Programme
- March 18
- March 19
- March 20
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DAY I |
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On day one participants will deliberate on the merits and limitations of the strategies governments, organizations and communities have adopted in adapting to climate change Examples of success and failure will be analyzed and lessons drawn out. |
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07.30-08.30 |
Registration (Songdo Convensia entrance 1 lobby, right side) |
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8:30~10:10 |
Opening Plenary : Adaptation strategies for a variable and changing climate |
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The opening plenary outlines how governments, organizations and communities are dealing with a variable and changing climate. It focuses on the strategies they are adopting and assesses whether they are likely to be successful and sufficient. Opening Remarks Dr. Byung-Wook Lee, President of Korea Environment Institute (KEI) Welcoming Remarks Mr. Young-Gil Song, Mayor of Incheon Metropolitan City Congratulatory Remarks Dr. Hong Joon Ahn, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs, Trade and Unification Committee of the National Assembly Dr. Sunggon Kim, Member of the National Assembly. Mr. Nobutoshi Miyoshi, Deputy Director General, Ministry’s Secretariat, Ministry of the Environment, Japan Message from Dr. Achim Steiner, Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme
Presented by Dr. Keith Alverson, Head of Climate Change Adaptation and Terrestrial Ecosystems Branch, United Nations Environment Programme Keynote Speech Mr. Woochong Um, Deputy Director General, Regional and Sustainable Development Department Asian Development Bank (ADB) |
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10:10~10:40 |
Coffee Break (Lobby 1F & 2F) |
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10:40~12:40 |
PARALLEL PANELS 1 |
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Adaptation strategies for policy and planning The following panels explore in more depth adaptation strategies that governments are adopting in policy and planning to adapt to climate change. Strategies are guides to action important for governments to design and implement appropriate policies and plans. Climate change may demand new kinds of strategies, for example, to deal with situations that have no historical precedent or large uncertainties. In other situations past strategies may be appropriate with modification. |
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10:40~12:40 |
Panel 1.1 Coordinating adaptation policies and plans across sectors |
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Room 104-106
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How have governments coordinated plans and policies across sectors? Which strategies, for example, institutional forms, have worked best? Moderated by Ugyen Tshewang, National Environment Commission, Royal Government of Bhutan
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| 10:40~12:40 |
Panel 1.2 Increasing the effectiveness of adaptation mainstreaming initiative |
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Room 107-109 |
What strategies have been pursued to encourage or enable mainstreaming? Which of these strategies have been most effective in supporting adaptation? Moderated by Eric Kempt-Benedict, Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)
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| 10:40~12:40 |
Panel 1.3 Insurance and risk management |
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Room 113-114 |
Which risk management strategies have been found useful for adaptation to climate change? What roles does could insurance have in adaptation? Moderated by SVRK Prabhakar, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)
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| 10:40~12:40 |
Panel 1.4 Financing and the governance of adaptation |
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Room 116-117 |
How have decisions about the design and implementation of adaptation financing been reached? What are the merits and limitations of ways in which national and international adaptation funds are governed? How can the governance of adaptation financing be improved? Moderated by Charles Rodgers, Asian Development Bank (ADB)
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12:40~13:40 |
Lunch Break (Ballroom C) |
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13:40~15:40 |
PARALLEL PANELS 2 : Capacity building strategies for adaptation |
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The following panel sessions identify and evaluate strategies that governments, communities and other actors are adopting to build capacities to adapt to a climate change. Panelists will consider the evidence that particular approaches are promising or have worked as well as highlight recurrent and outstanding barriers that remain and how they might be addressed. |
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Panel 2.1 Investing in adaptation technologies with mitigation co-benefits |
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Room 104-106 |
How can appropriate technologies capitalize on synergies between adaptation and mitigation? What are some of the highest priorities for investment in adaptation technologies? Moderated by Masataka Watanabe, Keio University
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Panel 2.2 Building capacities for local adaptation planning |
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Room 116-117 |
How can frequently recognized constraints for local adaptation planning be realistically overcome? What are the most important capacities to be built and how should this be done? What role do assessments of vulnerability and adaptive capacities have in planning? Moderated by Jung Wook Lee, Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) Climate Change Office
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Panel 2.3 Accessing Climate Change Adaptation Finance : International Lessons, National Concerns, and Capacity Needs |
