ALL SESSIONS

5th INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION CONFERENCE CAPE TOWN SOUTH AFRICA 18 - 21 JUNE

DEA

Policy and Research

VENUE

Level 2

TIME

Monday

14h00 - 17h00

Advancing and strengthening the

linkages between climate change

policy and research to support

implementation and inform future

adaptation research.

SESSION SUMMARY

The first part of the session will present the national response policy

on climate change, the adaptation research and sectoral

challenges specifically in South Africa. The presentation will share the

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

update on the climate change adaptation research, followed by

proposed future work focusing on integrated and nexus

approaches. This future work will explore how the research work

could serve the implementation of the national adaptation strategy,

support the national determined contribution and provision of the

climate information and services. The second part of the sessions will

take a discussion through opening statements by panel members,

followed by engagements to allow audience to engage with the

findings and comment and contribute to shape the future

adaptation research.

SPEAKERS

Tlou Ramaru, DEA

Opening presentation

Guy Midgley, Stellenbosch

Lessons from LTAS I & II

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

ORGANISER/S Mikateko Sithole,

Department of Environmental Affairs

(DEA)

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Wits University, South Africa

Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Africa Climate Development Institute,

South Africa

Water Research Commission, South

Africa

CHAIR Tlou Ramaru, Department of

Environmental Affairs, South Africa

RAPPORTEUR Mikateko Sithole, Department of

Environmental Affairs, South Africa

S170

Climate risk assessments,

adaptation planning

VENUE

1.43

TIME

Monday

12h30 - 14h30

Country Level Impacts of Climate

Change Workshop

SESSION SUMMARY

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:

• Facilitate global understanding of country-level climate by

informing national mitigation and adaptation planning

• Promote good practice and collective learning in assessing climate

impacts.

This session is an opportunity to share experiences, improve the

technical approaches for country level assessment and

communication of vulnerability and impacts and; enhance country

interest and future participation in the CLICC initiative.

SPEAKERS

Jiang Tong, China Meteorological Administration, China

Experiences from first round of CLICC pilots – China

Antwi-Boasiako Amoah, Ghana Environmental Protection Agency

Experiences from first round of CLICC pilots - Ghana

Paul Desanker, Adaptation Programme of the secretariat of the

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

Supplement to the NAP Guidelines

ORGANISER/S Ying Wang,

UN Environment

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Ghana Environmental Protection

Agency, Ghana

United Nations Framework Convention

on Climate Change Secretariat,

Germany

China Meteorological Administration,

China

CHAIR Paul Desanker, United Nations

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

S40

EbA

VENUE

1.41

TIME

Monday

12h30 - 14h30

Fun and Games (and a lot of learning)

with Ecosystem-based Adaptation

SESSION SUMMARY

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

will participate in a simple, fun and interactive exercise to learn the

four “cornerstones” of EbA to help clear confusion on what EbA is

and how it differs from other forms of adaptation involving natural

systems. The audience will also learn from brief cases studies and

discussion on real-world EbA from Belize, Kyrgyzstan and South Africa

and will also learn about the state of the evidence base on EbA.

SPEAKERS

Shaun Martin, WWF, USA

ABC’s of EbA

Mpfunzeni Tshindane, SANBI, South Africa

EbA Case Study from South Africa

Nadia Bood, WWF, Mesoamerican Reef

Ecosystem-based Approach in Furthering Coastal Management in

Belize

Paul Schumacher, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale

Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Germany

Making the case for Ecosystem-based Adaptation in the Central

Asian high mountainous region

Hannah Reid, International Institute for Environment and

Development (IIED)

Ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation: strengthening the

evidence and informing policy

ORGANISER/S Shaun Martin,

World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S German Society for International

Cooperation (GIZ), Germany

South African National Biodiversity

Institute (SANBI), South Africa

CHAIR Shaun Martin, WWF USA

Senior director for climate change

adaptation and resilience at World

Wildlife Fund with more than 25 years

experience in capacity building,

international education, training and

leadership development. In his current

role he helps influence policy and

practice by bringing climate change

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

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Finance

VENUE

1.42

TIME

Monday

12h30 - 14h30

Microfinance for climate adaptation:

from readiness to resilience

SESSION SUMMARY

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

are central to the private investment sector, as are enterprises that

contribute to resilience building. But, developing countries still

grapple with fundamental issues such as how to provide financial

services to those who are not able to access traditional financial

institutions or who don’t understand that climate adaptation can

yield greater financial returns from their livelihoods. Microfinance can

address these challenges - particularly if concessional – e.g. loans

offered at lower than market interest rates.

SPEAKERS

Belynda Petrie, OneWorld

Microfinance for adaptation: From readiness to resilience

Takhmina Akhmedova, Government of the Republic of Tajikistan

Positioning financing institutions as agents of change

Nadine Brown, Planning Institute of Jamaica

Microfinance for enterprise development in agriculture and tourism

adaptation through the PPCR

Isidro Fote, Ministry for Land, Environment and Rural Development,

Mozambique

Centralised approaches to disbursing community finance

ORGANISER/S Belynda Petrie,

Climate Investment Funds, OneWorld

Oxford Policy Management, United

Kingdom

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S OneWorld Sustainable Investments,

Climate Investment Funds

CHAIR Sailas Nyereza, Climate Investment

Funds

Raul Alfaro-Pelico, Lead Climate

Change Specialist, World Bank

RAPPORTEUR Michael Gerhard, OneWorld

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Other - Faith Based response to

adaptation

VENUE

1.44

TIME

Monday

12h30 - 14h30

The role of faith communities in

adaptation

SESSION SUMMARY

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.

SPEAKERS

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

S80

Coastal zones and Deltas

VENUE

1.43

TIME

Monday

15h00 - 17h00

Adaptive coastal planning - sharing

techniques, tools and experiences

SESSION SUMMARY

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

explore the following questions:

1. What are we learning from the engaged research in coastal

adaptation, that would make possible or not a paradigm shift

towards a dynamic adaptive policy making process?

2. How concretely do we bring the evidences from research and

innovations into policy and practice?

3. Besides applicability, how can we ensure the sustainability and

replicability of coastal projects following an adaptive policy

planning approach?

SPEAKERS

Pradeep Kurukulasuriya

On the common challenges for coastal planning authorities

Robert Nicholls

Sustainable coastal development, investment and planning

Christophe Brière

Dynamic Adaptive Policy Pathways, concept and applications

Judy Lawrence

National Coastal Hazards and Climate Change Guidance for

addressing uncertainty and change using dynamic adaptive

pathways planning

ORGANISER/S Christophe Briere,

Deltares

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S University of Southampton, United

Kingdom

United Nations Development

Programme (UNDP), Thailand

Victoria University of Wellington, New

Zealand

CHAIR Sadie McEvoy, Deltares

RAPPORTEUR Heleen Vreugdenhil, Deltares, The

Netherlands

S179

Climate risk assessments,

adaptation planning

VENUE

2.45

TIME

Monday

15h00 - 17h00

Climate risk assessments as a tool for

enhanced adaptation action?

SESSION SUMMARY

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

Supplement in various countries and sectors. These practice

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

representatives from Thailand, Benin and Madagascar with detailed

insights into on-going risk assessments in their respective countries.

SPEAKERS

Marc Zebisch, Eurac Research

How to assess climate risk – and how this can contribute to enhance

adaptation planning and action

PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS

Benjawan Tawatsupa, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand

Benjawan Tawatsupa is public health technical officer at the Health

Impact Assessment Division, Department of Health, Ministry of Public

Health, Thailand. Her expertise is epidemiology and population

health, including health impact assessment from heat stress, air

pollution and climate change. She has been actively involved in the

development of the (draft) Climate Change and Health Adaptation

Plan (HNAP) for Thailand.

Jane Razanamiharisoa, National Coordinating Office for Climate

Change (BNCCC), Madagascar

Jane Razanamiharisoa is an environmentalist by training, with a

specialisation in environmental law. She leads the Climate Change

Adaptation Team within the National Coordinating Office for

Climate Change (BNCCC) within the Ministry of Environment,

Ecology, and Forestry (MEEF) in Madagascar. She is coordinating the

Steering Committee for the development of the national adaptation

plan as well as the implementation of the three regional climate risk

analyses conducted in Madagascar.

Adjinda Sourou, Ministry of Health, Benin

Adjinda Sourou is an environmentalist by training and a water and

sanitation specialist. He is the Climate Change Focal Point within the

Ministry of Health. He has coordinated studies as part of the Libreville

Declaration on Environment and Health and has initiated the

Vulnerability Assessment and Climate Proofing Activities in his Ministry.

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

ORGANISER/S Michael Brossmann,

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale

Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)

Eurac Research, Italy

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Ministry of Public Health, Thailand

National Coordinating Office for

Climate Change (BNCCC),

Madagascar

Ministry of Health, Benin

CHAIR Michael Brossmann, Deutsche

Gesellschaft für Internationale

Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

A geographer by training, Michael

Brossmann is an expert in climate

change adaptation in the context of

international development cooperation.

Co-author of GIZ’s Risk Supplement to

the Vulnerability Sourcebook, his focus

areas are vulnerability & risk assessments,

national adaptation planning and

climate services. Michael is currently

Head of Component in a German-

Malagasy adaptation project

implemented by GIZ, based in

Antananarivo (Madagascar).

RAPPORTEUR Nele Bünner, Deutsche Gesellschaft für

Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)

GmbH

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.

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Finance

VENUE

1.44

TIME

Monday

15h00 - 17h00

Making Finance work for Agricultural

Resilience

SESSION SUMMARY

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

products which can be used to increase resilience. A key objective

for the session is to stimulate increased dialogue between

adaptation practitioners and forward-looking financiers, as well as

enabling South-South learning on resilience solutions across Africa,

Asia and Latin America.

SPEAKERS

Vanessa Otto-Mentz, Santam, S. Africa

Peter Johnston, UCT, South Africa

Ben Smith, GCAP, UK

ORGANISER/S Ben Smith,

Global Climate Adaptation Partnership

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S 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

S188

Cities and Urban areas

VENUE

1.42

TIME

Monday

15h00 - 17h00

Transnational City-to-City Learning to

accelerate urban adaptation.

SESSION SUMMARY

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

demands and the rapid changes occurring in cities, call for

accelerated learning through ‘learning from each other’ (peer

learning). Transnational cooperation between cities is facilitated by

a novel approach of peer learning: transnational City-to-City

learning. But what drives city-to-city learning and what are the

enabling conditions? Who will take the lead? This session aims to

bring together three active clusters of city networks from Europe,

Arab countries and South Africa.

SPEAKERS

Eleanor Chapman, ICLEI - Local Governments For Sustainability,

Germany

Co-creating climate adaptation responses in Europe: shared lessons

from the RESIN project

Judith Rodriguez, Harvard University, United States of America

Cities and Water: Sustainability and Resilience of Natural

Infrastructure Approaches to Flood Risk

Paola Sakai, University of Leeds, UK

Factors enabling city-to-city cooperation for climate change

adaptation

Sergio Antonio Ruiz, Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar, Ecuador

Towards promoting urban governance to make climate resilience

intermediate cities in Latin America

Dennis Bours, Independent Evaluation Office of the GEF (IEO), United

States of America

Early lessons from the Global Environment Facility's Sustainable Cities

Integrated Approach Pilot (IAP) Program

Kornelia Iipinge, University Of Namibia, Namibia

Harare, Lusaka and Windhoek City Learning Exchange Visits

Sebastiaan van Herk

C2C learning to successfully implement and maintain Blue Green

Infrastructures in cities across Europe

ORGANISER/S Chris Zevenbergen,

IHE Delft

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Global Centre of Excellence on Climate

Adaptation (GCECA), The Netherlands

South African Cities Network (SACN),

South Africa

CHAIR Chris Zevenbergen

Chris Zevenbergen is professor at the

Water Engineering Department of

UNESCO-IHE and at TuDelft, The

Netherlands. He worked as a researcher

on various environmental issues related

to the building industry, such as

environmental impact assessments,

product development, emission

modeling, testing procedures, building

codes and guidelines in the 1980s

followed by 20 years international

research and consultancy in

environmental engineering and water

management. In the past 15 years he

has accumulated extensive national

and international experience with

integrated approaches to manage

floods in urban environments. He has a

strong affinity with the ecological, socio-

economic, institutional aspects of urban

planning and water management.

RAPPORTEUR William Veerbeek, IHE Delft, The

Netherlands

S87

Climate services, Knowledge

transfer

VENUE

1.41

TIME

Monday

15h00 - 17h00

Web-based platforms supporting

climate action: Continuing to learn

and improve

SESSION SUMMARY

Web-based platforms can provide effective means of supporting

climate action, but delivering such remains challenging. Sharing

experiences and lessons learnt in addressing these challenges

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:

http://www.climateadaptationservices.com/nl/af2016

This session will be comprised of 3-4 presentations addressing

experience and lessons learnt in developing and delivering such

platforms. A workshop would follow engaging participants in

addressing questions related to the challenges and opportunities in

delivering and using web-based platforms in supporting action, the

characteristics of the platform and content valued, innovations

needed, and the roles Adaptation Futures Conferences can play in

supporting platform development and delivery.

SPEAKERS

Roger Street, University College Cork, United Kingdom

Recent developments and challenges, with reference to the EEA

report Overview of climate change adaptation platforms in Europe

and the Roadmap for Climate Services by the European Commission

Mariana Xavier Nicolletti, Sao Paulo School of Business

Administration (FGV-EAESP), Brazil

Case 1: The Brazilian portal: AdaptaClima

(adaptaclima.mma.gov.br)

Barry O'Dwyer, MaREI Centre, University College Cork

Case 2: The Irish portal: Climate Ireland (www.climateireland.ie)

Workshop

Do we need and, if so, how can we build and sustain a community

of practice on web-based platforms to share and learn from each

other with the aim of better informing climate action through

effective web-based platforms? What are the major challenges that

should be the focus of our attention?

ORGANISER/S Kim van Nieuwaal,

Climate Adaptation Services

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S MaREI Centre, University College Cork,

Center for Sustainability Studies, FGV-

EAESP

UKCIP, University of Oxford, Ministry of

Infrastructure and Water Management,

The Netherlands

Climate Adaptation Services

Foundation,

CHAIR Kim van Nieuwaal, Climate Adaptation

Services

Kim van Nieuwaal is strategic advisor at

Climate Adaptation Services (CAS)

foundation. CAS has developed the

Dutch national portal for climate

adaptation and is also coordinator of

the Dutch national Climate Effect Atlas.

Kim is one the lead authors of the Dutch

National Adaptation Strategy. He is also

director of Delta Alliance International.

RAPPORTEUR Roger Street, University of Oxford

S251

Policy

VENUE

1.43

TIME

Tuesday

8h00 - 9h00

EU ADAPTATION STRATEGY

SESSION SUMMARY

The European Union is adapting to climate change at all levels of

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.

SPEAKERS

Elena Višnar Malinovská

EU Adaptation Strategy

Rasmus Lauridsen

A bank’s view on adaptation and related research

Paul Watkiss

Adaptation & Economics

Timo Leiter

Urban adaptation

ORGANISER/S European Commission

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S

CHAIR 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

S172

Governance

VENUE

1.61

TIME

Tuesday

11h30 - 13h15

Adaptation: instrument of conflict or a

tool for cooperation?

SESSION SUMMARY

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

dynamics of conflict, both within and between scales, and, in turn,

unpacks the potential for adaptation interventions to foster

cooperation in contexts of conflict. This session will raise awareness of

the potential for adaptation to exacerbate conflict and, how

adaptation interventions including REDD+ activities might serve to

strengthen cooperation including enabling community initiatives

and cooperation between communities and government.

SPEAKERS

Sebastiaan Soeters, The Netherlands / Ghana

Understanding the Adaptation/Farmer-Pastoralist Nexus in Northern

Ghana: Towards Appropriate Policy Actions

Parvin Sultana; Paul Thompson, Middlesex University, United Kingdom

Adaptation, conflict and community based adaptive learning

Poshendra Satyal, School of International Development, University of

East Anglia

Exploring the dynamics of conflict and coperation over REDD+ in

Mexico, Nepal and Vietnam

Courtney Work, Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, Cambodia /

The Netherlands

Entangled Cooperation: REDD+ and the politics of Carbon and

Conservation in Cambodia

ORGANISER/S Claire Mathieson,

Netherlands Organisation for Scientific

Research (NWO)

WOTRO Science for Global

Development,

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S International Centre for Climate

Change & Development (ICCCAD),

Bangladesh

Netherlands Organisation for Scientific

Research, Netherlands

CHAIR Corinne Lamain, NWO-WOTRO Science

for Global Development, The

Netherlands

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

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Cities and urban areas

VENUE

1.44

TIME

Tuesday

11h30 - 13h15

After the Floods: Reactive adaptation

and rebuilding for resilience in cities

SESSION SUMMARY

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

other cities around the world. Including a regionally diverse group of

megacities, the session will focus on recent weather events and how

contrasting cities such as Houston and Mumbai are responding to

the after effects of major flooding. Objectives include looking at

immediate emergency responses, rebuilding strategies, effective

flood management tools and the opportunity for political leverage

to undertake urgent and serious adaptation action going forward.

PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS

Erick Michael Chambua, City of Dar es Salaam

Erick Michael is a graduate with a BSc. Degree in Land Management

and Valuation and a Fully Registered Valuation Surveyor. Since 2010, he

has worked for Resettlement Action Plans for Dar es Salaam Water and

Sewerage Authority projects. He is also involved with Environmental

Control and Management issues and Responsible Investment in Property

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

working as City Valuer cum Urban Land Administrator with Dar es Salaam

City Council.

Sean O’Donoghue, Ethekwini Municipality

Dr. Sean O’Donoghue has a doctorate in marine pelagic ecology

obtained from the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) in 2010. In March

2011, Sean joined eThekwini Municipality, or Durban, where he manages

the Climate Change Adaptation Branch. A key focus of the Branch is

Community Ecosystem Based Adaptation, providing work opportunities

for Durban’s indigent populations. Sean manages a number of research,

inter-city and community partnership projects, and has led the

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.

ORGANISER/S Pedro Ribeiro,

C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S City of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

City of Durban, South Africa

City of Lagos, Nigeria

City of Lima, Peru

CHAIR Pedro Ribeiro, C40 Cities Climate

Leadership Group

Pedro is the network manager of C40

Urban Flooding Network. The network

promotes peer exchange to improve

the water management in cities, focus

on the impacts of Urban Flooding.

RAPPORTEUR C40 Adaptation Team

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Cities, settlements and key

infrastructure

VENUE

1.43

TIME

Tuesday

11h30 - 13h15

An urban equity and justice

orientation to climate adaptation and

resilient transformations

SESSION SUMMARY

This session focuses on emerging justice-based pathway for climate

resilient transformations in cities. The papers in this session evaluate

this ‘reorientation’ towards justice, which includes an understanding

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

development can prioritise the needs of economically precarious,

environmentally vulnerable, and politically marginalised

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

climate resilience.

SPEAKERS

Kavya Michael, Indian Institute of Human Settlements, India

Examining vulnerability and adaptive capacity in a dynamic urban

setting: A case study of Bangalore’s interstate migrant waste pickers

James Patterson, The Netherlands Open University, The Netherlands

Equity and justice in urban climate adaptation: results from a global

survey

Roger Few, University of East Anglia, UK

Saying what we mean: transformation, radical change and/or social

justice

Eric Chu, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

The Dilemmas of Equity and Justice in Urban Climate Change

Adaptation

ORGANISER/S Eric Chu,

University of Birmingham

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S University of Cape Town, South Africa

Indian Institute for Human Settlements,

India

CHAIR Eric Chu, University of Birmingham,

United Kingdom

Eric Chu is a Lecturer in Planning and

Human Geography at the University of

Birmingham. His research is on the

politics of climate change governance

in cities, with particular emphasis on the

globally comparative perspectives of

socio-spatial change, development

planning, policy reform, and local

environmental justice.

RAPPORTEUR Gina Ziervogel, University of Cape Town

S51

Cities, settlements and key

infrastructure

VENUE

2.46

TIME

Tuesday

11h30 - 13h15

Resilience epistemologies - do the

science, tools and practices of

resilience open or close opportunity

for creative partnerships in urban risk

management?

SESSION SUMMARY

Resilience as an element of urban policy is diverse in its interpretation

and application. Science and decision-support tools are similarly

diverse so that multiple expectations and objectives arrive once

resilience planning is proposed. This session will examine the ways in

which science, data, decision-support tools and policy narratives

contribute to the shaping of dominant and alterative understandings

of resilience, and how resilience is deployed from different actor

viewpoints to project unresolved development challenges into

contemporary urban political debates and practical project level

decision-making. Does resilience enable more joined up, evidence-

based, inclusive processes and visions of urban development - or is

this beyond the capacity and intention of the current generation of

urban resilience professionals, activists and researchers?

A discussion on the multiple interpretations and deployments of

resilience in urban settings and the influence of science, data and

decision-support tools in this. A summary and blog will be posted on

the DFID funded Urban Africa Risk Knowledge website

www.urbanark.org

SPEAKERS

Maud Borie, King’s College London, UK; Mark Pelling, King’s College

London, UK;Gina Ziervogel, University of Cape Town, South Africa;

Keith Hyams, University of Warwick, UK

Imagining the Resilient City: effects of slum upgrading on the social

contract and social cohesion in Kibera, Nairobi

Arabella Fraser, Open University

The state and the co-production of climate risk: implications for

resilience-building in informal urban settlements

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

ORGANISER/S Mark Pelling,

King's College London, UK

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S

CHAIR Mark Pelling, King's College London

Mark Pelling is Professor of Geography,

King's College London with a specialism

in social and institutional analysis for

disaster risk management and climate

change adaptation, predominantly in

urban contexts of the global South. He

has been a coordinating lead author for

the IPCC 5th Assessment Report, and

SREX special report. He will be a

coordinating lead author for the Human

settlements chapter in the 6th

Assessment Report. Mark also acts as a

Resilience Challenge Lead for the UKRI

Global Challenges Research Fund.

RAPPORTEUR Maud Borie, King's College London

S23

Adaptation and development

VENUE

2.63

TIME

Tuesday

11h30 - 13h15

The Motion: Global development is

not adapting to climate change

SESSION SUMMARY

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

across a range of entry points to trace the narrative back in time,

and to look forward for understanding if and how development can

adapt to a changing climate. The panellists have been chosen to

represent a range of geographies, genders and agendas – each will

provide a different take to argue for or against the motion.

SPEAKERS

PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS

ORGANISER/S Lisa Schipper,

Oxford University

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

S158

Climate Services

VENUE

2.62

TIME

Tuesday

11h30 - 13h15

Using Disruptive Technologies to

Address Climate Disruption

SESSION SUMMARY

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

individuals. Currently, there is no integrated, coordinated, and highly

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,

metrics, exchange mechanisms and finance, in other words, climate

services) required to support effective global action on climate

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

integration of key components -- or "moving parts" -- suggests an

immediate and more effective path forward by integrating technology,

policy and the financial sector. Numerous tools and methodologies are

presently available to meet the challenge of climate adaptation, but

these various components have yet to be linked up. This workshop will

identify the recent advances in several key areas that, if harnessed

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

“Smart Standards" (an updated mode of developing voluntary

standards), blockchain platforms, and other digital solutions with

innovative adaptation finance, for example Vulnerability Reduction

Credits (VRCs ™), to better align adaptation solutions and usher in a new

era of coordinated adaptation action. This workshop will provide for a

peer-to-peer exchange of views among a multi-stakeholder range of

expected participants. The resulting dialogue launched by this session

can lead to a systematic, applied creation of a suite of tools and

testbeds combining all these elements in an innovative manner.

SPEAKERS

Ira Feldman, Adaptation Ledger, USA

Introducing Adaptation Ledger

Marek Soanes, IIED, UK

Can Blockchain Help Unblock the Flow of Finance to Vulnerable

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

ORGANISER/S Ira Feldman,

Adaptation Ledger

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Climate-Check, Canada

Higher Ground Foundation (HGF), UK

CHAIR Ira Feldman, Adaptation Ledger, USA

Ira Feldman is a US-based sustainability

leader with an interdisciplinary skill set

and a global reach. He has over 25 years

experience as an attorney and

management consultant focusing on

environmental regulatory innovation,

strategic environmental management,

sustainable business practices and

corporate social responsibility. Ira is now

at the leading edge of the convergence

of sustainability, climate adaptation and

ecosystem services. Ira is a co-founder

and principal of Adaptation Ledger.

RAPPORTEUR Ira Feldman, Adaptation Ledger, USA

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.

S55

Health, wellbeing and the

changing structure of

communities

VENUE

2.61

TIME

Tuesday

11h30 - 13h15

What do the intersections between

resilience and wellbeing offer

development practice?

SESSION SUMMARY

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

and oft-misrepresented. With that in mind, this session seeks clarity on

what framings of resilience and wellbeing have to offer in relation to

development practice. More specifically, it explores the

intersections, synergies, and trade-offs between wellbeing and

resilience. We look to identify practical examples of the opportunities

presented by their convergence, as well as understanding potential

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

of insights and perspectives.

PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS

Lindsey Jones, London School of Economics and Political

Science/Overseas Development Institute, UK

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 many 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).

Stephane Hallegate, World Bank

Irene Kunamwene, University of Cape Town

Erin Coughlan de Perez, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre

Emily Wilkinson, Overseas Development Institute

Gina Ziervogel, Africa Climate and Development Institute

ORGANISER/S Lindsey Jones,

London School of Economics

Overseas Development Institute, United

Kingdom

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Building Resilience and Adaptation to

Climate Extremes and Disasters

(BRACED), United Kingdom

Global Resilience Partnership (GRP),

Sweden

CHAIR Nathaniel Matthews, Global Resilience

Partnership, Sweden Nate is a multidisciplinary scientist with

more than 30 peer-reviewed publications

on a broad range of topics across

resilience, risk, water, energy, agriculture,

and natural resource management. He

has managed more than 170 projects

globally in more than 25 countries. Nate’s

expertise has been recognized through

contributions to various global networks, as

a management committee member of

the Food, Environment, Energy Water

Network, a Lead Author in The

Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform

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)

S99

Gender

VENUE

2.43

TIME

Tuesday

11h30 - 13h15

A Gender-Responsive Approach to

Adaptation - across policy, financing

and implementation

SESSION SUMMARY

This conference session will demonstrate both the progress made

and key challenges toward enhancing women’s empowerment and

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

seeks to provide participants with a broad understanding of the

need for and the challenges of implementing a gender-responsive

approach to adaptation. We propose to convene a World Cafe

session to bring together academics, practitioners, and other

organizational representatives to develop new insights into the

challenges and best practices of mainstreaming gender

considerations in climate adaptation finance.

The session will feature several high-level speakers to introduce the

key developments and challenges faced in practice. The World

Café format will provide opportunities for session participants to

connect across academic scholarship and practice through an

examination of specific lessons learned, best practices, and

recommendations from experience with various finance

mechanisms, academic disciplines, decision-makers, and

practitioners on the “how-to.”

SPEAKERS

Young Hee Lee, Adaptation Fund

Legal and Operations Analyst

Sophie Kutegeka, IUCN – International Union for the Conservation of

Nature, Uganda

Country Representative

Ina Lambert, UNFCCC

Associate Programme Officer

ORGANISER/S Gabriel Chan,

University of Minnesota

IUCN, Adaptation Fund, United States of

America

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S IUCN, USA

Adaptation Fund Board Secretariat, USA

CHAIR Gabriel Chan, University of Minnesota

Gabriel Chan is an Assistant Professor at

the University of Minnesota's Humphrey

School of Public Affairs in Science,

Technology, and Environmental Policy.

RAPPORTEUR Lindsey Forsberg, Samantha Holte

S219

EbA

VENUE

1.63

TIME

Tuesday

11h30 - 13h15

Collaborative thinking and collective

intelligence on nature based solutions

for climate change adaptation and

DRR: buddy projects coming together

to reflect on actionable science for

and from Africa, Europe, Asia and

Latinamerica

SESSION SUMMARY

An Action Agenda on Green infrastructure at the global level and

the role nature based solutions can/cannot play in climate change

adaptation. We bring the collective experience of 4 projects in 4

different continents with a sum of around 15 to 20 case studies at

different stages in implementation with very different contexts, so

that we become buddy projects to speed up the uptake and sharing

of results as collective intelligence to generate actionable science

that can be used to further develop our knowledge on the role that

nature can provide in climate change adaptation.

SPEAKERS

Eureta Rosemberg, Rhodes University

A learning journey for change, including climate change: a

collaborative social-ecological approach in a major landscape and

catchment rehabilitation project in South Africa -Ntabelanga-Lalini

Ecological Infrastructure Project

Neil Coles, University of Leeds

The business case for NBS – Lessons learnt from current EU NBS projects

Nosiwipe Angwala, Rhodes University, South Africa

Facilitating cooperative water quality management agenda

through an environmental ethical perspective in a complex social-

ecological system

Joanna Nelson, LandSea Science

Nature-based climate adaptation, from headwaters to the sea, in

South African National Parks and US NationalAfrica and North

America Estuarine Research Reserves

Eulalia Gomez Martin, GERICS

Using Participatory Modelling to assess the viability of Nature Based

Solutions: A case study of Medina del Campo river basin

Monica Altamirano, DELTARES Holland

NAIAD and Water Funds Reflections on the Water Initiative and

Investment in watershed services in the EU and LAC

Elena Lopez Gunn, ICATALIST

Collective intelligence: drawing lessons from existing projects to

accelerate adoption of nature based solutions for DRR and CCA

ORGANISER/S Elena Lopez Gunn,

Icatalist, Spain

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S BC3, Spain

University of Rhodes, South Africa

University of Leeds, United Kingdom

CHAIR Eureta Rosendberg, University of

Rhodes, South Africa Since September 2016 Eureta is a full Professor

in the Murray & Roberts Chair of Environment

and Sustainability Education at Rhodes

University. She obtained her PhD in 1995 with

a study exploring research methodologies for

environmental education. At the time, she

was appointed to the Murray & Roberts Chair

and tasked with building a cadre of

environmental education professionals. With

other colleagues, she developed a first

certificate course (the Gold Fields course)

and the first SADC-wide course for

environmental education practitioners. From

2000, Eureta worked from Cape Town as a

consultant. Her work included leading the

stakeholder based development the

National Biodiversity Human Capital

Development Strategy. Eureta is a founding

member of the National Environmental Skills

Planning Forum and her leadership roles

include being Editor-in-Chief for the Southern

African Journal of Environmental Education,

the International Reference group for the

Resilience in the Limpopo-Olifants River

programme of AWARD and USAID, and

coordinating the Researching Work and

Learning Conference for 2017.

RAPPORTEUR Maria Sanz, BC3, Spain

S54

Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E)

VENUE

2.41

TIME

Tuesday

11h30 - 13h15

Embracing Complexity: The

Challenges of Measuring and Defining

Adaptation Success

SESSION SUMMARY

Being able to define and track climate adaptation success is an

imperative for donors, implementers, and researchers alike. The past

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

adaptation options have been limited. This session will seek to identify

what constitutes success from different perspectives, question how

notions of adaptation success are constructed, and uncover what

standard definitions “leave out”. We aim for a participatory session

where each delegate will reflect on their own assumptions regarding

adaptation success.

PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS

Farid Ahmad, ICIMOD, Nepal

Farid Ahmad is Head of ICIMOD’s Strategic Planning, Monitoring and

Evaluation Unit. His expertise includes the design of monitoring and

evaluation systems, programme effectiveness,

result-based management, project management, training,

institutional development, participatory approaches, sustainable

development, mountain research, knowledge management,

gender development, social inclusion, institutional development,

and climate change.

Kerry Bowman, University of Toronto, Canada

Dr. Kerry Bowman has a Ph.D. in Bioethics, a fellowship in Cultural

Psychiatry and a Masters degree in Social Work. Dr. Bowman teaches

Bioethics, Environmental ethics, and Climate change and human

health at the University of Toronto, holding appointments in Family

and Community Medicine and The School of The Environment.

Meaghan Daly, University of Leeds, United Kingdom

Meaghan Daly is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the U.K. ESRC

Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (CCCEP) at the

University of Leeds. Her research focuses broadly on science-society

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

ORGANISER/S Lisa Dilling,

University of Colorado

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Columbia University, USA

Disaster Management Training and

Education Centre for Africa, South

Africa

CHAIR Johanna Nalau, Griffith University,

Australia

Johanna Nalau is a Research Fellow at

Griffith University and IPCC AR6 WGII

Lead Author for chapter 15 Small Islands.

Dr Nalau’s research focuses on decision-

making processes around climate risk

management, adaptation limits and

ecosystem-based adaptation in

particular.

RAPPORTEUR Nuvodita Singh, International Centre for

Integrated Mountain Development

(ICIMOD), Nepal

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”.

S48

Terrestrial and freshwater

ecosystems and their services

VENUE

1.62

TIME

Tuesday

11h30 - 13h15

Government Natural Resource

Management supporting Ecosystem

based Adaptation

SESSION SUMMARY

In this session, we will reflect on the efforts for making Ecosystem

Based Adaptation an integral part of South Africa’s Government led,

Expanded Public Works Programme for Natural Resource

Management and to monitor this impact effectively. We will also

discuss how this can contribute to transformative adaptation.

SPEAKERS

Christo Marais, Department of Environmental Affairs, South Africa

Department of Environmental Affairs Natural Resource Management

Transformative Investments in the Restoration and Maintenance of

Ecological Infrastructure while Addressing Socio Economic

Challenges

Nadine Methner, African Climate & Development Initiative (ACDI),

University of Cape Town, South Africa

Building the Evidence-base for Investment in Ecological Infrastructure

for Water and Livelihood Security

Giacomo Fedele. Conservation International, USA

Characteristics of transformative adaptation to climate change

Sarshen Scorgie

Implementing the Land user Incentives model as EbA

ORGANISER/S Sarshen Scorgie,

Conservation South Africa

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S University of Cape Town, South Africa

Department of Environmental Affairs,

South Africa

CHAIR Christo Marais, Department of

Environmental Affairs, South Africa

Christo Marais grew up on a wine,

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

S145

Food, fibre, and other ecosystem

products

VENUE

1.64

TIME

Tuesday

11h30 - 13h15

Improving resilience for food and

health in Africa with science

SESSION SUMMARY

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

support from UK DFID, AgMIP has developed new fundamental

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

climate stresses. In Mozambique and Ethiopia, the WHO and USAID

are piloting work in the area of climate-sensitive health risks, as well

as including a broader focus on how to tackle regional health issues

throughout Africa using a science-based approach.

SPEAKERS

Sabine Homann-Kee Tui, International Crops Research Institute for the

Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Zimbabwe

Linking regional integrated assessments with decision making for

nutrition-sensitive, climate-resilient and sustainable farming systems in

semi-arid Zimbabwe

Olivier Crespo, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Changes in South Africa’s staple basket by 2050

Sithembile Ndema Mwamakamba, Food, Agriculture and Natural

Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN), South Africa

Strengthening Evidence-Based Climate Change Adaptation Policies

in the Southern and East African Region

Sally Edwards, World Health Organization, Regional Office for Africa,

Republic of the Congo

Implementation of WHO Framework for Public Health Adaptation to

Climate Change in Africa: Experience of Ethiopia

Eduardo Samo Gudo, National Institute of Health, Mozambique

Integrating climate science into public health decision making in

Mozambique

Fernanda Zermoglio, Chemonics International, United States of

America

Climate Change and Health in Mozambique: Impacts on Diarrheal

Disease and Malaria

ORGANISER/S Cynthia Rosenzweig,

NASA GISS Columbia University

United States Agency for International

Development (USAID), United States of

America

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Climate Analytics, Germany

World Health Organisation (WHO),

Switzerland

CHAIR Delphine Deryng, Climate Analytics,

Germany

Delphine Deryng is a Scientific Advisor at

Climate Analytics where she works on

strengthening the science-policy

interface to improve production,

dissemination and use of scientific

information for adaptation planning. She

holds a PhD from the University of East

Anglia (2014) in the field of climate

impacts and adaptation in the

agriculture sector.

RAPPORTEUR Colin Quinn, USAID

S86

Cities and urban areas

VENUE

1.41

TIME

Tuesday

11h30 - 13h15

Learning and action: building climate

resilience in cities

SESSION SUMMARY

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

and GIZ’s global project ‘Cities Fit for Climate Change’, CFCC will

jointly facilitate the session and bring their experiences together. The

aim of the session is to gather different local actors for a common

cause and facilitate exchange and learning among several cities

and universities. The experiences showcased concentrate on the

CFCC partner cities and the EPIC-Africa Network (Educational

Partnerships for Innovation in Communities) with a focus on the

eThekwini municipality, South Africa.

PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS

Emmanuel Letebele, eThekwini municipality, South Africa

Emmanuel Letebele has a Masters in Town and regional Planning

obtained from the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) in 2017. He is

currently an Acting Manager in the Strategic Spatial Planning Branch

of eThekwini Municipality. A key focus of his work and the mandate

of the branch is to develop the Spatial Development Framework for

the municipality recently including climate sensitive planning

considerations.

Gilbert Siame, University of Zambia, Zambia

Gilbert Siame holds a PhD and a MSc. in city and regional planning

from the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Dr. Siame is the

convener of the MSc in Spatial Planning programme in the

Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at the

University of Zambia where he is also a co-founder and current

Director of the Centre for Urban Research and Planning (CURP). He

is the founding coordinator of EPIC Africa.

Telly Chauke, South African Local Government Association (SALGA),

South Africa

Telly Chauke is a Specialist in Environment and Climate Change

within the Municipal Services and Infrastructure Directorate and

responsible for facilitating support to municipalities on policy and

practice related to environmental management and climate

change. She represents South African municipalities in national

intergovernmental structures and forums and provides policy and

technical advice to member municipalities.

ORGANISER/S Daphne Frank, GIZ; Barney Dickson,

UNEP,

UN Environment

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale

Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Germany

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S eThekwini municipality, South Africa

Educational Partnerships for Innovation

in Communities Network in Africa (EPIC-

Africa), Zambia and South Africa

CHAIR Barney Dickson, UN Environment;

Daphne Frank, GIZ

Dr. Daphne Frank, born in

Guayaquil/Ecuador is expert in

international urban development issues.

She is Head of the project Cities Fit for

Climate Change at the Deutsche

Gesellschaft für Internationale

Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) in Bonn,

Germany. She is an architect and urban

planner with more than 20 years of

professional experience in the field. She

published several articles and books

about urban and international

development.

RAPPORTEUR Zane Abdul, GIZ

S165

Decision-making options for

managing risk

Climate resilient development

pathways

VENUE

2.64

TIME

Tuesday

14h15 - 16h00

2018 Forum of the UNFCCC

Adaptation Committee: Integrating

climate change adaptation with the

Sustainable Development Goals and

the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk

Reduction

SESSION SUMMARY

The UNFCCC Adaptation Committee promotes the coherent

implementation of enhanced action on adaptation.

