DANISH REFUGEE COUNCIL Global Event 2020

Improving Protection and Response for Displacement Affected People

DRC Global 25th Nov. 9:30-17:00 CET Are you interested? Event 2020 To learn more please reach out to: [email protected] ON CLIMATE CHANGE, ENVIRONMENTAL www.drc.ngo/climate DEGRADATION AND FORCED DISPLACEMENT https://www.eventbrite.com/e/123443449681 25th Nov. 9:30-17:00 CET - Virtual on Zoom DRC Global Event 2020 About the DRC Global Event

The Global Event is a culmination of a journey taken up by the Danish Refugee Council that brought ON CLIMATE together practitioners and thought leaders across industry, academia, the humanitarian sector, the tech and the start-up community with leading DRC experts into a series of events and workshops exploring the intersection of climate change, environmental degradation and forced displacement. The Global Event highlights the insights gathered in the journey so far and opens up the conversation CHANGE, and calls to action to the the humanitarian sector and others searching for ways to better respond to the climate crisis and its effects on forced displacement. ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION The journey leading up AND FORCED to the GLOBAL EVENT DISPLACEMENT LAUNCH EVENT

Would you like to be part of a ground-breaking event seeking to better 1st of September, Virtual kick-off understand and prepare the humanitarian sector to respond to climate Access highlights and talks here change and environmental degradation?

In this new decade, the need for addressing global challenges, particularly RESPONSE Protection and Legal Aid climate change, environmental degradation and forced displacement is Natural Resources more pressing than ever. To address these challenges, we as an organization COMMUNITY Conflict and Climate working with displacement need to find new, nimble and comprehensive WORKSHOPS Regenerative and Circular Practices solutions beyond the business-as-usual. Green Economy September-October Data and Predictive Analytics As Denmark’s largest international NGO working in 40 countries across the globe in some of the most difficult situations and in emerging economies, and with a reach to more than 5,7 million displaced and vulnerable people, DRC is well-positioned to seek new ways of responding to these challenges. DTU HACK4 HUMANITY We cannot however do this alone. This is why we have embarked on a journey to set the stage for new ways of addressing the challenges posed 16th Oct at DTU Skylab by the climate crisis. www.hack4humanity.com

The DRC global Event will be a day of sharing, discussing and highlighting inspiring perspectives and groundbreaking initiatives tackling, adapting to and addressing climate change and displacement challenges. On this day, we will be guided by thought leaders and change makers from the humanitarian sector and beyond it in conversation with leading experts at DRC. DRC GLOBAL EVENT 25th of November 9:30-17:00 CET Find out more on the event page. ON CLIMATE CHANGE, ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION www.drc.ngo/climate AND FORCED DISPLACEMENT Virtual on Zoom PROGRAMME 25th of November 2020 9:30-17:00 CET

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WARM OPENING KEYNOTE PARALLEL SESSIONS CONVERSATION LUNCH TALK PARALLEL SESSIONS CONVERSATION CLOSING KEYNOTE BRINGING WELCOME CLIMATE CHANGE, DIVING INTO THE VISION FOR THE RESILIENCE SEEDS OF CHANGE GREEN CLIMATE JUSTICE: IT HOME ENVIRONMENTAL CLIMATE-DISPLACEMENT HUMANITARIAN DESIGN LEADERSHIP​ ‘LEAVE NO ONE

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Climate and Protection​ ANNOUNCING Sustainable financing

THE WINNERS OF for climate and IN PLENUM CHECK-IN Dr. Miriam Cullen HACK4HUMANITY displacement University of Copenhagen​ Atle Solberg Lise Pretourius PDD Secretariat Technical Matter Elizabeth Ruth Allcock University Hanna Linquist DRC TRINE Grainne O’Hara of Denmark Warren Brush ROOMS BREAKOUT TO TRANSITION Helen Clarkson United Nations High (DTU) and DRC Quail Springs Tuga Alaskary The Climate Group Facilitator: Dr. Caroline Zickgraf Commissioner for Permaculture and InsuResilience Mrs. Mary Robinson Brennan Webert The Hugo Observatory​ Refugees (UNHCR) True Nature Design​ Chair of the Elders​ DRC Facilitator: TRANSITION TO BREAKOUT ROOMS & BREAK BREAKOUT TO TRANSITION Morten Högnesen DRC Land, Displacement and Climate Change​

