Monday | 17 October 2016

07:30~08:45

Registration 
 


08:45~09:00

Delegates take their seats
 


09:00~09:15

Openining Ceremony: Lighting of the Lamp
 


09:15~09:45

Welcome
 


09:45~10:45

APAN Forum Opening Plenary

High Level Panel Discussions


10:45~11:30

Tea
 


11:30~13:00

Plenary Session:  Adaptation Planning
 


13:00~14:00

Lunch
 


14:00~15:30

PARALLEL SESSIONS 1

 

Developing legal frameworks for adaptation planning


S1-PS.1A Developing legal frameworks for adaptation planning
S1-PS.1B Enhancing political processes in support of NAPs

Legal frameworks to support adaptation planning and the political processes related to fostering ministerial cooperation on adaptation and to making climate change adaptation a relevant topic for sector ministries will be addressed in this session.  Examples from the region, with a session on South Asia, will cover policies, mandates, and legislations and the resulting climate change adaptation challenges that living under 2°C presents.


 

S2-PS.1 Mainstreaming climate finance into national and local budgets

With a comprehensive regional snapshot of the nature of the challenges and early successes that have been achieved to mainstream climate adaptation into budgeting and filling financing gaps for adaptation, speakers will share their experiences and practical insights from developing integrated climate change financing frameworks that systematize climate risk-informed planning into budgeting at national and sub-national level. The benefits of undertaking such reforms and the technical requirements to operationalize budget coding, expenditure tracking, and quantifying climate finance requirements in key sectors will be unpacked through diverse examples across the Asian region.


 

S3-PS.1  Climate Services

This session will aim at taking stock of the range of climate services and products that are used to inform decision making, and anticipate and manage climate risks. How they are structured, how they operate, and the experiences and challenges in their use and provision will be addressed by our panel of speakers.


 

S4-PS.1 Adaptation knowledge networks: Lessons from the region

Adaptation knowledge networks in different regions are developing their own approaches to adaptation knowledge exchange. These approaches including establishment of Communities of Practice, focused use of webinars, and other forms of both face-to-face and web-based communication. The session will provide an opportunity to share experiences and learn best practices from each other.


15:30~16:00

Tea
 


16:00~17:30

Official Opening

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18:00~19:30

 

Networking Reception
 


 

DISCLAIMER: The information on the sessions and their schedules is subject to change and may be updated by the APAN at any time at its discretion. Final room assignments will be confirmed on or before the Forum dates.

Tuesday | 18 October 2016

09:00~10:30

Day 2 Opening Plenary Session

Ministerial Panel Debate 


10:30~11:00

Tea
 


11:00~12:30

PARALLEL SESSIONS 2

 

Coordinating policy initiatives for adaptation

S1-PS.2A South Asia
S1-PS.2B East and Southeast Asia

While there has been mobilization of resources to ensure disaster preparedness of climate change-affected population in the region, development policies are often not supportive enough to enhance the community resilience.  This session will share experiences from a wide group of stakeholders on building coherence between existing knowledge on adaptation linked with national planning processes; as well as opportunities to align to Sendai Framework on DRR and SDGs.


 

S2-PS.2 Engaging the private sector: building the business case for adaptation

Selected private sector representatives will provide an overview of the importance of engaging the private sector in identifying climate change risks, response measures, and adaptation measures. Specialists will share lessons from adaptation projects supported by climate funds.


 

S3-PS.2 Resilient Infrastructure

This session will aim to highlight the success factors, challenges, gaps and limitations of approaches that reduce climate change vulnerabilities and/or increase climate resilience of infrastructure investments across different sectors and levels. It will bring the perspective of relevant actors, including technical agencies, country representatives, private sector entities, academia, etc. through case-studies.


 

S4-PS.2 Deployment and scale-up of adaptation technology solutions: ensuring project readiness and attracting investment

This session will focus on Adaptation technology priorities in the region and opportunities to increase investment in their innovation and deployment.  Practitioners' insights will be shared on priority adaptation technologies and opportunities to strengthen different stakeholders including multilateral donors, private sector, financial institutions to invest in technology and facilitate technology transfer.


12:30~13:30

LUNCH
 


13:30~15:00

PARALLEL SESSIONS 3

 

Approaches to foster participation in adaptation planning

S1-PS.3A Session 3A: Meeting the Inclusion Challenge
S1-PS.3B Session 3B:  Closing the Knowledge-Policy-Practice Loop

Experiences from academia, civil society and governments around a theme of achieving an inclusive adaptation planning that reaches the most vulnerable populations will be shared in this session. Speakers will present mechanisms and approaches for engaging non-governmental actors, communities, and vulnerable groups in participatory planning and explore these implications for scaling up adaptation planning.