The international community made an unprecedented set of

commitments to pursue a sustainable future by producing three

landmark global agendas: The Paris Agreement; the Sustainable

Development Goals; and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk

Reduction.

Having dedicated an expert meeting to the benefits of an

integrated implementation of these agendas in 2017, the

Adaptation Committee looks forward to introducing the key

messages from its technical work, and to a constructive discussion

with a diverse audience on further ideas and opportunities to

advance the three agendas in unison.

SPEAKERS

Aisha Khan, Civil Society Coalition for Climate Change (CSCCC)

Mainstreaming climate change adaptation and DRR into national

development planning in South Asia

PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS

Bettina Koelle, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre

Bettina joined the Climate Centre in 2013 and is the focal point for

Southern Africa, developing and facilitating approaches to

interactive learning and dialogue. Her work focuses on adaptation,

including working on 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 innovative dialogue and

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

ORGANISER/S Ina Lambert,

United Nations Framework Convention

on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S

CHAIR Maria del Pilar Bueno, UNFCCC

Adaptation Committee

Pilar is a researcher of the National

Council of Scientific and Technical

Research of Argentina (CONICET). Her

specialty lies in the analysis, policy

framing process and comparison of

external, national and subnational

policies on climate change. She is

Climate Change Adaptation negotiator

for Argentina, Lead Coordinator of the

G77 and China on adaptation issues at

the UNFCCC and Co-Chair of the

UNFCCC Adaptation Committee.

RAPPORTEUR Cecíla da Silva Bernardo, UNFCCC

Adaptation Committee

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.

S154

Communication, Information

dissemination, Climate Services

VENUE

2.43

TIME

Tuesday

14h15 - 16h00

Communicating climate projections:

Design approaches, interpretations

and applications

SESSION SUMMARY

Climate change increases the frequency of extreme heat, droughts

and rain. Communities, governments and businesses need to

understand uncertain climate projections for making robust

decisions and attaining suitable developmental goals. Producers of

climate information need to account for decision-contexts for

providing user-relevant information. Integrating risk communication

expertise and transdisciplinary empirical research from academia,

meteorological agencies and climate service providers, the session

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

arising from inter-individual and cultural differences in perceptions of

communications and subsequent adaptation decisions.

SPEAKERS

Anna Steynor, University of Cape Town, South Afica

Understanding the operational context for climate services in African

cities

Astrid Kause, University of Leeds, Priestley International Centre for

Climate

Framing Climate Uncertainty: Frame Choices Reveal and Influence

Climate Change Beliefs

Neha Mittal, University of Leeds, UK

Communicating climate change: Identifying climate change

visualisations that are best understood by a user community

Markus Berensson, C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, UK

From science to policy: communicating climate change in cities

Hasse Goossen , Climate Adaptation Services, The Netherlands

Visualizing future climate impacts for the Heineken brewery using the

Copernicus Climate Service

ORGANISER/S Astrid Kause; Anna Steynor; Joseph

Daron,

University of Leeds

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Met Office, UK

CHAIR Astrid Kause, University of Leeds, United

Kingdom

Astrid studies how individuals

communicate and behave in the face

of uncertain and complex challenges

like climate change. This involves

transparent and simple communication

of scientific evidence, such as more or

less uncertain probability estimates. The

aim of her work is both to identify

communication formats that are easy to

understand and transparent and to find

out which individual characteristics (like

numeracy, graph literacy,

environmental values and political

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

S71

Finance

VENUE

1.64

TIME

Tuesday

14h15 - 16h00

Different Perspectives on Direct

Access and Concrete Adaptation

Interventions

SESSION SUMMARY

This session consists of three parts: (i) presentation on an overview of

how to access financial resources for projects and programmes to

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

National Implementing Entities (NIEs) to capture lessons learned from,

and challenges in accessing climate finance for adaptation actions

at local level; and (iii) interactive Q&A session between the speakers

and audiences- aimed at enriching overall discussions and offering

a great opportunity to learn from best practices, challenges and

lessons learned from the different stakeholders involved in the

process.

SPEAKERS

Tamara Greenstone, Micronesia Conservation Trust

Soledad Moreiras, Unit for Rural Change of Argentina

Michael Jennings, South Africa National Biodiversity Institute

ORGANISER/S Daouda Ndiaye,

Adaptation Fund

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S

CHAIR Daouda Ndiaye, AFBSEC

Daouda is Senior Climate Change

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 Young Hee Lee, AFBSEC

S39

Ocean and coastal ecosystems

and their services

VENUE

1.43

TIME

Tuesday

14h15 - 16h00

Early experiences with managed

retreat

SESSION SUMMARY

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,

when, and how this strategy might be used appropriately, and how it fits

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

applicable across developed and developing country contexts and to

connect practitioners’ and researchers’ perspectives.

PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS

Camille Manning-Broome and Justin Kozak, Center for Planning

Excellence The Center for Planning Excellence is leading the outreach and

engagement strategy for the first community-scale, climate-induced

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

tropical storms. Center for Planning Excellence is working with the IDJC

community to help plan the move to higher ground.

Ricardo Safra de Campos, University of Exeter Dr. Ricardo Safra De Campos, an Associate Research Fellow at the University

of Exeter, will discuss a study examining planned relocation in West Bengal

in India for communities seeking relocation due to coastal flooding.

Interviews with key actors show that government action is explained by a

combination of risk aversion within political systems to avoid perceived

negative consequences, and a lack of government accountability. The

study suggests that while there may be a growing demand for planned

relocation in places affected by environmental change, its implementation

is likely to be uneven, with profound socioeconomic implications for those

living in such localities.

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.

ORGANISER/S Miyuki Hino,

Stanford University

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S

CHAIR Katharine Mach, Stanford University,

USA

Katharine Mach is a Senior Research

Scientist at Stanford University. She leads

the Stanford Environment Assessment

Facility (SEAF). From 2010 until 2015,

Mach co-directed the scientific activities

of Working Group II of the

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate

Change, which focuses on impacts,

adaptation, and vulnerability.

RAPPORTEUR Miyuki Hino, Stanford University, USA

S97

Finance

VENUE

2.62

TIME

Tuesday

14h15 - 16h00

How to Train for Better Access to

Climate Adaptation Finance

SESSION SUMMARY

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.

This session connects funders with potential project owners and

beneficiaries (e.g. local governments, civil society organisations,

universities, research institutes, SMEs) in a dialogue to better

understand each other’s interests and the problems they face in

relation to climate adaptation finance. These learnings will support

the design of the ‘climate adaptation finance’ course; link the

training content and process to the needs, identify who to

cooperate with and explore interest of funders to boost adaptation

finance.

PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS

Leigh Cobban, ACDI, South Africa

Leigh Cobban manages education projects at the African Climate

and Development Initiative (ACDI) at UCT. Her work includes

overseeing the existing student and professional programs;

supporting new curriculum development; and building ACDI’s

understanding of best practice in climate change education in

Africa. Recently Leigh has worked with others at ACDI, UCT’s

Graduate School of Development Policy and Practice, and

SouthSouthNorth, to conceptualise a training programme that builds

the capacity of African countries to access the Green Climate Fund.

Hans Bolscher, Trinomics, EU

Hans (1960) is a Dutch economist and senior consultant in the field of

climate, climate finance and (renewable) energy. Today, one of the

leading experts in climate finance and climate finance tracking. He

is the former director Climate and Industry at the Ministry of

Environment and former Director at Economic Affairs at the Dutch

government, as such responsible for national and international

climate and renewable energy policy development. Hans has a long

background in international development, amongst others as former

founder of FairTrade (FLO). Since over 25 years he is deeply involved

in the discussions on environment, climate, energy and finance

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.

ORGANISER/S Ingrid Gevers,

Wageningen Environmental Research

(WUR)

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Trinomics, The Netherlands

Trinomics, EU

University of Cape Town, South Africa

CHAIR Ingrid Gevers, Wageningen Centre for

Development Innovation

Ingrid Gevers is a capacity development

expert at Wageningen Centre for

Development Innovation. She designs

and facilitates learning trajectories in

climate change, exploring the interface

with disaster risk management, fisheries,

water & food security. She likes to inspire

people to change their practices

through constructive dialogue and

reflection. The development of tailor

made innovative training material,

games and tools are central in her work.

RAPPORTEUR Hans Bolscher, Trinomics

S83 A

Cities and Urban areas

VENUE

2.61

TIME

Tuesday

14h15 - 16h00

Interdependencies of Systems:

Adapting Cities to Cascading Effects

Triggered by Climate Extremes

SESSION SUMMARY

Climate extremes create the potential for cascading effects

threatening urban populations’ security by undermining the

sustainable utilization of water, energy, food resources and services.

Cascading effects depend on specific social-institutional,

economic, technological, and environmental factors. Hence, their

diffusion is mediated by context specific interdependent

vulnerabilities in city’s governance and critical infrastructural systems.

We invite a diversity of tools, methods, cases, best-practices and

lessons-learned on the:

• Mediating role, in mitigating risks, of interdependent infrastructural

systems and factors occurring inside and outside city boundaries

• Influence of governance on policies, actions and infrastructural

supports on risk mitigation and adaptation

SPEAKERS

David MacLeod, City of Toronto/C40 Climate Change Risk Network

Strategies to engage interdependent internal external infrastructure

organizations in climate risk management – 10 years of experience

from the trenches.

Hastings Chikoko, C40 Regional Director for Africa

Connecting the dots: understanding climate impacts on critical

infrastructure and its effects in cities

Mzukisi Gwata, City of Johannesburg, South Africa

Opportunities for analysing sectoral interdependencies in climate

change adaptation plan update

Patricia Romero Lankao, NCAR; Rachel Norton, CU Denver

Food, Energy, and Water Systems, Cascading Effects, and Risk to

People and Places – Insights from Boulder County Colorado

Vicki Barmby, City of Melbourne/C40

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

ORGANISER/S Patricia Romero-Lankao,

Institute for Sustainable Urban

Transformations (ISUT) & National Center

for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)

C40, Cities Climate Leadership Group,

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Urban Futures at NCAR, USA

C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group,

United Kingdom

CHAIR Patricia Romero-Lankao, Mexico/USA,

ISUT/NCAR

Paty examines the intersection between

urbanization, cities, and risks. In

particular, she studies the how people's

capacities to adapt and mitigate risks,

while pursuing life goals, change over

time. She leads the Urban Futures

initiative and was lead-author to the

Nobel prize-winning IPCC Fourth

Assessment Report.

RAPPORTEUR Snigdha Garg, C40, USA/India; Neuni

Farhad, C40, USA

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

S11

Migration

VENUE

1.62

TIME

Tuesday

14h15 - 16h00

Migration & Displacement in Climate

Hotspots: Adaptation or Loss and

Damage?

SESSION SUMMARY

This session explores interconnections between climate risks,

population mobility, adaptation and loss and damage. Migration

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

migrants themselves, places they come from and host communities.

This is particularly the case when people are displaced by sudden-

onset disasters as well as when places are at risk of becoming

permanently uninhabitable due to slow on-set disasters. This session

provides a platform for presenting research evidence and discussing

legal and policy implications.

SPEAKERS

Kees van der Geest, University of Hawaii

The role of climate change and ecosystem services in the migration

decisions of Marshallese Islanders

Amina Maharjan, Internationl Centre for Integrated Mountain

Development (ICIMOD), Nepal

Migration and adaptation in the context of environmental change:

lessons from interdisciplinary work in South Asia

Mark Tebboth, School of International Development, University of East

Anglia & Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research

Everyday mobility and changing livelihood trajectories: implications

for vulnerability and adaptation in the semi-arid regions of Africa and

India

ORGANISER/S Kees van der Geest,

University of Hawai'i

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S International Development Research

Centre (IDRC), Canada

CHAIR Michele Leone, International

Development Research Centre (IDRC) Dr. Leone got a PhD in physics of complex

systems from the UNESCO ICTP and the

International School for Advanced Studies of

Trieste, Italy. He has worked as research

scientist applying complex systems theory

and tools to real world development

problems in computer sciences, biology and

economics. He left Europe in 2005 to then

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

S218

Climate Services

VENUE

2.41

TIME

Tuesday

14h15 - 16h00

Showcasing and learning from

Forecast-based Financing case

studies

SESSION SUMMARY

Forecast-based Financing (FbF) is an innovative financial mechanism

for triggering humanitarian preparedness before a disaster, based on

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

government agencies.

This session will take the form of a ‘marketplace’ where the audience

is encouraged to move between and converse with different

research teams showcasing 1) FbF in a variety of country-contexts

(Kenya, Mozambique, Nepal, Uganda and Zambia) , and 2) a

breadth of different thematic topics from both applied and

theoretical social and environmental sciences.

SPEAKERS

Chris Garimoi Orach, Makerere University School of Public Health,

Department of Community Health and Behavioural Sciences; Shuaib

Lwasa, Makerere University, School of Forestry, Environmental and

Geographical Sciences, Department of Geography, Geo Informa

A case study of FbF Implementation in Uganda

Madhab Uprety, Practical Action Consulting South Asia; Dilip

Gautam, Practical Action Consulting South Asia; Puja Shakya,

Practical Action Consulting South Asia; Sumit Dugar, DfID Nepal;

Sanchita Neupane, Practical Action Consulting South Asia; Damodar

Ka

Moving towards Forecast-Based Flood Preparedness in Nepal:

Linking Science of Predictions to Preparedness Actions

Maureen Ambani, Kenya Red Cross Society; Martin Todd, Sussex

University; Olivia Todd, Sussex University

Towards FbA in Kenya: The Forecasts for Preparedness Action’

(ForPAc) project

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

ORGANISER/S Liz Stephens,

University of Reading

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Red Cross Red Crescent Climate

Centre, team members based in

Uganda and Mozambique

Practical Action Nepal, Nepal

CHAIR Liz Stephens, University of Reading,

United Kingdom

Liz Stephens is a Senior Research Fellow

at the University of Reading and Director

of the DfID / NERC funded Forecasts for

Anticipatory Humanitarian Action

(FATHUM) project. Liz’s research focusses

on developing flood forecasting

capabilities and using these forecasts for

decision-making.

RAPPORTEUR Sara de Wit, Oxford University, UK;

Harriet Aber, Makerere University,

Uganda

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.

S164

Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E)

VENUE

2.63

TIME

Tuesday

14h15 - 16h00

Social learning and evaluating its

impacts in participatory adaptation

planning

SESSION SUMMARY

This session will address the two central questions of:

1. How do you evaluate learning in participatory planning processes,

and

2. How do you measure whether this learning has any subsequent

impact on adaptation?

The presenters will share their experiences using different approaches

and tools for evaluating the learning and impacts of participatory

adaptation planning processes in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Pacific,

and North and South America. These short presentations will be

structured to answer the session’s two central questions. Second, an

interactive voting exercise will be used to engage participants in

sharing their experiences and perceptions.

SPEAKERS

Erin Bohensky, CSIRO Land and Water, Australia

What do scenarios achieve, and how do we know?: Assessing

stakeholder perceptions and learning in a participatory adaptation

planning process

Philip Thornton, CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change,

Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), Kenya

Evaluating learning in methods to scale up agricultural interventions

Chelsea Combest-Friedman, NOAA

Evaluating Participatory and Process-based approaches in climate

adaptation - Examples from a regional applied research teams

Edmond Totin, ASSAR Project, Universite Nationale d’Agriculture du

Benin

Can scenario planning catalyse transformational change?

Evaluating a climate change policy case study in Mali

ORGANISER/S Sadie McEvoy,

Deltares

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial

Research Organisation (CSIRO),

Australia

National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration (NOAA), United States of

America

CHAIR James Butler, Commonwealth Scientific

and Industrial Research Organisation

(CSIRO), Australia

James Butler is a sustainability scientist

based with CSIRO in Australia. He applies

participatory action research to analyse

complex development problems in the

Asia-Pacific region, with a focus on

livelihoods and climate resilient

development. He aims to generate

capacity for innovation and change,

and to evaluate the impacts of this

process.

RAPPORTEUR Seona Meharg, Commonwealth

Scientific and Industrial Research

Organisation (CSIRO), Australia

S166

Food security

VENUE

1.61

TIME

Tuesday

14h15 - 16h00

Transforming agri-food systems:

moving from science to action

SESSION SUMMARY

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

transformational adaptation in agri-food systems has gained traction

in response to challenges faced by farming communities. But, how

can transformational change in agri-food systems be facilitated at

scale? This session will highlight results from a systematic review of

literature on transformational change in agri-food systems, thus

capturing lessons from case studies around the world. Based on these

lessons, opportunities for facilitating transformational change at

scale in agri-food systems will be presented.

SPEAKERS

PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS

ORGANISER/S Bruce Campbell,

CGIAR Research Program on Climate

Change, Agriculture and Food Security

(CCAFS)

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S 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

S3

Cities and Urban areas

VENUE

1.44

TIME

Tuesday

14h15 - 16h00

Urban adaptation and coastal

protection – institutional challenges

and governance strategies in a

rapidly urbanizing world

SESSION SUMMARY

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

climate impacts requires resources beyond what public

administrations can provide. Involving private investors in large-scale

projects will however radically change the role of local governments

in delivering adaptation.

The session features three invited contributions featuring: 1)

conceptual tools; 2) international case studies from Germany, the

Netherlands, China and the Maldives; 3) results from the World Bank

City Coastal Resilience Africa Project. The talks are followed by a

Panel Discussion.

SPEAKERS

Matteo Roggero, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany

The "part" of the deal: institutional insights on delivering public urban

adaptation through private finance

Alexander Bisaro, Global Climate Forum, Germany

Leveraging public finance for coastal adaptation through land

reclamation projects: a comparative analysis

Lorenzo Carrera, World Bank, United States

City Coastal Resilience in Africa: from theory to practice

PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS

Christophe Brière, Deltares

Senior advisor – Coastal Engineering & Management, Multi-hazard

Risk Assessment & Coastal Adaptation Planning; Regional

coordinator, Maghreb & West-Africa

ORGANISER/S Matteo Roggero,

Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S

CHAIR Matteo Roggero, Humboldt Universität

zu Berlin

Dr. Roggero works as postdoctoral

researcher in the Research Economics

Group, Faculty of Life Sciences,

Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany.

A social scientist by training, Dr. Roggero

has delivered several publications on the

topic of climate adaptation and water

governance from the perspective of

institutional economics, focusing

particularly on transaction costs.

RAPPORTEUR Alexander Bisaro, Global Climate Forum

S116 A

Poverty, livelihoods and

sustainable development

VENUE

1.63

TIME

Tuesday

14h15 - 16h00

Vertical integration in adaptation:

understanding institutional barriers

and enablers to government and non-

government actors engaging across

scales

SESSION SUMMARY

Vertical integration is seen as the process of creating linkages

between the national and sub-national levels. One of the enabling

factors for vertical integration is the institutional arrangements that

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

and how they can inform institutional arrangements for adaptation.

Specifically it will explore the lessons learnt with regards to successful

modes of governance, information-sharing, participation and the

impacts on and implications for local communities. Importantly, it will

ask what additional complexities adaptation brings to cross-scalar

governance given the need to imagine and plan for long-term

climate change in the context of the sustainable development

goals, particularly for the most vulnerable.

SPEAKERS

Wendy Conway-Lamb, University of Canberra

Inclusive multi-level adaptation in Vietnam: a deliberative approach

to bridging the local-global adaptation governance divide

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

ORGANISER/S Gina Ziervogel,

University of Cape Town

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Indian Institute for Human Settlements

(IIHS), India

International Institute of Sustainable

Development (IISD), Canada

CHAIR Gina Ziervogel, University of Cape Town

RAPPORTEUR

S116 B

Planning

VENUE

1.63

TIME

Tuesday

16h30 - 18h15

Vertical integration in adaptation:

understanding institutional barriers

and enablers to government and non-

government actors engaging across

scales

SESSION SUMMARY

Vertical integration is seen as the process of creating linkages

between the national and sub-national levels. One of the enabling

factors for vertical integration is the institutional arrangements that

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

and how they can inform institutional arrangements for adaptation.

Specifically it will explore the lessons learnt with regards to successful

modes of governance, information-sharing, participation and the

impacts on and implications for local communities. Importantly, it will

ask what additional complexities adaptation brings to cross-scalar

governance given the need to imagine and plan for long-term

climate change in the context of the sustainable development

goals, particularly for the most vulnerable.

SPEAKERS

Salma Hegga, Adaptation At Scale In Semi Arid Regions (ASSAR),

University of Cape Town

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.

ORGANISER/S Gina Ziervogel,

University of Cape Town

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Indian Institute for Human Settlements

(IIHS), India

International Institute of Sustainable

Development (IISD), Canada

CHAIR Gina Ziervogel, University of Cape Town

RAPPORTEUR

S174

Food, fibre, and other ecosystem

products

VENUE

1.42

TIME

Tuesday

14h15 - 16h00

Harnessing indigenous and traditional

knowledge for adaptation in low-input

conditions

SESSION SUMMARY

Smallholders and marginalized rural communities are the groups at

the center of attention of this session. They are many, but their

landholdings are small, remote, and often marginalised in

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

particular food sovereignty) we can enhance resilience and

adaptive capacity in these settings.

PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS

Leshwin Koopman, Tra Tra Vallei Boerder (member of the Right to

Agrarian Reform for Food Sovereignty Campaign):

Agroecology as an approach to adapt to climate change: The Case

of in Wupperthal, South Africa

Stephen Greenberg, African Center for Biodiversity (Acbio),

Agro-ecology and food sovereignty as central approaches to

secure food supply in the face of climate change

Brendan Mackey, Griffith Climate Change Response Program, Griffith

University, Australia.

Integrating subsistence food security and forest conservation: lessons

from Tanna Island, Vanuatu

Saleem Huq, Director, International Centre for Climate Change and

Development (ICCCAD), and Senior Fellow, International Institute for

Environment and Development.

Ecosystem based adaptation and community based adaptation

experiences in Bangladesh

Harry May, SPP, South Africa

Facilitator

ORGANISER/S Johanna Nalau,

Griffith University

Brot für die Welt (Bread for the world),

Germany

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S African Center for Biodiversity (ACB),

South Africa

Surplus Peoples Program (SPP), South

Africa

International Centre for Climate

Change and Development (ICCCAD),

Bangladesh

CHAIR Johanna Nalau, Griffith University,

Australia; Ellen Kalmbach, Bread for the

World, Germany Dr Johanna Nalau is a Research Fellow at

Griffith University and IPCC AR6 WGII Lead

Author for chapter 15 Small Islands. Dr

Nalau’s research focuses on decision-making

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

S38

Decision making options for

managing risk

VENUE

1.41

TIME

Tuesday

14h15 - 16h00

Diversity in application:

Understanding how adaptation and

disaster risk reduction are linked in

different countries and regions

SESSION SUMMARY

The occurrence of numerous extreme climate events, including

cyclones, floods, and heat waves in the last two years, has reinforced

the need for greater dialogue and action on synergising CCA and

DRR. This session will explore the challenges and successes in

improving coordination between these two spheres of endeavour

drawing on cases from the global north and south. By highlighting

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

participants to discuss these topics and learn from the cases.

SPEAKERS

Amy Pieterse, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South

Africa

Opportunities and challenges for disaster risk reduction and climate

change adaptation coordination within the South African

intergovernmental planning system

Ebinezer R. Florano, University of the Philippines, National College of

Public Administration and Governance, Philippines

Cluster Approach to Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk

Reduction at the National Level: The Case of the Philippines

Rupak Kumar Jha, Department of Humanities and Social Science, IIT,

India

Do the generic and disaster specific adaptation measures reduce

fatalities from floods? An empirical assessment from Bihar, India

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.

ORGANISER/S Sheona Shackleton,

University of Cape Town and Rhodes

University

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Department of Environmental Affairs

(DEA), South Africa

University of Oxford, UK

University of Lisbon, Portugal

CHAIR Tally Palmer, Institute for Water

Research, Rhodes University

RAPPORTEUR Taryn Pereira, Environmental Monitoring

Group and Rhodes University, South

Africa; Nick Hamer, Rhodes University

South Africa

S147

CbA

VENUE

2.63

TIME

Tuesday

16h30 - 18h15

How can effective CSO/CBO

engagement and support to

community-based adaptation

enhance the implementation of

transformative adaptation projects?

SESSION SUMMARY

The session showcases best practices and challenges of civil society

engagement in transformative adaptation projects emphasizing: 1.

Developing and designing a local methodology focusing on how to

get the community to think about adaptation; 2. Realising successful

mechanisms for multi-stakeholder engagement when planning and

implementing adaptation projects; 3. Effectively channelling

resources to the local level and meeting compliance criteria. The

aim of this participative discussion is to identify, upscale and

replicate best practices; to identify solutions to overcome current

challenges in adaptation funding mechanisms; and to share

experiences of civil society engagement in adaptation projects

financed by climate funds.

PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS

Shannon Parring, Indigo Development and Change

Shannon is the director of Indigo and is leading the climate change

adaptation programme. She is responsible for community liaison,

documentation and knowledge management, and she is involved

in the climate change preparedness workshops that Indigo runs in

the Suid Bokkeveld. Shannon has facilitated training workshops on

community-based adaptation and has been involved in managing

adaptation processes from community to policy level.

Fiona Percy, CARE International/ LTSA, Senior Technical Advisor

Climate and Resilience Learning

Team leader and technical advisor in climate change adaptation,

resilience, climate services, agriculture and natural resource

management. Fiona Percy is the coordinator of CARE’s Adaptation

Learning Programme in Africa, leading multi-country innovative

development of practical approaches, knowledge brokering and

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.

ORGANISER/S Julia Grimm,

Germanwatch

Adaptation Fund NGO Network,

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S SouthSouthNorth (SSN), South Africa

CHAIR Simbisai Zhanje, SouthSouthNorth, South

Africa

Simbisai has experience in climate

change governance in East and

Southern Africa. She has worked on

projects related to mainstreaming

climate change into national

development planning and promoting

dialogue and partnerships between

policy and climate science. Simbisai’s

work is currently focused on climate

finance and monitoring and learning

from SSN’s programmes

RAPPORTEUR Louise Vaughan, SouthSouthNorth,

South Africa

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.

S72

CbA

VENUE

1.44

TIME

Tuesday

16h30 - 18h15

Identifying transferable lessons from

coastal communities' transformational

adaptation pathways

SESSION SUMMARY

Coastal communities are experiencing unprecedented threats and

uncertain futures as sea levels rise and natural hazards intensify.

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

lessons from case studies that have attempted transformational

responses involving, for example, resettlement or cultural (socio-

economic) change. In particular, lessons on how goal ambiguity

(conflicts), uneven distribution of power, and interactions in societal

systems of values, rules and knowledge constrained responses and

were overcome will be focused on. Lessons will be widely shared

afterwards

SPEAKERS

Russell Wise

Adaptation pathways to date and emerging approaches to

enabling transformation

Rohan Hamden, Rohan Hamden and Associates

Using Sea Level Rise Projections with community based planning

methodologies in the Torres Strait. A case study of innovation of the

use of adaptation pathways

James Butler, CSIRO, Australia

Priming and evaluating capacity for transformational adaptation

pathways in the Torres Strait Islands, Australia

Camille Manning-Broome, Center for Planning Excellence

On the Ground at the Resettlement of Isle de Jean Charles, Louisiana

PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS

Russell Wise

Dr Wise is a Sustainability Economist at CSIRO, Australia. Russ is an

authority in climate adaptation focused on enabling decision

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.

ORGANISER/S Russell Wise,

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial

Research Organisation (CSIRO)

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Center for Planning Excellence, USA

Rohan Hamden and Associates,

Australia

CHAIR Russell Wise, Commonwealth Scientific

and Industrial Research Organisation

(CSIRO)

Dr Wise is a Sustainability Economist at

CSIRO, Australia. Russ has over 15 years

of experience focused on enabling

decision-making under uncertain and

transformational change. He has led the

development of novel concepts, tools

and processes (e.g., adaptation

pathways) to support climate

adaptation policy, planning and action

in Australia, PNG and Indonesia.

RAPPORTEUR Seona Meharg, Australia National

University

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.

S83 B

Cities and Urban areas

VENUE

2.61

TIME

Tuesday

16h30 - 18h15

Interdependencies of Systems:

Adapting Cities to Cascading Effects

Triggered by Climate Extremes

SESSION SUMMARY

Climate extremes create the potential for cascading effects

threatening urban populations’ security by undermining the

sustainable utilization of water, energy, food resources and services.

Cascading effects depend on specific social-institutional,

economic, technological, and environmental factors. Hence, their

diffusion is mediated by context specific interdependent

vulnerabilities in city’s governance and critical infrastructural systems.

We invite a diversity of tools, methods, cases, best-practices and

lessons-learned on the:

• Mediating role, in mitigating risks, of interdependent infrastructural

systems and factors occurring inside and outside city boundaries

• Influence of governance on policies, actions and infrastructural

supports on risk mitigation and adaptation

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.

Anna Taylor, University Of Cape Town, South Africa

Anna Taylor is based at the University of Cape Town, conducting

research on urban governance, decision making, co-production

and processes of climate change adaptation, particularly in

southern African cities through embedded research. She also works

with the Stockholm Environment Institute, bridging environmental

science and policy making internationally.

Arjun, Srinivas, Indian Institute For Human Settlements, India

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

ORGANISER/S Patricia Romero-Lankao,

Institute for Sustainable Urban

Transformations (ISUT) & National Center

for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)

C40, Cities Climate Leadership Group,

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Urban Futures at NCAR, USA

C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group,

United Kingdom

CHAIR Patricia Romero-Lankao, Mexico/USA,

ISUT/NCAR

Paty examines the intersection between

urbanization, cities, and risks. In

particular, she studies the how people's

capacities to adapt and mitigate risks,

while pursuing life goals, change over

time. She leads the Urban Futures

initiative and was lead-author to the

Nobel prize-winning IPCC Fourth

Assessment Report.

RAPPORTEUR Snigdha Garg, C40, USA/India; Neuni

Farhad, C40, USA

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

S90

Planning

VENUE

1.43

TIME

Tuesday

16h30 - 18h15

Linking the NAP process and NDCs to

accelerate enhanced adaptation

action

SESSION SUMMARY

This event aims to discuss how to assure that existing knowledge,

methodology and progress on the NAP process can be linked to

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

larger context of integrating the post 2015 agendas into coherent

national development plans and policies for sustainable and

climate-resilient development.

Expert inputs will be followed by a panel discussion and a Q&A

session with country representatives, as well as the NAP Global

Network and the NDC Partnership.

PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS

Sarah Alhaleeq, Ministry of Environment, Jordan Sarah Alhaleeq is the Head of the Adaptation Section at the Climate

Change Directorate at Ministry of Environment. She has been working in the

climate change field since 2014, where she started as a technical assistant

and worked at the adaptation interface under the Director. She has

majored in electrical engineering/communications and electronics fat the

Jordan University for Science and Technology. Ms. Alhaleeq is involved in the

NAP process in Jordan and all the relevant activities.

Anne Hammill, NAP Global Network Anne Hammill is the Director of the Resilience Program at IISD and directs the

National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Global Network Secretariat. Much of her

work focuses on understanding how better environmental management

can build resilience to climate stress and contribute to peacebuilding.

Anne’s most recent work has been in developing and applying decision-

support tools for climate change adaptation, conducting participatory field

research on livelihoods and climate change, and building the capacity of

governments and civil society to integrate climate risk into policies and field

projects. She has also been working with organizations in Eastern and Central

Africa to understand and address the links between conservation activities

and conflict.

Anika Terton, International Institute for Sustainable Development

(IISD) Anika Terton is a Project Manager with IISD’s Resilience program. Her areas

of expertise include undertaking research, analysis, and engagement

activities with most of her work focused on understanding the risks and

opportunities that climate change and variability poses to developed and

developing countries, and on building capacity of local communities,

regional and national policy makers to better manage those risks. Anika is

engaged in a diverse set of issues ranging from adaptation to climate

change in the Canadian Prairies, national adaptation planning in

developing countries, ecosystem-based adaptation, climate-resilient cities

and North American climate change mitigation policies.

Representative of CONANP Mexico (National Commission of Natural

Protected Areas)

ORGANISER/S Na-Hyeon Shin,

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale

Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S NDC Partnership, NAP Global Network

Canada/Switzerland, Ministry of

Environment of Jordan

Jordan, National Commission of Natural

Protected Areas (CONANP)

Mexico,

CHAIR Andrea Kuhlmann, Deutsche

Gesellschaft für Internationale

Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

Andrea Kuhlmann is currently the Head

of Project of the GIZ M&E Adapt project

and leading the area of adaptation to

climate change within the Climate

Policy Support Programme of GIZ -

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale

Zusammenarbeit. She has more than 18

years of experience in international

development cooperation, with duty

stations in Bolivia, Laos, India, Mexico

and Germany. Her work mainly focused

on rural and agricultural development,

sustainable natural resources

management and adaptation to

climate change.

RAPPORTEUR Andrea Kuhlmann, Deutsche

Gesellschaft für Internationale

Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)

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Biodiversity

VENUE

1.62

TIME

Tuesday

16h30 - 18h15

Managing tree cover: conflicting

local versus global perspectives

SESSION SUMMARY

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.

1. Opening Remarks

2. The Bonn challenge and ‘plant a tree to save the world’ approach

3. Lessons from Alien Invasive Clearing Programme

4. Afforestation and Potential Risks – Ecosystem disservice

5. Ecosystem based Adaptation (EbA) and adaptive management

of natural afforestation

6. Facilitated discussion - audience participating

7. Closing Remarks

SPEAKERS

Barney Kgope, Department of Environmental Affairs, Pretoria, South

Africa

Ecosystem based Adaptation (EbA) and adaptive management of

natural afforestation

William Bond, Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town

The Bonn challenge and ‘plant a tree to save the world’ approach

Michele Toucher and Byron Gray of the South African Environmental

Observation Network and the Centre for Water Resources Research,

University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and Susan Janse Van

Rensburg of the Centre for Water Resources Research, Univers

Afforestation and Potential Risks – Ecosystem disservice?

Christo Marais

Department of Environmental Affairs, Cape Town, South Africa

The Working for … Programmes in South Africa, managing tree cover:

conflicting local versus global perspectives – Balancing water,

carbon, productive potential of land and biodiversity.

ORGANISER/S Barney Kgope,

Department of Environmental Affairs

(DEA)

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S South African Environmental

Observatory Network (SAEON), South

Africa

Stellenbosch University, South Africa

CHAIR Barney Kgope, Department of

Environmental Affairs, South Africa In 2000, Barney Kgope joined the South

African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI)

in Cape Town. Barney has co-authored

several papers, reports, a chapter in a book

and has also contributed to chapter 4 of the

Fourth Assessment report (AR4) of the

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate

Change (IPCC) the world authority on

climate change issues. In 2004 he won the

Compton Prize for the best published

scientific paper in the South African Journal

of Botany. He has presented papers at

national and international. He has

collaborated with several scientists both

nationally and internationally. Barney is

currently the Director for Biodiversity Risk

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

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Knowledge transfer

VENUE

2.46

TIME

Tuesday

16h30 - 18h15

Mapping the frontiers of adaptation

research and practice

SESSION SUMMARY

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,

researchers and NGOs, and will be informed by learning in a number

of large-scale research and practice programs, including CDKN,

BRACED, PROVIA and CARIAA. Panelists will also share their long term

experiences with collaborative efforts toward climate action. The

session will be organised as a round table discussion, followed by

break out discussions centered on each speaker.

PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS

Jian Liu, Chief Scientist of UN Environment, Kenya.

Founding Director of the International Ecosystem Management Partnership

of UN Environment (2010-2016), co-founder of PROVIA (2008 – 2010), Deputy

Secretary of the IPCC (2005-2008), Director of the Chinese Ecosystem

Research Network and Deputy Director General at the Chinese Academy

of Sciences.

Shehnaaz Moosa, SouthSouthNorth, South Africa

Shehnaaz is a Chemical Engineer with extensive experience on donor-

funded programmes. She was the African Regional Lead for the Climate &

Development Knowledge Network (CDKN), looking to inform climate

compatible development within policy and action. Shehnaaz is also the

lead for the Climate Resilient Infrastructure Development Facility and

currently leads the Southern Africa Climate Finance Partnership.

Eva Ludi, International Development Institute, United Kingdom

Eva is Head of the Water Policy Programme. She has over 15 years of

experience in research and policy particularly related to climate change

adaptation, adaptive capacity, water 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).

Elizabeth Carabine, Embassy of the Netherlands in Uganda

Dr Carabine has 14 years of experience in research, policy and

programming in the private and public sectors, primarily in East and West

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

Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN).

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).

ORGANISER/S Georgina Cundill Kemp,

International Development Research

Centre (IDRC)

UN Environment, Kenya

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Department for International

Development, United Kingdom

CHAIR Musonda Mumba, UN Environment

Dr. Musonda Mumba, UN Environment,

Kenya

Dr Musonda Mumba has extensive

experience of working on adaptation

issues globally, in particular ecosystem

based adaptation (EbA). Her interests in

climate change adaptation have been

both scientific and political. She is the UN

Environment Focal Point on Mountain

Ecosystems, and is a policy advisor to the

Collaborative Adaptation Research

Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA).

RAPPORTEUR Georgina Cundill Kemp, International

Development Research Centre (IDRC)

S127

Terrestrial and freshwater

ecosystems and their services;

Ocean and coastal ecosystems

and their services; Water; Food,

fibre, and other ecosystem

products; Cities, settlements and

key infrastructure; Health,

wellbeing and the changing

structure of commun

VENUE

1.42

TIME

Tuesday

16h30 - 18h15

Methods for enhancing the co-

production and application of

science-based evidence into

adaptation planning in LDCs and SIDS

SESSION SUMMARY

The proposed session examines challenges associated with the co-

production and application of science-based evidence for robust

adaptation planning in LDCs and SIDS. A keynote presentation and

four short interventions will highlight key gaps related to four themes:

(1) knowledge co-production; (2) science-policy communication

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

scientific information to support the development of national

adaptation strategies.

SPEAKERS

Adelle Thomas, University of the Bahamas, The Bahamas & Climate

Analytics, Germany (Presenter); Kouassigan Tovivo, Climate

Analytics Lomé, Togo (Presenter); Sarah D’haen, Climate Analytics,

Germany (Co-author); Delphine Deryng, Climate Analytics,

Germany

Co-production and application of science-based evidence for

robust adaptation planning: Barriers and lessons learned in the

Caribbean and Pacific SIDS and West African LDCs

PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS

Adelle Thomas, University of the Bahamas, The Bahamas, & Climate

Analytics, Germany

Adelle has worked on intersections between climate change

adaptation, environmental protection and development. Her

research centres on adaptation and loss and damage including

knowledge, awareness and perception of the public about climate

change; assessing opportunities, barriers and limits to adaptation;

and challenges facing small islands in managing loss and damage.