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Room 113-114 |
After two decades of experience with international climate change finance, what are the major lessons learned, especially as they pertain to climate change adaptation (CCA)? What guideposts did the World Bank and its partners use when designing the Climate Investment Funds (CIF), and now, after several years of implementation, what new lessons are being learned? What are climate public expenditure and institutional reviews (CPEIRs) and related work telling us about governance issues related to climate change finance, including domestic finance? Does the private sector offer real opportunities for innovation in CCA finance? What has and has not worked in climate change finance in the view of country representatives? Given all of these considerations, what are the priority actions that governments might take to improve their state of readiness to identify, access and effectively use CCA finance over the short to medium term? Moderated by Robert Dobias, United States Agency for International Development (USAID) /ADAPT Asia-Pacific
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Panel 2.4 Strengthening capacities to access and manage adaptation knowledge |
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What are the most important capacities to build to enable better access and use of existing knowledge about adaptation? How does building capacities for knowledge management contribution to adaptation? Moderated by Johan Kuylenstierna, Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)
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| 15:40~16:10 |
Cofeee Break (Lobby, 1F & 2F) |
| 16:10~17:20 |
Plenary 2: Learning from success and failure |
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This second plenary is a set of critical reflections of what we can learn from both success and failure. The facilitated discussion will focus on the best ways to enable learning in governments, organizations and communities. Moderated by Jonathan Shaw, Asian Institute of Technology (AIT)
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19:00-21:00 |
Welcome Dinner (Ramada Songdo Hotel) Offered by Incheon Metropolitan City, free transport will be arranged from Sondo ConvensiA |
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DAY II |
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On day two participants will focus on specific actions being taken in different places, sectors and systems. Participants will come away with a better understanding of limitations and potential of different approaches as well as insights that may cut across problem domains. |
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08:45~09:00
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Reflections on main messages and highlights of day 1 |
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09:00~10:10 |
PLENARY 3 - Adaptation actions in sectors and systems |
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Ballroom A,B |
The third plenary recognizes that some adaptation actions have been tailored to specific sectors and systems. The discussion will examine what different stakeholders in particular sectors and system are doing to adapting to a changing climate and whether or not their lessons to be learnt or actions to be coordinated across sectors and systems. Moderated by Eric Kemp-Benedict, Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)
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10:10~10:40 Room 118
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Coffee Break Screening of the short video “Tales of Gorakhpur – Path Towards a Sustainable Future" - efforts to build urban climate resilience in the Indian city of Gorakhpur, by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) |
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10:40~12:40 |
PARALLEL PANELS 2 : Adaption in systems and places |
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10:40~12:40 |
Panel 3.1 Coasts and islands |
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Room 104-106 |
What actions have governments and communities on small islands taken to adapt? How are these similar and different from issues which face people living on low-lying or exposed coasts? How do ecosystems contribute to adaptation? Moderated by Marita Manley, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
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10:40~12:40 |
Panel 3.2 Mountains and uplands |
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Room 107-109 |
What are the main risks faced by people mountains and uplands and how do they deal with them? How do well managed ecosystems contribute to adaptation? How do well managed watersheds contribute to resilience? Moderated by Dhrupad Choudhury, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)
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Panel 3.3 Cities and towns |
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Room 113-114 |
What actions are cities and towns taking to make themselves climate resilient? What specific strategies and tactics are they adopting towards climate proofing decisions? Moderated by Saleemul Huq, International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD)
* Online social media panel: After the session, panelists will respond online to questions about practical experiences of building urban climate resilience in Asia. For more information please click here |
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Panel 3.4 Forests and biodiversity |
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Room 116-117 |
What are the unique contributions to be made by forests to adaptation? What experience is there of incorporating forests in local adaptation initiatives in the Asia-Pacific? To what degree and in what ways is forest biodiversity supporting adaptive capacity? What are some of the ways adaptation planning has been incorporated within the forest sector, and conversely forestry within adaptation strategies such as NAPAs?? What are the key services provided by biodiverse ecosystems important to building resilience to climate change?
