THE COP RESILIENCE HUB EVENT PROGRAMME With calendar links where these have been added, otherwise please watch on the event platform live stream or the live stream at https://cop-resilience-hub.org/ at the allocated time. FULL SYNOPSIS AND LIST OF SPEAKERS TO BE FOUND ON EVENT PLATFORM ALONG WITH NETWORKING FACILITIES

SUNDAY, 31 OCTOBER Time Type/Location Theme Session Hosted by:

22:00- 23:30

VIRTUAL Pacific Regional Hub

Pacific Youth Resilience in a Changing Climate Talanoa Join Zoom Meeting: Zoom Link Meeting ID: 926 3132 8805 Passcode: z4GGFCv8 The Pacific faces a three-pronged crisis – the impact of COVID-19, the devastating effects of climate change and natural disasters, and the region's fragile economic health, as a consequence of inherent vulnerabilities. Enabling Pacific youth engagement and leadership in reducing vulnerability to multiple and interacting hazards is critical to developing Pacific Island communities' resilience in the changing climate. To ensure resilience interventions and strategies are effective, Pacific youth must be included in the co-design of research and policy. Our talanoa discusses the importance of a youth-focused approach to deal with the impacts of climate change and COVID-19, overlaying existing challenges with noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), child malnutrition, climate-related mobility, gender and social inclusion and cultural connections with the ocean. We will present our initiatives that seek to understand what resilience means and looks like for Pacific youth and outline strategies to better engage Pacific

University of Auckland Faculty of Health and Medical Science

youth in delivering climate change adaptation, and COVID-19 health and economic recovery interventions. To add this event to your calendar, click here

MONDAY, 1 NOVEMBER Time Type/Location Theme Session Hosted by:

9.15 – 11.00

BLUE ZONE Featured Event!

Opening and Welcome to the Resilience Hub ARTS, HERITAGE, CULTURE: Reimagining our climate journey from knowledge to action Everyone talks about the need for action, but where’s the inspiration? Will conventional talks stimulate the ‘rapid, far-reaching, unprecedented changes in all aspects of society’ so urgently needed? While science, financing and negotiations dominate the climate narrative at COPs and beyond, it is a well-known fact that our most important and courageous decisions are shaped by our evolving emotional truths. So, if we want resilience, let’s genuinely examine what it takes to really help others notice, care, and act. In this intensely interactive out-of-the-box session, participants will first explore the links between climate, culture and heritage, then experience short, safe and inspiring activities to activate their potential for creative breakthrough ideas, and then co-create actual art-infused expressions that will be shared at subsequent COP sessions in the Resilience Hub and beyond. Convened by the Resilience Hub in conjunction with the Development & Climate Days. To add this event to your calendar, click here.

Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre Artist for Impact at the Lloyd’s Register Foundation Global Resilience Partnership

Speakers

Pablo Suarez Innovation Lead (RCCC) , and Artist for Impact (LRF) Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, and Lloyd's Register Foundation

12:00-13:00

Window into COP

Interview Windows on Resilience – daily highlights show 1

The daily Windows on Resilience show will bring visitors up to date with inspiring initiatives from across the COP26 programme and from around the world. It will mix up films, interviews with resilience pioneers, and reportage from our global colleagues and aims to showcase highlights of the programme, and reminders of what not to miss. It will provide a window for people from around the world into Glasgow and will share the best of adaptation and resilience at COP to audiences around the world.

Atlantic Council (AC), Resilience Knowledge Coalition (GRP), The Resilience Shift (RS)

13.00-13.15

FILM Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center Resilience Pod In June 2020, the Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center, with Miami-Dade County and City of Miami leaders, deployed the first-of-its-kind Community Resilience Pod. The pod—which will play a critical role addressing local food insecurity—was debuted at a major food distribution drive in Miami to raise awareness of the issue. Transformed from a 40-foot shipping container donated by the MSC (Mediterranean Shipping Company) Foundation, this highly versatile, interactive, and mobile space will meet residents of Miami-

Dade County with resilience solutions to local threats like extreme heat, flooding sea-level rise, food security, and pandemics.

14.00-15.30

BLUE ZONE Finance Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance: what works and what doesn’t? A Strategic Evidence Roadmap To date, innovation on climate and disaster risk finance and insurance has not been accompanied by adequate evidence, learning, and sharing of lessons. Evidence-based policy and solutions are needed to help strengthen the resilience of low-income and climate-vulnerable people at a global scale. Following a four-day CDRFI evidence workshop in September 2020, in a process co-led by the Munich Climate Insurance Initiative (MCII) the InsuResilience Global Partnership through its Impact Working Group created a CDRFI Evidence Roadmap to highlight research priorities and facilitate joint research action and advocacy. This COP26 event will engage academia, civil society actors, donors, implementers and experts, to feature CDRFI research priorities and catalyse joint actions. The Evidence Roadmap event will promote evidence-based action and launch processes to develop (and share) best practice in CDRFI To add this event to your calendar, click here. Speakers:

Rowan Douglas Head, Climate and Resilience Hub Willis Towers Watson

InsuResilience global Partnership, Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk and Resilience, Munich Climate Insurance Initiative

Sophie Evans Head of Country Programmes Centre for Disaster Protection

Dr Maria Flachsbarth Parliamentary State Secretary Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and

Development, Government of Germany Sönke Kreft Executive Director Munich Climate Insurance Initiative

Dr Swenja Surminski Chair Munich Climate Insurance Initiative, and Head of Adaptation Research, Grantham Research Institute

Vositha Wijenayake Executive Director SLYCAN Trust

14.30-15.00

FILM Sustainable Summits - Climate solutions from top of the World 1 Climate impacts in the Mountains (Part 1 of 4) A four part series raising awareness and political support for action to tackle the impacts of climate in the mountains and promoting solutions for sustainable mountain development at COP 26

14.45-15.00

FILM CDKN Adaptation Voices: Dr. Musonda Mumba Dr. Musonda Mumba of the UN Environment Programme speaks about the issues the African continent is facing, in regards to climate change. She also highlights reasons to be hopeful and solutions to these issues.

15:45- 17:15

BLUE ZONE Locally Led Adaptation

A global tour of local government authorities implementing an inclusive locally-led adaptation

Although there is growing recognition of the important role local government authorities play in leading adaptation efforts, there remain doubts over how to channel resources to them, what approaches work in practice, and how they can be scaled. This event will explore how local government authorities have been leading climate adaptation around the world. It will demonstrate approaches from Cambodia, Zambia, Nepal, Bangladesh, The Gambia, Mozambique, Mali, Senegal, and others, showcasing how local government authorities are successfully implementing inclusive climate adaptation at the local level- and in doing so, addressing the root causes of climate vulnerability and inequality.

To add this event to your calendar, click here. Speakers: Moderator

Anna Carthy Researcher International Institute for Environment & Development

Jennifer Abdella Program Director Near East Foundation

CIF (Climate Investment Funds) & iDE (International Development Enterprises) & IIED (International Institute for Environment and Development) UNCDF Local Climate Adaptive Living facility (LoCAL)

Diksha Bijlani Stakeholder engagement consultant Climate Investment Funds

Ramon Cervera Programme Specialist, Mozambique UNCDF Local Climate Adaptive Living Facility (LoCAL)

Mizan Khan Deputy Director International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD)

Madan Pariyar Senior Advisor iDE Landing B. Sanneh Chairman Mansakonko Area Council The Gambia

17:30-19:00

BLUE ZONE Finance Closing the action gap: addressing climate risks in fragile and conflict-affected settings The need for multi-agency collaboration and coordination People in fragile and conflict-affected settings will face greater risks due to higher vulnerability to climate hazards and exposure to conflict and protracted crises, and insufficient coping and adaptive capacities. Moreover, climate change and conflict interact with each other in many of these settings, compounding the risks that communities face and jeopardising sustainable development that 'leaves no one behind'. Humanitarian actors are present in many of these contexts, working to implement programmes that address immediate needs while building longer-term resilience. However, despite higher levels of vulnerability and need, there is a significant difference between the provision of funding to stable, middle-income countries and fragile or conflict-affected ones, with the latter receiving significantly less funding to support their efforts to adapt to climate change. The session will seek to support a conversation between development, humanitarian, political and business leaders on how to ensure that populations facing the double vulnerability of climate risks and conflict are more effectively supported. Speakers:

Nick Dyer UK Special Envoy for Famine Prevention and Humanitarian Affairs Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

(FCDO)

FCDO, Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises (SPARC), Overseas Development Institute (ODI)

Soukeyna Kane Director of the Fragility, Conflict and Violence Group World Bank

Robert Mardini Director General International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)

Mikko Ollikainen Head of Adaptation Fund Adaptation Fund

Sara Pantuliano Chief Executive Officer ODI - Chair

19:00-20:30

BLUE ZONE Reception Opening Reception and Launch of CCRI Digital Art Exhibition Conveying the severity of the climate crisis to the wider public constitutes a formidable challenge. While science-based research and records play an important role in building understanding, art can help us feel, think and see differently. The CCRI's Art + Resilience exhibition combines both art and data to deliver a powerful message about the climate emergency and its consequences. In addition to viewing the artwork, they will also be able to access interactive climate-related data, emphasising the importance of data in driving resilience.

Resilience Knowledge Coalition (GRP), the Resilience Shift, Atlantic Council, Willis Towers Watson, Coalition for Climate Resilient Investment

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22:00- 23:30

VIRTUAL

Pacific Regional Hub

Volunteering for Resilience Join Zoom Meeting: Zoom Link Meeting ID: 955 9128 2708 Passcode: uhB6hu1L Building resilience requires time and positive change and often it is not instantaneous. Volunteers contribute their expertise and innovation to strengthening resilience in many ways. Local volunteers offer local solutions and promote relationships between community members and external stakeholders and play a critical role in bringing about change. Voluntary work in various sectors, such as emergency response, disaster preparedness, and disaster management, can help address natural disasters and climate risks. It is the technical know-how of international volunteers that provides a distinct advantage, but local volunteers are adept at using local knowledge. In fragile communities, where there is little formal organization support and little in the way of tangible structures, volunteering is essential for fostering social well-being. When responding to natural disasters due to climate change, special attention must be given as to how to build resilience, whether at individual, community or national levels and several institutions, structures, academic institutions, the media, and the digital world are addressed. This helps communities and people better prepare for and cope with crisis situations. At the same time, a major challenge faced when dealing with disasters is coordinating with all support organizations.

UN Volunteers Pacific

Can sustaining a resilient system require both maintaining necessary structures while building new ones – and if so, what would these look like, and will they consider a balance. Objective: To highlight the importance of volunteering in resilience and contributions already made by Pacific island communities in this area of development.

23:30- 01:00

VIRTUAL Pacific Regional Hub

Climate and Disaster Risk Information for Climate Change Adaptation: Challenges and Solutions Please note this meeting finishes at 01.00 AM GMT. Join Zoom Meeting: Zoom Link Meeting ID: 983 9243 5013 Passcode: 8V0XYkRt In this high-level exploration, participants will reflect on the generation of useful and credible risk information and how to incorporate the uncertainties of a changing climate in resilient spatial and infrastructure investment planning. This will include spotlighting perspectives on current and emerging risk modeling capabilities, on risk communication and on the information needs of planners and decision makers.

