Credit: Pablo García Saldaña
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Introduction
The Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage is the main vehicle under the UNFCCC to avert, minimize and address loss and damage associated with climate change impacts, including extreme events and slow onset events, in developing countries that are particularly vulnerable to climate change. This year, its Executive Committee has adopted the second Five-year Rolling workplan and endorsed new Plans of Action for its Task Force on Displacement and the Technical Expert Group on Comprehensive Risk Management.
Objective and Expected Results of the Side Event
This event will provide an opportunity for the Executive Committee to present its new Five-year Rolling workplan as well as for its technical expert group and task force to present ways in which their new Plans of Action will assist developing countries in averting, minimizing or addressing loss or damage. It will also allow for reflections on how the thematic expert groups can best serve countries in catalyzing support for action at the national, subnational and local levels.
Programme
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Focus
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Scene setting by the moderator
Ms. Le-Anne Roper, member of the Executive Committee
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Presentation of the second Five-year Rolling workplan
Ms. Gemma Tanner, member of the Executive Committee
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Country perspectives
Country representatives will identify approaches implemented, as well as challenges experienced in averting, minimizing and addressing loss and damage at the national level, with a focus on human mobility and comprehensive risk management approaches
- Mr. Mirza Shawkat Ali, Director, Climate Change and International Convention, Department of Environment, Bangladesh
- Ms. Omniah Hegazy, Senior Adaptation Officer, CoP 27 Unit, Ministry of Environment, Egypt
- Mr. Delio Rincon, Climate Change and Sustainable Development Specialist, Ministry of Economy, Planning and Development, Dominican Republic
- Ms. Sarah Matches, Institutional Climate Change focal point, National Institute for Disaster Management and Risk Reduction, Mozambique
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The role of the expert groups in catalyzing solutions on the ground
Second Plan of Action of the Technical Expert Group on Comprehensive risk management
- Mr. Soenke Kreft, Executive Director, Munich Climate Insurance Initiative, member of the technical expert group
Third Plan of Action of the Task Force on Displacement
- Mr. Manuel Marques Pereira, Head of the Migration, Environment and Climate Change Division, IOM, member of the task force
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Moderated panel discussion
Country speakers, Executive Committee members and expert group members
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Open Q&A
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Closing by the moderator
Ms. Le-Anne Roper, member of the Executive Committee
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