Moderated by Doris Capistrano, ASEAN-Swiss Partnership on Social Forestry and Climate Change (ASFCC)
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Panel 3.5 Infrastructure and adaptation to climate change
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What role does built and natural infrastructure have in adaptation to climate change? What are the characteristics of climate resilient infrastructure? When is climate-proofing a plausible adaptation option and when is it not? Moderated by Priyanka Dissanayake, Global Water Partnership South Asia
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12:40~13:40 |
Lunch Break (Ballroom C) |
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13:40~15:40 |
PARALLEL PANELS 4 : Adaptation in sectors |
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Panel 4.1 Public health sector |
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Room 104-106 |
What are the priorities for adaptation in the public health sector? How have concerns with climate change been taken into account in health policy and planning? Are actions taken so far appropriate and sufficient? Moderated by Ho Kim, Seoul National University
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Panel 4.2 Agriculture |
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What are the most important adaptation issues in the agriculture sector which have not been well addressed? What actions and strategies are needed to address them?
Moderated by Beau Damen, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
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Panel 4.3 Disasters, losses and damages |
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Room 107- 109 |
In what ways is effective disaster management a sufficient adaptation response? In what ways may it not be enough, for example, in dealing with losses and damages from extreme events?
Moderated by Tri Widayati, Ministry of Environment, Indonesia
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Panel 4.4 Water resources management and fisheries |
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How does the management of water for multiple purposes – such as hydropower, irrigation and fisheries – impact on efforts to build resilience to climate change? Moderated by Ancha Srinivasan, Asian Development Bank (ADB)
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| 13:40~15:40 | Panel 4.5 Ecosystem-based adaptation |
| Room 115 | How can effective protection and management of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems assist adaptation efforts? What are the key services provided by ecosystems important to building resilience to climate change? What are the limits to ecosystem-based adaptation? Moderated by Regan Suzuki, RECOFTC - The Center for People and Forests
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15:40~16:10 Room 118
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Coffee break Screening of the short videos: “Learning from Thailand’s Floods – ACCCRN City Exchange” by ISET-International “Solomon Islands Organic Farming Model for Family Food and Nutritional Security” by International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD) and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) |
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16.10-17.20
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PLENARY 4 – PolicyEcosystem-based adaptation and technology for adaptation: experiences in integration and mainstreaming from the Republic of Korea |
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Ballroom A,B |
This special plenary is devoted to the experiences and insights of the host country of the forum Moderated by Mozaharul Alam, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Presentation Heungwon Seo, Ministry of Environment, Korea Younghan Kwon, Korea Adaptation Center for Climate Change (KACCC); Korea Environment Institute (KEI) Panel Discussion Hojeong Kang, Yonsei University, Green Infrastructure Technology Center for Climate Change Jonathan Shaw, Regional Resource Centre for Asia and the Pacific, Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) Eric Kemp-Benedict, Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) Byung Ok Ahn, Institute for Climate Change Action
This special plenary is devoted to the experiences and insights of the host country of the forum. |
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DAY III |
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Day three will ask participants to identify ways to close gaps and overcome barriers to adaptation. Special attention will be given to stakeholder groups which are often neglected in adaptation plans and the challenges of bringing knowledge more closely to bear on adaptation actions. |
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08.45-09.00 |
Reflections on main messages and highlights of day 2 |
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09.00-10.10 |
PLENARY 5 -Critical and neglected groups |
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Ballroom A,B |
The fifth plenary session will reflect on what governments, organizations and communities can do to better engage critical, but neglected, actors in adaptation. Representatives from some of these groups will be asked to suggest how mainstream development actors should do things differently in the future. Moderated by Doris Capistrano ASEAN-Swiss Partnership on Social Forestry and Climate Change (ASFCC)
