Agenda & List of Participants
Land Economy for Sustainability Dialogue Series Rethinking the Land Economy: Keeping 1.5C in Sight
0900- 0930 Welcome and introduction
This session will welcome participants and introduce the goals and objectives of this meeting, designed as a collective thinking session to explore opportunities for emissions reduction from the land-based sectors. It will consider the case for a shared strategy that complements technical know- how in tackling challenges associated with the political economy of structural transformation for the land economy. It will also discuss what constitutes success by 2020 and 2030.
0930 – 1100 Session 1: Setting the baseline
Key questions to be addressed:
• What is the scale of the challenge? • What do we understand in terms of feasibility of different options? • What are the complexities and barriers?
This session will open with three short presentations
• Land-based emissions reductions and the 1.5C challenge • Competition for land, food and water: implications of current trends • Obstacles and trade-offs
The presentations will be followed by a facilitated discussion on the knowledge gaps and the known unknowns, as well as known barriers.
1120 – 1300 Mapping key opportunities and no-regret options
This session will discuss existing and new opportunities for scaling land- based emissions reductions, based not only on mitigation potential but also wider social and environmental considerations including risks and co- benefits.
It will begin with short remarks on the following ‘wedges’:
• sustainable agricultural practice; • negative emissions; • waste and losses; • demand side interventions including sustainable and healthy diets and behavioural shifts.
The discussion will focus on identifying a set of no-regret options that could be scaled immediately. Participants will be divided into groups to identify these no-regret options, with an emphasis on measures that could bring c0- benefits in real or political terms.
1400 – 1600 Preparing for disruptive change from 2030
This session will start with a facilitated discussion on the pre-conditions for positive disruptive changes in the land-based sectors.
• What is needed today (e.g. evidence, knowledge, strategy, policy, investment, etc.) to prepare for positive disruptions? • What are the key institutional, governance and regulatory barriers that could be overcome by 2030? • What are the trade-offs that would need to be resolved in the coming decade? • How to create a safe space to discuss and/or to resolve anticipated conflicts and controversies? • What are the critical levers: policy, money and supply chain drivers, technological change, mobilisation?
1615 – 1700 Conclusions and next steps
Confirmed Participants
Justin Adams The Nature Conservancy Global Managing Director, Lands
Research Director – Energy, Rob Bailey Chatham House Environment and Resources
Tim Benton Chatham House Distinguished Visiting Fellow
Kris De Meyer King’s College London Visiting Research Fellow
Chris Elliott Climate and Land Use Alliance Executive Director
Antony Froggatt Chatham House Senior Research Fellow
Food Climate Research Network Tara Garnett Founder and Director (FCRN) V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation Irene Krarup Executive Director (VKRF) Executive Director, Hoffmann Bernice Lee Chatham House Centre for Sustainable Resource Economy Climate Advocacy & Sustainability Thomas Lingard Unilever Strategy Director
The David & Lucile Packard Program officer, Conservation Belinda Morris Foundation and Science
Robert Morris AndMore Associates President
Ingo Puhl South Pole Group Co-Founder & Strategy Director
World Business Council for Director, Forest Solutions Group & Matthew Reddy Sustainable Development Climate Smart Agriculture (WBCSD)
Stephanie Roe Climate Focus Senior Land Use Consultant
International Institute for Research Scholar at the Energy Joeri Rogelj Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) Program Director, Switzerland / Sustainable Holger Schmid MAVA Foundation Economy Programmes
Pete Smith University of Aberdeen Chair in Plant & Soil Science
Charlotte Streck Climate Focus Co-Founder & Director
Tristram Stuart Feedback Founder
Analyst, Climate Change Byford Tsang Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) Daniel Vennard World Resources Institute (WRI) Director, Better Buying Lab Senior Director, Head of Dominic Waughray World Economic Forum Environmental Initiatives
Laura Wellesley Chatham House Research Associate
Graham Wynne Prince of Wales International Special Adviser Sustainability Unit (ISU) Ana Yang Children's Investment Fund Acting Director, Climate Change Foundation (CIFF)