Background
Activity A.2 :“Holding an interactive workshop at the ACE Dialogue in 2025 and also at the regional level prior to COP 31 (2026), on developing and implementing national climate change policies, plans, strategies and action using a clear, inclusive, intergenerational and gender-responsive approach”.
Expected outcomes
- Better understanding on the role of ACE in developing and implementing national climate policies, plans, strategies and action;
- Sharing of good practices and experiences as well as available tools and support in integrating ACE elements into national climate policies, plans, strategies and action through exchange with experts and participants;
- Enhanced capacities in developing ideas and strategies around potential entry points and partners for integrating ACE elements into national climate policies, plans, strategies and action, in particular, on ways to make them more inclusive, intergenerational and gender-responsive.
Tentative Agenda
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Time
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Details
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10:00 – 10:10
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Opening
Co-moderators will set the scene.
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10:10 – 10:50
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Panel discussion
The first segment of the workshop will look at how ACE, as a toolbox, can contribute or is essential to making national climate policies, plans, strategies and action more effective and successful.
The panel will be moderated by Isatis Cintron, Climate Governance & Participation Specialist at Columbia University. The panellists include:
- Verania Chao, Programme Specialist, Climate, Gender and Inclusion, UNDP
- João Brant, Secretary for Digital Policies, Secretariat for Social Communication, Brazil and Charlotte Scaddan, Senior Advisor on Information Integrity, Department of Global Communications, UN
- Massimiliano Falcone, Special Envoy for Climate Education and Green Skills in the NDC 3.0, Climate Education Coalition/EARTHDAY.ORG
An online exercise (menti) will be run in parallel to collect participants’ response on the examples of six ACE elements being utilized in developing and implementing climate policies, plans, strategies and action.
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10:50 – 12:00
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Mini Clinics (Two rounds)
The second segment will allow the participants to converse with experts on integrating ACE elements into climate policies, plans, strategies and action, such as NDCs and NAPs. The idea is to spark ideas for various ways of approaching this integration – in terms of potential entry points, partners and some key considerations.
The groups will include:
Facilitators will encourage, in particular, Party representatives to share their examples. Participants will reflect on stakeholders needed in the integration process and how they can be more meaningfully engaged, making national climate policies, plans, strategies and action more inclusive, intergenerational and gender-responsive. Discussions will also centre around the barriers they face and solutions that can be replicated.
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12:00 – 12:50
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Interactive Exercise
The exercise will be facilitated by Andrea Ramirez, Senior Researcher, UNU-EHS.
An exercise that helps participants to strategize the way forward in integrating ACE elements in national climate policies, plans, strategies and action, through visioning, role playing and coalition building.
Special focus will be given to utilize gender-responsive and intergenerational lens.
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12:50 – 13:00
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Closing
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