Martin Rokitzki, Plan Adapt, Germany & Climate Analytics, Germany

Martin has 16 years of professional experience working for inter-

governmental and non-governmental development and

environment organisations (amongst others UNEP, GIZ, FAO, UNCCD,

IFAD, ACF, Oxfam GB) in over 30 countries across Africa and Asia. He

has provided scientific advice on climate change adaptation and

natural resource management to a wide range of actors.

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

ORGANISER/S Delphine Deryng,

Climate Analytics

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Plan-Adapt, Germany

University of the Bahamas, The Bahamas

Climate Analytics, Germany

CHAIR Delphine Deryng, Climate Analytics,

Germany

Delphine is a Scientific Advisor at

Climate Analytics where she works on

strengthening the science-policy

interface to improve production,

dissemination and use of scientific

information for adaptation planning. She

holds a PhD from the University of East

Anglia in the field of climate impacts and

adaptation in the agriculture sector.

RAPPORTEUR Martin Rokitzki, Plan Adapt & Climate

Analytics, Germany

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).

S231

Finance

VENUE

1.61

TIME

Tuesday

16h30 - 18h15

What does transformative adaptation

look like?

SESSION SUMMARY

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

catalyzing the transformation of market-based economies by

influencing the supply of and/or demand for goods and services that

contribute to adaptation and mitigation. For others, “transformative”

is used to signify a need to raise the level of ambition of adaptation

efforts; or to address systemic inequalities that contribute to or

worsen vulnerability to climate change, e.g. discrimination against

women or lack of land tenure by small farmers.

PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS

Pradeep Kurukulasuriya, UNDP

Pradeep will be our Moderator, introducing the session and inviting

panel members to speak for 3 minutes each, to share their vision of

what truly transformative adaptation looks like, drawing on examples

from their experience. After this, there will be time for the panel

members to interact with each other, and the discussion will then be

opened to the floor.

Saleemul Huq, ICCCAD

Daouda Ndiaye, Adaptation Fund

Mandy Barnett, SANBI

Architesh Panda, Independent researcher

Jerry Velasquez, Green Climate Fund

Caroline Petersen, UNDP

ORGANISER/S Caroline Petersen,

United Nations Development

Programme (UNDP)

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S International Centre for Climate

Change and Development,

Bangladesh

South African National Biodiversity

Institute (SANBI), South Africa

CHAIR Caroline Petersen, UNDP Global

Environmental Finance Ms Caroline Petersen is a Senior Advisor in

UNDP’s Global Environmental Finance Unit,

and also in the Green Commodities

Programme. From 2014 to 2016 Caroline was

acting Global Head of Ecosystems &

Biodiversity for UNDP, leading a team of

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

S128

Poverty, Livelihoods and

Sustainable Development

VENUE

2.44

TIME

Tuesday

16h30 - 18h15

Addressing poverty and climate

change in the 21st century: can

Adaptive Social Protection support

adaptation?

SESSION SUMMARY

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

to also help beneficiaries absorb climate shocks, become more

resilient and adaptive in the longer- term? At the grassroots level,

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

of poverty, social protection, resilience, adaptation and public

investment to share knowledge and experiences for setting the basis

for a future joint agenda.

SPEAKERS

Food and Agriculture Organisation (TBC)

Climate change adaptation and social protection

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.

ORGANISER/S Aditi Kapoor,

Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre

(RCRC CC)

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S

CHAIR

RAPPORTEUR

S221

Finance

VENUE

2.62

TIME

Tuesday

16h30 - 18h15

Finance and nature for change:

grasping opportunities in

transformative adaptation and

disaster risk management for positive

social and environmental impact

SESSION SUMMARY

SPEAKERS

Maria Jose Sanz (Basque centre for climate change BC3, Spain),

Juan Chang (Green Climate Fund), John Matthews, (AGWA), James

Dalton (IUCN), FAO (person TBC); Elena Lopez Gunn (ICATALIST, Spain

-NAIAD Project), Monica Altamirano (DELTARES, Holland),

Finance and nature for change: grasping opportunities in

transformative adaptation and disaster risk management for positive

social and environmental impact

ORGANISER/S Maria Jose Sanz,

Basque Centre for Climate Change

(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)

S74

Health

VENUE

2.43

TIME

Tuesday

16h30 - 18h15

Strengthening resilience to the health

risks of climate change in low and

middle income countries

SESSION SUMMARY

To manage current and prepare for future challenges, health

systems need to make fundamental shifts in their conceptualization

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

between climate change and human health; strengthening human

resource skills in coping with climate change adaptation in the

health sector; and sharing knowledge products and promoting

advocacy in the region. The session will explore innovations in the

process, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation of health

adaptation to highlight approaches to advance sustainability and

environmental stewardship.

SPEAKERS

Kristie L. Ebi

Best practices on conducting vulnerability and adaptation

assessments in settings with constrained resources in the Greater

Mekong Subregion

Kathryn Bowen, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, and

University of Melbourne, Australia

Lessons learned on training and capacity building for climate

change and human health: approaches in the Greater Mekong

Subregion

Jeremy J. Hess, Emergency Medicine, University of Washington

Tracking adaptation engagement, adaptive capacity, and the

provision of essential public health services at the local level

Christopher Boyer, University of Washington, USA

A monitoring and evaluation framework for health adaptation in

Cambodia

ORGANISER/S Kristie L. Ebi,

University of Washington

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S

CHAIR Eduardo P. Banzon, Asian Development

Bank

Dr. Banzon is Senior Health Specialist in

the Asian Development Bank; Clinical

Associate Professor of the University of

the Philippines College of Medicine;

Research Associate Professor of the UP-

National Institutes of Health; a faculty

member of the Ateneo Graduate School

of Business; and adjunct faculty in Asian

Institute of Management.

RAPPORTEUR Kathryn Bowen, Australia National

University

S124

Methodologies

VENUE

2.41

TIME

Tuesday

16h30 - 18h15

Using and evaluating participatory

scenario tools for adaptation

SESSION SUMMARY

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

the impact of these methodologies in practice and how outcomes

and impacts might be measured. Participants should leave the

session with; 1) a better understanding of the different types of

participatory scenario frameworks that are being applied in

adaptation, and which might be the most appropriate methodology

to choose for different intended outcomes; and 2) with new

questions about where the field of participatory scenarios

methodologies can and should go next.

SPEAKERS

Edmond Totin

Can scenario planning catalyse transformational change?

Evaluating a climate change policy case study in Mali

Saskia Werners

Using scenarios to develop adaptation pathways to inform

adaptation policy and practice in developing countries

Jeremy Richardson

Use of participatory scenarios within climate change risk assessments:

The case of Nondvo Dam Swaziland

Laura Schmitt Olabisi

Combining Quantitative Modeling and Scenario Planning for

Exploring the Future

Dorothy Tembo

Participatory Scenario Planning for Creating Useful and Use-able

Weather and Climate Information: A Case Study from Malawi

Graeme Riddell

Scenarios for the exploration of disaster risk and adaptation planning

– considering changing exposure and vulnerability

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

ORGANISER/S Teresa Perez,

University of Cape Town

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Wagenining University, The Netherlands

Michigan State University, United States

of America

Universite Nationale d’Agriculture du

Benin, Benin

Pegasys Consulting, South Africa

CHAIR Karen Goldberg, Reos Partners, South

Africa

Karen has worked for Reos Partners since

2013. She provided coaching,

facilitation and capacity development

support on the Transformative Scenario

Process to the ASSAR (Adaptation at

Scale in Semi-Arid Regions) project in

four different countries. She holds a

Masters in Sustainability Leadership from

the University of Cambridge, UK.

RAPPORTEUR Teresa Perez, University of Cape Town

S114

Cities, settlements and key

infrastructure

VENUE

1.41

TIME

Tuesday

16h30 - 18h15

Creating new narratives for integrated

approaches to CCA, DRR and

transformation

SESSION SUMMARY

Narratives play an important role in CCA, DRR and sustainable

transformation. Narratives can change attitudes and behaviour

when connected to beliefs and values. Narratives have the potential

to encourage actions and collaboration.

The session’s objective is to explore with the participants the use of

narratives to promote collaboration. The objective is to raise

awareness, to build capacity and to share knowledge and

experiences.

Project PLACARD’s mission is to be a platform for dialogue,

knowledge exchange and collaboration between the CCA and

DRR communities. Narratives is one of the working streams to foster

collaboration between CCA and DRR communities.

SPEAKERS

Ingrid Coninx, Wageningen Research, Julia Bentz, University of Lisbon

How to build successful narratives – a cookbook by PLACARD

project.

Julia Barrott; Sukaina Bharwani, Stockholm Environment Institute

Overcoming disparities in language: Exploring varied use and

interpretation of words in the Climate Change Adaptation (CCA)

and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) fields

Eleanor Chapman, ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability

(European Secretariat)

Local stories, global agenda: knowledge exchange among

researchers and local government practitioners working towards

climate resilience.

Brigitte Rudram, Bettina Koelle, Red Cross Red Crescent, Climate

Centre

Creative Narratives for a Changing Climate; Youth and the Y-ADAPT

Approach

PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS

Ingrid Coninx, Wageningen Environmental Research, Netherlands

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.

ORGANISER/S Ingrid Coninx,

Wageningen Environmental Research

(WUR)

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), UK

ICLEI, Germany

Red Cross Red Crescent Climate

Centre, South Africa

CHAIR Ingrid Coninx, Wageningen

Environmental Research, The

Netherlands

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.

RAPPORTEUR Julia Barrott, Stockholm Environment

Institute, United Kingdom

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.

S207

Coastal zones and Deltas

VENUE

2.41

TIME

Wednesday

8h00 - 9h00

Community engagement for

adaptation of coastal communities

SESSION SUMMARY

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

challenges in community engagement and how these have been

addressed - what has worked (or not) and what we have learnt. We

plan for this session to be moderated to facilitate considerable input

from the audience in terms of posing questions to be discussed. The

relevance of this topic comes from the panel’s mix of academics

and practitioners from different country contexts where they are

activity involved in local communities.

SPEAKERS

Daryl Colenbrander, City of Cape Town, South Africa

State-centric governance in the coastal risk and vulnerability

domain, South Africa: a recipe for disaster?

Camille Manning Broome for Planning Excellence, Louisiana, USA.

Adaptation in coastal Louisiana, USA: Louisiana’s Strategic Actions

for Future Environments (LA SAFE) Program

Daniel Ware, Griffith University, Australia

Working with communities to design ecosystem-based adaptation a

case study from Tanna Island in Vanuatu

Anne Leitch, Griffith Centre of Culture and Social Studies, Griffith

University, Australia

Engaging to adapt to climate change hazards in a coastal

community in Queensland, Australia

ORGANISER/S Anne Leitch,

Griffith University

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S

CHAIR Anne Leitch, Griffith University, United

Kingdon

Anne Leitch is a coastal and social

science researcher at the Griffith Centre

for Social and Cultural Studies, Griffith

University, Australia

RAPPORTEUR Kerrie Foxwell-Norton, Griffith University,

Australia

S58

Infrastructure

VENUE

2.43

TIME

Wednesday

8h00 - 9h00

Decision making guidelines to help

infrastructure planners deal with

climate uncertainty: a case study of

the hydropower sector

SESSION SUMMARY

This session will explore the practical application of decision scaling

climate resilience approaches in the infrastructure sector to aid

decision making under uncertainty.

Mott MacDonald will share details of the draft World Bank

hydropower climate resilience guidelines. The World Bank will give an

update on the guidelines piloting phase and roll out plans and give

a call to action for their use.

Objectives:

• Disseminate guidance on how the hydropower infrastructure

sector can undertake climate resilience assessments using a bottom

up decision-scaling approach.

• Give a call to action for responsible national and regional

authorities to use the World Bank climate resilience hydropower

guidelines.

SPEAKERS

Keith Macpherson, Mott MacDonald: Water Consultancy Division

Development of Climate Resilience Guidelines for the Hydropower

Sector

TBD (World Bank or EBRD)

Piloting climate resilience hydropower guidelines: An update from

the World Bank

ORGANISER/S Jessica Brislin,

Mott MacDonald

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S World Bank, USA and Kenya

CHAIR Jessica Brislin, Mott MacDonald Climate

Resilience Initiative, UK

Currently based in Cambridge, UK,

Jessica is an environmental scientist with

public and private sector experience in

climate change strategy, adaptation

planning, environmental and

sustainability assessment and urban

masterplanning. Experience includes

major multi-sector planning and

infrastructure projects such as the

Durban Aerotropolis and Ngqura Port

and she is a recipient of the IAIAsa

National Hidden Talent Award for

environmental innovation.

RAPPORTEUR Anna Tuddenham, Mott MacDonald

Climate Resilience Initiative, UK

S63

Cities, settlements and key

infrastructure

VENUE

2.46

TIME

Wednesday

8h00 - 9h00

Enhancing collaborative resilience in

cities: The Medellin Collaboration for

Urban Resilience

SESSION SUMMARY

The Medellin Collaboration for Urban Resilience (MCUR) is

collaborating to strengthen the resilience of cities and human

settlements around the world by supporting local, regional and

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

the MCUR model, how it cooperates and shares knowledge and the

tools it uses to enhance resilience in its focus cities. It will show

experiences and lessons learned from an ongoing collaboration to

support cities in building resilience and adapting to climate change.

SPEAKERS

Amanda Ikert, C40 Cities, USA

Ongoing collaboration and projects at the Medellin Collaboration

for Urban Resilience

Nathan Engle, World Bank, USA

Technical and financial support: The World Bank’s City Resilience

Program

Marcia Guambe, UN-Habitat, Mozambique

Building urban resilience: The case of Maputo

Alex Johnson, Accra Metropolitan Assembly, Ghana

Accelerating climate action: the case of Accra as an MCUR pilot city

PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS

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

ORGANISER/S Alfredo Redondo,

C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group on

behalf of Medellin Collaboration for

Urban Resilience (MCUR)

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S UN Habitat, Spain

C40, Cities Climate Leadership Group,

United Kingdom

CHAIR Esteban León, UN-Habitat

Head of the City Resilience Profiling

Programme, UN-Habitat

RAPPORTEUR Marcia Guambe, UN-Habitat,

Mozambique

S199

Methodologies

VENUE

2.45

TIME

Wednesday

8h00 - 9h00

Improving Data Access for Climate

Preparedness Through Public-Private

Partnerships

SESSION SUMMARY

SPEAKERS

Lauretta Burke, World Resources Institute

Partnership for Resilience and Preparedness (PREP) – Visualizing data

to build climate resilience

Nambi Appadurai, WRI India

PREPdata Application: India

Cheikh Mbow, START International

PREPdata Application: Africa

ORGANISER/S Josh Tewksbury,

Future Earth

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.

S146

Health

VENUE

2.62

TIME

Wednesday

8h00 - 9h00

Integrating climate change

adaptation into the development of

the health sector in Africa

SESSION SUMMARY

This session will explore how development organizations are working

to integrate climate change adaptation into the health sector in

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

malnutrition, malaria, diarrhea, and heat stress. In Africa, through

taking adaptation measures, the threat of climate change on many

diseases and other health outcomes can be reduced significantly.

This session examines how various international development

organizations, including the World Bank, the World Health

Organization, the United States Agency for International

Development, and the World Meteorological Organization, are

working to address climate and health challenges in Africa.

PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS

Tegan Blaine, United States Agency for International Development,

United States of America

Sally Edwards, World Health Organization, Regional Office for Africa,

Republic of the Congo

Timothy Bouley or Raúl Alfaro-Pelico or Amelia Midgley, World Bank

Group, United States of America

Joy Shumake-Guillemot, World Meteorological Organizations,

Switzerland

ORGANISER/S Colin Quinn,

United States Agency for International

Development (USAID)

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S The World Bank, United States of

America (USA)

World Health Organisation (WHO),

Republic of Congo

CHAIR Colin Quinn, United States Agency for

International Development (USAID), USA

Colin is a climate change advisor at

USAID, where he focuses on how climate

impacts health in Africa, and strategies

to limit the those impacts.

RAPPORTEUR Colin Quinn, United States Agency for

International Development

S92

Migration

VENUE

2.63

TIME

Wednesday

8h00 - 9h00

Multidimensional Framework And

Methods- Migration Related to

Climate Change, Food Security and

Violence

SESSION SUMMARY

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

theories, methods and strategies acknowledging the difficulties of

assuming causal chains and assigning weight to each of the

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

between different drivers, their interactions, and how those affect

decision making for migration.

SPEAKERS

Srijna Jha, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF),

Germany

M3 Multidimensional Framework and Response Matrix for Migration

Shouvik Das, Jadavpur University, India

Climate Induced Migration and Displacement: A Study in the

Mahanadi Delta

Md Rezwan Siddiqui, East West University, Bangladesh

Adaptation Process of the Climate Change Migrants in the Dhaka

Metropolitan Region

ORGANISER/S Srijna Jha,

Leibniz Centre for Agricultural

Landscape Research (ZALF)

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Jadavpur University, India

East West University, Bangladesh

CHAIR Srijna Jha, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural

Landscape Research (ZALF), Germany

Researcher & Project Coordinator,

Leibniz Centre for Agricultural

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)

S36

EbA

VENUE

2.64

TIME

Wednesday

8h00 - 9h00

PANORAMA Solutions for a healthy

planet – learning from each other's

successes on ecosystem-based

adaptation

SESSION SUMMARY

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

inspiring, replicable solutions across a range of development topics,

enabling cross-sectoral learning and inspiration. It allows practitioners

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.

This platform houses a number of thematic portals including the

Ecosystem-based Adaptation Solutions portal. A theme presentation

of the portal (online demonstration)will show that inspiring and

replicable solutions can be found everywhere on this planet and that

EbA or “green solutions” are a state-of-the-art-reply to climate

change impacts and deliver a multitude of benefits for societies,

economies and environment. These concrete examples will trigger

a discussion among participants and presenters in order to learn from

solutions that have worked, avoid previous mistakes, adopt

successful strategies and exchange knowledge on the topic of

(ecosystem-based) adaptation.

SPEAKERS

PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS

ORGANISER/S Arno Sckeyde,

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale

Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S International Union for the Conservation

of Nature (IUCN), Switzerland/United

States of America

South African National Biodiversity

Institute (SANBI), South Africa

CHAIR Arno Sckeyde, Deutsche Gesellschaft

für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)

GmbH, Germany

RAPPORTEUR Mathias Bertram

S205

Risks, adaptation and

sustainability for systems

VENUE

2.61

TIME

Wednesday

8h00 - 9h00

The Barometer of Sustainability as a

tool to Food Systems adaptation:

promoting food security while

meeting the sustainable development

goals

SESSION SUMMARY

The Barometer of Sustainability is a methodological tool to indicate

the state of the sustainable development and environmental and

societal well-being. Food Security and Natural Resources indicators

(i.e., food consumption, income, agriculture production, forest

change, etc.) aggregated into thematic/dimensional indices have

performance scales generated for each of them. As available data

vary in different countries, an exchange of information between

academic and non-academic stakeholders on food systems

indicators used in the barometer will be relevant to improve this tool.

We expect participants to share their perceptions on the indicators’

importance in their countries.

SPEAKERS

PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS

ORGANISER/S Camille L. Nolasco,

National Institute for Space Research

(INPE)

National Institute for Space Research

(INPE) and National Institute for Space

Research (INPE), Brazil

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S

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

S132

Adaptation planning and

implementation

VENUE

2.46

TIME

Wednesday

9h15 - 11h00

It’s not just about data – Demand-

driven climate services for better

adaptation decision-making

SESSION SUMMARY

The provision of tailor-made climate services and products for

decision-making is essential for knowledge-based adaptation. This

session seeks to display ways to create, manage and sustain

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

interface between users and providers of climate services to ensure

uptake into decision-making is addressed. In addition, potential

recommendations for developing a climate service governance

architecture, adapting existing planning procedures and regulations

will be discussed which aim at enhancing the systematic

consideration of climate services in future infrastructure projects,

agricultural and urban planning. The session will provide two keynote

speeches, four case study presentations, as well as a final fishbowl

discussion with experts from Costa Rica, India, Brazil, the UK and

Germany.

SPEAKERS

Vladimir Naranjo Castillo, Colegio Federado de Ingenieros y de

Arquitectos de Costa Rica (CFIA)

Keynote on user perspectives of Climate Services

Andreas Becker, Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD)

Keynote on provider perspectives on Climate Services

Ramkumar Bendapudi, Water Organisation Trust, India

Agro-meterological services in semi-arid India: Lessons from

innovating in service delivery Watershed Organisation Trust

Adriana Silva de Brito, Ministry of the Environment, Brazil (MMA)

Challenges for enhancing climate services for the adaptation of

Brazils Port Infrastructure & Power Networks

Joseph Daron, Met Office, UK & Richard Jones, Met Office, UK

Co-exploration and co-production of climate services: examples

from Met Office projects in the Philippines and southern Africa

Clemens Haße, German Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt –

UBA)

KliVo - The German Portal for Climate Adaptation – Climate services

and adaptation governance perspectives in Germany

PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS

Vladimir Naranjo, Colegio Federado de Ingenieros y de Arquitectos

de Costa Rica (CFIA)

ORGANISER/S Niklas Baumert,

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale

Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Colegio Federado de Ingenieros y de

Arquitectos de Costa Rica (CFIA), Costa

Rica

Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) (German

Hydro-Met Service), Germany

Ministry of Environment (MMA), Brazil

Met Office, United Kingdom

CHAIR Niklas Baumert, Gesellschaft für

internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ),

Germany

Niklas Baumert holds a PhD in geography

and is an expert for climate change

adaptation in the context of applied

research and development

cooperation. He is specialized in risk and

vulnerability assessments, climate

service governance, climate proofing,

and early warning systems. He has

significant regional experiences in Latin

America, Asia and South-Eastern Africa.

RAPPORTEUR Chandni Singh, Indian Institute for

Human Settlements (IIHS)

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.

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Food, fibre, and other ecosystem

products

VENUE

2.41

TIME

Wednesday

9h15 - 11h00

Applications of earth observation

data for risk management and

resilience building

SESSION SUMMARY

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

the potential of using existing and emerging earth observation data

in combination with other types of data (e.g. socioeconomic). Data

providers, as well as current users and emerging EO data users will

participate in the discussion to ensure a range of different viewpoints.

A key objective for the session is to promote the interaction between

data providers and data users and to uncover challenges and

enabling factors for data use to support climate resilience building.

SPEAKERS

Yana Gevorgyan, NOAA/GEO, U.S.

Improving Food Security with Earth Observations: GEO Global

Agriculture Monitoring Initiative (GEOGLAM)

Krishna Malakar, IDP in Climate Studies, Indian Institute of Technology

Bombay, India

Understanding factors associated with weather warning responses in

marine fishermen

Shona Paterson, Future Earth Coasts

How can Earth Observation Data support sustainable development

in the Caribbean?

Neuni Farhad, C40

Using Earth Observation Tools for Cities: Challenges and

Opportunities

Madhuri Gotety, Aalborg University

Identification and Classification of Coastal Towns and Cities:

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

ORGANISER/S Laura Canevari,

Acclimatise

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Group on Earth Observations (GEO),

Switzerland

NOAA’s National Centers for

Environmental Information, United

States of America

Space4Climate, United Kingdom

CHAIR Mmboneni Muofhe, GEO, South Africa

Mmboneni Muofhe, GEO Co-chair and

Head of South Africa's Delegation to

GEO, South Africa

RAPPORTEUR Briony Turner, Space4Climate, Institute

for Environmental Analytics, UK

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.

S137

Governance

VENUE

1.61

TIME

Wednesday

9h15 - 11h00

Climate Change Adaptation policies

and their implementation in LDCs:

Prospect for Sharing, Learning and

Collaboration across the globe

SESSION SUMMARY

The session will consist of presentations on the following topics:

- Topic-1: Assessing climatic vulnerability of the Least Developed

Countries (LDCs) and highlighting needs of the local communities

- Topic-2: Climate change adaptation policies in the LDCs

- Topic-3: Community Based Adaptation (CBA) case studies from

LDCs

- Topic-4: Building South-South and South-North knowledge transfer

and collaboration

Objectives:

- Share cross-country experiences, and improve knowledge on

successful adaptation policies and interventions

- Enhance understanding about integrated approach, process and

institutions required to sustain the socio-economic development

- Develop consensus on South-South and South-North collaboration

to facilitate knowledge generation and dissemination

SPEAKERS

Dennis Bours

LDCF and SCCF; Highly relevant adaptation funds with a strong value

proposition, but resource-starved

Sharmala Naidoo

Financing climate resilient transboundary water projects in SADC:

case studies and lessons learned from the GCF

Jack Dyer

Climateproofing the Future of Resources, Ports and Supply Chains.

What Africa Could Learn From South Pacific Climate Change

Resilience!

Saliha Dobardzic

Supporting Policies for Climate Change Adaptation in LDCs with

Multilateral Finance

Geronimo Gussmann

Multi-Level Governance of Adaptation to Sea-Level Rise in the

Maldives

Mark Abkowitz

Building Community Resilience and Adaptive Capacity Using an

Integrated Assessment Framework

Shababa Haque

Experiencing climate change from disability perspectives

ORGANISER/S Feisal Rahman,

International Centre for Climate

Change and Development (ICCCAD)

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S International Institute for Environment

and Development (IIED), United

Kingdom

CHAIR Saleemul Huq, International Centre for

Climate Change & Development

(ICCCAD) Director of the International Centre for

Climate Change & Development (ICCCAD)

since 2009 and intends to support growing

capacity of Bangladesh stakeholders, while

enabling people and organizations from

outside to benefit from training in

Bangladesh. Dr. Huq is a Senior Fellow at the

International Institute for Environment &

Development (IIED) in the UK, where he is

involved in building negotiating capacity

and supporting the engagement of the

Least Developed Countries (LDCs) in

UNFCCC, including negotiator training

workshops policy, as well as research into

vulnerability and adaptation to climate

change in the least developed countries. Dr.

Huq has published numerous articles in

scientific journals, was a lead author of the

chapter on Adaptation and Sustainable

Development in the AR3 of the

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate

Change (IPCC), and was one of the

coordinating lead authors of

‘Interrelationships between adaptation and

mitigation’ in the IPCC’s AR4.

RAPPORTEUR Md Nadiruzzaman, Independent

University, Bangladesh

S237

Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E)

VENUE

1.44

TIME

Wednesday

9h15 - 11h00

Defining and measuring effective

adaptation

SESSION SUMMARY

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

Environment at COP23, and build on international experience in

setting standards for adaptation.

SPEAKERS

Henry Neufeldt, UNEP-DTU

GAP report

Chu Thi Thanh Huong

Example of national scale indicators from Vietnam

Dr. Yasuaki Hijioka, NIES

Local adaptation measuring experiences from Japan

Lindsey Jones

Success example with communities on the ground via BRACED

initiative

Timo Leiter

Assessing effectiveness through adaptation metrics? Conceptual

views and insights from practice

ORGANISER/S

Shu Liang

Jesse Renema,

Global Centre of Excellence on Climate

Adaptation (GCECA)

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S

CHAIR Shu Liang

Thematic Group Facilitator, GCECA

RAPPORTEUR Sebastiaan van Herk, Bax and

Company

S79

Cities and urban areas

VENUE

2.63

TIME

Wednesday

9h15 - 11h00

Face to Face with warming cities

SESSION SUMMARY

Unlike Europe and the United State of America, risks of extreme heat

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

indicates increased intensity and frequency of heat waves in many

parts of the continent between 2015 -2006. Poor housing conditions,

constrained health systems and limited access to income further

increase the vulnerability of the urban poor to extreme heat.

Drawing from different case studies, we will brainstorm practical

actions and suggest feasible research priorities and policy options

towards adapting cities to extreme heat risks.

SPEAKERS

Erin Coughlan

Global predictability of temperature extremes

Amy Kirbyshire

Tackling extreme heat in cities: scaling up India's Heat Action Plans

Steffen Lohrey

Heat waves and the global urban poor

ORGANISER/S Eddie Wasswa Jjemba,

Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre

(RCRC CC)

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S International Council for Local

Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) Africa,

South Africa

Overseas Development Institute, United

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

S88

Climate services

VENUE

1.62

TIME

Wednesday

9h15 - 11h00

Fostering Effective Investment and

Private Sector Engagement in Climate

Information Services in the

Developing World

SESSION SUMMARY

This session will provide an exploratory and provocative discussion

drawing on perspectives from national meteorological agencies,

research institutions, private sector and international donors to

unpack the barriers to effective investment and models to foster such

investment. Key questions to be examined include:

· What are the main institutional, financial, and technological

constraints in the developing world that inhibit effective and

sustainable investment in climate services?

· Which business models are currently being employed for

sustainable climate services delivery in the developing world?

· How can the private sector effectively engage in the

sustainable and effective production and delivery of climate

services?

SPEAKERS

PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS

ORGANISER/S Alex Apotsos,

United States Agency for International

Development (USAID)

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S SouthSouthNorth (SSN), South Africa

University of Cape Town, South Africa

CHAIR Alex Apotsos, USAID

RAPPORTEUR Anna Steynor, University of Cape Town

S82

Planning

VENUE

1.42

TIME

Wednesday

9h15 - 11h00

Hotspots 2.0: Innovation for Climate

Resilient Development

SESSION SUMMARY

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

adjustments that would facilitate scale up of the innovations. It is

therefore unlikely that any meaningful progress towards climate

resilient development will be made in an area or sector unless

deliberate efforts integrate proven scale-up options. Using tested

case studies of scale up options formulated around climate services,

ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA), ICTs and food value chains, the

session will showcase adaptation innovations that have been

successfully deployed in the global south.

SPEAKERS

Elizabeth Carabine, Overseas Development Institute (ODI), United

Kingdom

Value Chain Analysis for Resilience in Drylands (VC-ARID): an

innovative territorial approach to climate-resilient economic

development

Eelco Baan, SNV Netherlands Development Organisation, The

Netherlands

Sector Transformation and Accelerating Investment in Climate Smart

Technologies and Practices to achieve Impact @ Scale

Lorena Pasquini, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Using nodal governance and social network approaches to

evaluate gaps and opportunities in the governance of ecosystem-

based adaptation

Russell Wise, CSIRO Land and Water, Australia

Adaptation pathways for seascapes: integrating politics, decision-

making and capacity-building in Papua New Guinea

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

ORGANISER/S Evans Kituyi,

International Development Research

Centre (IDRC)

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S

CHAIR Evans Kituyi, International Development

Research Center (IDRC)

Evans Kituyi is a programme officer in the

Agriculture and Environment

programme at IDRC, based at the

Regional Office for Sub Saharan Africa

(ROSSA). Evans overseas a portfolio of

research projects that generate options

for climate resilient development. He is

associated with the Collaborative

Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa

and Asia (CARIAA).

RAPPORTEUR Amanda Lewis, CRS, Senegal

S157

Coastal zones and Deltas

VENUE

2.61

TIME

Wednesday

9h15 - 11h00

Managed Retreat as Extreme

Adaptation

SESSION SUMMARY

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

will also need to consider managed retreat within a continuum of

options for preparedness and resilience planning. Managed retreat

can result in severe adverse consequences if poorly planned or

implemented in an ad hoc manner as a belated last-ditch response

to environmental changes. There is little credible guidance for

managed retreat in coastal communities. This presentation

addresses the increasingly urgent need for community-level input

into the development of resilience strategies, policy guidance and

regulations, including but not limited to the managed retreat option.

To plan for managed retreat, communities must understand the

range of options and develop a basis for informed decision-making,

including both scientific and socio-cultural perspectives. Community

leaders in various sectors and policymakers must work together to

build capacity as they develop the policies and regulations that will

govern managed retreat. These policy and regulatory approaches

are needed to avoid serious damage to the social and economic

fabric of the affected communities. In this presentation, a “bottom-

up” approach to managed retreat will be distinguished from a “top-

down” policy or regulatory approach developed without local

stakeholder input. The goal of this session is to take managed retreat

off the back burner and begin a serious consideration of this extreme

adaptation approach. Managed retreat will be appropriate for

some communities, but not others. How to decide whether

managed retreat is "on the table" is a key goal our discussion. The

presenters will articulate different aspects of managed retreat so

that attendees will be able to inform the dialogue in their own

communities.

SPEAKERS

Lisa Granquist, PhD, Beach Policy, USA

Implementation Approaches for Managed Retreat

Ira Feldman, J.D., greentrack strategies, USA

Agenda Setting for Managed Retreat Policy and Regulation

PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS

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).

ORGANISER/S Ira Feldman,

greentrack strategies

Climate Adaptation Scholars (tm)

Network, USA

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Northeastern University and ASAP, USA

Institute for Local Innovations (ILI), USA

CHAIR Ira Feldman, greentrack strategies, USA

Ira Feldman is a US-based sustainability

leader with an interdisciplinary skill set

and a global reach. He has over 25 years

experience as an attorney and

management consultant focusing on

environmental regulatory innovation,

strategic environmental management,

sustainable business practices and

corporate social responsibility. Ira is now

at the leading edge of the convergence

of sustainability, climate adaptation and

ecosystem services. Among other

leadership roles, Ira serves as the Policy

Committee co-chair of the American

Society of Adaptation Professionals

(ASAP).

RAPPORTEUR Lisa Granquist, Beach Policy, USA

S108

Climate resilient development

pathways

VENUE

2.62

TIME

Wednesday

9h15 - 11h00

Small Grants, Big Impacts: the power

of small grants funds in financing

gender and grassroots responsive

climate actions

SESSION SUMMARY

The Green Climate Fund aims to support transformational pathways

to climate-resilient development, intends to reach those most

vulnerable, and commits to a gender-sensitive approach. This session

presents an important way of putting these commitments into

practice: by engaging small grants funds. These funds can provide

the much needed channel between large international institutions

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

delivered? The audience will be actively engaged in the discussion

to come to concrete suggestions to strengthen local access and

gender responsiveness of climate finance.

PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS

Theo Sowa, African Women’s Development Fund, Ghana Theo Sowa is an independent advisor and consultant, specialising in

international social development. She is currently the CEO of the African

Women’s Development Fund, mobilising financial, human and material

resources to support African women and the work of the African women’s

movement to advance women’s rights and gender equality in Africa.

Joëlla van Rijn, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Netherlands Joëlla van Rijn is a climate change expert and diplomat at the Dutch Ministry

of Foreign Affairs. In her actual assignment she focuses on international

finance for climate in developing countries. She is involved in the setup of

the new Dutch Climate Fund and other financial instruments to mobilize

private investment in light of the Paris Agreement.

Daan Robben, Both ENDS, The Netherlands Daan Robben is a climate finance policy advisor at Both ENDS, with a

specific focus on Green Climate Fund. Both ENDS promotes local access,

gender equality and the inclusion of southern CSOs in GCF decision-making

processes. He follows GCF processes closely and as of this year joined the

civil society active observer team.

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.

ORGANISER/S Annelieke Douma,

Both ENDS

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S African Women’s Development Fund,

Ghana

CHAIR Annelieke Douma, Both ENDS, The

Netherlands

Annelieke Douma is senior programme

officer and coordinator of the Global

Alliance for Green and Gender Action

within Dutch non-governmental

organization Both ENDS, focusing on

water management, gender equality,

and climate adaptation and finance.

She monitors the Green Climate Fund

and supports Southern CSOs to engage

in climate finance decision-making

processes.

RAPPORTEUR Daan Robben, Both ENDS, The

Netherlands

S81

Food, fibre, and other ecosystem

products

VENUE

1.41

TIME

Wednesday

9h15 - 11h00

The Climate-Water-Energy-Land-Food

Nexus: Security into Practice.

SESSION SUMMARY

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

realise, co-benefits across societal objectives represented by the

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

implementation of good practice and to discuss challenges specific

to diverse regional contexts while providing a global summarizing

view.

SPEAKERS

Patricia Romero-Lankao (NCAR, ISUT), USA; Daniel Gnatz (ISUT), USA;

Dakota Smith (NCAR) USA.

Understanding Inequality in Climate Risks to the Security of People

and FEW Systems in cities: Implications for Adaptation and

Development

Rebecca Ilungta, Aurecon, South Africa

Climate Resilient Decision Making: A City-Centric Approach to Water

Security

Declan Conway, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change

and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political

Science, UK, with research from Ajay Bhave, Kate Gannon and

Christian Siderius among others.

Dipping in the nexus; some reflections on research in Africa and

India.

Abdrabbo A. A. Shehata Aboukheira, Ahmed A. Rashed, National

Water Research Center (NWRC), Egypt; Caroline King-Ukomo,

Ecosystems and Human Development Association (EHDA), Egypt.

Water, Energy and Food Nexus for Climate Change Mitigation and

Adaptation in Egypt: Implementation Challenges and Opportunities

Lisa Emberson, Divya Pandey, Chris Malley and Rachel Wood,

Stockholm Environment Institute at York University, UK

Exploring opportunities to improve air quality and climate for the

benefit of socio-economic aspects of agriculture in South Asia

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.

ORGANISER/S Roger Cremades,

Climate Service Center Germany

(GERICS)

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S London School of Economics (LSE),

United Kingdom

National Center for Atmospheric

Research (NCAR), United States of

America

CHAIR Declan Conway, London School of

Economics (LSE)

Declan Conway is a Professorial

Research Fellow at the Grantham

Research Institute (London School of

Economics). Declan’s research cuts

across water, climate and society, with a

strong focus on adaptation and

international development. He has over

20 years experience working in sub-

Saharan Africa and Asia (particularly

China).

RAPPORTEUR Patricia Romero-Lankao, National

Center for Atmospheric Research

(NCAR)

S236

Finance

VENUE

1.64

TIME

Wednesday

9h15 - 11h00

The Role of Climate Funds in the Co-

production of Climate Adaptation

Knowledge

SESSION SUMMARY

The establishment of climate funds under the UNFCCC and Kyoto

Protocol at Marrakech in 2001 kicked off some of the earliest

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

countries were virtually non-existent. The investments to-date – which

currently exceed $2 billion among Least Developed Countries Fund,

Adaptation Fund, and Special Climate Change Fund – speak to a

much-changed landscape since those early efforts were launched.

With a proliferation of experience based on concrete results,

understanding of outcomes, and increasingly impacts of the various

adaptation interventions piloted to-date, along with the reality that

adaptation is gaining mainstream adoption and that significant

further investments are foreseen as being necessary, there are

certain questions that are especially timely and relevant: 1. What

should be the role or roles of the finance entities in the production of

climate adaptation knowledge? 2. What are some of the

experiences of knowledge production or management in this

space? 3. What can the multilateral financing sources do in this

space, versus international agencies that implement projects,

countries, academia, and centers of excellence? What have they

done, and what should they do? 4. Specifically in the sub-Saharan

context, how can the co-production of knowledge occur in the most

optimal way, in order to best serve the adaptation effort in African

LDCs in particular and other vulnerable countries? This special session

will aim to: a) discuss these questions via a panel consisting of

representatives of GEF, AF, AfDB, UN Environment, GCECA, (and

ideally an African Academic Institution.) b) engage the public in the

debate of the question, specifically soliciting their input on these

questions, crowdsourcing ideas and stimulating further dialogue. This

is especially timely in light of further investments in adaptation, the

GCF, and the establishment of GCECA. The session will include a

panel debate, followed by a dynamic back-and-forth between the

audience (questions and input) and the panelists, around the

questions.

