Day 1 (8 June) On-demand recording
Day 2 (9 June)
On-demand recordings: Breakout group 1; Breakout group 2; Breakout group 3; Breakout group 4
Day 3 (10 June) On-demand recording
Background and mandate
COP 26 established the Glasgow Dialogue between Parties, relevant organizations and stakeholders to discuss the arrangements for the funding of activities to avert, minimize and address loss and damage associated with the adverse impacts of climate change.
The Glasgow Dialogue takes place at SBI 56 (June 2022), SBI 58 (June 2023), and SBI 60 (June 2024).
The SBI was requested to organize the Glasgow Dialogue in cooperation with the Executive Committee of the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage associated with Climate Change Impacts (WIM ExCom).
The 1st Glasgow Dialogue (GD1) brought together a broad range of stakeholders to share experiences, challenges, and lessons learned through existing finance to better understand and analyze how support is and can be responsive to the implementation of approaches to avert, minimize and address loss and damage in developing countries. It also highlighted associated gaps, barriers, and challenges.
COP 27 decided that the 2nd Glasgow Dialogue (GD2) will:
> > Build on GD1 and focus on the following:
1. The operationalization of:
- The new funding arrangements, established in paragraph 2 of decisions 2/CP.27 and 2/CMA.4, for assisting developing countries that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change in responding to loss and damage, including with a focus on addressing loss and damage by providing and assisting in mobilizing new and additional resources; and
- The fund, established in paragraph 3 of decisions 2/CP.27 and 2/CMA.4, for responding to loss and damage whose mandate includes a focus on addressing loss and damage;
2. Maximizing support from existing funding arrangements relevant for, among other things, responding to economic and non-economic losses, slow onset events, and extreme weather events;
> > Inform the work of the Transitional Committee.
COP 27 invited Parties and relevant organizations to submit views on, inter alia, topics for and the structure of the GD2. COP 27 also requested the Chair of the SBI to provide a summary report of GD2 no later than four weeks after its completion.
Overall approach
GD2 will follow the same structure as GD1, i.e. discussions will take place over three days and include a parallel breakout group session on the second day to maximize the opportunities for engagement of a broad range of stakeholders and to facilitate focused discussions in an open and inclusive manner.
The discussions will be structured around guiding questions prepared by the Chair of the SBI in cooperation with the WIM ExCom, be informed by the submissions received, and take into account the gaps, barriers, and challenges regarding current arrangements raised during GD1 and the information shared at the first workshop on addressing loss and damage in the context of Decisions 2/CP.27 and 2/CMA.4.
GD2 will be Co-facilitated by the Co-Chairs of the Transitional Committee (TC)
Participants
GD2 will be open to all participants registered for the 58th sessions of the subsidiary bodies.
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Plan for the session and guiding questions
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Thursday 8 June
10:00 – 13:00 CEST
Plenary discussion
Chamber Hall
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Operationalizing the new funding arrangements and the fund established in paragraph 3 of decisions 2/CP.27 and 2/CMA.4
Plenary session
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Opening session
Opening remarks by the Chair of the SBI, Mr. Nabeel Munir
Opening remarks by the Executive Secretary, Mr. Simon Stiell
Opening remarks by the WIM ExCom Co-chairs, Mr. Frode Neergaard and Mr. Jerome Ilagan
Update from the TC by the Co-chairs of the TC, Ms. Outi Honkatukia and Mr. Richard Sherman
Session 1
The first session will dive into the characteristics that could enable the new funding arrangements and fund to be fit for purpose and respond to the gaps in the existing funding arrangements.
Q1 What characteristics would enable the new funding arrangements and fund to provide funding support for the different phases of addressing loss and damage in an effective way?
Before hearing from the participants, the plenary will have the opportunity to hear a number of scene-setting interventions.
At the onset of session 1, members of the ExCom will deliver an intervention on the technical work that is currently being undertaken under the ExCom, and reflect on ways this could provide useful information in the context of the operationalizing the new funding arrangements and the fund as well as maximizing support from existing funding arrangements relevant to responding to loss and damage in the context of decisions 2/CP.27 and 2/CMA.4
- Mr. Frode Neergaard, Co-Chair of the ExCom
- Ms. Anne Hammill, member of the Technical Expert Group on Comprehensive Risk Management of the WIM ExCom
Following the presentation of the ExCom, participants will here three interventions illustrating examples of specific and concrete country needs vis a vis the new funding arrangements and fund, including at the local and regional level.
