I. Background

To respond to the increasing threat of climate change and to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement, business-as-usual application of adaptation technologies would not be sufficient. Innovation and innovative approaches on adaptation technologies are needed to help countries further increase the ability to adapt and enhance their climate resilience. They are also needed in all aspects of the technologies - hardware, software, and orgware – and at the scale where they can be deployed at a faster pace. The need to upscale the deployment of innovation and innovative approaches in adaptation also bodes well with “Recover Better” efforts as the world is recovering from the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic. 

Set in this context, the aim of the “Technology Day” is to promote innovative approaches to deploy, disseminate and scale up adaptation technologies.  The Technology Day consists series of virtual events with different themes related to adaptation technologies and will be officially launched during Climate Dialogues. The first thematic session will be on Innovative approaches to deploy, disseminate and scale up technologies and solutions for climate-smart agriculture, organized in collaboration with FAO and the Global Alliance for Climate Smart Agriculture.

II. Description/Objective

The event will provide a platform for countries and stakeholders (innovation actors, technology experts, businesses, practitioners, observers, civil society, UN organisations, UNFCCC constituted bodies and mechanisms and relevant stakeholders) to:

1. Show case and discuss various innovation and innovative approaches, including challenges and good practices, to deploying, disseminating and scaling up solutions and technologies including for climate-smart agriculture and explore different roles of stakeholders and effective ways and measures to implement these approaches;
2. Discuss how innovation and innovative approaches can contribute to global efforts to “Recover Better” and to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement, including to enhance nationally determined contributions, and sustainable development goals;
3. Identify potential policies and concrete actions that can be undertaken to accelerate and scale-up the dissemination of climate adaptation solutions and technologies

III. Proposed programme

Moderator: Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, President, Association for Indigenous Women and Peoples of Chad (AFPAT)

LAUNCH OF THE TECHNOLOGY DAY

13:00 - 13:25 LAUNCH

• Welcome by Mareer Husny - Chair TEC
• Opening remarks by Tosi Mpanu Mpanu, Chair, SBSTA
• Launch of Technology Day by Patricia Espinosa, Executive Secretary, UNFCCC
• Keynote speech by Maria Semedo - Deputy Director General, FAO

13:25 - 13:30 VIDEO: INTRODUCTION TO THE THEMATIC SESSION

THEMATIC SESSION: CLIMATE SMART AGRICULTURE

13:30 - 13:40 STATE OF PLAY

• H.E. Hans Hoogeveen, Co-chair, Global Alliance for Climate Smart Agriculture
• State of play - Climate-smart agriculture - Bruce Campbell, Director, Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security, CGIAR

13:40 - 14:20 PANEL DISCUSSION: SUCCESSFUL INNOVATIVE MODELS AND APPROACHES, LESSONS LEARNED AND GOOD PRACTICES

• Policies enabling innovations in technology in the livestock
  Dale Crammond, Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Government of Ireland
• Innovative approaches from business perspective
  Tony Siantonas, World Business Council Development
• Use of improved crop varieties and livestock breeds to improve resilience in smallholder farms and landless communities
  Krishna Pant, FAO
• Finance for innovation and innovative financing
  Saliha Dobardzic, Innovation Facility, Adaptation Fund Board Secretariat
• Role of digital technologies
  Meng Zeng, FAO

14:20 - 14:40 Q&A with audience

14:40 - 14:55 PANEL DISCUSSION: IMPACTS AND SCALING UP

14:55 - 15:00 SUMMARY AND CLOSING REMARKS

• Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, President, AFPAT
• Daniele Violetti, Director, Means of Implementation Division, UNFCCC