SPEAKERS

Saliha Dobardzic, Adaptation Fund, USA

Knowledge and Learning: The Adaptation Fund Experience to-date

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

ORGANISER/S Dennis Bours,

Independent Evaluation Office of the

GEF (IEO)

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Adaptation Fund, United States of

America (USA)

African Development Bank, Côte

d’Ivoire

UN Environment, Kenya

CHAIR Dennis Bours, Independent Evaluation

Office of the GEF (IEO), United States of

America

Dennis Bours is a GEF IEO evaluation

officer with an emphasis on adaptation,

resilience, and applying a gender lens in

evaluations. Dennis has worked globally

for over fifteen years as a humanitarian

and sustainable development

professional, has diverse experience in

change management, monitoring and

evaluation, disaster risk reduction,

humanitarian operations management

and staff capacity building, and has co-

authored and co-edited several

adaptation M&E publications.

RAPPORTEUR

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

S64

Cities, settlements and key

infrastructure

VENUE

1.63

TIME

Wednesday

9h15 - 11h00

What enables adaptation of women in

climate hotspots?

SESSION SUMMARY

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 -

material conditions, migration and mobility, climate change and

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

participants will be encouraged to compare and contrast their own

understanding and findings with those of the panellists.

SPEAKERS

Katharine Vincent, Kulima Integrated Development Solutions, South

Africa

Gendered adaptation in deltas: Who decides, who benefits, and

who loses?

Nitya Rao, University of East Anglia, UK

Household dynamics and gender relations in managing risk and

adapting to change in semi-arid Africa and Asia

Chanda Gurung Goodrich, ICIMOD, Nepal

Contextualising gendered vulnerabilities in the Hindu Kush-Himalaya

(HKH) region

Ayesha Qaisrani, Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan

Gender and climate change in the Pathways to Resilience in Semi-

Arid Economies (PRISE) project

PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS

Katharine Vincent, Kulima Integrated Development Solutions, South

Africa

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

ORGANISER/S Katharine Vincent,

International Development Research

Centre (IDRC)

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S International Development Research

Centre (IDRC), Canada

CHAIR Kallur Subrammanyam Murali, IDRC,

Canada

Dr Murali Kallur is an ecologist who works

as a senior program officer at

International Development Research

Centre, Asia Regional Office, New Delhi.

His work at IDRC includes a program on

climate change adaptation in Asia, a

joint initiative with the UK’s Department

for International Development.

RAPPORTEUR Anjal Prakash, 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.

S46

Decision-making options for

managing risk

VENUE

2.43

TIME

Wednesday

9h15 - 11h00

Pathways Praxis for Values, Rules and

Knowledge

SESSION SUMMARY

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

systems of societal values, rules and knowledge that enable the

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.

The session will build new practitioner-researcher networks and

capture emerging lessons about building adaptation governance

capacity and fostering multi-level learning to enable adaptation.

SPEAKERS

Judy Lawrence ( New Zealand Climate Change Research Institute,

Victoria University of Wellington), Paula Blackett and Rob Bell

(National Institute of Water and Atmosphere, NZ)

A governance framework that opened up long-term adaptation

options: real-life decision making at the coast in Hawkes Bay New

Zealand

Claudia Munera (The Australian National University), Lorrae Van

Kerkhoff (The Australian National University), Michael Dunlop

(Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation),

Carina Wyborn (Luc Hoffmann Institute), Oscar Guevara(WWF

Colombi

From theory to action: future oriented conservation under climate

change

Paul Ryan (Australian Resilience Centre) Michael Dunlop (CSIRO,

Canberra, Australia)

Planning to change: improving climate adaptation planning

practice

PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS

Seona Meharg, CSIRO and Australian National University, Australia

Seona Meharg is an integration scientist working on research for

development projects, exploring the theory and practice of

implementation in complex adaptation projects.

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

ORGANISER/S Michael Dunlop,

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial

Research Organisation (CSIRO)

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Department of Environment Affairs,

South Africa

Department of Environment Water and

Natural Resource, South Australia

Victoria University of Wellington, New

Zealand

Australian Resilience Centre, Australia

CHAIR Michael Dunlop, CSIRO, Australia

Mike works on the intersection between

the social, institutional and biophysical

dimensions of climate adaptation. He

helps policymakers and managers

explore institutional changes to enable

organisations and society prepare for

significant but uncertain change. He

works with National, State and local

governments, land managers and NGOs

in Australia and internationally.

RAPPORTEUR Deborah O'Connell, CSIRO, Australia

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.

S57

Climate resilient development

pathways

VENUE

1.43

TIME

Wenesday

9h15 - 11h00

Financing adaptation and climate

resilient development in Least

Developed Countries

SESSION SUMMARY

In the developing world, especially in the LDCs, rural economies are

challenged by global warming. The need to adapt also exacerbates

the challenges faced by rapidly growing secondary cities. Local

governments could mobilize PPPs but the regulatory environment

and capacities are not always available/adequate. Understanding:

How public money can encourage private investment in

adaptation/resilience; how the private sector can more effectively

provide investment capital; the role of the national/local private

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

transformative

SPEAKERS

Fakri KARIM, United Nations Capacity Development Fund (UNCDF)

Transforming local governance systems towards resilience building:

lessons learnt from the implementation of the LoCAL mechanism in

Asia and Africa

Louise H. Brown, AfDB, Côte d’Ivoire

Supporting access to climate finance at the local level; the role of

the Africa Climate Change Fund

Peter Malika, UNCDF Regional Technical Advisor, Tanzania

Unlocking private sector capital to invest in climate resilience and

adaptation using instruments that mitigate investment risks.

Lisa Horrocks, Mott MacDonald, UK

Enabling international finance for infrastructure projects to support

resilience at local level: an expanding role for the private sector

Nele Bünner, GIZ, Germany

Narratives (and approaches) matter to make adaptation plans and

programs effectively transformative towards building resilient local

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

ORGANISER/S Luc Gnacadja,

United Nations Capacity Development

Fund (UNCDF)

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S African Development Bank (AfDB),

Republic of Cote d'Ivoire

CHAIR Luc Gnacadja, United Nations Capacity

Development Fund (UNCDF), Benin

Luc GNACADJA, founder and President

of the think-tank GPS-Dev (Governance

& Policies for Sustainable Development),

is the architect of the concept of “Land

Degradation Neutrality” in the Rio+20’s

process. He is a former minister of

environment of Benin and the

immediate past Executive Secretary of

the UN Convention on Desertification

RAPPORTEUR Fakri Karim, United Nations Capacity

Development Fund (UNCDF)

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.

S102

Cities, settlements and key

infrastructure

VENUE

1.63

TIME

Wednesday

14h15 - 16h00

Financial instruments for mobilising

private investment in climate

resilience and adaptation

SESSION SUMMARY

This session provides an overview and examples of innovative

financial instruments for stimulating private capital flows for

adaptation and climate resilience. It addresses the following

questions:

* What are emerging lessons from experiences involving private

finance in climate resilient infrastructure, and how can successful

experiences be transferred to other contexts?

* Through which instruments, e.g. partnerships, contracts, can private

capital be mobilised to safeguard infrastructure from climate

extremes?

* Which financial instruments can stimulate climate resilient

infrastructure investment amongst the poor? Financial instruments

will be contextualized within case studies crosscutting different

sectors to ensure the session is accessible and practical.

SPEAKERS

Alexander Bisaro, Global Climate Forum, Germany

Mobilising private finance for coastal adaptation

Daniel Ware, Griffiths University, Australia

Contrasting funding and delivery models for coastal protection –

case studies from Australia

Kamleshan Pillay, SouthSouthNorth and University of Witwatersrand,

South Africa

The use of insurance as a safeguard for climate resilient infrastructure

Adrian Fenton, National Advisor to the Government of Fiji

Microfinance as an approach to stimulate climate resilient

infrastructure for the poor

ORGANISER/S Alexander Bisaro,

Global Climate Forum (GCF)

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S SouthSouthNorth (SSN), South Africa

CHAIR Srinivasan Pillay, University of KwaZulu-

Natal, South Africa

Dr. Srinivasan Pillay, University of

KwaZulu-Natal, is a Senior Lecturer with

over 20 years of experience with

significant expertise in ecosystem-based

adaptation and coastal zone

management in the province of

KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. His current

research interests include the role of

wetlands in reducing disaster risk

management, adaptation finance and

blue-green infrastructure.

RAPPORTEUR Kamleshan Pillay, SouthSouthNorth,

South Africa

S91

Poverty, livelihoods and

sustainable development

VENUE

1.43

TIME

Wednesday

14h15 - 16h00

Adaptation and Development in Small

Island Developing States

SESSION SUMMARY

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

improving the management of specific climate-stressors. Yet lack of

data and research capacity remains a major challenge, particularly

for the most impoverished and vulnerable communities in SIDS. This

session explores how communities from SIDS are affected by climate-

change, on evidence of sound adaptation (planned and

spontaneous), and factors capable of enhancing or inhibiting SIDS

people’s long-term ability to deal with climate-change.

SPEAKERS

Patrick D. Nunn, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia

Keynote speech - Barriers have two sides: the challenges of

transformational adaptation in island contexts

Martin Rokitzki, Climate Analytics

Status, Gaps and Challenges of Adaptation Options Appraisal,

Prioritization and Costing Techniques Application for Adaptation

Planning in LDCs and SIDS

Yogeshwari Pooja Rago, University Of Mauritius

Climate Change Mitigation through Waste in SIDS

Hannah M. Barrowman, The Australian National University, Australia

Risk and Vulnerability in National Climate Adaptation Policies and

Programming: Case Studies from the Pacific

Julie Dekens, International Institute for Sustainable

Development/NAP Global Network

Using the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) process to promote

gender-responsive climate action: Lessons from Kiribati

Laura Canevari, King´s College London, UK

Building climate resilience in agricultural value chains: a business

network-oriented approach

Stefano Moncada, University of Malta, Malta; Hilary Bambrick,

Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Concluding Remarks

ORGANISER/S Stefano Moncada, University of Malta, Malta

Hilary Bambrick, Queensland University of

Technology, Australia

Patrick Nunn, University of the Sunshine

Coast, Australia

Lino Briguglio, University of Malta, Malta

Dinesh Surroop, University of Mauritius,

Mauritius

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S University of Malta, Malta

Queensland University of Technology,

Australia

University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia

University of Mauritius, Mauritius

CHAIR Stefano Moncada, University of Malta,

Malta Stefano Moncada holds a Ph.D. in

Economics from the University of Malta,

where he lectures and conducts research in

the areas of development, poverty, and

climate-change. Stefano’s recent research

includes economic and health assessments,

in the face of climate-change, of

communities in Africa and small island

developing states. Prior to join academia,

Stefano worked in the Italian Parliament as

policy analyst. Stefano is affiliated with the

Institute for European Studies, member of the

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

S148

Climate services

VENUE

1.64

TIME

Wednesday

14h15 - 16h00

Advancing co-production and use of

climate risk information for

conservation and development

SESSION SUMMARY

Now that funding for climate implementation is beginning to flow,

practitioners and decision-makers need significantly improved

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

communication and improving the usability of climate risk

information also remain essential. This session will focus on

understanding climate risk information needs, research gaps and

needs, and identifying ways in which climate risk can be integrated

into conservation and sustainable development activities. The

session will identify outcomes of activities implemented by

practitioners and cutting-edge climate science information for

stakeholder use. The session will serve as a platform to demonstrate

examples from the field, showcase the latest science, and identify

challenges and propose research needs.

SPEAKERS

Radley Horton and Manishka De Mel, Columbia University, USA

Lessons Learned from Stakeholder-Driven Climate Risk Information

Ryan Bartlett

Improving Climate Science for Planning and Building Resilience:

Lessons Learned and Future Directions in Conservation

Paul Schumacher

Integrating Climate Information into Local Development Planning: A

Case from Central Asia

ORGANISER/S Cynthia Rosenzweig,

Columbia University

NASA Goddard Institute for Space

Studies, USA

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S WWF US, United States

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale

Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Germany

CHAIR Cynthia Rosenzweig, NASA

GISS/Columbia University Cynthia Rosenzweig is a Senior Research

Scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for

Space Studies and an Adjunct Senior

Research Scientist at the Columbia University

Earth Institute's Center for Climate Systems

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

S194 A

Water

VENUE

1.61

TIME

Wednesday

14h15 - 16h00

Building water resilience in cities:

Part A

SESSION SUMMARY

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.

This session will be investigating water scarcity around the world by

looking at this issue from a global perspective, and through the lens

of different cities, including Sao Paulo, Melbourne, Los Angeles and

Cape Town. There will be a particular focus on Cape Town and its

response to the current drought from the perspective of the

municipality. The aim of this session is to create a better

understanding of how drought has affected different cities, and the

complex issues of water scarcity and climate change in developed

and developing countries.

SPEAKERS

Hastings Chikoko, C40, South Africa

Global overview of climate change impacts, and responses, in

relation to water scarcity.

Gisela Kaiser, City of Cape Town, South Africa

The response to the drought in Cape Town – an update.

Tim Van Hattum

Towards Water Smart Cities: A systems approach to help cities adapt

to climate change

Pablo Borges De Amorim

Integrating climate modelling into hydrological modelling: What’s

going on in Brazil?

Haji Mwevura

Assessment of privately owned water sources as adaptation option

to water scarcity in periurban Zanzibar

PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS

Amanda Ikert, C40, United States

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

ORGANISER/S Stephen Granger,

City of Cape Town

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S C40, United States of America

CHAIR Gareth Morgan, City of Cape Town,

South Africa

Gareth Morgan is the Director of

Resilience in the City of Cape Town and

is working with 100 Resilient Cities,

pioneered by the Rockefeller

Foundation, to develop Cape Town's first

resilience strategy. He is a former

Member of Parliament, and served as

the Shadow Minister of Water and

Environmental Affairs from 2009 to 2013

and as a whip from 2011 to 2013. He is a

Rhodes Scholar and an Archbishop Tutu

Fellow.

RAPPORTEUR Amy Davison, City of Cape Town, South

Africa

S194 B

Water

VENUE

1.61

TIME

Wednesday

16h30 - 18h15

Building Water Resilience in Cities:

Part B

SESSION SUMMARY

Make a good business case for adapting to climate change and

exemplify the benefits of financing adaptation initiatives

SPEAKERS

Bridget Fundikwa

Business case to improve water resilience

Tony Laughton, Glaxo Smith Kline, South Africa; John Stenslunde,

South African Breweries, South Africa

Adaptive mechanisms that businesses have used to adjust to the

‘New Normal’

Marie-Ange Baudoin, C4ecosolution, South Africa

Living with drought in South Africa: lessons learnt from the recent El

Niño drought period

Sarah Birch, Western Cape Government, South Africa

Fast-tracking Adaptation from disaster: learning between climate

analogue regions (California and Western Cape)

Ffion Atkins, Umvoto, South Africa

Building urban resilience in the face of a water crisis: Managed

Aquifer Recharge of the Cape Flats Aquifer, South Africa.

PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS

Mike Mulcahy , GreenCape, South Africa

CEO GreenCape. GreenCape is a non-profit organisation that drives

the widespread adoption of economically viable green economy

solutions from the Western Cape province. GreenCape has a

dedicated water desk.

Hastings Chikoko, C40, South Africa

Regional Director for Africa

ORGANISER/S Stephen Granger,

City of Cape Town

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S GreenCape, South Africa

CHAIR Gareth Morgan, City of Cape Town,

South Africa

Gareth Morgan is the Director of

Resilience in the City of Cape Town and

is working with 100 Resilient Cities,

pioneered by the Rockefeller

Foundation, to develop Cape Town's

first resilience strategy. He is a former

Member of Parliament, and served as

the Shadow Minister of Water and

Environmental Affairs from 2009 to 2013

and as a whip from 2011 to 2013. He is a

Rhodes Scholar and an Archbishop Tutu

Fellow.

RAPPORTEUR Amy Davison, City of Cape Town, South

Africa

S200

Climate-Resilient Development

Pathways

VENUE

2.41

TIME

Wednesday

14h15 - 16h00

Evidence-based guiding principles for

developing adaptation pathways to

inform adaptation policy and practice

in the context of development

SESSION SUMMARY

Climate change threatens the sustainability of development. In order for

development to be climate-resilient it needs to include choices and actions

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

sequence measures over time and allow for progressive implementation

depending on how the future unfolds. Potentials are to account for future

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.

Different research groups and projects are experimenting with the

development of adaptation pathways. As yet, there has been no systematic

attempt to analyse different approaches to adaptation pathway

development. In this session we evaluate the utility of approaches to

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,

and the extent to which developed country adaptation pathways are

transferable and adaptable.

We apply a framework for structured learning about the strengths and

weaknesses of different approaches to inform long-term adaptation

planning and practice. We will present cases of pathway development,

which range (i) in approach from community-based to expert-driven, (ii) in

purpose from adaptation policy to capacity building at the community

level, and (iii) in directionality from incremental to transformational change.

Our session brings together a dedicated team of researchers and strategic

partners from four consortia supported by the Collaborative Adaptation

Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA) Programme

(www.cariaa.net), together with CSIRO, the United Nations University, and

Deltares / TU-Delft.

SPEAKERS

Edmond Totin, CGIAR / ICRISAT-Mali

Potential of scenario planning to support adaptation pathways in

rural Mali

Cheikh Tidiane Wade, Innovations Environnement Développement

Afrique, Senegal

Integration of migration in the territorial development process of

Senegal

Samavia Batool, Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan

Adaptation pathways for climate resilient cotton production in

Pakistan

Suruchi Bhadwal, TERI, India

ORGANISER/S Saskia E. Werners,

Wageningen University & Research

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial

Research Organisation (CSIRO),

Australia

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Consultative Group on International

Agricultural Research (CGIAR)-

International Crops Research Institute

for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Mali

Kulima Integrated Development

Solutions, South Africa

Sustainable Development Policy

Institute, Pakistan

CHAIR Saskia E. Werners, Wageningen

University & Research, 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.

RAPPORTEUR Avash Pandey, ICIMOD, Nepal

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.

S142

Finance

VENUE

2.45

TIME

Wednesday

14h15 - 16h00

Financing Adaptation and Building

Resilience: Emerging Lessons from

Climate Insurance and Risk Pooling

Research in Africa and Asia

SESSION SUMMARY

This session will discuss potential financing instruments for adaptation

from a perspective of developing countries. It will touch upon: i) how

farmers in Africa and Asia finance their adaptation and what are

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

strategies; iv) what are the problems with the credit market for

adaptation; and v) do farmers benefit from risk pooling mechanisms

that cover more severe hazards. Finally, the session will discuss some

practical recommendations for the public and private investment in

adaptation and mainstreaming adaptation finance.

SPEAKERS

Aileen V. Lapitan, University of the Philippines Los Banos

Rice Farmers’ Knowledge, Attitudes, and Willingness to Pay for

Weather Index Based Crop Insurance in Quezon Province, Philippines

DV Prahan Prasada, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

Willingness for Climate-indexed insurance contracts as a climate

change adaptation strategy for Sri Lankan smallholder agricultural

producer.

Issah Justice Surugu Musah, University of Ghana, Ghana

Optimising Private Funds for Adaptation to Climate Change: A Focus

on Remittances

Muhammad Nawaz, University of Sargodha, Pakistan

Equity and efficiency in financing farmers climate adaptatiom:

Evidence from agro-ecological zones of Pakistan

Kamlesh Pilali, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Risk-pooling among municipalities in South Africa

ORGANISER/S Bhim Adhikari, International Development

Research Institute (IDRC), Canada; Nipon

Poapongsakorn, Thailand Development

Research Institute, Thailand,

International Development Research Centre

(IDRC)

Thailand Development Research Institute,

Thailand

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Thailand Development Research Institute

(TDRI), Thailand

Frankfurt School of Finance and

Management (FS), Germany

CHAIR Christine Grüning, Frankfurt School of

Finance and Management, Germany Dr. Christine Grüning delivers a strong

interdisciplinary background in

environmental economics, finance and

policy. Since 2011 she is managing and

implementing applied research, education

and capacity building projects for the

Frankfurt School-UNEP Collaborating Centre

for Climate & Sustainable Energy Finance.

Her current fields of research are the

economics of climate change, barriers on

investment in mitigation and adaptation

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

S133

Capacity Building for Adaptation

VENUE

1.44

TIME

Wednesday

14h15 - 16h00

Learning and knowledge Sharing

(South-South and North-South) as a

Tool for Cooperation for Adaptation

SESSION SUMMARY

The session aims to highlight experiences and success stories of

knowledge transfer on climate change adaptation related topics

both from South-South and North-South perspectives, as a tool for

enhanced cooperation for implementing adaptation measures.

While North-South Cooperation and transfer of knowledge remains a

key element for addressing prevailing and long-term developmental

and adaptation challenges, there is a need to further strengthen

South-South Cooperation. Developing countries have accumulated

a vast experience in integrating development objectives into

national development strategies and aligning these goals to

international developmental goals. On the adaptation front local

solutions have been successfully implemented in a number

developing countries. These initiatives have a great potential for

replicability and can foster bilateral and regional cooperation. The

success of South-South cooperation offers important lessons for all

development partners and the role of development cooperation in

addressing climate change, adaptation measures in particular.

SPEAKERS

Farayi Madziwa, Adaptation Fund Board Secretariat

South-South cooperation under the Adaptation Fund

Lia Nicholson, Department of Environment

Presentation of DoE’s experience providing peer support to

developing countries through the Adaptation Fund South-South

Cooperation grants

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

ORGANISER/S Bilal Anwar,

Commonwealth Secretariat

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S German Agency for International

Development (GIZ), Germany

Climate Technology Centre and

Network (CTCN), Denmark

CHAIR Farayi Madziwa, Adaptation Fund

Secretariat

Farayi Madziwa is the Program Officer

(Climate Finance Readiness) at the

Adaptation Fund Board secretariat

RAPPORTEUR Bilal Anwar, Commonwealth

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Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E)

VENUE

2.63

TIME

Wednesday

14h15 - 16h00

Learning around the campfire:

methods for sharing knowledge and

know-hows about what works best

when addressing climate change

adaptation

SESSION SUMMARY

This session will tackle the emerging and challenging topic of

knowledge transfer between practioners of climate change

adaptation, policy-makers and the scientific community.

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

community.

Presentations and a facilitated discussion will showcase novel and

collaborative examples of teaching techniques and alternative

formats, such as blended learning, that mixes both web-based

learning and instructor-based courses. The usefulness of a modular

approach to teaching various components of climate change

adaptation to different audiences will also be explored.

SPEAKERS

Valérie Bourduas Crouhen, Ouranos, Canada

Multiple approaches to foster successful knowledge transfer

Sadie McEvoy, Deltares / Delft University Of Technology, The

Netherlands

Choosing the tool to support participatory adaptation planning

workshops

Michael Dunlop, CSIRO Land & Water

Framing transformational adaptation as a governance problem:

lessons from developing and testing the ‘Climate-ready biodiversity

management’ approach

ORGANISER/S Valérie Bourduas Crouhen,

Ouranos

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S ADEME, French Environment and Energy

Management Agency, France

CHAIR Isabelle Charron, Ouranos, Canada

Isabelle Charron holds a Doctorate in

forest ecology from the University of

Calgary. She taught natural-resource

management at Concordia University

for many years. At Ouranos since 2010,

first as a climate scenarios and services

specialist, Mrs. Charron is now

responsible for training and focuses on

the preparation of tools and workshops

to facilitate the transfer of knowledge

within the vulnerability, impacts and

adaptation community.

RAPPORTEUR Valérie Bourduas Crouhen, Ouranos

S173

Finance

VENUE

1.42

TIME

Wednesday

14h15 - 16h00

Mainstreaming, Accessing and

Institutionalising Finance for Climate

Change Adaptation

SESSION SUMMARY

Action on Climate Today proposes open session on mainstreaming

and leveraging adaptation finance under the theme-financing of

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

experiences of participants and build a stronger narrative for

adaptation public financing mechanisms. Objectives:

- Sharing knowledge on approaches of mainstreaming adaptation

financing in government budgets

- Understanding the benefits, structure and functioning of a 'Climate

Finance Unit'

- Generating consensus on elements of an enabling environment for

leveraging and mainstreaming finance for adaptation to climate

change.

- Establishing networks and partnerships for collaboration for

leveraging and mainstreaming adaptation financing in government

budgets.

The key highlight of our event is an engaging ‘hackathon’ session to

crowdsource innovative tools and approaches for mainstreaming

and institutionalising adaptation finance. The proposed structure

includes interactive and participatory discussions to consolidate

lessons for strengthening the institutional architecture for climate

change adaptation finance.

SPEAKERS

Cristina Rumbaitise del Rio, Action on Climate Today

Financing Framework for Resilient Growth- An integrated approach

for mainstreaming adaptation financing

Fawad Hayat, Ministry of Climate Chante, Government of Pakistan

The Climate Finance Unit in Pakistan- Creating enabling environment

for leveraging adaptation finance

Soumik Biswas, Climate Change Innovation Programme, India

Sub-national experiences from India on mainstreaming and

leveraging finance from subnational budgets

ORGANISER/S Cristina Rumbaitis del Rio,

Action on Climate Today (ACT), Oxford

Policy Management

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Ministry of Climate Change,

Government of Pakistan, Pakistan

Climate Change Innovation

Programme, India

CHAIR Simon Croxton, Action on Climate

Today, Oxford Policy Managemen

Simon Croxton is a senior climate

change specialist with a focus on

adaptation. Currently, he is lead

technical advisor on adaptation

mainstreaming and climate resilient

agriculture for the DFID funded Action

on Climate Today Programme running in

5 countries in South Asia. In the past

Simon has served as the Senior Natural

Resources Specialist for the World Bank

and Head of Office for DFID in Southern

Africa. Simon completed his

undergraduate studies at the University

of East Anglia and his post graduate

studies at Cranfield University.

RAPPORTEUR Allan Duncan, Action on Climate

Today, Oxford Policy Management

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Transdisciplinarity

VENUE

2.61

TIME

Wednesday

14h15 - 16h00

Models of enabling environments for

researcher-practitioner collaboration:

successes and failures

SESSION SUMMARY

In recent years, the number of large multi-country, multi-disciplinary

research-for-impact programmes and projects intended to

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

enabling environments for researchers and practitioners to work

collaboratively and to understand what has led to program/project

success or failure. Panellists and participants will explore what we

have learned about enabling environments while thinking about

collaborative models from multiple perspectives, including how

models of collaboration designed and, in retrospect, what have

been the strengths and weaknesses of the model?

SPEAKERS

Jesse DeMaria-Kinney, Oxfam, United Kingdom

Operational models for researcher-practitioner collaboration: Case

studies from the ASSAR experience

Prathigna Poonacha Kodira, Indian Institute for Human Settlements,

(IIHS), India

Lessons on operationalizing researcher-practitioner collaboration

from the ASSAR project in India

Darrell R.Corkal, h2adapt inc., Canada

Operationalizing Stakeholder Insights for Adaptation – best practices

to engage stakeholders and bridge academic, government and

local knowledge for action

Lindsey Jones, London School of Economics and Political

Science/Overseas Development Institute, United Kingdom

Aligning research with practice: An agenda for the next generation

of adaptation research

PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS

Ken De Souza, Department for International Development (DFID), UK

Research Manager at the UK Department For International

Development’s Climate, Energy and Water Research Team in

London. Responsible for designing, commissioning and managing

development focused climate research programmes aimed at

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

ORGANISER/S Jesse DeMaria-Kinney,

Oxfam GB

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Indian Institute for Human Settlements

(IIHS), India

University of Cape Town, South Africa

International Development Research

Centre (IDRC), Canada

CHAIR Georgina Cundill Kemp, International

Development Research Centre (IDRC),

Canada

Dr. Cundill Kemp is a Senior Program

Officer at the International

Development Research Centre (IDRC).

She works mainly on the Collaborative

Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa

and Asia (CARIAA), a partnership

between Canada’s IDRC and the UK’s

Department for International

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

lead researcher in social ecology at the

Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Zonas

Aridas (CEAZA), Chile.

RAPPORTEUR Julia Davies, University of Cape Town,

South Africa

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.

S8

Decision-making options for

managing risk

VENUE

2.62

TIME

Wednesday

14h15 - 16h00

Role of MDBs in supporting adaptation

in Africa: opportunities and innovative

solutions

SESSION SUMMARY

The session provides a platform for MDBs and development partners

to highlight their efforts to support means of implmentation of climate

change activities in Africa; discuss approaches, tools and methods

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

a better understanding about climatic risks and their impacts on

sustainable development. It will also showcase MDBs efforts to ensure

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.

PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS

Balgis Osman Elasha, African Development Bank, Tunisia

A Climate Change and Green Growth Specialist, at North Africa

Regional Development and Business Delivery Office, the African

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

Author of the IPCC reports.

Mahamat Assouyouti, African Development Bank, Ivory Coast

Senior Climate Finance Officer.

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).

ORGANISER/S Balgis Osman Elasha,

African Development Bank (AfDB)

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S World Bank, United States of America

African Climate & Development

Initiative (ACDI), South Africa

CHAIR Anthony Nyong, AfDB

RAPPORTEUR Balgis Osman Elasha, AfDB

S222

CbA: Rural areas

VENUE

2.46

TIME

Wednesday

14h15 - 16h00

Spectacular failures and

maladaptations: A learning journey

into the heart of darkness, and

beyond

SESSION SUMMARY

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

improvements in adaptation policy and practice.

Peer-to-peer learning will establish common ground for future

collaboration. Donors and governments seek impact and require

interventions to be designed and presented in project format,

despite the recurrent failures of project-type interventions to achieve

their planned outcomes. The session will provide insights into

strategies to avoid some of these recurrent failures, and to achieve

more lasting positive impacts for, and with climate-affected

communities.

SPEAKERS

PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS

ORGANISER/S Noel Oettle,

Adaptation Network

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre

(RCRC CC), The Netherlands

Environmental Monitoring Group, South

Africa

CHAIR Noel Oettle, Adaptation Network, South

Africa

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

S191

Food, fibre, and other ecosystem

products

VENUE

1.41

TIME

Wednesday

14h15 - 16h00

What would transformative

adaptations in agriculture look like,

really?

SESSION SUMMARY

We will examine various perspectives on transformative adaptation

in agriculture and its implications for development. Adaptation to

current and expected climate change impacts is largely scattered,

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

gains. In some cases, climate impacts may require more dramatic

shifts to manage risk, maintain food security and protect lives and

livelihoods, especially among the poorest and most vulnerable who

depend on agriculture, fishing and tourism. This session will focus on

these more significant changes.

PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS

Dethie Ndiaye, Centre de Suivi Ecologique (CSE), Senegal Dethie Soumare Ndiaye is the head of the Climate Finance Unit at the

Centre de Suivi Ecologique (CSE) of Dakar (Senegal) which is a Direct Access

Entity for the Adaptation Fund and the Green Climate Fund. As such, Dethie

is in charge of the development and implementation of climate smart

projects. He is involved in adaptation planning processes and he is engaged

in several initiatives dealing with South-South cooperation among Direct

Access Entities.

Wagayehu Bekele, Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA),

Ethiopia Wagayehu Bekele is the Director for Climate and Environmental

Sustainability program at the Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency

(ATA), Ethiopia. He coordinates and provides strategic direction to ATA’s

overall activities linked to climate-smart rural development. He holds a Ph.D.

in Resource and Environmental Economics, from Swedish University of

Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden; and an M.Sc. in Agricultural

Development Economics from Institut National Agronomique (now

AgroParisTech), Paris, France.

Daniel Morchain, Oxfam Great Britain, 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).

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.

ORGANISER/S Rebecca Carter,

World Resources Institute (WRI)

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Oxfam GB, United Kingdom

International Institute for Environment

and Development (IIED), United

Kingdom

CHAIR Rebecca Carter, World Resources

Institute (WRI), United States of America

Rebecca Carter is the Deputy Director of

WRI’s Climate Resilient Development

Practice. She focuses on transformative

adaptation and climate finance. Her

work encompasses governance issues

related to climate resilience, including

the transparency, equity and inclusivity

of adaptation planning and

implementation processes. She has a

PhD and MA in Cultural Anthropology

from the University of Arizona.

RAPPORTEUR Tyler Ferdinand, World Resources

Institute (WRI)

S103

Cities, settlements and key

infrastructure

VENUE

1.62

TIME

Wednesday

14h15 - 16h00

Building climate resilient pathways for

Sustainable Development: The role of

integrated climate risk management

and transfer

SESSION SUMMARY

In 2015, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development was

adopted. It represents a transformational vision that aims to establish

a world free from poverty, hunger and diseases. In the same year,

the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction included financial

risk-sharing mechanisms in its resolution. The Paris agreement

(UNFCCC COP21) also featured insurance-related approaches by

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

8: Promote sustained, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth,

and SDG 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change, and in

a more indirect role SDG 9: Building resilient infrastructure and SDG

17: Strengthen the means of implementation.

However, insurance is not a stand-alone approach, and needs to be

embedded in the broader adaptation plan of vulnerable countries.

In addition, poorly designed and/or implemented climate insurance

may reduce incentives for risk reduction thus increasing moral hazard

and potentially lowering resilience and hampering SDGs

achievement. Insurance products therefore need continuous

evaluation based on appropriate resilience indicators. The session

aims to present case studies on integrated climate risk management

from Ghana, Morocco, China and Barbados with an interactive

Q&A. The session will close with a presentation on a method for

evaluating the actual impact of insurance on people’s resilience

using appropriate indicators.

SPEAKERS

Kehinde Balogun, Munich Climate Insurance Initiative (MCII),

Germany

Overview: Climate change, SDGs and risk transfer

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

ORGANISER/S Zissener,

Munich Climate Insurance Initiative

(MCII)

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale

Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH,

Germany, Ghana, Morocco and China

CHAIR Soenke Kreft, Munich Climate Insurance

Initiative (MCII)

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.

RAPPORTEUR Kehinde Balogun, Munich Climate

Insurance Initiative (MCII)

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.

S21

Finance

VENUE

2.43

TIME

Wednesday

14h15 - 16h00

Climate resilience finance metrics

SESSION SUMMARY

Multi-lateral Development Banks (MDBs) have been testing

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

shortcomings to measure MDB efforts to enable climate-resilient

development pathways. The session will include presentations and

discussion around concrete examples of how these metrics and

approaches are applicable. Development finance institutions, the

research community, and other adaptation practitioners interested

in climate adaptation and resilience finance are encouraged to

participate.

SPEAKERS

Vladimir Stenek, International Finance Corporation (IFC)

Sectoral Climate Resilience Tools: Information for Climate Resilient

Investments

Cinzia Losenno, European Investment Bank (EIB); and Craig Davies,

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)

Metrics for Financial Disclosures of Physical Climate Risks and

Opportunities

Louise Brown, African Development Bank (AFDB)

Stimulating private sector investment in adaptation using the

Adaptation Benefit Mechanism

Nathan Engle, World Bank (WB)

Climate resilience metrics: the search for that perfect indicator

ORGANISER/S Nathan Engle,

World Bank, on behalf of Multilateral

Development Banks (MDBs) and the

International Development Finance

Club (IDFC)

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Inter-American Development Bank

(IDB),

Agence Francaise de development

(AFD),

CHAIR María del Pilar Bueno, UNFCCC

Pilar is Researcher at the National

Council of Scientific and Technical

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)

S240

Science, policy and practice

VENUE

Auditorium

TIME

Wednesday

16h30 - 18h15

Adaptation science, policy and

practice: reflections from Burtoni

Award recipients

SESSION SUMMARY

The eight Burtoni award recipients were recognised for their

influential adaptation research in the past. But without exception

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

recipient of the 2018 Burtoni award will act as a discussant. The

session builds on the SEI working paper “Advancing climate

adaptation practices and solutions: emerging research priorities”,

which was produced for the Global Centre of Excellence on Climate

Adaptation and outlines four generations of adaptation research. It

can be accessed at bit.ly/2Ha7YSd.

SPEAKERS

Richard Klein

Saleemul Huq

Coleen Vogel

Mark Pelling

Roger Jones

2018 Burtoni Award recipient

ORGANISER/S Richard Klein,

Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)

Global Centre of Excellence on Climate

Adaptation, The Netherlands

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S

CHAIR Richard Klein

Richard has more than twenty-five years

of experience in original research,

science assessment and policy advice

on climate adaptation. Much of his

recent work has addressed the role of

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

S22

Biodiversity and CbA

VENUE

1.64

TIME

Wednesday

16h30 - 18h15

Climate smart conservation and

climate adaptation in natural

resource management

SESSION SUMMARY

This session focuses on: climate smart conservation and actions taken

to reduce vulnerability of rural people and biodiversity to climate

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

into our natural resource management and development activities,

the possibility of achieving sustainable consservation is severely

undermined. WWF has been working with partners to integrate

adaptation into our programmes to ensure that both natural

resources and people can build resilience to climate change, and

ensure that nature can provide sustainable development

opportunities

SPEAKERS

Melissa de Kock

Lessons learned from implementing the WWF Africa Adaptation

Initiative: Climate Smarting Conservation programmes

Isaiah Owiunji

Reducing vulnerability and building resilience of communities

adjacent to protected areas in the Albertine Graben in Uganda.

Conrad Muyaule

Climate smart conservation in south western Zambia Africa

Rhosanna Jenkins

The Future of Kenya’s Tana River Basin with Climate and Land Use

Changes

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

ORGANISER/S Melissa de Kock,

World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S World Wide Fund for Nature, Africa

Wageningen University, Netherlands

Climate Resilient Infrastructure

Development Facility, South Africa

Midlands State University, Zimbabwe

CHAIR Melissa de Kock, WWF

Melissa de Kock is a senior advisor at

WWF-Norway focussing on climate smart

conservation and community based

natural resource management in Africa

RAPPORTEUR Jacob Etunganan, WWF Uganda

S84

Health

VENUE

2.44

TIME

Wednesday

16h30 - 18h15

Integrating health and climate

adaptation measures in Africa

SESSION SUMMARY

Session goal is to promote dialogue amongst a diverse spectrum of

climate scientists, researchers, health professionals, NGOs, business

and IGOs to enhance interaction and identify approaches for

effective integration of health into climate government policies in

Africa. This dialogue will be led by South Africa’s PHASA – SIG CEH

and Clim-HEALTH Africa. The special interest group (SIG) on Climate,

Energy and Health for the Public Health Association of South Africa

(PHASA – SIG CEH) brings together public health experts, climate

modelers and experts, and also experts from other relevant

disciplines. Clim-HEALTH Africa is a multi-stakeholder initiative

bringing together Pan-African technical institutes and international

partners to guide and strengthen the public health resilience of

African countries and communities.