Olivia Lazard Circular design for urban Peace in Design displacement context​s Consulting Ltd.​ Benedict Irwin Karin Sørensen Catarina Sarfetti Laura Storm CARE Ethiopia DRC C40​ Regenerative leadership Charlotte Gjedde expert Facilitator: State-of-Green​ Maria Pade Lange and Filipe Garcia Padmini Iyer independent expert​ DRC Facilitator: Solenne Delga Data and displacement DRC

Dr. Véronique Lefebvre Flowminder Foundation​ Vicente Anzellini Internal Displacement Charlotte Slente Monitoring Centre DRC Secretary General ​ Andy Norris Catapult

Facilitator: Alexander Kjaerum DRC Jane Linekar, MMC 10.45 -11.30 PARALLEL SESSIONS Dr. Miriam Cullen, PROTECTION & LEGAL AID, CLIMATE AND Copenhagen University DISPLACEMENT Facilitated by Brennan Webert, DRC Miriam Cullen is Assistant This conversation will explore strengthening the adaptation Professor of Climate and 9.50 - 10.30 OPENING KEYNOTE and application of existing legal frameworks as well as the Migration Law at Copenhagen evidence base, clarify specific legal aid needs and identify University. She sits on the meaningful interventions to address legal aid needs of Advisory Committee to the Platform on Disaster cross border movements resulting from climate induced Displacement and recently co-founded the Nordic displacement. Network on Climate Related Displacement. She has The aim is to provide concrete actions to take forward. published on human rights, disaster and displacement, and the role of international organizations. DR. CAROLINE ZICKGRAF The Hugo Observatory Atle Solberg, Elizabeth Ruth Allcock, PDD Secretariat DRC Dr. Caroline Zickgraf is Deputy Director of the Hugo Observatory: Atle Solberg is the Head of the Secretariat Environment, Migration, Politics at the University of Liège. Dr. Liz Allcock works as DRC’s of the Platform on Disaster Displacement Emergency Protection Advisor Zickgraf’s research areas include the migratory impacts of climate (PDD). He is a political scientist from currently deployed to Yemen. change on coastal populations, and (im)mobility dynamics, primarily Norway with a background primarily She has worked in protection, in West Africa. In addition to teaching and research, Dr. Zickgraf has from international humanitarian action and from working in human rights and international development for 15 years the context of displacement . He has worked for the UNHCR, UN consulted for the World Bank, the Green European Foundation (GEF), across the Middle East, South East Asia, Sub-Saharan OCHA the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC). Africa and South Asia. the International Center for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD), UN Environment, and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) on the links between climate change and migration. She currently acts as Scientific Coordinator of the recently launched LAND, DISPLACEMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE - Facilitated by Maria Pade Lange and Padmini Iyer, DRC HABITABLE project, a four-year project on climate and migration How can we better serve displaced persons, when climate change and environmental degradation drive conflict over natural funded by the European Commission. resources including access to land and water? The focus in this conversation will be on access to and management of land. Discussants will debate and share with the audience effective strategies for expanding equitable land access (and use) for displaced populations – and for people who are at risk of displacement (including due to shrinking farming/pastoral livelihoods and escalating land conflict).

Olivia Lazard, Benedict Irwin, Peace in Design Consulting Ltd. CARE Ethiopia

Olivia Lazard is an environmental Benedict Irwin is a natural CLIMATE CHANGE, peacemaking and mediation practitioner resource manager and rural as well as a researcher. She is currently development forester by a visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe. profession and works with Her research focuses on the geopolitics of climate, the transition communities and governments to establish natural ushered by climate change, and the risks of conflict and fragility resource management partnerships over common ENVIRONMENTAL associated to climate change and environmental collapse. property resources. DEGRADATION DATA AND DISPLACEMENT Andy Norris, Facilitated by Alexander Kjaerum, DRC and Satellite Applications Jane Linekar, the Mixed Migration Centre Catapult AND FORCED How can data help us to better understand and respond to the effects of climate change on displacement? Andy Norris is a geospatial Understanding the impact of climate change is impacted by an Scientist with 15 years’ experience issue of data “invisibility”; many of the most vulnerable groups to of spatial data management, climate change leave very limited “digital footprints” and therefore DISPLACEMENT analysis and visualisation across a variety of sectors. A are “invisible” in some of these new data sources, which are being certified map geek, humanitarian and MapAction volunteer, used to fill data gaps. This session will explore some the merits and he is keen to ensure satellite technology and geospatial is challenges of making vulnerable groups “visible” to become better at being used in the best possible way. understanding the impact of climate change as a displacement driver. How do climate change and environmental degradation impact migration and forced displacement in particular? Dr. Veronique Lefebvre, Vicente Anzellini, What are the effects that we can observe today, and how will the impact evolve in the future? Flowminder Foundation. Internal Displacement In the opening keynote, Dr. Zickgraf will discuss the various ways climate and displacement are Monitoring Centre connected laying the ground for the rest of the event. Dr. Véronique Lefebvre is a researcher in data science and signal processing. Vicente Anzellini leads the global At Flowminder she has worked with and regional analysis team mobile phone usage data to identify at IDMC and coordinates the and predict disaster-driven displacements, and to optimise production of the Global Report on Internal Displacement the placement of services based on population density and (GRID), regional reports and country profiles. He mobility. Her core research interest is in optimising information previously worked for the UN Office for Disaster Risk extraction and data collection to support decision-making for Reduction (UNDRR) as researcher and policy analyst. He PROGRAMME humanitarian and human development efforts. supported UNDRR’s Regional Office for Africa. 11.30 - 12.00 CONVERSATION 14.00 - 14.45 PARALLEL SESSIONS