Asian Development Bank (ADB)

TUESDAY, 2 NOVEMBER Time Type/Location Theme Session Hosted by:

01:00 - 02:15

VIRTUAL SE & E Asia Regional Hub

Connecting Local Priorities to Global Policies: Scaling up Locally Led Adaptation Join Zoom Meeting: Zoom Link

Huairou Commission, Life Center Vietnam,

Meeting ID: 983 0610 8174 Passcode: Resilient1 Greater ambition on adaptation requires that we connect locally driven resilience and adaptation to national and global policy and finance. While there are many locally driven initiatives underway, there are several links in the chain required to connect these to national and global policies. What actions can different stakeholders take to better align local priorities and action to national and global policies and financial resources? Speakers:

Amie Debora Program Manager of YAKKUM Emergency Unit Indonesia Ibu Roniatun Grassroots leader from YAKKUM Emergency Unit, Secretary of Family Welfare Group, Ngalang Village in Indonesia and member of the Huairou Commission Sina Kuo Program Manager, Urban Poor Women Development, Cambodia

Sonia Fadrigo National level grassroots leader, Homeless People’s Federation, Philippines, and Secretary of the SDI Management Committee, Philippines

Cherry Barnuevo

YAKKUM Emergency Unit, Indonesia

Secretary General of Solidarity of Oppressed Filipino People

Suprayoga Hadi Deputy of Policy Support for Human Development and Equitable Development of the Office of the Vice President of the Republic of Indonesia Yukiko Ito, Principal Social Development Specialist, Asian Development Bank

08:00-09:00

BLUE ZONE Interview Windows on Resilience – daily highlights show 2

The daily Windows on Resilience show will bring visitors up to date with inspiring initiatives from across the COP26 programme and from around the world. It will mix up films, interviews with resilience pioneers, and reportage from our global colleagues and aims to showcase highlights of the programme, and reminders of what not to miss. It will provide a window for people from around the world into Glasgow and will share the best of adaptation and resilience at COP to audiences around the world.

Atlantic Council (AC), Resilience Knowledge Coalition (GRP), Resilience Shift

9:15 - 10:45

BLUE ZONE Finance Risk matters: making resilience add up in a Net Zero transition It is not inevitable that Net Zero targets on their own will naturally result in a climate resilient world. While they may decarbonise the portfolios of investors, or encourage governments to incentivise renewables, without other qualitative considerations in the transition, climate risks may just be pushed around the economic system. Even if Net Zero targets result in an overall global reduction in emissions in line with Paris goals, it is not a given that the environment and

Willis Towers Watson

society will be allowed to flourish as it is protected from the impacts of an already warming world. In order to reach a Net Zero and climate resilient world, we need three things:

1) Risk quantification and analytics 2) Resilience measures, such as risk transfer and nature based

solutions 3) Stewardship to ensure a just and whole economy transition. Using a series of case studies, we will explore impactful examples of new methods and financial tools for risk quantification and examples of successful implementation and experiences at the point of delivery across the three pillars of coastal, rural and urban resilience. To add this event to your calendar, click here. Speakers: Moderator

Diana Fox Carney Willis Towers Watson strategic advisor

Elsie Addo Awadzi 2nd deputy governor of the Bank of Ghana

Rowan Douglas Head, Climate and Resilience Hub Willis Towers Watson

Ekhosuehi Iyahen Secretary General Insurance Development Forum

Andy MacFarlane AXA Youssef Nasser Director of Adaptation UNFCCC Dr Ana Gonzalez Pelaez Fellow University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership

Dr Nicola Ranger Head of Climate and Environmental Risk Research at the Oxford Sustainable Finance Programme of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment

University of Oxford

10.45-11.00

FILM Sustainable Summits - Climate solutions from top of the World 2 Solutions that work in the Mountains (Part 2 of 4) A four part series raising awareness and political support for action to tackle the impacts of climate in the mountains and promoting solutions for sustainable mountain development at COP 26

11:15- 12:45

BLUE ZONE Infrastructure Integrating Resilience into investment decision making This ‘talk show’ style event will showcase insights gained from infrastructure case studies of different regions in the world on the assessment of climate related risks, asset resilience and resilience options and quantification of the benefits of incorporating such resilience options. Bringing together a range of experts across the engineering, risk data, ratings, investment and public sectors, the event will explore the implications, challenges and opportunities of integrating climate resilience into infrastructure assets on risk transfer, credit rating and asset valuation. To add this event to your calendar, click here. Speakers:

Moderator Alex Chavarot Strategic Financial Adviser to the Executive Team CCRI

Samir Assaf Senior Advisor, General Atlantic, Member of the Advisory Board of BeyondNetZero HSBC, Chairman of the Boards, HSBC Middle East and HSBC Middle East

Holdings

Denise Bower Executive Director Mott MacDonald

Coalition for Climate Resilient Investment (CCRI), Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI), Climate Sense Infrastructure Operators Adaptation Forum (IOAF), University of Birmingham

Kelly Christodoulou ESG and Stewardship Manager, Investments Australian Super

Kamal Kishore Cochair, Execuutive Committee Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure

Paul Munday Director Climate Adaptation & Resilience, S&P Global Ratings

Laia Romero Director Lobelia Earth Richard Sorkin CEO and Co-founder Jupiter Intelligence

Crystal Flemming General Manager Investor Group on Climate Change Roelfien Kuijpers Global ESG Client Officer / Head of Client Coverage Ireland, Scandinavia and the UK, DWS

13:15-14:45

BLUE ZONE ARTS A Culture of Resilience: Launch of the Climate Heritage Network Race to Resilience Campaign Tackling climate change requires an all-of-society-effort but too often the cultural dimensions have been missed. The announcement in September 2021 of the inclusion of Culture in the Race to Resilience flips this paradigm. The Race to Resilience aims to catalyse a step-change in global ambition for climate resilience. Join this launch for the Climate Heritage Network’s Race to Resilience Partner Campaign and learn how cultural actors– from arts to heritage – can play their part, scaling up the use of culture-based strategies for pursuing a resilient world where we don’t just survive climate stresses but thrive in spite of them. To add this event to your calendar, click here.

Speaker

Angélica Arias Benavides Executive Director Metropolitan Institute of Heritage

Karima Bennoune UNHCR UN Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights (Nov. 1, 2016-Oct. 31)

Tim Devine Executive Innovation Director AKQA, The [Uncertain] Four Seasons, Australia

Climate Heritage Network; African World Heritage Fund; California Office of Historic Preservation; Historic England; Historic Environment Scotland; Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage; Instituto Metropolitano de Patrimonio de Quito; National Trust of South Australia; City of San Antonio, Texas; UCLG Culture Committee

HRH Princess Dana Firas Petra National Trust President and UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for Cultural Heritage

Davide Grosso International Music Council

Dr. Ewan Hyslop Head of Technical Research & Science Historic Environment Scotland

Dr. Albino Jopela Head of Programmes African World Heritage Fund

Gerald Leitner Secretary General international Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, The Hague, Netherlands

Zayd Minty Creative City South, Johannesburg, South Africa

Jordi Pascual Coordinator United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) Culture Committee

Navin Piplani PhD, Principal Director INTACH Heritage Academy, New Delhi, India

Julianne Polanco Director, State Historic Preservation Officer California, USA

Queen Quet Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation

Shanon Shea Miller Director, Office of Historic Preservation City of San Antonio, USA

Alison Tickell Director Julie’s Bicycle, United Kingdom

Johannes Widodo Director International Network of Tropical Architecture (iNTA), Singapore

15.00-15.15

FILM The Promise The Promise is an urban fairy tale that plays out on the mean streets of a mean city. Here, a young thief tries to snatch an old woman’s bag but she cannot have it without giving something in return: The Promise. Based on the New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year by Nicola Davies and Laura Carlin, produced and directed by Chi Thai. https://www.thepromise.earth/

15:30-16:45

BLUE ZONE Health & Wellbeing

Join us Live from COP26! Mayors for Heat Action

The Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center has partnered with mayors to lead on addressing extreme heat in cities and counties and protect the populations most susceptible to extreme heat’s negative impacts.

In this session Mayor Aki-Sawyerr of Freetown, Sierra Leone, Mayor Bakoyannis of Athens, Greece, Mayor Daniella Levine Cava of Miami-Dade County, and Mayor Espadas of Seville, Spain will announce new partnerships and initiatives and discuss the urgency of undertaking extreme heat reduction strategies. These strategies include the appointment of Chief Heat Officers, Heatwave Naming and Categorizing, investments in green and blue infrastructure, and the implementation of heat-risk education, campaigns, and task forces. Mayors will announce new commitments to innovative initiatives, and the event will be an engaging discussion concerning extreme heat- related issues within

Extreme Heat Resilience Alliance

urban communities, including the accessibility of air conditioning, energy access, air pollution, and heat risk mitigation. To add this event to your calendar, click here. Speaker

Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr Mayor Freetown, Sierra Leone

Kostas Bakoyannis Mayor Athens, Greece

Daniella Levine Cava Mayor Miami-Dade County, Florida, USA

Kathy Baughman McLeod Director and Senior Vice President Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center, Atlantic Council

Gonzalo Muñoz UNFCCC High Level Climate Champion for COP25

17.00-17.20

FILM American Planning Association Miami-Dade feature In Miami, diversity and the experiences of people play a profound role in the collective experience. This documentary explores how can we better embrace this diversity in our professional and daily lives and planning issues in South Florida.

17:30-18:30

BLUE ZONE Adaptation Action Coalition – Mobilizing Adaptation Action in Partnership This hybrid online/in-person event will bring adaptation leaders across the globe together to catalyze adaptation action during the World Leader’s Summit. This high-level session will allow leaders to discuss what is needed to advance adaptation progress and provide AAC member countries an opportunity to reaffirm their commitments to adaptation action across various sectors. The event will consist of a high-level panel session focused on taking a whole-of-society approach to adaptation action, followed by a Ministerial session where Ministers will reaffirm their commitments to adaptation action in partnership with the AAC. To add this event to your calendar, click here. Speakers: Moderator

Ani Dasgupta President & CEO World Resources Institute

Adaptation Action Coalition, UK, Egypt, World Resources Institute, WHO, AGWA, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Jagan Chapagain Secretary General of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) Yasmin Fouad Minister of Environment, Government of Egypt

Hon. Anne-marie Trevelyan Secretary Of State for Innternational Trade and COP26 Adaptation and Resilience Champion, UK Government Department for International Trade

Carlos Eduardo Correa, Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development, Republic of Colombia Vijay Rangarajan, Director General of Americas and Overseas Territories, UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)

Nancy Tembo, Minister of Natural Resources, Malawi

Ambassador Ayman Tharwat, Deputy Director, Environment and Sustainable Development Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Egypt, and Representative Co-Chair of the AAC  Alexandria Villaseñor, Youth Activist Ramsahay Prasad Yadav, Minister of Forests and Environment, Nepal

Shoda Yutaka, Vice Minister for Global Environmental Affairs, Ministry of the Environment, the Government of Japan

19.00-19.30

FILM A Short Film about Ice A film-poem documenting the journey of a cinematographer through the fragile landscapes of the Arctic. The camera bears witness to the shapes and colours of glaciers, tundra, mountains and sea ice while the filmmaker explores the role of the human and the artist in such landscapes in the time of the Anthropocene. Touching on themes of aesthetics, cultural responsibility, inter-connectivity and eco-anxiety the film aims to provoke discussion about the need to re-conceptualise how we make and disseminate images, in order to see ourselves as an integral part of the world rather than seeing ourselves as in front of or separate to nature. **** Winner of Best Climate Emergency Film AHRC Research In Film Awards 2020 **** **** Winner Audiovisual Practice-Research Award, BFTSS 2021 **** **** Winner of Best Short Film at Green Fest Belgrade, Serbia 2020 **** **** Nominated for four AHRC Research in Film Awards 2020 ****

19:00 - 20:30

BLUE ZONE Reception “The Resilient Future We Want”

COP26 represents an opportunity to redefine the role of state and non-state actors in accelerating the transition to a resilient, net zero future. In this open event, hosted by Deloitte and WSP in the Resilience Hub, we’ll be inviting organisations from across the spectrum to come together and explore what the world needs in order to accelerate climate resilience in the coming years. We promise you there will be no PowerPoint – the goal is building the relationships and networks we need to go further, faster.

Deloitte, WSP

22:00 - 23:30

VIRTUAL Pacific Regional Hub

Reweaving the Ecological Mat - resilience through indigenous knowledge and spirituality and ecological centred development

Join Zoom Meeting: Zoom Link Meeting ID: 961 0297 8722 Passcode: GUf87kDm

A deep spirituality permeates the communities of the Pacific and is at the heart of the Pacific people’s relationship with each other and the environment. It calls us to embody a profound respect for creation as an interconnected web of life, living as a caring and resilient community, and valuing wellbeing above profit. It calls us to be custodians of God’s Household in the Pacific. It calls us to be guardians of the Blue Pacific.