SPEAKERS

MacKenzie Dove, Walker Institute, UK

Adaptive capacity of governments in East and West Africa to

understand and respond to heat

Celia Petty, Evidence for Development; Rosalind Cornforth University

of Reading, Walker Institute, UK

The challenge of promoting a systems-based approach to health,

nutrition and well being in response to climate change

David Gikungu, Kenya Meteorological Department, Kenya

Climate health early warning systems for Rift Valley fever in Kenya,

and implications for the broader health system

Pascal YAKA, National Meteorological Agency; University of

Ouagadougou - Burkina Faso, F. TARBANGDO, Department of

Disease Control, Ministry of Health; Ouagadougou - Burkina Faso , B.

SULTAN, Laboratory of Ocean and Climate Science: Experimentation

and

Using climate information for meningococcal meningitis control in

Burkina Faso

Rico Euripidou, groundWork, South Africa

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

ORGANISER/S Hanna-Andrea Rother,

University of Cape Town

World Health Organization, Congo

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Public Health Association of South

Africa Special Interest Group on

Climate, Energy and Health, South

Africa

Clim-HEALTH Africa network, Africa

CHAIR Hanna-Andrea Rother, University of

Cape Town, South Africa

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.

RAPPORTEUR Tom Scalway, Lushomo

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.

rico@groundwork.org.za

S234

Planning

VENUE

1.43

TIME

Wednesday

16h30 - 18h15

Mainstreaming Climate Change

Adaptation and Disaster Risk

Reduction into National Development

Planning in South Asia: A collaborative

dialogue on experiences,

approaches, and best practices in

adaptation planning

SESSION SUMMARY

The session will cover

• Existing governance mechanisms and institutional arrangements

that can facilitate cross-sectoral integration of climate adaptation

and DRR considerations;

• Policy innovations that promote the convergence of adaptation,

disaster risk reduction, and sustainable development into policy and

practice at difference scales;

• Factors that influence and shape vulnerability to disasters and

climate impacts, and ways to address them.

The purpose of the session will be to inform decision makers,

practitioners, researchers, and climate advocates on the extent to

which mainstreaming efforts can enhance action on climate

change and in managing disaster risks, what has worked (or not

worked) in South Asia in relation to it, and what should future policies

and actions aim to address.

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

ORGANISER/S Aisha Khan,

Civil Society Coalition on Climate

Change (CSCCC)

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S International Centre for Integrated

Mountain Development (ICIMOD),

Nepal

Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund,

Pakistan

Institute of South Asian Studies,

Singapore

CHAIR Aisha Khan, Civil Society Coalition for

Climate Change, Pakistan

RAPPORTEUR

S65

Poverty, livelihoods and

sustainable development

VENUE

1.41

TIME

Wednesday

16h30 - 18h15

Mind the Gap: Translating Climate

Information into Action for Smallholder

Farmers

SESSION SUMMARY

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

delivering climate information to farmers show promise, evidence on

the effectiveness of CIS programs in benefiting farmers’ livelihoods

remains inadequate. The Mercy Corps-led Climate Information

Research Initiative (CISRI) seeks to fill these gaps through a synthesis

of existing knowledge, analyses of existing programs, and piloting

approaches for evaluating uptake and effectiveness of existing CIS

programs. This session will review findings from this research, and

facilitate discussion on future CIS investments.

SPEAKERS

Kristin Lambert, Mercy Corps, USA; Amanda Lewis, Catholic Relief

Services, Senegal; Olaf Westermann, Catholic Relief Services, USA

Contributions of a participatory systems mapping approach to

identify CIS user needs, accessibility issues, and improve use.

Cathy Vaughan, International Research Institute for Climate &

Society, Columbia University

An overview of evidence and methods to evaluate weather and

climate services in Africa

Helen Rosko, Humanitarian Response and Development Lab

Developing new approaches to the evaluation of climate

information services

PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS

Catherine Vaughan, Columbia University, International Research

Institute for Climate & Society, USA

Cathy Vaughan is a senior staff associate at the International

Research Institute for Climate & Society; she is also a PhD candidate

at the School for Earth and the Environment at Leeds University,

where her research focuses on institutional arrangements to support

climate services, particularly in Latin America.

Olaf Westermann, Catholic Relief Services, USA

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

ORGANISER/S Eliot Levine,

Mercy Corps

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Columbia University, United States

Clark University, United States

Catholic Relief Services, United States of

America

Practical Action, United States

CHAIR Eliot Levine, Mercy Corps, United States

of America

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.

RAPPORTEUR Kristin Lambert, Mercy Corps, United

States of America

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.

S125

Climate Services

VENUE

2.41

TIME

Wednesday

16h30 - 18h15

Participatory Climate Services:

improving their design, delivery and

use

SESSION SUMMARY

This session brings together climate service providers, intermediaries

and potential end users to discuss how to best address challenges of

developing, integrating and institutionalising user-oriented, decision-

driven and science-informed services. Lightning talks on

participatory climate services and new guidance on climate service

design will be followed by Q&A and world café table discussions on

how challenges can be overcome. The session aims to increase

knowledge and awareness of the value of participatory climate

services for adaptation decision-making, encourage climate

services stakeholders to find opportunities for collaboration and elicit

feedback from stakeholders on the utility of approaches.

PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS

Fiona Percy, CARE International/LTSA, Kenya

Team leader and technical advisor in climate change adaptation,

resilience, climate services, agriculture and natural resource management.

Lead multi-country innovative development of practical and learning

approaches, knowledge brokering and advocacy in relation to community-

based adaptation and user centred climate services across multiple actors

and levels, mainly in Africa.

Richard Jones, Met Office Hadley Centre, UK

Richard is a Science Fellow at the UK Met Office Hadley Centre and

manages work on generating and applying regional climate information

and modelling systems with a focus on international development. Richard’s

expertise lies in developing regional climate modelling systems, establishing

and interpreting climate projections and developing climate scenarios for

use.

Anna Steynor, Climate Systems Analysis Group at University of Cape Town,

South Africa

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.

ORGANISER/S Liz Daniels,

Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S

CHAIR Sukaina Bharwani, SEI Oxford

Senior researcher on climate adaptation

issues, mainly in Africa. Sukaina co-leads

the SEI flagship programme on climate

services and coordinates the climate

adaptation learning platform, weADAPT.

Her work focuses on supporting climate

adaptation planning using participatory

decision support methods, knowledge

brokering and linking qualitative and

quantitative data in innovative ways.

RAPPORTEUR Julia Barrott, SEI Oxford

S195

Modes of collaboration,

knowledge co-production and

research into use

VENUE

1.42

TIME

Wednesday

16h30 - 18h15

Research for Impact: Dynamic

approaches, experiences and lessons

on research uptake

SESSION SUMMARY

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,

for whom, to instigate what actions and to achieve what change?

This session explores the process and impact of embedding different

Research-into-Use approaches, through the experiences of four

international collaborative adaptation research consortia in Asia

and Africa. Participants will gain an understanding of different

approaches to RiU in varying contexts, learn about key challenges

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

key concepts from CARIAA’s RiU process.

SPEAKERS

Georgina Cundill Kemp, International Development Research Center

(IDRC), Canada

Introducing a Research into Use (RiU) framework for collaborative,

cross-regional influence in policy and practice

Jesse DeMaria-Kinney, Oxfam, UK

From theory (of change) to practice : using impact pathways as a

tool for adaptive management of development research

programmes and projects.

Katharine Vincent, Kulima Integrated Development Solutions, South

Africa

Changing attitudes and behaviours among members of a

consortium

Nathalie Nathe, Overseas Development Institute (ODI); Lancelot

Ehode, IED Afrique

Development and policy- first approach to research for impact in

policy and practice, and outcome monitoringto track uptake of

policy recommendations.

Debabrat Sukla, International Centre for Integrated Mountain

Development (ICIMOD)

Building towards a community of practice in the Hindu Kush

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

ORGANISER/S Nathalie Nathe,

Overseas Development Institute (ODI)

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Innovation Environnement

Developpement (IED) Afrique, Senegal

Oxfam, United Kingdom

CHAIR Georgina Cundill Kemp, International

Development Research Centre (IDRC),

Canada

Georgina is a Senior Program Officer in

the Climate Change Program at the

International Development Research

Centre. Amongst others, she supports

the Collaborative Adaptation Research

Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA),

with a focus on increasing the resilience

of the most vulnerable populations to

climate change. She has a particular

interest in research impact and

collaboration, and oversees projects

across Africa, Asia and Latin America.

RAPPORTEUR Ayesha Qaisrani, SDPI or Zoe Windle,

ODI

S153

Finance

VENUE

1.62

TIME

Wednesday

16h30 - 18h15

Scaling-up country-owned

adaptation measures: early lessons

from the Adaptation Fund and Green

Climate Fund

SESSION SUMMARY

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

Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), particularly through

direct access.

To set the stage, introductory presentations will be made by the

Adaptation Fund Board Secretariat and the Green Climate Fund

Secretariat, on how successes in adaptation can be scaled up.

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

institutions and governments from Maldives, Morocco and South

Africa.

SPEAKERS

PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS

ORGANISER/S Daouda Ndiaye,

Adaptation Fund Board Secretariat

(AFBSEC)

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Green Climate Fund Secretariat (GCF),

South Korea

South Africa National Biodiversity

Institute (SANBI), South Africa

CHAIR Daouda Ndiaye, AFBSEC

Daouda is Senior Climate Change

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

S190

Water security

VENUE

2.46

TIME

Wednesday

16h30 - 18h15

Building capacity to bridge the

investment gap in flood risk

management

SESSION SUMMARY

The global dialogue on financing climate adaptation is maturing. To

meet the SDGs as well as the water security goals emanating from

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

sector to design realistic and 'bankable' proposals, and to

unfamiliarity of financiers with the water sector. The question arises

how to bridge this investment gap? What are the needs of whom

and who should take the lead in this? We seek contributions that

elaborate on these questions in particular in the field of flood risk

management.

SPEAKERS

Shaul Alam

Introduction

Zevenbergen

Bridging the investment gap in flood risk management

Jonathan M Barnes

Lower Incomati River Basin: Building capacity to bridge the

investment gap in flood risk management

Kamleshan Pillay

Towards the balancing of risk pools and micro-insurance: The case of

the Western Cape

Hans Gehrels

Towards Urban Flood Resilience in Muang Xay, Lao PDR: Flood Risk

Management and Investment Priorities for Urban Planning and

Design

Leah A. Dundon

Cooperative Adaptation Agreements: U.S. Environmental Law and

the Success of the Albany Pool

Craig Davies

John Firth

ORGANISER/S Chris Zevenbergen, IHE Delft

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S IHE Delft and the Globlal Center of

Excellence on Climate Adapation,

Netherlands

European Bank for Reconstruction and

Development (EBRD), Belgium

CHAIR Sebastiaan van Herk Dr. Sebastiaan van Herk is partner and

director at Bax & Company and has over 15

years of experience in creating Value from

Science & Technology and international

collaborations. He has developed the Global

Centre or Excellence on Climate Adaptation

as external coordinator and strategic advisor

since its inception. He combines his

knowledge of climate adaptation with the

skills to convene and strategise across

organisations and disciplines applying novel

concepts. He holds a PhD degree from

UNESCO-IHE & TU Delft in Climate Adaptation

& Flood Risk Management and an MSc

degree (cum laude) in Technology, Policy &

Management from TU Delft (2003). He is a

founding member of the Flood Resilience

Group at UNESCO-IHE. He has delivered

multiple research projects and over 30

scientific and professional publications. He

has been appointed Advocate for UNISDR

(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

S144

Knowledge transfer

VENUE

2.63

TIME

Wednesday

16h30 - 18h15

Climate risk management and

transformation: working towards

solutions for dealing with risks 'beyond

adaptation'

SESSION SUMMARY

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

management may comprise incremental (e.g., raising dikes),

fundamental (floodplains instead of dikes) and transformative

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

implementation. The session outlines the basic concept and

rationale, then presents recent sectorial and place-based

applications, such as on early warning, flood risk management, risk

financing in India, Nepal, Mexico and Africa.

SPEAKERS

Reinhard Mechler, International Institute for Applied System Analysis,

Austria

Overview: A comprehensive climate risk management approach for

informing transformative risk management

Mirianna Budimir, Practical Action Connsulting

Roles and tools for multi-stakeholder partnerships for local to int'l

action for building resilience: case insights from around the world

Richard Jones, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom

Perspectives on risks 'beyond adaptation' (Loss and Damage), and

the implications for generating relevant scientific evidence

Zinta Zommers, Mercy Corps

Building resilience for addressing losses and damages

Christophe Brière, Deltares, Delft, Netherlands

Tackling limits to adaptation with flood risk management

PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS

Mirianna Budimir, Practical Action Consulting

Dr Mirianna Budimir is a Disaster Risk Reduction Advisor for Practical

Action Consulting UK, focusing on the theme ‘Technology Builds

Resilience’. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the

University of Southampton in Geography and Environment on the

topic of cascading multi-hazards and risk, and an MSc in the Science

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

ORGANISER/S Reinhard Mechler,

International Institute for Applied System

Analysis

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S London School of Economics (LSE),

United Kingdom, UK

CHAIR Reinhard Mechler, International Institute

for Applied System Analysis, Austria

Reinhard Mechler has close to 20 years

of experience working on socio-

economic aspects related to disaster risk

and resilience, and climate change. He

currently is deputy director of the ‘Risk &

Resilience’ research program at the

International Institute for Applied Systems

Analysis (IIASA). He has been acting as a

visiting professor at the University of Graz,

as well as a senior lecturer at the

University for Economics and Business in

Vienna. Reinhard Mechler has been

leading and contributing to many

international research and consultancy

projects. He acted as a lead author on

IPCC’s special report on adaptation to

extreme events (SREX), the 5th

assessment report and the report on

1.5oC.

RAPPORTEUR Swenja Surminski, London School of

Economics (LSE), UK

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.

S73

Cities, settlements and key

infrastructure

VENUE

1.63

TIME

Wednesday

16h30 - 18h15

Weathering the Storm: Integrating

Climate Risks into Infrastructure

Financing

SESSION SUMMARY

Climate change impacts are already placing added stress on critical

infrastructure; safeguarding communities’ physical and economic

well-being will require improving the climate resilience of existing and

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

and opportunities of integrating climate risks into infrastructure

investments, why it is in the best interest of investors to facilitate and

enable resilience within their infrastructure investments, and

practical application of approaches to integrate climate risk

considerations and needed next steps.

SPEAKERS

Stacy Swann, Climate Finance Advisors, USA

Lender’s Guide for Considering Climate Considerations in

Infrastructure Investments

Amal-Lee Amin, Inter-American Development Bank, USA

Operationalizing an Investment Framework for Sustainable

Infrastructure to help address climate risk and ensure resiliency of

investments

Raul Alfaro-Pelico, The World Bank Group, USA

Policy and Capacity Building Lessons Learned for Climate-resilient

Infrastructure

John Firth, Acclimatise, UK

Institutional barriers to integrating climate change into infrastructure

projects

PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS

Amal-Lee Amin, Inter-American Development Bank

Dr. Amal-Lee Amin is Chief of the Climate Change and Sustainability

Division at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). This involves

lead responsibilities on assisting countries with implementation of the

Paris Agreement; working across the IDB Group to scale-up

investment in sustainable infrastructure; addressing climate risks, and

promoting solutions for increasing climate resiliency. Her return in

August 2015 follows a previous role leading on design and

implementation of the Climate Investment Funds from 2008-2010.

Having worked at the UK Government developing strategy and

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

ORGANISER/S Yoon Kim,

Four Twenty Seven (427)

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Climate Finance Advisors, USA

Inter-American Development Bank, USA

CHAIR Yoon Kim, Four Twenty Seven, USA

Dr. Yoon Kim is a climate adaptation

expert with a decade of experience

working with public and private sector

entities in the US and globally to assess

climate risks and identify climate

resilience opportunities. At Four Twenty

Seven, she leads the Advisory Services

and works closely with corporations and

local governments at different levels to

assess climate risks, support the

integration of adaptation into strategic

planning processes, strengthen climate

policy and governance, and build

capacity. Dr. Kim manages a range of

projects in the US and internationally

focused on identifying how climate risks

may affect local assets and

infrastructure and corporate operations

as well as opportunities to integrate

adaptation and resilience into planning.

RAPPORTEUR Yoon Kim, Four Twenty Seven

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.

S159

Decision-making options for

managing risk

VENUE

1.44

TIME

Wednesday

16h30 - 18h15

What's the best way of doing

adaptation? - On the way to good

standards in adaptation

SESSION SUMMARY

How can organizations be sure to follow the state-of-the-art in

adaptation research? How to make the efforts in adaptation reliable

and maybe even comparable? Standards are a well-established

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

work.

The workshop will put a special focus on the work of the International

Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the correspondent

national standardisation bodies. Within ISO several working groups

are currently drafting standards related to climate change

adaptation.

SPEAKERS

Ira Feldman, greentrack strategies and GHGMI

International Standards on Adaptation - The ISO game plan for

climate adaptation standards

Soojeong Myeong, Korea Environment Institute, Republic of Korea

The Importance of Standards on Adaptation: the Case of South

Korea

Clemens Haße, Federal Environment Agency, Germany

Foster Good Practice on Vulnerability assessment – the case of

Germany

Yasuaki Hijioka, National Institute For Environmental Studies, Japan

A study on guidelines for local adaptation planning to develop a

standard for local governments and communities

Lia Mendes Cruz, Ministry of the Environment, Brazil, in partnership

with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)

Lessons learned for mainstreaming adaptation in a developing

country: The case of Brazil

ORGANISER/S Clemens Haße,

Federal Environment Agency (UBA)

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S International Organization for

Standardization (ISO),

Korean Environment Institute (KEI), South

Korea

National Institute For Environmental

Studies, Japan

CHAIR Clemens Haße, Federal Environment

Agency (UBA), Germany

Clemens Haße is a specialist in the field

of climate adaptation at the Federal

Environment Agency in Germany. His

main field of expertise are climate

change impacts and adaptation

options for social and economic systems.

He was involved in the setup of the

Competence Centre for Climate

Impacts and Adaptation (KomPass) at

the Environment Agency. He

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)

S7

Governance

VENUE

2.62

TIME

Wednesdsay

16h30 - 18h15

Governance and Development

SESSION SUMMARY

Affected communities already develop solutions and approaches to

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

in order to protect rights, reduce risk, build resilience, empower

people and facilitate positive migration.

Equity must be considered, not just in terms of mitigation but also in

terms of adaptation, transfer of technologies, migration, climate

finance and capacity building.

This session will explore human rights, equity, climate justice and legal

aspects of climate change and migration -from the local to the

global - drawing on and using global level experiences to inform

national and international frameworks.

SPEAKERS

Cindy Helfer, Pegasys, South Africa

A Decision-Making Tool for Improved Climate Resilience

Interventions, to Support Strengthened Management of Climate-

Induced Migration

Africa Bauza Garcia-arcicollar, University Of Reading, United

Kingdom

Justice in climate change and migration: exploring alternative

futures to moving or drowning

Zachary Gitonga, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Re-evaluating the role of migration as a livelihood diversification and

an adaptive strategy for communities in arid and semi-arid regions

Ritumbra Manuvie, University Of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Analysing Sub-National Response to Climate Change related

Displacements

ORGANISER/S Kerry Bowman,

Univeristy of Toronto

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S

CHAIR Kerry Bowman

Dr. Kerry Bowman has a Ph.D. in

Bioethics, a fellowship in Cultural

Psychiatry and a Masters degree in

Social Work. Dr. Bowman teaches

Bioethics, Environmental ethics, and

Climate change and human health at

the University of Toronto, holding

appointments in Family and Community

Medicine and The School of The

Environment.

Dr. Bowman is also the founder of The

Canadian Ape Alliance, is on the Board

of Directors of The Jane Goodall Institute

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

S122

Governance

VENUE

2.65

TIME

Thursday

8h00 - 9h00

Adaptation in Fragile Contexts: A

field-based exploration of the unique

challenges of building climate

resilience in fragile contexts

SESSION SUMMARY

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-

subjected to ineffective governance structures, often facing conflict

and displacement. Too often development and humanitarian aid

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

studies, drawing from a recent book on adaptation and from Mercy

Corps. It will end with a group discussion, identifying ways to better

work in fragile contexts.

SPEAKERS

Eliot Levine

Climate Drivers of Conflict: Challenges and Opportunities for Climate

Resilient Development

Kerry Bowman

Responding to Fragility: Lessons from the Kahuzi-Biega Itombwe

corridor project

Zinta Zommers

Landslide in Sierra Leone: A result of a changing climate or a fragile

state?

PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS

Kerry Bowman

Dr. Bowman teaches Bioethics, Environmental ethics, and Climate change

and human health at the University of Toronto. Dr. Bowman is also the

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.

ORGANISER/S Eliot Levine,

Mercy Corps

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S University of Toronto, Candada

CHAIR Eliot Levine, Mercy Corps, United States

of America

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.

RAPPORTEUR Kristen Lambert, Mercy Corps, United

States of America

S59

Poverty, livelihoods and

sustainable development

VENUE

2.61

TIME

Thursday

8h00 - 9h00

Challenging Assumptions in

Resilience Programming

SESSION SUMMARY

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

at the household level.

Lessons emerging from large, global resilience programmes suggest

that there are a number of assumptions that drive their design and

implementation.

Through this session, we hope to inform the targeting of future

resilience programmes and stimulate debate in academic and

practitioner fora.

PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS

Blane Harvey, McGill University, Canada

Blane Harvey is an Assistant Professor at McGill University and a

Research Associate with ODI’s Risk and Resilience team. He studies

how climate change knowledge is produced, validated and

communicated, and how facilitated learning and knowledge

sharing can support collective action.

ORGANISER/S Elizabeth Carabine,

Overseas Development Institute (ODI)

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S BRACED Knowledge Manager/ Itad,

United Kingdom

BRACED Fund Manager/Palladium,

United Kiingdom

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

S123

Agriculture

VENUE

2.64

TIME

Thursday

8h00 - 9h00

Decision Support Tools and Methods

For Assessment of Interventions for

Climate Change Adaptation,

Mitigation & Food Security

SESSION SUMMARY

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

Practices (GAPs) and technologies by replicating successful ones to

larger areas (Scaling-up). This session will present various decision

support tools and methods. Objective oriented adaptations,

constraints observe, dissemination strategies for systematic

evaluation, communication and dissemination of successful

approaches and concepts of sustainable agriculture will be

discussed.

SPEAKERS

Srijna Jha, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF),

Gemany

Decision Support Tools For Assessment of Interventions for Climate

Change Adaptation, Mitigation & Food Security

Aston Chipanshi, Science and Technology Branch Agriculture and

Agri-Food Canada, Government of Canada

Crop Metrics: An application for understanding crop and

environmental interactions

Tatiana Gumucio, International Research Institute for Climate and

Society, United States

Gender equality and trees on farms: considerations for

implementation of climate-smart agriculture

ORGANISER/S Srijna Jha,

Leibniz Centre for Agricultural

Landscape Research (ZALF)

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Science and Technology Branch,

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada,

Canada

International Research Institute for

Climate and Society

, United States of America

CHAIR Srijna Jha, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural

Landscape Research (ZALF), Germany

Researcher & Project Coordinator,

Leibniz Centre for Agricultural

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)

S138

Governance

VENUE

2.62

TIME

Thursday

8h00 - 9h00

The emergence of systemic adaptive

governance practices for climate

change adaptation: From theory to

practice in a transboundary

catchment in Southern Africa

SESSION SUMMARY

This session explores systemic adaptive governance and social

learning as important framings for building resilience to climate

change. This will involve sharing experiences from applying these

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

cover:

1) systemic, adaptive governance of river systems;

2) water resources protection under different scenarios of climate

change;

3) learning networks for building adaptive capacity of disaster

managers;

4) dialogues for climate change literacy and adaptation; and 5)

drought mitigation in rivers of the Lowveld.

SPEAKERS

Sharon Pollard

The emergence of systemic, adaptive governance of catchments to

build resilience in a climate changing world

Sharon Pollard

“Its everyone’s business”: Supporting dialogues for climate change

literacy and adaptation based on systemic social learning

approaches

Ancois de Villiers

Experiences of building adaptive capacity of disaster managers in

local government through a learning network

Hugo Retief

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

ORGANISER/S Sharon Pollard,

Association for Water and Rural

Development (AWARD)

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S

CHAIR Sharon Pollard, AWARD

Dr. Sharon Pollard is the Executive

Director at the Association for Water and

Rural Development (AWARD),

conducting pioneering research and

advocacy work around water supply in

underprivileged areas in South Africa.

She has a strong background in the

water sector with a special focus on

integrated catchment management

planning and implementation. She has

managed many internationally

recognized projects and continues to

work in the area of water for productive

use, looking at the role that water plays

in economic development in poor rural

communities. Her special focus is on

planning for meeting water

requirements for sustaining ecosystems.

RAPPORTEUR Ancois de Villiers, AWARD

S16

Cross cutting

VENUE

1.61

TIME

Thursday

9h15 - 11h00

Advance effectiveness and unleash

potential of integrated adaptation:

leveraging EbA

SESSION SUMMARY

This session aims to advance effectiveness and unleash potential of

integrated adaptation through sharing examples of ecosystem-

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

integrate into GCECA’s thematic group ‘Scaling up Ecosystem

Based Adaptation’.

SPEAKERS

Nand Agrawal, ICIMOD

Women smallholders in Himalayas

Nadia Bood, WWF

Meso American Reef case study in Belize

Jessica Kavonic, ICLEI

Urban Natural Assets for Africa: Rivers for Life

PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS

Christiaan Wallet, GCECA

Christiaan Wallet is founder and current Operations Director of the

Global Centre of Excellence on Climate Adaptation. He is based at

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

ORGANISER/S

Shu Liang

Jesse Renema,

Global Centre of Excellence on Climate

Adaptation (GCECA)

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S

CHAIR John Firth, Acclimatise Group Ltd.

RAPPORTEUR Sebastiaan van Herk, Bax and

Company

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.

S216

Science, policy and practice

VENUE

2.63

TIME

Thursday

9h15 - 11h00

Closing the Knowledge-Policy-

Practice Loop: Mainstreaming Nature-

based Solutions for Climate Resilience

SESSION SUMMARY

The session brings together lessons learned from science,

stakeholders and on-the-ground implementation about the ways in

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

effective, inclusive and sustainable climate solutions. The session will

draw successes and challenges from a diverse array of initiatives,

representing viewpoints from practitioners, researchers, and civil

society working on multiple sectors. It will highlight experiences from

Asia, Africa and North America from projects being implemented by

The Earth Institute – Columbia University, Environment Management

Group, IUCN and NASA. During the facilitated discussion, session

speakers and the audience will engage in identifying knowledge

gaps and discuss ways in research can be incorporated into practice

and how field experiences can drive research, thereby closing

knowledge-policy-practice loop.

SPEAKERS

Radley Horton, Columbia University, USA

Planning for Climate Surprises

Sophie Kutegeka, IUCN – International Union for the Conservation of

Nature, Uganda

Practical Implementation of EbA at the Community Level:

Understanding the Needs and Implications

Manishka De Mel, Columbia University, USA

Climate Science, Policy and Implementation: Bridging Gaps and

Strengthening Linkages

Lucy Emerton, Environment Management Group

Making the Economic Case: Enabling and Encouraging Investments

in Natural Climate Infrastructure

Cynthia Rosenzweig, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and

Columbia University, United States

Closing the Knowledge-Policy-Practice Loop: The Way Forward

ORGANISER/S Manishka De Mel,

Columbia University

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Columbia Earth Institute, United States

of America

IUCN, Uganda

NASA Goddard Institute for Space

Studies, United States of America

Environment Management Group,

Global

CHAIR Lucy Emerton, Environment

Management Group

Lucy Emerton is an environmental

economist specializing in ecosystem

valuation and financing. Over the last 25

years she has worked as technical

advisor to DFID, GIZ, UNDP and many

other international organizations,

established and led IUCN’s

environmental economics programs in

Africa and Asia and at the Global level,

and provided consultancy services

across more than 60 countries. Lucy is

currently Economics and Finance

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

S78

Finance

VENUE

1.62

TIME

Thursday

9h15 - 11h00

Green Climate Fund’s approach and

scope for providing support to

adaptation activities

SESSION SUMMARY

The session is divided into two parts: presentations and a moderated

session. The presentation is expected to inform stakeholders about

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

activities being financed by institutions; analysis of the GCF portfolio

and pipeline; identified priorities for GCF investment projects and

programmes; and outcomes of discussions with the private and

public sector stakeholders. The session will provide an opportunity for

participants to ask questions and provide feedback regarding GCF’s

approach.

SPEAKERS

Christina Chan, World Resources Institute

Jason Spensley, Green Climate Fund

PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS

Jason Spensley, Green Climate Fund (GCF), International Jason Spensley manages the Green Climate Fund’s Project Preparation

Facility and Adaptation Planning support programme. Mr. Spensley has

extensive experience supporting countries in strengthening their adaptation

planning processes and project pipelines. Before joining GCF, he served as

Climate Technology Manager with the UNFCCC Climate Technology Centre

and Network where he developed a technical assistance mechanism to

transfer and scale-up use practical technology solutions. Previously, he led

design and implementation of UN Environment’s portfolio of climate change

projects in Latin America and the Caribbean. He has also managed

initiatives of the Convention on Biological Diversity to facilitate investment

and innovation for ecosystem-based solutions to the climate crisis. Prior to

joining the United Nations, Mr. Spensley worked in private organisations on

natural resource management and institutional development in Latin

America and the Pacific.

Christina Chan, World Resources Institute, International Christina Chan is the Director of the Climate Resilience Practice at the World

Resources Institute. Prior to joining WRI, Christina was a Branch Chief at the

U.S. State Department’s climate change office, where she led U.S.

government efforts on global adaptation policy, launched several major

adaptation partnerships, including the Adaptation Partnership and the

National Adaptation Plan Global Network, and provided leadership on

adaptation on the UNFCCC’s Adaptation Committee. Christina also spent

eight years with CARE, helping communities reduce their disaster-related risks

and leveraging CARE’s on-the-ground work with communities to inform

CARE International’s policy advocacy with the U.S. and global climate

change policy. Christina holds a graduate degree in Urban and Regional

Planning from Cornell University and an undergraduate degree in Human

Biology from Stanford University.

ORGANISER/S Alyssa Holganza,

Green Climate Fund (GCF)

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S World Resources Institute,

CHAIR German Velasquez, Green Climate

Fund

Dr German Velasquez (Jerry) is the

Director of GCF's Division of Mitigation

and Adaptation. Jerry oversees all

matters relating to the Secretariat’s work

in relation to the GCF’s mitigation and

adaptation windows. He heads the

Division that collaborates closely with the

Division of Country Programming (DCP)

and the Division of Private Sector Facility

(DPSF), as well as the accredited entities

of the GCF, by providing expertise and

technical support in the individual result

areas of both climate change

adaptation and mitigation. This includes

a thorough understanding of the

incremental costs of low emission and

climate-resilient investments. He also

reviews and assesses the pipeline of

proposals for adaptation and mitigation

activities to be financed by the GCF and

assists developing countries and

accredited entities in improving their

readiness to access funding. He leads a

team of diverse thematic and sectoral

experts and reports to the Executive

Director.

RAPPORTEUR Alyssa Holganza, Green Climate Fund

S109

Cross cutting

VENUE

2.61

TIME

Thursday

9h15 - 11h00

Innovative dialogue for adaptation -

an explorative journey

SESSION SUMMARY

The session will actively explore how innovative dialogue can support

effective adaptation, and how inappropriate communication/

dialogue can undermine effective learning and communication,

using examples from FRACTAL, ASSAR and BRACED. We will facilitate

an interactive process that will allow participants to share their

experiences of innovative dialogue with each other - consolidating

some lessons learnt towards the end of the session.

PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS

Alice McClure, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Alice is the coordinator for the Future Resilience for African CiTies and

Lands (FRACTAL) project. FRACTAL aims to work across disciplines

and various country contexts. The complex, transdisciplinary nature

of FRACTAL is foundational to the coordination of the project,

including learning, communications, uptake and capacity building.

Lucia Scodanibbio, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Lucia has over ten years of work experience in a range of

sustainability and environmental areas, from climate change

adaptation to integrated water, wetland and coastal resources

management. She has worked from local to international levels, in

three continents, based in NGOs, inter-governmental organisations

and academia.

ORGANISER/S Bettina Koelle,

Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre

(RCRC CC)

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI),

United Kingdom

University of Cape Town, South Africa

CHAIR 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.

RAPPORTEUR Roop Singh, Red Cross Red Crescent

Climate Centre, UK

S115

Water security & infrastructure

VENUE

2.43

TIME

Thursday

9h15 - 11h00

Mainstreaming climate adaptation

into water infrastructure planning,

development, operation and

financing

SESSION SUMMARY

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

technical decision-makers in Southern Africa (both in water and

water-dependent sectors) to address climate change risk and

vulnerability. Four case studies (covering Angola, Botswana,

Namibia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and South Africa) will be

presented and discussed interactively with regional and

international experts (responsible for designing the tools) and key

stakeholders who have used, learnt and benefitted from the tools.

These experiences will empower practitioners to use adaptation tools

within the planning, implementation and management of water

infrastructure.

SPEAKERS

Leonard Magara, CRIDF, South Africa

Mainstreaming climate adaptation into water infrastructure

planning, development, operation and financing

PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS

Jeremy Richardson, Pegasys, South Africa

Dr Jeremy Richardson from Pegasys Consulting based in South Africa

leads the climate resilience work stream within the Climate Resilient

Infrastructure Development Facility (CRIDF). Jeremy was responsible

for developing CRIDFs CRDP tool, using scenario techniques

underpinned by an innovative use of climate science, to inform river

basin level planning processes.

Jez

Sekgowa Motsumi, OKASEC, Botswana

Sekgowa Motsumi is currently the Programmes Coordinator for

OKACOM Secretariat he is an Ecologist by training and has worked

for the Botswana Department of Environmental Affairs as a District

Environment Coordinator prior to joining OKASEC.

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

ORGANISER/S Andrew Takawira,

Climate Resilient Infrastructure

Development Facility (CRIDF)

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S The Permanent Okavango River Basin

Commission (OKACOM), Angola,

Botswana, Namibia

Illovo Sugar Africa, South Africa

SouthSouthNorth, South Africa

Pegasys, South Africa

CHAIR Shehnaaz Moosa, SouthSouthNorth,

South Africa

Shehnaaz is a Director at

SouthSouthNorth who has extensive

experience leading donor-funded

programmes focussed on climate

compatible development in Africa.

Shehnaaz was the Climate Resilient Lead

for the Climate Resilient Infrastructure

Development Facility. Shehnaaz holds a

BSc in Chemical Engineering, an MSc in

Engineering and a PhD in Engineering.

RAPPORTEUR Simbisai Zhanje, SouthSouthNorth, 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.

S175

Biodiversity

VENUE

1.43

TIME

Thursday

9h15 - 11h00

Mainstreaming nature-based

solutions for climate change

adaptation

SESSION SUMMARY

Implementation of nature-based solutions for climate change

adaptation and disaster risk management remains challenging due

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

guidelines and procedures, and have more robust cost-benefit

analyses supporting them. Objective of this session is to advance the

field of nature-based solutions more rapidly through collaborative

learning by making common guidelines and sharing knowledge. The

session presents the state-of-the-art guidance for implementation

and invites flood risk practitioners and governments to share their

lessons on implementation.

SPEAKERS

Brenden Jongman, GFDRR

Importance of covering the full range of solutions for climate change

adaptation and disaster risk reduction

Bregje van Wesenbeeck, Deltares

Guidance for implementation

Nicolas Faivre, European Commission

Nature-Based Solutions in the EU: Innovating with nature to address

social, economic and environmental challenges

Cordula Epple, UNEP-wcmc

Monitoring and Evaluating Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) –

Specific Challenges and Ways Forward

Ernita van Wyk, ECLEI

Enabling transformative action in African cities: Mainstreaming

nature based solutions into development policy and planning for

climate adaptation and resilience

ORGANISER/S Bregje Van Wesenbeeck,

Deltares

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S World Bank,

United Nations Development

Programme (UNDP)

CHAIR Pradeep Kurukulasuriya, UNDP

Pradeep leads on the United Nation

Development Programme’s support to

countries on accessing climate finance

from various sources including the GEF

Family of funds and the Green Climate

Fund. With a team of ten Regional

Technical Advisors and Specialists

located in UNDP’s Regional Hubs around

the world, Pradeep provides the

technical and management leadership

required to oversee a climate change

adaptation portfolio that is acive in more

than 80 countries around the world. An

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

S171

Transformation

VENUE

2.62

TIME

Thursday

9h15 - 11h00

New leaders in a changing climate:

The role of leadership in facilitating

transformation

SESSION SUMMARY

The aim of this session is to provide a space for an open discussion

about leadership and how it can be cultivated to facilitate

transformation to move responses to climate change beyond

business as usual and to open up opportunities for inclusive

development. We have decided on a campfire format to create an

intimate setting and maximize exchanges between participants.

Presenters will come to the stage for their presentations and will then

move back to the audience to participate in the discussion. This

session will provide teasers of some of the research that is being done

on the role of leadership in facilitating transformation around the

world. The hope is that participants will take conversations further

during the rest of the conference. The organizers also hope to create

a community of practice of researchers, practitioners and

academics working on this timely issue.

SPEAKERS

Blane Harvey, Overseas Development Institute/McGill University,

Canada

“The voice of the heart will make a revolution in the brain”: Rethinking

leadership to transform adaptation

Ting-Ting Zhang, Aalborg University

Leadership in facilitating transformational change – Understanding

the effectiveness, factors and risks

Deborah O’Connell, CSIRO Australia

Adaptation, transformation, disasters and emergent leadership: how

do we equip society to scope with change?

Thomas Tanner, Overseas Development Institute

Leadership from below: Why small-scale champions are central to

transformation

Gina Ziervogel, University of Cape Town

Learning from Cape Town’s drought response: governance

capabilities for adaptation decision making before and during crisis

Architesh Panda, Independent Researcher

Transformational adaptation of agricultural systems to climate

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

ORGANISER/S Erin Roberts,

King's College London

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S United Nations University Institute for

Environment and Human Security (UNU-

EHS), Germany

International Centre for Climate

Change and Development (ICCCAD),

Bangladesh

CHAIR Mark Pelling, King's College London

Mark Pelling is Professor of Geography,

King's College London with a specialism

in social and institutional analysis for

disaster risk management and climate

change adaptation, predominantly in

urban contexts of the global South. He

has been a coordinating lead author for

the IPCC 5th Assessment Report, and

SREX special report. He will be a

coordinating lead author for the Human

settlements chapter in the 6th

Assessment Report. Mark also acts as a

Resilience Challenge Lead for the UKRI

Global Challenges Research Fund.