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10.10-10.40 Room 118 |
Coffee Break Screening of the documentary:"Adapting to Climate Change in China" by Adapting to Climate Change in China (ACCC)
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10.40-12.40 |
PARALLEL PANELS 5 :Critical and neglected groups The following panels explore in more depth initiatives by governments, organizations and communities do better engage critical and neglected groups in adaptation. Panelists will be asked to reflect on how successful engagement was achieved and what consequences this may have for adaptation. |
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10.40-12.40 |
Panel 5.1 Adaptation by the private sector: beyond business as usual |
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Room 116-117
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What are private firms doing to adapt to climate change? Are there any lessons for the public sector from private sector responses, or vice versa? Moderated by Gareth Johnston,FutureReady P/L
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10.40-12.40 |
Panel 5.2 Barriers to adaptation in socially vulnerable and marginalized groups |
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Room 104-106
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What options, tactics and strategies are available to most vulnerable and marginalized groups to adapt? How can other stakeholders support adaptation where there are significant barriers? Moderated by Albert Salamanca, Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)
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Panel 5.3 Integrating migration into adaptation strategies |
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Room 113-114 |
Under what conditions may migration be an effective adaptation strategy? What are the challenges for development associated with migration induced by climate change? What are the limits of adaptation through migration? Moderated by Dina Ionesco, International Organization for Migration (IOM)
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Panel 5.4 Gender relations, Youth and adaptation |
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Room 107-109 |
How do women and men perceive risks and capacities to act on them? What are the consequences for adaptation actions of taking gender-sensitive approaches?
Moderated by Jonathan Shaw, Asian Institute of Technology (AIT)
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12:40~13:40 |
Lunch Break (Ballroom C) |
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13:40~15:40 |
PARALLEL PANELS 6 :Knowledge management for adaptation The following panels will take up themes introduced in Plenary Two and raised in other sessions of the workshop to identify ways of making better use of existing knowledge to support adaptation strategies and actions. Panelists will be encouraged to identify specific follow-up actions they can take as well as make recommendations to other actors with knowledge management goals and responsibilities. |
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Panel 6.1 Organizing and sharing relevant and credible information: progress and problems |
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How can information important to adaptation be better organized, shared and communicated? What are the outstanding barriers and possible solutions? Moderated by Daisuke Sano, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies(IGES)
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Panel 6.2 Communicating uncertain risks: Projections, scenarios and other tools |
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Room 113-114 |
How have experts and other stakeholders concerned with large but uncertain climate change risks attempted to communicate their understanding? What should they be doing differently if they want to be effective? Moderated by Howard Nielsen, NACC Sustainability and Green Street
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Panel 6.3 Linking Research and Policy: Advancing Local Adaptation for Disaster Prevention |
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Room 116-117 |
What are the challenges in climate change adaptation for disaster prevention at the local level? What are the approaches required to ensure sustained and continued inputs of knowledge from the local level into policy making and development planning processes.
Moderated by Puja Sawhney, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)
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Panel 6.4 Integrating local and experienced-based knowledge with science for adaptation |
| Room 107-109 | How have holders of local knowledge and science constructively engaged with each other to improve the quality of adaptation plans and actions? What are the main barriers, and how can they be overcome?
Moderated by Anna Kontorov, United Nations Environment Programme
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15:40~16:10 |
Coffee Break |
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16:10~17:20 Ballroom A,B |
PLENARY 6 – Closing ceremony Moderated by Mozaharul Alam, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Summary of Forum Discussions
Closing Remarks
Concluding Performance
Lottery for participants that have submitted evaluation forms |