 

S2-PS.3 International Financing for Climate Change Adaptation in Small Island Developing States (SIDS)

Selected country representatives from SIDS will provide an overview of the range of government activities currently being undertaken or considered to access and manage climate change adaptation finance, highlighting both successes and challenges. The speakers will provide a series of recommendations of how to tackle some of the major challenges related to financing and technical support requirements to pursue development objectives and climate resilience.


 

S3-PS.3  Collectively addressing Adaptation, Disaster Risk Reduction, and Loss & Damage

With the belief that it is important to learn from past risks by focusing on climate impacts as a result of extreme and slow-onset events, and adopting strategies to cope with them, the activities/projects shared in the session over Asia and the Pacific will share tangible outputs and approaches that will contribute to increased resilience and relevancy for the policy- and decision-making communities to effectively address residual loss and damage for extreme and slow-onset events.


 

S4-PS.3 The value of face-to-face contact in learning exchanges

A new initiative from GAN has been launched in 2016 to connect practitioners working on adaptation with their counterparts in other places, to enable them to learn from the experience of others.  The session will present the early results from the three learning exchanges and discuss the upscaling of the initiative in 2016. It will provide an opportunity for groups of practitioners who might be interested in participating in future Learning Exchanges to learn about the initiative.


15:00~15:30

Tea



15:30~17:00

PARALLEL SESSIONS 4

 

S1-PS.4A Prioritizing adaptation options for NAPs: using economics of adaptation at country level to build evidence

The use of economic analysis to understand the impacts of, and adaptation to, climate change on the local economy and on mainstreaming climate change risks into planning processes to ensure economically-efficient climate change strategies at the sectoral, sub-national and national levels cannot be understated. The session will provide country evidences and best practices from Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Viet Nam.

 

S1-PS.4B Coordinating regional collaboration on climate information to reduce coastal vulnerabilities

Many Asia-Pacific countries have broad coastal areas which are vulnerable to storm surges / storm waves.  A current methodology for the evaluation of climate change impacts on storm surge and storm wave hazards has been developed for small island development states (SIDS).  This session will discuss the best approaches, challenges and opportunities to expand the innovative methodology into the Asia-Pacific region. 


 

S2-PS.4 Experiences with accessing funds and lessons learned

We will hear stakeholder perspectives across countries and global climate finance mechanisms on priorities for financing for climate action. The discussion will focus on challenges, best practices, and experiences of national, regional and international actors on mobilizing, accessing, and implementing adaptation financing, including through the GEF and GCF.


 

S3.PS.4 Urban Environmental Services and Practices for Resilient Cities

The session will provide a comprehensive learning opportunity from variety of experiences across different cities involving multiple types of partnerships (B2G, B2C and B2B) for urban environmental services in the context of climate adaptation.  Dialogues among different cities and stakeholders to learn from each other’s experiences, the session will look to help to develop a set of guidelines for effective and efficient urban environmental services for resilient cities.


 

S4-PS.4 Informing decision-making and effective policy reform with research on adaptation measures

This session will showcase projects that support adaptation strategies for building resilience and will highlight the importance of science-policy interactions and of conveying this knowledge for informed decision-making processes and policy reform.  Speakers’ experiences, especially on reforming policy, will be highlighted and shared in this session.


17:00~17:15

Delegates to Main Hall  
 


17:15~18:45

Plenary Session

Financing for Adaptation


 

Wednesday | 19 October 2016

09:00~10:30

Day 3 Opening Plenary Session

Climate Resilient Development 


10:30~11:00

Tea
 


11:00~12:30

PARALLEL SESSIONS 5

 

S1-PS.5 Vertical integration: lessons from local level adaptation planning

As countries move towards inclusive national plans, it will ever be more important to ensure that adaptation planning considers bottom-up and flexible process that will identify the most vulnerable people allowing them to make informed decision on priority actions.  Experts will shed some light on how to overcome challenges in achieving developmental activities that are climate resilient with strong co-benefits for poverty reduction and ensure quality of governance at all levels.


 

S2-PS.5 Risk transfer and insurance

Risk transfer and climate insurance in climate change adaptation plays a key role to facilitate financing. This session will provide an opportunity to share experiences on developing insurance-related solutions to climate change and promoting loss reduction measures.