RAPPORTEUR Kees van der Geest, UNU-EHS

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

S184

Cities and urban areas

VENUE

1.63

TIME

Thursday

9h15 - 11h00

Understanding interactions between

climate change adaptation and

mitigation in cities

SESSION SUMMARY

The transition towards zero carbon cities requires enormous

investments in our cities’ energy systems, buildings, transport

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

could potentially lead to mal-investment and conflicts of interest, but

also missed opportunities.

Various cities will present practical examples and lessons learnt from

integrating adaptation and mitigation (or failing to do so). WSP will

present the ‘Adaptation Mitigation Interaction Assessment’ tool that

aims to support cities in systematically analysing the potential

interactions between adaptation and mitigation.

SPEAKERS

William Veerbeek, UNESCO- IHE Delft Institute for Water Education,

Netherlands

Business-as-usual in the growth of megacities: a story of

disproportionate growth in future flood exposure.

Johan Verlinde & Jorg Pieneman, City of Rotterdam, Netherlands

Practical issues concerning the infrastructure in the public space

when integrating adaptation and mitigation strategies with spatial

planning.

Vicki Barmby, City of Melbourne, Australia

Greening our city to reap the benefits of both adaptation and

mitigation.

Elan Theeboom, WSP Global, USA

Supporting cities’ climate planning through analyzing interactions

between adaptation and mitigation actions.

Nongcebo Hlongwa, EThekwini Municipality (Durban), South Africa

Durban Climate Change Strategy (DCCS): The Integrated Climate

Governance Framework.

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.

ORGANISER/S Chantal Oudkerk Pool,

C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group

, The Netherlands

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S UNESCO- IHE Delft Institute for Water

Education, The Netherlands

City of Rotterdam, The Netherlands

City of Melbourne, Australia

Ethekwini Municipality (Durban), South

Africa

CHAIR 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.

RAPPORTEUR Chantal Oudkerk Pool, C40 Cities

Climate Leadership Group, United

Kingdom

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.

S143

CbA

VENUE

2.46

TIME

Thursday

9h15 - 11h00

Unlikely Bedfellows: How academia,

business, government and civil

society can work better together for

adaptation

SESSION SUMMARY

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

ecosystem of food insecurity, and systemic issues, such as gender, as

well as the critical environmental ones. Building upon academic and

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

technology, new practices, and the potential of data for the benefit

of the user community.

SPEAKERS

WMO-AMCOMET Secretariat

UK Department for International Development

African Women's Development Fund

Institute for Environmental Analytics

Oxfam

Evidence for Development

ORGANISER/S Rosalind Cornforth,

Walker Institute

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Oxfam, UK

Evidence for Development, UK

CHAIR Rosalind Cornforth, Walker Institute

RAPPORTEUR Lucy Wallace, Walker Institute

S26

Water security

VENUE

1.42

TIME

Thursday

9h15 - 11h00

Water Governance to build resilience

that benefits vulnerable populations.

SESSION SUMMARY

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.

Investments should help building resilience involving these

populations as full stakeholders. But this does not happen enough.

This session aims to answer the question why, and also how this can

change through better water governance and integrity as part of

policies and practices.

This is expected to deliver:

- Conclusions relating to governance and integrity gaps in water and

climate policies and practices that affect vulnerable populations

-Recommendations for advocacy and building transformative

capacity in support of water and climate related SDGs

- Recommended water governance and integrity indicators for

transparency and accountability

SPEAKERS

PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS

ORGANISER/S Binayak Das,

Water Integrity Network (WIN eV)

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Dutch Regional Water Authorities (Unie

van Waterschappen, UvW), The

Netherlands

KEWASNET, Kenya

IWMI, South Africa

UN Environment, Kenya

CHAIR

RAPPORTEUR Rob Uijterlinde and Keimpe Sinnema,

Dutch Regional Water Authorities (UvW)

S213

Water and transboundary

conflicts

VENUE

1.41

TIME

Thursday

9h15 - 11h00

Changes, challenges and chances:

how can we reduce future conflict

risks in river basins by adaptation and

improving transboundary

collaboration?

SESSION SUMMARY

Population growth, economic development, increasing food and

energy demands – in some regions resulting in the construction of

mega dams - and the expected impacts of climate change present

unprecedented challenges for managing conflict risk in

transboundary river basins. Where are the hotspots of future

challenges and where are tensions building up? Can transboundary

river basin cooperation resolve future conflicts? What kind of

processes are key in reducing tensions? And can climate adaptation

and the adoption of SDG’s bridge interests and contribute to a fair

distribution of water?

Three case studies will illustrate these challenges and possibilities for

cooperation.

SPEAKERS

Willem Ligtvoet, PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency,

the Netherlands

Global socio-economic challenges in transboundary river basins in

an era of climate change and urbanisation

Prakash C. Tiwari, Kumaun University, Nainital, India

Transboundary Headwater Governance in Himalaya: A Regional

Cooperation Framework for Managing Water Conflicts under

Climate Change in South Asia

Murali Kallur, International Development Research Centre, India

Transboundary cooperative mechanisms in the Hindu Kush

Himalayan Region

Tahani Sileet, Nile Water Sector, Ministry of Water Resources and

Irrigation, Egypt

The Nile River between Conflict and Cooperation

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.

ORGANISER/S Willem Ligtvoet,

Netherlands Environmental Assessment

Agency (NEAA)

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Kumaon University, India

Global Centre of Excellence on Climate

Adaptation (GCECA),

International Development Research

Centre, Canada

CHAIR Henk Ovink, International Water Affairs,

Netherlands

Henk Ovink is the Special Envoy for

International Water Affairs, functioning

as the ambassador of the Dutch water

sector. He maintains direct contact with

actors such as the World Bank, the

United Nations, the OECD and the EU. He

attends international water meetings, if

need be as a representative of the

Ministers.

RAPPORTEUR Sophie de Bruin, PBL Netherlands

Environmental Assessment Agency, the

Netherlands

S42

EbA

VENUE

1.44

TIME

Thursday

9h15 - 11h00

SUCCESS STORIES OF ECOSYSTEM

BASED ADAPTATION IN COLOMBIA

AND ECUADOR

SESSION SUMMARY

Speakers from public and private sectors present successful

experiences in the implementation of the Ecosystem based

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

replication of ecosystem based adaptation measures, from the

experience of those who have accompanied the implementation at

the local level. Strategies used for effective communication and

private sector involvement will also be presented. Factors relevant

for the log-term sustainability of Ecosystem based Adaptation

measures such as financing mechanisms, monitoring and evaluation

schemes will also be identified.

SPEAKERS

PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS

ORGANISER/S Maritza Florian Buitrago,

Ecuadorian Ministry of Environment and

Sustainable Development

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale

Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Germany

The Nature Conservancy, Colombia

CHAIR Mariana Rojas Laserna, Ministry of

Environment and Sustainable

Development, Colombia

RAPPORTEUR Maritza Florian, Ministry of Environemnt

and Sustainable Development,

Colombia

S186

Climate resilient development

pathways

VENUE

2.41

TIME

Thursday

9h15 - 11h00

Adaptation governance from the

national to the local level

SESSION SUMMARY

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

and linkages from national to community level in adaptation

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

governance related to: civil society engagement and use of Joint

Principles for Adaptation; vertical integration and local government

engagement in NAPs; promoting local level decision making; multi-

level and sector governance questions for adaptation; adaptation

policy processes and dilemmas.

SPEAKERS

Julius Ng'oma, CISONECC Malawi,

Introduction to the Joint Principles for Adaptation

PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS

Angie Dazé

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.

Julius Ng'oma

Julius Ng’oma is the Director of the Civil Society Network on Climate

Change – CISONECC in Malawi that has been engaging in with input

from its member organisations to promote a NAP in Malawi that helps

the most vulnerable communities adapt to climate change

Rajan Thapa

Rajan Thapa is the director of Clean Energy Nepal, that has engaged

members of CANSA Nepal and other civil society organisations to

engage in the NAP process – promoting public awareness-raising on

climate change to reach the local level

Esbern Friis

Esbern Friis Hansen is the Senior Researcher at Danish Institute for

International Studies

Nazmul Huq

Working at the International Centre for Climate Change Adaptation and

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

ORGANISER/S Peter With; Fiona Percy; Esbern Friis,

CARE International Climate Change

and Resilience Platform

Danish Institute for International Studies,

Denmark

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S NAP Global Network,

Danish Institute of International Studies,

Clean Energy Nepal (CEN); Southern

Voices on Adaptation,

African Center of Technology Studies

(ACTS); CISONECC, Malawi

CHAIR Fiona Percy, CARE International

Team leader and technical advisor in

climate change adaptation, resilience,

climate services, agriculture and natural

resource management. Coordinator of

CARE’s Adaptation Learning

Programme in Africa, leading multi-

country innovative development of

practical approaches, knowledge

brokering and advocacy in relation to

community-based adaptation and user

centred climate services across multiple

actors and levels.

RAPPORTEUR Esbern Friis Hansen, Danish Institute for

International Studies

S56

Finance

VENUE

1.64

TIME

Thursday

9h15 - 11h00

Engaging small and medium-sized

enterprises in building resilience to

climate change - sharing

perspectives and lessons from the

Global South for accelerated

adaptation investments

SESSION SUMMARY

SMEs have so far largely been overlooked as active drivers of private

adaptation. New partnerships, approaches and tools are needed

that give knowledge and confidence to small businesses to

accelerate investment in adaptation. The session intends to explore

diverse perspectives on how SMEs in developing countries can be

supported in dealing with climate risks and building climate resilience

through, for example, the development of innovative tools and

approaches to build resilience to climate risks and help communities

adapt. The aim is to showcase approaches to involve SMEs and

discuss opportunities and best practices for facilitating SMEs'

adaptation engagement.

SPEAKERS

Caroline Schaer, UNEP DTU Partnership

Catalysing micro small and medium-sized enterprises' (MSMEs)

adaptation action in developing countries - Perspectives on existing

experience and future opportunities

Pieter Pauw, German Development Institute

Multistakeholder Partnerships for Adaptation: the role of Micro, Small

and Medium Enterprises

Sebastian Homm, GIZ

Application of the Climate Expert approach – experiences and

outlook for building SMEs climate resilience

Annegret Brauss, International Trade Centre

strengthening the climate resilience of international value chains

Samavia Batool, Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan

Towards a climate resilient cotton value chain in Pakistan:

Understanding key risks, vulnerabilities and adaptive capacities

ORGANISER/S Caroline Schaer,

UNEP DTU Partnership (UDP)

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale

Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Germany

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S International Trade Centre (ITC),

Switzerland

Sustainable Development Policy

Institute (SDPI), Pakistan

German Development Institute,

Germany

CHAIR Katharine Vincent, KULIMA, South Africa

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

RAPPORTEUR Prakriti Naswa, UNEP DTU Partnership

S14

Governance

VENUE

1.43

TIME

Thursday

11h30 - 13h15

Assessing Global Adaptation

Progress: Emerging Opportunities for

Knowledge and Data Integration

SESSION SUMMARY N/A

SPEAKERS

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

S160

Deserts, semi-arid areas and

desertification

VENUE

2.63

TIME

Thursday

11h30 - 13h15

Harnessing Climate Resilient

Economic Transformation in Semi-arid

Lands

SESSION SUMMARY

Semi-arid lands are typically portrayed as areas prone to drought,

blighted by poverty and dismally low levels of human development

and persistently economically and politically marginalised. Climate

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

transforming semi-arid lands into uninhabitable places. The evidence

base presented in this session contributes to a paradigm shift in the

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.

SPEAKERS

Elizabeth Carabine and Catherine Simonet, Overseas Development

Institute

Shifting the narrative on marginalised places: towards a new

definition of climate-resilient economic transformation

Mohammed Yahya Said, Kenya Markets Trust, Kenya

Potential impacts of projected climate on livestock in the arid-semi-

arid lands of East Africa

Waoundé Diop, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Senegal

Opportunities for adaptation investment in Senegalese livestock

sector: insight from VC-ARID approach.

Issiaka Sombié, University of Ouagadougou II, Burkina Faso

Building a sustainable and efficient cotton sector in Burkina Faso

ORGANISER/S Elizabeth Carabine,

Overseas Development Institute (ODI)

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Kenya Markets Trust, Kenya

University of Ouagadougou II, Burkina

Faso

Cheikh Anta Diop University, Senegal

CHAIR Eva Ludi, Overseas Development

Institute, United Kingdom

Eva is Head of the Water Policy

Programme. She has over 15 years of

experience in research and policy

particularly related to climate change

adaptation, adaptive capacity, water

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

S37

EbA

VENUE

1.62

TIME

Thursday

11h30 - 13h15

Making the Case for Ecosystem based

Adaptation – Concrete policy entry

points and governance structures for

EbA mainstreaming based on country

examples from Africa, Latin America

and Asia.

SESSION SUMMARY

Adaptation strategies that integrate ecosystem services hold great

potential for effective climate risk resilient development planning.

However, EbA measures are a still neglected form of adaptation

when it comes to planning processes and implementation, although

they have proved to be a cost-effective adaptation solution, e.g. for

extreme event buffering and provision of clean water. This session will

focus on debating how to use promising political entry points and

governance structures for mainstreaming and implementing EbA

measures and how to make the case for EbA mainstreaming by

showcasing costs, benefits and impacts. SANBI and GIZ will facilitate

a discussion among country representatives from Mexico, Philippines

and South Africa on their experiences and their lessons learned.

SPEAKERS

Mathias Bertram, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale

Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Germany

How to use promising policy entry points and governance structures

for implementing EbA measures – Lessons learnt from an assessment

in five countries (Mexico, Peru, South Africa, Philippines and Vietnam)

Lucy Emerton, Freelance Consultant on behalf of Deutsche

Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Germany

How to make the case for Ecosystem-based Adaptation by

showcasing benefits

PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS

Mandy Barnett, South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI),

South Africa

Mandy Barnett currently leads SANBI’s programme of work as the

National Implementing Entity to the Adaptation Fund and Direct

Access Entity of the Green Climate Fund. Together with South Africa’s

National Department of Environment Affairs she also leads South

Africa’s work on EbA. She works for SANBI since 2003 and has

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

ORGANISER/S Arno Sckeyde,

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale

Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)

South African National Biodiversity

Institute (SANBI), South Africa

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Department of Environment Affairs

(DEA), South Africa

CHAIR Mandy Barnett, South African National

Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), South

Africa

Mandy Barnett currently leads SANBI’s

programme of work as the National

Implementing Entity to the Adaptation

Fund and Direct Access Entity of the

Green Climate Fund. Together with

South Africa’s National Department of

Environment Affairs she also leads South

Africa’s work on EbA. She works for SANBI

since 2003 and has 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.

RAPPORTEUR Alexandra Köngeter, GIZ, Germany

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.

S76

EbA

VENUE

1.41

TIME

Thursday

11h30 - 13h15

Mountain Adaptation Solutions Café

SESSION SUMMARY

Mountain regions are already prone to natural disasters and are

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

communities, they often fall short in having sufficient local ownership

for true sustainability, and have difficulty being replicated in other

regions and/or upscaled. We warmly invite scientists, policy makers

and practitioners interested in sustainable mountain development

and adaptation on all continents to share their experiences and how

to overcome existing barriers!

SPEAKERS

Björn Alfthan, Programme Leader, Polar and Mountain Environments

Programme, GRID-Arendal

A Mountain Thematic Community under the Panorama Portal?

André Fabian, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale

Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ), International Climate Initiative (IKI)

support to the Paris Agreement Project, Berlin Germany

Ecosystem-based Adaptation in High Mountain Regions of Central

Asia

Nand Kishor Agrawal, ICIMOD

Resilience Building Solutions from Himalayan Mountains

Matthias Jurek, UN Environment

ClimaProof – Climate Proofing infrastructure in the Western Balkan

Mountains.

Aliza le Roux, Afromontane Research Unit, University of the Free State-

Qwaqwa

Mountain research as more than mere academics

ORGANISER/S Björn Alfthan,

UN Environment

GRID-Arendal, Norway

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S International Centre for Integrated

Mountain Development (ICIMOD),

Nepal

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale

Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Germany

University of the Free State, South Africa

CHAIR Musonda Mumba, UN Environment,

Kenya

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.

RAPPORTEUR Björn Alfthan, GRID-Arendal

S224

Terrestrial and freshwater

ecosystems and their services

VENUE

1.61

TIME

Thursday

11h30 - 13h15

Overcoming barriers to scaling up

Ecosystem-based Adaptation:

strengthening the evidence base and

engaging the private sector

SESSION SUMMARY

In this interactive session, we will explore, together with practitioners

and researchers from across the world, how anecdotal evidence of

EbA effectiveness can be systematically captured and assessed,

and then used to facilitate appropriate private and public sector

investment into EbA solutions. We start the session with two

presentations that address issues around the evidence base,

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

for private sector involvement in EbA, including the role played by

the evidence base. The remainder of the session will then be

organized in the world café format with half of the tables focusing

on questions relevant to project implementers and the other half of

the tables focusing on questions relevant to researchers.

SPEAKERS

Hannah Reid, International Institute for Environment and

Development (IIED)

Ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation: strengthening the

evidence and informing policy

Camila I. Donatti, Conservation International, United States

Measuring the adaptation outcomes of Ecosystem-based

adaptation to climate change

John Firth, CEO Acclimatise, UK

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.

ORGANISER/S Nadine Methner,

Univeristy of Cape Town

UN Environment, Kenya

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Conservation South Africa, South Africa

Conservation International,

University of Stellenbosh, South Africa

International Institute for Environment

and Development (IIED),

CHAIR Valerie Kapos, World Conservation

Monitoring Centre

RAPPORTEUR Nadine Methner, University of Cape

Town, South Africa

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.

S181

Poverty, livelihoods and

sustainable development

VENUE

1.63

TIME

Thursday

11h30 - 13h15

Quantifying benefits of adaptation:

Balancing soft benefits and hard costs

SESSION SUMMARY

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

rapid urban growth resulting in growth in vulnerable floodprone

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

hard cost of your adaptation strategy? Various cities will present

practical examples, used methods, struggles and lessons learnt

towards funding and showing the added value of your climate

adaptation measures. "

SPEAKERS

Johan Verlinde, City of Rotterdam, Netherlands

Asset management a way of balancing soft benefits and hard cost

of the Rotterdam adaptation strategy

Feirully Irzal, City of Jakarta, Indonesia

Weighing Social Costs of Climate Adaptation Measures, and

Government-Private Sector Mutually Benefiting Scheme of Financing

Nathan Kron, Washington, DC, USA

In Process Lessons for Standing Up a Green Bank

Mzukisi ka-Gwata, City of Johannesburg, South Africa

In South Africa institutionalising municipal grants makes a climate

change action plan work.

PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS

Kevin Austin, deputy CEO, C40, USA

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

ORGANISER/S Jorg Pieneman,

City of Rotterdam

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S C40 Climate Leadership Group, USA

CHAIR Kevin Austin, C40

Dr 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.

RAPPORTEUR Jorg Pieneman, City of Rotterdam, The

Netherlands

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.

S25

Cities and Urban areas

VENUE

2.61

TIME

Thursday

11h30 - 13h15

Vulnerability scenarios for adaptation

planning: Approaches,

achievements and gaps

SESSION SUMMARY

Adaptation planning and adaptive pathway planning are emerging

and important issues for facilitating successful adaptation. Yet, whilst

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

scenarios or other assessments of future trends in exposure and even

more so vulnerability. The sessions therefore aim at discussing and

advancing approaches for the development, application and

transfer of vulnerability scenarios, especially in the context of urban

development and climate change adaptation.

SPEAKERS

Daniel Feldmeyer, University of Stuttgart, IREUS

Development of human vulnerability: learning from past trends for

future directions

Stefan Greiving, University of Dortmund

Improving the assessment of actual and potential impacts of climate

change and extreme events through a parallel modelling of climatic

and societal changes at different scales

Matthias Garschagen, United Nations University

Future in the Making: Participatory Scenario Development on Risk

and Transformation Pathways in Coastal Megacities

Mark Pelling, King's College London

Guillaume Rohat

Influence of changes in socioeconomic and climatic conditions on

future heat-related health impacts in Europe

Mark Tebboth

Using qualitative scenarios as a tool to identify climate-compatible

adaptation interventions for marginalised communities

ORGANISER/S Matthias Garschagen,

United Nations University (UNU)

United Nations University,

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S University of Stuttgart, Germany

CHAIR Matthias Garschagen, United Nations

University Dr. Matthias Garschagen leads the section

on Vulnerability Assessment, Risk

Management and Adaptive Planning

(VARMAP) at United Nations University –

Institute for Environment and Human Security

(UNU-EHS) in Bonn. He further holds a position

as a Honorary Professor at RMIT University,

Melbourne, in the School of Global, Urban

and Social Studies. His research focuses on

urban risk governance in the context of

global change, particularly in Asia. Dr.

Garschagen currently serves as a Lead

Author in the IPCC’s upcoming Special

Report on Ocean and the Cryosphere

(SROCC) and the Sixth Assessment Report

(AR6). He is a member of several editorial

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

S130

South South learning

VENUE

2.41

TIME

Thursday

11h30 - 13h15

What are we learning about South-

South peer learning?

SESSION SUMMARY

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.

It look at issues ranging from understanding and tracking impact of

South-South peer learning, to the evolving role of Northern actors,

and anticipating the next generation of South-South peer learning

for adaptation.

The session will be organised using a World Café format, where each

table will be hosted by a global / regional adaptation initiative that

emphasizes South-South peer learning.

SPEAKERS

Julia Barrott, Stockholm Environment Institute, United Kingdom

Exploring new e-learning formats to enhance online learning and

capacity-building

Ruth Butterfield, Stockholm Environment Institute, United Kingdom

Sharing learning and building capacity through ‘inspiring cases’ for

climate action in African cities

Ruth Martínez, Conservation International

Learning and training about climate change adaptation and EbA

among agricultural technicians in Central America

PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS

Blane Harvey, McGill University and IISD, Canada

A senior research and program specialist with over 10 years’

experience in climate change and development, Blane has been

an active contributor to the United Nations climate change

negotiations process since 2003. His recent work has included

research on how climate change knowledge is produced, validated

and communicated, and how learning and knowledge sharing can

support action on climate change in the global South.

Georgina Cundill, International Development Research Centre,

Canada

Georgina Cundill is the Senior Program Officer at the International

Development Research Centre (IDRC). She works mainly on the

Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia

(CARIAA), a partnership between Canada’s IDRC and the UK’s

Department for International Development. Prior to this, she was a

senior lecturer at Rhodes University’s Department of Environmental

Science. She has also worked as lead researcher in social ecology at

the Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Zonas Aridas (CEAZA), Chile.

Bettina Koelle, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, South Africa

ORGANISER/S Christian Ledwell,

International Institute for Sustainable

Development (IISD)

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Collaborative Adaptation Research

Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA),

Canada

Building Resilience and Adapting to

Climate Extremes and Disasters

(BRACED), United Kingdom

Red Cross Red Crescent Climate

Centre,

CHAIR Anne Hammill, IISD & NAP Global

Network

Anne Hammill is Director, Resilience for

IISD. Much of her work focuses on

understanding how better

environmental management can build

resilience to climate stress and

contribute to peacebuilding. Anne’s

most recent work has been leading the

Secretariat of the National Adaptation

Plan (NAP) Global Network, which

facilitates South-South peer learning and

exchange on NAP processes. She has

also been working with organizations in

Eastern and Central Africa to

understand and address the links

between conservation activities and

conflict.

RAPPORTEUR Anika Terton, International Institute for

Sustainable Development (IISD),

Canada

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.

S201

Poverty, livelihoods and

sustainable development

VENUE

2.43

TIME

Thursday

11h30 - 13h15

Community driven responses to

climate change. Government policy

meets local innovation - experience

from Africa.

SESSION SUMMARY

Understanding the local context of communities that are actually

experiencing negative impacts of climate change, is increasingly

being acknowledged as a key element for successful

implementation of sustained resilience. In this session we explore how

government policy on enhanced direct access can translate into

community based action. Beneficiaries of locally driven adaptation

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

are distinguishable from development (as usual) projects; *

Processes, tools or methodologies adopted to ensure that climate

resilience is embedded in the target communities; * The impact and

or role of decentralised decision-making authority; it’s challenges;

and how accountability is managed and maintained.

PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS

Katrina Schwartz, Biodiversity & Redmeat Cooperative, South Africa

Katrina is a livestock farmer with a deep love for people, nature, and

animals. She lives on her farm outside Leliefontein in the Kamiesberg

region of Namakwaland, South Africa. Driven by her concern for the

state of the landscape, harsh and changing climate and the impact

this has had on farmers, she helped establish the Biodiversity &

Redmeat Cooperative (BRC) to support farmers with stewardship.

Fhatuwani Nemalamangwa, Ramotshinyadi HIV/AIDS Youth Guide,

South Africa

Fhatuwani is a founding member and Director of Ramotshinyadi

HIV/AIDS Youth Guide overseeing the delivery of various community

development projects, in the Limpopo Province (South Africa),

including a climate-smart agriculture project funded by the

Community Adaptation Small Grants Facility. Fhatuwani is passionate

about the upliftment of his community, and has been working with

local communities on issues like HIV/ AIDS, land reform and

agriculture, for the last 20years.

Sanoussi Ababale, CARE International, Niger

Sanoussi, a planning geographer by training, is an Advisor on

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.

ORGANISER/S Lorraine Dimairho,

SouthSouthNorth

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S CARE International Climate Change,

Kenya, Ghana, Niger, Ethiopia,

Zimbabwe, Malawi

CHAIR Tlou Ramaru, Department of

Environmental Affairs, South Africa

Mr Tlou Ramaru is the Chief Director:

Climate Change Adaptation in the

Department of Environmental Affairs. He

leads strategic planning and

coordination of responses to climate

change impacts/risks at national,

provincial and local government level.

He provides strategic leadership in

climate science communication and

mainstreaming adaptation responses

into sector plans and policies. Mr Tlou

manages adaptation inputs into

international and MEA related agenda

and processes.

RAPPORTEUR Lorraine Dimairho, SouthSouthNorth,

South Africa

S198

Terrestrial and freshwater

ecosystems and their services

VENUE

2.46

TIME

Thursday

11h30 - 13h15

Incorporating human responses to

climate change in adaptation for

biodiversity

SESSION SUMMARY

The session will present examples of recent analytical work on

climate change impacts on protected areas in the Afrotropics and

subtropics, including a focus on the anticipated human response to

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

Conservation International and funded by the GEF. Objectives:

Increase awareness amongst appropriate stakeholder and user

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

implications including for Ecosystem Based Adaptation. Consider a

fledgling network for global co-ordination of climate change impact

prediction and verification, and adaptive response in Africa. Discuss

program of systematic research and observation to support such a

network.

SPEAKERS

Patrick Roehrdanz; Lee Hannah, Conservation International, USA,

Building species distribution models (SDM) to assess the risks of

climate change to protected areas networks

Benedictus Freeman, University of Kansas, USA

Fine scale construction of SDM in a regional to local context: the

case of birds in Liberi

Wendy Foden; Guy Midgley, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Revisiting a climate change sentinel: What can Aloidendron

dichotomum tell us about observed species responses to climate

change?

Vernon Visser, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Using the Southern African Bird Atlas data to validate bird SDMs

Global Assessment of Protected Areas Sensitivity and Adaptive

Capacity

Ntando Mkhize, DEA, South Africa

Ecosystem Based Adaptation in a policy and implementation

context

ORGANISER/S Guy Midgley,,

Stellenbosch University

Dept Environmental Affairs, South Africa

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Conservation International, USA; South

Africa; Global

CHAIR Wendy Foden, Stellenbosch University,

South Africa

Prof Foden has conducted and led

biodiversity vulnerability assessments to

climate change, and developed

methods required to conduct them,

since the 2000s. She has held leadership

or senior advisory positions in the IUCN,

WWF and SANBI, and was based out of

Cambridge, UK for several years, where

she retains a visiting academic status.

RAPPORTEUR Yolanda Chirango, Stellenbosch

University, South Africa

S31

Cities, settlement and key

infrastructure

VENUE

1.44

TIME

Thursday

11h30 - 13h15

The best of both worlds? Debating

technical and participatory

approaches for urban resilience

SESSION SUMMARY

City governments often choose for investment or adaptation of

infrastructure to reduce disaster risk and strengthen resilience to

climate change. Cordaid observes that while these solutions may be

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

present case studies showing integration of technical and

community based approaches and the relevance of integrated risk

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

steps to scale up this approach.

PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS

Thandie Mwape, Red Cross, 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.

Between 2001 and 2016, Thandie served with the United Nations in

various portfolios as Public Information Officer, Regional Political

Affairs Affairs, Analyst and Humanitarian Affairs Officer in East Timor,

Kosovo, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Zimbabwe, New York and

Geneva

Telly Chauke, South African Local Government Association (SALGA),

SA

Telly Chauke is a Specialist in Environment and Climate Change

within the Municipal Services and Infrastructure Directorate of the

South African Local Government Association (SALGA). She is

responsible for facilitating support to municipalities on policy and

practice related to environmental management and climate

change. She represents South African municipalities in national

intergovernmental structures and forums

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

ORGANISER/S Valerie Brown,

CORDAID

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Partners for Resilience (PfR), The

Netherlands

CHAIR Heleen van der Beek, Cordaid, The

Netherlands

Heleen leads the Resilience team within

Cordaid Headquarters in the

Netherlands. This is a team of highly

skilled professionals who manage,

implement, write and design projects in

various areas related to resilience. She is

a former diplomat who has had postings

in Jordan and the Czech republic. She

has previously led the country office of

ICCO-Cooperation in Bangladesh.

RAPPORTEUR Valerie Brown, Cordaid, The

Netherlands

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.

S27

Ecosystems and their services

VENUE

1.64

TIME

Thursday

14h15 - 16h00

Adaptation practice and experience

in deltas in the global south

SESSION SUMMARY

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,

adaptation, migration and delta management will be given from

three major research projects and initiatives – DEltas, vulnerability

and Climate Change: migration and Adaptation (DECCMA), the

Western Indian Ocean Deltas Exchange and Research Network

(WIODER) and the Delta Alliance. A panel discussion will then

address questions around how research can inform adaptation

practice, the transferability of experiences, and the opportunities to

improve the science-policy interface and knowledge exchange

between African deltas and knowledge institutes and universities.

SPEAKERS

Katharine Vincent, Kulima Integrated Development Solutions, South

Africa

Documenting observed adaptations in deltaic Ghana, India and

Bangladesh

Ricardo Safra de Campos, University of Exeter, UK

Migration as an adaptation

Ken Kinney, Coordinator Delta Alliance-Ghana Wing

Enhancing environmental quality, reducing vulnerability: The Volta

delta case

Mohamed Soliman, Coastal Research Institute, National Water

Research Center, Egypt

Adaptation of low-laying land of the Nile delta to climate change,

SLR and extreme events

PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS

Katharine Vincent, Kulima Integrated Development Solutions, South

Africa

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’.

ORGANISER/S Katharine Vincent,

Kulima Integrated Development

Solutions

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Delft University of Technology,

Netherlands

CHAIR Robert Nicholls, University of

Southampton

Robert is Professor of Coastal

Engineering at the University of

Southampton. His research is focussed

on long-term coastal engineering and

management, especially the issues of

coastal impacts and adaptation to

climate change, with an emphasis on

sea-level rise. A major recent theme of

his research has been the future of

deltas.

RAPPORTEUR Peter van Veelen, Delft University of

Technology, Netherlands

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.

S50

Cities and urban areas

VENUE

2.46

TIME

Thursday

14h15 - 16h00

Leveraging science to enhance

citizen leadership in urban adaptation

and risk manegment

SESSION SUMMARY

Participatory methodologies have become a standard of

researchers and NGO repertoires when engaging with local actors.

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

roundtable discussion to focus critically on the deployment of

participatory methods and coproduced approaches to stakeholder

engagement in adaptation research and NGO activity. Discussion

will be catalysed by statements from academics and practitioners,

participants will be encouraged to bring their own experiences to

the discussion.

SPEAKERS

Emmanuel Osuteye, Development Planning Unit, University College

London (Presenter); Adriana Allen, Development Planning Unit,

University College London (author)

Getting poor women and men out of Urban risk traps: ReMapRisk as

a model for collective action and capacity building in Freetown,

Sierra Leone and Karonga, Malawi

Alice Sverdlik, International Institute for Environment and

Development, United Kingdom; Kimani Joseph, Shack/Slum Dwellers

International, Kenya

Capacity-building to enhance governance and reduce risks in

Mukuru, Nairobi

Hayley Leck, King’s College London (Presenter); Mark Pelling, King’s

College London

Hybrid modes of governing for disaster risk management in Dar es

Salaam and Nairobi

Pascal Kipkemboi, Kounkuey Design Initiative, Kenya

Developing risk or resilience? Effects of slum upgrading on the social

contract and social cohesion in Kibera, Nairobi

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

ORGANISER/S Mark Pelling,

King's College London

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S

CHAIR Mark Pelling, King's College London

Mark Pelling is Professor of Geography,

King's College London with a specialism

in social and institutional analysis for

disaster risk management and climate

change adaptation, predominantly in

urban contexts of the global South. He

has been a coordinating lead author for

the IPCC 5th Assessment Report, and

SREX special report. He will be a

coordinating lead author for the Human

settlements chapter in the 6th

Assessment Report. Mark also acts as a

Resilience Challenge Lead for the UKRI

Global Challenges Research Fund.

RAPPORTEUR Emmanuel Osuteye, University College

London

S30

EbA

VENUE

2.43

TIME

Thursday

14h15 - 16h00

Scaling up ecosystem-based

adaptation: Linking science, practice

and policy

SESSION SUMMARY

Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) — the conservation, sustainable

management and restoration of natural ecosystems to help people

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

and people, especially those most vulnerable to climate change. It

is often a sound investment when compared to other adaptation

options, and yet it is not receiving as much support in national policy

makers processes as it merits.

The event aims to bring together policy makers, practitioners and

researchers to share experiences and discuss 1)Effectiveness: what

works & what has not worked in Ecosystem-based adaptation

approaches at different scales when EbA is applied? How can we

measure and demonstrate evidence of EbA effectiveness? What

enables EbA effectiveness and what are the barriers? 2) Impacts:

how can ecosystem-based approaches EbA contribute to both

better development and adaptation outcomes? What co-benefits

does EbA provide? How does EbA contribute to SDGs? 3)Up-scaling:

how can we maximize the uptake of evidence from research into

development and climate change policymaking and

implementation? What tools exist and what can existing EbA case

studies teach us about ways to integrate EbA into complex social,

cultural and political-economic systems?

PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS

Yazan Elhadi

Dr. Yazan Elhadi is an Agriculture and Resource Economist with an

interest in Climate change adaptation, finance and climate

information services. Dr. Elhadi is currently working for the adaptation

consortium, overseeing Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and

learning. He also has experience working across a variety of

economics and social related fields.

Anu Adhikari

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

ORGANISER/S Xiaoting Hou-Jones,

International Institute for Environment

and Development (IIED)

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S International Union for Conservation

and Nature (IUCN),

UNEP-WCMC, United Kingdom

CHAIR Hannah Reid, International Institute for

Environment and Development

Dr Hannah Reid is a Research Associate

with the International Institute for

Environment and Development. She has

over fifteen years’ experience working

on climate change and development

with particular strengths including how

best to help those who are most

vulnerable to climate change cope with

its impacts, and ecosystem-based

approaches to adaptation.

RAPPORTEUR Hannah Reid, International Institute for

Environment and Development

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.

S17

Poverty, livelihoods and

sustainable development;

Decision-making options for

managing risk

VENUE

2.62 & 2.63

TIME

Thursday

14h15 - 16h00

So your research has no impact...?

Participatory theatre can get you

there! (and have fun while you're at it)

SESSION SUMMARY

This session will use participatory ‘theatre of the oppressed’ to

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.

After enjoying a theatre session performed by local actors, in a

second run participants will be invited to walk into the play and

become actors shaping the play’s outcomes – as they explore

solutions to the challenges of #ResearchImpact.

We’ll then have an open discussion about making research relevant,

participatory, impactful and accessible to all.

SPEAKERS

PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS

ORGANISER/S Daniel Morchain,

Oxfam GB

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S

CHAIR 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

S183

Climate services

VENUE

2.41

TIME

Thursday

14h15 - 16h00

The intersection of culture, ethics and

information in practical adaptation

SESSION SUMMARY

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

developing nations and the so-called W.E.I.R.D. nations (Western,

Educated, Industrialized, and Rich Democracies), the latter most

often steering climate adaptation initiatives in developing nations.

The nuances of the developing world context are often not well-

considered in designing adaptation. The session will interrogate this

through an assessment and critique of the ethics, values, and

paradigms in the practices of climate information conceptualization,

creation, communication, and application at different decision

scales and regions of the world.

PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS

Cathy Vaughan, IRI Columbia/Leeds University

Cathy Vaughan is a senior staff associate at the International Research

Institute for Climate & Society; she is also a PhD candidate at the School

for Earth and the Environment at Leeds University, where her research

focuses on institutional arrangements to support climate services,

particularly in Latin America.

Alex Apotsos, USAID, United States of America

Alex Apotsos is currently examining social vulnerability in South African

cities on a Fulbright Fellowship. He also serves as a Climate Change

Advisor at USAID and lecturer at Williams College. He has previously

served with the U.S. Peace Corps in Mali and as a science advisor to U.S.

Senator Jon Tester.

Coleen Vogel, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Coleen Vogel is a distinguished professor at the Global Change Institute,

University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. She is a climatologist by

training and works on the social dimensions of climate change, focusing

particularly on climate change adaptation.

Mark Howden, Australian National University, Australia

Professor Mark Howden is the Director of the Climate Change Institute,

Australian National University and an Honorary Professor at Melbourne

University. Mark has worked on climate variability, climate change,

innovation and adoption issues for over 30 years in partnership with

farmers, farmer groups, catchment groups, industry bodies, agribusiness,

urban utilities and various policy agencies via both research and

science-policy roles.

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.

ORGANISER/S Anna Steynor,

University of Cape Town

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S IRI Columbia/Leeds University, United

States of America

Australian National University, Australia

USAID, United States of America

CHAIR Bruce Hewitson, University of Cape

Town, South Africa

Bruce Hewitson is the director of the

Climate Systems Analysis Group. He is

extensively engaged with capacity

building in Africa and with the

communication of regional climate

information supporting responses to

climate change. He serves numerous

roles internationally, including as

coordinating lead author in the

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate

Change (IPCC), and currently co-chairs

both the IPCC TGICA task group and the

World Climate Research Program

(WCRP) working group on regional

climates.