VISION FOR THE HUMANITARIAN SECTOR IN FACE OF CLIMATE CHANGE SUSTAINABLE FINANCING FOR CLIMATE AND DISPLACEMENT Lise Pretorius, How can the humanitarian sector lean into the future to strengthen its vision for 2030 when it comes to the nexus between Facilitated by Morten Högnesen, DRC Matter climate and the work we do on the ground as humanitarians for people affected by displacement? In this session, two expert Sustainable financing in different forms plays a key role humanitarians from UNHCR and DRC, respectively, will discuss what future visions we need. Lise Pretorius is Head of in supporting climate smart solutions and the green Sustainability Analysis at transition. While displacement affected communities Matter, a Danish fintech are often among the most adversely affected by climate company specializing in Grainne O’Hara, Karin Sorensen, change and environmental degradation, financing for sustainable investments. assistance to these communities is often short term and UNHCR DRC Previously, Lise was Vice President at WWF’s Asia inefficient in supporting durable change. This session Sustainable Finance team based in Singapore where seeks to explore how global financing trends, such Ms. O’Hara is Director Karin Sorensen has for she supported financial institutions across the region as climate insurance, crowd funding and sustainable of the Division more than two decades with research and training on sustainable finance. investing, may offer new inspiration for more sustainable of International worked with UN agencies, financing to respond to situations of forced displacement. Protection at UNHCR. UN political- and In 24 years with peacekeeping missions and UNHCR she has served in a variety of functions the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in increasingly and operational settings spanning a wide range of senior advisory and management positions. Currently protection related responsibilities. Her postings she holds the position as the East Africa and Great Tuga Alaskary, Hanna Lindquist, have included: Mexico; North Macedonia; Kosovo; Lakes Deputy Regional Director for the Danish Refugee Burundi; Sudan; the Caribbean; the United States Council. Karin works with peace building, governance InsuResilience TRINE of America; Afghanistan; Syria; Iraq and Jordan. and conflict resolution as an integrated part of her portfolios during the 22 years abroad. Tuga Alaskary is an Advisor Hanna Linquist is Customer at the Secretariat of the Success Manager at Trine, an InsuResilience Global impact investing company Partnership, a V20-G20 initiative that makes it easy for striving to foster climate and people to invest in solar disaster risk finance and insurance. Prior to this she worked energy in growing markets. Trine’s mission is to deliver for the World Food Programme, Asian Development Bank triple return - earn a profit while making social and and African Risk Capacity, where she was engaged in the environmental impact. design and deployment of disaster risk financing and The DRC-DTU Hack4Humanity 12.40 - 13.00 insurance initiatives across Africa and Asia. brough together students from 8 different universities on 16th Oct for ANNOUNCING THE WINNERS a 12 hours hack at DTU Skylab. They worked in 6 groups to develop OF HACK4HUMANITY ideas on climate adaptation and environmental assessment tools. The Best Pitch and Most Promising CIRCULAR DESIGN FOR URBAN Idea will be announced at the DRC DISPLACEMENT CONTEXTS Caterina Safatti, Global Event. Facilitated by Solenne Delga, DRC C40 Displacement is increasingly an urban reality. Rapid and Caterina Safatti is the An acceleration jury to support the large-scale arrivals, as well as long-term settlement of Programme Director for groups’ work is comprised of DTU forcibly displaced populations in urban centres place C40’s Inclusive Climate high pressure on existing resources and systems. This Compute, Danish Ministry of Foreign Action Programme, which reality calls for a rethink of humanitarian response in provides cities with a Affairs, Danish Refugee Council and urban settings, promoting more holistic and durable clear roadmap and support to plan, build consensus the startup LinkAiders. approaches. This solutions-oriented session will and deliver bold climate action that is equitable and explore how we can best apply circular practices to beneficial for all. Caterina also oversees the partnership urban response design and long-term urban planning in with the Mayors Migration Council and the work that different contexts ranging from the small rural town to C40 is conducting on climate and migration. the megacity.

