How can we better manage the cross-border effects of climate change and spur opportunities for just approaches to adaptation that bring co-benefits at scale? Join this online dialogue on 10 November, which will shine a spotlight on industry and explore actions to strengthen the resilience of global supply chains.
Agenda
The event will be chaired by
- Musonda Mumba, Chief of the Terrestrial Ecosystems Unit, UN Environment
Opening remarks
- Nigel Topping, UK High Level Climate Action Champion
Keynote speakers
- Pema Gyamtsho, Director General of ICIMOD and former Minister of Agriculture and Forests for the Royal Government of Bhutan
- Michihiro Oi, Director of International Strategy Division, Global Environment Bureau, Ministry of the Environment, Japan
Panel members
- Kevin Adams, Research Fellow, Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)
- Ashley Allen, Chief Sustainability Officer, Oatly
- Tom Howes, Head of Energy and Environment, International Energy Agency
- Simonetta Zarrilli, Chief of the Trade, Gender and Development Programme of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
Discussants
- Eileen Gallagher, Associate Director, BSR
- Djimé Adoum, Executive Secretary of the Permanent Interstates, Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel and former Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation of Chad
- Ayman Cherkaoui, Adaptation Without Borders Ambassador
Closing remarks
- Martin Frick, Deputy Special Envoy of the UN Secretary General for the 2021 Food Systems Summit