The reflections and discernment and life-affirming responses of such spirituality remain as critically important as scientific and political conversations in response to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic; the ongoing climate crisis; the health and vitality of the ocean which binds us together into a liquid continent and nurtures and breathes life into this planet; and to unsustainable development that are rooted in an ideology of scarcity, valued in economic terms and extractive by nature, and if left laissez faire, threaten highlands, coasts and the deep blue sea.

Our indigenous spirituality and knowledge - the wisdom of our ancients who read the stars and travelled across our mighty ocean, in their giant canoes, millennia before European discovery and conquest, considered themselves part of the ecosystem, not above it.

We call the world to a new way, a new normal that honours the practice of our ancestors of living in harmony with and not exploiting nature, our sister and brother creation.

Pacific Conference of Churches

In our Household of God in the Pacific, this has been described as “reweaving the ecological mat” to renew and strengthen the sacred cords of ecology, economics and ecumenicity which we believe is the key to protecting life in our common household.

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WEDNESDAY, 3 NOVEMBER

Time Type/Location Theme Session Hosted by:

00:00 - 01:30

VIRTUAL Finance & Pacific Regional Hub

Building Financial Resilience in the Pacific

Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are increasingly faced with the challenge of natural hazards and extreme weather events. To deal with the consequences of these events, countries are in need of innovative solutions that can help individuals, communities, businesses, and governments quickly recover. This session will highlight how the UN, civil society, private sector, and governments are all working to increase resilience through innovative approaches and will feature contributions from Pacific Catastrophe Risk Insurance Company and Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat. This will be an interactive event with different sessions to maximum audience participation using different digital tools.

Speakers: Opening: Krishnan Narasimhan Programme Manager, UNCDF

United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Moderator: Jennifer Phillips Project Manager, UNU-EHS Aholotu Palu, CEO, PCRIC Losana Kumar, Project Lead, CCSLA Hayden Everett, Senior Advisor, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Government of New Zealand

06:30 - 08:00

VIRTUAL South Asia Regional Hub

An Ecofeminist Approach to Climate Change – Biogas Project Model Zoom Link Meeting ID: 891 4113 5001 Passcode: 673966 A biogas plant that directly reduces carbon emissions, deforestation, lung diseases in women, and use of harmful pesticides by generating electricity and gas through plant-fed with cow-dung. Women’s health and financial independence derived from the time and access to education and entrepreneurship opportunity utilising ‘by-products’ of the plant for organic and fish farming, making home-made standard sanitary items for other women is an essential innovative global solution for climate change that has been neglected till date. The electricity and gas generated by the Eco-feminist project model has promoted education opportunities for girl children who were solely responsible for collecting fodder for cooking. The ‘Slurry’ or by-product of Biogas plant has been proven through surveys to produce better results in fish farming and organic agriculture compost, promoting women’s entrepreneurial activities and financial independence. The plant has reduced harmful gases and smoke

Green Tech for Women, Nepal

produced by traditional cookstoves requiring fodder, and has impacted women's health by reducing chances of lung cancer, unpaid women labour and time consumed throughout the day.

07.00-07.30

FILM Sustainable Summits - Climate solutions from top of the World 3 Need for regional co-operation (Part 3 of 4) A four part series raising awareness and political support for action to tackle the impacts of climate in the mountains and promoting solutions for sustainable mountain development at COP 26

08:00-09:00

BLUE ZONE Interview Windows on Resilience – daily highlights show 3

The daily Windows on Resilience show will bring visitors up to date with inspiring initiatives from across the COP26 programme and from around the world. It will mix up films, interviews with resilience pioneers, and reportage from our global colleagues and aims to showcase highlights of the programme, and reminders of what not to miss. It will provide a window for people from around the world into Glasgow and will share the best of adaptation and resilience at COP to audiences around the world.

Atlantic Council (AC), Resilience Knowledge Coalition (GRP), The Resilience Shift (RS)

08:00 - 09:00

VIRTUAL South Asia Regional Hub

Building Resilience of Communities from Highlands to Oceans in the Face of Climate Crisis Zoom Link Meeting ID: 885 0665 9598 Passcode: 673407 The session will highlight findings from recent science, civic diplomacy ,technology and community interventions and provide an opportunity for stakeholders across the HKH river basin to come together on a common platform for building resilience against climate

Karnali Integrated Rural Development and Research Centre (KIRDARC)

change induced water risks. It will also provide an opportunity for stakeholders across the country to come together on a common platform to deliberate on mountain issues.

8:15-09:45

VIRTUAL EWEA Anticipatory action for drought: making a difference for pastoralists and farmers in the Horn of Africa

Speakers will share insights on how weather forecast information and improved understanding of local communities’ needs can be used by humanitarian and development actors -and climate-vulnerable populations themselves- to significantly reduce human suffering and economic losses from climate-related shocks. They will address major outstanding program and policy questions for the Horn of Africa, including how external anticipatory action can best reinforce the adaptations of climate vulnerable populations; when during a crisis, external assistance can best strengthen existing local capacities and strategies; and what needs to be done differently for anticipatory action to be effective in fragile, conflict-affected contexts.

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Speakers: Host & Facilitator

Emily Wilkinson Senior Research Fellow, Global Risks and Resilience Programme ODI

Overseas Development Institute (ODI)

Dr Ibrahim Dagane Ali Senior Technical Advisor on Agriculture and Resilience and Field Research Team Leader Hexagon – SPARC

Brenda Lazurus Emergency Needs Assessment and Early Warning Advisor Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Oscar Lino Climate Scientist International Centre for Humanitarian Affairs (ICHA) Kenya Red Cross Society Dr Zewdu Segele Senior Climate Modeling Expert, Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC)

Polly Ericksen Program Leader, Sustainable Livestock Systems International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

0900-1030

GCU Finance Beyond carbon: a new way to measure climate risk & value resilience

Climate risks transfer through the economy and end up on the government balance sheet, hindering options to manage their transition to a low carbon and resilient economy and implement adaptation measures.

To add this event to your calendar, click here. Speakers:

Craig Baker Chief Investment Officer WTW

Bruce Duguid Head of Stewardship EOS

David Nelson Senior Director, Climate Transition Analytics, Climate and Resilience Hub WTW

Willis Towers Watson

Arun Singhal Managing Director Qontigo Stoxx

Lord Adair Turner Chairman Energy Transitions Commission

9:15 - 10:45

BLUE ZONE Locally Led Adaptation

Pathways to finance – challenges and opportunities for accessing finance for locally led adaptation

This Locally Led Adaptation Themed session focuses on the connection of access to climate finance and financing locally led adaptation - sometimes referred to as the ‘missing middle’. Panellists - including Fundecooperación from Costa Rica, South Africa’s National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), and Palli Karma Sahayak Foundation (PKSF) from Bangladesh - will reflect-on, and discuss the various challenges, opportunities and enablers for improving access to climate finance for locally led adaptation. To add this event to your calendar, click here. Speakers:

Fazle Rabbi Sadeque Ahmed Deputy Managing Director, PKSF Financial institution Division, Ministry of Finance Dhaka, Bangladesh

International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Dr Mandy Barnett Chief Director of the Adaptation Policy and Resourcing Division South African National Biodiversity (SANBI)

Mr Gebru Jember Endalew Least Developed Country (LDC) Elder, Technical Lead, former Chair of LDC Group. Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI)

Marianella Feoli Executive Director Fundecooperación for Sustainable Development

Alyssa Gomes Climate Change Analyst Adaptation Fund

Julius Mbatia Global Climate Justice Manager ACT Alliance Ariana Karamallis Program Manager for Global Transformation Slum Dwellers International

10.45-11.00

FILM Innovative African Financial Products to Enhance Resilience

Featuring Mercy Corps and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), this documentary highlights innovative finance products that help climate affected communities in Kenya. Both have piloted financial products that help communities mitigate the effects of unpredictable weather patterns on their incomes.

11:15- 12:45

BLUE ZONE Finance High level dialogue: How can governments from Africa, Asia and Latin America increase funding for resilience through their national budgets? Financing climate resilience and adaptation is vital for sustainable and inclusive development. Even with the ambitious target of 1.5°C global warming, significant changes to climatic-impact drivers are expected posing significant risks to vulnerable populations. This session explores some of the domestic financing sources and mechanisms that governments have tapped into, which have been channeled through the national budget to finance climate resilience. To add this event to your calendar, click here. Moderator Paul Steele, Chief Economist, IIED Speakers: Neil Cole Executive Secretary CABRI Shanaz Broermann PFM Specialist CABRI

Collaborative Africa Budget Reform Initiative (CABRI), International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) World Resources Institute (WRI), Climate Finance Group of Latin America and the Caribbean (GFLAC)

Sarah Alade Special Adviser to the President on Finance and Economy, Nigeria Ros Seilava Secretary of State, Ministry of Economy and Finance, Cambodia Manal Fouad Assistant Director, Fiscal Affairs Department, IMF Stephane Hallegatte, Senior Climate Change Adviser, World Bank Thomas Beloe, Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Finance Advisor, UNDP Rebekah Shirley Director for Research, Data and Innovation, WRI Diana Cardenas International Agenda Coordinator, GFLAC

13:15-14:45

BLUE ZONE Finance High level dialogue: Debt Swaps for Climate and Nature: a Strategic Approach for Urgent Global Goals Developing countries are suffering from the triple crisis of debt, climate change and nature loss. Debt for climate and nature swaps can provide fiscal space and address the climate financing gap across developing countries (Patel, Steele, Kelly and Adam, 2021).

Through diminished debt service obligations, swaps will finance nature and climate Key Performance Indicators including policy commitments from Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plans (NBSAPs). This

International Institute for Environment and Development,

would expand investment in renewable energy, marine and terrestrial conservation and land restoration.

These swaps need to be more than the past piecemeal projects, but be large scale and programmatic with swap funds managed through debtor government budgets as with IMF macro programmes or World Bank Development Policy loans (Steele and Patel, 2020).

To add this event to your calendar, click here. Speakers:

Ibrahim Ameer Minister Sonia Gibbs

Dr Andrew Norton

Paul Steele Chief Economist IIED

Dr Jürgen Zattler DG Ministry of Cooperation and Development

Dr Wan-Ting Xiong CASS Dr Jeromin Zettelmeyer Director, IMF Prof Stephany Griffith-Jones Columbia University Hon. Minister Naadir Hassan Seychelles Hm Mnister Martin Guzman Argentina Hon. President Carlos Alvarado Quesada Costa Rica

15:15-16:45

BLUE ZONE Finance Adaptation & Resilience Solutions: The investment opportunity

Climate-KIC CDC Group BFA Global

to grow

The need for climate adaptation and resilience-building solutions around the world is significant given the climate emergency. Early-stage companies with the technologies, products, and services needed for adapting to the effects of climate change in developing and emerging countries are increasingly coming to the fore. However they typically lack adequate access to finance and the skills required to bring their offering to markets and reach investment-readiness. The event will showcase the growing market of early stage companies offering innovative climate adaptation and resilience solutions in developing and emerging markets – Africa, Asia and Latin America. It will also show how investors and innovators are helping them to grow. To add this event to your calendar, click here. Speakers:

Jesper Hornberg Lead Innovation & Scaling Global Resilience Jay Koh Co-founder & Managing Director The Lightsmith Group

Resilience Knowledge Coalition (GRP)

Nick O’Donohoe CEO The CDC Group Peter Sanborn Head of Corporate Development PayPal

17.00-17.15

FILM CDKN Adaptation Voices: Ronald Mukanya Ronald Mukanya speaks about the opportunities that the African continent has to build resilience to climate change. He highlights the importance of local level adapation.

17:15 - 18:45

Blue Zone Locally led action

Local action to global policies: gateways and gaps

Those most vulnerable to climate change are the least heard in global policy debates. The LLA principles are designed to address this gap between global policies and local priorities and action. Different stakeholders - policy institutions, donors, researchers and civil society - have developed innovations and partnerships to bridge these gaps. Where stakeholder groups have made solid gains, what can we learn from them? What are the challenges faced in scaling up and sustaining gains? What messages do we need to send to governments meeting at COP 26 to ensure that local actions and global policies are better aligned with one another.

