Agenda
Wednesday | 17 October 2018
| 07:00~08:45 | Registration |
| 08:45~09:00 |
Welcome Facilitator: Rico Hizon, Anchor, BBC World News |
| 09:00~09:30 |
Opening of the 6th Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum
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| 09:30~10:30 |
Keynotes
Temperature changes, sea-level rise and extreme weather events are already putting human, natural, infrastructure systems, and communities under extreme stress. If current efforts continue to be business-as-usual with limited adaptation interventions, over a hundred million people living in the most vulnerable regions of Asia and the Pacific will be pushed to extreme poverty. Because of the nature of interconnections and interdependence of our environmental, social and built systems, actions that endanger our lives and pose risks to property hold as much promise in enabling society to avoid the worst impacts. Nevertheless, the challenge will take a huge effort, with the need for all sectors of society, people of all ages and capacity, to address this monumental issue of building resilience against climate change. Nothing short of an intergenerational effort will be required to build up the resilience critical to address such an intergenerational challenge as that brought about by the changing climate.
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| 10:30~11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00~12:30 | Parallel Sessions |
Auditorium B
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Strengthening Resilience through Social Protection Programs Moderator: Karin Schelzig, Asian Development Bank Climate change is exacerbating existing vulnerabilities and creating new ones in Asia and the Pacific region. The adverse effects are felt most by the poor and the marginalized population. The effects result in the near-poor sliding back into poverty due to impacts of climate related shocks and stresses and the increase in the number of transitory poor due to increase in intensity and frequency of climate hazards. This session aims at demonstrating the importance of social protection programs to strengthen climate resilience; and identifying concrete actions that can be undertaken as part of social protection programs to deliver on resilience outcome.
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Auditorium C
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Nature-based Solutions: Policy Learnings from the Field Moderator: Mozaharul Alam, UN Environment, Asia and the Pacific Office For policy makers and practitioners, it is often not clear how the main notions of resilience thinking translate into the governance for adaptation and its practical implementation. Issues that include how decisions should be made, who should pay, and what is fair and equitable, are among the drivers that can influence how well managed ecosystems support adaptation. This session will discuss how and why policies should support integrated approaches to match the scale required by ecosystem and ecosystem services to fully function – and at the same time remain relevant for the needs of intended target beneficiaries and sectors for such to be supported.
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Auditorium A
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Urban Resilience and Climate-Smart Cities Moderator: Virinder Sharma, Asian Development Bank This session will discuss resilience of the built environment through the analysis of system interdependencies between water/energy/transport and the application of innovative technologies and smart cities design.
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Auditorium D
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The Role of Science in Managing Erosion and the Impacts of Increasing Temperature Moderator: Madelsar Ngiraingas, OneReef Worldwide Stewardship International assessments consistently find that island states and communities are among the most vulnerable to climate change and disasters. Localized scientific information and research play a critical role in informing climate change adaptation, in particular, in environments with features and qualities that are biologically or geographically unique. This session will highlight various research that supplement traditional knowledge, support adaptation planning and build resilience, as well as, the means to which information is shared.
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Auditorium Annex
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The Role of Science Tools and Indigenous Knowledge Practices to Enhance Community Resilience Moderator: Linda Anne Stevenson, Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN), Puja Sawhney, SWITCH-Asia Sustainable Consumption and Production Facility, Thailand This session will draw on the expertise and experiences of the panelists in developing adaptive capacity and increasing resilience and will focus on the need for cross-communication among decision-makers, scientists and practitioners to enhance adaptive capacity and resilience at community levels mainly in India, Philippines, Cambodia and Vietnam. Audience participation is crucial to share additional good practices in promoting adaptation and using tools and methodologies to build capacity for adaptation and enhance resilience especially at the local level.
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| 12:30~13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30~15:00 |
Plenary Session: Local Governments at the Forefront Moderator: Rico Hizon, Anchor, BBC World News The session aims to draw evidenced-based lessons from successful local climate actions that enable resilience in human and social systems. It seeks to impart challenges and recommendations on monitoring, evaluating and reporting adaptation and resilience at the local scale. It also aims to discuss interventions needed from the national government and other stakeholders to support the work of local governments.
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| 15:00~15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 15:30~17:00 | Parallel Sessions |
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Auditorium B
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Understanding the Cascading Risks of Climate Change Moderator: Donna Lagdameo, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre This session will discuss the creeping yet pervasive impacts of slow onset events due to climate change, highlighting the importance of research to support science-based and risk-informed development planning.
