follows GCF processes closely and as of this year joined the civil society active observer team. Daan Robben, Both ENDS, The
Netherlands Fumihiko Tominaga, Green Climate Fund, South Korea Fumihiko Tominaga is Adaptation Planning Associate at the Green Climate Fund, responsible for managing the portfolio of the GCF adaptation planning proposals and for processing, reviewing, and providing feedback and guidance for each proposal.
Zaheer Fakir, Green Climate Fund Board Member, South Africa Zaheer Fakir is Chief Policy Adviser International Relations and Governance at the Department of Environmental Affairs in South-Africa, and Member of the Board of Directors at the Green Climate Fund. He served as a negotiator on climate finance and is active in the Boards of the Adaptation Fund, Global Environment Facility and Climate Investment Funds.
The Climate-Water-Energy-Land-Food Nexus: Security into Practice.
S81 SESSION SUMMARY Food, fibre, and other ecosystem products The topic of the session is the Climate-Water-Energy-Land-Food Nexus, and its implications for water, energy and food security at different scales (city, landscape, river basin, region, country). The session will explore how to capture, and increase the potential to VENUE realise, co-benefits across societal objectives represented by the 1.41 SDGs, and how to avoid trade-offs that may compromise sustainable futures. The overall goals of the session are to exemplify cases with examples of transferring state-of-the-art understanding into the TIME implementation of good practice and to discuss challenges specific Wednesday to diverse regional contexts while providing a global summarizing 9h15 - 11h00 view.
ORGANISER/S SPEAKERS Roger Cremades, Climate Service Center Germany Patricia Romero-Lankao (NCAR, ISUT), USA; Daniel Gnatz (ISUT), USA; (GERICS) Dakota Smith (NCAR) USA. Understanding Inequality in Climate Risks to the Security of People PARTNER INSTITUTION/S and FEW Systems in cities: Implications for Adaptation and London School of Economics (LSE), Development United Kingdom National Center for Atmospheric Rebecca Ilungta, Aurecon, South Africa Research (NCAR), United States of Climate Resilient Decision Making: A City-Centric Approach to Water America Security
CHAIR Declan Conway, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Declan Conway, London School of Science, UK, with research from Ajay Bhave, Kate Gannon and Economics (LSE) Christian Siderius among others. Declan Conway is a Professorial Dipping in the nexus; some reflections on research in Africa and Research Fellow at the Grantham India. Research Institute (London School of
Economics). Declan’s research cuts Abdrabbo A. A. Shehata Aboukheira, Ahmed A. Rashed, National across water, climate and society, with a Water Research Center (NWRC), Egypt; Caroline King-Ukomo, strong focus on adaptation and Ecosystems and Human Development Association (EHDA), Egypt. international development. He has over Water, Energy and Food Nexus for Climate Change Mitigation and 20 years experience working in sub- Adaptation in Egypt: Implementation Challenges and Opportunities Saharan Africa and Asia (particularly
China). Lisa Emberson, Divya Pandey, Chris Malley and Rachel Wood,
Stockholm Environment Institute at York University, UK RAPPORTEUR Exploring opportunities to improve air quality and climate for the Patricia Romero-Lankao, National benefit of socio-economic aspects of agriculture in South Asia Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Caroline Petersen, United Nations Development Programme. Exploring interconnected climate impacts on water, energy and food production and implications for adaptation
Roger Cremades, Muhamad Khairul Bahri, Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS). Managing sustainability trade-offs with a nexus multiplex approach to climate services.
The Role of Climate Funds in the Co- production of Climate Adaptation S236 Knowledge
Finance SESSION SUMMARY
The establishment of climate funds under the UNFCCC and Kyoto VENUE Protocol at Marrakech in 2001 kicked off some of the earliest 1.64 adaptation efforts aimed at some of the most vulnerable countries, such as the LDCs and SIDS. At the time, the experience and capacities in implementing adaptation actions in developing TIME countries were virtually non-existent. The investments to-date – which Wednesday currently exceed $2 billion among Least Developed Countries Fund, 9h15 - 11h00 Adaptation Fund, and Special Climate Change Fund – speak to a much-changed landscape since those early efforts were launched. ORGANISER/S With a proliferation of experience based on concrete results, understanding of outcomes, and increasingly impacts of the various Dennis Bours, adaptation interventions piloted to-date, along with the reality that Independent Evaluation Office of the adaptation is gaining mainstream adoption and that significant GEF (IEO) further investments are foreseen as being necessary, there are
certain questions that are especially timely and relevant: 1. What PARTNER INSTITUTION/S should be the role or roles of the finance entities in the production of Adaptation Fund, United States of climate adaptation knowledge? 2. What are some of the America (USA) experiences of knowledge production or management in this African Development Bank, Côte space? 3. What can the multilateral financing sources do in this d’Ivoire space, versus international agencies that implement projects, UN Environment, Kenya countries, academia, and centers of excellence? What have they done, and what should they do? 4. Specifically in the sub-Saharan CHAIR context, how can the co-production of knowledge occur in the most Dennis Bours, Independent Evaluation optimal way, in order to best serve the adaptation effort in African Office of the GEF (IEO), United States of LDCs in particular and other vulnerable countries? This special session America will aim to: a) discuss these questions via a panel consisting of Dennis Bours is a GEF IEO evaluation representatives of GEF, AF, AfDB, UN Environment, GCECA, (and officer with an emphasis on adaptation, ideally an African Academic Institution.) b) engage the public in the resilience, and applying a gender lens in debate of the question, specifically soliciting their input on these evaluations. Dennis has worked globally questions, crowdsourcing ideas and stimulating further dialogue. This for over fifteen years as a humanitarian is especially timely in light of further investments in adaptation, the and sustainable development GCF, and the establishment of GCECA. The session will include a professional, has diverse experience in panel debate, followed by a dynamic back-and-forth between the change management, monitoring and audience (questions and input) and the panelists, around the evaluation, disaster risk reduction, questions. humanitarian operations management and staff capacity building, and has co- SPEAKERS authored and co-edited several adaptation M&E publications. Saliha Dobardzic, Adaptation Fund, USA
Knowledge and Learning: The Adaptation Fund Experience to-date RAPPORTEUR Barney Dickson, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Kenya Co-production of adaptation knowledge: Some Questions
Charles Nyandiga, GEF/United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Small Grants Programme, USA Experiences with knowledge production and management at community levels: What should the development agencies do to make knowledge generation and use effective?
Jyotsna (Jo) Puri, Green Climate Fund (GCF), South Korea Learning in real-time
Mahamat Assouyouti, African Development Bank (AfDB), Côte d’Ivoire Knowledge generation and AfDB’s second Climate Change Action Plan 2016–2020 (CCAP2).
PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS
Bettina Koelle Senior Learning Specialist, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Center The Hague, The Netherlands
Sukaina Bharwani Senior Research Fellow and Co-leader of the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) Initiative on Climate Services Oxford, United Kingdom
What enables adaptation of women in climate hotspots?
S64 SESSION SUMMARY Cities, settlements and key infrastructure This session aims to explore what enables and constrains adaptation of women in order to secure their livelihoods in the face of climate change. Four brief presentations (5 mins each) will highlight the conditions that affect women’s agency as relevant to adaptation - VENUE material conditions, migration and mobility, climate change and 1.63 environmental stress, household structures, social capital, state interaction, and women’s work and labour – across 7 countries in climate change hotspots. In the ensuing panel discussion TIME participants will be encouraged to compare and contrast their own Wednesday understanding and findings with those of the panellists. 9h15 - 11h00 SPEAKERS ORGANISER/S Katharine Vincent, Katharine Vincent, Kulima Integrated Development Solutions, South International Development Research Africa Centre (IDRC) Gendered adaptation in deltas: Who decides, who benefits, and who loses? PARTNER INSTITUTION/S International Development Research Nitya Rao, University of East Anglia, UK Centre (IDRC), Canada Household dynamics and gender relations in managing risk and adapting to change in semi-arid Africa and Asia CHAIR Chanda Gurung Goodrich, ICIMOD, Nepal Kallur Subrammanyam Murali, IDRC, Contextualising gendered vulnerabilities in the Hindu Kush-Himalaya Canada (HKH) region Dr Murali Kallur is an ecologist who works as a senior program officer at Ayesha Qaisrani, Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan International Development Research Gender and climate change in the Pathways to Resilience in Semi- Centre, Asia Regional Office, New Delhi. Arid Economies (PRISE) project His work at IDRC includes a program on climate change adaptation in Asia, a joint initiative with the UK’s Department PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS for International Development. Katharine Vincent, Kulima Integrated Development Solutions, South RAPPORTEUR Africa Anjal Prakash, ICIMOD, Nepal Katharine is a director of Kulima Integrated Development Solutions (a South African-based adaptation consultancy) and a visiting Associate Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Her interests are in the realm of climate risk management, including vulnerability, climate services and gender- responsive adaptation.
Nitya Rao, University of East Anglia, UK Nitya is Professor, Gender and Development at the School of International Development, University of East Anglia, UK. She has worked extensively in the field of gendered land relations, agriculture, migration and livelihoods, especially in a context of climate change, food and nutrition security, education, and intra- household relations.
Chanda Gurung Goodrich, ICIMOD, Nepal Chanda is the Senior Gender Specialist – Gender Lead at ICIMOD. Her professional specialization is in gender and participatory research & development (R&D). Her experience has been focused on not-for-profit sector, specializing in integrating social and gender equity into R&D programmes and projects.
Ayesha Qaisrani, Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan Ayesha is a Research Associate working with the Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Islamabad. Her research interests revolve around migration, climate adaptation and gender justice.
Pathways Praxis for Values, Rules and Knowledge
S46 SESSION SUMMARY Decision-making options for managing risk What theory and practice is effective for building the capacity of organisations to actively facilitate the evolution of their decision contexts to expand their future decision options? This session will share experiences seeking to actively evolve decision contexts – the VENUE systems of societal values, rules and knowledge that enable the 2.43 adaptation options available to decision makers (Gorddard et al. 2016). Selected talks will introduce a workshop on participants’ experiences with different theories and practice in various contexts. TIME The session will build new practitioner-researcher networks and Wednesday capture emerging lessons about building adaptation governance 9h15 - 11h00 capacity and fostering multi-level learning to enable adaptation.
ORGANISER/S SPEAKERS Michael Dunlop, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Judy Lawrence ( New Zealand Climate Change Research Institute, Research Organisation (CSIRO) Victoria University of Wellington), Paula Blackett and Rob Bell (National Institute of Water and Atmosphere, NZ) PARTNER INSTITUTION/S A governance framework that opened up long-term adaptation Department of Environment Affairs, options: real-life decision making at the coast in Hawkes Bay New South Africa Zealand Department of Environment Water and Natural Resource, South Australia Claudia Munera (The Australian National University), Lorrae Van Victoria University of Wellington, New Kerkhoff (The Australian National University), Michael Dunlop Zealand (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation), Australian Resilience Centre, Australia Carina Wyborn (Luc Hoffmann Institute), Oscar Guevara(WWF Colombi CHAIR From theory to action: future oriented conservation under climate change Michael Dunlop, CSIRO, Australia
Mike works on the intersection between Paul Ryan (Australian Resilience Centre) Michael Dunlop (CSIRO, the social, institutional and biophysical Canberra, Australia) dimensions of climate adaptation. He Planning to change: improving climate adaptation planning helps policymakers and managers practice explore institutional changes to enable organisations and society prepare for significant but uncertain change. He PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS works with National, State and local governments, land managers and NGOs Seona Meharg, CSIRO and Australian National University, Australia in Australia and internationally. Seona Meharg is an integration scientist working on research for development projects, exploring the theory and practice of RAPPORTEUR implementation in complex adaptation projects. Deborah O'Connell, CSIRO, Australia Jody Gates, Department of Environment Water and Natural Resources, South Australia, Australia Jody Gates is a Principal Policy Offficer specialising in innovative policy approaches to natural resource issues. He has previously worked as a Regional Ecologist and a National Park Ranger on the iconic Kangaroo Island. He has had a long standing interest in environmental issues, particularly birds.
Judy Lawrence, New Zealand Climate Change Research Institute, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Judy Lawrence is Senior Research Fellow, New Zealand Climate Change Research Institute, Victoria University of Wellington, Co-chair of the New Zealand Climate Change Adaptation Technical Working Group Group and Coordinating Lead Author of the Australasia Chapter 11 of the IPCC AR6. Her research focus is on decision- making tools and institutional measures for addressing uncertainty and changing risk over long timeframes.
Claudia Munera, Australian National University, Australia Claudia Munera is a conservation biologist with a Master in World Heritage and Cultural Projects for Development. Claudia has worked with a variety of institutions in Colombia and Central America. Currently works at the Australian National University as researcher with the Conservation Futures Project, supporting adaptive governance for protected areas management.
Paul Ryan, Australian Resilience Centre, Australia Paul works with the Australian Resilience Centre and the Stockholm Resilience Centre on resilience-based approaches to development. He has run over 550 days of resilience assessment, capacity building and implementation with farmers, local communities, government and development agencies in Australia and globally with communities facing natural, social and economic stresses.
Financing adaptation and climate resilient development in Least S57 Developed Countries
Climate resilient development SESSION SUMMARY pathways In the developing world, especially in the LDCs, rural economies are challenged by global warming. The need to adapt also exacerbates VENUE the challenges faced by rapidly growing secondary cities. Local 1.43 governments could mobilize PPPs but the regulatory environment and capacities are not always available/adequate. Understanding: How public money can encourage private investment in TIME adaptation/resilience; how the private sector can more effectively Wenesday provide investment capital; the role of the national/local private 9h15 - 11h00 sector actors in scaling up adaptation investments; what options for conceptualizing adaption benefit mechanisms for the private sector; the need to improve our narratives for adaptation programs to be ORGANISER/S transformative Luc Gnacadja, United Nations Capacity Development Fund (UNCDF) SPEAKERS
PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Fakri KARIM, United Nations Capacity Development Fund (UNCDF) African Development Bank (AfDB), Transforming local governance systems towards resilience building: Republic of Cote d'Ivoire lessons learnt from the implementation of the LoCAL mechanism in Asia and Africa
CHAIR Louise H. Brown, AfDB, Côte d’Ivoire Luc Gnacadja, United Nations Capacity Supporting access to climate finance at the local level; the role of Development Fund (UNCDF), Benin the Africa Climate Change Fund Luc GNACADJA, founder and President of the think-tank GPS-Dev (Governance Peter Malika, UNCDF Regional Technical Advisor, Tanzania & Policies for Sustainable Development), Unlocking private sector capital to invest in climate resilience and is the architect of the concept of “Land adaptation using instruments that mitigate investment risks. Degradation Neutrality” in the Rio+20’s process. He is a former minister of Lisa Horrocks, Mott MacDonald, UK environment of Benin and the Enabling international finance for infrastructure projects to support immediate past Executive Secretary of resilience at local level: an expanding role for the private sector the UN Convention on Desertification Nele Bünner, GIZ, Germany RAPPORTEUR Narratives (and approaches) matter to make adaptation plans and Fakri Karim, United Nations Capacity programs effectively transformative towards building resilient local Development Fund (UNCDF) economies in LDCs
PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS
Fakri KARIM, United Nations Capacity Development Fund (UNCDF) Fakri has been the global manager for UNCDF local resilience programmes since 2012, focusing on climate resilience and food security, covering 15 countries in Asia, Pacific and Africa. He holds a BA in Law from Syiah Kuala University (Indonesia) and Master Notaris from the University of Indonesia.
Louise H. Brown, AfDB, Côte d’Ivoire Louise Helen Brown is a senior climate change officer at the African Development Bank, and Coordinator of the Africa Climate Change Fund, a trust fund which provides small grants to support African governments and NGOs with capacity building and pilot activities to support access to climate finance.
Peter Malika, UNCDF Regional Technical Advisor, Tanzania Tanzania Peter leads the Local Finance Initiative (LFI) global programme, a “last mile” finance model designed to unlock the flow of private sector capital to invest in sustainable local development. He received his BS Accounting from Metropolitan State University (USA) and MBA from the University of Phoenix (USA).
Lisa Horrocks, Mott MacDonald, UK Lisa Horrocks is a Principal Consultant in Mott MacDonald’s Climate Resilience Initiative. Through vulnerability assessments, adaptation planning, and internal capacity building, she integrates climate resilience in infrastructure projects in developed and developing countries. Lisa’s previous work includes supporting national governments in the adaptation components of their NDCs.
Nele Bünner, GIZ, Germany An environmental economist by training, Nele Bünner, has 8 years of professional experience in climate change. Working for GIZ since 2012, she is currently heading an adaptation-planning project in West-Africa. She is a passionate observer who likes looking past the surface of things and is seeking purpose in her actions.
Financial instruments for mobilising private investment in climate S102 resilience and adaptation
Cities, settlements and key SESSION SUMMARY infrastructure This session provides an overview and examples of innovative financial instruments for stimulating private capital flows for VENUE adaptation and climate resilience. It addresses the following 1.63 questions:
* What are emerging lessons from experiences involving private TIME finance in climate resilient infrastructure, and how can successful Wednesday experiences be transferred to other contexts? 14h15 - 16h00 * Through which instruments, e.g. partnerships, contracts, can private ORGANISER/S capital be mobilised to safeguard infrastructure from climate Alexander Bisaro, extremes? Global Climate Forum (GCF) * Which financial instruments can stimulate climate resilient PARTNER INSTITUTION/S infrastructure investment amongst the poor? Financial instruments will be contextualized within case studies crosscutting different SouthSouthNorth (SSN), South Africa sectors to ensure the session is accessible and practical.
CHAIR Srinivasan Pillay, University of KwaZulu- SPEAKERS Natal, South Africa Dr. Srinivasan Pillay, University of Alexander Bisaro, Global Climate Forum, Germany KwaZulu-Natal, is a Senior Lecturer with Mobilising private finance for coastal adaptation over 20 years of experience with significant expertise in ecosystem-based Daniel Ware, Griffiths University, Australia adaptation and coastal zone Contrasting funding and delivery models for coastal protection – management in the province of case studies from Australia KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. His current research interests include the role of Kamleshan Pillay, SouthSouthNorth and University of Witwatersrand, wetlands in reducing disaster risk South Africa management, adaptation finance and The use of insurance as a safeguard for climate resilient infrastructure blue-green infrastructure. Adrian Fenton, National Advisor to the Government of Fiji RAPPORTEUR Microfinance as an approach to stimulate climate resilient infrastructure for the poor Kamleshan Pillay, SouthSouthNorth,
South Africa
Adaptation and Development in Small Island Developing States
S91 SESSION SUMMARY Poverty, livelihoods and sustainable development The time attainment of the development goals of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are threatened by climate-change. Climate-change adaptation and development goals may converge to foster structural transformations, acting on the constraints that impede the attainment of human needs, and VENUE improving the management of specific climate-stressors. Yet lack of 1.43 data and research capacity remains a major challenge, particularly for the most impoverished and vulnerable communities in SIDS. This TIME session explores how communities from SIDS are affected by climate- change, on evidence of sound adaptation (planned and Wednesday spontaneous), and factors capable of enhancing or inhibiting SIDS 14h15 - 16h00 people’s long-term ability to deal with climate-change.
ORGANISER/S SPEAKERS Stefano Moncada, University of Malta, Malta Hilary Bambrick, Queensland University of Patrick D. Nunn, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia Technology, Australia Patrick Nunn, University of the Sunshine Keynote speech - Barriers have two sides: the challenges of Coast, Australia transformational adaptation in island contexts Lino Briguglio, University of Malta, Malta Dinesh Surroop, University of Mauritius, Martin Rokitzki, Climate Analytics Mauritius Status, Gaps and Challenges of Adaptation Options Appraisal, Prioritization and Costing Techniques Application for Adaptation PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Planning in LDCs and SIDS University of Malta, Malta Queensland University of Technology, Yogeshwari Pooja Rago, University Of Mauritius Australia Climate Change Mitigation through Waste in SIDS University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia University of Mauritius, Mauritius Hannah M. Barrowman, The Australian National University, Australia Risk and Vulnerability in National Climate Adaptation Policies and CHAIR Programming: Case Studies from the Pacific Stefano Moncada, University of Malta, Malta Julie Dekens, International Institute for Sustainable Stefano Moncada holds a Ph.D. in Development/NAP Global Network Economics from the University of Malta, Using the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) process to promote where he lectures and conducts research in gender-responsive climate action: Lessons from Kiribati the areas of development, poverty, and climate-change. Stefano’s recent research includes economic and health assessments, Laura Canevari, King´s College London, UK in the face of climate-change, of Building climate resilience in agricultural value chains: a business communities in Africa and small island network-oriented approach developing states. Prior to join academia, Stefano worked in the Italian Parliament as Stefano Moncada, University of Malta, Malta; Hilary Bambrick, policy analyst. Stefano is affiliated with the Queensland University of Technology, Australia Institute for European Studies, member of the Concluding Remarks board of the Islands and Small States Institute of the University of Malta, and part of the
Executive Committee of the European Association of Development and Training Institutes.
RAPPORTEUR Hilary Bambrick, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Advancing co-production and use of climate risk information for S148 conservation and development
Climate services SESSION SUMMARY
Now that funding for climate implementation is beginning to flow, VENUE practitioners and decision-makers need significantly improved 1.64 climate risk information that can reliably address emerging challenges. It’s vital that coproduction is deeply embedded in cutting-edge science, whilst stakeholder engagement, effective TIME communication and improving the usability of climate risk Wednesday information also remain essential. This session will focus on 14h15 - 16h00 understanding climate risk information needs, research gaps and needs, and identifying ways in which climate risk can be integrated ORGANISER/S into conservation and sustainable development activities. The session will identify outcomes of activities implemented by Cynthia Rosenzweig, practitioners and cutting-edge climate science information for Columbia University stakeholder use. The session will serve as a platform to demonstrate NASA Goddard Institute for Space examples from the field, showcase the latest science, and identify Studies, USA challenges and propose research needs.
PARTNER INSTITUTION/S WWF US, United States SPEAKERS Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Germany Radley Horton and Manishka De Mel, Columbia University, USA Lessons Learned from Stakeholder-Driven Climate Risk Information CHAIR Ryan Bartlett Cynthia Rosenzweig, NASA Improving Climate Science for Planning and Building Resilience: GISS/Columbia University Cynthia Rosenzweig is a Senior Research Lessons Learned and Future Directions in Conservation Scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and an Adjunct Senior Paul Schumacher Research Scientist at the Columbia University Integrating Climate Information into Local Development Planning: A Earth Institute's Center for Climate Systems Case from Central Asia Research. She is also a Professor in the Department of Environmental Science at Barnard College. At NASA GISS, she heads the Climate Impacts Group whose mission is to investigate the interactions of climate (both variability and change) on systems and sectors important to human well-being. Dr. Rosenzweig is Coordinating Lead Author on the Food Security Chapter for the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land. She was also Coordinating Lead Author on observed climate change impacts for the IPCC Working Group II Fourth Assessment Report. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, she joins impact models with climate models to project future outcomes of both land-based and urban systems under altered climate conditions. She was named as one of "Nature's 10: Ten People Who Mattered in 2012" by the science journal Nature. RAPPORTEUR Abigail Heymeyer, World Wildlife Fund Building water resilience in cities: Part A
S194 A SESSION SUMMARY Water Urban water scarcity is a common reality around the world that is exacerbated by increasing urbanisation, competing demand for resources, and the significant impacts of extreme weather and climate change. VENUE 1.61 This session will be investigating water scarcity around the world by looking at this issue from a global perspective, and through the lens TIME of different cities, including Sao Paulo, Melbourne, Los Angeles and Cape Town. There will be a particular focus on Cape Town and its Wednesday response to the current drought from the perspective of the 14h15 - 16h00 municipality. The aim of this session is to create a better understanding of how drought has affected different cities, and the ORGANISER/S complex issues of water scarcity and climate change in developed Stephen Granger, and developing countries. City of Cape Town SPEAKERS PARTNER INSTITUTION/S C40, United States of America Hastings Chikoko, C40, South Africa Global overview of climate change impacts, and responses, in CHAIR relation to water scarcity. Gareth Morgan, City of Cape Town, South Africa Gisela Kaiser, City of Cape Town, South Africa The response to the drought in Cape Town – an update.