To add this event to your calendar, click here.

Speakers:

Rosemary Atieno Country Lead Kenya Women Climate Center International

Beth Chitekwe Biti Acting Managing Director Slum Dwellers International

Huairou Commission, International Institute for Environment and Development, Women's Climate Centers International (WCCI)

Sarah Nandudu National Community Leader National Slum Dwellers Federation of Uganda

Maria Teresa Rodriguez General Coordinator of the Guatemala Foundation Fundación Guatemala

Arghya Sinha Roy Principal Climate Change Specialist Asian Development Bank

Relinda Sosa Coordinadora General Conamovidi - Groots Perú

Clare Shakya Director, Climate Change Group, International Institute for Environment and Development Marek Soanes Researcher, Climate Change Group, International Institute for Environment and Development AnaLucy Bengochea WAGUCHA, Honduras

19:00 - 20:30

BLUE ZONE Reception Collaborating to accelerate private investments in climate adaptation and resilience This reception event will bring together members of the Adaptation & Resilience Investors Collaborative and other key players in finance and business to discuss practical ways to accelerate private investment in climate adaptation and resilience. Following brief opening remarks, guests will be invited to network to share strategic insights about how to enhance collaboration and public-private partnerships to strengthen markets of adaptation and resilience business solutions and address outstanding barriers hindering progress.

Adaptation & Resilience Investors Collaborative CDC co-leads, FCDO

22:00 - 23:30

VIRTUAL Pacific Regional Hub

Oceania Resilience to Climate Crises & COVID-19: Grassroot solutions & Blockchain Technology Join Zoom Meeting: Zoom Link Meeting ID: 988 2837 1370 Passcode: q5WAJqCD Oceania Resilience to Climate Crises & COVID-19: Grassroot solutions & Blockchain Technology is critical for Just Climate Action given the multitude of threats posed by climate change. In this session, you will hear the experiences of four people from Oxfam based partners from the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Tuvalu. They will share their experience on the importance of building effective Oceania resilience to climate and covid-19 through very simple grassroot solutions and block chain technology. What issues and ideas will the session explore?

● Climate Crises and Covid-19 ● Grass root solutions through feminist lenses

OXFAM

● Use of block chain technology to increase climate resilience and DRR

● Oceania stories of resilience and call for climate justice action in COP26

To add this event to your calendar, click here Speakers: Moderator

Kesaia Vasutoga MEAL & Knowledge Coordinator, Oxfam in the Pacific Grace Piko Coordinator, Rock Valley Community Ana Malia Youth Ambassador and Trainee, Talitha Project - Tonga Melvina Voua Climate Change Project Officer, People with Disability Solomon Islands

Kalua Salerua Cash Transfer Project Manager Oxfam in Vanuatu

23.30-01.00

VIRTUAL Pacific Regional Hub

Just Transition and Decent Work in the Pacific Please note this meeting runs to 01.00 AM GMT. Join Zoom Meeting: Zoom Link Meeting ID: 954 8698 7959 Passcode: GWh7N5t3

ILO and Samoa Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Labour

THURSDAY, 4 NOVEMBER

Time Type/Location Theme Session Hosted by:

01:00 - 02:15

Virtual SE & E Asia Regional Hub

Scaling up Finance and Innovation in Climate-resilient Agri-food Systems

Agri-food systems in South and Southeast Asia remain the most vulnerable to climate change, but the sector does not yet receive adequate finance and innovation to transform it. The side event will explore creative ways for transforming agri-food systems

Asian Development Bank

and boosting climate resilience through scaling up finance and technologies.

To add this event to your calendar, click here

03.00-03.30

FILM Cambodia: Don’t Wait For Rain In Cambodia, audience research showed that 81% of people surveyed felt changes in weather and the environment had affected their ability to earn a living, and 85% said they were having a negative impact on their health. In response, BBC Media Action produced Don’t Wait For Rain, a factual television show that examined weather- and climate-related problems and connected people with experts and others in their field to find simple, practical solutions. From early-warning systems for flooding, to planting vegetables in raised beds to help keep them safe during heavy rains and floods, the programme’s solutions helped save lives and livelihoods. Community Together This is story of three communities affected by drought, and how they learn from each other to develop new ways to store water.

05.30-05.45

FILM Kii Nche Ndutsa (Time and the Seashell) Time and the Seashell surges from a personal preoccupation with vanishing biodiversity in the Indigenous communities of the creators. They decided to make this short film when they noticed certain animal species had disappeared. In Mesoamerica the seashell is a symbol for time. This short film invites the audience to reflect on past, present and future in a changing landscape. The film is spoken in Mixtec, an Indigenous language from Oaxaca. All key creatives, such as writer, director and producer are Mixtec. The film was shot with limited equipment and crew to reduce Carbon footprint.

08:00-09:00

BLUE ZONE Interview Windows on Resilience – daily highlights show 4

The daily Windows on Resilience show will bring visitors up to date with inspiring initiatives from across the COP26 programme and from around the world. It will mix up films, interviews with resilience pioneers, and reportage from our global colleagues and aims to showcase highlights of the programme, and reminders of what not to miss. It will provide a window for people from around the world into Glasgow and will share the best of adaptation and resilience at COP to audiences around the world.

Atlantic Council (AC), Resilience Knowledge Coalition (GRP), The Resilience Shift (RS)

08:45 - 09:45

VIRTUAL Africa Regional Hub

Climate Change and Migration in the Sudano-Sahel Region The Sudano-Sahel has been characterized by semi-arid to arid climates for thousands of years. Populations adapted to these harsh environments through mobility, such as livestock transhumance or seasonal rural-to-urban migration. Conflict and land degradation also contribute to movement. And while the climate is changing, understanding the influence of climate change on human mobility is nascent. Looking toward the future, mobility will continue to play a key role in economic growth and diversification – just as climate change impacts grow. It's time to start examining opportunities to harness mobility for conflict-sensitive climate adaptation and mitigation across the Sahel, and ensure that sending and receiving communities are climate resilient. To add this event to your calendar, click here

Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crisis (SPARC), British Red Cross, University of Sheffield, International Development Research Centre (IDRC)

9:15 - 10:45

BLUE ZONE Energy Collaborative actions to mainstream climate resilience into energy planning and policies As climate change increasingly poses threats to the stability of our energy supply, building resilient energy systems on the national and international levels is of critical importance. While collaborative action is vital to addressing threats posed by climate change, many organisations and governments’ energy policies still lack the resilience planning necessary to avoid significant risks to the energy sector. This event will discuss the threats faced by the energy sector in the face of climate change and how we can mainstream climate resilience into energy planning and policies on the national and international levels. The event will highlight the opportunities of integrating climate resilience within clean energy investments that drive to net-zero. To add this event to your calendar, click here. Speakers:

Roberta Boscolo Climate and Energy Scientific Officer World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

Robert Kay Deputy Director, ICF Climate Center ICF

International Energy Agency, ICF

Alexander Lane Energy Division Lead United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

Jinsun Lim Energy and Environment Policy Analyst International Energy Agency

Laura Lizano National Energy Director Costa Rica

Andrew Prag Senior Advisor, Environment Directorate OECD Neha Mukhi Senior Energy and Climate Change Specialist World Bank

Michel Berthelemy Nuclear Energy Analyst, Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA)

11:15- 12:45

BLUE ZONE Energy Building the resilience of smallholder farmers through solar powered agricultural technologies

While smallholder farmers create a third of the world’s food supply and account for 40% of the world’s labour force, they are uniquely vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.

This live Q&A session will showcase the work of talented people and organisations creating innovative technologies that help smallholder farmers enhance their livelihoods and withstand external shocks. To add this event to your calendar, click here. Speakers:

Sarah Hambly

Partnership and Communications Manager, Energy Saving Trust, co-Secretariat, Efficiency for Access

Efficiency for Access, International Energy Agency, ICF

Jeffrey Prins Head of Renewable Energy Portfolio IKEA Foundation

Rebecca Mincy

Investment Director, Acumen Resilient Agriculture Fund (ARAF), Acumen

Priscilla Sani-Chimwele CEO Wala

Martijn Veen

Head of Energy, SNV

Makena Ireri, Manager

Clean Energy Access, CLASP/co-Secretariat, Efficiency for Access

Dr. John Ehrmann

President and Sr. Partner at Meridian Institute

11.45-12.00

FILM ‘In Their Words’ In 2019 a series of cyclones hit Mozambique. This short film features five Mozambican farmers who share their stories of recovering from cyclones and becoming more resilient. These agricultural entrepreneurs apply climate smart technologies, grow high-yield crops and join value chains. iDE works to empower smallholder farmers to build resilience through stronger market ecosystems. Hosted by: iDE

13:00-15:00

GCU Infrastructure Infrastructure interdependencies; minimizing the likelihood of cascading risk Infrastructure systems underpin national economies and local places, are central to achieving development goals, and are interconnected, interdependent and co-located. A failure in one system can cascade to create multiple failures across other systems; extreme weather, storm surges and wildfires can impact co-located systems contemporaneously, leading to significant disruption to people, places and sectors. Energy underpins other infrastructure systems and net zero ambitions such as the electrification of heat and transport place increasing dependence on supply and distribution networks. This session will present examples of interdependencies and discuss solutions to manage these practitioner-focused solutions to interacting risks. To register for this event, click here. Speakers:

Prof John Dora Chair, IOAF Infrastructure Operators Adaptation Form/ Climate Sense

Dr. Emma Ferranti Senior Lecturer in Civil Engineering, Trees and Design Action Group, School of Engineering University of Birmingham

Infrastructure Operators Adaptation Forum (IOAF), University of Birmingham, Coalition for Climate Resilient Investment, Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure

Rohan Hamden CEO XDI Cross Dependency Initiative

Áine Ní Bhreasail Infrastructure Asset Advisor Resilience Shift.

Elisabeth Shrimpton Researcher University of Birmingham

Nick Pyatt Director, Lead Trainer Climate Sense

Mike Woolgar Water Strategy Director, Energy & Industry WSP

13:15-14:45

BLUE ZONE Water Resilient Policies: Leveraging Water for National Climate Planning

Climate change will mainly be felt in the water cycle, which already experiences a crisis from unsustainable development, water needs to be taking a more prominent place in national policy making.

This means that efforts of mainstreaming climate change and disaster risk reduction needs to better translate and link to mainstreaming of water resilience.

Mainstreaming entails to systematically include certain considerations in decision-making and planning processes instead of only implementing ‘stand-alone’ measures. This requires more attention to cross-cutting coordination across the entire water cycle, encompassing policies which provide resilience for several levels: and sectors, for example it also means acknowledging linkages across adaptation, mitigation, disaster risk reduction, DRR and sustainable development goals, SDGs.

The session departs from the existing water governance principles such as IWRM and principles provided by organisations such as OECD. It will look at how such principles can provide water resilience linked to climate change adaptation and DRR concerns at national policy level.

Presentations will provide examples of national and institutional policy or frameworks, international collaboration and globally transferable standards, strategies, methods, tools and approaches for delivering water resilience. This can, for example, support the enhancement of NDCs and NAPs around water. The bottom line is that it should provide a sound international framework for national efforts supporting water resilience.

To add this event to your calendar, click here.

Anglian Water,

Mott MacDonald, Water Pavilion

Global Center on Adaptation (GCA),

GIZ (tbc) and

OECD,

IWMI,

WMO,

Global Water Partnership GWP,

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)

Speakers: Dr. Johannes Cullman Director Cross-cutting coordination, water and cryosphere, World Meteorological Organisation WMO

Jane Madgwick CEO Wetlands International Mark Smith IWMI

Jaehyang So Program Director GCA Dr. Aditi Mukherjee IWMI Jane Weru executive director and founding member Akiba Mashinani Trust, Kenya Paul Sayers Sayers and Partners

15.00-15.15

FILM 'Profiles in Leadership' The United Nations Global Compact is the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative, but there’s always a seat at the table for non-governmental organizations (NGOs) — partners working towards the same goals and creating shared-value initiatives with corporations to accelerate action. Through collaboration with NGO partners, the Water Resilience Coalition (WRC) promotes collective action on infrastructure investment, supply chain monitoring, and innovation in the effort to secure water basin resilience for future generations. Water.org — founded over 30 years ago by civil and environmental engineer and innovator Gary White and actor Matt Damon — aims to bring water and sanitation to the world, pioneering market-driven financial solutions to the global water crisis. Jennifer Schorsch, Water.org

15:15-16:45

BLUE ZONE Energy Climate resilience for the global clean energy transition Many countries have announced ambitious targets for clean energy transitions. However, changes in climate are likely to pose a significant risk to the energy sector, directly affecting fuel supply, energy production, physical resilience of energy infrastructure and demand. Climate resilient energy systems support the clean energy transition by addressing adverse impacts of climate change on renewable energy, promoting sustainable development by ensuring reliable energy services, boosting energy security through coping with climate-driven disruptions, and reducing risks from climate disasters. This event will discuss how we can enhance climate resilience of the energy system on the path towards net-zero emissions.