 

S3-PS.5 Ecosystem-Based Adaptation

Lessons and learnings from on-the-ground EBA examples and way forward


 

S4-PS.5A Effective multi-actor collaboration in advancing climate smart agriculture in the region

Bridging the gap between policy makers from the agricultural and climate change related  government bodies  and the cooperation with international research institutes, development agencies and the private sector, the session aims to discuss the opportunities and challenges in promoting climate- smart agriculture in ASEAN through such multi-actor collaboration. We will hear the lessons and experiences that should help lay the groundwork for better interface in an area that impacts so greatly on the lives of many people in the region.

S4-PS.5B Enhancing gender responsive adaptive capacity in communities

Participatory approaches in building adaptive capacity, specifically engaging women as leaders and as key pillars in community development, is indeed effective in improving the ability to prepare for an uncertain climate future. Experts from the communities themselves will share their experiences in the work that they are doing for building resilience.


12:30~13:30

LUNCH
 


13:30~15:00

PARALLEL SESSIONS 6

 

S1-PS.6A Horizontal integration: linking agriculture into adaptation plans

Our speakers will share their experiences on how to identify and integrate climate change adaptation measures for the agricultural sector into relevant national planning and budgeting processes.

S1-PS.6B Approaches to adaptation planning for food security through biodiversity

Biodiversity can play a significant part in providing the adaptability and increased resilience needed by farmers to meet the challenges of climate change and in improving the well-being of communities through increased incomes and better nutrition. This session discusses the experiences and challenges from two GEF-funded projects, and what lessons can be shared and opportunities for scaling will be possible for other countries in the region. 


 

S2-PS.6 Key Lessons from the Pilot Program for Climate Resilience

Selected government representatives will share their experience and lessons learned from accessing and implementing the PPCR with a focus on innovation and partnership arrangements. It is envisioned that practical government perspectives on the PPCR will prove relevant not only to resilience programs but reflect the essence of good development.


 

S3-PS.6 Integrated watershed management for climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction

Addressing certain weather-related natural disasters, especially flooding, requires management actions at the basin level.  This session, focusing on river flooding attributable to overexploitation of land and other natural resources and likely to be aggravated because of climate change, provides an opportunity to showcase regional experiences in watershed management as an approach to mitigate and prevent the natural disaster.


 

S4-PS.6 Promoting ASEAN Agriculture under the Paris Agreement

With the non-sectoral approach to climate action introduced in the Paris Agreement, ASEAN has identified building capacity in agriculture as a common position to pursue for its member nations.  Through stronger representation using a unified platform, our speakers will be sharing their perspectives on the journey towards their countries’ efforts in adapting their agricultural sectors to climate change and optimizing its potential.


15:00~15:30

Tea



15:30~17:00

PARALLEL SESSIONS 7

 

Approaches for monitoring and evaluating adaptation and resilience

S1-PS.7A Enhancing monitoring approaches and tools for adaptation planning
S1-PS.7B Operationalizing approaches for evaluating adaptation and resilience

Practical approaches to measuring adaptation and resilience in the context of climate extremes and disasters as well as the various methods that can be used to measure adaptation gains and resilience will be the focus in the session.  Our speakers will share their experiences on monitoring governance and the operationalization of approaches for evaluating adaptation and resilience.


 

S2-PS.7 Enabling access to climate finance:  experiences from the Asia-Pacific Region

With limited national funds, increasing urgency to adapt to climate change, and obligation under international agreements on climate change, countries increasingly need to access external funds to formulate and implement climate change adaptation efforts at the national level. Limited human resources and technical capacity act as a barrier for effective fund raising. This session will explore the experiences and lessons on enabling countries to access climate finance, the need for capacity building and the identification of potential opportunities to access available source of adaptation financing.


 

S3-PS.7 Low-carbon adaptation and the poverty alleviation programmes

It aims to explore a feasible approach that combines climate change adaptation, low-carbon development and poverty alleviation for sustainable development in rural communities, through interaction and cooperation with the government at all levels, research institutes, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), the private sector and the media.


 

S4-PS.7 Moving the adaptation agenda forward under the Paris Agreement

The session will inform Forum participants of the adaptation aspects of the Paris Agreement and address what needs to be done not only to support adequate and effective adaptation in countries and regions,  but also what incentives and recognition will encourage further adaptation actions.  


17:00~18:00

Way Forward and Closing Session



18:00~18:30

Official Closing of the 5th Asia Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum