Wednesday | 1 October 2014
07.30~08.30 | Registration |
08:30~10:10Room Dewan Tun Dr. Ismail 1A-1B | Opening PlenaryZakri Abdul Hamid Kaveh Zahedi Soichiro Seki Youssef Nassef |
10:10~10:40Foyer | Coffee Break |
10:40~12:40 | PARALLEL PANELS 1 |
10:40~12:20Room Dewan Tun Dr. Ismail 1A | Panel 1.1 Mainstreaming and integrating climate change adaptation in developmentHow can climate extremes and DRR be mainstreamed in the development process? What are the ways in which governments have tried to mainstream climate extremes and DRR in national policies and plans? What are the important lessons learnt from the experiences so far? Moderated by Saleemul Huq, International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD)
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10:40~12:20Room Dewan Tun Dr. Ismail 1B | Panel 1.2 Climate-sensitivities of the water, food and energy systemWhat are the most important sensitivities and links? Who is trying to address them and how? What lessons have been learnt about the significance of the “WFE nexus” for adaptation efforts? Moderated by Young-il Song, Korea Environment Institute (KEI)
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10:40~12:20Johor Kedah Room 3 | Panel 1.3 Long-term recovery following disastersWhat lessons have been learnt from long-term recovery experiences following major disasters? Was resilience enhanced? Or were errors repeated? Who needs to be involved and how for recovery to be successful? What are the implications for adaptation planning? Moderated by Mihir Joshi, Asian Disaster Reduction and Response Network (ADRRN), SEEDS India
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10:40~12:20Room Dewan Tun Hussein Onn 2A | Panel 1.4 Ecosystem-based adaptation: principles and limits.In what ways can ecosystems contribute to adaptation? What are the barriers to actors engaging in ecosystem-based adaptation? What has been learnt about limits? Moderated by Keith Alverson, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
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10:40~12:20Room Dewan Tun Hussein Onn 2B | Panel 1.5 Climate resilient infrastructure and coastal developmentWhat are key design considerations for making infrastructure and coastal development ‘climate resilient’? Which stakeholders need to be involved, and how? What knowledge is needed for developing relevant standards or planning zones? Moderated by Cinzia Losenno, Asian Development Bank (ADB)
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12:20~13:20Mawar Room | Lunch Break |
13:20~15:00 | PARALLEL PANELS 2 |
13:20~15:00Johor Kedah Room 3 | Panel 2.1 Gender Sensitive AdaptationWhat lessons have been learnt from efforts to address differences in needs, capacities, risk burdens and rights in adaptation interventions? Moderated by Bernadette Resurreccion, Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)
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13:20~15:00Room Dewan Tun Dr. Ismail 1A | Panel 2.2 Implications of hydropower for food security in a changing climateHow have the burdens and benefits of hydropower development been shared? What net influence has hydropower had on food security and how might this shift under a changing climate? Moderated by Priyanka Dissanayake and Angela Klauschen, Global Water Partnership South Asia (GWP SAS)
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13:20~15:00Room Dewan Tun Dr. Ismail 1B | Panel 2.3 Knowledge foundations of loss and damage systemsWhat climate information and knowledge is needed to support effective loss and damage systems? Which actors hold key knowledge and what are the constraints to sharing or accessing it? Moderated by Linda Anne Stevenson, Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN)
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13:20~15:00Room Dewan Tun Hussein Onn 2A | Panel 2.4 Community and ecosystem-based adaptationWhat are the critical intersections between community- and ecosystem-based adaptation? What are the barriers to involving local knowledge holders and resource managers in adaptation actions and how can they be overcome? Moderated by Doris Capistrano, ASEAN-Swiss Partnership on Social Forestry and Climate Change (ASFCC)
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13:20~15:00Room Dewan Tun Hussein Onn 2B | Panel 2.5 Water supply and sanitation under increased climateHow do extreme events affect urban water supply and sanitation? What have different actors tried to do manage risks or adapt systems? Moderated by Jenna Jadin, United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
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15:00~15:30Foyer | Coffee Break |
15:30~17:00Room Dewan Tun Dr. Ismail 1A-1B | Plenary 2: Reflections on the 5ARThis second plenary will reflect on the key findings of the fifth IPCC assessment from the perspective of the Asia-Pacific region. Moderated by Zakri Abdul Hamid, Science Advisor to the Prime Minister of Malaysia
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17:00~17:30Room Dewan Tun Dr. Ismail 1A-1B | Officiating CeremonyZakri Abdul Hamid Kaveh Zahedi Mah Siew Keong |
17:30~19:30Foyer | Networking reception |
Thursday | 2 October 2014
09:00~10:10Room Dewan Tun Dr. Ismail 1A-1B | PLENARY 3: Interactions between public and private sector actors in adaptationModerated by Jonathan Shaw, Regional Resource Centre for Asia and the Pacific (RRCAP) - Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) This third plenary will focus on the private sector and how it has interacted with governments in adaptation actions.
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10:10~10:40Foyer | Coffee Break |
10:40~12:20 | PARALLEL PANELS 3 |
10:40~12:20Room Dewan Tun Dr. Ismail 1A | Panel 3.1 Role of NAP in Mainstreaming Climate Change AdaptationHow can National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) help advance integration of adaptation into development agenda? Moderated by Youssef Nassef, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
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10:40~12:20Room Dewan Tun Dr. Ismail 1B | Panel 3.2 Reducing vulnerability to droughts and floodsHow have local and national governments tried to deal with floods and droughts? Are these approaches appropriate and sufficient for adapting to climate change in the nexus? If not, what other strategies are required? Are their major differences between food, energy and water-related sectors? Moderated by Mariliza V. Ticsay, Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA)
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10:40~12:20Johor Kedah Room 3 | Panel 3.3 Engaging the private sector in adaptationHow have governments and communities engaged the private sector in adaptation? Under what conditions does the private sector extend or transform conventional CSR practices or social enterprises to support adaptation? Moderated by Saliha Dobardzic, Global Environment Facility (GEF)
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10:40~12:20Room Dewan Tun Hussein Onn 2A | Panel 3.4 Synergies between Adaptation and Mitigation: Opportunities for Co-BenefitsWhat have been the experiences from the region in on-the-ground projects which address both mitigation and adaptation objectives? What have been the challenges experienced by project implementers and what have been best practices that could be replicated? Moderated by Regan Suzuki Pairojmahakij, RECOFTC – The Center for People and Forests
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10:40~12:20Room Dewan Tun Hussein Onn 2B | Panel 3.5 Coastal tourismHow is the coastal tourism sector likely to be effected by climate change? What approaches to adaptation are being considered or implemented? How have the multiple, divergent, interests been handled? What has been the role of multi-stakeholder processes? Are there examples of successful public-private partnerships for addressing adaptation issues? Moderated by Murray Simpson, Oxford University and Caribsave
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12:20~13:20Mawar Room | Lunch Break |
13:20~15:00 | PARALLEL PANELS 4 |
13:20~15:00Room Dewan Tun Dr. Ismail 1A | Panel 4.1 Adaptation financingWhat roles do international and state actors have in adaptation financing? What has been learnt about building capacities of different actors to successfully access financing? Moderated by Preety Bhandari, Asian Development Bank (ADB)
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13:20~15:00Room Dewan Tun Dr. Ismail 1B | Panel 4.2 Adaptation, aquaculture and fisheriesHow do smallholder aquaculture and fisheries responded to climate-related risks? What promising efforts have been undertaken in the fisheries sector to adapt to climate change? Moderated by Louis Lebel, Chiang Mai University
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13:20~15:00Johor Kedah Room 3 | Panel 4.3 Climate, health and resilienceHow is the resilience of development and impacts of climate on health related? How do heat waves impact health and how can those risks be managed? What actions have been taken to make health systems more resilient to climate variability and change? What are main lessons learnt so far about adaptation and health? Moderated by Ho Kim, Seoul National University
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13:20~15:00Room Dewan Tun Hussein Onn 2A | Panel 4.4 Adaptation in the Mountains: Addressing Challenges and Harnessing Opportunities Exploring Solutions across BoundariesWhat are the key challenges and opportunities due to climate change? How these challenges can be addressed and opportunities harnessed? What types of partnerships are initiated for successful adaptation and what are the key challenges faced? What are the lessons learnt and how it can be scaled out/scaled up beyond the region? Moderated by Neera Shrestha Pradhan, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)
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13:20~15:00Room Dewan Tun Hussein Onn 2B | Panel 4.5 Urban resilienceWhat makes an urban area more or less resilient? How have actors collaborated to increase resilience to a variable and changing climate? Moderated by Anna Brown, the Rockefeller Foundation
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15:00~15:30Foyer | Coffee Break |
15:30~17:00Room Dewan Tun Dr. Ismail 1A-1B | PLENARY 4 – Adaptation as a multi-stakeholder processThe fourth plenary session will reflect on what governments, public and private organizations and communities should do together for successful adaptation. This will give special attention to the roles of deliberation and coordination in multi-stakeholder adaptation processes. Moderated by Kaveh Zahedi, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
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17:00~17:30 | Wrap up/ report back from day 2 |
Friday | 3 October 2014
09:00~10:10Room Dewan Tun Dr. Ismail 1A-1B | PLENARY 5 -Mainstreaming climate change adaptation in ASEAN – Multiple actors and rolesCo-moderated by Raman Letchumanan, ASEAN Secretariat, and Abdul Rahim bin Haji Nik, Ministry of Natural Resources & Environment, Malaysia The fifth plenary session will focus on ASEAN experiences and challenges on mainstreaming climate change adaptation. The focus will be on distilling what contributions regional cooperation have made and what more needs to be done to move adaptation efforts above and beyond what can be done by a country on its own. Human Dynamics of Climate Change - Highlights on ASEAN
Viewpoints: Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation
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10:10~10:40Foyer | Coffee Break |
10:40~12:20 | PARALLEL PANELS 5 |
10:40~12:20Room Dewan Tun Dr. Ismail 1A | Panel 5.1 Drivers of TransformationWhat existing examples are there of transformation that can inform adaptation to climate change? What are roles of non-state and state actors in bringing about transformation for sustainability? Moderated by ASEAN Business Advisory Council Malaysia, and Ahmad Fauzi bin Hasan, Energy Commission Malaysia Climate Risks in ASEAN: Challenges in Transformation
Viewpoints: Transformation for alternate development pathways
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10:40~12:20Johor Kedah Room 3 | Panel 5.2 Experiencing water-food-energy nexus*Moderated by Alexander Smajgl and John Ward, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and Mekong Futures *In this session, participants will be invited to partake in a role-playing game to experience and debate Nexus-related trade-offs and the complexities of understanding cross-sectoral links as dynamically changing connections. Participants will be taken through two decision-making situations, each followed by debriefing debates. Both examples will be framed in the climate adaptation context. This format departs from the traditional approach of presenting scientific papers. However, scientific evidence will be brought into the discussion, based on recent Nexus studies to structure the debate and based on historic experiences from the two particular case studies. |
10:40~12:20Room Dewan Tun Hussein Onn 2A | Panel 5.3 Cross-regional knowledge sharingWhat are important lessons which can be learnt from other regions for adaptation efforts in the Asia-Pacific Region, and vice-versa? Moderated by Keith Alverson, United Nations Environment Programme, Global Adaptation Network (GAN)
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10:40~12:20Room Dewan Tun Dr. Ismail 1B
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10:40~12:20Room Dewan Tun Hussein Onn 2B | Panel 5.5 Coastal adaptation and sea-level riseWhat strategies will coastal planners need to manage retreat from coastlines as a result of sea-level rise? What is being explored or tried already? What lessons can be learnt for adaptation in low-lying coastal cities and towns in the Asia-Pacific region? Moderated by Robert Kay, Adaptive Futures
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12:20~13:20Mawar Room | Lunch Break |
13:20~15:00 | PARALLEL PANELS 6 |