International Energy Agency, ICF

To add this event to your calendar, click here.

Speakers: Moderator

Tanaji Sen Director - Advocacy and Partnerships, Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI)

Cnaroline Choi Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs Southern California Edison

Molly Hellmuth International Climate Resilience Lead ICF

Katie Jereza Vice President, Corporate Affairs Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)

Muzafalu Kayondo Head Research & Business Development Uganda Electricity Generation Company Ltd

Bertrand Magne International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) IAEA Sara Moarif International Energy Agency (IEA) Head of Environment and Climate Change Unit Chris Stark CEO UK Climate Change Committee

Juan Pablo Bonilla Manager, Climate Change and Sustainable Development Sector, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

16:00-17:30

GCU Finance Climate Resilient Microfinance

Microfinance reaches over 600m poor people (140m clients) in developing countries. MFIs offer loans, savings and insurance services that enable productive activity, asset accumulation, stabilized consumption and risk protection. Formal financial services improve socio-economic outcomes leading to better climate change adaptation and resilience.

Little has been done on adapting MFIs to climate change despite risk of increased default, run on savings and increased insurance claims. There is untapped potential for MFIs to promote adaptation by reconfiguring their products to address climate change.

An interactive hybrid event involving microfinance networks, researchers and DFIs is proposed. OI, GCU and University of Rwanda will lead with recent results.

To register for this event, click here.

Speakers: Silvia Baur-Yazbeck World Bank/CGAP Sam Bickersteth Chief Executive Opportunity International

Opportunity International

Natalia Carillo CEO HEDERA Sustainable Solutions Green Inclusive and Climate-Smart Finance Group, European MicroFinance Platform Dr. Karin Helwig Lecturer Glasgow Caledonian University Dr Godefroy Grosjean Global Leader Advisory Services, Climate Action, CCAFS-Alliance Biodiversity- International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) Dr. Liberata Mukamana Lecturer University of Rwanda Joyce Owusa-Dabo Chief Programmes Officer Sinapi Aba Savings and Loans, Ghana

Dr. Pete Parisetti Rapporteur Opportunity International UK Chiara Trabacchi Climate Change Manager CDC

17:15-18:45 Calendar Invite (note for Karen)

BLUE ZONE Energy Supporting Clean Energy Entrepreneurs

A just and inclusive energy transition, one that alleviates energy poverty and mitigates against climate change, requires an understanding of the needs of local clean energy entrepreneurs. These enterprises can help deliver products and services that reach low-income consumers in a way that is relatable, affordable, sustainable and scalable. In this one-hour panel discussion, stakeholders will discuss the obstacles and solutions to promoting a thriving local entrepreneurship environment in the off-grid solar sector.

To add this event to your calendar, click here. Speakers:

Christopher Beland co-Secretariat of the Efficiency for Access Coalition Senior Project Manager, Energy Saving Trust

Efficiency for Access, International Energy Agency, ICF, Sustainable Energy for All

Kanika Chawla UN Energy Programme Manager Sustainable Energy for All Drew Corbyn Head of Performance & Investment GOGLA Nnaemeka Ikegwuonu Chief Executive Officer ColdHubs Limited & Executive Director, The Smallholders Foundation

Katherine Owens Head of Labs M-KOPA Solar

18:00-20:00

GCU The [uncertain] Four Seasons

Orchestras from 14 different cities around the world have collaborated with activists, and scientists to perform local variations of The [uncertain] Four Seasons in support of the United Nations ActNow campaign.

AKQA, Jung von Matt, Hugh Crosthwaite and MCCCRH use climate data to recompose Vivaldi's 'The Four Seasons.' Combining music theory with computer modelling to algorithmically generate

AKQA, Jung von Matt, Hugh Crosthwaite and MCCCRH

countless local variations of Vivaldi's original 1725 composition. Altering the musical score to account for predicted changes in rainfall, biodiversity, sea-level rise, and extreme weather events, etc. as laid out in the IPCC's reports. Experience Vivaldi’s Four Seasons composed by humanity To add this event to your calendar, click here

19:00 - 20:30

BLUE ZONE Reception Mobilizing Private Finance for Resilience WTW, IBM, Jupiter, PWC

FRIDAY, 5 NOVEMBER

Time Type/Location Theme Session Hosted by:

01:00 - 02:00

Virtual SE & E Asia Regional Hub

Growing Energy Security and Sustainable Energy Solutions in the Lower Mekong Region How do inclusive and innovative energy solutions promote the adaptive capacity of the Lower Mekong region in the face of increased climate vulnerabilities? Our panel will explore key questions on emerging technologies, policy, data-driven decision making, and social inclusion in energy access across the Lower

WWF-Greater Mekong, USAID-Regional Development Mission for Asia (RDMA)

Mekong region. To add this event to your calendar, click here

08:30 - 10:00

BLUE ZONE A COP26 multi-stakeholder finance roundtable: Tackling ocean risk through innovative solutions for climate resilience Provide a platform for governments, private sector and civil society to raise ambition, combat ocean risk and build resilience through action-orientated commitments at COP 26. Outcomes will include strengthened support for ORRAA – including pledges for financial contributions directed towards ORRAA’s goal of $500m by 2030; identifying pathways to tackle barriers to mobilising finance for marine and coastal Nature-based Solutions (NbS); and commitments towards supporting the priorities of climate-vulnerable states on NbS for ocean health and coastal resilience.

To register for this event, click here.

UK/FCDO, Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance (ORRAA)

09:00 - 10:00

VIRTUAL Africa Regional Hub

Transboundary Climate Adaptation Risks Transboundary climate change and adaptation risks (TCARs) are outcomes associated with climate change and adaptation decisions that spread beyond country borders. TCAR management requires international cooperation. TCARs can spread via pathways such as biophysical (potential impacts on ecosystem services and natural resources) or trade (import and export of climate-sensitive goods, such as rice/grains, livestock and livestock products, etc.) However, regional natural resource management initiatives like the Great Green Wall, offer ways forward for addressing some TCARs. Other actions on capacity building around National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) can strengthen awareness and action on TCARs.

Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crisis (SPARC), ENDA Energie, African Group of Negotiators Expert Support (AGNES), United Nations Development

To add this event to your calendar, click here

Programme (UNDP), International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

10:30-11:45

BLUE ZONE Infrastructure Pioneering Nature-based Solutions for Resilient Infrastructure The session will focus on the challenges and key actions at different stages of a project life cycle for Nature-based Solutions (NbS) in the context of resilient infrastructure. The session will discuss key learnings from case studies around the world and how recommended actions have been incorporated into NbS projects in complementarity with other grey infrastructure initiatives. The session will also mark the release of white paper on ‘Governance of Infrastructure for Resilience’ which is being developed by Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) and Resilience Shift, in partnership with Arup. To add this event to your calendar, click here

Conservation International, Vanoord, and The Commonwealth Secretariat, The Resilience Shift

11.45-12.00

FILM Mother of the Sea This short film from Greenland tells the legend of the Mother of the Sea. Telling the tale of the Mother of the Sea does more than scare little children of the perils of the sea, but also warns us about the danger of disrespecting Mother Nature.

12:00-13:00

Window into COP

Interview Windows on Resilience – daily highlights show 5

The daily Windows on Resilience show will bring visitors up to date with inspiring initiatives from across the COP26 programme and from around the world. It will mix up films, interviews with resilience

Atlantic Council (AC), Resilience Knowledge Coalition (GRP), The Resilience

pioneers, and reportage from our global colleagues and aims to showcase highlights of the programme, and reminders of what not to miss. It will provide a window for people from around the world into Glasgow and will share the best of adaptation and resilience at COP to audiences around the world.

Shift (RS)

13:00-14:30

BLUE ZONE Water Re-imagining the future of water: how landscape-scale adaptation is driving the race to water resilience Building long-term resilience to the increasing risk of drought and flood – and doing so immediately – is crucial for cost-effective climate change adaptations as well as unlocking wider prosperity. In this interactive event, we will bring together leading experts from around the globe in the fields of water management, social and environmental prosperity, and finance to discuss how integrated water management, combined with strategic financing, is driving crucial change. It will showcase how nature-based and community-led solutions are making a real difference around the globe in the face of a warming climate and act as a spur to future international collaboration. To add this event to your calendar, click here. Speakers:

The Rt. Hon Steve Barclay MP Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, MP for North East Cambridgeshire

Anglian Water, Mott MacDonald, Water Pavilion Living Deltas Research Hub

Emma Howard Boyd co-chair, Coalition for Climate-Resilient Infrastructure Chair, Environment Agency (UK)

Baroness Brown of Cambridge Chair, Adaptation Sub-Committee of the Committee on Climate Change and crossbench member of the House of Lords

Dr. Hue Le Senior Researcher at the Central Institute for Natural Resources and Environmental Studies, Vietnam National University Deputy Director of Living Deltas

Henk Ovink Dutch Special Envoy for International Water Affairs for the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the United Nations

Prof Mashfiqus Salehin Institute of Water and Flood Management, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology

Peter Simpson co-chair, Corporate Leaders Group CEO, Anglian Water

Dr. Kala Vairavamoorthy

15:00 - 16:30

BLUE ZONE Arts Culture Pathway to climate resilience and sustainable development

This session explores the cross-cutting nature of culture and heritage and their capacity to integrate and advance a unified vision of ‘sustainable development’ and ‘climate action.’ Climate change is not just about the environment. It is about our culture, our ways of living, and human’s relationship with the rest of nature. Culture is both the cause of climate change and part of the climate emergency solution. This event will showcase culture-based strategies that provide creative, long-term, mutually beneficial, and holistic solutions, and will launch a new evidence-based report on the ‘The Role of Culture in Climate Resilient Development.’

To add this event to your calendar, click here.

Speakers: Alison Barrett MBE Director

British Council and Climate Heritage Network, Culture Committee of UCLG

The Climate Connection, British Council

Karima Bennoune UNHCR UN Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights (Nov. 1, 2016-Oct. 31)

Catherine Leonard Secretary-General International National Trusts Organisation (INTO)

Rosanna Lewis Culture And Development Lead British Council

16.45-17.00

FILM CDKN Adaptation Voices: Claire Naiske Akello Naiske is passionate about ecological and smallholder farming. She works with young people to scale up the solutions that are being implemented in Kenya.

17:00 - 18:30

BLUE ZONE Locally Led Adaptation

Don’t We Deserve Better? Youth voices on building back better Youth are disproportionately impacted by climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic, shouldering the responsibility of climate adaptation and mitigation while also facing unprecedented disruptions to employment, education, physical and mental health, and financial security. Join Youth Climate Lab (YCL) and Green Africa Youth Organization (GAYO) as we explore youth perspectives on building back better and achieving a just, climate-resilient world.

Green Africa Youth Organization, Youth Climate Lab, International Development Research Centre

By centering voices of youth from the Global South, this interactive event will foster intergenerational dialogue & identify key insights and opportunities to multi-solve in an age of transitions. To add this event to your calendar, click here.