13.00 - 13.45 Warren Brush, RESILIENCE DESIGN: INTEGRATING Quail Springs Permaculture Filipe Garcia, Charlotte Gjedde, REGENERATIVE PRACTICES INTO and True Nature Design Indipendent expert State of Green HUMANITARIAN WORK Filipe Garcia spent the last nine Charlotte Gjedde has a How can resilience Design create more stability Warren Brush is a global resilience years managing programs and passion for the global green and regenerative production around the globe? design consultant, educator, lecturer operations across dynamic transition and how to create Land degradation amplifies how people experience and storyteller. He has worked for markets in Africa, Asia, Europe a sustainable, liveable shocks and stresses in their households and over 30 years in agroecological and Latin America for Doctors and green society through communities. In this session, Warren Brush will education and regenerative system design for communities, private Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières. He worked several partnerships. She works as Head of Partnerships in the present the Resilience Design framework - a and public organizations, households, farms, and conservation years in consumer goods trading before following his passion public-private partnership, State of Green. State of Green practical methodology and design framework that properties worldwide. He is co-founder of Quail Springs for the development and humanitarian sector. Filipe is currently works to showcase Danish green solutions to international focuses on restorative land-based interventions Permaculture and True Nature Design, his private consulting firm. studying Environment and Sustainable Development at decision-makers, and thus inspire international that address the foundation of resilience at the He was also a member of the USAID’s TOPS team where he helped University College London to further explore and develop a stakeholders to begin or accelerate their green transition. soil biology and hydrological levels of a landscape. to develop the Resilience Design Framework and Permagarden critical understanding of the key components for change Warren will discuss the groundbreaking work done Approach. He is currently working as a consultant on a variety of by DRC in integrating Resilience Design into their food security projects around the globe. programs at different scales showing the way for resilience and regeneration. 15.00 - 15.45 CONVERSATION 16.00 - 16.45 CLOSING KEYNOTE

GREEN LEADERSHIP

In this session, the Secretary General of the Danish Refugee Council, Ms. Charlotte Slente sits down with groundbreaking sustainability leaders and experts to discuss ways to bring about transformation in humanitarian organisations towards more sustainable practices, and how to navigate MARY ROBINSON complexities to create lasting change. CHAIR OF THE ELDERS

Helen Clarkson, Mary Robinson is Adjunct Professor for Climate Justice The Climate Group in Trinity College Dublin and Chair of The Elders. She served as President of Ireland from 1990-1997 and UN Helen joined The Climate Group in 2017 as its High Commissioner for Human Rights from 1997-2002. Chief Executive Officer. In addition to leading She is a member of the Club of Madrid and the recipient of the growing Climate Group team, Helen sits on the board of the We Mean Business numerous honours and awards including the Presidential Coalition , chairs the Finance & Audit Committee Medal of Freedom from the President of the United States for the Sustainable Development Capital Energy Efficiency Income Trust, Barack Obama. Between 2013 and 2016 Mary served as and is on the Mission Council for Pukka Herbs. Prior to joining The Climate the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy in three roles; Group, Helen worked at Forum for the Future, Médecins Sans Frontières, and qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Deloitte. first for the Great Lakes region of Africa, then on Climate Change and most recently as his Special Envoy on El Niño and Climate. Her Foundation, the Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice, established in 2010, came to a planned end in April 2019. Mary’s memoir, ‘Everybody Matters’ was published in September 2012 and her book, ‘Climate Justice - Hope, Resilience and the Fight for a Sustainable Future’ was published in September 2018. Laura Storm, Regenerators

