Futureproofing Water and Climate Adaptation - webinar series

“Futureproofing Water and Climate Adaptation” is a webinar series focused on adaptation strategy, practices, and financing for deltas, urban deltas, small islands and coastal areas. 

The series is designed to support the ambition of the International Panel on Deltas and Coastal Areas – to build capacity for effective adaptation planning, governance and finance – through online knowledge sharing and creation. This series of four webinars consists of sharing good practices, panel discussions and interactive community dialogues. 

1. The first webinar, “Mobilizing Finance for Climate Adaptation in Deltas,” illustrated how deltaic countries leading in climate adaptation have used high-ambition decision-making and large-scale investment to prepare for future challenges.
2. The second webinar, ” Resilient Delta Cities,” shares cases of good adaptation practices in urban deltaic regions.
3. The third, “The climate emergency on Small Islands – Challenges and Opportunities ” highlights the unique climate adaptation challenges that small islands face and will share some hands-on opportunities that have proven successful to deal with these challenges.
4. The final webinar, “Integrated Coastal Zone Management for Climate Resilience” shares the need and complexity of integrated coastal zone management plans. Upon concluding this series of webinars, a community dialogue will be organized for participants and presenters to further discuss emergent and cutting-edge knowledge identified during the webinar series.

26/05 “Mobilizing Finance for Climate Adaptation in Deltas,”

how deltaic countries leading in climate adaptation have used high-ambition decision-making and large-scale investment to prepare for future challenges

• Ms. Olivia Allen, Moderator - Water Adaptation Community Facilitator, Global Center on Adaptation
• Ms. Meike van Ginneken, Member of Governing Board IHE
  
• Dr. Amgad Elmahdi, Water Sector Senior Specialist, Green Climate Fund
  The Green Climate Fund (GCF) – a critical element of the historic Paris Agreement - is the world’s largest climate fund, mandated to support developing countries raise and realize their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) ambitions towards low-emissions, climate-resilient pathways.
  Related: 06/06 Side event UNFCCC SB58. Enhancing access and accelerating financing for climate action in the context of the Global Stocktake & GCF second replenishment
• Mr. Peter Glas, Delta Commissioner of the Netherlands, The Delta Programme – Delta Fund
• Mr. Md Golam Rabbani, Head of Climate Bridge Fund Secretariat, Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) – Climate Bridge Fund
• Mr. Leonardo Alfonso, Associate Professor of Hydroinformatics. IHE Delft – ProCAD and BuildCAD Project in Colombia
• Mr. Christopher Chung, Senior Urban Specialist Global Center on Adaptation, Prioritizing and Mobilizing Finance in Coastal Cities Experience from Accra, Ghana

Related: 

25 May 2023. COP28 and Beyond: How to Meet the Needs of Climate-Vulnerable Countries Recording

The Allied for Climate Transformation by 2025 (ACT2025) consortium organised a high-level webinar, where policymakers and advocates set clear expectations for a positive outcome at COP28 that meets the needs of climate-vulnerable countries. 

• During the event, ACT2025 partners representing voices and expertise from all over the world showed where action is possible, from the $100 billion finance commitment and the global goal on adaptation to loss and damage funding arrangements, the new global goal on finance, equitably phasing out fossil fuels and more. 
• Speakers also outlined key moments to watch between now and November.

Speakers

• Vanessa Nakate, Climate Justice Activist; Founder of the Rise Up Movement
• Steven Guilbeault, Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Canada
• Ralph Regenvanu, Minister of Climate Change, Vanuatu
• Sherry Rehman, Minister of Climate Change, Pakistan

ACT2025 Partners

• Mohamed Adow, Director, Power Shift Africa, Kenya
• Preety Bhandari, Senior Advisor, Global Climate Program and the Finance Center, World Resources Institute, USA
• Mark Bynoe, Assistant Executive Director, Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre, Belize
• Saleemul Huq, Director, International Centre for Climate Change and Development, Bangladesh
• Tony La Viña, Associate Director for Climate Policy and International Relations, Manila Observatory, Philippines
• Chukwumerije Okereke, Director, Centre for Climate Change and Development at AEFUNAI, Nigeria
• Maria Laura Rojas Vallejo, Executive Director, Transforma, Colombia