18:30-20:30

GCU Arts/Culture Culture’s Place on Earth Just as the earth’s resources are limited, our time on earth is limited. This event will explore our relationship to our planet. To add this event to your calendar, click here. Speakers: Alison Barrett MBE Director The Climate Connection, British Council Soumik Datta Artist Carla Figuiera UCL Leigh Gibson British Council

Rosanna Lewis Culture And Development Lead British Council

British Council

Mark Maslin UCL

19:00-20:30

BLUE ZONE Reception Journalism’s opportunities and challenges in covering the climate crisis The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism is launching the new 'Oxford Climate Journalism Network', a project designed to help journalists and newsroom leaders transform the way they cover the climate crisis. The focus of the network is not on individual pieces of reporting, but on working with journalists from all over the world to help them rethink and develop how to approach the defining issue of our time across all verticals of a typical news organisation. The two co-founders of the network, Meera Selva and Wolfgang Blau will present and discuss their work. Speakers: Wolfgang Blau Co-Founder (former global COO, Condé Nast) Oxford Climate Journalism Network Meera Selva Co-Founder Oxford Climate Journalism Network Deputy Director, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Oxford University

The Reuters Institute, Oxford University,

19:00 - 20:30

VIRTUAL Water Enhancing Climate Resilience by building the capacity of youth in water

Event Co-leads: Global Water Partnership

Young people will bear the brunt and responsibility for navigating the world towards a climate resilient future. This session will highlight the successes and stories of young leaders and engineers building climate resilience through water. It will also facilitate an intergenerational discussion on climate change adaptation and finance. This discussion will explore barriers which prevent young water leaders from fully engaging, as well as possible solutions (such as the Youth for Water and Climate Platform) to bridge technical and financial gaps usually experienced by young people. A powerful joint youth statement with clear climate policy recommendations will also be presented. Speakers: Sarah Dousse Executive Director ISW Tharika Fernando YWC

Rianna Gonzales Water Resources Specialist, Youth Global Water Partnership

Kirils Holstovs AECOM

(GWP), International Secretariat for Water (ISW) & World Federation of Engineering Organisations (WFEO) Young Engineers Working Group on SDG 13

Michelle Meaclem Civil Engineer Tonkin & Taylor Limited

Michèle Okala Regional Coordinator RECOJAC, Réseau Eau et climat des organisations de jeunes d'Afrique centrale/ water and climate network of central Africa Milda Pladaite WEFO

Elysa Vaillancourt Youth project manager – Chargée de projet jeunesse International Secretariat for Water

20.00-20.15

FILM Profiles in Leadership Valuing Nature-Based Solutions Key to Addressing Both Climate and Water Crises In this episode of Profiles in Leadership, Jim Fitterling, chairman and CEO of Dow, talks about nature-based solutions as key to addressing both climate and water crisis.

SATURDAY, 6 NOVEMBER

Time Type/Location Theme Session Hosted by:

01:00 - 02:15

Virtual (own Zoom)

SE & E Asia Regional Hub

Risks and Resilience in Southeast Asian Cities: Use of EbA as the approach for adaptation and development While Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) has gained significant momentum in broader adaptation and development strategies, EbA is still a relatively new approach, often used in rural context, with the application of EbA in urban adaptation plans and strategies are still at infancy level. This event will share the lessons learnt so far of UNEP’s City Adapt Asia project. To add this event to your calendar, click here

UNEP and partner countries

04.00-05.00

FILM A Short Film about Ice 1 A film-poem documenting the journey of a cinematographer through the fragile landscapes of the Arctic. The camera bears witness to the shapes and colours of glaciers, tundra, mountains and sea ice while the filmmaker explores the role of the human and the artist in such landscapes in the time of the Anthropocene. Touching on themes of aesthetics, cultural responsibility, inter-connectivity and eco-anxiety the film aims to provoke discussion about the need to re-conceptualise how we make and disseminate images, in order to see ourselves as an integral part of the world rather than seeing ourselves as in front of or separate to nature. **** Winner of Best Climate Emergency Film AHRC Research In Film Awards 2020 **** **** Winner Audiovisual Practice-Research Award, BFTSS 2021 ****

**** Winner of Best Short Film at Green Fest Belgrade, Serbia 2020 **** **** Nominated for four AHRC Research in Film Awards 2020 ****

05:00 – 05:15

BLUE ZONE Film Youth Voices - UK and Nepal Water is the most essential resource for life on this planet. But how does the experience of it vary? This short documentary aims to answer that question. By focusing on the stories, perspectives and aspirations of schoolchildren from Nepal and the UK, we can gain an insight into the way the decision-makers of the future view the future of water. Featuring interviews from students aged between 10 and 17, who talk about what matters to them about water, the effects of climate change, and what this means for us in terms of adapting the environments we live in. This film was created and led by the students involved, who were instrumental in deciding its focus, providing a real insight into the shared and contrasting perspectives across both countries about the action needed to create water resilience.

Anglian Water

08:00 - 09:30

BLUE ZONE Arts Cultural Heritage & Coastal Resilience A creative exploration of culture and coastal resilience with British Irish Council members and critical heritage partners. Virtually traversing a range of coastal communities and initiatives, this event will examine the human experience of our coastal heritage, tangible and intangible, in the UK and beyond. Diverse voices will unravel different perspectives on the risks, changes and challenges facing our coasts. Together we will explore how our heritage can be part of building a more resilient future. To add this event to your calendar, click here. Speakers:

British Irish Council Climate Heritage Network

Louise Barker Senior Investigator (Archaeology) CHERISH Project & Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales

Dr. Mairi Davies Climate Change Policy Manager Historic Environment Scotland Colin Dunlop (MCIfA) Marine Historic Environment Advisor Department for Agriculture, Environment & Rural Affairs (Northern Ireland) Dr. Anthony Firth Co-chair Ocean Decade Heritage Network Dr. Hannah Fluck Head Of Environmental Strategy Historic England

Julie James Minister for Climate Change Welsh Government Dr. Hana Morel CITiZAN Sustainability Manager CITiZAN (Coastal and Intertidal Zone Archaeological Network) and MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology)

10:00-11:30

BLUE ZONE Food and Agriculture

Bridging the gap on finance for nature-based solutions - collaboration and innovation for adaptation leadership in the global south

What does it take to reach a world where nature-based solutions are in the driving seat? Studies show that investment in nature needs to grow three-fold in the coming nine years. But this will only be enough if there is an ecosystem of actors ready to receive investments and capable of making the most assertive use of funds.

In this session, we look beyond quantitative results and explore approaches to foster an enabling environment and prepare local actors to access nature finance and lead nature-based solutions at scale in the global south. Curious about hearing new ideas? Keen to explore collaborations? Join us in this dynamic session.

To add this event to your calendar, click here.

AVINA

11:45 – 12:00

BLUE ZONE Film Future Fens: Anglian Water

The Fens in East Anglia in the United Kingdom is on the front line of increasingly extreme weather patterns and rising sea levels. The impact of climate change is real and present. Complex engineering over centuries has made this land viable as a place to live, work and grow crops, but it’s at a tipping point. Together, Fen communities, water organisations, businesses and partners from local and national government are joining forces in a ground-breaking partnership that takes a holistic multi-sector approach to water supply and flood management across this unique landscape, to create environmental and social prosperity in the region. This is the story of Future Fens: Integrated Adaptation: the voices, hopes and aspirations of a community that is re-imagining the future of water.

12:00-13:00

BLUE ZONE Regional Event

Resilience from Source to Sea in South Asia

This will be a virtual event ‘stopping in’ at various points from the high mountains to plains to sea – and highlighting how climate finance is being used to build resilience and support community adaptation

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FCDO South Asia, International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD)

13:15-14:45

BLUE ZONE Food*Ag Stories from the frontline: how to ensure Nature-based Solutions deliver for people as well as for nature and climate Nature-based solutions (NbS), if done well, hold the key to cost-effective ways of protecting, sustainably managing, and restoring ecosystems, while at the same time addressing societal challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and poverty and inequality. Drawing on a major report released this year by 15 environment and development organisations, Nature-based solutions in action: lessons from the frontline, this session will take participants on an interactive trip around the world as we explore real-life NbS and how they are changing people’s lives, protecting or restoring nature and driving climate action. To add this event to your calendar, click here. Speakers:

Nura Aman Farm Africa Project Coordinator in Bale, Ethiopia Georges Bazongo Director of Operations Tree Aid

International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), Tree Aid, Farm Africa

Yvan Biot Senior Associate Farm Africa Ebony Holland Nature-climate Policy Lead International Institute for Environment and Development

Yiching Song Founder and Supervisor of Farmer Seeds Network (in China) Senior Researcher, Programme Leader, in UN Environment Programme-International Ecosystem

Management Partnership (UNEP-IE

15:00 - 16:30

BLUE ZONE Water Resilience as the Middle Ground: Aligning NbS and Adaptation Communities

Nature-based Solutions (NbS) and climate adaptation represent two emerging areas of practice, evidence, and policy — and feature as key themes for COP26. The two fields have clear synergies, but they also have significant gaps and areas to bridge. Mainstreaming and upscaling NbS for adaptation will require coordination between the NbS and adaptation communities, as well as inclusion of and alignment with the finance community, to find the NbS-adaptation “middle ground”. This event will build upon an ongoing program of

Anglian Water, Mott MacDonald, Water Pavilion

Water Resources Institute (WRI),

Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (AGWA)

work from WRI addressing this very challenge and include global panelists and innovative cases in NbS, adaptation, and finance.

To add this event to your calendar, click here.

Speakers: Rebecca Carter Deputy Director Climate Resilience Practice, World Resources Institute (WRI) Romain Maendly Senior Water Resources Engineer Climate Change Program, California Department of Water Resources

John Matthews Executive Director Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (AGWA)

16.30-16.45

FILM DARAJA Climate Ambition videos - Stella, Patricia The DARAJA Climate Ambition videos are a series of short video spots developed by Resurgence and its partners, KDI Kenya and CCI Tanzania, under DARAJA.

16.45-17.15

FILM Sustainable Summits - Climate solutions from top of the World 4 Asks for COP from the Mountains (Part 4 of 4)

17:00-18:30

Blue Zone Bridging the Divide on Climate – A Bipartisan Conversation with U.S. Legislators The Resilience Hub will host a congressional delegation of both Republican and Democratic lawmakers led by U.S. Senator Chris Coons—a Democrat from Delaware and co-chair of the bipartisan Senate Climate Solutions Caucus—for a discussion at COP26 titled “Bridging the Divide on Climate: A Bipartisan Discussion with U.S. Legislators.” The event will feature remarks from, Kathy Baughman McLeod of the Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center , and UN Climate Champion Nigel Topping, followed by two panel discussions with the lawmakers. The first panel—moderated by Benji Backer, founder of the American Conservation Coalition, a nonprofit that mobilizes young conservatives around environmental action—will focus on natural climate and resilience solutions and congressional efforts to conserve our lands and waters to fight climate change. The second panel—moderated by Randy Bell of the Atlantic Council—will highlight bipartisan progress on energy innovation and accelerating the clean energy transition, including the Energy Act of 2020 and bipartisan infrastructure bill. As world leaders come together to advance international climate cooperation, the event will reinforce the need for continued cooperation between both parties in Congress for durable climate solutions. To add this event to your calendar, click here

19:00 – 20:30

BLUE ZONE Reception Envisioning resilient futures through an indigenous values lens In this futures thinking lab, indigenous experts from around the world will demonstrate what resilient futures could look like through an indigenous values lens. Participants will engage in a futures thinking exercise and discussion with indigenous experts.

