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Regional Workshop Options for an Innovative Climate Finance Regime for South Asia

New Delhi 19th – 20th August, 2013 India Habitat Centre

Agenda

DAY 1: 19th August, 2013 (Monday)

9:00-9:30- Registration

Welcome and Opening (9:30 – 10:30)

Moderator : Sanjay Vashist, CANSA

Welcome Address – George Varughese, CANSA-Development Alternatives

Opening Remark – Young-Woo Park, Regional Director and Representative for Asia and the Pacific, UNEP

Inaugural Address – Ms. Rajshree Ray representing Dr. Deepak Dasgupta, Principle Economic

Advisor, GoI

Objectives and Expected Outputs of the Meeting- Puja Sawhney, Coordinator, APAN

CANSA Board Thanks – Hina Lotia, CANSA

10:30-11:00 - Tea Break and Group photo

11:00-13:00 Session 1: Overall State of Play in Climate Finance

Chair – Ali Taquir Sheikh, LEAD Pakistan

11:00 -11:15 Current State of Play in Financing Adaptation and Mitigation: Mozaharul Alam,

UNEP

11:15 - 11:30 Current Issues and Challenges in GCF: K. Srinivas, Vasudha Foundation

11:30 - 12:00 How Developing Asian Countries Can Prepare to Access International Green

Growth Financing. Jem Porcaro, USAID Contractor, LEAD Program

12:00 - 12:20 National Efforts on Climate Finance by Governments: Cases from Countries

Bangladesh – Ms. Shakila Yasmin, Assistant Director, Climate Change

Trust

Nepal - Mr. Arjun Thapa, Soil Conservation Officer, Ministry of Science

Tech and Env

India – Rajasree Ray, Additional Economic Advisor, Ministry of Finance

Maldives – Ali Shareef, Ministry of Environment

12:20 - 12:50 Discussions, Questions and Clarifications for Presenters

12:50 - 13:00 Concluding Comments by Chair

13:00-14:00 – Lunch Break



14:00-15:30: Session 2: Estimated Cost of Climate Action

Chair – Robert Dobias, ADAPT

14:00 - 14:15 Synthesis on Estimates of Costs of Climate Finance - Henriette Imelda, I-CAN

14:15 - 14:30 Various Sources of Contributions to mobilize Climate Finance vs Costs

estimates – Sanjay Vashist, CANSA

14:30 - 14:45 Private Sector Approach in Promoting and Financing Climate Resilient

Agribusiness - Afifa Raihana, SEF Specialist, Bangladesh, IFC

14:45 - 15:00 Weaknesses of Existing sources of Finance in Delivering Actions on Climate

Change: Alix Mouzoni, CAN France



15:30-15:45 - Tea Break

15:45-17:30: Session 3: Challenges of Climate Finance for Adaptation in South Asia

Chair – Ram Kishan, Christian Aid

15:45 - 16:20 Implementation Challenges in Adaptation and Climate Finance: Mozaharul

Alam, UNEP

16:20 - 17:00

Governments’ Approach to Challenges of Finance in Adaptation in South Asia

- Government Representatives from the countries

- Bhutan

- Pakistan

- Sri Lanka

- Afghanistan





DAY 2: 20th August, 2013

09:45 - 10:00 - Day 1 Summary – Vositha Wijenayake

10:00 -11:30: Session 4: Generating Climate Finance for South Asia

Chair – Amb Kakakhel, SDPI

10:00 - 10:30 Recent Attempts in Generating Funds for Adaptation Actions: Siddarth Pathak,

CAN International

10:30 - 10:40 Good Practices and Gaps in Resources generation Efforts in South Asia – Ali

Taquir Sheikh, LEAD Pakistan

10:40 - 11:00 Recent Attempts in Generating Funds for Mitigation Actions: Ms. Afifa Raihana,

SEF Specialist, IFC, Bangladesh



11:30-11:45 - Tea Break

11:45-13:00: Session 5: Mapping of Governance Challenges on Climate Finance in South Asia –

Working Group Exercise (World Café Technique!)

Guiding Questions

(a) What are the ground level challenges faced by the representatives? (Peter) (b) What are the specific initiatives being undertaken by the govt. in Climate Finance? (Babu) (c) Regional collaboration on climate finance – generation, access, utilization and transparency

(Jem) (d) What could be recommendations for increasing capacity to identify and access climate

financing mechanisms in represented countries? (Bob and Lee)

Presentations from Break-out groups

Existing Challenges in Governance in Climate Finance – Dr. Atiq Rahman, BCAS

Conclusion

13:00-14:00 – Lunch Break

14:00 - 15:30: Session 6: Knowledge Gaps in Climate Finance: What is to be done in the Future?

Chair – Dr. Atiq Rahman, BCAS and CANSA

14:00 - 14:20 Critical Knowledge Gaps Existing in Climate Finance: Puja Sawhney, IGES and

APAN

14:20 - 14:40 Identifying further Areas of Research in future on Climate Finance: Tirthankar

Mandal, CANSA

14:40 - 15:00 What is Needed to Scale up Private Sector Participation in Climate Finance: Peter du Pont, Ph.D., USAID Contractor, LEAD Program





15:30-15:45 – Working Tea

15:30 - 17:00: Session 7: Exploring the Feasibility National and Regional Climate Finance

Mechanism to bridge the GAP.

Chair – Ali Taquir Sheikh, LEAD Pakistan

15:30 - 16:30 Break-out groups- To produce outputs such as the country finance maps,

research needs, and recommendations for regional coordination (30 minutes)

Guiding Questions:

(a) Do we need a National and / oR Regional Finance Mechanism (b) How it should be developed? (c) How do we strengthen the regional mechanisms and make them an

effective one? (d) What would be the role of private players in the regional mechanism

Mapping the Characteristics of National and / OR Regional Climate Finance Mechanism –

Moderated Discussions (Zeenat Niazi)

17:00 - 17:30: Conclusion

17:00 - 17:15 Concluding Remarks - Young-Woo Park, Regional Director and Representative

for Asia and the Pacific, UNEP

14:20 - 14:40 Thanking Remarks – Atiq Rahman, Co-Chair, CANSA

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