RAPPORTEUR Alice McClure, University of Cape Town,

South Africa

S180

Climate resilient development

pathways

VENUE

1.62

TIME

Thursday

14h15 - 16h00

Towards an adaptive climate proof

freshwater supply in salinising deltas

and possible solutions for deltas

worldwide: examples from The

Netherlands, Ghana, Vietnam and

Bangladesh

SESSION SUMMARY

Climate change, salinisation and economic development demand

an increased level of self-sufficiency of fresh water supply in many

delta’s worldwide. Water supply at the regional level, especially

towards agriculture, as big user of fresh water, will have to become

more climate resilient and robust. The use of existing sources of fresh

water needs to be improved. There is a need for innovative and

improved solutions to retain fresh water. The use and distribution of

fresh water needs to be made more efficient. Climate change asks

timely measures and also new practices and innovative solutions. This

session will explore the following questions focussing on 4 delta’s in

the world: 1. How can we organize and finance a development

towards a more resilient fresh water supply and more careful use of

fresh water ? 2. How do we facilitate debate on water availability

with stakeholders ? 3. What are feasible measures and water

management principles to increase adaptive capacities ? 4. How do

we implement adaptation: from pilots to a change in mind set ?

SPEAKERS

Steven Visser, Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, The

Netherlands Steven Visser (in cooperation with Ruud Teunissen and

Otto Cox)

The Dutch Delta Programme Approach: an innovative nation-wide

adaptation program to climate change

Esther van Baaren ,J.R. Delsman, M. Karaoulis, P.S. Pauw (Deltares,

The Netherlands); G.H.P. Oude Essink (Department of Physical

Geography, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands)

Climate-proofing freshwater supply in salinising deltas: the Zeeland

freshwater laboratory

Kwasi Appeaning Addo, Department of Marine and Fisheries

Sciences, University of Ghana

The DECCMA Project in the Volta Delta

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

ORGANISER/S Steven Visser,

Netherlands Ministry of Infrastructure

and Water Management

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Deltares, The Netherlands

University of Ghana, Ghana

United Nations University, Germany

ICDDR'B, Bangladesh

CHAIR Steven Visser, Ministry of Infrastructure

and Water Management, The

Netherlands

Since 1996, Steven is working as a senior

advisor in integrated water

management, hydrology, irrigation &

drainage, flood control and water

quantity & water quality management.

He is working as an independent water

management consultant since 2008 and

has extensive working experiences in The

Netherlands, several European

countries, Palestine, Kyrgyzstan,

Pakistan, Bangladesh, Viet Nam, Nigeria

and Trinidad & Tobago).

RAPPORTEUR Esther van Baaren, Deltares

S204

Cities and urban areas

VENUE

1.41

TIME

Thursday

14h15 - 16h00

UCCRN Urban Planning & Urban

Design Lab

SESSION SUMMARY

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

Participants will be drawn from city government and stakeholders

from each city participating in the session. The Teams will interact

and learn from one another’s experiences in their on-going climate

change programs and will together develop perspectives on taking

efforts to the next level of engagement and implementation. The

goal of the sessions will be to rapidly and deeply build capacity

across multiple stakeholder sectors in cities to implement climate

mitigation, adaptation, resilience, and transformation related to

climate change. The UCCRN Lab Session will draw its analysis and

strategy from four evidence-based urban heat action principles: 1)

Efficiency of urban systems 2) Form and layout 3) Heat-resistant

construction materials 4) Vegetative cover.

PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS

Manishka De Mel, Center for Climate Systems Research

Manishka is a Climate Change Specialist with over 12 years of

professional experience in climate change, conservation and

environmental management. At the Center for Climate Systems

Research at Columbia University’s Earth Institute, she provides technical

input, research, program development, and capacity building for

international and US projects. She has also worked at IUCN and

Environmental Foundation in Sri Lanka and is a recipient of the UNESCO

MAB Young Scientist Award in 2007. She has Masters degrees from

Columbia University and the University of Oxford and a Certificate in

Business Excellence from the Columbia Business School.

Sean O'Donoghue

Dr. Sean O’Donoghue has a doctorate in marine pelagic ecology

obtained from the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) in 2010. In March

2011, Sean joined eThekwini Municipality, or Durban, where he manages

the Climate Change Adaptation Branch. A key focus of the Branch is

Community Ecosystem Based Adaptation, providing work opportunities

for Durban’s indigent populations. Sean manages a number of research,

inter-city and community partnership projects, and has led the

development of the pilot EPIC programme at UKZN.

Cynthia Rosenzweig

Dr. Rosenzweig leads the Climate Impacts Group at NASA GISS in New

York City. She is Co-Director of the Urban Climate Change Research

Network (UCCRN) and Co-Editor of the newly published Second

Assessment Report on Climate Change and Cities (ARC3.2). She was Co-

Chair of the Urban Thematic Group for the UN Sustainable Development

Solutions Network (SDSN) and the Campaign for an Urban Sustainability

Development Goal (SDG). She co-led the Metropolitan East Coast

Regional Assessment of the U.S. National Assessment of the Potential

Consequences of Climate Variability and Change, sponsored by the U.S.

Global Change Research Program. She was named as one of “Nature’s

10: Ten People Who Mattered in 2012” by the journal Nature, for her work

preparing New York City for climate extremes and change.

ORGANISER/S Cynthia Rosenzweig,

Urban Climate Change Research

Network (UCCRN)

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S eThekwini Municipality, South Africa

CHAIR Cynthia Rosenzweig, NASA Goddard

Institute for Space Studies/Columbia

University

Dr. Rosenzweig leads the Climate

Impacts Group at NASA GISS in New York

City. She is Co-Director of the Urban

Climate Change Research Network

(UCCRN) and Co-Editor of the newly

published Second Assessment Report on

Climate Change and Cities (ARC3.2).

She was Co-Chair of the Urban Thematic

Group for the UN Sustainable

Development Solutions Network (SDSN)

and the Campaign for an Urban

Sustainability Development Goal (SDG).

She co-led the Metropolitan East Coast

Regional Assessment of the U.S. National

Assessment of the Potential

Consequences of Climate Variability

and Change, sponsored by the U.S.

Global Change Research Program. She

was named as one of “Nature’s 10: Ten

People Who Mattered in 2012” by the

journal Nature, for her work preparing

New York City for climate extremes and

change.

RAPPORTEUR Sean O'Donoghue, eThekwini

Municipality, South Africa

S85

Planning

VENUE

2.61

TIME

Thursday

14h15 - 16h00

Learning from National climate

assessment and adaptation

strategies: Informing planning and

action

SESSION SUMMARY

Climate change adaptation requires informed actions, including

adjustments of relevant policies that enable society to adapt in the context

of those changes. National assessments and strategies undertaken to inform

and enable these actions have a variety of scopes, but often touch on

creating and providing knowledge and evidence, raising awareness,

coordinating among policy fields, and enabling planning and action,

including through mainstreaming and pointing to means of implementing

action

This session will share experiences and lessons learnt in delivering national-

scale science/risk/vulnerability assessments and strategies, and consider

future directions of these instruments in the context of meeting national

requirements for action and being consistent with the Paris Agreement

global adaptation goal. A crucial element will be linking these instruments

to long-terms adaptation planning and action. We propose to use a

Fishbowl (modified Campfire) format that includes invited participants, but

also provides opportunity for other delegates to participate.

Evaluating the success and addressing challenges of assessments and

national strategies will be done through considering the following questions:

- How to define successful national assessments and strategies?

- How to combine data from assessments and monitoring of impacts

and adaptation actions to determine the contributions and validity

of adaptation actions?

- How to establish links between these instruments and delivering

actions?

- How to evaluate and enhance the contribution of these instruments

to successful adaptation (continuous learning and improvement)

The goal is to explore what can be learned from ongoing or concluded

processes focused on evaluating and improving the undertaking and use of

national assessments and strategies.

The session would begin with short presentations using either a poster or slides

drawing on examples of processes that have evaluated these national

instruments. The invited presenters (Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany and

Korea) will initially occupy the inner circle of the “fishbowl”, and would each

speak for 5 minutes towards addressing the above questions. Following

these scene setting/challenging presentations, the session organisers would

begin the discussions by asking those in the inner circle a series of further

probing questions with the intent of stimulating the other session participants

to contribute to discussions.

The unique element of the session is that there will be two empty seats within

the inner circle that will be filled by participants who want to contribute their

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

another participant to contribute.

ORGANISER/S Petra van Rüth,

Umweltbundesamt

University of Oxford, United Kingdom

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Korea Adaptation Center for Climate

Change, South Korea

Griffith University, Australia

Natural Resources Canda, Canada

CHAIR Young-Il Song, Korea Adaptation Center

for Climate Change, Korea

Dr. Song is currently working at Korea

Adaptation Center for Climate Change

in Korea Environment Institute (KEI) as a

Chief Research Fellow. He received

Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from New York

Polytechnic University in 1996. Prior to the

current position, he worked for various

departments of KEI including

Environmental Assessment Research

Group as a director general for about 15

years. He has been involved various

researches on environmental policies

including climate change adaptation

and environmental assessment.

Currently he is extensively involved in the

research for developing an integrated

assessment model for climate change

adaptation. He has been a member of

several national committees such as

Environment Impact Assessment

Coordination Committee of Ministry of

Environment Korea.

RAPPORTEUR

Christian Kind, adelphi Germany; Fionna

Warren, Natural Resources Canada This discussion phase will last 60 minutes. A note taker will capture the

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

S61

Climate resilient development

pathways

VENUE

1.44

TIME

Thursday

14h15 - 16h00

Private Adaptation in Semi-Arid Lands.

SESSION SUMMARY

Semi-arid lands (SALs) in developing countries have been

characterised as climate change ‘hotspots’. Globally, more than 1

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

the specific adaptation challenges that arise in SALs as a result of

dispersed and rurally located populations, high levels of business

informality, mobile populations, poorly developed infrastructure and

broader political and economic marginalisation. It aims to distil

lessons about the kinds of policies, institutions and other investments

that can enable climate resilient development across a broad

spectrum of actors.

SPEAKERS

Florence Crick and Kate Gannon, Grantham Research Institute on

Climate Change and the Environment, United Kingdom

Enabling environments for private sector adaptation in semi-arid

lands

Soundarya Iyer, Indian Institute For Human Settlements, India

Circular Migration and Localized Urbanization in Rural Semi-arid

India: Diverse stakeholders, multiple strategies

Catherine Simonet, Overseas Development Institute, United Kingdom

Making private adaptation count: recognising the diversity of private

sector actors in value chains in semi-arid lands

PANELLISTS/ FACILITATORS

Evans Kituyi, International Development Research Centre (IDRC

Canada)

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.

ORGANISER/S Kate Gannon; Florence Crick,

London School of Economics (LSE)

PARTNER INSTITUTION/S Overseas Development Institute (ODI),

United Kingdom (UK)

International Development Research

Centre (IDRC), Canada

CHAIR Kate Gannon and Florence Crick,

Grantham Research Institute on Climate

Change and the Environment, United

Kingdom

RAPPORTEUR Estelle Rouhaud, Grantham Research

Institute on Climate Change and the

Environment, UK

S322

VENUE 2.65

Tuesday 11h30 - 13h15

Decision making and planning

SESSION SUMMARY

The session focuses on building adaptive capacity and climate

change resilience. The first two papers provide case studies of

collaborative approaches to improving planning and management

towards minimising the impacts of flooding events (Quebec); and

coastal climate change impacts (Washington DC). The last three

papers provide lessons learnt from trying to mainstream climate

change adaptation into the agricultural sector (Rawanda); revising

national climate policy development (Mexico); and national

sectoral policies and programmes (Zimbabwe). All the papers

contribute to how climate change adaptation can be effectively

and timeously integrated into decision making to strengthen

economic, social and environmental resilience.

SPEAKERS

Alain Bourque, Ouranos, Canada

Collaborative approach to building knowledge to inform decision-

making: the case of Quebec floods

Jackson Blalock, The Nature Conservancy, United States

The Washington Coastal Resilience Project: rapidly increasing state-

wide capacity to plan for climate change

Paul Watkiss, Paul Watkiss Associates, United Kingdom

Mainstreaming climate adaptation into the national agricultural

development plan of Rwanda

Stephanie Victoria Ascencio Serrato, Rovira I Virgili University, Spain

Adaptation to climate change: a review of its operability within

public policy in Mexico

Veronica Jakarasi, Ministry of Environment, Water and Climate,

Zimbabwe

The Reality and the Rhetoric of integrating Climate Change

Adaptation into Sectors

Kirtiman Awasthi, GIZ, India

Mainstreaming adaptation planning into development planning

and policy processes

CHAIR Helen Davies, Western Cape

Government, South Africa

Helen has worked in the fields of

sustainability, climate change,

operations management and the green

economy for the past 20 years. Past key

positions include Director Climate

Change & Biodiversity (WCG: DEADP)

and Head Environmental Policy and

Planning (CCT) – including developing

the City’s Climate Change Policy (2017).

She is currently the Chief Director: Green

Economy in the Western Cape

Government’s Department of Economic

Development & Tourism. Helen holds a

B.Sc. in Environmental & Geographical

Science and Oceanography; a B.Sc

(hons.) in Atmospheric Science, an M.Sc.

in Conservation Biology and an MBA.

RAPPORTEUR Krishna Malakar

S406

VENUE 2.44

Tuesday 11h30 - 13h15

Vulnerability

SESSION SUMMARY

This session will highlight approaches and methods for assessment of

vulnerability to climate change starting at the local community level.

Tools and techniques for rapid vulnerability assessment and scaling

up will be presented for discussion. Emphasis is on engagement and

involvement of affected peoples (stakeholders) in the assessment.

This increases the chances of effective adaptation responses by the

stakeholders. There are seven (7) presentations with a global

coverage!

SPEAKERS

Manabu Watanabe, E-konzal, Japan

Development of Assessment Method on Regional Vulnerability

regarding to Climate Change and its impacts

Keshav Prasad Khanal, The Mountain Institute Himalayan Program,

Nepal

Participatory Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment and

identification of Ecosystem based Adaptation Measures: A field

experience from the Mountains of Nepal

Daniel Iura González, National Institute Of Ecology And Climate

Change, Mexico

Mexico´s National Atlas of Vulnerability to Climate Change

Floris Boogaard, Hanze University Of Applied Science, Netherlands

High Resolution Thermal Stress mapping In Africa: Decision Maps for

Urban Planning in Johannesburg

Merle Sowman, Serge Raemaekers and Penny Price , University of

Cape Town, South Africa

Application of a community-based Rapid Vulnerability Assessment

tool in fishing communities in Southern Africa to support

development of adaptation plans

Ronald C. Estoque, National Institute For Environmental Studies,

Japan

Downscaling future forest cover changes under the shared

socioeconomic pathways: Implications for mitigation and

adaptation

CHAIR Hillary Masundire, University of

Botswana, Botswana

RAPPORTEUR Rupak Jha

S317

VENUE 2.64

Tuesday 11h30 - 13h15

Climate services: co-creating

knowledge

SESSION SUMMARY

Enhancing our current knowledge on high impact climate events

and closing key gaps in the underlying science is essential to

successfully implement climate services for effective decision

making. Co-creating climate knowledge and innovative services by

researchers, data providers and decision makers from various sectors

and disciplines ensures the usability of the most up-to-date scientific

results, data and technologies to increase the quality and

effectiveness of decision-making in developing countries on e.g.

adaptation measures. The session will present innovative

approaches and examples on how co-creating climate knowledge

and tailor-made services influence decision making and support

climate change adaptation efforts at farm and country level.

SPEAKERS

Blane Harvey, ODI / McGill University, Canada

The future of climate services in Africa: A value chain perspective

Andy Nyamekye, Wageningen University and Research, Netherlands

Towards Actionable Knowledge Provision for Adaptive Decision-

making in Rice Farming Systems in Northern Ghana: The Role of

Information Systems

Catherine Vaughan, International Research Institute For Climate &

Society, United States

Governance of and through climate services:

A framework analysis of Uruguay’s National Agricultural Information

System

Dian Spear, University of Caep Town, South Africa

Conversations between diverse knowledge and belief systems to

reduce vulnerability to climate change in Bobirwa

Janet Selato, ASSAR, Botswana

Credibility and Scale as Barriers to Uptake and Use of Seasonal

Climate Forecasts in Bobirwa Sub-District, Botswana

Jane Olwoch, SASSCAL, Namibia

Integrated climate and land change research to improve decision-

making and resource management in Southern Africa: The SASSCAL

approach

CHAIR Joerg Helmschrot, SASSCAL

Dr JÖRG HELMSCHROT is Director of

Science and Technology/Capacity

Development at SASSCAL. He holds a

diploma degree in geography, geology

and urban planning from the University

of Jena in 1999. In 2006, he finished his

PhD on the impact of afforestation on

wetland and catchment hydrology in

South African headwater catchments.

Dr. Helmschrot also holds an

extraordinary Professorship with the

University of Stellenbosch, Faculty of

AgriSciences and the Water

Management Institute since 2016.

RAPPORTEUR Prakash Chandra Tiwari

S352

VENUE 2.66

Tuesday 11h30 - 13h15

Agriculture: programmes, strategies

and technologies

SESSION SUMMARY

The SmartAgri Plan - a Governmental response with South African

Western Cape’s climatic vulnerability - will be analysed for its

capacity to guide and inspire a transition to a more sustainable and

climate resilient agricultural system. A business case for the set up of

an adaptation facilitation mechanism to promote CSA extensivley

through parterships, technical and financial assistance. An

evaluation and sharing of first results of the GEF funded Food Security

IAP program in SSA – an effort that targets 10 million hectares of

production landscapes with 2-3 million beneficiary households in the

drylands ecosystems of 12 Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. How

the Promotion and Dissemination of Drought Tolerant Quality Protein

Maize in Ghana will contribute towards nutritional and food secutrity,

hilts offering increased resilience to climate change. How do local

poeple respond to changes in the provisioning ecosystem services

and how effective are these responses as coping strategies.

Conservation Agriculture (CA) and a CA-Farmer Innovation

Programme (FIP) aiming to ensure sustainable use and management

of natural resources and climate change adaptation, while

enhancing food security in South Africa. Finally, a study to evaluate

the effect of Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) on agricultural

productivity and food security. CSA intends to simultaneously

achieve agricultural sustainability, resilience to climate change and

reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

SPEAKERS

Stephanie Midgley, University Of Cape Town, South Africa

SmartAgri – analysis of the process to develop a sub-national climate

change framework and implementation plan for agriculture

Wendy Engel, Wwf Sa Nedbank Sustainable Agriculture Partnership,

South Africa

Business Case for an Agricultural Value Chain Adaptation Facility in

South Africa: Emerging Insights

Victor Abegunde, University Of Zululand, South Africa

Climate-Smart Agriculture in Africa: Climate Adaptation Measure

and Tool for Agricultural Sustainability and Food Security in 21st

Century

Carlo Carugi, Independent Evaluation Office of the GEF , United

States

Early lessons from GEF’s Sustainability and Resilience for Food Security

in Sub-Saharan Africa Integrated Approach Pilot (IAP) Program

Stephen Yeboah, Csir-crop Research Institute, Ghana

Promotion and Dissemination of Drought Tolerant Quality Protein

Maize in Ghana

CHAIR Paul Bordoni

RAPPORTEUR Rex Gerchie

Ephias Mugari, University Of Botswana, Botswana

Responses to dynamics in ecosystem service provision in semi-arid

Bobirwa sub-district, Limpopo Basin part of Botswana

Hendrik Smith, Grain SA, South Africa

The use of farmer-centered innovation systems to adapt to climate

change in the grain industry, South Africa

S321

VENUE 2.65

Tuesday 14h15 - 16h00

Policy and governance

SESSION SUMMARY

This session spans across various climate change governance issues

and commences with a regional discussion on climate change

adaptation law and policy in the African Union to unpack the

normative gaps, critical issues and prospects of policy development.

The session then zooms out to a broader discussion to show how

climate change impacts and vulnerabilities differ in worlds where the

Paris Agreement is met compared to worlds where climatic change

is largely ignored leading to high-end scenarios. Four case studies,

from global to sub-national scale in Europe, will also be presented

using the SSPxRCP to better understand society`s capacity to act

towards achieving the 1.5ºC target.

SPEAKERS

Michael Addaney, Wuhan University, China

Climate change adaptation law and policy in the African Union:

creating legal pathways for adaptation mainstreaming

Paula Harrison, Centre For Ecology And Hydrology, United Kingdom

Differences between low-end and high-end climate change

impacts across multiple sectors: what does this mean for

adaptation?

Simona Pedde, Wageningen University, Netherlands

Advancing the use of scenarios to understand society`s capacity to

act towards achieving the 1.5˚C target

Elizabeth Atkinson, Department Of Natural Resources, Canada

Accelerating action to adapt: re-framing adaptation as an

innovation driver and prioritizing executive leadership - experience

from Canada’s Adaptation Platform

Sebastiaan Soeters, University of Utrecht, Netherlands

‘I need a statistic’: Lessons Learned from using social science

evidence to influence the practice and policy of climate change

adaptation in African drylands.

Debashish Munshi, University of Waikato, New Zealand and Priya

Kurian, University of Waikato, New Zealand

Culture and climate change governance: charting system-change

maps for climate adaptation in New Zealand

CHAIR Ernesta Swanepoel, Independent Legal

Consultant, South Africa

Ernesta Swanepoel is an admitted South

African attorney specialising in

international and national

environmental law topics with a focus on

climate change. She holds a BCom

(Law), LLB and an LLM in Marine and

Environmental Law, as well as a Diploma

in International Environmental Law,

completed in Geneva, Switzerland with

the United Nations Institute for Training

and Research (UNITAR).

Ernesta’s professional focus includes

:legal analysis, research, review and

opinions; research-based consulting and

technical input; training and capacity

development; and workshop facilitation,

rapporteuring, and institutional support.

Ernesta works with various partners on a

wide range of climate change projects

and policy developments.

RAPPORTEUR Mohammad Feisal Rahman

S330

VENUE 2.45

Tuesday 14h15 - 16h00

Water: decision-making

SESSION SUMMARY

SPEAKERS

Roger Few, University Of East Anglia, United Kingdom

Interacting dynamics of adaptation and development: water stress

and climate extremes in semi-arid East Africa

Sagar Pokharel, Institute of Engineering (IoE), Nepal

Self replicating community mobilization model for Multi Use Water

System technology contributing to communities resilience to water

unavailability in Nepal.

Anvita Pandey, Centre For Ecology Development And Research,

India

Institutional analysis and Ecosystem based solutions for Water

Management in cities of North India: Haldwani, A Case study

Caroline Lumosi, Osnabrueck University, Germany

Can social learning in the Zambezi basin stimulate transboundary

cooperation? Exploring the role of learning spaces

Sumit Vij, Wageningen University and Research , Netherlands

‘Non-decision making’ in times of changing climate: power interplay

between Bangladesh and India for Brahmaputra River

CHAIR Roland Schulze, University of KwaZulu

Natal, South Africa

RAPPORTEUR Karan Misquitta

S404

VENUE 2.44

Tuesday 14h15 - 16h00

Health and well-being

SESSION SUMMARY

Climate change is expected to have significant impacts on human

health through increased temperatures, changes in precipitation,

and changes in extreme events, among others. Some of the most

immediate impacts will be through heat stress and alterations of

patterns of vector-borne diseases. This session will explore the

impacts of climate change that are already being felt and

documented, with discussions of the implications for human health

outcomes in both developed and developing countries under a

climate that will continue to change further. In addition, speakers

will share their recommendations for addressing the consequences

of climate change on public health.

SPEAKERS

Colin Quinn, United States Agency For International Development ,

United States

Integrating climate change and variability into health decisions: A

multi-pronged policy approach in Mozambique

Louise McKenzie, University of NSW, Australia

The influence of heat on everyday use of outdoor public space and

implications for adaptive city design and planning

Lorena Pasquini, University Of Cape Town, South Africa

Emerging climate change-related public health challenges: the

potential effects of temperature rise on health outcomes in Dar es

Salaam, Tanzania

Yasushi Honda, University Of Tsukuba, Japan

Chronological trend of autonomous adaptation to heat-related

mortality in Japan

Christian Siderius, London School of Economics, United Kingdom

Sleepless nights in South Asian cities; assessing affordable heat

adaptation measures in low-income settings

CHAIR

Tegan Blaine, U.S. Agency for

International Development, USA

Tegan Blaine is the Senior Climate

Change Advisor in the Bureau for Africa

at USAID. Her duties include setting the

strategic direction for USAID’s climate

change investments in Africa, as well as

leading a team that provides thought

leadership and technical support to

USAID missions in Africa, including on

climate and health. Before USAID, she

worked at McKinsey & Company on

climate and energy issues. Prior to

joining McKinsey, she was a policy

advisor on water at the U.S. Department

of State.

Tegan has a Ph.D. in oceanography and

climate from the Scripps Institution of

Oceanography and an Sc.B. in

mathematical ecology from Brown

University. She taught secondary math

and physics as a Peace Corps volunteer

in Tanzania, East Africa

RAPPORTEUR Kavya Michael

S320

VENUE 2.66

Tuesday 14h15 - 16h00

Governance: case studies

SESSION SUMMARY

SPEAKERS

Stanley Jawuoro, University Of Nairobi, Kenya

Organization and Performance of Water Resource Users' Associations

in the Southern Rangelands of Kenya

Poshendra Satyal, University Of East Anglia, United Kingdom

Decentralised governance and climate change adaptation:

Exploring differential impacts and expectations at the sub-national

and local levels in East Africa

Zheng-zhong Yeh, Sinotech Engineering Services Ltd., Taiwan

Case Study on Multilevel Governance of the Cooperation between

Central and Local - Taking New Taipei City as an Example

Kulthoum Motsumi, University Of Cape Town, South Africa

Drought governance in Botswana- understanding framing,

polycentricity and long term resilience

Hoa Lo Thanh, Center For Environment And Community Research,

Viet Nam

The important of governance in urbanization a case study in Truong

Yen, Ninh Binh, Viet Nam

Cory Belden, University Of California, United States

Political Institutions and Elite Response to Drought

CHAIR Zinta Zommers, Mercy Corps, USA

RAPPORTEUR Arjuna Srinidhi

S303

VENUE 2.45

Tuesday 16h30 - 18h15

Gender and resilience

SESSION SUMMARY

The Paris Agreement mandates gender-responsive adaptation

actions and capacity building activities. In Article 7.5, “Parties

acknowledge that adaptation action should follow a country driven,

gender-responsive participatory and fully transparent approach,

taking into consideration vulnerable groups, communities and

ecosystems, and should be based on and guided by the best

available science and, as appropriate, traditional knowledge, with

a view to integrating adaptation into relevant socioeconomic and

environmental policies and actions, where appropriate. This session

will provide recent empirical research on the relevance and impacts

of integrating gender considerations in adaptation and resilience

efforts by presenting case studies from specific regions and countries

in Africa and india. The session will also provide key

recommendations for improving continued policy and practice.

SPEAKERS

Joanne Jordan, University of Manchester, United Kingdom

Gender and intersecting vulnerabilities to climate change: does

India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Act support women’s

adaptation strategies?

Frederick Dapilah, Humboldt University, Germany

Social networks, collective action and nested community resilience

to climate change: A case study from northern Ghana

Charlotte Kabaseke, Wuhan University, China

Climate change adaptation and women’s property rights in east

Africa: creating legal pathways for building the resilience of women

Virginie Le Masson, Overseas Development Institute, United Kingdom

Sharing controversial findings: how collaboration enabled research

and advocacy on gender equality and resilience in Chad

Rebecka Malinga, UKZN, South Africa

Challenges to achieving gender-equitable social-ecological

resilience among smallholder sugarcane farmers in Malawi.

Nitya Rao, University Of East Anglia, United Kingdom

From abandonment to autonomy: Gendered strategies for coping

with change, Isiolo County, Kenya

CHAIR Chihenyo Kangara, USAID, Kenya

RAPPORTEUR Chanda Goodrich

S347

VENUE 2.66

Tuesday 16h30 - 18h15

Water management

SESSION SUMMARY

Water is the great tele-connector between regions and a common

element in various nexus framings. The case studies in this session

cover the vulnerability of African hydropower production to climate

variability and change, by exploring adaptation options for

sustainable energy. The need and approaches for trans-boundary

collaboration in the management of African river basins are

contrasted by a comparative study of the water management

policies in Germany and South Korea. The presentations in this session

are relevant to sections of the IPCC WG2 AR6 that deal with

ecosystem services; urbanisation and infrastructure as well as

decision-making options for managing risk.

SPEAKERS

Niranjan Devkota , Tribhuvan University , Nepal

Rice Farmers Climate Change Adaptation in Nepal: Exploring

Linkage to Water Availability and Water Sharing Practice

Ruan Francois de Wet, University of Cape Town, South Africa

The stories in our taps: Using stable water isotopes to inform urban

water resource management.

Johan Enqvist, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Leadership in bottom-up transformations of urban water governance

– lessons from civic engagement for lakes in Bengaluru, India

Anjali Lohani, Global Water Partnership, Sweden

Building Climate Resilience through Water Resources Management –

the Critical Contribution of Transboundary Cooperation in Africa

Christian Siderius, London School of Economics, United Kingdom

Climate risks and multi-scale resilience assessments in the

hydropower sector – insights from southern and eastern Africa

Yi Hyun Kang, Technical University Of Munich, Germany

Tipping point for policy transformation?

Case Studies of water management in South Korea and Germany

CHAIR

Christopher Gordon, University of Ghana,

Ghana

Prof Gordon holds a Ph.D. in Human

Environmental Science from King's

College, London. He has supervised over

60 MSc and Ph.D. students, in disciplines

including Limnology, Freshwater

Biodiversity, Fisheries, Wetland Ecology,

Environmental Science, and more

recently in Climate Change and

Sustainable Development, Chemistry,

Agricultural Extension and

Communication Studies.

RAPPORTEUR Kaustuv Raj Neupane

S349

VENUE 2.65

Tuesday 16h30 - 18h15

Cities and knowledge sharing

SESSION SUMMARY

Cities are increasingly becoming focal areas for climate change

research and action in adaptation and mitigation. Operating in such

spaces, however, is not without contestation and challenge. The

experiences from a range of city engagements (from the

Netherlands and the USA to African cities including those linked to

the Future Resilience African Cities and Lands project (FRACTAL)) will

be shared. Issues including complex and diversified governance

experiences, the roles of embedded researchers and how these can

facilitate decision making in cities and finally, the complex politics of

multiple actor engagements and social organization of adaptation

governance in cities, will be explored.

SPEAKERS

Dennis Bours, Independent Evaluation Office Of The Gef, United

States

Early lessons from the Global Environment Facility's Sustainable Cities

Integrated Approach Pilot (IAP) Program

Karen Hetz, adelphi , Germany

Limits and potential of synergistic planning options as a strategy to

close the adaptation gap: Lessons from Johannesburg, South Africa

Katharina Hölscher, Dutch Research Institute For Transitions (drift),

Netherlands

Capacities for transformative climate governance: Lessons from

frontrunner cities New York City, U.S., and Rotterdam, Netherlands

Brenda Mwalukanga, University Of Namibia, Namibia

Harare, Lusaka and Windhoek City Learning Exchange Visits

Lulu Van Rooyen, University Of Kwazulu-natal, South Africa

Working towards climate-resilient cities in southern Africa through an

Embedded Researcher approach: sharing lessons from the FRACTAL

project

CHAIR Coleen Vogel, WITS University, South

Africa

RAPPORTEUR Chandra Sekhar Bahinipati

S310

VENUE 2.64

Tuesday 16h30 - 18h15

M&E: frameworks & case studies

SESSION SUMMARY

Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) of Climate Change Adaptation

(CCA) interventions has increasingly gained importance with rapidly

expanding adaptation portfolios across sectors in developing

countries. Accordingly, it is important to understand what the

impacts of these various adaptation actions are and how can they

be linked to country specific targets. Individual projects use

numerous indicators specific to local conditions in terms of climatic

drivers, socio-economic status of the community etc. However, no

standard climate impact or adaptation M&E framework exists at a

country level to monitor the effectiveness of adaptation measures

being implemented at the local level. Therefore, overall picture of

how much progress a country has made on CCA is often missing. The

session would focus on various innovative approaches to formulate

adaptation-specific M&E framework and indicators in different

countries and how can they can help generating sound evidence of

building resilience while linking it to the global stocktake under the

Paris Agreement and individual country NDC targets.

SPEAKERS

Developing Framework for Monitoring & Evaluation of Adaptation

Actions in India

Paula Silva Villanueva, Itad, United Kingdom

Resilience building in practice: what have we learned from BRACED?

Katharine Vincent, Kulima Integrated Development Solutions (pty)

Ltd, South Africa

A framework for measuring adaptation to climate change

Timo Leiter, GIZ GmbH, Germany

Assessing results of climate change adaptation projects in practice:

learning from German Technical Cooperation

Rohan Hamden, Xdi Pty Ltd, Australia

Implementing Resilience Monitoring and Evaluation in the Real World

Jesse McConnell, Independent, United States

Framing Results for Supporting Adaptation

Margarita Caso, INECC Mexico, Mexico

Construction of monitoring and evaluation schemes for adaptation

in Mexico: Formulation of public policies based on evidence

CHAIR Kirtiman Awasthi, GIZ, India

Kirtiman Awasthi works at GIZ India as

Senior Policy Advisor- CCA & Climate

Finance Readiness and is Coordinator

for Indo-German bilateral project-

Climate Change Adaptation in Rural

Areas of India. He has over 15 years of

experience in research & writing,

knowledge management, community

support and project planning &

management covering issues of climate

change, NRM as part of bilateral,

multilateral & non-governmental

organizations. In his previous assignments

Kirtiman Awasthi was engaged with

development of sub-national action

plans on Climate Change (SAPCC) in

India and led Indo-Swiss bilateral

cooperation programme—Indian

Himalayas Climate Adaptation

Programme. He was also part of

Government of India delegation (2010-

2012) actively covering issues of

adaptation, loss & damage and

capacity building and Durban Platform

in the UNFCCC processes.

RAPPORTEUR Saboury NDIAYE

S400

VENUE 2.64

Wednesday 9h15 - 11h00

Economics of adaptation

SESSION SUMMARY

Bloomberg New Energy Finance compliance with the Paris

Agreement target of restricting global warming to below 2C above

19th Century levels represents a US$12.7 trillion investment

opportunity between now and 2040. The International Finance

Corporation believes the reinvestment opportunity to be even

greater at US$23 trillion ahead of 2030 in emerging economies

(primarily East Asia) alone. In 2013 the OECD estimated that to

remain below 2C, current investment of US$5 trillion a year needs to

be “greened” and an additional US$0.7 trillion in green investment is

required. In spite of these large estimates, both public and private

finance investment has lagged the need.

As awareness grows of the need for greater finance for climate

adaptation the research papers outline international, national, sub-

national and corporate efforts to attract and steer investment into

climate adaptation and resilience. Respective papers explore both

the need for, and the limits of, better information; the advantages of

systemic thinking relative to a focus on additionality, and the value

of frameworks for attracting much needed investment. This research,

and the conversation we plan to convene, is important as private

financiers and the Green Climate Fund develop their criteria for

releasing resources, and as global finance considers how to redirect

existing financial flows in favour of climate resilience.

SPEAKERS

Samantha Harris, BSR , United States

Resilient Business, Resilient World: Mobilizing private sector action on

climate resilience.

Prakriti Naswa , Unep Dtu Partnership, Denmark

Measuring Adaptation Benefits: Technology Needs Assessments and

their linkages to funding requirements

Bituen Hidalgo, Hidalgo Consultancy, Netherlands

Adaptation Finance Ecosystem in the Netherlands

Michael Steel, Environment Agency, United Kingdom

Exploring adaptation futures using comprehensive investment

scenarios for flood and coastal risk management

Laura Kuhl, Northeastern University, United States

Adaptation and development: analysis of additionality arguments

and funding criteria in the Adaptation Fund

Kirtiman Awasthi, GIZ , India

Investment Plans for implementation of State Action Plans on Climate

Change

CHAIR Anton Cartwright, University of Cape

Town, South Africa

Anton Cartwright was the ‘Green

Economy’ Mistra Urban Futures

Researcher at the African Centre Cities

from 2013-2015. Previously he convened

the City of Cape Town’s Climate

Change Think Tank. His work focuses on

the application of economics to Africa’s

urban transition, environmental

degradation and poverty alleviation

and the implication of these issues for the

discipline of economics itself. He holds

two post-graduate degrees (in

Environmental Change and

Management and in Economics for

Development) from Oxford University,

where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He is an

associate of the Stockholm Environment

Institute and the Cambridge Programme

for Sustainability Leadership. He has

completed assignments for the New

Climate Economy, World Bank, 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.

He is also a founding Director of the not-

for-profit organization Promoting Access

to Carbon Equity (PACE), and is

chairman of the board of iKhaya le

Themba, an aftercare centre for

children in Imizamo Yethu, Cape Town.

RAPPORTEUR DVP Prasada

S311

VENUE 2.44

Wednesday 9h15 - 11h00

Collaboration and co-design

SESSION SUMMARY

Collaboration, co-design and co-production between researchers,

policy makers, practitioners and the general public are widely held

to be essential processes to respond effectively to climate change.

These processes serve a variety of purposes which include ensuring

that research and policies benefit those who are most at risk, and

helping people make informed decisions in the face of complex

climate challenges. However, creating spaces for inclusive

collaboration, co-design and co-production is no easy task. In this

session we will hear from four initiatives on the approaches they have

used and lessons learned for effectively engaging with stakeholders

in design, planning and decision-making processes on climate

change adaptation.

SPEAKERS

Graeme Riddell, The University Of Adelaide, Australia

Co-designing a disaster risk reduction decision support system for

long-term adaptation planning

Yoshimi Fukumura, National Institute For Environmental Studies,

Japan

Process for creating A-PLAT:

A website to facilitate implementation of the National Adaptation

Plan in Japan

Lucia Scodanibbio, University Of Cape Town, South Africa

Designing and implementing complex consortium-based projects

Ellen Pfeiffer, Ihe Delft, Netherlands

Daring to start on a blank page: Co-Design that ‘Goes the last mile’

CHAIR Blane Harvey, McGill University &

Overseas Development Institute,

Canada

Blane Harvey is an Assistant Professor in

McGill University’s Faculty of Education.

He studies how transdisciplinary

collaboration, learning and facilitation

can help us solving complex social

challenges like climate change and the

models of leadership that can best

support this work.