UNFCC

19:00 - 20:30

VIRTUAL Arts The Critical Role of Arts, Culture and Heritage in Building Food and Agricultural Resilience Arts, Culture and Heritage are integral to addressing the urgent need for developing resilient food and agricultural systems, particularly in the context of climate change. However, they have been largely underestimated in favour of infrastructural, high-tech, and top-down agricultural investments to address immediate food and health security needs. This session will draw on real world examples from across the globe to explore ways that Arts, Culture and Heritage can address issues of food and agricultural sustainability and resilience while also considering the needs of marginalised groups and transforming social inequalities. Speakers:

Angélica Arias Benavides Executive Director Metropolitan Institute of Heritage

AHRC/PRAXIS + Americas Regional Partner Angelica Arias, Climate Heritage Network, Metropolitan Institute of Heritage-Quito, Ecuador

Mónica Maruri Castillo Executive Director Ibero-American Institute of Natural and Cultural Heritage of the Organization of the Andrés Bello Agreement

Sofía Fonseca Archaeologist, Sustainable Cultural Tourism and Heritage Expert Teiduma, Consultancy on Heritage and Culture/ CHN- Climate Heritage Network Nina Laurie Professor of Human Geography University of St Andrews

Pablo Ortiz Agricultural Engineer / Urban farmer / Owner Sabroso Restaurante Vivero

Dr. Philippa Ryan Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew Lucia Yánez Quito Eternal Foundation Manager and Cultural Producer / Storyteller

20.00-20.15

FILM Profiles in Leadership 3 Doug Baker, Ecolab

SUNDAY, 7 NOVEMBER

Time Type/Location Theme Session Hosted by:

08:30 – 09:30

VIRTUAL S Asia Regional Hub

Climate Change Uncertainty & Co-creating Transformative Adaptation Knowledge and Action in Sundarbans

International Centre for Climate Change

The aim of this event is to share insights from recent and ongoing work both in the Indian and in Bangladesh Sundarbans. The presenters will share views from their work on the nature and extent of boundaries; and how transboundary research can lead to transformative knowledge and action around gender, livelihoods, and natural resource management. The event will seek to generate insights on how transformative and transboundary knowledge helps unearth relations—social, economic, and ecological—that are otherwise frozen in time between boundaries.

and Development (ICCCAD)

10:30 – 12:00

VIRTUAL S Asia Regional Hub

Locality as a mobilising force The session will showcase the effort of residents, communities and local entrepreneurs involved in local construction practices that respond to economic and ecological challenges that the homegrown settlement of Dharavi faces. These responses are construed by us as models for creative local adaptation that can be used by residents living in similar settlements in many cities in South Asia.

THE URBZ COLLECTIVE, Mumbai, India

18h00-20h00

GCU Featured Event Resilience Film Gala Premier Two films will be premiered: CLIMATE CRISIS: Life on the Frontline In the Bay of Bengal, climate change is not a distant threat for the future generations, but a brutal force that is destroying lives and livelihoods. Sky News has spent months in Bangladesh and the East of India to witness the devastating effects of extreme rainfall, rising sea levels and intense cyclones on the land and the people. This film takes us to Dhaka, a megacity crumbling under the weight of its growing population and a flood of migrants fleeing the vulnerable

Resilience Knowledge Coalition (GRP), GCU, Atlantic Council, Resilience Shift

coast. Visitng the natural fortress of the Sundarbans mangrove forest and the rural villages hanging onto the edge of what little ground is left, as vast rivers swallow the land. And to Kolkata, a city struggling through punishing and ever rising temperatures. Through the people met, the film witness the immense struggles climate change is creating every day but also the hope and resilience. Sustainable Summits: Climate Solutions from the Top of the World. Climate change impacts in the world’s mountains are stark, dramatic and devastating. The Sustainable Summits documentary vividly captures first-hand how highland residents and mountain lovers are finding innovative solutions and regional responses to tackle the climate crisis in the Hindu Kush Himalaya. Featuring powerful messages from inspirational leaders, this film brings together a unique range of community, mountaineering and spiritual voices from the region and around the world in an urgent call for action to save the future mountain environment by decision-makers at COP26.

22:00 – 23:30

VIRTUAL Pacific Regional Hub

Pacific Islands Traditional Knowledge Solutions to the Climate Emergency This virtual event will be centered around the climate crisis in the Pacific islands and showcase traditional knowledge solutions that local communities are leading to address the issue through mitigation and adaptation measures. The session will hear from speakers from Pacific Island Climate Action Network members from Vanuatu, Fiji, Tuvalu, and Solomon Islands who will share their work, their demands, together with the challenges and opportunities to advance climate justice in the Pacific.

Pacific Climate Action Network (PICAN)

Speakers: Allan Taman (VCAN/ SSEN) Belyndar Rikimani (PICAN) Pelenise Alofa (KiriCAN) Richard Gorkrun (TuCAN) Shabella Rathaman (SICAN) To add this event to your calendar, click here.

23:30 – 01:00

VIRTUAL Pacific Regional Hub

Climate Crisis and Loss and Damage (including non-economic loss): How Resilient are our Frontline Communities? What is Happening to Us? This virtual event will be centered around the climate crisis arising from loss and damage (including non-economic losses) and the resilience of our communities in their fight not only to survive but to thrive as a people. Speakers from Tuvalu, Fiji and the Pacific Islands Climate Action Network (PICAN] will share their lived realities. We will also include pre-recordings of stories shared by some of our community leaders in the frontlines about what is happening to them and how they are coping.

Climate Tok (Fiji), UUSC Boston

MONDAY, 8 NOVEMBER

Time Type/Location Theme Session Hosted by:

01:00 - 02:15

VIRTUAL (own Zoom)

SE & E Asia Regional Hub

Investing in climate-resilient biodiversity landscapes and communities Biodiversity landscapes and the local communities dependent on biodiversity services are increasingly vulnerable to climate change. The session will explore climate resilient landscape interventions; identify barriers and opportunities for investing in resilient landscapes, accessing private sector financing/public-private partnerships; and identify “triple win” interventions that can increase livelihoods and biodiversity, enhance community resilience, and mitigate climate change. To add this event to your calendar, click here

Asian Development Bank

06:30 - 08:00

VIRTUAL (Zoom link through South Asia Hub)

South Asia Regional Hub

Locally led adaptation for climate change resilience in Asian mega-deltas.

Asian mega-deltas are a crucial natural resource ecosystem for more than 150 million people and they face the growing threat of climate change each year. The challenges of sea level rise, extreme weather events and increasingly devastating droughts, risk the lives and livelihoods of millions. The UKRI GCRF Living Deltas Hub and the CGIAR Asian Mega-Delta portfolio focus on locally led adaptation to work with communities in order to develop their adaptive capacity. This session will amplify delta voices to create the basis for continued knowledge exchange towards policy development, which ensures delta dwellers have a more effective voice in decision making.

UKRI, GCRF, Living Deltas Hub

07:00-08:00

VIRTUAL (own Zoom)

Art Indigenous knowledge for climate resilience

Praxis/AHRC

British Council

With keynote contributions from representatives of Indigenous communities from across the globe, this event will draw on real world examples to explore two critical facets of Indigenous Peoples’ experience and practice: the growing impact that climate change has on Indigenous communities and their livelihood; and the often overlooked role of Indigenous knowledge and traditional practices as a resource for addressing climate change and increasing climate resilience. The issues will be brought to life by hard-hitting short films interspersed with interactive discussions featuring researchers and practitioners working closely with Indigenous communities to address these challenges.

Speakers:

Prof Paul Heritage Professor of Drama and Performance and Director of People’s Palace Projects Queen Mary University of London

Thiago Jes Senior Project Manager People’s Palace Projects

Takumã Kuikuro Researcher and Filmmaker IFAX - Upper Xingu Family Institute Yamalui Kuikuro Researcher and traditional singer IFAX - Upper Xingu Family Institute Rosanna Lewis Culture And Development Lead British Council Speaker

Dr. Krystyna Swiderska Principal researcher (agriculture and biodiversity) International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

08.00-08.30

FILM Empowering Women to Adapt to Climate Change in the Volt Delta, Ghana Climate change is causing coastal erosion and salinisation of groundwater and lagoons in the Volta delta region in Ghana. This has adversely affected fishing and agricultural livelihoods leading to the migration of able bodied males leaving behind the highest proportion of female headed

households in Ghana. This project empowers women by improving their skills in alternative livelihoods, business management and marketing, crop diversification, and microfinance.

08:00 - 09:30

VIRTUAL Africa Regional Hub

Aligning Practice, Policy, and Priorities through an Urban Water Resilience Agenda for Africa City leaders in Africa face the converging challenges of providing water and sanitation services for growing populations, managing watershed risks largely outside city jurisdictions, and designing for climate resilience. With the right vision and support, cities and city-regions have the potential to play a lead role in safeguarding their populations from water risks and securing access to well-managed water resources even as they face the challenge of rapid growth. The World Resources Institute (WRI), the African Center for Cities, ICLEI Africa, WaterAid, Resilient Cities Network, Arup and Reos Partners are organizing a series of consultations around developing an “Urban Water Resilience Agenda for Africa”. The aim of this effort is to catalyze a continent-wide movement to accelerate urban water resilience linked to key COP26 and COP27 campaigns and deliverables and to connect the dots across the many existing and emerging initiatives within a shared framework for ambitious, accountable and coordinated action to ensure impact at scale. At the event, partners will present an updated zero draft agenda, key learnings from the consultations and research developed, and a path forward to launching the Agenda at COP27. We invite African partners and stakeholders to join in shaping, advancing, and launching this agenda. Moderator

World Resources Institute (WRI) WaterAid, ICLEI Africa, RCN and Arup

Yiannis Chrysostomidis Reos Partners

Speaker

Abdul-Nashiru Mohammed Regional Advocacy Manager West Africa at WaterAid

Speaker

Barbara Schreiner President and Executive Director, Water Integrity Network

Speaker

DG Edward Kyazze Rwanda, Ministry of Infrastructure

Speaker

Dr. Gisela Kaiser Vice President Water Globe Consultants

Speaker

Dr. Moges-Tadesse Chief Resilience Officer City of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Speaker

Dr. Themba Gumbo Director CAP-Net, UNDP

Speaker

Fitsum Gelaye

Resilient Cities Network

Speaker

Katrin Bruebach Global Director, Programs, Innovation & Impact, Resilient Cities Network

Speaker

Mahmood Sonday, Director, Reos Partners Director, Reos Partners

Speaker

Marc Manyifika Country Lead Urban Water Resilience Initiative, World Resources Institute

Speaker

Maria Salvetti Head of Water and Waste OECD

Speaker

Smita Rawoot Urban Resilience Lead World Resources Institute

Speaker

Martin Shouler Associate Director Arup

Speaker

Edmond Totin Consultant Reos Partners (Africa)

Speaker

Rogier van den Berg Interim Global Director of Ross Center for Cities

WRI c To add this event to your calendar, click here

08:30 - 09:30

BLUE ZONE Interview How do We Build Inclusive Resilience - A Global Conversation Voices from around the world will come together for an informal conversation that will interrogate the question – how do we build bridges for inclusive resilience? Weaving in emerging themes from week one of COP26 and the Resilience Hub, and looking forward to week two, this session will tackle tangle with issues of climate justice, global south under-representation, and the lack of investment in policies and programs that truly address the climate risks we face, and that prevent us from not just surviving but thriving into the future. To add this event to your calendar, click here. Speakers:

Tara Chiu Associate Director Feed The Future Innovation Lab For Markets, Risk & Resilience

Andrew Norton Director International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Resilience Knowledge Coalition (GRP), GCU, Atlantic Council, Resilience Shift

09:00 – 10:30

VIRTUAL Zoom Developing Flood Early Warning Systems for Cities

The Energy and Resources Institute

Across the world, cities are facing issues of flooding and water logging. They have also been categorised as some of the most vulnerable entities to impacts of climate change and disasters. Heavily urbanized megacities in the low-lying deltas of Asia have been identified as “hotspots”, especially vulnerable to climate risks, such as floods. The recent years have witnessed unprecedented high intensity rainfall occurrences leading to flooding of major cities, across India and even the world. Earlier, such events were dismissed as sporadic and one of its kind. It was only after the Mumbai floods of 2005 that urban flooding has been considered as a disaster. Such incidences lead to large scale losses and damages to infrastructure, if not addressed timely and adequately through measures of disaster risk reduction. While cities are essentially seen as rich entities, those of the Global South face severe vulnerabilities to climate risks due to the lack of resilient infrastructure and appropriate disaster risk reduction strategies in place. These cities are also burdened by existing issues of high population density, infrastructural inadequacies, etc. that get compounded with the rising risks of climate impacts. The Flood Early Warning System shows the areas that will be inundated and the extent of inundation, by taking into consideration the intensity and duration that is predicted by the meteorological authorities. This enables the concerned authorities to be prepared in advance, for rainfall of varying intensities, as the impact of it is predicted. The proposed session seeks to explore the feasibility and technicalities involved in the development of Flood Early We compounding vulnerabilities of climatic and socio economic stature. It will also attempt to bring in the experiences of neighbouring countries in the South Asian region that face similar issues of urban flooding in the form of knowledge exchange and information sharing.

