Adaptation Without Borders: knowledge sharing and international cooperation to manage transboundary climate risks
Time
15:30 AZT
About
This high-level event with a group of regional representatives will discuss what cooperation to manage transboundary climate risks means in practice and how to build resilience in vulnerable regions affected by this global challenge.
Climate risks affect neighbouring countries through shared ecosystems or infrastructure and can cross continents and oceans. Transboundary climate risks include food and water shortages, threats to trade and energy supplies, widening inequalities, forced migrations and geopolitical conflicts. At last year's UN Climate Change Conference, Parties recognized that climate change impacts are often transboundary and involve complex, cascading risks that require knowledge-sharing and international cooperation.
Speakers:
- Moderator: Cristina Rumbaitis del Rio, United Nations Foundation
- Scene-setting: Jessica Troni, Head of Climate Change unit and Adaptation Portfolio Manager, UNEP
Regional representatives:
- South Caucasus region - Tahir Gözel, Azerbaijani businessman with a strong interest in climate change and sustainable development, Founder of TGID | Climate-Focused NGO for Sustainable Solutions
- Hindu Kush Himalayan region - Izabell Koziel, Deputy Director General, ICIMOD
- Eastern Africa - George Wamukoya, Lead negotiator on agriculture, African Group of Negotiators, Team leader, AGNES
- Latin America - María del Pilar Bueno Rubial, Researcher at National Council for Scientific and Technical Research of Argentina (CONICET), Professor at Universidad Nacional de Rosario (UNR) and Member (and former Co-Chair) of the UNFCCC Adaptation Committee
Wrap-up:
- Katy Harris, Director, Adaptation Without Borders
- Ayman Cherkaoui, Executive Director of the United Nations Global Compact in Morocco and Lead Counsel for Climate Change at the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law in Montreal Quebec, Canada