Gareth Morgan is the Director of Tim Van Hattum Resilience in the City of Cape Town and Towards Water Smart Cities: A systems approach to help cities adapt is working with 100 Resilient Cities, to climate change pioneered by the Rockefeller
Foundation, to develop Cape Town's first Pablo Borges De Amorim resilience strategy. He is a former Integrating climate modelling into hydrological modelling: What’s Member of Parliament, and served as going on in Brazil? the Shadow Minister of Water and
Environmental Affairs from 2009 to 2013 Haji Mwevura and as a whip from 2011 to 2013. He is a Assessment of privately owned water sources as adaptation option Rhodes Scholar and an Archbishop Tutu to water scarcity in periurban Zanzibar Fellow.
PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS RAPPORTEUR Amy Davison, City of Cape Town, South Amanda Ikert, C40, United States Africa Head of the Adaptation and Water Initiative
Gisela Kaiser, City of Cape Town, South Africa Executive Director: Informal Settlements, Water and Waste Services
C40 Representative: Melbourne
C40 Representative: Los Angeles
C40 Representative: Sao Paulo
Building Water Resilience in Cities: Part B
S194 B SESSION SUMMARY Water Make a good business case for adapting to climate change and exemplify the benefits of financing adaptation initiatives
SPEAKERS VENUE 1.61 Bridget Fundikwa Business case to improve water resilience TIME Wednesday Tony Laughton, Glaxo Smith Kline, South Africa; John Stenslunde, South African Breweries, South Africa 16h30 - 18h15 Adaptive mechanisms that businesses have used to adjust to the ‘New Normal’ ORGANISER/S Stephen Granger, Marie-Ange Baudoin, C4ecosolution, South Africa City of Cape Town Living with drought in South Africa: lessons learnt from the recent El Niño drought period PARTNER INSTITUTION/S GreenCape, South Africa Sarah Birch, Western Cape Government, South Africa Fast-tracking Adaptation from disaster: learning between climate CHAIR analogue regions (California and Western Cape)
Gareth Morgan, City of Cape Town, Ffion Atkins, Umvoto, South Africa South Africa Building urban resilience in the face of a water crisis: Managed Gareth Morgan is the Director of Aquifer Recharge of the Cape Flats Aquifer, South Africa. Resilience in the City of Cape Town and is working with 100 Resilient Cities, pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation, to develop Cape Town's PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS first resilience strategy. He is a former Member of Parliament, and served as Mike Mulcahy , GreenCape, South Africa the Shadow Minister of Water and CEO GreenCape. GreenCape is a non-profit organisation that drives Environmental Affairs from 2009 to 2013 the widespread adoption of economically viable green economy and as a whip from 2011 to 2013. He is a solutions from the Western Cape province. GreenCape has a Rhodes Scholar and an Archbishop Tutu dedicated water desk. Fellow. Hastings Chikoko, C40, South Africa Regional Director for Africa RAPPORTEUR Amy Davison, City of Cape Town, South Africa
Evidence-based guiding principles for developing adaptation pathways to S200 inform adaptation policy and practice Climate-Resilient Development in the context of development Pathways SESSION SUMMARY
Climate change threatens the sustainability of development. In order for VENUE development to be climate-resilient it needs to include choices and actions 2.41 that reduce climate change impacts and sustain development efforts over time. Adaptation pathways are proposed as a promising decision-focused approach for adaptation to climate change. Adaptation pathways TIME sequence measures over time and allow for progressive implementation Wednesday depending on how the future unfolds. Potentials are to account for future 14h15 - 16h00 uncertainties, to identify ‘no or low regret’ interventions, to avoid lock-in and mal-adaptation, to map different stakeholder perspectives, and to build capacity for long-term planning. ORGANISER/S Saskia E. Werners, Different research groups and projects are experimenting with the Wageningen University & Research development of adaptation pathways. As yet, there has been no systematic Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial attempt to analyse different approaches to adaptation pathway Research Organisation (CSIRO), development. In this session we evaluate the utility of approaches to Australia adaptation pathways applied in different contexts, at different scales, and with different target audiences. In particular we aim to highlight the ways in which adaptation pathways are being used in developing country contexts, PARTNER INSTITUTION/S and the extent to which developed country adaptation pathways are Consultative Group on International transferable and adaptable. Agricultural Research (CGIAR)- International Crops Research Institute We apply a framework for structured learning about the strengths and for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Mali weaknesses of different approaches to inform long-term adaptation Kulima Integrated Development planning and practice. We will present cases of pathway development, Solutions, South Africa which range (i) in approach from community-based to expert-driven, (ii) in Sustainable Development Policy purpose from adaptation policy to capacity building at the community Institute, Pakistan level, and (iii) in directionality from incremental to transformational change.
Our session brings together a dedicated team of researchers and strategic CHAIR partners from four consortia supported by the Collaborative Adaptation Saskia E. Werners, Wageningen Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA) Programme University & Research, Netherlands (www.cariaa.net), together with CSIRO, the United Nations University, and Saskia E. Werners' main research interest Deltares / TU-Delft. is adaptive water management. In her recent work, she explores adaptation SPEAKERS turning points and pathways as concepts for assessing and Edmond Totin, CGIAR / ICRISAT-Mali communicating the implications of Potential of scenario planning to support adaptation pathways in climate change. Her scientific expertise rural Mali is complemented by practical experience, having worked in the Cheikh Tidiane Wade, Innovations Environnement Développement national government and the private Afrique, Senegal sector. Integration of migration in the territorial development process of
Senegal RAPPORTEUR Avash Pandey, ICIMOD, Nepal Samavia Batool, Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan Adaptation pathways for climate resilient cotton production in Pakistan
Suruchi Bhadwal, TERI, India Adaptation Pathways to address issues of water access and availability in the State of Uttarakhand, India
Katharine Vincent, Kulima Integrated Development Solutions, South Africa The process of developing adaptation policy trajectories in the DECCMA project
Abu Syed, BCAS, Bangladesh Better river protection by afforestation and structural solution in Teesta river in Bangladesh
Prathigna Poonacha / Maitreyi Koduganti, IIHS, India Exploring scenario planning for building adaptation pathways for urban water management
Bashir Ahmed, PARC, Pakistan Pathways for smart management of (high efficient) irrigation in the Indus Basin
Avash Pandey / Anjal Prakash, ICIMOD, Nepal Climate Resilient Development Pathways: A case of Nuwakot district in Nepal
James Butler / Russell Wise, CSIRO, Australia Adaptation pathways for seascapes: integrating politics, decision- making and capacity-building in Papua New Guinea
Saskia Werners, Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands Framing adaptation pathway development and guiding principles
PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS
Saskia E. Werners, Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands Saskia E. Werners' main research interest is adaptive water management. In her recent work, she explores adaptation turning points and pathways as concepts for assessing and communicating the implications of climate change. Her scientific expertise is complemented by practical experience, having worked in the national government and the private sector.
Bruce Currie-Alder, International Development Research Centre, Canada Bruce Currie-Alder is program leader for climate adaptation in Africa & Asia within Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC). His expertise spans environmental science and research policy. His works include “Research for the Developing World” and “International Development” (Oxford University Press). Currie-Alder holds a PhD in public policy from Carleton University.
Aromar Revi, Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS), India Aromar Revi is the Director of the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS). He has been a senior advisor to various ministries of the Government of India, consulted with UN, development and private sector institutions and works on economic, environmental and social change. He is one of the Coordinating Lead Authors on climate-resilient development pathways for the upcoming IPCC 6th Assessment report.
Financing Adaptation and Building Resilience: Emerging Lessons from
S142 Climate Insurance and Risk Pooling Finance Research in Africa and Asia
VENUE SESSION SUMMARY 2.45 This session will discuss potential financing instruments for adaptation TIME from a perspective of developing countries. It will touch upon: i) how Wednesday farmers in Africa and Asia finance their adaptation and what are 14h15 - 16h00 their sources of finance; ii) what are the main types of adaptation strategies in the agriculture sector; iii) are they willing to buy
additional insurance products as one of their risk management ORGANISER/S strategies; iv) what are the problems with the credit market for Bhim Adhikari, International Development adaptation; and v) do farmers benefit from risk pooling mechanisms Research Institute (IDRC), Canada; Nipon Poapongsakorn, Thailand Development that cover more severe hazards. Finally, the session will discuss some Research Institute, Thailand, practical recommendations for the public and private investment in International Development Research Centre adaptation and mainstreaming adaptation finance. (IDRC) Thailand Development Research Institute, SPEAKERS Thailand
Aileen V. Lapitan, University of the Philippines Los Banos PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Rice Farmers’ Knowledge, Attitudes, and Willingness to Pay for Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI), Thailand Weather Index Based Crop Insurance in Quezon Province, Philippines Frankfurt School of Finance and Management (FS), Germany DV Prahan Prasada, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka Willingness for Climate-indexed insurance contracts as a climate CHAIR change adaptation strategy for Sri Lankan smallholder agricultural producer. Christine Grüning, Frankfurt School of
Finance and Management, Germany Dr. Christine Grüning delivers a strong Issah Justice Surugu Musah, University of Ghana, Ghana interdisciplinary background in Optimising Private Funds for Adaptation to Climate Change: A Focus environmental economics, finance and on Remittances policy. Since 2011 she is managing and implementing applied research, education Muhammad Nawaz, University of Sargodha, Pakistan and capacity building projects for the Equity and efficiency in financing farmers climate adaptatiom: Frankfurt School-UNEP Collaborating Centre Evidence from agro-ecological zones of Pakistan for Climate & Sustainable Energy Finance. Her current fields of research are the Kamlesh Pilali, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa economics of climate change, barriers on investment in mitigation and adaptation Risk-pooling among municipalities in South Africa finance, market imperfections, and results- based climate finance. She has been crucial for the success of the annual report “Global Trends in Renewable Energy Finance” in cooperation with Bloomberg New Energy Finance and UN Environment over the last 12 years and the development and implementation of the Certified Expert of Climate Adaptation Finance, Certified Expert of Climate & Renewable Energy Finance and the Adaptation Finance Fellowship Programme (AFFP). RAPPORTEUR Jonas Hernán Fleer, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, Germany Learning and knowledge Sharing (South-South and North-South) as a S133 Tool for Cooperation for Adaptation
Capacity Building for Adaptation SESSION SUMMARY
The session aims to highlight experiences and success stories of VENUE knowledge transfer on climate change adaptation related topics 1.44 both from South-South and North-South perspectives, as a tool for enhanced cooperation for implementing adaptation measures. TIME While North-South Cooperation and transfer of knowledge remains a Wednesday key element for addressing prevailing and long-term developmental 14h15 - 16h00 and adaptation challenges, there is a need to further strengthen South-South Cooperation. Developing countries have accumulated ORGANISER/S a vast experience in integrating development objectives into Bilal Anwar, national development strategies and aligning these goals to Commonwealth Secretariat international developmental goals. On the adaptation front local solutions have been successfully implemented in a number PARTNER INSTITUTION/S developing countries. These initiatives have a great potential for replicability and can foster bilateral and regional cooperation. The German Agency for International success of South-South cooperation offers important lessons for all Development (GIZ), Germany development partners and the role of development cooperation in Climate Technology Centre and addressing climate change, adaptation measures in particular. Network (CTCN), Denmark
CHAIR SPEAKERS Farayi Madziwa, Adaptation Fund Secretariat Farayi Madziwa, Adaptation Fund Board Secretariat Farayi Madziwa is the Program Officer South-South cooperation under the Adaptation Fund (Climate Finance Readiness) at the Adaptation Fund Board secretariat Lia Nicholson, Department of Environment Presentation of DoE’s experience providing peer support to RAPPORTEUR developing countries through the Adaptation Fund South-South Cooperation grants Bilal Anwar, Commonwealth
Patrick Karani and Winston Bennett, The Commonwealth Experiences of the Commonwealth Climate Finance Access Hub in channeling knowledge among developing countries and promoting cooperation
Sandra Bry, CTCN Implementing learning and knowledge sharing through North-South and South-South transfer of technology and technical assistance
Lia Nicholson, Department of the Environment (DoE), Antigua and Barbuda (tbc), Caroline Schaer, UNEP DTU Partnership CTCN in Antigua and Barbuda: Regional technology transfer in the Caribbean for disaster resilient buildings; CTCN in Benin: Disseminating agro-meteorological information for local farmers to adapt to the adverse effects of climate change
Timo Leiter Promoting per-to-peer exchange for climate finance readiness and the NAP process: experiences from GIZ
Learning around the campfire: methods for sharing knowledge and S104 know-hows about what works best Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) when addressing climate change
adaptation
VENUE SESSION SUMMARY 2.63 This session will tackle the emerging and challenging topic of TIME knowledge transfer between practioners of climate change Wednesday adaptation, policy-makers and the scientific community. 14h15 - 16h00 Contributors will discuss best practices regarding teaching strategies, skills, methods, techniques and tools that enhance the participation and uptake of information by practioners in the adaptation ORGANISER/S community. Valérie Bourduas Crouhen, Ouranos Presentations and a facilitated discussion will showcase novel and collaborative examples of teaching techniques and alternative PARTNER INSTITUTION/S formats, such as blended learning, that mixes both web-based ADEME, French Environment and Energy learning and instructor-based courses. The usefulness of a modular Management Agency, France approach to teaching various components of climate change adaptation to different audiences will also be explored. CHAIR Isabelle Charron, Ouranos, Canada SPEAKERS Isabelle Charron holds a Doctorate in forest ecology from the University of Valérie Bourduas Crouhen, Ouranos, Canada Calgary. She taught natural-resource Multiple approaches to foster successful knowledge transfer management at Concordia University for many years. At Ouranos since 2010, Sadie McEvoy, Deltares / Delft University Of Technology, The first as a climate scenarios and services Netherlands specialist, Mrs. Charron is now Choosing the tool to support participatory adaptation planning responsible for training and focuses on workshops the preparation of tools and workshops to facilitate the transfer of knowledge Michael Dunlop, CSIRO Land & Water within the vulnerability, impacts and Framing transformational adaptation as a governance problem: adaptation community. lessons from developing and testing the ‘Climate-ready biodiversity management’ approach RAPPORTEUR Valérie Bourduas Crouhen, Ouranos
Mainstreaming, Accessing and Institutionalising Finance for Climate S173 Change Adaptation
Finance SESSION SUMMARY
Action on Climate Today proposes open session on mainstreaming VENUE and leveraging adaptation finance under the theme-financing of 1.42 adaptation. The session intends to identify challenges and opportunities for mainstreaming adaptation finance in planning and budgeting at state and national level. The aim is to learn from TIME experiences of participants and build a stronger narrative for Wednesday adaptation public financing mechanisms. Objectives: 14h15 - 16h00 - Sharing knowledge on approaches of mainstreaming adaptation ORGANISER/S financing in government budgets Cristina Rumbaitis del Rio, Action on Climate Today (ACT), Oxford - Understanding the benefits, structure and functioning of a 'Climate Policy Management Finance Unit'
PARTNER INSTITUTION/S - Generating consensus on elements of an enabling environment for Ministry of Climate Change, leveraging and mainstreaming finance for adaptation to climate Government of Pakistan, Pakistan change. Climate Change Innovation Programme, India - Establishing networks and partnerships for collaboration for leveraging and mainstreaming adaptation financing in government CHAIR budgets. Simon Croxton, Action on Climate Today, Oxford Policy Managemen The key highlight of our event is an engaging ‘hackathon’ session to Simon Croxton is a senior climate crowdsource innovative tools and approaches for mainstreaming change specialist with a focus on and institutionalising adaptation finance. The proposed structure adaptation. Currently, he is lead includes interactive and participatory discussions to consolidate technical advisor on adaptation lessons for strengthening the institutional architecture for climate mainstreaming and climate resilient change adaptation finance. agriculture for the DFID funded Action on Climate Today Programme running in SPEAKERS 5 countries in South Asia. In the past Simon has served as the Senior Natural Cristina Rumbaitise del Rio, Action on Climate Today Resources Specialist for the World Bank Financing Framework for Resilient Growth- An integrated approach and Head of Office for DFID in Southern for mainstreaming adaptation financing Africa. Simon completed his undergraduate studies at the University Fawad Hayat, Ministry of Climate Chante, Government of Pakistan of East Anglia and his post graduate The Climate Finance Unit in Pakistan- Creating enabling environment studies at Cranfield University. for leveraging adaptation finance
RAPPORTEUR Soumik Biswas, Climate Change Innovation Programme, India Allan Duncan, Action on Climate Sub-national experiences from India on mainstreaming and Today, Oxford Policy Management leveraging finance from subnational budgets
Models of enabling environments for researcher-practitioner collaboration: S139 successes and failures
Transdisciplinarity SESSION SUMMARY
In recent years, the number of large multi-country, multi-disciplinary VENUE research-for-impact programmes and projects intended to 2.61 understand and respond to global environmental change, including climate change adaptation, has increased. This session will stimulate reflection on how diverse, innovative approaches have created TIME enabling environments for researchers and practitioners to work Wednesday collaboratively and to understand what has led to program/project 14h15 - 16h00 success or failure. Panellists and participants will explore what we have learned about enabling environments while thinking about ORGANISER/S collaborative models from multiple perspectives, including how models of collaboration designed and, in retrospect, what have Jesse DeMaria-Kinney, been the strengths and weaknesses of the model? Oxfam GB
PARTNER INSTITUTION/S SPEAKERS Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS), India Jesse DeMaria-Kinney, Oxfam, United Kingdom University of Cape Town, South Africa Operational models for researcher-practitioner collaboration: Case International Development Research studies from the ASSAR experience Centre (IDRC), Canada Prathigna Poonacha Kodira, Indian Institute for Human Settlements, CHAIR (IIHS), India Lessons on operationalizing researcher-practitioner collaboration Georgina Cundill Kemp, International from the ASSAR project in India Development Research Centre (IDRC),
Canada Darrell R.Corkal, h2adapt inc., Canada Dr. Cundill Kemp is a Senior Program Operationalizing Stakeholder Insights for Adaptation – best practices Officer at the International to engage stakeholders and bridge academic, government and Development Research Centre (IDRC). local knowledge for action She works mainly on the Collaborative
Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa Lindsey Jones, London School of Economics and Political and Asia (CARIAA), a partnership Science/Overseas Development Institute, United Kingdom between Canada’s IDRC and the UK’s Aligning research with practice: An agenda for the next generation Department for International of adaptation research Development. Prior to this, she was a senior lecturer at Rhodes University’s Department of Environmental Science in South Africa. She has also worked as PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS lead researcher in social ecology at the Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Zonas Ken De Souza, Department for International Development (DFID), UK Aridas (CEAZA), Chile. Research Manager at the UK Department For International Development’s Climate, Energy and Water Research Team in RAPPORTEUR London. Responsible for designing, commissioning and managing Julia Davies, University of Cape Town, development focused climate research programmes aimed at South Africa improving the use of robust evidence and knowledge in development.
Prathigna Poonacha Kodira, Indian Institute for Human Settlements, (IIHS), India Prathijna is a consultant at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS), Bangalore. She is part of the Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions project where she researches about peri-urban transitions around big cities. She is also involved in ensuring research uptake and research into use through stakeholder engagement and capacity building.
Lindsey Jones, Overseas Development Institute (ODI), United Kingdom Lindsey’s research focuses on a range of aspects related to climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction and resilience. He has a background in international development and environmental geography having spent 7 years working for the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) as a Research Fellow on issues relating to adaptation to climate change and disaster risk reduction (where he remains a Research Associate). Lindsey has previously held research and policy positions at the United Nations Development Programme, World Food Programme and the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS).
Darrell R.Corkal, h2adapt inc., Canada Darrell is President of h2adapt inc. specializing in water, adaptation and stakeholder facilitation. He has >30 yrs. past experience with Agriculture Canada helping rural people secure sustainable water supplies, and >10 yrs. on collaborative institutional adaptation research on climate-induced water stress in Canada, Chile, Argentina, Brazil and Colombia.
Jesse DeMaria-Kinney, Oxfam, United Kingdom Jesse is Oxfam’s Programme Coordinator for Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions (ASSAR). In his position, Jesse coordinates and manages Oxfam's role as Research-into-Use (research uptake) lead partner in the ASSAR consortium. Prior to joining Oxfam, Jesse worked in Asia, Africa, and Latin America with international and local NGOs and the United Nations. His work has focused on the thematic areas of climate change adaptation, resilience building, environmental sustainability, and education.
Role of MDBs in supporting adaptation in Africa: opportunities and innovative S8 solutions
Decision-making options for SESSION SUMMARY managing risk The session provides a platform for MDBs and development partners to highlight their efforts to support means of implmentation of climate VENUE change activities in Africa; discuss approaches, tools and methods 2.62 adopted for climate risks assessment, identify adaptation options, and track and report on climate finance. As such, the session will help a wide audience -representing the adaptation community- develop TIME a better understanding about climatic risks and their impacts on Wednesday sustainable development. It will also showcase MDBs efforts to ensure 14h15 - 16h00 a balanced access to climate finance by African countries and provide a critical input into impactful, cost-effective adaptation strategies that boost overall economic development. ORGANISER/S Balgis Osman Elasha, African Development Bank (AfDB) PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS
PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Balgis Osman Elasha, African Development Bank, Tunisia World Bank, United States of America A Climate Change and Green Growth Specialist, at North Africa African Climate & Development Regional Development and Business Delivery Office, the African Initiative (ACDI), South Africa Development Bank. With more than fifteen years’ credible experience, in exploring the interlinkages between sustainable development and Climate Change responses she is also a Lead CHAIR Author of the IPCC reports. Anthony Nyong, AfDB Mahamat Assouyouti, African Development Bank, Ivory Coast RAPPORTEUR Senior Climate Finance Officer. Balgis Osman Elasha, AfDB Raul Alfaro-Pelico, The World Bank Group A Lead Climate Change Specialist at the World Bank’s Climate Analytics & Advisory Services team. He has around 20 years of professional experience in climate resilient development, environmental sustainability and energy. He is the WB Focal Point for the Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR)-Climate Investment Funds (CIF
Roland Hunter Technical Project Manager, African Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI), University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa
Molly Hellmuth ICF’s Climate Resilience lead in Africa.She has over 20 years of experience developing climate risk management strategies, tools, and guidelines for various clients, including for the African Development Bank (AfDB), USAID, the World Bank, and the U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation. She co-authored the AfDB’s Strategy for Climate Risk Management and Adaptation (CRMA).