- Ms. Rosa Perez, Philippines, member of the TC
- Ms. Gunn Britt Retter, FWG Co-Chair
- Mr. Aholotu Palu, Pacific Catastrophe Risk Insurance Company (PCRIC)
The second set of interventions will feature three presentations reflecting on ways in which the new funding arrangements and fund could effectively respond to loss and damage in the context of human mobility, including displacement.
- Mr. Philippe Grandet, Migration Multi-Partner Trust Fund
- Mr. William Chemaly, Senior Adviser and Officer-in-Charge, Office of the Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on Solutions to Internal Displacement
Following these interventions, the Co-facilitators will invite a plenary discussion on Q1
Following the open discussion, the UN Climate Change High-level Champion for Egypt will provide an update on the relevant work of UN Climate Change High-level Champions and reflect on ways in which the new funding arrangements and fund could collaborate with non-state actors, including the private sector.
- Dr. Mahmoud Mohieldin, UN Climate Change High-level Champion
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Friday 9 June
15:00 – 18:00 CEST
Breakout groups
AH lower conference, Wien, Tokio, Addis Abeba
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Operationalizing the new funding arrangements and the fund established in paragraph 3 of decisions 2/CP.27 and 2/CMA.4
Deep dive in breakout groups
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- Day 2 will take place entirely in breakout groups, as specified in the table below:
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Breakout group 1
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Breakout group 2
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Breakout group 3
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Breakout group 4
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Assigned room
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Addis Abeba
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AH Lower Conference Room
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Tokio 1-2
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Wien 1-2
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Capacity
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60 at table,
142 total
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50 table, 104 total
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72 table, 105 total
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50 at table, 110 total
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Facilitator
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Ms. Christina Chan
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Ms. Khadeeja Naseem
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Mr. Jean-Christophe Donnellier
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Mr. Sonam Pushto Wangdi
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Session 2 will comprise four parallel breakout group discussions to facilitate focused discussions in an open and inclusive manner. All four breakout groups will discuss the same questions (Q2 and Q3).
Building on the discussions from Session 1, participants will be asked to delve deeper into more granular discussions on the characteristics and operational modalities that would allow the new funding arrangements and fund provide fit-for-purpose funding support, by responding to the following guiding questions:
Q2 What role could the new funding arrangements and fund play in providing support in the different phases of responding to loss and damage associated with extreme weather events (Preparedness, Response, Recovery, Rehabilitation, Reconstruction)?
Q3 Are there any unique features for financing efforts for responding to loss and damage associated with slow onset events, or losses that are ‘non-economic’ in nature? If so, what are the specific considerations needed? What could be possible ways to address them through the new funding arrangements and fund?
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Saturday 10 June
15:00 – 18:00 CEST
Plenary discussion
Plenary New York
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Maximizing support from existing funding arrangements relevant to responding to loss and damage in the context of decisions 2/CP.27 and 2/CMA.4
Plenary session
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Session 3 will start with a report back from Session 2 breakout groups. Following the report back and taking into account the discussions during Sessions 1 and 2, the plenary discussions will shift to consider ways in which the support from existing funding arrangements could be maximized. It will first feature a series of targeted interventions in response to a set of guiding questions from a range of providers of finance for activities to respond to loss and damage, including a focus on addressing.
- Ms. Michelle Yonetani, UNHCR
- Mr. Stephen Hammer, World Bank
- Mr. Arghya Roy, Asian Development Bank
- Ms. Marcia Wong, USAID Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance
- Sara Ahmed, Financial Futures Center
Each speaker will respond to the following guiding questions, focusing on the experience of their own institutions in providing funding support.
Q4 What are the ways in which you (your institution) could contribute to maximize support from the existing funding arrangements for responding to loss and damage? What are the key limitations and barriers in maximizing support from existing funding arrangements? What lessons can be learned from the existing landscape of institutions funding activities related to loss and damage and the gaps in that landscape?
The round of interventions by representative providers of finance for activities relevant to loss and damage will be followed by an open discussion, including on a set of guiding questions around coordination and complementarity. Prior to the open discussion, participants will have the opportunity to hear relevant experiences on coordination mechanisms.
- Ms. Zinta Zommers, UNOCHA
- Mr. Animesh Kumar, UNDRR
- Ms. Maria Lourdes Kathleen Macasil, CREWS Initiative
- Mr. Filippo Berardi, GEF
Q5 What are the opportunities to increase complementarity, coherence, cooperation and coordination? What are the concrete modalities that could be utilized to achieve this?
Key take-aways
Following the plenary discussions on Q4 and Q5, as appropriate, participants will be invited to share reflections on the key take-aways of the three-day discussions.
In closing, the Co-facilitators will also share their reflections on the key take-aways that have emerged, as well as ways in which GD2 might inform the work of the TC.
Closing remarks by the Chair of the SBI
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