13:20~15:00Room Dewan Tun Dr. Ismail 1A | Panel 6.1 Climate extremes and disaster risk reductionWhat are the main ways different organizations have tried to mainstream climate extremes and DRR in their operations? What are the emerging hazards, how can they be mainstreamed into development and what are the implications for climate change adaptation? Co-moderated by Michelle Gyles-McDonnough, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and Louis Lebel, Chiang Mai University Mainstreaming climate extremes and disaster risk reduction
Emerging Issues and Priorities: Adapting to Climate Extremes and Slow Onset Disasters
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13:20~15:00Room Dewan Tun Hussein Onn 2A | Panel 6.2 Moving from Planning to Implementation of sub-national adaptation.How can sub-national actors become leaders on adaptation and in particular, how can they move beyond planning to implementation? Moderated by Ali Tauqeer Sheikh, Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN)
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13:20~15:00Room Dewan Tun Dr. Ismail 1B | Panel 6.3 Transformative change and adaptation readinessWhere is transformative change necessary to significantly increase prospects of successful adaptation? What do measures of adaptation readiness describe, and how could they be used to monitor progress? Which actors need to engage? Moderated by Alfred Rungol, Papua New Guinea Office of Climate Change and Development and Loreta Rufo, Asian Development Bank (ADB)
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13:20~15:00Room Dewan Tun Hussein Onn 2B | Panel 6.4 Low-carbon, climate-resilient society: Integration of mitigation and adaptation policiesWhat efforts have been made for the integration of mitigation and adaptation policies and measures for climate impacts in the Asia and Pacific region and beyond? What is the value of an integrated approach in linking mitigation and adaptation? Moderated by Saleemul Huq, International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD)
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13:20~15:00Johor Kedah Room 3 | Panel 6.5 Engaging the public and multiple stakeholders in adaptationHow have governments and non-state actors engaged the public and multiple stakeholders in adaptation? Which forms of communication and engagement are effective? Moderated by Catherine Diomampo, International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI)
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15:00~15:30Foyer | Coffee Break |
15:30~17:00Room Dewan Tun Dr. Ismail 1A-1B | PLENARY 6 - Closing PlenaryModerated by Mozaharul Alam, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Summary of Forum Discussions
Concluding Remarks
Closing Ceremony
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Forum Format
The mixture of plenary and panel discussions as well as diverse side events (Market Place booths, photo contest, etc.) will provide participants with an outstanding opportunity to interact and learn about the latest ideas and practices in adaptation to climate change.
The draft agenda is intended to give a sense of the organisation of this year’s Forum. Columns in parallel panel sessions correspond to five conference themes. The names of individual panel sessions are tentative. The exact focus for each session will be negotiated with session organisers. The terms ‘adaptation’ and ‘climate change’ are not repeated each time but relevant to all panels. A few panels will be on special topics that offer alternative stakeholder perspectives on adaptation – for instance, from youth, farmers, SMEs, and local community organizations.
If you are interested in sponsoring and leading a session, please don’t hesitate to contact the Forum organisers with your ideas and proposal. Please note that panel sessions should usually not just focus on findings of a single project but provide scope for interaction among different groups. Sessions should be oriented towards the questions about actors and conference themes as far as possible.
Session organisers are strongly encouraged to consider non-standard formats for their session although conventional panels of 4-5 speakers with Q&A may be suitable for some topics. Alternative formats may include facilitated speaker debates, facilitated participant roundtables, interactions including social media with virtual participants, and so on. Creativity is welcome, especially, if it fosters greater deliberation and interaction among participants.