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 ON CLIMATE brought 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 CHANGE, up the conversation 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 to AND FORCED the DRC 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 INTRODUCTION AND WELCOME WARM 9.30 25th of November 2020,9:30-17:00 CET PROGRAMME The Hugo Observatory Dr. Caroline Zickgraf DISPLACEMENT FORCED DEGRADATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL CLIMATE CHANGE, OPENING KEYNOTE 9.50 ​

TRANSITION TO BREAKOUT ROOMS & BREAK 10.30 10.45 Jane Linekar, MMC Alexander Kjaerum DRC Facilitator: Catapult Andy Norris Monitoring Centre Internal Displacement Vicente Anzellini Flowminder Foundation Dr. Véronique Lefebvre Data and displacement DRC Padmini Iyer Maria Pade Lange and Facilitator: CARE Ethiopia Benedict Irwin Ltd.Consulting ​ Peace in Design Olivia Lazard Climate Change​ Land, Displacement and DRC Brennan Webert Facilitator: DRC Elizabeth Ruth Allcock PDD Secretariat Atle Solberg University of Copenhagen​ Dr. Miriam Cullen Climate and Protection ​ NEXUS CLIMATE-DISPLACEMENT DIVING INTO THE PARALLEL SESSIONS ​ 11.30 SECTOR HUMANITARIAN VISION FOR THE CONVERSATION DRC Karin Sørensen WFP Gernot Laganda Refugees (UNHCR) Commissioner for United Nations High Grainne O’Hara 12.40 12.00 (DTU) and DRC of Denmark University Technical HACK4HUMANITY THE WINNERS OF ANNOUNCING LUNCH True Nature Design Permaculture and Quail Springs Warren Brush DESIGN RESILIENCE TALK 13.00 ​

TRANSITION TO BREAKOUT ROOMS 13.45 14.00 DRC Solenne Delga Facilitator: independent expert Filipe Garcia State-of-Green​ Charlotte Gjedde C40​ Catarina Sarfetti displacement context Circular design for urban DRC Morten Högnesen Facilitator: InsuResilience Tuga Alaskary TRINE Hanna Linquist Matter Lise Pretourius displacement for climate and Sustainable financing SEEDS OFCHANGE PARALLEL SESSIONS ​ ​s

CHECK-IN IN PLENUM 14.45 15.00 DRC Secretary General ​ Charlotte Slente expert Regenerative leadership Laura Storm The Climate Group Helen Clarkson LEADERSHIP​ GREEN CONVERSATION

BREAK 15.45 Chair of the Elders Mrs. Mary Robinson BEHIND’ ‘LEAVE NOONE CLIMATE JUSTICE: CLOSING KEYNOTE 16.00 ​ IT HOME BRINGING 16.45 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 Grainne O’Hara, 14.00 - 14.45 PARALLEL SESSIONS UNHCR VISION FOR THE HUMANITARIAN SECTOR SUSTAINABLE FINANCING FOR CLIMATE IN FACE OF CLIMATE CHANGE Ms. O’Hara is Director of the AND DISPLACEMENT Lise Pretorius, Division of International Facilitated by Morten Högnesen, DRC Matter Protection at UNHCR. In How can the humanitarian sector lean into the future to Sustainable financing in different forms plays a key role 24 years with UNHCR she Lise Pretorius is Head of strengthen its vision for 2030 when it comes to the nexus in supporting climate smart solutions and the green has served in a variety of Sustainability Analysis at between climate and the work we do on the ground as transition. While displacement affected communities functions and operational settings spanning a wide Matter, a Danish fintech humanitarians for people affected by displacement? In are often among the most adversely affected by climate range of protection related responsibilities. Her postings company specializing in this session, two expert humanitarians from UNHCR and change and environmental degradation, financing for have included: Mexico; North Macedonia; Kosovo; sustainable investments. DRC, respectively, will discuss what future visions we assistance to these communities is often short term and Burundi; Sudan; the Caribbean; the United States of Previously, Lise was Vice President at WWF’s Asia need. inefficient in supporting durable change. This session America; Afghanistan; Syria; Iraq and Jordan. Sustainable Finance team based in Singapore where seeks to explore how global financing trends, such she supported financial institutions across the region as climate insurance, crowd funding and sustainable with research and training on sustainable finance. investing, may offer new inspiration for more sustainable financing to respond to situations of forced displacement. Gernot Laganda, Karin Sorensen, WFP DRC

Gernot Laganda is leading Karin Sorensen has for more the Climate and Disaster Risk than two decades worked with Tuga Alaskary, Hanna Lindquist, Reduction Programs at the UN agencies, UN political- and InsuResilience TRINE United Nations’ World Food peacekeeping missions and Program (WFP). He supports the Danish Ministry of Foreign Tuga Alaskary is an Advisor Hanna Linquist is Customer WFP Country Offices and the governments they serve Affairs, in increasingly senior advisory and management at the Secretariat of the Success Manager at Trine, an to understand the effects of climate change on food positions. Currently she holds the position as the East InsuResilience Global impact investing company security, develop initiatives to reduce climate risks in Africa and Great Lakes Deputy Regional Director for the Partnership, a V20-G20 initiative that makes it easy for country programs, and make innovative climate finance Danish Refugee Council. Karin works with peace building, striving to foster climate and people to invest in solar instruments work for vulnerable communities. governance and conflict resolution. 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 insurance initiatives across Africa and Asia. The DRC-DTU Hack4Humanity 12.40 - 13.00 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. CIRCULAR DESIGN FOR URBAN Caterina Safatti, The Best Pitch and Most Promising DISPLACEMENT CONTEXTS Facilitated by Solenne Delga, DRC C40 Idea will be announced at the DRC Displacement is increasingly an urban reality. Rapid and Global Event. Caterina Safatti is the large-scale arrivals, as well as long-term settlement of Programme Director for forcibly displaced populations in urban centres place C40’s Inclusive Climate An acceleration jury to support the high pressure on existing resources and systems. This Action Programme, which reality calls for a rethink of humanitarian response in groups’ work is comprised of DTU provides cities with a urban settings, promoting more holistic and durable Compute, Danish Ministry of Foreign clear roadmap and support to plan, build consensus approaches. This solutions-oriented session will and deliver bold climate action that is equitable and Affairs, Danish Refugee Council and explore how we can best apply circular practices to beneficial for all. Caterina also oversees the partnership the startup LinkAiders. 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 Advisor DRC GLOBAL with the Danish Refugee Council based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Prior to FACILITATORS joining DRC’s Global Protection Unit, Brennan worked in Armenia, South EVENT Sudan, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka, supporting communities, civil society, and governments to strengthen the protection of person affected by conflict AMBASSADORS and displacement.

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

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

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