RAPPORTEUR

S340

VENUE 2.65

Wednesday 9h15 - 11h00

Migration

SESSION SUMMARY

This session looks at the multiple links between migration and

adaptation. The six presentations draw from African, Asian and Latin

American case studies in mountain areas, deltas and drylands to

study how climate change is driving human mobility and how

migration influences adaptive capacity in agriculture and other

livelihood domains. The studies use a rich variety of methods,

including questionnaires, focus group discussions, expert interviews,

life histories, Q methodology and spatial analysis. The findings

contribute to the evidence on migrants’ vulnerability, integration

and conflict as well as their contribution to resilience in the face of

climate change and other stressors.

SPEAKERS

Katharine Mach, Stanford University, United States

An expert assessment of climate change and the risk of violent

conflict

Mark Tebboth, University Of East Anglia, United Kingdom

Mobility and changing livelihood trajectories: implications for

vulnerability and adaptation in semi-arid regions

Amina Maharjan, International Centre For Integrated Mountain

Development (icimod), Nepal

Adaptation to global environmental changes in the mountains of

South Asia – the role of migration at household levels

Lassane Yameogo, University , Burkina Faso

From organized Migrations to the production of new mobilities

around Bagré Dam

Naznin Nasir, Icccad, Bangladesh

Is Migration a pathway out of Poverty? A Case study from Selected

Informal Settlements in Dhaka

Sergio Antonio Ruiz, University, Ecuador

Reflecting the role of local governments, academic and

international cooperation for developing actions on climate

migration in Latin America

CHAIR Kees van der Geest, UN University and

University of Hawaiʻi

Kees van der Geest (PhD) is a human

geographer who studies the impacts of

climate change, adaptation, human

mobility and livelihood with a people-

centered perspective. He has

conducted fieldwork in many countries

across the Global South and currently

works at UN University and the University

of Hawaiʻi.

RAPPORTEUR Md Rezwan Siddiqui

S354

VENUE 2.66

Wednesday 9h15 - 11h00

Climate change knowledge and

research

SESSION SUMMARY

In this session five papers explore how knowledge about climate

change adaptation is envisioned, created, imparted and used for

transformative purposes in different contexts spanning Africa and

Europe. We look at whether universities in Africa are responding to

the needs of their local context to teach and research adaptation

differently. The role of good communication and common

languages, as well as the adoption of new collaborative

approaches are crucial. Sharing experiences should not be based

on hierarchical structure but rather in a win-win learning, co-creative

and dynamic process. Our cases examine elements such as

emotional intelligence, ‘sensitive’ shared languages and ‘senses’ for

action, community-based research contracts, transition arenas and

social learning, among others.

SPEAKERS

Donald Chungu, Copperbelt University, Zambia

Climate change education and research: the need for curriculum

review in Zambia

Daniel Morchain, Oxfam, United Kingdom

The role of marginalised knowledge and emotional intelligence in

building climate resilience

Laura Foster, Indiana University - Bloomington,

Developing socially-just research processes: Indigenous peoples,

climate adaptation and community research contracts in praxis

Ana Estela Barbosa, Lnec, Portugal

Collaborative Co-production: what could be missing in climate

change adaptation?

Nadine Methner, Univeristy Of Cape Town, South Africa

The role of social learning in making a climate change response

strategy a leverage point for a sustainability transition

CHAIR Leigh Cobban, University of Cape Town,

South Africa

Leigh Cobban manages education

projects at the African Climate and

Development Initiative (ACDI) at UCT.

Her work includes overseeing the existing

student and professional programs;

supporting new curriculum

development; and building ACDI’s

understanding of best practice in

climate change education in Africa.

RAPPORTEUR María Inés Rivadeneira

S405

VENUE 2.45

Wednesday 9h15 - 11h00

Resilient pathways: setting targets and

monitoring and evaluation

SESSION SUMMARY

This session outlines methodological frameworks for creating

pathways of adaptation, mitigation and/or transformation actions,

setting targets and their monitoring and evaluation using the

following:

• Expert based judgement

• Model based evaluations

• Interactive online tools

• Surveys, emails and interviews

• Targeted promotional channels and

• Context assessments

The session will also indicate how the frameworks have been used at

sub national, catchment, sectoral, national, regional and global

levels, to inform policy and decision making, focusing on aspects

such as:

• Co-creating adaptation, mitigation and transformation pathways

• Understanding the importance of adaptation reporting under the

UN context

• Understanding how local government policies and strategies

contribute to successful adaptation

• Assessing the effectiveness of risk index in achieving its intended

impact

• Understanding the impact of forestry climate change research

SPEAKERS

Helen Scott, Rmit University, Australia

Monitoring and evaluation: Are local government actions

contributing to successful adaptation?

Jesse McConnell, Independent, United States

Reducing vulnerability and the African Risk Capacity: findings from a

formative evaluation

Andrew Dunningham, Scion, New Zealand

CHAIR Tsepang Makholela, Department of

Environmental Affairs, South Africa

Tsepang Makholela holds Ph.D. in

genetics from Wits University. She is the

Director for Climate Change Adaptation

Monitoring and Evaluation at

Department of Environmental Affairs in

South Africa. She has been involved in

developing and implementing climate

change adaptation monitoring and

evaluation framework for South Africa.

She is also responsible for developing,

operationalising and maintaining

climate change adaptation web based

platform which is used as the basis for

reporting nationally and internationally.

RAPPORTEUR Novelita Wahyu Mondamina

Identifying the impacts of forestry climate change research in NZ

using a government sector focused fund as a case study.

Ian Holman, Cranfield University, United Kingdom

Evaluating the effectiveness of adaptation, mitigation and

transformation pathways under high-end scenarios

Katharina Hölscher, Dutch Research Institute For Transitions (drift),

Netherlands

Co-creating adaptation, mitigation and transformation pathways for

high-end scenarios

Pieter Pauw, German Development Institute (die), Germany

Adaptation under the UN climate negotiations: can Nationally

Determined Contributions (NDCs) push the agenda forward?

S314

VENUE 2.65

Wednesday 14h15 - 16h00

Communities: enhancing resilience

SESSION SUMMARY

Grass-root level adaptation is key to climate change resilience in any

country. There is often poor understanding of the level of

vulnerability and the measures communities undertake to adapt to

climate change. Livelihoods of rural communities depend directly

on ecological resources, while in turn, in the long run also influencing

these ecological systems. Hence the term socio-ecological system is

used to denote these interactions. Up to date information on the

resilience of socio-ecological systems to climate change risks in

different regions, especially in developing countries is scanty. This

session provides evidence of grass-root level response to climate

change to enhance resilience in different socio-ecological systems.

SPEAKERS

Jamie Shinn, West Virginia University , United States

Toward Anticipatory Adaptation: Transforming social-ecological

vulnerabilities in the Okavango Delta, Botswana

Parvin Sultana, Middlesex University, Bangladesh

Adaptive learning networks, cooperation and adaptation in

floodplain management

Bob Offei Manteaw, Africa Resilience Collaborative, Ghana

Pro-Poor Adaptation: Socio-Ecological Resilience and Adaptation

Governance in Marginalized Livelihood Systems in Africa

Camila Donatti, Conservation International, United States

People's responses to climate change in sub-Saharan Africa and

their impacts on nature

Wei Liu, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (iiasa),

Austria

Researcher-Practitioner Partnership to Enhance Community

Resilience Building

CHAIR Pauline Dube, University of Botswana,

Botswana

RAPPORTEUR Thomas Tanner

S318

VENUE 2.66

Wednesday 14h15 - 16h00

Climate Services – The quest for

usefulness and integrity!

SESSION SUMMARY

The challenge facing Climate Services in the many user sectors is

focused on how to produce accurate, fit-for-purpose, contextual

and effective products. The presentations in this session investigate

various types of climate information, often reliant on advancing and

changing climate science, and how this information can be

moulded through co-creation with users through multiple

interactions and engagements. Practical examples from real cases

studies are cited to reveal challenges, some solutions and

recommendations for future endeavours. In each case the

significance of the research is revealed to give insight into how the

future of Climate Services can be shaped to maximise the benefits.

SPEAKERS

Roop Singh, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, Netherlands

Reality of Resilience: Early Action during the 2016-17 Drought in East

Africa

Dmitrii Kovalevskii, GERICS, Germany

Size matters - Innovation in Climate Service Provision for Local

Application

Angela Michiko Hama, Federal Office of Meteorology and

Climatology Meteoswiss, Switzerland

The Swiss National Centre for Climate Services: a national

coordination and innovation mechanism for climate-sensitive

decision-making

Elizabeth Minchew, Tufts University, United States

Building robust climate information systems: Differentiating between

disaster and adaptation in Papua New Guinea

Karin André, Stockholm Environment Institute, Sweden

Science-stakeholder interaction to support adaptation decision-

making to natural hazards: challenges and opportunities to meeting

stakeholder needs

Claire Scannell, Met Office UK, UK

Inclusive co-production for effective adaptive service development

within WISER (Weather and Climate Information Services for Africa):

Lessons learned from Phase 1 and approach for Phase2

Johan Malherbe, CSIR, South Africa

Enhancing the Extreme Climate Index (ECI) to monitor climate

extremes for an index-based insurance scheme across Africa

CHAIR Peter Johnston, University of Cape Town,

South Africa

Peter Johnston is a climate scientist at

the University of Cape Town. His research

focuses on the applications and impacts

of climate variability and change on

various user sectors. He specialises in

agriculture and water related activities

with special emphasis on vulnerability

and adaptation options. His interests and

involvements have taken him to many

African countries to learn from and

contribute to other water and

agricultural adaptive practices to

climate change and variability.

Recent research included the

application of models to determine the

financial impacts and sustainable

adaptation options for agricultural under

climate change scenarios for

commercial and small scale farmers.

Other work is focused on the climate risks

and decision-making time frames

associated with agriculture and food

security for Western Cape Department

of Agriculture, and the impact of climate

change on the financial vulnerability of

maize, grape, wheat and citrus farmers

in South Africa.

RAPPORTEUR Janet Selato

S309

VENUE 2.45

Wednesday 16h30 - 18h15

Agriculture: knowledge systems

SESSION SUMMARY

Sustainably boosting agricultural productivity despite the upsurge in

climate variability has become an urgent priority for farming

communities concerned about food securty. This session will focus

on adaptation to climate change at the agricultural systems level in

various countries and sectors. During this section, we will share

knowledge learned from the application of Farmers’ Clubs model,

use of historical rainfall trends for future rainfall projections, analyses

of sociological aspects of the RftR and interrogate knowledge gap

and practices employed by smallholder farmers for climate change

adaptation. The session involves academics, researchers,

government representative and civil society groups from different

countries engaged in various discussions and knowledge sharing .

SPEAKERS

Hoang Vo Thi Minh, Wageningen University & Research - WUR,

Netherlands

Local Farmer’s Perception on the Role of Room for the River in

Livelihoods: Case Study in An Giang Province, Vietnam

Phares Christian, University Of Cape Coast, Ghana

Indigenous knowledge, practice and challenges associated with

soil-crop adaptation strategies to climate change in coastal

savannah drylands of Ghana

David Kerkhofs, The Federation for Associations connected to the

International Humana People to People Movement, Zimbabwe

Building resilience and adaptive capacity to climate change and

climate variability in rural farming communities: the Farmers' Clubs

approach analyzed.

Novelita Wahyu Mondamina, su-re.co (Sustainability and Resilience

Co.), Indonesia

The role of the Championship Approach in Climate Smart Agriculture

to achieve Sustainable Coffee Farming in Bali and NTT, Indonesia

Obed Ogega, Kenyatta University, Kenya

Integrating indigenous and scientific climate knowledge as an

adaptation option for coastal smallholder farmers in Kilifi, Kenya

Saeid Soufizadeh, Department of Agroecology, Environmental

Sciences Research Institute, Shahid Beheshti University, Iran

Understanding weather signal and adaptation strategies in dryland

barley production in Iran

CHAIR Stephen Yeboah, CSIR-Crops Research

Institute, Ghana

Stephen is a Research Scientist who has

conducted extensive research in the

areas of crop and soil resource

management and environmental

management. He has developed a

number of technologies which have

improved the livelihoods of resource-

poor farmers. His research priority is to

improve understanding of plant

responses to the environment.

RAPPORTEUR Soundarya Iyer

S326

VENUE 2.45

Thursday 9h15 - 11h00

Resourcing Adaptation

SESSION SUMMARY

This session will focus on maximizing finance for adaptation by

leveraging investments from public and private, national and global,

­—in both capital and capacity. The session will bring together

experiences from practitioners on lessons and challenges, as well as

innovative and strategic ways in accessing adaptation finance

through country level examples from Africa, and across different

sectors including agriculture, water, and infrastructure. The

importance of consultative and multi-stakeholder processes in

identification of bankable pipeline and investor-ready projects, to

support implementation of national climate change strategies under

the Paris Agreement will be discussed—to inform the broader

adaptation finance strategy.

SPEAKERS

Florence Crick, LSE, United Kingdom

How do African SMEs respond to climate risks? Evidence from Kenya

and Senegal

Judy Lawrence, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

The case for new climate change adaptation funding instruments:

Lessons from a New Zealand perspective

Kamleshan Pillay, University Of Witwatersrand, South Africa

An evaluation of the effectiveness of Disaster Risk Financing

instruments in contributing to climate adaptation

Arjuna Srinidhi, Watershed Organisation Trust, India

Cost of climate change adaptation in semi-arid regions – estimates

from central India

Laura Canevari, Acclimatise, United Kingdom

Understanding climate service needs in the legal and financial

sectors: reflections on the MARCO and EU-MACS projects

Crispus Njeru, Care International In Kenya, Kenya

Strengthening civil society organization readiness for the Green

Climate Fund through capacity building and access to climate

information resources

CHAIR Arame Tall, World Bank, USA

RAPPORTEUR Muhammad Nawaz

S353

VENUE 2.64

Thursday 9h15 - 11h00

River basins and coastal regions: case

studies

SESSION SUMMARY

This session draws from a diverse set of case studies (Bangladesh,

Mauritius, Netherlands, Brazil, and India) all of which share a

commonality in their geographic setting: they are located within river

basins and coastal regions. The theme of this session broadly centers

on understanding the localized socio-economic impacts of climate

change both currently and into the future, identifying barriers to

adaptation strategies within these regions, and in cases where

adaptation strategies are being implemented, how such strategies

may in return lead to mal-adaptive impacts. Interestingly some of the

case studies delve deeper into the relationship between risk,

vulnerability and hazard, and place emphasis on understanding how

risk and vulnerability may in effect be produced and compounded

by institutional deficits and socio-political drivers

SPEAKERS

Jaap Kwadijk, Deltares, Netherlands

What if accelerating sea level rise threatens the Dutch delta?

Stefano Moncada, University Of Malta, Malta

Climate Coping Strategies and Long-Term Adaptive Capacity in

Vulnerable Coastal Communities of SIDS

Saiyedatun Nesa, Ministry of Local government, Rural development

and Cooperatives, Bangladesh

Assessing climate change adaptation in the coastal region of

Bangladesh: Challenges and solutions.

Layla Nunes Lambiasi, GVces FGV, Brazil

Cost-Benefit Analysis of Adaptation Measures for a River Basin in

Northeast Brazil

Rupak Jha, Indian Institute Of Technology Bombay, India

Reassessing embankments as adaptation strategies: Case of Kosi

river, India

CHAIR Darryl Colenbrander, City of Cape Town,

South Africa

Darryl Colenbrander currently heads up

coastal policy and management

programmes for the City of Cape Town.

Included within his responsibility is the

development and implementation of

coastal adaptation strategies that strive

to achieve the tricky balance between

promoting socio-economic redress via

coastal nodal development, whilst

simultaneously ensuring that such

development is risk averse. Darryl is

currently linking his City work with a PhD

in the governance of coastal risk at the

local scale, undertaken through the

University of Amsterdam, the

Netherlands.

RAPPORTEUR Mofizur Rahman

S402

VENUE 2.65

Thursday 9h15 - 11h00

Climate Services 3

SESSION SUMMARY

The Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS), established in

2009, recommends that the engagement of climate information

developers and users apply a co-design and co-production

approach in the packaging and dissemination of climate

information to enhance the quality, quantity and application of

climate services and thus build resilience. This session will present and

discuss different approaches for these engagements as well as the

relevance, effectiveness and limitations of the methodologies

applied in different regions of the world.

SPEAKERS

Shona Paterson, University College Cork, Ireland

Is there a right way to assess climate risk?

Sara De Wit, University Of Oxford, United Kingdom

Victims or Masters of Adaptation?

How the idea of adaptation to climate change travels to northern

Tanzania

Benjamin Malunda, University Of Fort Hare, South Africa

Using the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) for short-term

drought, a review.

Louise Beveridge, University Of Leeds, United Kingdom

Climate-informed and locally relevant adaptation strategies: a

possibility or a paradox?

James Hansen, Columbia University, United States

Can rural climate services meet context-specific needs, and still be

scalable? Experience in Rwanda

CHAIR Genito Maure, University Eduardo

Mondlane, Mozambique

Genito Maure, a Fondation Prince Albert

II de Monaco First IPCC Scholarship

Programme awardee, is a Mozambican

researcher, based at the Eduardo

Mondlane University in Maputo,

Mozambique. He holds a PhD Degree in

Environmental and Geographical

Science by the University of Cape Town

- South Africa, with expertise in climate

modeling. He is the PI for Maputo City in

the FRACTAL Project.

RAPPORTEUR Luiz Bacelar

S327

VENUE 2.66

Thursday 9h15 - 11h00

Pastoralists/Transhumance

SESSION SUMMARY

The pastoralist way of life in the arid and semi-arid regions of sub-

Saharan Africa is increasingly under threat as climate change

interacts with and exacerbates existing stressors, such as

desertification and constraints on mobility, and creates new ones,

such as growing conflicts between pastoralists and farmers. This

session introduces several case studies that aim to improve our

knowledge and understanding of the risks and vulnerabilities

pastoralists face; the coping and adaptive responses they have

adopted; and possible new policies and practices that could

contribute to enhancing the adaptive capacity and livelihood

resilience of this group into the future.

SPEAKERS

Neema Kitasho, Sokoine University Of Agriculture, United Republic of

Tanzania

Pastoral adaptive capacity in the changing climate

Ignatius Madu, University of Nigeria Nsukka, Nigeria

Spatial vulnerability to Climate Change induced farmer- herder

conflicts in rural Nigeria: Assessment towards evidence based

adaptation policy

Ndiaye Saboury, Projet de Développement Agricole de Matam,

Senegal

Impact de l’adoption d’innovations intentionnelles et

technologiques sur la sécurité alimentaire et le revenu des ménages

pastoraux au Sénégal.

Claire Bedelian, University College London, United Kingdom

The role of land tenure in pastoralist climate change adaptation

strategies and investment options in Kajiado County, Kenya

Jennifer Leavy, University Of East Anglia, United Kingdom

Migrating out of the countryside: Mobility, Education, Food Aid,

Household-Splitting as Strategies for Coping with Persistent Drought in

Awash, Ethiopia

Deborah Muricho, University Of Nairobi Kenya, Kenya

Strengthening Participation in Markets: an opportunity to Build

Pastoralists’ Resilience in West Pokot County, Kenya

CHAIR

Sheona Shackleton, University of Cape

Town, South Africa

Sheona Shackleton is Deputy Director of

the ACDI, University of Cape Town. Much

of her recent work relates to

understanding linked changes in

livelihoods and landscapes. She has had

a long-term interest in the contribution of

ecosystems services to human well-

being, especially in relation to poverty

alleviation and reducing vulnerability.

RAPPORTEUR Shouvik Das

S319

VENUE 2.64

Thursday 11h30 - 13h15

Joint knowledge production for

actionable climate services:

implementing a value chain

approach

SESSION SUMMARY

For sustained climate resilient development, systematic climate-

informed decision making through the provision of customized

products and service, is a prerequisite. If based on good information

and engagement that are informed by solid physical and social

science methodologies, climate services should be ample enough

to monitor, assess, and project -to the extent possible- most types of

climate risks. While several countries around the world are supporting

investments to strengthen their hydro-meteorological systems, the

development of quality and customized climate services that could

inform and help users and decision makers to manage climate risks

remains a challenge. This session will highlight approaches, lessons

learned, and key gaps for developing climate services at different

levels of engagement and development planning.

SPEAKERS

Kazi Fateha Ahmed, The World Bank Group, United States

e-Platform on Climate Services for Resilient Development: A Guide

for Practitioners and Policy Makers

Asa Gerger Swartling, Stockholm Environment Institute, Sweden

Joint knowledge production for improved climate services: Insights

from the Swedish forestry sector

Johannes Beck, SASSCAL, Namibia

Towards an integrated pan-African research infrastructure network

for long-term climate change monitoring

Lenice Ojwang, Cordio East Africa, Kenya

Assessing the use of climate information in local adaptation

planning: a case study of county governments in Kenya

Rebecca Sarku, Wageningen University/University for Development

Studies, Netherlands

Freesale, Wholesale and Retail of Hydro-Meteorological Information

Services to Farmers: Case of Farming in the Urbanising Volta River

Delta, Ghana

CHAIR Ana Bucher, World Bank, USA

Dr. Ana Bucher is a Senior Climate

Change Specialist at the Climate

Change Group of the World Bank. She

leads several initiatives regarding

mainstreaming of adaptation to climate

change, including climate information

and risks assessments. Her work has

focused on understanding the science

and the impacts of climate change and

adaptation measures particularly on

agriculture and natural resource

management (NRM), as well as

mainstreaming climate change within

cross-cutting initiatives. She leads the

development of the World Bank Climate

Change Knowledge Portal, an online

tool with climate and climate related

data. Through the CCKP, she works in the

‘translation’ of climate information for

resilient development and the

enhancement of climate services. Ana

has more than twelve years of

experience in the research,

development, and management of

international programmatic activities

and research projects related to climate

change, agriculture, rural development,

and long-term environmental

sustainability and climate smart strategic

planning. She holds a Ph.D. in Soil

Science from the Pennsylvania State

University and a B.Sc. in Biological

Chemistry from the University of

Cordoba, Argentina.

RAPPORTEUR Obed Ogega

S313

VENUE 2.65

Thursday 11h30 - 13h15

Community based adaptation

SESSION SUMMARY

Papers in this session explore adaptation responses at the local and

community level drawing from experiences from diverse

geographies including coastal and mountain regions, small islands,

river floodplains and the Arctic – all of which are recognized as

particularly vulnerable to climate risks. Papers explore the

determinants and drivers of adaptation responses, including the role

of social capital, institutions and traditional knowledge. Papers in the

session also look at the linkages between adaptation and

sustainable development; within the local / community context.

Bringing local and community perspectives into the larger policy

debates will be an important contribution of this session.

SPEAKERS

Krishna Malakar, Indian Institute of Technology, India

Facilitators of adaptation responses in urban, semi-urban and rural

marine fishing communities: A comparative analysis

Johanna Nalau, Griffith University, Australia

Assessing adaptive capacity and adaptation: insights from Samoan

tourism operators

Denise Margaret Matias, Deutsches Institut Für Entwicklungspolitik

And Central European University, Germany

Determinants of adaptive capacity of an indigenous mountain

community in Palawan, Philippines

Agwu Ekwe Agwu, University Of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria

Climate change vulnerability and adaptation in riverine communities

of southern Nigeria

Luís Manuel Alves, University Lusophone of Humanities and

Technologies, Portugal

The importance of local knowledge and institutions for climate

change adaptation in SIDS: the case of the Atlantic developing

islands.

Rob Marchant, University of York, United Kingdom

Past and Future land use, population and climate change trends

across African Mountains: implications and challenges for

Sustainable Mountain Development

Dragana Bojovic, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain

A changing Arctic – dialogues from the North

CHAIR Anand Patwardhan

Anand Patwardhan is Professor in the

School of Public Policy at the University of

Maryland, College Park. Anand has

worked extensively in the area of climate

policy at the national and multilateral

level, focusing on the assessment of

vulnerability and adaptation and the

linkages with sustainable development.

RAPPORTEUR Merelyn Valdivia

S301

VENUE 2.66

Thursday 11h30 - 13h15

Cities and decision-making

SESSION SUMMARY

This session describes experiences and progress at the coal face of

urban adaptation decision making including decision support tools,

decision making frameworks, and approaches to mainstreaming

climate risk into development planning. The focus on decision

support is balanced by perspectives and new insights into the

challenging realities and opportunities of the political economy in

the urban space and recognition of the challenges that historical

spatial configurations and entrenched inequality present to

adaptation decision making.

SPEAKERS

Meryl Jagarnath, University Of Kwazulu-natal, South Africa

Climate change adaptation using urban spatial planning: Conflicts

and synergies with mitigation and development

Sadie McEvoy, Deltares / Delft University Of Technology, Netherlands

Using planning support tools for participatory adaptation planning in

cities – experiences from the global north and south

Kavya Michael, Indian Institute For Human Settlements, India

The Political Economy of Climate Change and Vulnerability in a

Neoliberal City: A Case of Bengalaru’s Informal Settlements

Willemien Van Niekerk, CSIR, South Africa

Place-based adaptation solutions for South African settlements –

future risk trajectory, urbanisation challenges, development goals

and good practice

Willem Colenbrander, Kulima Integrated Development Solutions

(pty) Ltd, South Africa

A methodology for mainstreaming climate resilience into local

development plans

Prakriti Naswa, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

Adaptation Decision Support Methods: Cost Curves for adaptation

action in three ports of India

Russell Wise, Csiro, Australia

From data to analysis to workflows: typologies supporting the

introduction of climate risks into policy decision-making by non-

experts

CHAIR Chris Jack, UCT, South Africa

RAPPORTEUR Feirully Irzal Zeiroeddin

S316

VENUE 2.62

Thursday 11h30 - 13h15

Transformative EbA

SESSION SUMMARY

Under climate change, radically transforming our relationship with

nature has become a necessity, both to mitigate our impact and to

build resilience in the face of dramatic changes in our environment.

Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) recognised as a key approach

to respond to cope with the impacts of climate change, and

respond to climate risks. But are all ‘nature-based solutions’ effective

at transforming the human-nature interaction? Are there unintended

ecological or social impacts of such interventions?

This session will explore the concept of and need for transformative

adaptation, and what makes for effective, sustainable, systemic

transformational changes. The presentations will feature research

and case studies about EbA interventions around the world.

SPEAKERS

Arturo Esclamado Pasa, Visayas State University, Philippines

Enhancing community participation in forest landscape restoration

for climate change mitigation/ adaptation and food security: ACIAR

experiences in Biliran, Philippines

Nikhil Advani, World Wildlife Fund, United States

Implementing on the ground adaptation projects

David Lapola, University Of Campinas, Brazil

Climate change adaptation measures to curtail the unacceptable

risk of an Amazon forest dieback

Giacomo Fedele, Conservation International, United States

Characteristics of transformative adaptation to climate change

Julian Swinkels, University College London, United Kingdom

How climate change adaptation interventions (trans)form the

human nature relationship: looking at ecosystem based adaptation

mechanisms in Panchase, Nepal

Sylvia Wicander, UNEP-WCMC, United Kingdom

Increasing private sector use of nature based solutions for addressing

climate risk: options, barriers and enablers

CHAIR

Noelle Garcin, African Climate Reality

Project / Food & Trees for Africa, South

Africa

With a background in political science

and education rights, Noelle Garcin

been working with the African Climate

Reality Project since 2016, driven by her

passion to promote greater harmony

between Earth’s natural systems and

human activities. She is currently

dedicating her time to encouraging

greater citizen engagement with the

South African legislature on accelerating

a low-carbon, climate-resilient and just

socio-economic pathway in the country.

RAPPORTEUR Anu Adhikari

S306

VENUE 2.45

Thursday 11h30 - 13h15

Agriculture: opportunities and

challenges in agricultural adaptation

SESSION SUMMARY

This session brings together work from Latin America & the

Caribbean, southern Africa, and Asia and the Pacific region, around

challenges and opportunities in agricultural adaptation. The six

studies address a range of technology- and policy-related issues in

different environments. Several common factors from the studies can

be highlighted, including the importance of working with and

coordinating multiple actors, the necessity of an interdisciplinary

focus, developing stakeholders’ capacities, and acting at multiple

scales. The session will strive to identify the lessons learned that may

be transferable to other situations, in relation to the decision-making

options available for managing key agricultural risks, in the search for

feasible climate resilient development pathways.

SPEAKERS

Laura Canevari, Acclimatise, United Kingdom

Can supply chains gain competitive advantages by becoming more

climate resilient?

Amy Savage, School Of Public Health, University Of Queensland,

Australia

Vanuatu case study: Opportunities and challenges in climate

change adaptation and food and nutrition security

Olivier CRESPO, CSAG - University of Cape Town, South Africa

Nation-wide interdisciplinary assessments of climate change impacts

on agriculture for adaptation planning

Olga Laiza Kupika, Chinhoyi University Of Technology, Zimbabwe

Rural local institutions and climate change adaptation at the

agriculture wildlife interface in the Middle Zambezi Biosphere

Reserve, Zimbabwe.

Karan Misquitta, Watershed Organisation Trust, India

Micro-Irrigation at the Margins: Unpacking Technological Choice

and Barriers to uptake in Semi-Arid India

Varaidzo Chinokwetu, Chinhoyi University Of Technology, Zimbabwe

Examining barriers and opportunities for sustainable adaptation to

climate change for smallholder farmers in semi-arid Zimbabwe

CHAIR Philip Thornton, CGIAR, Kenya

Philip Thornton leads the research

flagship on “Priorities and policies for

climate-smart agriculture” for the CGIAR

Research Program on Climate Change,

Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS),

hosted at the International Livestock

Research Institute (ILRI) in Nairobi, Kenya.

Based in the UK, he has over thirty years’

experience in agricultural research for

development in many regions of the

world.

RAPPORTEUR Bhavana Kuchimanchi

S323

VENUE 1.42

Thursday 14h15 - 16h00

Climate and Health

SESSION SUMMARY

SPEAKERS

Tegan Blaine, U.S. Agency for International Development, United

States

Understanding and Responding to Evolving Disease Risks Under a

Changing Climate

Samuel Sellers, University Of Washington, United States

Climate change and health under the Shared Socioeconomic

Pathway framework

Hester Nyasulu, Goal , Malawi

Integrating positive climate change adaptations and Sexual

reproductive health/family planning behaviors amongst youth in

Malawi: Insights from the PaMawa project

Bianca van Bavel, University of Leeds, United Kingdom

Connecting knowledge to co-produce public health surveillance

systems that reflect climate change and support adaptation.

CHAIR Hanna-Andrea Rother, University of

Cape Town, South Africa

RAPPORTEUR Sagar Pokharel

S300

VENUE 2.45

Thursday 14h15 - 16h00

Cities and adaptation

SESSION SUMMARY

SPEAKERS

Noah Chongo, Climate Protection Zambia, Zambia

Urban Living Lab for Climate Adaptive Peri-Urban Dry Sanitation:

Case of Madimba Settlement, Zambia.

Arshad Ali, Czech University Of Life Sciences, Czech Republic

Adaptation challenges to EEE hazardous substances environmental

legislations and related gaps in developing countries: A case study

of Pakistan

Rick Heikoop, Rotterdam University Of Applied Sciences,

Netherlands

City Scan Method

Thandizo Malaidza, Mangochi District Council, Malawi

Climate change adaptation financing challenges in Malawian cities:

Evidence from 2017 Lilongwe and Mzuzu City Floods.

Eulalia Gomez, Climate Service Center (gerics), Germany

Vulnerability of socio-ecological systems under urbanisation and

climate change

Gabriela Di Giulio, University Of Sao Paulo, Brazil

Towards mainstreaming climate change adaptation into urban

sustainability: a challenge for Brazilian cities

CHAIR Mandy Ikert, C40

RAPPORTEUR Madhuri Gotety

S342

VENUE 2.66

Thursday 14h15 - 16h00

Gender, culture and livelihood

outcomes

SESSION SUMMARY

This session presents research findings on gendered impacts and

responses to climate change in developing countries. It shows how

culture and power relations mediates household responses to

climate change impacts on livelihood and natural resources. The

points of discussions include how intersections of gender, culture and

household structure lead to different livelihood outcomes. The six

presentations demonstrate with research evidences why gendered

vulnerabilities, existing gendered injustices and differentiated access

to productive resources need to be addressed in climate change

policy and actions.

SPEAKERS

Olawale F. Olaniyan, University Of The Gambia, Gambia

Policy and stakeholders’ perspectives to improving the Gambian

women livestock farmers’ adaptation strategies

María Inés Rivadeneira, Universidad De Girona, Spain

Gender and biodiversity political approach in Ecuador: dimensions

of justice on climate change

Saadatu Umaru Baba, Kaduna State University, Nigeria

Gender, Culture & Adaptation among smallholder farming

households in rural Northern Nigeria

Séka Régis Fidèle Anon, Ecole Supérieure D’agronomie, Inphb,

Yamoussoukro and Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques , Côte

d'Ivoire

ECONOMIC VULNERABILITY OF WOMEN VEGETABLE FAMERS AND

ADAPTATION STRATEGIES CLIMATE CHANGE IN KORHOGO

Baa Enokenwa Ojong.E, Rhodes University, South Africa

Gender, Culture, and Natural Resource Use: How This Play in the Baka

Communities

CHAIR Margaret Angula, University of Namibia,

Namibia

Margaret Angula is a senior Lecturer at

the University of Namibia, a PhD

candidate at the University of Cape

Town and an ASSAR (Adaptation at

Scale in Semi-Arid Regions) Namibian

case lead. Her research focus is on

Climate change vulnerability and

adaptation with a particular focus on

gender and intersectionality.

RAPPORTEUR Thomas Tanner

S305

VENUE 2.64

Thursday 14h15 - 16h00

Agriculture: co-creation and

collaboration in agricultural

adaptation

SESSION SUMMARY

The session will present experiences from Africa, India, New Zealand

and Finland relating to participation of farmers and other role-players

in the co-design of adaption pathways, creation of innovative

solutions and avoidance of maladaptation in the agricultural sector.

The factors that are crucial for successful co-creation and

collaboration will be presented and strategies to minimise negative

trade-offs and maximise co-benefits will be explored. Coordination

across sectors will be examined, including evidence of how

internationally driven climate change adaptation mainstreaming

has addressed coordination issues in developing countries. The vital

role of coherent policy and coordinated action between sectors will

be emphasised.

SPEAKERS

Francis Steyn, Department Of Agriculture, South Africa

Berg River Camino project: A sustainable journey from source to sea.

Sandra Bhatasara, University Of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe

Defying the scientific logic: Resilience builders to adapt to climate

variability in rural Zimbabwe

Joanna Pardoe, London School Of Economics, United Kingdom

Cross-sectoral collaboration and the water-energy-food nexus:

Lessons from Policy and Practice in Tanzania

Bhavana Kuchimanchi, Wageningen University & Research &

Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR), India

Understanding farming system transitions and their impact on

livelihoods, social inclusion and the environment in semi-arid

Telangana, India

Janina Käyhkö, Helsinki Institute Of Sustainability Science, Finland

Risk perception and decision making in agricultural adaptation – a

case study in the Nordic context

Sabine Homann-Kee Tui, International Crops Research For The Semi-

arid Tropics, Zimbabwe

Co- designing sustainable adaptation pathways for agriculture and

the environment: Experience from research focused on smallholder

farming in semi-arid Zimbabwe

Nicholas Cradock-Henry, Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research,

New Zealand

Co-creating adaptation pathways for food and wine futures in

Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand

CHAIR Noel Oettle, Adaptation Network, South

Africa

With the Environmental Monitoring

Group in Nieuwoudtville South Africa

since 1998, 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 Nipon Poapongsakorn

S401

VENUE 2.65

Thursday 14h15 - 16h00

Adaptation finance

SESSION SUMMARY

Maximizing financing for adaptation and development is an

emerging global theme. The demand and scale of financing

needed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals exceeds

the available financing. Leveraging finance is one key feature of the

Climate Investment Funds’ (CIF) Pilot Program for Climate Resilience

(PPCR). PPCR funding is instrumental in mainstreaming climate

resilience into core development planning, by helping overcome

barriers to investment in resilience (in FY17, US$1 billion of PPCR

funding has leveraged US$2 billion of co-financing from MDBs,

private sector and government). The session will discuss different MFD

approaches promoting investment in climate resilience.

SPEAKERS

Virginie Fayolle, Acclimatise, United Kingdom

Demystifying adaptation: Can an adaptation project be bankable?

Adis Dzebo, Stockholm Environment Institute, Sweden

Private sector finance for NDC implementation in sub-Saharan

Africa’s agriculture sector

Sharmala Naidoo, Climate Resilient Infrastructure Development

Facility, South Africa

Financing climate resilient transboundary water projects in SADC:

case studies and lessons learned from the GCF

Shravya Reddy, Pegasys Strategy And Development, South Africa

Developing an investment-ready, green-economy project pipeline

for climate resilience funding: lessons from Rwanda and Kenya (2017-

2018).

CHAIR

Raúl Alfaro-Pelico, Lead Climate

Change Specialist, World Bank

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).

RAPPORTEUR Dethie Soumare Ndiaye

S315

VENUE 2.44

Thursday 14h15 - 16h00

EbA approaches

SESSION SUMMARY

This session explores various aspects of what might contribute to the

effectiveness of ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) or nature-

based solutions (NbS) for climate change adaptation, drawing from

a global level literature review to several case studies from six

countries in the global south. Aspects investigated in the series of

papers include: what influences decision making and the choice of

responses; the importance of considering hydrid approaches; how

to ensure the sustainability of EbA investments; and the necessity for

participatory approaches that include local communities,

stakeholders and, in an interesting case study from Colombia,

educational institutions.

SPEAKERS

Felipe Gomez, Giz, Colombia

Engaging schools and universities in Ecosystem based Climate

Change Adaptation in Cartagena, Colombia

Bruno Locatelli, Cirad, Cifor, University Of Montpellier, Peru

How do conflicting values on ecosystem-based adaptation interact

in decision-making?

Margarita Caso, National Institute Of Ecology And Climate Change,

Mexico

Facing Climate Change Impacts in Coastal Wetlands of the Gulf of

Mexico through Ecosystem-Based Adaptation and Hybrid Measures

Alexandre Chausson, Oxford University, United Kingdom

How effective are Nature-based Solutions to climate change

adaptation? Assessing and mapping the evidence base

Anthony Mills, C4 EcoSolutions, South Africa

Ecosystem-based adaptation in the Seychelles, Mauritania and

Nepal: using adaptive management to achieve sustainability

CHAIR

Sheona Shackleton, University of Cape

Town, South Africa

Sheona Shackleton is Deputy Director of

the ACDI, University of Cape Town. Much

of her recent work relates to

understanding linked changes in

livelihoods and landscapes. She has had

a long-term interest in the contribution of

ecosystems services to human well-

being, especially in relation to poverty

alleviation and reducing vulnerability.

RAPPORTEUR Keshav Prasad Khanal