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Technology Executive Committee at the Global Sustainable Technology and Innovation Community Conference
Theme: CLIMATE
Global Sustainable Technology and Innovation Community (G-STIC) conference is a series of conferences on promoting integrated technological solutions for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Keynote speakers and top experts on sustainable development presents real life examples of innovative technological solutions for attaining the SDGs.
Climate Technology and Adaptation:
Youth-Led Innovative Approaches
organized in collaboration with the UNFCCC Technology Executive Committee (TEC) and UNFCCC constituency of Youth Non-Governmental Organizations at GSTIC 2022
Wednesday, 19 January 2022 | 10:00 – 11:15 GST (GMT+4) | Dubai Exihibition Centre
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Young people are at the frontier of climate risk as today’s climate action will directly affect the rest of their lives. Many youths are growing up in parts of the world where the impacts of climate change will hit hardest. With an urgent drive to act to avoid disastrous climate change, an increasing number of youths are leading climate adaptation efforts in their communities and regions. Young climate entrepreneurs have developed many innovative adaptation solutions to bring real and concrete change.
Co-organised by the UNFCCC Technology Executive Committee (TEC) and UNFCCC Youth Constituency (YOUNGO), this event aims to explore youth-led innovative approaches to adaptation technologies. Building on the work of the TEC on innovation and adaptation, the objective of this deep dive session is to:
1. Showcase youth led innovations and innovative technologies and to discuss lessons and good practices in scaling up such innovative technologies;
2. Explore the role and importance of youth in driving climate technology innovation and adaptation, and discuss the factors contributing to meaningful participation and leadership of youth across various levels.
The event will bring together experts, civil society and financial institutions to discuss the current status and key aspects of innovations in adaptation technologies.
10:00 - 10:05 | BRIEF INTRODUCTION by the moderator
Moderator - Cathy Yitong Li, Contact point on technology, YOUNGO
10:05 - 10:10 | OPENING REMARKS
Suil Kang, Chief Supervisor, International Environmental Research Institute, Co-host organisation of G-STIC |TEC member
10:10 - 10:20 | Keynote Speech
Saleemul Huq, Director, International Centre for Climate Change and Development
10:20 - 11:10 | MODERATED PANEL DISCUSSION and Q&A
Moderator - Cathy Yitong Li
Panelists:
Claudia Lasprilla Pina, Innovation facility, Adaptation Fund Board Secretariat
Daria Chekalskaia, Intern, Youth Engagement Programme, Climate Investment Fund
Ifeoluwa Olatayo, Founder, Soupah Limited
Nisreen Lahham, Regional Project Manager, International Water Management Institute
11:10 - 11:15 | SUMMARY and CLOSING REMARKS
Stephen Minas, Chair, Technology Executive Committee
UNFCCC Newsroom Article
Youth Are Key to Accelerate Innovative Climate Technologies
Deep dive session: Innovative approaches for climate adaptation technologies
27 October 2020 | 11:45 – 13:15 CET
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Business-as-usual application and implementation of adaptation technologies would not be sufficient to respond to the increasing threat of climate change and to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement. Innovative approaches to accelerating and scaling up the dissemination of adaptation technologies are needed to help countries further enhance their climate resilience.
Building on past and ongoing work of the UNFCCC Technology Executive Committee (TEC) on innovation and climate technologies for adaptation, this deep dive session will discuss innovative approaches to accelerating and scaling up the dissemination of adaptation technologies. Panelists will focus on innovations in key aspects of adaptation technologies (e.g. access to funding, social engagement and private sector participation, business models, role of governments and international institutions, etc.) and how they can be deployed in faster pace.
This deep-dive session is linked to the TEC Technology Day, a series of events organized in 2020 and 2021 for countries and stakeholders to showcase and discuss innovative approaches for climate adaptation technologies in various sectors. The outcomes of the Technology Day and this deep-dive session, will be used by the TEC to produce a policy brief and recommendations to Parties on this topic. The conclusions of this deep-dive will be also part of the overall GSTIC Chairperson Summary that will be submitted to the SDG Technology Facilitation mechanism and the SDG Forum, held yearly in New York.
11:45 - 11:50 | BRIEF INTRODUCTION by the moderator
Wytze van der Gaast, JIN Climate and Sustainability
11:50 - 12:00 | OPENING REMARKS
Robby Berloznik, Senior Advisor, VITO | Advisor, G-STIC | Member, Technology Executive Committee
Mareer Husny, Chair, Technology Executive Committee
12:00 - 13:10 | MODERATED PANEL DISCUSSION and Q&A
Moderator: Wytze van der Gaast, JIN Climate and Sustainability
Panelists:
Technology for adaptation: part of the solution or part of the problem?
Richard Klein, Senior Research Fellow, Stockholm Environment Institute
Facing climate change by empowering communities and women
Pauline Lançon, Project Manager, Univers-Sel
Innovations in learning to accelerate uptake and diffusion of climate adaptation technologies
Christina Chan, Director, Climate Resilience Practice, World Resources Institute
Strategic national planning for adaptation in Myanmar
Thin Thuzar Win, Deputy Director, Climate Change Division, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation, Myanmar
Enhancing climate-resilience investment through ecosystem based adaptation approaches
Ali Raza Rizvi, Programme Manager, Ecosystem-based Adaptation, International Union for Conservation of Nature
13:10 - 13:15 | SUMMARY by the moderator and CLOSING REMARKS
Wytze van der Gaast, JIN Climate and Sustainability
Stephen Minas, Vice-Chair, Technology Executive Committee
The event is organized as part of the Global Sustainable Technology and Innovation Community Conference
under the thematic area Climate