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| Auditorium C
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Innovative Technologies to Enhance Ecosystem Resilience Moderator: Peter King, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) Technologies and practices that enhance ecosystem resilience to climate disruption can increase human wellbeing and safeguard society. Especially where the response to climactic surprises and outbursts need to be swift, traditional and modern practices can especially be enhanced with innovative technologies and communication practices. Panelists in this session will share their experiences and challenges in how such practices support life-saving early warning systems, save local livelihoods and assets, improve social resilience and achieve transparent climate governance.
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| Auditorium A
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Strengthening Resilience of Urban Communities Moderator: Diane Archer, Stockholm Environment Institute Given the close interrelation between poverty and climate change in urban contexts - where poverty contributes to climate risks, and climate risks keep people in poverty- efforts to reduce urban poverty in the region depend on actions with an explicit focus on strengthening climate resilience. The session will discuss experiences aiming at reducing drivers of vulnerability through actions designed in an integrated manner covering a full range of resilience building measures; aligned with local governments’ interventions related to improving the wider built and socioeconomic environment; and using innovative technology and inclusive practices in design, implementation and maintenance of urban infrastructure and basic service delivery, and in enhanced disaster and financial preparedness.
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| Auditorium D
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Mobilizing Resources and Securing Funding through Innovation and Diverse Forms of Financing Mechanisms Moderator: Madelsar Ngiraingas, OneReef Worldwide Stewardship Island Communities must build resilience against the current and future impacts of climate change. Innovation and investments for better resilience metrics and systems play a vital role in ensuring that resilience is sustained. This session will focus on how countries are mobilizing and securing resources through diverse forms of financing mechanisms and access to finance. Notwithstanding, the challenges in coordinating public and private interests as well as engaging non-state stakeholders in supporting efforts in resilience building.
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| Auditorium Annex
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Information Infrastructure on Adaptation Measures and Technologies Moderator: Osamu Mizuno, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) The Adaptation Gap Report released by UN Environment in 2014 points to the three types of knowledge gaps: gaps in knowledge production, gaps in knowledge integration, and gaps in knowledge transfer and uptake. To fill these gaps, a more effective approach which enables the participation of diverse actors, and which provides adaptation information to poor areas with high vulnerability needs to be developed. This session aims to showcase good practices and/or efforts to fill these information gaps, including information infrastructure development.
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| END OF DAY 1 | |
| 19:00~21:00 |
COCKTAIL RECEPTION Venue: Crown Plaza Galleria |
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.
Thursday | 18 October 2018
| 08:45~09:00 | Day 1 Highlights |
| 09:00~10:30 |
Plenary Session: Ecosystem Resilience: Time Counts Moderator: Rico Hizon, Anchor, BBC World News Time is the key essence for enabling resilience of ecosystem and ecosystem services. Unlike the planning requirements for activities and programmes that build resilience for humans and for the built environment in which they live in, those related to ecosystems and ecosystem services demand a far longer-term time horizon and often mismatches with usual planning and development cycle. This is because it may take years, even generations sometimes, for the resilience-providing capacity of nature to be demonstrated. How this can be done, what the key entry points are for complementing more short-term approaches to these nature-based solutions, and how processes can be crafted to ensure buy-in and support for their long-term implementation will be the issues addressed in this session.
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| 10:30~11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00~12:30 | Parallel Sessions |
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Auditorium B
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Adaptation, Technology and Green Jobs Moderator: Shanti Jagannathan, Asian Development Bank Utilizing green and adaptation technologies not only delivers resilience outcomes but also provides opportunities for job creation. This session aims to discuss ways to stimulate and incentivize businesses to invest in adaptation technologies, with the view to emphasize the importance of enabling policies to create green jobs and enterprises and maximize economic benefits of climate action.
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Auditorium C
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The Role of Science in Designing Nature-based Solutions: Lessons from Different Ecosystems Moderator: Niall O’Connor, Stockholm Environment Institute Recommendations to increase and enhance resilience in ecosystems and ecosystem services is a challenging task, given that data and understanding of complex system dynamics is often quite limited. The availability of reliable data is critical to progress and design plans that respond to specific disturbances. This session will explore opportunities on how the science and assessment in different regions like the Mekong river basin, South Asia and the Pacific, etc. will help in designing and implementing nature-based solutions to enhance the resilience of natural ecosystem. Successfully increasing the resilience of natural ecosystems may therefore have important implications for human welfare in the face of global climate change.