Spectacular failures and maladaptations: A learning journey S222 into the heart of darkness, and CbA: Rural areas beyond
SESSION SUMMARY VENUE 2.46 This interactive session will explore hidden and ignored areas of practice and experience that contain uncomfortable experiences and realisations in order to gain and share insights that may result in TIME improvements in adaptation policy and practice. Wednesday 14h15 - 16h00 Peer-to-peer learning will establish common ground for future collaboration. Donors and governments seek impact and require ORGANISER/S interventions to be designed and presented in project format, despite the recurrent failures of project-type interventions to achieve Noel Oettle, their planned outcomes. The session will provide insights into Adaptation Network strategies to avoid some of these recurrent failures, and to achieve
more lasting positive impacts for, and with climate-affected PARTNER INSTITUTION/S communities. Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre (RCRC CC), The Netherlands Environmental Monitoring Group, South SPEAKERS Africa
CHAIR Noel Oettle, Adaptation Network, South Africa PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS With the Environmental Monitoring Group in Nieuwoudtville Noel facilitates learning processes to enable people to enhance their lives and livelihoods in the context of sustainable land management, biodiversity conservation in farming systems, adaptation to climatic variability. He is the manager of the SA Adaptation Network Secretariat.
RAPPORTEUR Siyabonga Myeza, Environmental Monitoring Group
What would transformative adaptations in agriculture look like, S191 really?
Food, fibre, and other ecosystem SESSION SUMMARY products We will examine various perspectives on transformative adaptation in agriculture and its implications for development. Adaptation to VENUE current and expected climate change impacts is largely scattered, 1.41 fragmented, and short-term. The speed and scale of this incremental adaptation may not be sufficient to adapt to increasingly severe climate change impacts and prevent the erosion of development TIME gains. In some cases, climate impacts may require more dramatic Wednesday shifts to manage risk, maintain food security and protect lives and 14h15 - 16h00 livelihoods, especially among the poorest and most vulnerable who depend on agriculture, fishing and tourism. This session will focus on these more significant changes. ORGANISER/S Rebecca Carter, World Resources Institute (WRI) PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS
PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Dethie Ndiaye, Centre de Suivi Ecologique (CSE), Senegal Dethie Soumare Ndiaye is the head of the Climate Finance Unit at the Oxfam GB, United Kingdom Centre de Suivi Ecologique (CSE) of Dakar (Senegal) which is a Direct Access International Institute for Environment Entity for the Adaptation Fund and the Green Climate Fund. As such, Dethie and Development (IIED), United is in charge of the development and implementation of climate smart Kingdom projects. He is involved in adaptation planning processes and he is engaged in several initiatives dealing with South-South cooperation among Direct CHAIR Access Entities. Rebecca Carter, World Resources Institute (WRI), United States of America Wagayehu Bekele, Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA), Rebecca Carter is the Deputy Director of Ethiopia Wagayehu Bekele is the Director for Climate and Environmental WRI’s Climate Resilient Development Sustainability program at the Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency Practice. She focuses on transformative (ATA), Ethiopia. He coordinates and provides strategic direction to ATA’s adaptation and climate finance. Her overall activities linked to climate-smart rural development. He holds a Ph.D. work encompasses governance issues in Resource and Environmental Economics, from Swedish University of related to climate resilience, including Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden; and an M.Sc. in Agricultural the transparency, equity and inclusivity Development Economics from Institut National Agronomique (now of adaptation planning and AgroParisTech), Paris, France. implementation processes. She has a PhD and MA in Cultural Anthropology Daniel Morchain, Oxfam Great Britain, United Kingdom from the University of Arizona. Daniel is Global Adviser for Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience at Oxfam, also focusing on gender. He is co-Principal Investigator for the ‘Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions’ (ASSAR) project, leading the RAPPORTEUR research for impact work stream. He is Venezuelan, Vegan, likes Vodka and Tyler Ferdinand, World Resources loves Verona (his 16-year-old dog aka Mulia). Institute (WRI) Sam Barrett, Researcher, International Institute for Environment and Development, United Kingdom Sam Barrett’s academic work focuses on the allocation and effectiveness of adaptation finance, and the justice implications surrounding such issues. His policy work assists donors in Least Developed Countries to integrate climate into development programming, and more specifically, develops climate risk management strategies for smallholder farmers and their support institutions. He has an MSc from the London School of Economics and a PhD from Trinity College, Dublin.
Building climate resilient pathways for Sustainable Development: The role of S103 integrated climate risk management Cities, settlements and key and transfer infrastructure SESSION SUMMARY
VENUE In 2015, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development was adopted. It represents a transformational vision that aims to establish 1.62 a world free from poverty, hunger and diseases. In the same year, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction included financial TIME risk-sharing mechanisms in its resolution. The Paris agreement Wednesday (UNFCCC COP21) also featured insurance-related approaches by 14h15 - 16h00 recognizing the role of risk transfer in building resilience, which can play a role in helping countries reach the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In particular, SDG 1: Ending poverty everywhere, SDG ORGANISER/S 8: Promote sustained, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth, Zissener, and SDG 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change, and in Munich Climate Insurance Initiative a more indirect role SDG 9: Building resilient infrastructure and SDG (MCII) 17: Strengthen the means of implementation.
PARTNER INSTITUTION/S However, insurance is not a stand-alone approach, and needs to be Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale embedded in the broader adaptation plan of vulnerable countries. Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, In addition, poorly designed and/or implemented climate insurance Germany, Ghana, Morocco and China may reduce incentives for risk reduction thus increasing moral hazard and potentially lowering resilience and hampering SDGs CHAIR achievement. Insurance products therefore need continuous Soenke Kreft, Munich Climate Insurance evaluation based on appropriate resilience indicators. The session Initiative (MCII) aims to present case studies on integrated climate risk management Mr. Soenke Kreft leads MCII’s work on from Ghana, Morocco, China and Barbados with an interactive both feeding back insurance-related Q&A. The session will close with a presentation on a method for expertise into international policy evaluating the actual impact of insurance on people’s resilience making processes, as well as continuing using appropriate indicators. the implementation of innovative ideas on how to make climate risk insurance SPEAKERS work for poor and vulnerable people at risk from climate change. Kehinde Balogun, Munich Climate Insurance Initiative (MCII), Germany RAPPORTEUR Overview: Climate change, SDGs and risk transfer Kehinde Balogun, Munich Climate Insurance Initiative (MCII) Foster Gyamfi, Ministry of Finance, Ghana Climate Insurance Solutions for Sustainable Development - Agricultural Insurance in Ghana
Meshia Clarke, Barbados Renewable Energy Association (BREA), Barbados Applying Integrated Disaster and Climate Risk Management on Renewable Energy in Barbados
Handuo Cai, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), China Enhancing Urban Climate Resilience in China through Integrated Climate Risk Management and Risk Transfer Solutions
Hicham Ezzine, Réseau Entreprises Climat + University Mohammed V of Rabat, Morocco Increasing resilience of SMEs and their value chain using Climate risk insurance in Morocco
Catherine Simonet, Overseas Development Institute (ODI), UK Layering and tailoring financial services for strengthening resilience to livelihood risks: Experience from Kenya, Ethiopia, Senegal and Nepal
Soenke Kreft, Munich Climate Insurance Initiative (MCII), Germany Evidence on CRI and Resilience
PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS
Kehinde Balogun, Munich Climate Insurance Initiative (MCII), Germany Ms. Balogun holds a Master’s degree in Disaster Risk Management from the University of the Free State, South Africa, and a Bachelor degree in Business Management from the National University of Lesotho. She currently works for MCII at the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) in Germany.
Foster Gyamfi, Ministry of Finance, Ghana Foster Aboagye Gyamfi is a Senior Economic Officer at the Ministry of Finance, Ghana with over a decade expertise in Finance covering areas such global climate change financing and microfinance. He holds an MA in International Development and Corporation and a MSc in Business Administration, Finance option from Korea University and Sikkim Manipal University respectively.
Meshia Clarke, Barbados Renewable Energy Association (BREA), Barbados Meshia is a trade specialist with a focus on NGO Development and Association Building. Most recently she has worked towards the development of Barbados’s first National Energy Policy 2017-2037 and the creation of the Electricity Market Study. She is also the Executive Director of the Barbados Renewable Energy Association (BREA).
Handuo Cai, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), China Handuo is a Technical Advisor for GIZ China, responsible for technical and organizational implementation of the Alliance of Risk Transfer Solutions in China and Advancing Climate Risk Insurance Plus (ACRI+). They support the National Strategy of Climate Change in China, on which Handuo has been working for over 8 years.
Hicham Ezzine, Réseau Entreprises Climat + University Mohammed V of Rabat, Morocco Dr. Ezzine has a background in engineering and remote sensing, with more than 18 years of experience in natural hazards modelling and disaster reduction. He was Chief Engineer at the Royal Center of Remote Sensing Space (Rabat, Morocco) and has carried out several missions for the UN, international cooperation institutions, and different Ministries in Morocco.
Catherine Simonet, Overseas Development Institute (ODI), UK Catherine Simonet is a Research Fellow on Risk and Resilience at ODI. She is a Development Economist with research interests in climate change adaptation, vulnerability and resilience. Her work focuses on adaptation in LDCs and marginalised places and the impact of shocks on economic development and vulnerability.
Soenke Kreft, Munich Climate Insurance Initiative (MCII), Germany Mr. Soenke Kreft leads MCII’s work on both feeding back insurance- related expertise into international policy making processes, as well as continuing the implementation of innovative ideas on how to make climate risk insurance work for poor and vulnerable people at risk from climate change.
Matthias Range, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) Matthias Range has 13 years expertise in strategic planning and implementation of various projects in the area of financial system development and in political dialogue gained with GIZ. This was prepared by an MBA in Germany and Singapore. He heads the think tank Advancing Climate Risk Insurance Plus and runs several public private partnerships with European (re)insurance companies.
Climate resilience finance metrics
SESSION SUMMARY S21 Multi-lateral Development Banks (MDBs) have been testing Finance approaches to improve the climate resilience of their portfolios and strengthen the climate resilience outcomes and impacts of such finance. Current and potential approaches related to climate resilience metrics will be discussed, and their contributions and VENUE shortcomings to measure MDB efforts to enable climate-resilient 2.43 development pathways. The session will include presentations and discussion around concrete examples of how these metrics and TIME approaches are applicable. Development finance institutions, the Wednesday research community, and other adaptation practitioners interested in climate adaptation and resilience finance are encouraged to 14h15 - 16h00 participate.
ORGANISER/S SPEAKERS Nathan Engle, World Bank, on behalf of Multilateral Vladimir Stenek, International Finance Corporation (IFC) Development Banks (MDBs) and the Sectoral Climate Resilience Tools: Information for Climate Resilient International Development Finance Investments Club (IDFC)
Cinzia Losenno, European Investment Bank (EIB); and Craig Davies, PARTNER INSTITUTION/S European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Inter-American Development Bank Metrics for Financial Disclosures of Physical Climate Risks and (IDB), Opportunities Agence Francaise de development (AFD), Louise Brown, African Development Bank (AFDB) Stimulating private sector investment in adaptation using the CHAIR Adaptation Benefit Mechanism María del Pilar Bueno, UNFCCC Pilar is Researcher at the National Nathan Engle, World Bank (WB) Council of Scientific and Technical Climate resilience metrics: the search for that perfect indicator Research of Argentina (CONICET). Her specialty lies in the analysis, policy framing process, and comparison of external, national, and subnational policies on climate. She is Climate Change Adaptation negotiator for Argentina. Pilar is also Lead Coordinator of the G77 and China on adaptation issues at the UNFCCC and Co-Chair of the Adaptation Committee of the UNFCCC.
RAPPORTEUR Amal-Lee Amin, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB); and Bertrand Reysset, Agence Française de Développement (AFD)
Adaptation science, policy and practice: reflections from Burtoni S240 Award recipients
Science, policy and practice SESSION SUMMARY
The eight Burtoni award recipients were recognised for their VENUE influential adaptation research in the past. But without exception Auditorium they remain involved in shaping adaptation research today and in the future. In this session, Burtoni award recipients identify knowledge needs and research priorities from their particular perspectives. The TIME recipient of the 2018 Burtoni award will act as a discussant. The Wednesday session builds on the SEI working paper “Advancing climate 16h30 - 18h15 adaptation practices and solutions: emerging research priorities”, which was produced for the Global Centre of Excellence on Climate ORGANISER/S Adaptation and outlines four generations of adaptation research. It can be accessed at bit.ly/2Ha7YSd. Richard Klein, Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) Global Centre of Excellence on Climate SPEAKERS Adaptation, The Netherlands Richard Klein PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Saleemul Huq CHAIR Coleen Vogel Richard Klein
Richard has more than twenty-five years Mark Pelling of experience in original research, science assessment and policy advice Roger Jones on climate adaptation. Much of his recent work has addressed the role of 2018 Burtoni Award recipient adaptation in the design and implementation of a global climate policy agreement, but he also studies societal and institutional challenges to adaptation and to the provision and use of climate services. Richard received the
Burtoni award in 2016.
RAPPORTEUR Kevin Adams, SEI
Climate smart conservation and climate adaptation in natural S22 resource management
Biodiversity and CbA SESSION SUMMARY
This session focuses on: climate smart conservation and actions taken VENUE to reduce vulnerability of rural people and biodiversity to climate 1.64 change; and how adaptation in natural resource management in selected areas in Africa is central to sustainable development. If we do not integrate adaptation and climate change considerations TIME into our natural resource management and development activities, Wednesday the possibility of achieving sustainable consservation is severely 16h30 - 18h15 undermined. WWF has been working with partners to integrate adaptation into our programmes to ensure that both natural ORGANISER/S resources and people can build resilience to climate change, and ensure that nature can provide sustainable development Melissa de Kock, opportunities World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)
PARTNER INSTITUTION/S SPEAKERS World Wide Fund for Nature, Africa Wageningen University, Netherlands Melissa de Kock Climate Resilient Infrastructure Lessons learned from implementing the WWF Africa Adaptation Development Facility, South Africa Initiative: Climate Smarting Conservation programmes Midlands State University, Zimbabwe Isaiah Owiunji CHAIR Reducing vulnerability and building resilience of communities adjacent to protected areas in the Albertine Graben in Uganda. Melissa de Kock, WWF
Melissa de Kock is a senior advisor at Conrad Muyaule WWF-Norway focussing on climate smart Climate smart conservation in south western Zambia Africa conservation and community based natural resource management in Africa Rhosanna Jenkins
The Future of Kenya’s Tana River Basin with Climate and Land Use RAPPORTEUR Changes Jacob Etunganan, WWF Uganda Sarahi Nunez Ramos Exploring interactions between impacts of climate change and land- use change: the need for integrated assessments of drivers of biodiversity loss
Pauline Lindeque Pathways to Climate Resilient Livelihoods in the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA TFCA)
Raymond Mugandani The role of Knowledge, Attitudes and Perceptions on adoption of Conservation Agriculture in Zimbabwe
Kgaugelo Chiloane WWF SA Climate Change Adaptation Work Programme: Strategic Framework and transition towards climate smart conservation
Integrating health and climate adaptation measures in Africa
S84 Health SESSION SUMMARY
Session goal is to promote dialogue amongst a diverse spectrum of climate scientists, researchers, health professionals, NGOs, business VENUE and IGOs to enhance interaction and identify approaches for 2.44 effective integration of health into climate government policies in Africa. This dialogue will be led by South Africa’s PHASA – SIG CEH TIME and Clim-HEALTH Africa. The special interest group (SIG) on Climate, Wednesday Energy and Health for the Public Health Association of South Africa (PHASA – SIG CEH) brings together public health experts, climate 16h30 - 18h15 modelers and experts, and also experts from other relevant disciplines. Clim-HEALTH Africa is a multi-stakeholder initiative ORGANISER/S bringing together Pan-African technical institutes and international Hanna-Andrea Rother, partners to guide and strengthen the public health resilience of University of Cape Town African countries and communities. World Health Organization, Congo SPEAKERS PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Public Health Association of South MacKenzie Dove, Walker Institute, UK Africa Special Interest Group on Adaptive capacity of governments in East and West Africa to Climate, Energy and Health, South understand and respond to heat Africa Clim-HEALTH Africa network, Africa Celia Petty, Evidence for Development; Rosalind Cornforth University of Reading, Walker Institute, UK CHAIR The challenge of promoting a systems-based approach to health, Hanna-Andrea Rother, University of nutrition and well being in response to climate change Cape Town, South Africa Hanna-Andrea Rother is Professor and David Gikungu, Kenya Meteorological Department, Kenya Head of the Environmental Health Climate health early warning systems for Rift Valley fever in Kenya, Division in the School of Public Health and implications for the broader health system and Family Medicine at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. She is an Pascal YAKA, National Meteorological Agency; University of environmental health expert with over 25 Ouagadougou - Burkina Faso, F. TARBANGDO, Department of years of research, teaching, intervention Disease Control, Ministry of Health; Ouagadougou - Burkina Faso , B. development and policy analysis SULTAN, Laboratory of Ocean and Climate Science: Experimentation experience, particularly related to and chemicals, climate change, risk Using climate information for meningococcal meningitis control in communication and children's health. Burkina Faso
RAPPORTEUR Rico Euripidou, groundWork, South Africa Tom Scalway, Lushomo Lessons learned from Integrating Climate Adaptation into the Health Sector
PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS
MacKenzie Dove, Walker Institute, UK MacKenzie Dove is an interdisciplinary social scientist and NERC Knowledge Exchange Fellow. Her research focuses on governance systems and market structures, specifically regarding the operationalization of climate and weather information within health systems in Africa. She has over ten-years experience working with decision makers and regulators in the application and distribution of products and information services across agriculture, finance, environment and health sectors.
Celia Petty, Evidence for Development; Celia is co-founder of Evidence for Development, a UK based research and capacity building organisation. She is a livelihoods expert with special interests in inter-disciplinary work, currently focusing on measuring and modelling impact of climate change on household economies. She has over 25 years’ experience of policy analysis and field research.
Rosalind Cornforth University of Reading, Walker Institute, UK Rosalind is a Professor of Climate and Development and Director of the Walker Institute at the University of Reading. As a leading innovator in knowledge exchange and multi-stakeholder engagement, she links science, policy and practice to drive collaborative solution-orientated research and build capacity on the ground, supporting the development of climate-resilient societies.
David Gikungu, Kenya Meteorological Department, Kenya David Gikungu is a Biometeorologist with the Kenya Meteorological Department (KMD). He coordinates Meteorological Applications. David is also the focal point for KMD on climate and health, collaborating with the Ministry of Health, WHO and Clim-Health Africa. He has a PhD in Disaster management and Sustainable Development from Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology.
Pascal Yaka, Meteorological National Agency, Burkina Faso Pascal Yaka, Ph.D., is a bio-climatologist, lecture-researcher, and technical advisor of the minister of transports urban mobility and road safety of Burkina Faso. He is an expert in charge of the implementation of National Framework of Climate Services in several African countries. He used to manage the development and implementation of several projects and programs on climate services at local, national and regional levels. His assisting WMO and WHO as expert for the monitoring and evaluation on projects on bioclimatology and agro meteorology.
Hanna-Andrea Rother, University of Cape Town, South Africa (Q- storming facilitator) Hanna-Andrea Rother is Professor and Head of the Environmental Health Division in the School of Public Health and Family Medicine at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. She is an environmental health expert with over 25 years of research, teaching, intervention development and policy analysis experience, particularly related to chemicals, climate change, risk communication and children's health.
James Irlam, University of Cape Town (UCT) Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) South Africa (Q-storming facilitator) James Irlam is Deputy Director of the Primary Health Care Directorate, Senior Lecturer in Evidence-based Medicine, and an associate of the Environmental Health Division. He is an epidemiologist with 21 years of academic experience. He has been a teacher and advocate about climate, environment and health for the past 6 years. Tawanda Chivese, Stellenbosch University, South Africa (Q-storming Facilitator) Tawanda Chivese is a Clinical Epidemiologist affiliated with the Chronic Disease Initiative for Africa, in the Department of Medicine at the University of Cape Town. His main interests are in non- communicable disease epidemiology, health systems strengthening and health effects of climate change in low to medium income countries. He is currently studying towards his PhD in Medicine with the University of Cape Town.
Rico Euripidou, groundWork, South Africa Rico Euripidou is groundWork’s (Friends of the Earth, South Africa) Environmental Health Campaigner. He trained as an Environmental Epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Contaminated Land Management in the UK. Rico's interests lie in working on issues of energy policy, climate change and public health, all of which are of course closely interrelated. [email protected]
Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk S234 Reduction into National Development Planning Planning in South Asia: A collaborative dialogue on experiences,
VENUE approaches, and best practices in 1.43 adaptation planning
TIME SESSION SUMMARY Wednesday 16h30 - 18h15 The session will cover
ORGANISER/S • Existing governance mechanisms and institutional arrangements Aisha Khan, that can facilitate cross-sectoral integration of climate adaptation Civil Society Coalition on Climate and DRR considerations; Change (CSCCC) • Policy innovations that promote the convergence of adaptation, PARTNER INSTITUTION/S disaster risk reduction, and sustainable development into policy and International Centre for Integrated practice at difference scales; Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Nepal • Factors that influence and shape vulnerability to disasters and Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund, climate impacts, and ways to address them. Pakistan Institute of South Asian Studies, The purpose of the session will be to inform decision makers, Singapore practitioners, researchers, and climate advocates on the extent to which mainstreaming efforts can enhance action on climate CHAIR change and in managing disaster risks, what has worked (or not Aisha Khan, Civil Society Coalition for worked) in South Asia in relation to it, and what should future policies Climate Change, Pakistan and actions aim to address.
RAPPORTEUR SPEAKERS
Anjal Prakash, Binod Prasad Parajuli, ICIMOD, Nepal Analysing Information Flow in Flood Risk Communication: A Case of Gandaki River Basin
Samia Liaqat Khan, PPAF, Pakistan National Climate Agenda- Gaps and Challenges
Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury Climate change strategy in bangladesh: analysis of policy back-up
Mind the Gap: Translating Climate Information into Action for Smallholder S65 Farmers
Poverty, livelihoods and SESSION SUMMARY sustainable development The provision of weather and climate information has the potential to increase the resilience of communities to impacts of a variable and changing climate. However, while innovative approaches to VENUE delivering climate information to farmers show promise, evidence on the effectiveness of CIS programs in benefiting farmers’ livelihoods 1.41 remains inadequate. The Mercy Corps-led Climate Information Research Initiative (CISRI) seeks to fill these gaps through a synthesis TIME of existing knowledge, analyses of existing programs, and piloting Wednesday approaches for evaluating uptake and effectiveness of existing CIS 16h30 - 18h15 programs. This session will review findings from this research, and facilitate discussion on future CIS investments.