Laura Storm is a sustainability expert, author, podcast host and advisor on regenerative leadership. She helps leaders and organisations worldwide to explore a regenerative vision for a world where purpose, people, planet & prosperity collectively thrive.​ She’s sustainability expert at World Economic Forum and founder of REGENERATORS, a collective of professionals coming together to aid the emergence of a new thriving paradigm built on regenerative principles. ​ CLIMATE JUSTICE: ‘LEAVE NO ONE Charlotte Slente, DRC Charlotte Slente was appointed Secretary BEHIND’ General of the Danish Refugee Council on December 1st, 2019.Ms Slente comes from a long career in the Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and has held multiple senior management posts central to Denmark’s development and humanitarian policy, hereunder State Secretary for Development Policy and Under-Secretary of State for Global Development – heading the Danish International Development Agency DANIDA. How can we put justice and equity at the heart of responses to climate change that impacts forced displacement? How can we make sure to ‘leave no one behind’ including displaced in our efforts to tackle and respond to climate change? In her keynote, Mrs. Mary Robinson will share hope-induced stories of collective efforts for justice, adaptation and resilience and how local actions can grow into global impact.

BRENNAN WEBERT Brennan Webert is a Protection DRC GLOBAL Advisor with the Danish Refugee Council based in FACILITATORS Copenhagen, Denmark. Prior to joining DRC’s Global EVENT Protection Unit, Brennan worked in Armenia, South Sudan, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka, supporting communities, AMBASSADORS civil society, and governments to strengthen the protection of person affected by conflict and displacement.

FRÉDÉRIC BAELE MARIA PADE LANGE PADMINI IYER Frederic Baele is currently Maria Pade Lange has 20 years’ Padmini Iyer is the Regional DRC’s regional protection experience in peacebuilding, from Conflict Analysis Coordinator coordinator in West Africa. development of global strategy for the Danish Refugee He has spend the first half of tools, research and advocacy Council in East Africa and the his life in Belgium, the second to design and management of Great Lakes region. She is with his wife in western and peacebuilding programmes in the an anthropologist by training southern Africa. He is a social African Great Lakes region. She and has worked in East Africa worker who developed his is currently DRC’s Global Lead on since 2012 on such topics experience mainly working with Addressing Root Causes of Conflict as livelihoods, migration, children, and fellow (para) social and Displacement. displacement and conflict. She workers. is based in Kampala.

MÄRTHA REHNBERG CO-FOUNDER, NATALIE TOPA SOLENNE DELGA JANE LINEKAR DareDisrupt Natalie Topa has dedicated her Solenne Delga is a humanitarian Jane Linekar is the Global career to supporting efforts to practitioner with a specific focus Coordinator of the Mixed heal and restore community on supporting the economic Migration Centre’s 4Mi primary agroecosystems as a basis recovery of forcibly displaced data collection project, which of circular bioeconomy at populations. She has worked conducts interviews with the bioregional level. Her alongside displacement-affected thousands of refugees and experiences over the past 15 populations in sub-Saharan and migrants around the world each years - including serving as North Africa and the Middle East, month. Jane was previously IRD’s South Sudan country in rural, urban and peri-urban a researcher and managing director and now DRC’s East contexts, as an NGO worker as well editor at Geneva’s Graduate Africa regional coordinator as an independent consultant. She Institute of International and - have shaped her approach is currently a Global Advisor for Development Studies, and to livelihoods and community Economic Recovery with the analysis team coordinator at wellbeing and deepened Danish Refugee Council and serves ACAPS. her resolve to tackle the as the organisation’s focal point for root causes of ecological livelihoods. degradation.

KARIN SORENSEN MORTEN HÖGNESEN ALEXANDER KJAERUM Karin Sorensen has for more Morten Högnesen leads DRC’s Alexander Kjaerum is a Global than two decades worked with global portfolio on alternative Advisor, Senior Analyst with the UN agencies, UN political- and financing, working with DRC teams Danish Refugee Council (DRC). peacekeeping missions and and strategic partners to develop In this capacity he is responsible the Danish Ministry of Foreign new, smarter financing solutions for supporting the organization Affairs, in increasingly senior that responds to the needs and and country operations with advisory and management challenges facing displacement making better and smarter positions. Currently she holds affected communities and the use of data and analysis for the position as the East Africa humanitarian sector more broadly. strategic planning, programming RIKKE JOHANNESSEN and Great Lakes Deputy He has over 12 years of experience and advocacy. This includes Regional Director for the Danish from NGOs, the UN and private exploring the potential of using HEAD OF UNIT, PROGRAMME INNOVATION Refugee Council. sector in the fields of partnerships predictive analytics and big and financing; innovation data to improve humanitarian AND BUSINESS ENGAGEMENT, and strategy and program protection outcomes and leading Danish Refugee Council management. the flagship Foresight project.