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Auditorium A
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Nature-based Approaches to Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure Development Moderator: Daniele Ponzi, Asian Development Bank Nature-based solutions (NBS)/green infrastructure (GI) have attracted attention as a substitute and/or complementary to conventional, engineering-based solutions since the early 2000s. Focusing on natural resource management, disaster risk reduction, and climate change adaptation, this session provides an opportunity to showcase regional experiences and good practices of NBS/GI, identifying not only requirements and challenges for the successful application of NBS/GI, but also entry points for introducing this innovative approach into investments.
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Auditorium D
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Approaches to Adaptation in Coastal Communities: Coordinating Multiple and Divergent Interests Moderator: Jonathan Shaw, Asian Institute of Technology Planning and processes brings together all aspects of planning into a coherent, unified process. Through it, actors will learn from past planning experiences. Feedback or lessons learnt, will inform better future planning and decision making. This session will showcase different approaches to coordinating multiple and divergent interests in actions for adaptation.
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Briefing Theater 2
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Asia-Africa Exchange on an integrated approach to adaptation planning, disaster risk reduction and other climate and development frameworks
Facilitators: Sanny Ramos Jegillos, UNDP Asia-Pacific and Daisy Mukarakate, UNDP Africa |
| 12:30~13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30~15:00 |
Plenary Session: Resilience of Industry and the Built Environment Moderator: James Lynch, Deputy Director General, Pacific Regional Department, Asian Development Bank Climate change and its associated impacts will have profound implications for economic activities through impacts on supply and demand of goods and services, as well as the built environment through impacts on the viability, and the reliability of services and performances, of physical structures. This session provides an overview of the risks and opportunities of climate change for industry and the built environment, and more importantly, highlights the emerging solutions for building climate resilience. Resilience solutions to be featured will include measures of a policy and regulatory, engineering, nature-based and financial nature.
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| 15:00~15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 15:30~17:00 | Parallel Sessions |
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Auditorium B
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Gender-responsive Approaches for Adaptation Moderator: Laurence Levaque, Asian Development Bank The session targets to discuss the integration of gender perspectives with climate change and disaster displacement, with a view to highlight gender-based barriers and blind spots that continue to exist across the major pillars of international, national and local policy processes on climate change and disaster risk reduction.
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Auditorium C
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Integrating Urban Ecosystem-based Adaptation Approaches for Building Resilience of Cities in Asia and the Pacific Moderator: Nina Raasakka, UN Environment , Asia and the Pacific Office The concept of using biodiversity and ecosystems to adapt to climate change in urban systems – Urban Ecosystem-based Adaptation (Urban EbA) – has emerged as a promising approach for adapting to climate change while providing multiple socioeconomic benefits to build resilient urban communities. The session will provide a forum to reflect on the possibilities of Urban EbA, as well as common challenges encountered in the planning of Urban EbA interventions alongside other urban planning initiatives. In particular the following questions will be addressed:
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Auditorium A
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Financing the Resilience of Industry and the Built Environment Moderator: Preety Bhandari, Asian Development Bank After several years of experience with international climate change finance and implementation of climate investment funds, governments still need to improve their state of readiness to identify, access and effectively use finance opportunities for climate change adaptation. This session will explore the design and implementation of adaptation financing from different stakeholder perspectives, including the opportunities offered by the private sector, and innovative prospects emerging from new financing instruments and the rise of climate bonds.
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Auditorium D
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Adaptation Approaches to Enhance Resiliency Moderator: Madelsar Ngiraingas, OneReef Worldwide Stewardship Island Communities rely on innovative technology and traditional knowledge based practices to address the impacts of climate change and provide resilience in local communities. These blended practices are usually easily adaptable as they use materials and knowledge that is commonly available in island settings. This session will discuss integration of new and traditional knowledge-based adaptation practices that take into account adaptive measures that are complementary to local practices. To this end, best practices that integrates new and traditional knowledge-based adaptation practices with the potential for scaling up will ensure buy-in and enable the mobilizing of scarce resources (human and otherwise). Some panelists will share discuss their experiences during Typhoon Haiyan and what measures taken personally and/or collectively to foster resilience. There will be also be a sharing of country experiences on practical application of decentralized energy infrastructure as a means to strengthen communities in the face of natural disasters.
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| END OF DAY 2 | |
| 17:00~18:30 |
COCKTAIL RECEPTION Sponsored by Asian Development Bank Venue: ADB Cafeteria Area |
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.