ORGANISER/S SPEAKERS Eliot Levine, Mercy Corps Kristin Lambert, Mercy Corps, USA; Amanda Lewis, Catholic Relief Services, Senegal; Olaf Westermann, Catholic Relief Services, USA PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Contributions of a participatory systems mapping approach to Columbia University, United States identify CIS user needs, accessibility issues, and improve use. Clark University, United States
Catholic Relief Services, United States of Cathy Vaughan, International Research Institute for Climate & America Society, Columbia University Practical Action, United States An overview of evidence and methods to evaluate weather and
climate services in Africa CHAIR Eliot Levine, Mercy Corps, United States Helen Rosko, Humanitarian Response and Development Lab of America Developing new approaches to the evaluation of climate Eliot Levine is the Deputy Director of information services Mercy Corps’ Environment, Energy and Climate Technical Support Unit. He PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS serves as the focal point for the agency’s Climate Resilient Development Catherine Vaughan, Columbia University, International Research programming, providing technical Institute for Climate & Society, USA assistance to country, regional and Cathy Vaughan is a senior staff associate at the International global teams on the integration of Research Institute for Climate & Society; she is also a PhD candidate climate and environment considerations at the School for Earth and the Environment at Leeds University, into Mercy Corps work. where her research focuses on institutional arrangements to support
climate services, particularly in Latin America. RAPPORTEUR Kristin Lambert, Mercy Corps, United Olaf Westermann, Catholic Relief Services, USA States of America Olaf Westermann is Catholic Relief Services’ Senior Technical Advisor for Climate Change, providing support to CRS’ global agriculture programming. Previously Olaf worked with CCAFS, developing the Climate Smart Agriculture “CSA 101” web-based platform, which contains useful tools for promoting CSA uptake.
Amanda Lewis, Catholic Relief Services, West Africa/Senegal Amanda Lewis is the Agriculture and Livelihoods Technical Advisor with Catholic Relief Services in West Africa. Based in Senegal, she supports programming in 8 West African countries. In this role, she supports the CISRI program in Niger and Senegal, drawing from her background in participatory methods and rural development.
Helen Rosko, Clark University, Humanitarian Response and Development Lab, USA Helen Rosko is a research assistant in the Humanitarian Response and Development Lab and a Ph.D. student in the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University. Her research interests are at the intersections of livelihoods, climate adaptation and development with a particular focus in West Africa.
Kristin Lambert, Mercy Corps, USA Kristin Lambert is a Program Manager for Climate Change and Resilience on Mercy Corps’ Research & Learning Team. She provides technical and research support and programmatic oversight for grants focused on climate information services and resilience measurement, with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa.
Participatory Climate Services: improving their design, delivery and S125 use
Climate Services SESSION SUMMARY
This session brings together climate service providers, intermediaries VENUE and potential end users to discuss how to best address challenges of 2.41 developing, integrating and institutionalising user-oriented, decision- driven and science-informed services. Lightning talks on participatory climate services and new guidance on climate service TIME design will be followed by Q&A and world café table discussions on Wednesday how challenges can be overcome. The session aims to increase 16h30 - 18h15 knowledge and awareness of the value of participatory climate services for adaptation decision-making, encourage climate ORGANISER/S services stakeholders to find opportunities for collaboration and elicit feedback from stakeholders on the utility of approaches. Liz Daniels, Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Fiona Percy, CARE International/LTSA, Kenya Team leader and technical advisor in climate change adaptation, CHAIR resilience, climate services, agriculture and natural resource management. Sukaina Bharwani, SEI Oxford Lead multi-country innovative development of practical and learning Senior researcher on climate adaptation approaches, knowledge brokering and advocacy in relation to community- issues, mainly in Africa. Sukaina co-leads based adaptation and user centred climate services across multiple actors the SEI flagship programme on climate and levels, mainly in Africa. services and coordinates the climate adaptation learning platform, weADAPT. Richard Jones, Met Office Hadley Centre, UK Richard is a Science Fellow at the UK Met Office Hadley Centre and Her work focuses on supporting climate manages work on generating and applying regional climate information adaptation planning using participatory and modelling systems with a focus on international development. Richard’s decision support methods, knowledge expertise lies in developing regional climate modelling systems, establishing brokering and linking qualitative and and interpreting climate projections and developing climate scenarios for quantitative data in innovative ways. use.
RAPPORTEUR Anna Steynor, Climate Systems Analysis Group at University of Cape Town, South Africa Julia Barrott, SEI Oxford Anna is the head of climate services in the Climate System Analysis Group. She has a background in applied climate science with a current research focus on the transdisciplinary co-production of climate information. Anna implements and manages climate services projects at CSAG as well as implements regional capacity building initiatives.
Liz Daniels, SEI Oxford Liz is a researcher in climate change adaptation at SEI, focusing on how adaptation planning and decision-making can be better supported with climate information. Through her work in SEI’s programme on climate services, Liz has played a key role in developing online guidance on climate service design.
Brenda Mwalukanga, Lusaka City Council/University of Zambia Brenda Mwalukanga is an embedded reseracher working on the Future Resilience for African Cities and Lands (FRACTAL) project in Lusaka. She is a socio-economic planner by profession in the local authority. Her interest stems around informality and development programming, learning for adaptation and resilience. She is also very keen in planning and facilitating programs and processes that have a large stake in informal settlements in cities. Research for Impact: Dynamic approaches, experiences and lessons S195 on research uptake
Modes of collaboration, SESSION SUMMARY knowledge co-production and research into use The expected impacts of climate change on the most vulnerable populations worldwide requires us to re-think not only what kinds of knowledge we produce, but also with whom we produce it, where, VENUE for whom, to instigate what actions and to achieve what change? This session explores the process and impact of embedding different 1.42 Research-into-Use approaches, through the experiences of four international collaborative adaptation research consortia in Asia TIME and Africa. Participants will gain an understanding of different Wednesday approaches to RiU in varying contexts, learn about key challenges 16h30 - 18h15 and lessons, as well as the transferability and scalability of the approaches. They will be given the opportunity to actively contribute and share lessons from their own experiences, and discuss ideas and ORGANISER/S key concepts from CARIAA’s RiU process. Nathalie Nathe, Overseas Development Institute (ODI) SPEAKERS
PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Georgina Cundill Kemp, International Development Research Center Innovation Environnement (IDRC), Canada Developpement (IED) Afrique, Senegal Introducing a Research into Use (RiU) framework for collaborative, Oxfam, United Kingdom cross-regional influence in policy and practice
CHAIR Jesse DeMaria-Kinney, Oxfam, UK Georgina Cundill Kemp, International From theory (of change) to practice : using impact pathways as a Development Research Centre (IDRC), tool for adaptive management of development research Canada programmes and projects. Georgina is a Senior Program Officer in the Climate Change Program at the Katharine Vincent, Kulima Integrated Development Solutions, South International Development Research Africa Centre. Amongst others, she supports Changing attitudes and behaviours among members of a the Collaborative Adaptation Research consortium Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA), with a focus on increasing the resilience Nathalie Nathe, Overseas Development Institute (ODI); Lancelot of the most vulnerable populations to Ehode, IED Afrique climate change. She has a particular Development and policy- first approach to research for impact in interest in research impact and policy and practice, and outcome monitoringto track uptake of collaboration, and oversees projects policy recommendations. across Africa, Asia and Latin America. Debabrat Sukla, International Centre for Integrated Mountain RAPPORTEUR Development (ICIMOD) Ayesha Qaisrani, SDPI or Zoe Windle, Building towards a community of practice in the Hindu Kush ODI Himalayan (HKH) region: stakeholder engagement process and use of the Touch Table for communication and knowledge co-creation.
Virginie Le Masson, Overseas Development Institute (ODI); Colette Benoudji, independent consultant Sharing controversial findings: how collaboration enabled research and advocacy on gender equality resilience in Chad
Scaling-up country-owned adaptation measures: early lessons S153 from the Adaptation Fund and Green Finance Climate Fund
SESSION SUMMARY VENUE 1.62 This session will give an overview of adaptation financing opportunities for developing countries, through the existing multilateral funds in the context of the United Nations Framework TIME Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), particularly through Wednesday direct access. 16h30 - 18h15 To set the stage, introductory presentations will be made by the ORGANISER/S Adaptation Fund Board Secretariat and the Green Climate Fund Secretariat, on how successes in adaptation can be scaled up. Daouda Ndiaye, Adaptation Fund Board Secretariat (AFBSEC) Then, efforts aiming at achieving transformative, country wide resilience, building on successful experiences gained at different levels will be shared during a panel discussion with representatives of PARTNER INSTITUTION/S institutions and governments from Maldives, Morocco and South Green Climate Fund Secretariat (GCF), Africa. South Korea South Africa National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), South Africa SPEAKERS
CHAIR Daouda Ndiaye, AFBSEC Daouda is Senior Climate Change PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS Specialist at the Adaptation Fund Board Secretariat, where he is coordinating the Fund’s Results Based Management Framework. His duties also include the technical review of adaptation project proposals submitted to the Fund and monitoring of the Fund’s portfolio. Daouda has previously worked with multilateral and national institutions as a technical advisor on natural resources management issues and environment finance, including as a Regional Technical Advisor at UNDP’s Regional Centre for Western and Central Africa, supporting UNDP country offices in the design and implementation of biodiversity and land degradation projects. He has also worked as a research scientist for research and academic institutions. Daouda holds a PhD in Ecology and a Master's degree in Business administration.
RAPPORTEUR Martina Dorigo, AFBSEC Building capacity to bridge the investment gap in flood risk S190 management
Water security SESSION SUMMARY
The global dialogue on financing climate adaptation is maturing. To VENUE meet the SDGs as well as the water security goals emanating from 2.46 climate change adaptation strategies, there are still many challenges ahead to increase the capacity to absorb the required investments. This is primarily a result of the low capacity in the water TIME sector to design realistic and 'bankable' proposals, and to Wednesday unfamiliarity of financiers with the water sector. The question arises 16h30 - 18h15 how to bridge this investment gap? What are the needs of whom and who should take the lead in this? We seek contributions that ORGANISER/S elaborate on these questions in particular in the field of flood risk Chris Zevenbergen, IHE Delft management.
PARTNER INSTITUTION/S SPEAKERS IHE Delft and the Globlal Center of Excellence on Climate Adapation, Shaul Alam Netherlands Introduction European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), Belgium Zevenbergen
Bridging the investment gap in flood risk management CHAIR Sebastiaan van Herk Jonathan M Barnes Dr. Sebastiaan van Herk is partner and Lower Incomati River Basin: Building capacity to bridge the director at Bax & Company and has over 15 investment gap in flood risk management years of experience in creating Value from
Science & Technology and international collaborations. He has developed the Global Kamleshan Pillay Centre or Excellence on Climate Adaptation Towards the balancing of risk pools and micro-insurance: The case of as external coordinator and strategic advisor the Western Cape since its inception. He combines his knowledge of climate adaptation with the Hans Gehrels skills to convene and strategise across Towards Urban Flood Resilience in Muang Xay, Lao PDR: Flood Risk organisations and disciplines applying novel Management and Investment Priorities for Urban Planning and concepts. He holds a PhD degree from Design UNESCO-IHE & TU Delft in Climate Adaptation & Flood Risk Management and an MSc degree (cum laude) in Technology, Policy & Leah A. Dundon Management from TU Delft (2003). He is a Cooperative Adaptation Agreements: U.S. Environmental Law and founding member of the Flood Resilience the Success of the Albany Pool Group at UNESCO-IHE. He has delivered multiple research projects and over 30 Craig Davies scientific and professional publications. He has been appointed Advocate for UNISDR John Firth (United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction). He contributes to educational and capacity building programmes. He is an experienced speaker and facilitator of workshops at international conferences.
RAPPORTEUR William Veerbeek Climate risk management and transformation: working towards S144 solutions for dealing with risks 'beyond Knowledge transfer adaptation'
SESSION SUMMARY VENUE 2.63 Climate risk management has been gaining traction as an analytical and practical approach for broadly responding to climate change impacts and addressing adaptation deficits. Climate risk TIME management may comprise incremental (e.g., raising dikes), Wednesday fundamental (floodplains instead of dikes) and transformative 16h30 - 18h15 interventions (voluntary migration from floodplains, shifts in livelihoods). The session brings together science and practice in order to inform policy (adaptation and Loss and Damage) as well as ORGANISER/S implementation. The session outlines the basic concept and Reinhard Mechler, rationale, then presents recent sectorial and place-based International Institute for Applied System applications, such as on early warning, flood risk management, risk Analysis financing in India, Nepal, Mexico and Africa.
PARTNER INSTITUTION/S SPEAKERS London School of Economics (LSE), United Kingdom, UK Reinhard Mechler, International Institute for Applied System Analysis, Austria CHAIR Overview: A comprehensive climate risk management approach for Reinhard Mechler, International Institute informing transformative risk management for Applied System Analysis, Austria Reinhard Mechler has close to 20 years Mirianna Budimir, Practical Action Connsulting of experience working on socio- Roles and tools for multi-stakeholder partnerships for local to int'l economic aspects related to disaster risk action for building resilience: case insights from around the world and resilience, and climate change. He currently is deputy director of the ‘Risk & Richard Jones, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom Resilience’ research program at the Perspectives on risks 'beyond adaptation' (Loss and Damage), and International Institute for Applied Systems the implications for generating relevant scientific evidence Analysis (IIASA). He has been acting as a visiting professor at the University of Graz, Zinta Zommers, Mercy Corps as well as a senior lecturer at the Building resilience for addressing losses and damages University for Economics and Business in Vienna. Reinhard Mechler has been Christophe Brière, Deltares, Delft, Netherlands leading and contributing to many Tackling limits to adaptation with flood risk management international research and consultancy projects. He acted as a lead author on PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS IPCC’s special report on adaptation to extreme events (SREX), the 5th assessment report and the report on Mirianna Budimir, Practical Action Consulting 1.5oC. Dr Mirianna Budimir is a Disaster Risk Reduction Advisor for Practical Action Consulting UK, focusing on the theme ‘Technology Builds RAPPORTEUR Resilience’. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Southampton in Geography and Environment on the Swenja Surminski, London School of topic of cascading multi-hazards and risk, and an MSc in the Science Economics (LSE), UK of Natural Hazards at the University of Bristol. She has over 7 years of research experience related to topics of natural hazards and disaster risk reduction. She spent two years as an independent consultant for international organisations such as the Overseas Development Institute, the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. Her work includes improving the science-practice interface on topics such as disasters, early warning services, end-mile communication, gender, and international development. She is a Knowledge Broker for the DFID and NERC funded Science for Humanitarian Emergencies and Resilience (SHEAR) programme. She works closely with UK academics and in-country stakeholders to ensure research is useful, usable, and used.
Zinta Zommers, Mercy Corps Zinta is Mercy Corps’ Head of the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance. Zinta worked with United Nations’ Secretary-General’s Climate Change Support Team, during the negotiation of the Paris Agreement, with United Nations Environment and with the Food and Agriculture Organization. She has advised the United States’ Government and the Government of Sierra Leone, and has worked with vulnerable communities in over 10 countries across Africa and Asia. She coedited the book, Reducing Disaster: Early Warning Systems for Climate Change, and is a Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Richard Jones, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom Richard is a Science Fellow at the UK Met office and manages work on generating and applying regional climate information and modelling systems with a focus on international development. He has been lead author on IPCC’s AR5 and is a visiting Professor in the School of Geography and Environment, University of Oxford.
Christophe Brière, Deltares, Delft, Netherlands Christophe is a senior advisor with about 20 years’ experience in coastal engineering and management projects, focusing on processes controlling coastal dynamics and on adaptation. This includes the quantification of coastal hazards, vulnerabilities and risks, the identification and evaluation of climate-proof (nature- based) solutions, and adaptive planning in the context of climate change.
Weathering the Storm: Integrating Climate Risks into Infrastructure S73 Financing
Cities, settlements and key SESSION SUMMARY infrastructure Climate change impacts are already placing added stress on critical infrastructure; safeguarding communities’ physical and economic VENUE well-being will require improving the climate resilience of existing and 1.63 new infrastructure. Public and private investors are poised to play an important role in promoting the integration of climate considerations into infrastructure investments. This session explores the challenges TIME and opportunities of integrating climate risks into infrastructure Wednesday investments, why it is in the best interest of investors to facilitate and 16h30 - 18h15 enable resilience within their infrastructure investments, and practical application of approaches to integrate climate risk considerations and needed next steps. ORGANISER/S Yoon Kim, Four Twenty Seven (427) SPEAKERS
PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Stacy Swann, Climate Finance Advisors, USA Climate Finance Advisors, USA Lender’s Guide for Considering Climate Considerations in Inter-American Development Bank, USA Infrastructure Investments
Amal-Lee Amin, Inter-American Development Bank, USA CHAIR Operationalizing an Investment Framework for Sustainable Yoon Kim, Four Twenty Seven, USA Infrastructure to help address climate risk and ensure resiliency of Dr. Yoon Kim is a climate adaptation investments expert with a decade of experience working with public and private sector Raul Alfaro-Pelico, The World Bank Group, USA entities in the US and globally to assess Policy and Capacity Building Lessons Learned for Climate-resilient climate risks and identify climate Infrastructure resilience opportunities. At Four Twenty Seven, she leads the Advisory Services John Firth, Acclimatise, UK and works closely with corporations and Institutional barriers to integrating climate change into infrastructure local governments at different levels to projects assess climate risks, support the integration of adaptation into strategic PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS planning processes, strengthen climate policy and governance, and build capacity. Dr. Kim manages a range of Amal-Lee Amin, Inter-American Development Bank projects in the US and internationally Dr. Amal-Lee Amin is Chief of the Climate Change and Sustainability focused on identifying how climate risks Division at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). This involves may affect local assets and lead responsibilities on assisting countries with implementation of the infrastructure and corporate operations Paris Agreement; working across the IDB Group to scale-up as well as opportunities to integrate investment in sustainable infrastructure; addressing climate risks, and adaptation and resilience into planning. promoting solutions for increasing climate resiliency. Her return in August 2015 follows a previous role leading on design and RAPPORTEUR implementation of the Climate Investment Funds from 2008-2010. Having worked at the UK Government developing strategy and Yoon Kim, Four Twenty Seven policy on climate change and sustainable energy between 2001 – 2011, achievements include design of a new Green Investment Bank; successfully engaging developing countries on the UK’s G8 and EU Presidency climate change agenda and leading EU negotiations under the UNFCCC. She has a track record of developing high profile partnerships and initiatives for collaboration on climate change technology, finance and investment. From 2011-2015 Amal-Lee was Associate Director at E3G leading a program on international climate finance within Africa, Asia and Latin America, including launch of a high-level dialogue on China’s Green Finance Pathway to 2030. International roles included member of the Private Sector Advisor Group to the Green Climate Fund; facilitator of OECD DAC task team on tracking environmental finance and advising the UNFCCC, contributing Governments, development finance institutions and private sector initiatives on climate finance.
What's the best way of doing adaptation? - On the way to good S159 standards in adaptation
Decision-making options for SESSION SUMMARY managing risk How can organizations be sure to follow the state-of-the-art in adaptation research? How to make the efforts in adaptation reliable VENUE and maybe even comparable? Standards are a well-established 1.44 way to document the best way of doing something. Over the last years several initiatives started to set up standards in bringing adaptation actions into practice. This session is to showcase that TIME work. Wednesday 16h30 - 18h15 The workshop will put a special focus on the work of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the correspondent ORGANISER/S national standardisation bodies. Within ISO several working groups are currently drafting standards related to climate change Clemens Haße, adaptation. Federal Environment Agency (UBA)
PARTNER INSTITUTION/S SPEAKERS International Organization for Standardization (ISO), Ira Feldman, greentrack strategies and GHGMI Korean Environment Institute (KEI), South International Standards on Adaptation - The ISO game plan for Korea climate adaptation standards National Institute For Environmental Studies, Japan Soojeong Myeong, Korea Environment Institute, Republic of Korea The Importance of Standards on Adaptation: the Case of South CHAIR Korea
Clemens Haße, Federal Environment Clemens Haße, Federal Environment Agency, Germany Agency (UBA), Germany Foster Good Practice on Vulnerability assessment – the case of Clemens Haße is a specialist in the field Germany of climate adaptation at the Federal
Environment Agency in Germany. His Yasuaki Hijioka, National Institute For Environmental Studies, Japan main field of expertise are climate A study on guidelines for local adaptation planning to develop a change impacts and adaptation standard for local governments and communities options for social and economic systems.
He was involved in the setup of the Lia Mendes Cruz, Ministry of the Environment, Brazil, in partnership Competence Centre for Climate with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) Impacts and Adaptation (KomPass) at Lessons learned for mainstreaming adaptation in a developing the Environment Agency. He country: The case of Brazil accompanied the development of the national adaptation strategy in
Germany and he coordinates several research projects for social and economic issues on climate change adaptation.
RAPPORTEUR Soojeong Myeong, Korean Environment
Institute (KEI)
Governance and Development
SESSION SUMMARY S7 Affected communities already develop solutions and approaches to Governance the impacts of climate change including migration. In order to make these solutions and approaches sustainable, they must be supported by a legal framework. The rule of law needs to be brought into the climate change process at the local, national and international level VENUE in order to protect rights, reduce risk, build resilience, empower 2.62 people and facilitate positive migration.
TIME Equity must be considered, not just in terms of mitigation but also in Wednesdsay terms of adaptation, transfer of technologies, migration, climate 16h30 - 18h15 finance and capacity building.
This session will explore human rights, equity, climate justice and legal ORGANISER/S aspects of climate change and migration -from the local to the Kerry Bowman, global - drawing on and using global level experiences to inform Univeristy of Toronto national and international frameworks.
PARTNER INSTITUTION/S SPEAKERS
CHAIR Cindy Helfer, Pegasys, South Africa Kerry Bowman A Decision-Making Tool for Improved Climate Resilience Interventions, to Support Strengthened Management of Climate- Dr. Kerry Bowman has a Ph.D. in Induced Migration Bioethics, a fellowship in Cultural Psychiatry and a Masters degree in Africa Bauza Garcia-arcicollar, University Of Reading, United Social Work. Dr. Bowman teaches Kingdom Bioethics, Environmental ethics, and Justice in climate change and migration: exploring alternative Climate change and human health at futures to moving or drowning the University of Toronto, holding appointments in Family and Community Zachary Gitonga, University of Cape Town, South Africa Medicine and The School of The Re-evaluating the role of migration as a livelihood diversification and Environment. an adaptive strategy for communities in arid and semi-arid regions
Dr. Bowman is also the founder of The Ritumbra Manuvie, University Of Edinburgh, United Kingdom Canadian Ape Alliance, is on the Board Analysing Sub-National Response to Climate Change related of Directors of The Jane Goodall Institute Displacements and has worked on United Nations Global Environment Outlook Reports 4, 5 and 6. He is doing extensive environmental work internationally with particular focus on the interface of human and environmental needs. He is actively involved in conservation projects in North Korea, Central Africa and Brazil.
RAPPORTEUR Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, University of Cambridge
Adaptation in Fragile Contexts: A field-based exploration of the unique S122 challenges of building climate Governance resilience in fragile contexts
SESSION SUMMARY VENUE 2.65 Climate resilience discussions and research focus primarily on contexts which are relatively stable socially and economically. However, increasing numbers of people live in in fragile contexts- TIME subjected to ineffective governance structures, often facing conflict Thursday and displacement. Too often development and humanitarian aid 8h00 - 9h00 fail to adequately address underlying drivers of risk, including climate change, and struggle to prevent populations in fragile states from backsliding into poverty. We will explore these issues through case ORGANISER/S studies, drawing from a recent book on adaptation and from Mercy Eliot Levine, Corps. It will end with a group discussion, identifying ways to better Mercy Corps work in fragile contexts.
PARTNER INSTITUTION/S SPEAKERS University of Toronto, Candada
Eliot Levine CHAIR Climate Drivers of Conflict: Challenges and Opportunities for Climate Eliot Levine, Mercy Corps, United States Resilient Development of America Eliot Levine is the Deputy Director of Kerry Bowman Mercy Corps’ Environment, Energy and Responding to Fragility: Lessons from the Kahuzi-Biega Itombwe Climate Technical Support Unit. He corridor project serves as the focal point for the agency’s Climate Resilient Development Zinta Zommers programming, providing technical Landslide in Sierra Leone: A result of a changing climate or a fragile assistance to country, regional and state? global teams on the integration of climate and environment considerations PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS into Mercy Corps work.
Kerry Bowman RAPPORTEUR Dr. Bowman teaches Bioethics, Environmental ethics, and Climate change Kristen Lambert, Mercy Corps, United and human health at the University of Toronto. Dr. Bowman is also the States of America founder of The Canadian Ape Alliance, is on the Board of Directors of The Jane Goodall Institute. He works internationally with a focus on human and environmental needs.
Zinta Zommers Zinta Zommers is Director of the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance for Mercy Corps. She previously worked with the FAO in Sierra Leone, UN Environment in Kenya and the UN Secretary General’s Climate Change Team. She has edited two books on early warning systems and climate change adaptation, and is a lead author on a forthcoming IPCC Special Report.
Eliot Levine Eliot Levine is the Deputy Director of Mercy Corps’ Environment, Energy and Climate Technical Support Unit. He serves as the focal point for the agency’s Climate Resilient Development programming, providing technical assistance to country, regional and global teams on the integration of climate and environment considerations into Mercy Corps work.
Challenging Assumptions in Resilience Programming
S59 SESSION SUMMARY Poverty, livelihoods and sustainable development At the programme and organisational level, resilience-building approaches require working in different partnerships, using new kinds of information and being much more flexible in planning and spending. However, this may not change the nature of interventions VENUE at the household level. 2.61 Lessons emerging from large, global resilience programmes suggest TIME that there are a number of assumptions that drive their design and implementation. Thursday 8h00 - 9h00 Through this session, we hope to inform the targeting of future resilience programmes and stimulate debate in academic and ORGANISER/S practitioner fora. Elizabeth Carabine, Overseas Development Institute (ODI) PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS
PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Blane Harvey, McGill University, Canada BRACED Knowledge Manager/ Itad, Blane Harvey is an Assistant Professor at McGill University and a United Kingdom Research Associate with ODI’s Risk and Resilience team. He studies BRACED Fund Manager/Palladium, how climate change knowledge is produced, validated and United Kiingdom communicated, and how facilitated learning and knowledge sharing can support collective action. CHAIR Elizabeth Carabine, Overseas Development Institute With an interdisciplinary background, Elizabeth has 14 years of experience in research, policy and programming gained in the private and public sectors. During this time, Elizabeth’s focus has been on climate change adaptation, natural resource management, resilience and development, primarily in East and West Africa.
RAPPORTEUR Charlotte Rye, Overseas Development Institute (ODI), United Kingdom
Decision Support Tools and Methods For Assessment of Interventions for S123 Climate Change Adaptation, Agriculture Mitigation & Food Security
SESSION SUMMARY VENUE 2.64 Agriculture encompasses convergence of methods, tools and goals for intelligent advancement against poverty and climate change. There exists a need of spreading the existing Good Agricultural TIME Practices (GAPs) and technologies by replicating successful ones to Thursday larger areas (Scaling-up). This session will present various decision 8h00 - 9h00 support tools and methods. Objective oriented adaptations, constraints observe, dissemination strategies for systematic evaluation, communication and dissemination of successful ORGANISER/S approaches and concepts of sustainable agriculture will be Srijna Jha, discussed. Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) SPEAKERS PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Science and Technology Branch, Srijna Jha, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Gemany Canada Decision Support Tools For Assessment of Interventions for Climate International Research Institute for Change Adaptation, Mitigation & Food Security Climate and Society , United States of America Aston Chipanshi, Science and Technology Branch Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Government of Canada Crop Metrics: An application for understanding crop and CHAIR environmental interactions Srijna Jha, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Germany Tatiana Gumucio, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, United States Researcher & Project Coordinator, Gender equality and trees on farms: considerations for Leibniz Centre for Agricultural implementation of climate-smart agriculture Landscape Research (ZALF). Topics: Evaluation of agricultural technologies, scaling-up strategy, mapping bottlenecks and opportunities, decision support-tools, ScalA, migration in the context of food security, climate change and violnce. Projects: TRANSEC -Analyzing the food-value chain in Tanzania for Climate Change and Food Security, M3-Multidimensional Framework & Response Matrix for
Migration related to Climate change, Food Insecurity & Violence
RAPPORTEUR Izabela Liz Schlindwein, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) The emergence of systemic adaptive governance practices for climate S138 change adaptation: From theory to Governance practice in a transboundary
catchment in Southern Africa
VENUE SESSION SUMMARY 2.62 This session explores systemic adaptive governance and social TIME learning as important framings for building resilience to climate Thursday change. This will involve sharing experiences from applying these 8h00 - 9h00 framings to plan and implement climate change adaptation initiatives across the transboundary Olifants River Catchment in Southern Africa as part of the RESILIM-Olifants Program. Speakers will ORGANISER/S cover: Sharon Pollard, Association for Water and Rural 1) systemic, adaptive governance of river systems; Development (AWARD)
2) water resources protection under different scenarios of climate PARTNER INSTITUTION/S change;
CHAIR 3) learning networks for building adaptive capacity of disaster Sharon Pollard, AWARD managers; Dr. Sharon Pollard is the Executive Director at the Association for Water and 4) dialogues for climate change literacy and adaptation; and 5) Rural Development (AWARD), drought mitigation in rivers of the Lowveld. conducting pioneering research and advocacy work around water supply in SPEAKERS underprivileged areas in South Africa. She has a strong background in the water sector with a special focus on Sharon Pollard integrated catchment management The emergence of systemic, adaptive governance of catchments to planning and implementation. She has build resilience in a climate changing world managed many internationally recognized projects and continues to Sharon Pollard work in the area of water for productive “Its everyone’s business”: Supporting dialogues for climate change use, looking at the role that water plays literacy and adaptation based on systemic social learning in economic development in poor rural approaches communities. Her special focus is on planning for meeting water Ancois de Villiers requirements for sustaining ecosystems. Experiences of building adaptive capacity of disaster managers in local government through a learning network RAPPORTEUR Hugo Retief Ancois de Villiers, AWARD The emergence of systemic governance in times of crises; drought mitigation through collective action
John Nzira and Cryton Zazu Emerging networks for the most vulnerable in small-scale agriculture
Advance effectiveness and unleash potential of integrated adaptation: S16 leveraging EbA
Cross cutting SESSION SUMMARY
This session aims to advance effectiveness and unleash potential of VENUE integrated adaptation through sharing examples of ecosystem- 1.61 based adaptation in different context. The focus is on south-to-south and south-to-north learning, as well as increased recognition by broader stakeholder groups. This will be used as a stepping stone to TIME integrate into GCECA’s thematic group ‘Scaling up Ecosystem Thursday Based Adaptation’. 9h15 - 11h00 SPEAKERS ORGANISER/S Nand Agrawal, ICIMOD Shu Liang Women smallholders in Himalayas
Jesse Renema, Nadia Bood, WWF Global Centre of Excellence on Climate Meso American Reef case study in Belize Adaptation (GCECA) Jessica Kavonic, ICLEI PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Urban Natural Assets for Africa: Rivers for Life
CHAIR John Firth, Acclimatise Group Ltd. PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS
RAPPORTEUR Christiaan Wallet, GCECA Christiaan Wallet is founder and current Operations Director of the Sebastiaan van Herk, Bax and Global Centre of Excellence on Climate Adaptation. He is based at Company GCECA’s office in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Previously Christiaan was project manager for the 2016 Adaptation Futures conference.
Saliha Dobardzic, Adaptation Fund Saliha Dobardzic is Senior Climate Change Specialist with the Adaptation Fund. Prior to this position, she was a Senior Climate Change Specialist with the Global Environment Facility’s climate change adaptation program, namely the Least Developed Countries Fund and Special Climate Change Fund, where she was involved in strategic, technical, and policy aspects of the $1.4 billion program portfolio. Previously, Saliha worked on environmental, international waters, and integrated coastal zone management issues with the World Bank’s MENA region.
Soenke Kreft, MCII Soenke Kreft is Executive Director of the Munich Climate Insurance Initiative. He is a forerunner in international climate policy, having lead the Climate Policy Team at the German NGO Germanwatch for the past 3 years, which allowed him to provide major inputs to the Paris Agreement (UNFCCC) and also contribute to other initiatives, such as the G7 InsuResilience. Soenke has been familiar with MCII for many years and participated in the initiation of the first phase of MCII’s project “Climate Risk Adaptation and Insurance in the Caribbean” in 2011, and was responsible for a large capacity development and agenda setting programme with the Least Developed Countries group on climate-induced Loss and Damage which in turn provided the rational to launch G7 InsuResilience.
Luc Gnacadja, LoCAL UNCDF Luc GNACADJA, architect by profession, founder and President of the think-tank GPS-Dev (Governance & Policies for Sustainable Development), is a former minister of environment of Benin and the immediate past Executive Secretary of the UN Convention on Desertification. In this latter capacity, he has been the architect of the concept of “Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN)” in the Rio+20 process, now reflected as SDG target 15.03. He is a recipient of the World Bank’s Green Award (2002).
Lynn Scarlett, TNC Former Deputy Secretary and Chief Operating Officer of the U.S. Department of the Interior, Lynn Scarlett is Co-Chief External Affairs Officer at The Nature Conservancy and the Global Climate Strategy Lead. In this role, Scarlett directs all policy in the United States and the 70 countries in which TNC operates and oversees TNC’s climate policy and communications. Scarlett also served at Interior as the Acting Secretary of the Interior in 2006.
Closing the Knowledge-Policy- Practice Loop: Mainstreaming Nature- S216 based Solutions for Climate Resilience
Science, policy and practice SESSION SUMMARY
The session brings together lessons learned from science, VENUE stakeholders and on-the-ground implementation about the ways in 2.63 which nature-based solutions can be harnessed to build resilience and strengthen climate adaptation. The focus is on drawing lessons learned about the factors which matter most in the design of TIME effective, inclusive and sustainable climate solutions. The session will Thursday draw successes and challenges from a diverse array of initiatives, 9h15 - 11h00 representing viewpoints from practitioners, researchers, and civil society working on multiple sectors. It will highlight experiences from ORGANISER/S Asia, Africa and North America from projects being implemented by The Earth Institute – Columbia University, Environment Management Manishka De Mel, Group, IUCN and NASA. During the facilitated discussion, session Columbia University speakers and the audience will engage in identifying knowledge
gaps and discuss ways in research can be incorporated into practice PARTNER INSTITUTION/S and how field experiences can drive research, thereby closing Columbia Earth Institute, United States knowledge-policy-practice loop. of America IUCN, Uganda NASA Goddard Institute for Space SPEAKERS Studies, United States of America Environment Management Group, Radley Horton, Columbia University, USA Global Planning for Climate Surprises
CHAIR Sophie Kutegeka, IUCN – International Union for the Conservation of Nature, Uganda Lucy Emerton, Environment Practical Implementation of EbA at the Community Level: Management Group Understanding the Needs and Implications Lucy Emerton is an environmental economist specializing in ecosystem Manishka De Mel, Columbia University, USA valuation and financing. Over the last 25 Climate Science, Policy and Implementation: Bridging Gaps and years she has worked as technical Strengthening Linkages advisor to DFID, GIZ, UNDP and many other international organizations, Lucy Emerton, Environment Management Group established and led IUCN’s Making the Economic Case: Enabling and Encouraging Investments environmental economics programs in in Natural Climate Infrastructure Africa and Asia and at the Global level, and provided consultancy services Cynthia Rosenzweig, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and across more than 60 countries. Lucy is Columbia University, United States currently Economics and Finance Closing the Knowledge-Policy-Practice Loop: The Way Forward Director of the Environment
Management Group, a consultancy group and think-tank providing business planning advice and technical support in environmental sustainability to the corporate sector, governments and international agencies.
RAPPORTEUR Delphine Deryng, Climate Analytics, Germany Green Climate Fund’s approach and scope for providing support to S78 adaptation activities
Finance SESSION SUMMARY
The session is divided into two parts: presentations and a moderated VENUE session. The presentation is expected to inform stakeholders about 1.62 the Green Climate Fund’s approach and scope for providing support to climate adaptation activities based on the review and analysis of international climate finance and types of adaptation TIME activities being financed by institutions; analysis of the GCF portfolio Thursday and pipeline; identified priorities for GCF investment projects and 9h15 - 11h00 programmes; and outcomes of discussions with the private and public sector stakeholders. The session will provide an opportunity for ORGANISER/S participants to ask questions and provide feedback regarding GCF’s approach. Alyssa Holganza, Green Climate Fund (GCF) SPEAKERS PARTNER INSTITUTION/S World Resources Institute, Christina Chan, World Resources Institute
CHAIR Jason Spensley, Green Climate Fund
German Velasquez, Green Climate Fund PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS Dr German Velasquez (Jerry) is the Director of GCF's Division of Mitigation Jason Spensley, Green Climate Fund (GCF), International and Adaptation. Jerry oversees all Jason Spensley manages the Green Climate Fund’s Project Preparation matters relating to the Secretariat’s work Facility and Adaptation Planning support programme. Mr. Spensley has extensive experience supporting countries in strengthening their adaptation in relation to the GCF’s mitigation and planning processes and project pipelines. Before joining GCF, he served as adaptation windows. He heads the Climate Technology Manager with the UNFCCC Climate Technology Centre Division that collaborates closely with the and Network where he developed a technical assistance mechanism to Division of Country Programming (DCP) transfer and scale-up use practical technology solutions. Previously, he led and the Division of Private Sector Facility design and implementation of UN Environment’s portfolio of climate change (DPSF), as well as the accredited entities projects in Latin America and the Caribbean. He has also managed of the GCF, by providing expertise and initiatives of the Convention on Biological Diversity to facilitate investment technical support in the individual result and innovation for ecosystem-based solutions to the climate crisis. Prior to areas of both climate change joining the United Nations, Mr. Spensley worked in private organisations on adaptation and mitigation. This includes natural resource management and institutional development in Latin America and the Pacific. a thorough understanding of the incremental costs of low emission and Christina Chan, World Resources Institute, International climate-resilient investments. He also Christina Chan is the Director of the Climate Resilience Practice at the World reviews and assesses the pipeline of Resources Institute. Prior to joining WRI, Christina was a Branch Chief at the proposals for adaptation and mitigation U.S. State Department’s climate change office, where she led U.S. activities to be financed by the GCF and government efforts on global adaptation policy, launched several major assists developing countries and adaptation partnerships, including the Adaptation Partnership and the accredited entities in improving their National Adaptation Plan Global Network, and provided leadership on readiness to access funding. He leads a adaptation on the UNFCCC’s Adaptation Committee. Christina also spent team of diverse thematic and sectoral eight years with CARE, helping communities reduce their disaster-related risks experts and reports to the Executive and leveraging CARE’s on-the-ground work with communities to inform CARE International’s policy advocacy with the U.S. and global climate Director. change policy. Christina holds a graduate degree in Urban and Regional Planning from Cornell University and an undergraduate degree in Human RAPPORTEUR Biology from Stanford University. Alyssa Holganza, Green Climate Fund Innovative dialogue for adaptation - an explorative journey
S109 SESSION SUMMARY Cross cutting The session will actively explore how innovative dialogue can support effective adaptation, and how inappropriate communication/ dialogue can undermine effective learning and communication, VENUE using examples from FRACTAL, ASSAR and BRACED. We will facilitate 2.61 an interactive process that will allow participants to share their experiences of innovative dialogue with each other - consolidating TIME some lessons learnt towards the end of the session. Thursday PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS 9h15 - 11h00
Alice McClure, University of Cape Town, South Africa ORGANISER/S Alice is the coordinator for the Future Resilience for African CiTies and Bettina Koelle, Lands (FRACTAL) project. FRACTAL aims to work across disciplines Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre and various country contexts. The complex, transdisciplinary nature (RCRC CC) of FRACTAL is foundational to the coordination of the project, including learning, communications, uptake and capacity building. PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), Lucia Scodanibbio, University of Cape Town, South Africa United Kingdom Lucia has over ten years of work experience in a range of University of Cape Town, South Africa sustainability and environmental areas, from climate change adaptation to integrated water, wetland and coastal resources CHAIR management. She has worked from local to international levels, in Bettina Koelle, Red Cross Red Crescent three continents, based in NGOs, inter-governmental organisations Climate Centre, South Africa and academia. Bettina Koelle is a senior learning specialist in the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre. She is developing and facilitating approaches to interactive learning and dialogue. A geographer by training, Bettina has two decades of experience with interactive learning for adaptation, linking experience from the grass roots to the global UN climate talks.
RAPPORTEUR Roop Singh, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, UK
Mainstreaming climate adaptation into water infrastructure planning, S115 development, operation and Water security & infrastructure financing
SESSION SUMMARY VENUE 2.43 Climate resilient decision-making requires science, engineering and stakeholder engagement. This session provides an overview of tools and approaches that support policy, planning, financing and TIME technical decision-makers in Southern Africa (both in water and Thursday water-dependent sectors) to address climate change risk and 9h15 - 11h00 vulnerability. Four case studies (covering Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and South Africa) will be presented and discussed interactively with regional and ORGANISER/S international experts (responsible for designing the tools) and key Andrew Takawira, stakeholders who have used, learnt and benefitted from the tools. Climate Resilient Infrastructure These experiences will empower practitioners to use adaptation tools Development Facility (CRIDF) within the planning, implementation and management of water infrastructure. PARTNER INSTITUTION/S The Permanent Okavango River Basin SPEAKERS Commission (OKACOM), Angola, Botswana, Namibia Illovo Sugar Africa, South Africa Leonard Magara, CRIDF, South Africa SouthSouthNorth, South Africa Mainstreaming climate adaptation into water infrastructure Pegasys, South Africa planning, development, operation and financing
CHAIR PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS Shehnaaz Moosa, SouthSouthNorth, South Africa Jeremy Richardson, Pegasys, South Africa Shehnaaz is a Director at Dr Jeremy Richardson from Pegasys Consulting based in South Africa SouthSouthNorth who has extensive leads the climate resilience work stream within the Climate Resilient experience leading donor-funded Infrastructure Development Facility (CRIDF). Jeremy was responsible programmes focussed on climate for developing CRIDFs CRDP tool, using scenario techniques compatible development in Africa. underpinned by an innovative use of climate science, to inform river Shehnaaz was the Climate Resilient Lead basin level planning processes. for the Climate Resilient Infrastructure Jez Development Facility. Shehnaaz holds a BSc in Chemical Engineering, an MSc in Sekgowa Motsumi, OKASEC, Botswana Engineering and a PhD in Engineering. Sekgowa Motsumi is currently the Programmes Coordinator for OKACOM Secretariat he is an Ecologist by training and has worked RAPPORTEUR for the Botswana Department of Environmental Affairs as a District Environment Coordinator prior to joining OKASEC. Simbisai Zhanje, SouthSouthNorth, South
Africa Siyasanga Sauka, Pegasys, South Africa Siyasanga is an Engagement Management at Pegasys Strategy, where she is part of the climate resilience practice. She has a background in geography and environmental science, and has, over the past eight years, focused on research and analysis across the climate change, natural resource management and sustainable development spheres.
Shravya Reddy, Pegasys, South Africa Shravya is a Principal at the Pegasys consulting group. She leads Pegasys’ climate change practice and supports the company’s growing sustainable energy practice. Shravya’s background is in environmental policy and law, and she has worked on climate change for over a decade, in New York, Washington D.C., and Cape Town.
Leonard Magara, CRIDF, South Africa Leonard Magara is a qualified Civil Engineer with over 30 years of experience leading Water Resource Management and Joint River Basin Planning Projects across the SADC region. He is the Managing Director of Interconsult (Pvt) Ltd and has served as the Chief Engineer for the Climate Resilient Infrastructure Development Facility since its inception.
Mainstreaming nature-based solutions for climate change S175 adaptation
Biodiversity SESSION SUMMARY
Implementation of nature-based solutions for climate change VENUE adaptation and disaster risk management remains challenging due 1.43 to lack of common guidance and lack of coordinated sharing of knowledge. Governments may favour grey interventions if these are better tested, can be implemented following standardized TIME guidelines and procedures, and have more robust cost-benefit Thursday analyses supporting them. Objective of this session is to advance the 9h15 - 11h00 field of nature-based solutions more rapidly through collaborative learning by making common guidelines and sharing knowledge. The ORGANISER/S session presents the state-of-the-art guidance for implementation and invites flood risk practitioners and governments to share their Bregje Van Wesenbeeck, lessons on implementation. Deltares
PARTNER INSTITUTION/S SPEAKERS World Bank, United Nations Development Brenden Jongman, GFDRR Programme (UNDP) Importance of covering the full range of solutions for climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction CHAIR Bregje van Wesenbeeck, Deltares Pradeep Kurukulasuriya, UNDP Guidance for implementation Pradeep leads on the United Nation
Development Programme’s support to Nicolas Faivre, European Commission countries on accessing climate finance Nature-Based Solutions in the EU: Innovating with nature to address from various sources including the GEF social, economic and environmental challenges Family of funds and the Green Climate
Fund. With a team of ten Regional Cordula Epple, UNEP-wcmc Technical Advisors and Specialists Monitoring and Evaluating Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) – located in UNDP’s Regional Hubs around Specific Challenges and Ways Forward the world, Pradeep provides the technical and management leadership Ernita van Wyk, ECLEI required to oversee a climate change Enabling transformative action in African cities: Mainstreaming adaptation portfolio that is acive in more nature based solutions into development policy and planning for than 80 countries around the world. An climate adaptation and resilience economist by training, he holds a PhD from Yale and publishes regularly on the subject of economic valuation of climate change impacts and adaptation options such as crop choice, irrigation, technology adoption in the agriculture.
RAPPORTEUR Brenden Jongman, GFR
New leaders in a changing climate: The role of leadership in facilitating S171 transformation Transformation SESSION SUMMARY
The aim of this session is to provide a space for an open discussion VENUE about leadership and how it can be cultivated to facilitate 2.62 transformation to move responses to climate change beyond business as usual and to open up opportunities for inclusive TIME development. We have decided on a campfire format to create an intimate setting and maximize exchanges between participants. Thursday Presenters will come to the stage for their presentations and will then 9h15 - 11h00 move back to the audience to participate in the discussion. This session will provide teasers of some of the research that is being done ORGANISER/S on the role of leadership in facilitating transformation around the Erin Roberts, world. The hope is that participants will take conversations further King's College London during the rest of the conference. The organizers also hope to create a community of practice of researchers, practitioners and PARTNER INSTITUTION/S academics working on this timely issue. United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU- SPEAKERS EHS), Germany International Centre for Climate Blane Harvey, Overseas Development Institute/McGill University, Change and Development (ICCCAD), Canada Bangladesh “The voice of the heart will make a revolution in the brain”: Rethinking leadership to transform adaptation CHAIR Mark Pelling, King's College London Ting-Ting Zhang, Aalborg University Mark Pelling is Professor of Geography, Leadership in facilitating transformational change – Understanding King's College London with a specialism the effectiveness, factors and risks in social and institutional analysis for disaster risk management and climate Deborah O’Connell, CSIRO Australia change adaptation, predominantly in Adaptation, transformation, disasters and emergent leadership: how urban contexts of the global South. He do we equip society to scope with change? has been a coordinating lead author for the IPCC 5th Assessment Report, and Thomas Tanner, Overseas Development Institute SREX special report. He will be a Leadership from below: Why small-scale champions are central to coordinating lead author for the Human transformation settlements chapter in the 6th Assessment Report. Mark also acts as a Gina Ziervogel, University of Cape Town Resilience Challenge Lead for the UKRI Learning from Cape Town’s drought response: governance Global Challenges Research Fund. capabilities for adaptation decision making before and during crisis
RAPPORTEUR Architesh Panda, Independent Researcher Transformational adaptation of agricultural systems to climate Kees van der Geest, UNU-EHS change: What have we learned?
Lucy Njuguna Local governance for community-based adaptation: case study of Ngusishi water resources users association, Kenya
Judith Rodriguez, Harvard Lessons in Leadership from Lima Metro Line 1
PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS Erin Roberts, King's College London, United Kingdom
Mark Pelling, King's College London, United Kingdom
Vhalinavho Khavhagali, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Understanding interactions between climate change adaptation and S184 mitigation in cities
Cities and urban areas SESSION SUMMARY
The transition towards zero carbon cities requires enormous VENUE investments in our cities’ energy systems, buildings, transport 1.63 infrastructure etcetera. At the same time, cities need to take adaptation measures to protect themselves against current and future extreme weather events. Failing to integrate the two policies TIME could potentially lead to mal-investment and conflicts of interest, but Thursday also missed opportunities. 9h15 - 11h00 Various cities will present practical examples and lessons learnt from ORGANISER/S integrating adaptation and mitigation (or failing to do so). WSP will Chantal Oudkerk Pool, present the ‘Adaptation Mitigation Interaction Assessment’ tool that C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group aims to support cities in systematically analysing the potential , The Netherlands interactions between adaptation and mitigation.
PARTNER INSTITUTION/S SPEAKERS UNESCO- IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, The Netherlands William Veerbeek, UNESCO- IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, City of Rotterdam, The Netherlands Netherlands City of Melbourne, Australia Business-as-usual in the growth of megacities: a story of Ethekwini Municipality (Durban), South disproportionate growth in future flood exposure. Africa Johan Verlinde & Jorg Pieneman, City of Rotterdam, Netherlands CHAIR Practical issues concerning the infrastructure in the public space Chantal Oudkerk Pool when integrating adaptation and mitigation strategies with spatial As the Head of Adaptation Planning, planning. Chantal Oudkerk Pool supports C40 member cities in taking action to build Vicki Barmby, City of Melbourne, Australia climate resilience through the Greening our city to reap the benefits of both adaptation and establishment of the Climate mitigation. Adaptation Academy in Rotterdam. The Academy provides tailored training and Elan Theeboom, WSP Global, USA technical assistance intended to guide Supporting cities’ climate planning through analyzing interactions C40’s cities through the critical steps in between adaptation and mitigation actions. climate adaptation planning. Nongcebo Hlongwa, EThekwini Municipality (Durban), South Africa RAPPORTEUR Durban Climate Change Strategy (DCCS): The Integrated Climate Governance Framework. Chantal Oudkerk Pool, C40 Cities
Climate Leadership Group, United Kingdom PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS
Chantal Oudkerk Pool As the Head of Adaptation Planning, Chantal Oudkerk Pool supports C40 member cities in taking action to build climate resilience through the establishment of the Climate Adaptation Academy in Rotterdam. The Academy provides tailored training and technical assistance intended to guide C40’s cities through the critical steps in climate adaptation planning.
William Veerbeek, UNESCO- IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, Netherlands Dr. Veerbeek is a founder of the Flood Resilience Chair Group at IHE- Delft. He worked in megacities like Beijing, Dhaka and Mumbai on the development of long term urban growth projections and subsequent changes in disaster risk. He has trained many cities on climate adaptation, especially in Southeast Asia.
Johan Verlinde, City of Rotterdam, Netherlands Johan Verlinde is senior advisor Climate Adaptation and works for the City of Rotterdam as program manager for the Deltaplan Water Rotterdam. The plan’s goal is to prepare the city for climate hazards like heavy rainfall, heat and drought; in close collaboration with inhabitants, companies, social housing corporations, water boards and more.
Jorg Pieneman, City of Rotterdam, Netherlands Jorg Pieneman is a senior advisor Climate Adaptation and Urban Water management at the City of Rotterdam. He is the project manager for the implementation of a 3D hydraulic model of the city in case of an extreme event, and is involved in many projects on Rotterdam adaptation strategy.
Vicki Barmby, City of Melbourne, Australia Vicki Barmby is a senior sustainability officer at City of Melbourne. She leads the planning and implementation of the Climate Adaptation Program and Water Strategy. She shares the world leading Melbourne study case internationally as a member of C40 Cities network.
Nongcebo Hlongwa, EThekwini Municipality (Durban), South Africa Nongcebo Hlongwa is a climate protection scientist at the Environmental Planning and Climate Protection Department of EThekwini municipality. She leads a community-based adaptation work. She assists the municipality to conduct several other climate change adaptation projects.
Elan Theeboom, WSP Global, USA Elan Theeboom is a senior associate at WSP, expert in ESG transaction advisory services in line with various International Financial Institution standards, corporate sustainability strategies, climate change studies, sustainable master planning, and contaminated land risk assessment for the Africa region.
Kristin Baja, USDN, USA & Canada Kristin Baja is serving as USDN's first Climate Resilience Officer. She is responsible for helping cities identify strategic ways to advance climate resilience planning and implementation, building their capacity to take on-the-ground action, while advancing learning and collaboration in the Mid-Atlantic region.
Unlikely Bedfellows: How academia, business, government and civil S143 society can work better together for CbA adaptation
SESSION SUMMARY VENUE 2.46 It is time to facilitate solutions that make a difference in people’s real lives and link adaptation action to sustainable development, investment and planning. This session will look across the entire TIME ecosystem of food insecurity, and systemic issues, such as gender, as Thursday well as the critical environmental ones. Building upon academic and 9h15 - 11h00 specialist research, as well as field experience and the input of those on the ground, the session will work towards a mutually beneficial “Action Together for Adaptation” model that harnesses the power of ORGANISER/S technology, new practices, and the potential of data for the benefit Rosalind Cornforth, of the user community. Walker Institute
SPEAKERS PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Oxfam, UK Evidence for Development, UK WMO-AMCOMET Secretariat
UK Department for International Development CHAIR Rosalind Cornforth, Walker Institute African Women's Development Fund
RAPPORTEUR Institute for Environmental Analytics Lucy Wallace, Walker Institute Oxfam
Evidence for Development
Water Governance to build resilience that benefits vulnerable populations.
S26 SESSION SUMMARY Water security Climate change affects economic development and environmental sustainability, but most of all the livelihoods of vulnerable populations at the frontline of the battle against water related disasters. VENUE Investments should help building resilience involving these 1.42 populations as full stakeholders. But this does not happen enough.
TIME This session aims to answer the question why, and also how this can Thursday change through better water governance and integrity as part of policies and practices. 9h15 - 11h00 This is expected to deliver: ORGANISER/S Binayak Das, - Conclusions relating to governance and integrity gaps in water and Water Integrity Network (WIN eV) climate policies and practices that affect vulnerable populations
PARTNER INSTITUTION/S -Recommendations for advocacy and building transformative Dutch Regional Water Authorities (Unie capacity in support of water and climate related SDGs van Waterschappen, UvW), The Netherlands - Recommended water governance and integrity indicators for KEWASNET, Kenya transparency and accountability IWMI, South Africa UN Environment, Kenya SPEAKERS
CHAIR
RAPPORTEUR PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS Rob Uijterlinde and Keimpe Sinnema, Dutch Regional Water Authorities (UvW)
Changes, challenges and chances: how can we reduce future conflict S213 risks in river basins by adaptation and Water and transboundary improving transboundary conflicts collaboration?
SESSION SUMMARY VENUE 1.41 Population growth, economic development, increasing food and energy demands – in some regions resulting in the construction of TIME mega dams - and the expected impacts of climate change present Thursday unprecedented challenges for managing conflict risk in transboundary river basins. Where are the hotspots of future 9h15 - 11h00 challenges and where are tensions building up? Can transboundary river basin cooperation resolve future conflicts? What kind of ORGANISER/S processes are key in reducing tensions? And can climate adaptation Willem Ligtvoet, and the adoption of SDG’s bridge interests and contribute to a fair Netherlands Environmental Assessment distribution of water? Agency (NEAA) Three case studies will illustrate these challenges and possibilities for PARTNER INSTITUTION/S cooperation. Kumaon University, India Global Centre of Excellence on Climate SPEAKERS Adaptation (GCECA), International Development Research Willem Ligtvoet, PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, Centre, Canada the Netherlands Global socio-economic challenges in transboundary river basins in CHAIR an era of climate change and urbanisation Henk Ovink, International Water Affairs, Netherlands Prakash C. Tiwari, Kumaun University, Nainital, India Henk Ovink is the Special Envoy for Transboundary Headwater Governance in Himalaya: A Regional International Water Affairs, functioning Cooperation Framework for Managing Water Conflicts under as the ambassador of the Dutch water Climate Change in South Asia sector. He maintains direct contact with actors such as the World Bank, the Murali Kallur, International Development Research Centre, India United Nations, the OECD and the EU. He Transboundary cooperative mechanisms in the Hindu Kush attends international water meetings, if Himalayan Region need be as a representative of the Ministers. Tahani Sileet, Nile Water Sector, Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation, Egypt RAPPORTEUR The Nile River between Conflict and Cooperation Sophie de Bruin, PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, the Netherlands PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS
Rebecca Nadin, Overseas Development Institute, Great-Britain Rebecca Nadin is Head of Programme in the ODI’s Risk and Resilience programme. She has more than 14 years’ government and consultancy experience in Asia, specialising in designing and managing multi-stakeholder initiatives in sustainable development and climate change; leading climate risk and vulnerability analysis and policy formulation.
SUCCESS STORIES OF ECOSYSTEM BASED ADAPTATION IN COLOMBIA S42 AND ECUADOR
EbA SESSION SUMMARY
Speakers from public and private sectors present successful VENUE experiences in the implementation of the Ecosystem based 1.44 Adaptation approach from around Latin America and identify factors and conditions for their success. Participants will be able to recognize success factors for the implementation, scaling up and TIME replication of ecosystem based adaptation measures, from the Thursday experience of those who have accompanied the implementation at 9h15 - 11h00 the local level. Strategies used for effective communication and private sector involvement will also be presented. Factors relevant ORGANISER/S for the log-term sustainability of Ecosystem based Adaptation measures such as financing mechanisms, monitoring and evaluation Maritza Florian Buitrago, schemes will also be identified. Ecuadorian Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development SPEAKERS PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Germany The Nature Conservancy, Colombia PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS
CHAIR Mariana Rojas Laserna, Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, Colombia
RAPPORTEUR Maritza Florian, Ministry of Environemnt and Sustainable Development, Colombia
Adaptation governance from the national to the local level
S186 SESSION SUMMARY Climate resilient development pathways The session allows participants to share experiences and perspectives on how to shape national adaptation plans to ensure they effectively reach vulnerable people in local communities. Participants will learn about the importance of good governance VENUE and linkages from national to community level in adaptation 2.41 planning and implementation. Contributions from civil society and other actors mainly in the Global South. Table hosts will share experiences and facilitate participant discussion on adaptation TIME governance related to: civil society engagement and use of Joint Thursday Principles for Adaptation; vertical integration and local government 9h15 - 11h00 engagement in NAPs; promoting local level decision making; multi- level and sector governance questions for adaptation; adaptation ORGANISER/S policy processes and dilemmas. Peter With; Fiona Percy; Esbern Friis, CARE International Climate Change SPEAKERS and Resilience Platform Danish Institute for International Studies, Julius Ng'oma, CISONECC Malawi, Denmark Introduction to the Joint Principles for Adaptation
PARTNER INSTITUTION/S PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS NAP Global Network, Danish Institute of International Studies, Angie Dazé Clean Energy Nepal (CEN); Southern Angie Dazé is a member of the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Global Voices on Adaptation, Network Secretariat, based at the International Institute for Sustainable African Center of Technology Studies Development (IISD). Her work on NAPs focuses on linking national and (ACTS); CISONECC, Malawi sub-national adaptation processes, as well as on integration of gender considerations. CHAIR Julius Ng'oma Fiona Percy, CARE International Julius Ng’oma is the Director of the Civil Society Network on Climate Team leader and technical advisor in Change – CISONECC in Malawi that has been engaging in with input climate change adaptation, resilience, from its member organisations to promote a NAP in Malawi that helps climate services, agriculture and natural the most vulnerable communities adapt to climate change resource management. Coordinator of CARE’s Adaptation Learning Rajan Thapa Programme in Africa, leading multi- Rajan Thapa is the director of Clean Energy Nepal, that has engaged country innovative development of members of CANSA Nepal and other civil society organisations to practical approaches, knowledge engage in the NAP process – promoting public awareness-raising on brokering and advocacy in relation to climate change to reach the local level community-based adaptation and user centred climate services across multiple Esbern Friis actors and levels. Esbern Friis Hansen is the Senior Researcher at Danish Institute for International Studies RAPPORTEUR Nazmul Huq Esbern Friis Hansen, Danish Institute for Working at the International Centre for Climate Change Adaptation and International Studies Development (ICCCAD) with a focus on governing eco-systembased adaptation
Irene Karani Working with LTS Africa – with a focus on Linking NDCs to the NAP process in Kenya Engaging small and medium-sized enterprises in building resilience to S56 climate change - sharing Finance perspectives and lessons from the Global South for accelerated
VENUE adaptation investments 1.64 SESSION SUMMARY TIME Thursday SMEs have so far largely been overlooked as active drivers of private adaptation. New partnerships, approaches and tools are needed 9h15 - 11h00 that give knowledge and confidence to small businesses to accelerate investment in adaptation. The session intends to explore ORGANISER/S diverse perspectives on how SMEs in developing countries can be Caroline Schaer, supported in dealing with climate risks and building climate resilience UNEP DTU Partnership (UDP) through, for example, the development of innovative tools and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale approaches to build resilience to climate risks and help communities Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Germany adapt. The aim is to showcase approaches to involve SMEs and discuss opportunities and best practices for facilitating SMEs' PARTNER INSTITUTION/S adaptation engagement. International Trade Centre (ITC), Switzerland SPEAKERS Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI), Pakistan Caroline Schaer, UNEP DTU Partnership German Development Institute, Catalysing micro small and medium-sized enterprises' (MSMEs) Germany adaptation action in developing countries - Perspectives on existing experience and future opportunities CHAIR Katharine Vincent, KULIMA, South Africa Pieter Pauw, German Development Institute Katharine is a director of Kulima Multistakeholder Partnerships for Adaptation: the role of Micro, Small Integrated Development Solutions (a and Medium Enterprises South African-based adaptation consultancy) and a visiting Associate Sebastian Homm, GIZ Professor at the University of the Application of the Climate Expert approach – experiences and Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Her outlook for building SMEs climate resilience interests are in the realm of climate risk management, including vulnerability, Annegret Brauss, International Trade Centre climate services and gender-responsive strengthening the climate resilience of international value chains adaptation Samavia Batool, Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan RAPPORTEUR Towards a climate resilient cotton value chain in Pakistan: Prakriti Naswa, UNEP DTU Partnership Understanding key risks, vulnerabilities and adaptive capacities
Assessing Global Adaptation Progress: Emerging Opportunities for S14 Knowledge and Data Integration
Governance SESSION SUMMARY N/A
VENUE 1.43 SPEAKERS
TIME Thursday 11h30 - 13h15 PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS
ORGANISER/S Lea Berrang Ford, Adaptation Tracking Collaborative (ATC)
PARTNER INSTITUTION/S
CHAIR Lea Berrang Ford, Leeds University
RAPPORTEUR Robbert Biesbroek, Wageningen University
Harnessing Climate Resilient Economic Transformation in Semi-arid S160 Lands
Deserts, semi-arid areas and SESSION SUMMARY desertification Semi-arid lands are typically portrayed as areas prone to drought, blighted by poverty and dismally low levels of human development VENUE and persistently economically and politically marginalised. Climate 2.63 change, so the narrative goes, will only exacerbate this downward trend, will threaten development and economic growth and increase risks for individuals, businesses and infrastructure, ultimately TIME transforming semi-arid lands into uninhabitable places. The evidence Thursday base presented in this session contributes to a paradigm shift in the 11h30 - 13h15 narrative around the way semi-arid lands are perceived and shift the narrative from vulnerability to opportunities associated with climate adaptation and economic development for semi-arid lands. ORGANISER/S Elizabeth Carabine, Overseas Development Institute (ODI) SPEAKERS
PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Elizabeth Carabine and Catherine Simonet, Overseas Development Kenya Markets Trust, Kenya Institute University of Ouagadougou II, Burkina Shifting the narrative on marginalised places: towards a new Faso definition of climate-resilient economic transformation Cheikh Anta Diop University, Senegal Mohammed Yahya Said, Kenya Markets Trust, Kenya Potential impacts of projected climate on livestock in the arid-semi- CHAIR arid lands of East Africa Eva Ludi, Overseas Development Institute, United Kingdom Waoundé Diop, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Senegal Eva is Head of the Water Policy Opportunities for adaptation investment in Senegalese livestock Programme. She has over 15 years of sector: insight from VC-ARID approach. experience in research and policy particularly related to climate change Issiaka Sombié, University of Ouagadougou II, Burkina Faso adaptation, adaptive capacity, water Building a sustainable and efficient cotton sector in Burkina Faso and food security, sustainable rural development and sustainable natural resource management. Eva is the Principal Investigator of the Pathways to Resilience in Semi-Arid Economies (PRISE) consortium, one of four consortia funded under the Collaborative Adaptation Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA).
RAPPORTEUR Nathalie Nathe, Overseas Development Institute, United Kingdom
Making the Case for Ecosystem based Adaptation – Concrete policy entry S37 points and governance structures for EbA EbA mainstreaming based on country examples from Africa, Latin America
VENUE and Asia. 1.62 SESSION SUMMARY TIME Thursday Adaptation strategies that integrate ecosystem services hold great potential for effective climate risk resilient development planning. 11h30 - 13h15 However, EbA measures are a still neglected form of adaptation when it comes to planning processes and implementation, although ORGANISER/S they have proved to be a cost-effective adaptation solution, e.g. for Arno Sckeyde, extreme event buffering and provision of clean water. This session will Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale focus on debating how to use promising political entry points and Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) governance structures for mainstreaming and implementing EbA South African National Biodiversity measures and how to make the case for EbA mainstreaming by Institute (SANBI), South Africa showcasing costs, benefits and impacts. SANBI and GIZ will facilitate a discussion among country representatives from Mexico, Philippines PARTNER INSTITUTION/S and South Africa on their experiences and their lessons learned. Department of Environment Affairs (DEA), South Africa SPEAKERS
CHAIR Mathias Bertram, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Mandy Barnett, South African National Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Germany Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), South How to use promising policy entry points and governance structures Africa for implementing EbA measures – Lessons learnt from an assessment Mandy Barnett currently leads SANBI’s in five countries (Mexico, Peru, South Africa, Philippines and Vietnam) programme of work as the National Implementing Entity to the Adaptation Lucy Emerton, Freelance Consultant on behalf of Deutsche Fund and Direct Access Entity of the Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Germany Green Climate Fund. Together with How to make the case for Ecosystem-based Adaptation by South Africa’s National Department of showcasing benefits Environment Affairs she also leads South Africa’s work on EbA. She works for SANBI PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS since 2003 and has extensive work experience on partnerships between Mandy Barnett, South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), government, civil society and the private South Africa sector that enable improved biodiversity Mandy Barnett currently leads SANBI’s programme of work as the management in priority biomes and National Implementing Entity to the Adaptation Fund and Direct ecosystems in South Africa. Access Entity of the Green Climate Fund. Together with South Africa’s National Department of Environment Affairs she also leads South RAPPORTEUR Africa’s work on EbA. She works for SANBI since 2003 and has Alexandra Köngeter, GIZ, Germany extensive work experience on partnerships between government, civil society and the private sector that enable improved biodiversity management in priority biomes and ecosystems in South Africa.
Barney Kgope, National Department of Environment Affairs (DEA), South Africa
Julia Wood, City of Capetown, South Africa
Rosa Perez (tbc), National Climate Change Commission (NCCC), Philippines Dr Perez is a climate expert and member of the National Panel of Technical Experts of the Climate Change Commission of the Philippines. She is engaged by the national government agencies and international development organizations in translating climate- relevant national policies into actual design of adaptation projects at sub-national and local levels.
Juan Carlos Arredondo Brun (tbc), Ministry for Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT), Mexico Juan Carlos Arredondo is Director General for Climate Change Policy at SEMARNAT. Over the last 15 years, he has worked as policy and technical advisor on climate change. Currently, he is responsible for climate change policy design, implementation and monitoring, the management of Mexico’s Climate Change Fund, and the implementation of the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC).
Mathias Bertram, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Germany Mathias Bertram is a policy advisor within the global BMU-IKI funded project Mainstreaming EbA, implemented by GIZ since 2015. For the last 10 years, his work focused on climate change and natural resources management. His current major focus is on knowledge management on applied methods and approaches for strengthening EbA in policies and practice.
Lucy Emerton, Environmental Management Group & Freelance Consultant on behalf of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Germany Lucy Emerton is an international technical advisor, policy strategist, researcher and trainer with three decades' experience across Africa, Asia, Europe, Australasia and Latin America. She has extensively worked on ecosystem valuation, incentives and financing mechanisms, conservation investment planning and protected area business planning, economics tools for ecosystem-based climate adaptation, mitigation and sustainable land management.
Mountain Adaptation Solutions Café
SESSION SUMMARY S76 Mountain regions are already prone to natural disasters and are EbA experiencing some of the most rapid changes in climate on the planet, rendering mountain communities and ecosystems vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.While many successful solutions exist that build resilience and adaptive capacity in mountain VENUE communities, they often fall short in having sufficient local ownership 1.41 for true sustainability, and have difficulty being replicated in other regions and/or upscaled. We warmly invite scientists, policy makers TIME and practitioners interested in sustainable mountain development Thursday and adaptation on all continents to share their experiences and how to overcome existing barriers! 11h30 - 13h15 SPEAKERS ORGANISER/S Björn Alfthan, Björn Alfthan, Programme Leader, Polar and Mountain Environments UN Environment Programme, GRID-Arendal GRID-Arendal, Norway A Mountain Thematic Community under the Panorama Portal?
PARTNER INSTITUTION/S André Fabian, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale International Centre for Integrated Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ), International Climate Initiative (IKI) Mountain Development (ICIMOD), support to the Paris Agreement Project, Berlin Germany Nepal Ecosystem-based Adaptation in High Mountain Regions of Central Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Asia Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Germany University of the Free State, South Africa Nand Kishor Agrawal, ICIMOD Resilience Building Solutions from Himalayan Mountains CHAIR Musonda Mumba, UN Environment, Matthias Jurek, UN Environment Kenya ClimaProof – Climate Proofing infrastructure in the Western Balkan Musonda is currently the programme Mountains. Coordinator for UNEP’s Ecosystem- based Adaptation (EbA) Programme Aliza le Roux, Afromontane Research Unit, University of the Free State- within the Climate Change Adaptation Qwaqwa team. Her responsibilities include Mountain research as more than mere academics providing technical expertise to governments globally, developing appropriate policy dialogue, guidance and other technical/programmatic support.
RAPPORTEUR Björn Alfthan, GRID-Arendal
Overcoming barriers to scaling up Ecosystem-based Adaptation: S224 strengthening the evidence base and Terrestrial and freshwater engaging the private sector ecosystems and their services SESSION SUMMARY
VENUE In this interactive session, we will explore, together with practitioners and researchers from across the world, how anecdotal evidence of 1.61 EbA effectiveness can be systematically captured and assessed, and then used to facilitate appropriate private and public sector TIME investment into EbA solutions. We start the session with two Thursday presentations that address issues around the evidence base, 11h30 - 13h15 including the transition from the use of anecdotal evidence to the development of more systematic assessment methodologies. This will be followed by two presentations on the barriers and opportunities ORGANISER/S for private sector involvement in EbA, including the role played by Nadine Methner, the evidence base. The remainder of the session will then be Univeristy of Cape Town organized in the world café format with half of the tables focusing UN Environment, Kenya on questions relevant to project implementers and the other half of the tables focusing on questions relevant to researchers. PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Conservation South Africa, South Africa SPEAKERS Conservation International, University of Stellenbosh, South Africa Hannah Reid, International Institute for Environment and International Institute for Environment Development (IIED) and Development (IIED), Ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation: strengthening the
evidence and informing policy CHAIR Valerie Kapos, World Conservation Camila I. Donatti, Conservation International, United States Monitoring Centre Measuring the adaptation outcomes of Ecosystem-based adaptation to climate change RAPPORTEUR Nadine Methner, University of Cape John Firth, CEO Acclimatise, UK Town, South Africa The private sector’s use of nature-based solutions to address climate risks
Amal-Lee Amin, Chief of Climate Change and Sustainability Division at the Inter-American Development Bank Overcoming the barriers to private sector use of nature-based solutions for climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean
PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS
Stephanie Midgley (SU/ACDI) Stephanie holds degrees in botany (PhD) and agricultural science (MScAgric). She has worked on climate change risk, vulnerability and adaptation across southern Africa since 1992, focusing on sustainable agricultural systems and linking research into policy/strategy and practice in both the commercial and developmental context. She has extensive experience in engaging the public and private sectors, scientists, non-governmental organisations, rural communities and farmers across all scales. Stephanie has worked on (amongst others) a Lesotho agricultural climate change adaptation project, the Regional Climate Change Programme for Southern Africa, two food-energy-water nexus projects, and the climate change response framework and implementation plan for the agricultural sector in the Western Cape Province. She is currently an independent research consultant associated with the ACDI/UCT and Stellenbosch University.
Penny Price (ACDI) Penny has a postgraduate degree in Environmental and Geographical Science and has extensive experience in climate adaptation and related policy, having worked on climate change across all three spheres of the South African government. This work has primarily been located in the environmental sector, however it has required her to work across a broad range of sectors and stakeholders as well as covering the range from the local level to the national and strategic planning level. She has extensive experience with ecosystem-based adaptation where she has been involved in the conceptualisation, development and implementation of a number of projects. Penny is currently an ACDI Research Associate and working as a freelance consultant.
Quantifying benefits of adaptation: Balancing soft benefits and hard costs
S181 SESSION SUMMARY Poverty, livelihoods and sustainable development Financing climate adaptation measures is challenging. The cost- benefits can be unclear, considering the broad implications of your climate adaptation strategy. Complicating factors are: social inequality and related difference in resilience, land scarcity and VENUE rapid urban growth resulting in growth in vulnerable floodprone 1.63 areas and last but not least difference in level of insurance. The social and financial impact of a climate hazard is therefore nearly impossible to quantify. So how can you balance the soft benefits and TIME hard cost of your adaptation strategy? Various cities will present Thursday practical examples, used methods, struggles and lessons learnt 11h30 - 13h15 towards funding and showing the added value of your climate adaptation measures. " ORGANISER/S Jorg Pieneman, SPEAKERS City of Rotterdam Johan Verlinde, City of Rotterdam, Netherlands PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Asset management a way of balancing soft benefits and hard cost C40 Climate Leadership Group, USA of the Rotterdam adaptation strategy
CHAIR Feirully Irzal, City of Jakarta, Indonesia Weighing Social Costs of Climate Adaptation Measures, and Kevin Austin, C40 Government-Private Sector Mutually Benefiting Scheme of Financing Dr Kevin Austin serves as C40’s Deputy
Executive Director. Kevin oversees all of Nathan Kron, Washington, DC, USA C40’s programme delivery, operations In Process Lessons for Standing Up a Green Bank and finance functions as well as contributing to global thought Mzukisi ka-Gwata, City of Johannesburg, South Africa leadership and innovation in urban In South Africa institutionalising municipal grants makes a climate climate change issues. Kevin joined C40 change action plan work. from the Greater London Authority in
2012. PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS RAPPORTEUR Jorg Pieneman, City of Rotterdam, The Kevin Austin, deputy CEO, C40, USA Netherlands Kevin Austin serves as C40’s Deputy Executive Director. Kevin oversees all of C40’s programme delivery, operations and finance functions as well as contributing to global thought leadership and innovation in urban climate change issues. Kevin joined C40 from the Greater London Authority in 2012.
Johan Verlinde, City of Rotterdam, Netherlands Johan Verlinde works for the City of Rotterdam as senior advisor on climate adaptation. He is program manager for the Rotterdam Deltaplan. The plan’s goal is to take the next step in preparing the city for climate hazards like heavy rainfall, heat and drought; in close collaboration with inhabitants, companies, social housing corporations, water boards and more.
Feirully Irzal, City of Jakarta, Indonesia Feirully Irzal is head of the Roads and Housing subdivision at the Jakarta Regional Development Planning Board. Today he is leading the Planning and Evaluation of the Jakarta Spatial MasterPlan 2030
Nathan Kron, Washington, DC, USA Nathan is an Assistant General Counsel at the DC Department of Energy and Environment (DOEE). He provides legal support on the drafting and implementation of DC Green Bank legislation and policies. Prior to joining to DOEE, Nathan worked as attorney in in private practice advising energy, transportation and clean tech companies on utilizing government funding for technology development and deployment efforts.
Mzukisi ka-Gwata, City of Johannesburg, South Africa Since 2010 Mr. Muzkisi Gwata is programme manager climate change adaptation at city of Johannesburg. He is leading the implementation of the climate change adaptation and policy programme. Before he was a senior scientist at the South African Weather Service.
Vulnerability scenarios for adaptation planning: Approaches, S25 achievements and gaps
Cities and Urban areas SESSION SUMMARY
Adaptation planning and adaptive pathway planning are emerging VENUE and important issues for facilitating successful adaptation. Yet, whilst 2.61 assessments of future risk trajectories typically put a lot of emphasis on the modelling of future hazard trends (e.g. sea level rise, flooding or heat patterns), this information is most often not matched with TIME scenarios or other assessments of future trends in exposure and even Thursday more so vulnerability. The sessions therefore aim at discussing and 11h30 - 13h15 advancing approaches for the development, application and transfer of vulnerability scenarios, especially in the context of urban ORGANISER/S development and climate change adaptation. Matthias Garschagen, United Nations University (UNU) SPEAKERS United Nations University, Daniel Feldmeyer, University of Stuttgart, IREUS PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Development of human vulnerability: learning from past trends for University of Stuttgart, Germany future directions
CHAIR Stefan Greiving, University of Dortmund Improving the assessment of actual and potential impacts of climate Matthias Garschagen, United Nations change and extreme events through a parallel modelling of climatic University Dr. Matthias Garschagen leads the section and societal changes at different scales on Vulnerability Assessment, Risk Management and Adaptive Planning Matthias Garschagen, United Nations University (VARMAP) at United Nations University – Future in the Making: Participatory Scenario Development on Risk Institute for Environment and Human Security and Transformation Pathways in Coastal Megacities (UNU-EHS) in Bonn. He further holds a position as a Honorary Professor at RMIT University, Mark Pelling, King's College London Melbourne, in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies. His research focuses on Guillaume Rohat urban risk governance in the context of global change, particularly in Asia. Dr. Influence of changes in socioeconomic and climatic conditions on Garschagen currently serves as a Lead future heat-related health impacts in Europe Author in the IPCC’s upcoming Special Report on Ocean and the Cryosphere Mark Tebboth (SROCC) and the Sixth Assessment Report Using qualitative scenarios as a tool to identify climate-compatible (AR6). He is a member of several editorial adaptation interventions for marginalised communities boards, including the Journal of Extreme Events and the journal Urban Climate. Dr. Garschagen leads a number of international research projects and his research findings have been published in well-known international journals, e.g. Nature, Climatic Change or Habitat International.
RAPPORTEUR Stefan Greiving, University of Dortmund
What are we learning about South- South peer learning?
S130 SESSION SUMMARY South South learning This session will facilitate an open and honest discussion about the ambitions, approaches, tools, as well as underlying assumptions and power dynamics related to South-South peer learning in adaptation. VENUE It look at issues ranging from understanding and tracking impact of 2.41 South-South peer learning, to the evolving role of Northern actors, and anticipating the next generation of South-South peer learning TIME for adaptation. Thursday The session will be organised using a World Café format, where each 11h30 - 13h15 table will be hosted by a global / regional adaptation initiative that emphasizes South-South peer learning. ORGANISER/S Christian Ledwell, SPEAKERS International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) Julia Barrott, Stockholm Environment Institute, United Kingdom Exploring new e-learning formats to enhance online learning and PARTNER INSTITUTION/S capacity-building Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA), Ruth Butterfield, Stockholm Environment Institute, United Kingdom Canada Sharing learning and building capacity through ‘inspiring cases’ for Building Resilience and Adapting to climate action in African cities Climate Extremes and Disasters (BRACED), United Kingdom Ruth Martínez, Conservation International Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Learning and training about climate change adaptation and EbA Centre, among agricultural technicians in Central America
CHAIR Anne Hammill, IISD & NAP Global PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS Network Anne Hammill is Director, Resilience for Blane Harvey, McGill University and IISD, Canada IISD. Much of her work focuses on A senior research and program specialist with over 10 years’ understanding how better experience in climate change and development, Blane has been environmental management can build an active contributor to the United Nations climate change resilience to climate stress and negotiations process since 2003. His recent work has included contribute to peacebuilding. Anne’s research on how climate change knowledge is produced, validated most recent work has been leading the and communicated, and how learning and knowledge sharing can Secretariat of the National Adaptation support action on climate change in the global South. Plan (NAP) Global Network, which facilitates South-South peer learning and Georgina Cundill, International Development Research Centre, exchange on NAP processes. She has Canada also been working with organizations in Georgina Cundill is the Senior Program Officer at the International Eastern and Central Africa to Development Research Centre (IDRC). She works mainly on the understand and address the links Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia between conservation activities and (CARIAA), a partnership between Canada’s IDRC and the UK’s conflict. Department for International Development. Prior to this, she was a senior lecturer at Rhodes University’s Department of Environmental RAPPORTEUR Science. She has also worked as lead researcher in social ecology at Anika Terton, International Institute for the Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Zonas Aridas (CEAZA), Chile. Sustainable Development (IISD), Canada Bettina Koelle, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, South Africa Bettina joined the Climate Centre in 2013 and is now the focal point for Southern Africa, developing and facilitating approaches to interactive learning and dialogue. Her work focuses on adaptation, including Future Climate for Africa, the Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia, and the UK-supported "BRACED" programme. A geographer by training, Bettina has two decades of experience with interactive learning for adaptation, linking experience from the grass roots to the global UN climate talks, with a special focus on climate finance.
Saleemul Huq, International Centre for Climate Change and Development, Bangladesh Dr. Saleemul Huq is the Director of the International Centre for Climate Change & Development (ICCCAD) since 2009. Dr. Huq is also a Senior Fellow at the International Institute for Environment & Development (IIED), where he is involved in building negotiating capacity and supporting the engagement of the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) in UNFCCC including negotiator training workshops for LDCs, policy briefings and support for the Adaptation Fund Board, as well as research into vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in the least developed countries.
Community driven responses to climate change. Government policy S201 meets local innovation - experience Poverty, livelihoods and from Africa. sustainable development SESSION SUMMARY
VENUE Understanding the local context of communities that are actually experiencing negative impacts of climate change, is increasingly 2.43 being acknowledged as a key element for successful implementation of sustained resilience. In this session we explore how TIME government policy on enhanced direct access can translate into Thursday community based action. Beneficiaries of locally driven adaptation 11h30 - 13h15 programmes in Africa will be invited to share their experiences, to get insights on: * The delivery of enhanced direct access; * What characterises locally designed adaptation responses and how these ORGANISER/S are distinguishable from development (as usual) projects; * Lorraine Dimairho, Processes, tools or methodologies adopted to ensure that climate SouthSouthNorth resilience is embedded in the target communities; * The impact and or role of decentralised decision-making authority; it’s challenges; PARTNER INSTITUTION/S and how accountability is managed and maintained. CARE International Climate Change, Kenya, Ghana, Niger, Ethiopia, PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS Zimbabwe, Malawi
Katrina Schwartz, Biodiversity & Redmeat Cooperative, South Africa CHAIR Katrina is a livestock farmer with a deep love for people, nature, and Tlou Ramaru, Department of animals. She lives on her farm outside Leliefontein in the Kamiesberg Environmental Affairs, South Africa region of Namakwaland, South Africa. Driven by her concern for the Mr Tlou Ramaru is the Chief Director: state of the landscape, harsh and changing climate and the impact Climate Change Adaptation in the this has had on farmers, she helped establish the Biodiversity & Department of Environmental Affairs. He Redmeat Cooperative (BRC) to support farmers with stewardship. leads strategic planning and coordination of responses to climate Fhatuwani Nemalamangwa, Ramotshinyadi HIV/AIDS Youth Guide, change impacts/risks at national, South Africa provincial and local government level. Fhatuwani is a founding member and Director of Ramotshinyadi He provides strategic leadership in HIV/AIDS Youth Guide overseeing the delivery of various community climate science communication and development projects, in the Limpopo Province (South Africa), mainstreaming adaptation responses including a climate-smart agriculture project funded by the into sector plans and policies. Mr Tlou Community Adaptation Small Grants Facility. Fhatuwani is passionate manages adaptation inputs into about the upliftment of his community, and has been working with international and MEA related agenda local communities on issues like HIV/ AIDS, land reform and and processes. agriculture, for the last 20years.
RAPPORTEUR Sanoussi Ababale, CARE International, Niger Lorraine Dimairho, SouthSouthNorth, Sanoussi, a planning geographer by training, is an Advisor on South Africa Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change. He was the project manager of CARE’s Adaptation Learning Program in CARE Niger up to 2017 and is an expert in community adaptation action planning. He has more than 17 years of experience in the area of development oriented towards technical assistance and project management.
Incorporating human responses to climate change in adaptation for S198 biodiversity
Terrestrial and freshwater SESSION SUMMARY ecosystems and their services The session will present examples of recent analytical work on climate change impacts on protected areas in the Afrotropics and VENUE subtropics, including a focus on the anticipated human response to 2.46 projected climate change impacts. This is based upon empirical work being conducted under the SPARC program (Spatial Planning for Protected Areas in Response to Climate Change), led by TIME Conservation International and funded by the GEF. Objectives: Thursday Increase awareness amongst appropriate stakeholder and user 11h30 - 13h15 groups of new work on climate change impacts on biodiversity, and adaptation responses, in developing countries. Shared interrogation of emerging results, identify areas for improvement, draw out policy ORGANISER/S implications including for Ecosystem Based Adaptation. Consider a Guy Midgley,, fledgling network for global co-ordination of climate change impact Stellenbosch University prediction and verification, and adaptive response in Africa. Discuss Dept Environmental Affairs, South Africa program of systematic research and observation to support such a network. PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Conservation International, USA; South SPEAKERS Africa; Global
Patrick Roehrdanz; Lee Hannah, Conservation International, USA, CHAIR Building species distribution models (SDM) to assess the risks of Wendy Foden, Stellenbosch University, climate change to protected areas networks South Africa Prof Foden has conducted and led Benedictus Freeman, University of Kansas, USA biodiversity vulnerability assessments to Fine scale construction of SDM in a regional to local context: the climate change, and developed case of birds in Liberi methods required to conduct them, since the 2000s. She has held leadership Wendy Foden; Guy Midgley, Stellenbosch University, South Africa or senior advisory positions in the IUCN, Revisiting a climate change sentinel: What can Aloidendron WWF and SANBI, and was based out of dichotomum tell us about observed species responses to climate Cambridge, UK for several years, where change? she retains a visiting academic status. Vernon Visser, University of Cape Town, South Africa RAPPORTEUR Using the Southern African Bird Atlas data to validate bird SDMs Yolanda Chirango, Stellenbosch University, South Africa Global Assessment of Protected Areas Sensitivity and Adaptive Capacity
Ntando Mkhize, DEA, South Africa Ecosystem Based Adaptation in a policy and implementation context
The best of both worlds? Debating technical and participatory S31 approaches for urban resilience
Cities, settlement and key SESSION SUMMARY infrastructure City governments often choose for investment or adaptation of infrastructure to reduce disaster risk and strengthen resilience to VENUE climate change. Cordaid observes that while these solutions may be 1.44 appropriate from a technical perspective their contribution to resilience of urban communities is limited due to lack of participation of civil society. During this session experts from different fields will TIME present case studies showing integration of technical and Thursday community based approaches and the relevance of integrated risk 11h30 - 13h15 management with attention on climate change adaptation, ecosystem management, and DRR. Panellists and audience will then debate the key challenges of an integrated approach and next ORGANISER/S steps to scale up this approach. Valerie Brown, CORDAID PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Partners for Resilience (PfR), The Thandie Mwape, Red Cross, Netherlands Netherlands Thandie Mwape is the Humanitarian Diplomacy Coordinator at the Netherlands Red Cross working as Policy Adviser on the Netherlands’ Ministry of Foreign Affairs funded initiative: Partners for Resilience. CHAIR Between 2001 and 2016, Thandie served with the United Nations in Heleen van der Beek, Cordaid, The various portfolios as Public Information Officer, Regional Political Netherlands Affairs Affairs, Analyst and Humanitarian Affairs Officer in East Timor, Heleen leads the Resilience team within Kosovo, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Zimbabwe, New York and Cordaid Headquarters in the Geneva Netherlands. This is a team of highly skilled professionals who manage, Telly Chauke, South African Local Government Association (SALGA), implement, write and design projects in SA various areas related to resilience. She is Telly Chauke is a Specialist in Environment and Climate Change a former diplomat who has had postings within the Municipal Services and Infrastructure Directorate of the in Jordan and the Czech republic. She South African Local Government Association (SALGA). She is has previously led the country office of responsible for facilitating support to municipalities on policy and ICCO-Cooperation in Bangladesh. practice related to environmental management and climate change. She represents South African municipalities in national RAPPORTEUR intergovernmental structures and forums Valerie Brown, Cordaid, The Netherlands Shannon Royden-Turner, Acturban, SA Shannon Royden-Turner is a visionary urban strategist at Actuality. She works as a speaker, educator and adviser to urban leaders, transforming the urban planning process to enable the adoption and scaling of regenerative innovation. Her life’s work focuses on shifting our paradigm from a world filled with problems, to one where inspired and purposeful leaders can see that every problem is simultaneously solved when we broaden our perspective.
Yohan Santosa, Cordaid, Indonesia Yohan Santosa is the program coordinator and a community advisor at Cordaid’s partner organization KARINA, Indonesia working primarily with the Partners for Resilience program. He is also an English language lecturer and DRR Practitioner/facilitator with extensive experiences and achievement in curriculum, syllabus and training material development, participatory facilitation, and community development.
Julie Mulonga, Wetlands International, NL Julie Mulonga is a Wetlands International program manager in charge of the Eastern-Africa offices. She has been working for Wetlands International for the past 4 years, coordinating and implementing programs in the region; Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Tanzania and South Sudan. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Climate Change and Adaptation.
Adaptation practice and experience in deltas in the global south
S27 SESSION SUMMARY Ecosystems and their services This session will enable knowledge exchange and debate on adaptation challenges, research needs, and practical opportunities in deltas across Africa and Asia. Short presentations on livelihoods, VENUE adaptation, migration and delta management will be given from 1.64 three major research projects and initiatives – DEltas, vulnerability and Climate Change: migration and Adaptation (DECCMA), the TIME Western Indian Ocean Deltas Exchange and Research Network (WIODER) and the Delta Alliance. A panel discussion will then Thursday address questions around how research can inform adaptation 14h15 - 16h00 practice, the transferability of experiences, and the opportunities to improve the science-policy interface and knowledge exchange ORGANISER/S between African deltas and knowledge institutes and universities. Katharine Vincent, Kulima Integrated Development SPEAKERS Solutions Katharine Vincent, Kulima Integrated Development Solutions, South PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Africa Delft University of Technology, Documenting observed adaptations in deltaic Ghana, India and Netherlands Bangladesh
CHAIR Ricardo Safra de Campos, University of Exeter, UK Robert Nicholls, University of Migration as an adaptation Southampton Robert is Professor of Coastal Ken Kinney, Coordinator Delta Alliance-Ghana Wing Engineering at the University of Enhancing environmental quality, reducing vulnerability: The Volta Southampton. His research is focussed delta case on long-term coastal engineering and management, especially the issues of Mohamed Soliman, Coastal Research Institute, National Water coastal impacts and adaptation to Research Center, Egypt climate change, with an emphasis on Adaptation of low-laying land of the Nile delta to climate change, sea-level rise. A major recent theme of SLR and extreme events his research has been the future of deltas. PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS
RAPPORTEUR Katharine Vincent, Kulima Integrated Development Solutions, South Peter van Veelen, Delft University of Africa Technology, Netherlands Katharine is a director of Kulima Integrated Development Solutions (a South African-based adaptation consultancy) and a visiting Associate Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Her interests are in the realm of climate risk management, including vulnerability, climate services and gender- responsive adaptation.
Ricardo Safra de Campos, University of Exeter, UK Ricardo is a Research Fellow at the University of Exeter. His research is focussed on mobility and migration responses to global environmental change. He is currently involved in two research projects: ‘Deltas, Vulnerability and Climate Change: Migration and Adaptation (DECCMA)’; and ‘Safe and Sustainable Cities: Human Security, Migration and Well-being’.
Ken Kinney, Coordinator Delta Alliance-Ghana Wing Ken Kinney is Executive Director of the Development Institute and Delta Alliance Ghana wing Coordinator. He is a graduate of the University of Ghana, Legon and Southern Africa Regional Institute for Policy Studies of University of Fort Hare, South Africa.
Mohamad Soliman, Coastal Research Institute, National Water Research Center, Egypt Mohamad Soliman is an engineer. He is the director of the Coastal Research Institute and the coordinator of the Egypt wing of the Delta Alliance. He was formerly assistant minister in Egypt’s Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation.
Leveraging science to enhance citizen leadership in urban adaptation S50 and risk manegment
Cities and urban areas SESSION SUMMARY
Participatory methodologies have become a standard of VENUE researchers and NGO repertoires when engaging with local actors. 2.46 Many experiences are supportive of local action but as many are deployed as rapid methodologies with limited scope for meaningful stakeholder reflection and potential action. This session opens a TIME roundtable discussion to focus critically on the deployment of Thursday participatory methods and coproduced approaches to stakeholder 14h15 - 16h00 engagement in adaptation research and NGO activity. Discussion will be catalysed by statements from academics and practitioners, ORGANISER/S participants will be encouraged to bring their own experiences to the discussion. Mark Pelling, King's College London SPEAKERS PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Emmanuel Osuteye, Development Planning Unit, University College CHAIR London (Presenter); Adriana Allen, Development Planning Unit, University College London (author) Mark Pelling, King's College London Getting poor women and men out of Urban risk traps: ReMapRisk as Mark Pelling is Professor of Geography, a model for collective action and capacity building in Freetown, King's College London with a specialism Sierra Leone and Karonga, Malawi in social and institutional analysis for disaster risk management and climate Alice Sverdlik, International Institute for Environment and change adaptation, predominantly in Development, United Kingdom; Kimani Joseph, Shack/Slum Dwellers urban contexts of the global South. He International, Kenya has been a coordinating lead author for Capacity-building to enhance governance and reduce risks in the IPCC 5th Assessment Report, and Mukuru, Nairobi SREX special report. He will be a coordinating lead author for the Human Hayley Leck, King’s College London (Presenter); Mark Pelling, King’s settlements chapter in the 6th College London Assessment Report. Mark also acts as a Hybrid modes of governing for disaster risk management in Dar es Resilience Challenge Lead for the UKRI Salaam and Nairobi Global Challenges Research Fund.
Pascal Kipkemboi, Kounkuey Design Initiative, Kenya RAPPORTEUR Developing risk or resilience? Effects of slum upgrading on the social Emmanuel Osuteye, University College contract and social cohesion in Kibera, Nairobi London Chris Jack, University of Cape Town, South Africa Co-creation of Urban Climate Risk Narratives as trans-disciplinary knowledge production and exchange
Jan Hugo, University of Pretoria, South Africa Defining urban interstitial space typologies to enable the transformation and improving the climate resilience of South African cities
Scaling up ecosystem-based adaptation: Linking science, practice S30 and policy
EbA SESSION SUMMARY
Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) — the conservation, sustainable VENUE management and restoration of natural ecosystems to help people 2.43 adapt to climate change — is receiving growing attention for its great potential to reduce people’s vulnerability to a range of climate change impacts and provide significant co-benefits for biodiversity TIME and people, especially those most vulnerable to climate change. It Thursday is often a sound investment when compared to other adaptation 14h15 - 16h00 options, and yet it is not receiving as much support in national policy makers processes as it merits. ORGANISER/S Xiaoting Hou-Jones, The event aims to bring together policy makers, practitioners and International Institute for Environment researchers to share experiences and discuss 1)Effectiveness: what and Development (IIED) works & what has not worked in Ecosystem-based adaptation approaches at different scales when EbA is applied? How can we PARTNER INSTITUTION/S measure and demonstrate evidence of EbA effectiveness? What enables EbA effectiveness and what are the barriers? 2) Impacts: International Union for Conservation how can ecosystem-based approaches EbA contribute to both and Nature (IUCN), better development and adaptation outcomes? What co-benefits UNEP-WCMC, United Kingdom does EbA provide? How does EbA contribute to SDGs? 3)Up-scaling:
how can we maximize the uptake of evidence from research into CHAIR development and climate change policymaking and Hannah Reid, International Institute for implementation? What tools exist and what can existing EbA case Environment and Development studies teach us about ways to integrate EbA into complex social, Dr Hannah Reid is a Research Associate cultural and political-economic systems? with the International Institute for Environment and Development. She has PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS over fifteen years’ experience working on climate change and development with particular strengths including how Yazan Elhadi best to help those who are most Dr. Yazan Elhadi is an Agriculture and Resource Economist with an vulnerable to climate change cope with interest in Climate change adaptation, finance and climate its impacts, and ecosystem-based information services. Dr. Elhadi is currently working for the adaptation approaches to adaptation. consortium, overseeing Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and learning. He also has experience working across a variety of RAPPORTEUR economics and social related fields.
Hannah Reid, International Institute for Anu Adhikari Environment and Development Anu Adhikari is the Senior Programme Officer in IUCN Nepal Country Office. She has been with IUCN since 2009 and have been coordinating EbA related projects since 2011 . She has both field level implementation and policy level experience on EbA and Ecosystem based Disaster Risk Reduction. Currently she has been coordinating three EbA projects in Nepal.
Sarshen Scorgie Sarshen Scorgie is the Director for Policy and Climate Change at Conservation South Africa, an affiliate of Conservation International. Her work focuses largely on the integration of Ecosystem Based Adaptation into local and national policy, building on the lessons from their demonstrations on EbA across 3 climatic spectrums within South Africa. These demonstrations focus largely on small scale farmers within communally owned lands and on building the resilience of these communities.
Slyvia Wicander Sylvia Wicander works in the Climate Change and Biodiversity Programme of UN Environment’s World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), where she works primarily on ecosystem- based approaches to adaptation and tools that support it. She has also worked on the on the role of protected areas in the climate resilience of local communities in West Africa. Sylvia’s work has also focused on aspects of protected areas governance and equity, and she previously conducted research on the effectiveness of alternative livelihoods projects in Central Africa.
Nathalie Seddon Nathalie Seddon is Professor of Biodiversity at Oxford University and Research Associate at IIED. An ecologist and evolutionary biologist by training, she now works at the science-policy interface, consolidating and translating ecosystem science for the benefit of decision maker in government and business. She is also Director of the Nature-based Solutions Initiative.
Sophie Kutegeka - Mbabazi Sophie Kutegeka is the Country Representative for IUCN in Uganda. She has led EbA related initiatives since 2012 including the Mountain EbA Flagship Project in Mt Elgon Uganda. This project piloted innovative Ecosystem based Approaches in mountain communities that are particularly vulnerable to climate change.
So your research has no impact...? Participatory theatre can get you S17 there! (and have fun while you're at it)
Poverty, livelihoods and SESSION SUMMARY sustainable development; Decision-making options for This session will use participatory ‘theatre of the oppressed’ to managing risk examine the challenges researchers face when trying to have an impact in the real world. The play will show how communication is often a key barrier, even if all stakeholders are pushing towards the same goal. VENUE 2.62 & 2.63 After enjoying a theatre session performed by local actors, in a second run participants will be invited to walk into the play and TIME become actors shaping the play’s outcomes – as they explore Thursday solutions to the challenges of #ResearchImpact. 14h15 - 16h00 We’ll then have an open discussion about making research relevant, participatory, impactful and accessible to all. ORGANISER/S Daniel Morchain, SPEAKERS Oxfam GB
PARTNER INSTITUTION/S
CHAIR PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS Daniel Morchain, Oxfam GB, United Kingdom Daniel is Global Adviser for Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience at Oxfam, also focusing on gender. He is co-Principal Investigator for the ‘Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions’ (ASSAR) project, leading the research for impact work stream. He is Venezuelan, Vegan, likes Vodka and loves Verona (his 16-year-old dog aka Mulia).
RAPPORTEUR Debarat Sukla, ICIMOD, Nepal
The intersection of culture, ethics and information in practical adaptation
S183 SESSION SUMMARY Climate services Knowledge production of climate information for adaptation is permeated with unexamined values and assumptions. This is particularly critical in the contrast between the perspectives of VENUE developing nations and the so-called W.E.I.R.D. nations (Western, 2.41 Educated, Industrialized, and Rich Democracies), the latter most often steering climate adaptation initiatives in developing nations. TIME The nuances of the developing world context are often not well- considered in designing adaptation. The session will interrogate this Thursday through an assessment and critique of the ethics, values, and 14h15 - 16h00 paradigms in the practices of climate information conceptualization, creation, communication, and application at different decision ORGANISER/S scales and regions of the world. Anna Steynor, University of Cape Town PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS
PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Cathy Vaughan, IRI Columbia/Leeds University IRI Columbia/Leeds University, United Cathy Vaughan is a senior staff associate at the International Research States of America Institute for Climate & Society; she is also a PhD candidate at the School Australian National University, Australia for Earth and the Environment at Leeds University, where her research USAID, United States of America focuses on institutional arrangements to support climate services, particularly in Latin America.
CHAIR Alex Apotsos, USAID, United States of America Bruce Hewitson, University of Cape Alex Apotsos is currently examining social vulnerability in South African Town, South Africa cities on a Fulbright Fellowship. He also serves as a Climate Change Bruce Hewitson is the director of the Advisor at USAID and lecturer at Williams College. He has previously Climate Systems Analysis Group. He is served with the U.S. Peace Corps in Mali and as a science advisor to U.S. extensively engaged with capacity Senator Jon Tester. building in Africa and with the communication of regional climate Coleen Vogel, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa information supporting responses to Coleen Vogel is a distinguished professor at the Global Change Institute, climate change. He serves numerous University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. She is a climatologist by roles internationally, including as training and works on the social dimensions of climate change, focusing coordinating lead author in the particularly on climate change adaptation. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and currently co-chairs Mark Howden, Australian National University, Australia both the IPCC TGICA task group and the Professor Mark Howden is the Director of the Climate Change Institute, World Climate Research Program Australian National University and an Honorary Professor at Melbourne University. Mark has worked on climate variability, climate change, (WCRP) working group on regional innovation and adoption issues for over 30 years in partnership with climates. farmers, farmer groups, catchment groups, industry bodies, agribusiness, urban utilities and various policy agencies via both research and RAPPORTEUR science-policy roles. Alice McClure, University of Cape Town, South Africa Anna Steynor, Climate System Analysis Group, University of Cape Town, South Africa (SA) Anna is the head of climate services in the Climate System Analysis Group. She has a background in applied climate science with a current research focus on the transdisciplinary co-production of climate information. Anna implements and manages climate services projects at CSAG as well as implements regional capacity building initiatives.
Towards an adaptive climate proof freshwater supply in salinising deltas S180 and possible solutions for deltas Climate resilient development worldwide: examples from The pathways Netherlands, Ghana, Vietnam and
Bangladesh VENUE 1.62 SESSION SUMMARY
TIME Climate change, salinisation and economic development demand an increased level of self-sufficiency of fresh water supply in many Thursday delta’s worldwide. Water supply at the regional level, especially 14h15 - 16h00 towards agriculture, as big user of fresh water, will have to become more climate resilient and robust. The use of existing sources of fresh ORGANISER/S water needs to be improved. There is a need for innovative and Steven Visser, improved solutions to retain fresh water. The use and distribution of Netherlands Ministry of Infrastructure fresh water needs to be made more efficient. Climate change asks and Water Management timely measures and also new practices and innovative solutions. This session will explore the following questions focussing on 4 delta’s in PARTNER INSTITUTION/S the world: 1. How can we organize and finance a development towards a more resilient fresh water supply and more careful use of Deltares, The Netherlands fresh water ? 2. How do we facilitate debate on water availability University of Ghana, Ghana with stakeholders ? 3. What are feasible measures and water United Nations University, Germany management principles to increase adaptive capacities ? 4. How do ICDDR'B, Bangladesh we implement adaptation: from pilots to a change in mind set ?
CHAIR Steven Visser, Ministry of Infrastructure SPEAKERS and Water Management, The Netherlands Steven Visser, Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, The Since 1996, Steven is working as a senior Netherlands Steven Visser (in cooperation with Ruud Teunissen and advisor in integrated water Otto Cox) management, hydrology, irrigation & The Dutch Delta Programme Approach: an innovative nation-wide drainage, flood control and water adaptation program to climate change quantity & water quality management. He is working as an independent water Esther van Baaren ,J.R. Delsman, M. Karaoulis, P.S. Pauw (Deltares, management consultant since 2008 and The Netherlands); G.H.P. Oude Essink (Department of Physical has extensive working experiences in The Geography, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands) Netherlands, several European Climate-proofing freshwater supply in salinising deltas: the Zeeland countries, Palestine, Kyrgyzstan, freshwater laboratory Pakistan, Bangladesh, Viet Nam, Nigeria and Trinidad & Tobago). Kwasi Appeaning Addo, Department of Marine and Fisheries Sciences, University of Ghana RAPPORTEUR The DECCMA Project in the Volta Delta
Esther van Baaren, Deltares Pham Thi Thanh Hoai (co-author Matthias Garschagen), United Nations University, Institute For Environment and Human Security, Bonn, Germany Limited role of natural salinity intrusion in explaining the livelihood adaptation strategies of households in coastal areas of Vietnam
UCCRN Urban Planning & Urban Design Lab
S204 SESSION SUMMARY Cities and urban areas The UCCRN proposes an Urban Planning and Urban Design Lab Session and external side event focused on the coupled GHG mitigation and urban heat stress adaptation and resiliency. Teams of VENUE Participants will be drawn from city government and stakeholders 1.41 from each city participating in the session. The Teams will interact and learn from one another’s experiences in their on-going climate TIME change programs and will together develop perspectives on taking efforts to the next level of engagement and implementation. The Thursday goal of the sessions will be to rapidly and deeply build capacity 14h15 - 16h00 across multiple stakeholder sectors in cities to implement climate mitigation, adaptation, resilience, and transformation related to ORGANISER/S climate change. The UCCRN Lab Session will draw its analysis and Cynthia Rosenzweig, strategy from four evidence-based urban heat action principles: 1) Urban Climate Change Research Efficiency of urban systems 2) Form and layout 3) Heat-resistant Network (UCCRN) construction materials 4) Vegetative cover.
PARTNER INSTITUTION/S PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS eThekwini Municipality, South Africa Manishka De Mel, Center for Climate Systems Research CHAIR Manishka is a Climate Change Specialist with over 12 years of Cynthia Rosenzweig, NASA Goddard professional experience in climate change, conservation and environmental management. At the Center for Climate Systems Institute for Space Studies/Columbia Research at Columbia University’s Earth Institute, she provides technical University input, research, program development, and capacity building for Dr. Rosenzweig leads the Climate international and US projects. She has also worked at IUCN and Impacts Group at NASA GISS in New York Environmental Foundation in Sri Lanka and is a recipient of the UNESCO City. She is Co-Director of the Urban MAB Young Scientist Award in 2007. She has Masters degrees from Climate Change Research Network Columbia University and the University of Oxford and a Certificate in (UCCRN) and Co-Editor of the newly Business Excellence from the Columbia Business School. published Second Assessment Report on Climate Change and Cities (ARC3.2). Sean O'Donoghue She was Co-Chair of the Urban Thematic Dr. Sean O’Donoghue has a doctorate in marine pelagic ecology Group for the UN Sustainable obtained from the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) in 2010. In March Development Solutions Network (SDSN) 2011, Sean joined eThekwini Municipality, or Durban, where he manages and the Campaign for an Urban the Climate Change Adaptation Branch. A key focus of the Branch is Sustainability Development Goal (SDG). Community Ecosystem Based Adaptation, providing work opportunities She co-led the Metropolitan East Coast for Durban’s indigent populations. Sean manages a number of research, Regional Assessment of the U.S. National inter-city and community partnership projects, and has led the Assessment of the Potential development of the pilot EPIC programme at UKZN. Consequences of Climate Variability and Change, sponsored by the U.S. Cynthia Rosenzweig Dr. Rosenzweig leads the Climate Impacts Group at NASA GISS in New Global Change Research Program. She York City. She is Co-Director of the Urban Climate Change Research was named as one of “Nature’s 10: Ten Network (UCCRN) and Co-Editor of the newly published Second People Who Mattered in 2012” by the Assessment Report on Climate Change and Cities (ARC3.2). She was Co- journal Nature, for her work preparing Chair of the Urban Thematic Group for the UN Sustainable Development New York City for climate extremes and Solutions Network (SDSN) and the Campaign for an Urban Sustainability change. Development Goal (SDG). She co-led the Metropolitan East Coast Regional Assessment of the U.S. National Assessment of the Potential RAPPORTEUR Consequences of Climate Variability and Change, sponsored by the U.S. Sean O'Donoghue, eThekwini Global Change Research Program. She was named as one of “Nature’s Municipality, South Africa 10: Ten People Who Mattered in 2012” by the journal Nature, for her work preparing New York City for climate extremes and change. Learning from National climate assessment and adaptation S85 strategies: Informing planning and Planning action
SESSION SUMMARY VENUE Climate change adaptation requires informed actions, including 2.61 adjustments of relevant policies that enable society to adapt in the context of those changes. National assessments and strategies undertaken to inform TIME and enable these actions have a variety of scopes, but often touch on creating and providing knowledge and evidence, raising awareness, Thursday coordinating among policy fields, and enabling planning and action, 14h15 - 16h00 including through mainstreaming and pointing to means of implementing action ORGANISER/S Petra van Rüth, This session will share experiences and lessons learnt in delivering national- scale science/risk/vulnerability assessments and strategies, and consider Umweltbundesamt future directions of these instruments in the context of meeting national University of Oxford, United Kingdom requirements for action and being consistent with the Paris Agreement global adaptation goal. A crucial element will be linking these instruments PARTNER INSTITUTION/S to long-terms adaptation planning and action. We propose to use a Korea Adaptation Center for Climate Fishbowl (modified Campfire) format that includes invited participants, but Change, South Korea also provides opportunity for other delegates to participate. Griffith University, Australia Natural Resources Canda, Canada Evaluating the success and addressing challenges of assessments and national strategies will be done through considering the following questions:
CHAIR - How to define successful national assessments and strategies? Young-Il Song, Korea Adaptation Center - How to combine data from assessments and monitoring of impacts for Climate Change, Korea and adaptation actions to determine the contributions and validity Dr. Song is currently working at Korea of adaptation actions? Adaptation Center for Climate Change - How to establish links between these instruments and delivering in Korea Environment Institute (KEI) as a actions? Chief Research Fellow. He received - How to evaluate and enhance the contribution of these instruments Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from New York to successful adaptation (continuous learning and improvement) Polytechnic University in 1996. Prior to the current position, he worked for various The goal is to explore what can be learned from ongoing or concluded departments of KEI including processes focused on evaluating and improving the undertaking and use of national assessments and strategies. Environmental Assessment Research Group as a director general for about 15 The session would begin with short presentations using either a poster or slides years. He has been involved various drawing on examples of processes that have evaluated these national researches on environmental policies instruments. The invited presenters (Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany and including climate change adaptation Korea) will initially occupy the inner circle of the “fishbowl”, and would each and environmental assessment. speak for 5 minutes towards addressing the above questions. Following Currently he is extensively involved in the these scene setting/challenging presentations, the session organisers would research for developing an integrated begin the discussions by asking those in the inner circle a series of further assessment model for climate change probing questions with the intent of stimulating the other session participants adaptation. He has been a member of to contribute to discussions. several national committees such as Environment Impact Assessment The unique element of the session is that there will be two empty seats within Coordination Committee of Ministry of the inner circle that will be filled by participants who want to contribute their Environment Korea. experiences, particularly with respect to the above questions. The moderators will encourage participants to contribute with those doing so
vacating their seat within the inner circle once finished, allowing room for RAPPORTEUR another participant to contribute. Christian Kind, adelphi Germany; Fionna This discussion phase will last 60 minutes. A note taker will capture the Warren, Natural Resources Canada discussions and the rapporteurs will record key points on flip charts. All those speaking with be asked to be concise in their presentation/intervention to facilitate this being an inclusive and participatory session. The last 10 minutes will involve the participants recording on post-it notes the two new ideas they gained from the session and that they plan to apply.
PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS
David Rissik
Celina Xavier de Mendonça
Private Adaptation in Semi-Arid Lands.
SESSION SUMMARY S61 Semi-arid lands (SALs) in developing countries have been Climate resilient development characterised as climate change ‘hotspots’. Globally, more than 1 pathways billion people live in semi-arid lands. If we are to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals pledge that ‘no one will be left behind’, it is vital that we rapidly upscale support for climate resilient development and adaptation in these areas. This session reflects on VENUE the specific adaptation challenges that arise in SALs as a result of 1.44 dispersed and rurally located populations, high levels of business informality, mobile populations, poorly developed infrastructure and TIME broader political and economic marginalisation. It aims to distil lessons about the kinds of policies, institutions and other investments Thursday that can enable climate resilient development across a broad 14h15 - 16h00 spectrum of actors.
ORGANISER/S SPEAKERS Kate Gannon; Florence Crick, London School of Economics (LSE) Florence Crick and Kate Gannon, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, United Kingdom PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Enabling environments for private sector adaptation in semi-arid Overseas Development Institute (ODI), lands United Kingdom (UK) International Development Research Soundarya Iyer, Indian Institute For Human Settlements, India Centre (IDRC), Canada Circular Migration and Localized Urbanization in Rural Semi-arid India: Diverse stakeholders, multiple strategies CHAIR Kate Gannon and Florence Crick, Catherine Simonet, Overseas Development Institute, United Kingdom Grantham Research Institute on Climate Making private adaptation count: recognising the diversity of private Change and the Environment, United sector actors in value chains in semi-arid lands Kingdom PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS RAPPORTEUR Estelle Rouhaud, Grantham Research Evans Kituyi, International Development Research Centre (IDRC Institute on Climate Change and the Canada) Environment, UK Supporting private adaptation and climate resilient development in SALs: A donor perspective.
Eelco Bann, SNV Eelco will consider the topic around 'Supporting private adaptation and climate resilient development in SALs: A practitioner perspective.