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UNFCCC Official Side Event: Building Resilience of Communities from Highlands to Oceans in the Face of Climate Crisis
This UNFCCC COP 26 official side event highlighted findings from recent science, civic diplomacy, technology and community interventions and provides an opportunity for stakeholders across the Hindu-Kush Himalayan river basins to come together on a common platform for building resilience against CC induced water risks.
Speakers: Asim Zia (Institute for Environmental Diplomacy and Security), Caitlin Waddick (Center for the Advancement of Public Action), Geeta Pandey (Karnali Integrated Rural Development and Research Centre), Jui-Wen Chen (JW Eco-Technology)
Resilience Hub at COP 26: Building Resilience of Communities from Highlands to Oceans in the Face of Climate Crisis
Hosted at the COP 26 Resilience Hub (https://cop-resilience-hub.org), this Transboundary Water In-Cooperation Network event brought together speakers from three watersheds: Indus, Amazon and Jordan rivers tackling cross-border challenges of sustainability and impacts from the climate crisis. Topics included Highlands-to-Oceans (H2O): Anticipatory Governance of Hydroclimatic Regime Shifts in the Transboundary River Basins; Advocating the Mountain Agenda for Sustainable Human Future; Water Supply and Demand and the Climate Crisis in the Jordan River Basin
Speakers: Asim Zia (Institute for Environmental Diplomacy and Security), Clive Lipchin (Arava Institute for the Environment), Maria del Pilar Cornejo (Pacific International Center for Disaster Risk Reduction) Geeta Pandey (Karnali Integrated Rural Development and Research Centre), Jui-Wen Chen (JW Eco-Technology)
China Corporate Pavilion at Cop 26: Securing Clean Water in Transboundary Indus, Jordan, Mekong and Amazon basins through Science and Environmental Diplomacy
This is a 3-hour moderated panel discussion, with two keynote talks from in-person participants and an online international panel of scientists, civil society, and private sector representatives from the focal Indus, Mekong, Jordan and Amazon river basins.
COP 26 Event Organizers: Institute of Environmental Diplomacy and Security (IEDS), University of Vermont and Centre for the Advancement of Public Action (CAPA), Bennington College, Jointly Serving as Secretariat of the Transboundary Water In-Cooperation Network (TWIN) Hosted at the Cina Corporate Pavilion at COP 26 Glasgow
United Nations Water Conference holding from March 22 – 24, 2023 in New York
ACCARD (African Centre for Climate Actions and Rural Development Initiative) in collaboration with the Nigeria’s Bayelsa State Government, the Institute for Environmental Diplomacy and Security at the University of Vermont, the Center for Capacity Building at the University of Colorado, among others, hosted an event titled “Integrative Highland to Ocean (H2O) Action for Disappearing Deltas: Towards a UN Convention on Conserving River Deltas”.
Speakers:
Prof. Michael Glantz, Director, University of Colorado Consortium for Capacity Building, Prof. Asim Azia Director, Institute for Environmental Diplomacy and Security, University of Vermont, United States, His Excellency, Sen. Duoye Diri – Nigeria’s Bayelsa State Government, Dr. Aboje Andrews Environmental Specialist and Consultant with African Development Bank (AfDB), Senator Nisar Memon Water Environment Forum Pakistan, Prof. Bach Tan Sinh Vietnam National University, Susan Sgorbati Center for Advancement of Public Action, Bennington College USA, Chief Bill Knight UNESCO Professorial Chair, University of Lincoln, Freeman Elohor African Centre for Climate Actions and Rural Development (ACCARD), Michael Cullen Terra Global Capital Investment and Robert Ross.