Friday | 19 October 2018
| 08:45~09:00 | Day 2 Highlights |
| 09:00~10:30 | Parallel Sessions |
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Auditorium B
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Supporting Vulnerable Communities Through Risk Financing Moderator: Donna Lagdameo, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre This session aims to discuss innovative approaches and instruments on climate risk financing and insurance, with a view to promote effective strategies to manage risks and strengthen resilience to climate impacts.
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Auditorium C
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Learning from the Implementation of EbA Interventions in the Restoration and Conservation of Ecosystems Moderator: Jamie Webbe, UN Environment Green infrastructure and ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) can succeed with innovations in technologies and practices, training and capacity building. Especially for communities at the frontline of our ecosystems, this empowerment to transform, rather than merely react to disasters and risks, can translate to effective cross-learning and knowledge sharing opportunities. What these best experiences are and how these can be scaled would be the topic discussed in this session.
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Auditorium A
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Climate-resilient Infrastructure Design and Standards Moderator: Mark Fletcher, Arup The increasing frequency and intensity of natural hazards associated with the onset of climate change, is contributing to rising risk exposure throughout the Asia-Pacific region, where critical infrastructure is located in hazard-prone areas. The session will discuss the current good practices and applications of design standards to build climate resilience of infrastructure in the region and beyond.
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Auditorium D
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How Policies Set National/Local Priorities, Enable Institutions, and Integrate and Foster Shared Actions for Adaptation Moderator: Niall O’Connor, Stockholm Environment Institute The environment mostly defines the economic fortunes of island economies, with the strong reliance on tourism, indigenous cultural assets, fishing and farming. Policies and directives are some of the key drivers that unite actors and players to mobilizing national priorities. This session will discuss how policies enable, otherwise disparate groups, into integrated measures, implementation, and shared actions.
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| 10:30~11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00~12:30 | Parallel Sessions |
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Auditorium B
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Integrating Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) in Development Planning Moderator: Peter King, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies Integration of disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in national and local development plans will address the threats of climate change in an effective manner since they establish an enabling risk governance environment for long-term risk reduction. The session will deliberate on approaches and activities that are required to ensure that development not only supports economic and social development but are also climate-resilient to ensure sustainability of development efforts.
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Auditorium C
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Attracting Investments for Nature-based Solutions Moderator: Isabelle Louis, UN Environment, Asia and the Pacific Office Investing in activities that make natural systems resilient require long-term and patient money, a difficult proposition given the orientation of traditional financial institutions towards realizing immediate returns on their investments. How are finance institutions configuring their current investment parameters to accommodate the reality of such delayed returns on investment?
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Auditorium A
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Addressing Information Gaps for Risk Assessment and Climate-resilient Investment Decision-making Moderator: Jean Palutikof, National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF), Griffith University, Australia Governments, financing institutions, and all stakeholders involved in the design of development projects seek relevant analytics to clarify and help them meet obligations arising from shocks caused by climate impacts and disasters, while minimizing threats to development progress and fiscal stability. This session will explore the analytical tools currently available and still needed to aid development practitioners in carrying out “fit-for-purpose” climate risk and making robust climate-resilient investment decisions under a cascade of uncertainties.
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Auditorium D
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Climate Proofing Infrastructure Investments Moderator: Noelle O’Brien, Asian Development Bank To ensure that infrastructure design and construction will meet the challenges from climate change in the next 50 to 100 years, it is crucial to conduct climate risk assessments on all projects and makes adjustments to maximize the resilience of the infrastructure and benefits to the community. This session will draw attention to the Climate Risk Assessment process and share examples on how Energy, Water, Transport and Infrastructure Investments have been designed to meet particular challenges. The examples will share experiences from Kiribati, Tonga and other Pacific Island countries.
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| 12:30~13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30~15:00 |
Plenary Session: Oceans: Lifeline for Island Resilience Moderator: Madelsar Ngiraingas, OneReef Worldwide Stewards The Ocean covers over 70% of the Earth’s surface, and its health is vital to the survival of island economies and its people’s livelihoods. When healthy, it offers rich marine biodiversity, is great for research and offers sites for exploration. Notwithstanding the risks exacerbated by climate change, such as strong weather events that cause storm surge and damage to coastal infrastructure, there is and will be a growing need to build resilience in various forms, including through private-public partnerships. Finally, our children depend on how responsible we are as the current custodians to this precious resource. The better we care for it now, the greater the benefit that our children will have from our ocean, and for them as future custodians for our ocean.
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| 15:00~15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 15:30~17:00 |
Closing Plenary Session
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| End of 2018 Adaptation Forum | |
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.
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Time: 9:00AM to 13:00PM (followed by lunch 13:00PM – 14:00PM)
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