Speakers: Ms Suruchi Bhadwal Senior Fellow, Earth Science and Climate Change Division, TERI Mr Sanjay Vashist Director, Climate Action Network South Asia (CANSA) Mandira Singh Shrestha Programme Coordinator, Climate Services, Mountain Environment Regional Information System (MENRIS), ICIMOD Dr Anil K Gupta Professor of Policy Planning & Strategies, Head - Environment Climate & Disaster Risk Management National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM), Govt of India Ministry of Home Affairs

09.45-10.00

FILM From Risk to Resilience What are the five resilience attributes that help resilience flourish on the ground? This animated film explains the five attributes that can help us go from risk to resilience. These attributes are diversity, redundancy, connectivity, inclusivity, and equity.

GRP

10:00 – 10:15

FILM In Hot Water

In Hot Water tells the story of the shrinking glaciers in Peru and a joint UK/Peruvian research project studying the impact of glacier retreat on local communities in the Peruvian Andes. A unique feature of this project is a performance by researchers and Peruvian writer Erika Stockholm entitled "The Sad Tale of the Dying Glacier". The inter-disciplinary Uk/Peruvian research project "CASCADA” is led by Jemma Wadham and Raul Loayza and funded by the Newton Fund. The Newton fund supports research and innovation partnerships between the UK and select countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America to support economic development and social welfare, tackle global challenges and develop talent and careers. www.Newton-grcf.org.

10:00-11:30

BLUE ZONE EWEA Scaling-up Comprehensive Risk Management for Climate and Disaster Resilience

Climate change amplifies risk, and if not properly managed, leads to disasters. Climate action, hence, must be anchored on understanding of risk across scales and governance levels. The session will explore means to operationalize comprehensive climate and disaster risk management through concrete examples of development policies, disaster risk reduction strategies, National Adaptation Plans and financing modalities. Speaker Mr Adessou Kossivi GNDR West and Central Africa Regional Coordinator

Speaker

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction UNDRR

Animesh Kumar Head Of UNDRR Bonn Office Un Office For Disaster Risk Reduction

To add this event to your calendar, click here.

11:30-14:00

GCU Finance Analytics matters: the bedrock of resilience Open-source data, risk modelling and measurement as a global public good Access to trusted and appropriate data is a challenge in risk quantification. Increased confidence in risk assessment and resilience planning can be achieved through the use of open source data and modelling by creating robust and consistent core data repositories of hazard, exposure and vulnerability, which can be augmented with data from both public and private sources using appropriate standards and reference frameworks. This session is a demonstration-led presentation of the latest tools to quantify flood, storms and other hazards, and how the use of data and model standards can increase access to transparent data sources to support strategic decisions. To add this event to your calendar, click here. Speakers: Antoine Bavandi

Willis Towers Watson

World Bank Nalan Cabi Willis Research Network Christophe Christiaen Oxford Uni, UK Centre for Greening Finance & Investment

John Firth Senior Director Willis Towers Watson

Matt Foote WTW Jim Hall Oxford University James Lay Nasdaq Mark Lehmann Jupiter Intelligence Ruwadzano Matsika Quadrature Nick Moody IDF Jeff Neal

Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer Fathom

Dr Nicola Ranger Head of Climate and Environmental Risk Research at the Oxford Sustainable Finance Programme of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment University of Oxford

Emma Raven JBA flood risk John Schneider General Secretary Global Earthquake Modelling

11:45 – 12:00

FILM Tomorrow Today - 2021 Short Film from NDTp's Climate Resilience Demonstrator (CReDo) project - Full Directed by BAFTA winning Colin O’Toole (Cowboy Dave, 2018), Tomorrow Today tells the story of Arthur and his grandson Jack facing the unprecedented Storm Ruby, which has the potential to knock out multiple utility services and threaten lives. This film gives an insight into the Climate Resilience Demonstrator project (CReDo) which was initiated by the National Digital Twin programme (NDTp). CReDo is providing a tangible example of the value of connecting digital twins across infrastructure sectors. CReDo focusses on enabling better climate resilience decisions for our energy, telecoms and water infrastructure systems in response to extreme flooding. CReDo is developed in partnership with Anglian

Water, BT and UK Power Networks and funded by UKRI, the Connected Places Catapult and the University of Cambridge. The film carries the key message of CReDo, that collaboration through connected digital twins is key to tackling climate change. The National Digital Twin programme (NDTp) is run by the Centre for Digital Built Britain, a partnership between the University of Cambridge and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. Endorsed by HM Treasury in July 2018, the NDTp was set up to deliver key recommendations of the National Infrastructure Commission’s 2017 'Data for the Public Good Report'

12:00-13:30

BLUE ZONE Coastal/Ocean Ocean Action is Climate Action: Accelerating Resilience to Secure a Sustainable Future for Coastal Communities The Ocean, one of our planet’s greatest assets is in crisis putting food security, social and economic resilience and lives and livelihoods of coastal communities, particularly in Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States, at serious risk. At COP26 The Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance (ORRAA) and Van Oord will come together with leading innovators and finance enablers to focus attention on how financing Ocean and coastal natural capital can protect climate vulnerable communities and secure a sustainable future for them. We will share innovative solutions that can build ocean and coastal resilience; explore innovative and scalable new financial products and show how nature positive solutions can protect the people and valuable coastal assets of coastal communities. To add this event to your calendar, click here

ORRAA, Van Oord

Speakers:

Ignace Beguin Billecocq Ocean Lead Climate Champions

Flora Belinario Senior Manager RARE

Lindsay Getschel Axa Xl

Maria José Gonzalez Executive Director MAR Fund

Adhiti Gupta Associate Director Convergence

Sven Kramer Sustainability Director Van Oord

Tony Long CEO Global Fishing Watch

Cretus Mtonga Aqua Farms in Tanzania

Paula Pagniez Americas Lead Climate and Resilience Hub, Willis Towers Watson

Karen Sack Executive Director ORRAA Rachel Terry Sustainability Manager Van Oord

Reinout Viersma Programme manager Climate Adaptation Van Oord

Gregory Watson Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

14:00-15:30

BLUE ZONE FEATURED event

Experiencing the complexity of future risks through serious fun In theory, we act based on what we know. But there is abundant evidence that information about likely future conditions doesn’t necessarily trigger the decisions needed to save lives. From tomorrow’s hurricane to long-term sea level rise, we must ensure that the warnings from science become resilience for all. In this intensely interactive out-of-the-box session, participants will engage in safe, innovative approaches to experience the complex relationships between knowledge and action. Playfully harnessing the power of data from the IPCC and the World Risk Poll, there will be decisions with consequences. It will be actionable, serious fun. Convened by the Resilience Hub in conjunction with the Development & Climate Days.

Red Cross, Red Crescent Climate Centre, Artist for Impact at the Lloyd’s Register Foundation Global Resilience Partnership

To add this event to your calendar, click here. Speakers:

Pablo Suarez Innovation Lead (RCCC) , and Artist for Impact (LRF) Red Cross Red Crescent Clmate Centre, and Lloyd's Register Foundation

15.30-16.00

FILM Flood Resilient Homes in Vietnam and Bangladesh This documentary follows the story of two projects that have built floating homes to improve the resilience of flood-strickent communities in Vietnam and Bangladesh. Hosted by: GRP

GRP

16:00 - 17:30

BLUE ZONE LLA Getting money where it matters – new initiatives for scaling-up locally led adaptation. More than 50 organizations have endorsed the Principles for Locally Led adaptation in 2021, committing to reforming top-down approaches for delivering climate finance, to enabling locally led interventions, where decisions are made at the lowest appropriate level to deliver finance to communities at the frontline of climate change. Central to this is connecting national and local actors as well as collaboration across actors and sectors. The challenge is now in translating these principles into tangible action. This session will announce new actions from national governments and

International Institute for environment and Development (IIED), World Resources Institute (WRI)

development partners to scale up locally led adaptation globally in accordance with the principles. To add this event to your calendar, click here.

Moderator

Cristina Maria Rumbaitis del Rio Sr Adaptation And Resilience Advisor World Resources Institute Moderator

Clare Shakya Director, Climate Change Group International Institute for Environment and Development Speaker Jillian Caldwell Climate Coordinator USAID Speaker Tomas Christensen Climate Ambassador Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark Speaker

Saliha Dobardzic Adaptation Fund Speaker Warren Evans Special Advisor for COP-26 Asian Development Bank Speaker Ineza Grace Rwanda Youth Rep The Green Fighter Speaker Ainka Granderson Senior Technical Officer & Resilience Lead Caribbean Natural Resources Institute Speaker Suranjana Gupta Special Advisor, Community Resilience Huairou Commission Speaker Saleemul Huq Director, International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) Speaker Aage Jorgensen, Program Manager Nordic Development Fund Speaker Eileen Mairena Cunningham CADPI Speaker Pa Ousman Jarju Director Green Climate Fund

Speaker

Sheela Patel Founder / Director Society for Promotion of Area Resource Centres (SPARC) Speaker Keriako Tobiko Cabinet Secretary for the Ministry of Environment and Forestry Government of Kenya

17:30 - 19:30

Virtual LLA

Communities on the Front Line & the Locals that Support them The event will be a nationally focused virtual event with pre-recorded testimonials from community members that have been/are impacted by the changing climate and a panel featuring community adaptation and resilience leaders sharing information on projects around the US that aim to support these vulnerable communities. To add this event to your calendar, click here Speaker info: - Karen Pierce UK Ambassador to the US, FCDO - Alice Hill, David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment at the Council on Foreign Relations

- Doug Beard Director, USGS NASC - Chantel Comardelle Tribal Executive Secretary Isle de Jean Charles Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Tribe - Katharine Hayhoe Chief Scientist, Nature Conservancy - Jane Gilbert Miami-Dade County Chief Heat Officer

18:00 - 19:00

BLUE ZONE Champions Group on Adaptation Finance - Accelerating Adaptation Finance Solutions at COP26 and beyond;

Scaling-up adaptation finance and improving access to and the quality of this finance is urgently required. At UNGA this year, the Champions Group of Adaptation Finance was launched, comprising a group of climate finance providers committed to increase the quality, quantity and accessibility of climate adaptation finance, particularly for LDCs and SIDS, both within their own financing and across international climate finance as a whole. Since launching, the group is encouraging donors and other finance providers, including MDBs to join, by committing to balance between adaptation and mitigation finance. At this event Ministers from the Champions Group, with representatives from LDCs and SIDS, will focus on common priorities to improve The Champions Group will invite other finance providers to join this effort to accelerate progress on adaptation finance from COP26 and on the pathway to the African Presidency at COP27. To add this event to your calendar, click here

Champions Group on Adaptation and Finance

19:00-20:30

BLUE ZONE Reception Building climate resilience - managing climate risks

This networking event is an opportunity for actors in climate resilience to share their experiences in managing climate risks and create connections to forge new partnerships that build climate resilience.

Mott MacDonald, AXA XL, PWC, WSP

19:00 - 20:30

VIRTUAL Water Insuring Water Security in the Global South

Insurance has a key role to play in managing risks from flooding, drought and other climate change related hazards. This event explores how insurance can be used to manage risk, particularly risks from extreme events which cannot always be managed through design, policy, or governance alone. Speakers will introduce new concepts and products from the insurance industry which can help manage climate risks, including parametric insurance.

Speakers:

Lucien Dambia Regional Research and Knowledge Manager for West Africa WaterAid

AXA XL, Anglian Water Mott MacDonald Water Pavilion

Helen Greatrex Assistant Professor in Remote Sensing and Geospatial Analysis Pennsylvania State University

Dr. Francesca O’Hanlon Postdoctoral researcher in water innovation University of Cambridge

Ellen Shaddock Sustainability Officer Axa Xl Claudia Thyme Director Strategic Market Development AXA XL

21:00 - 22:30

VIRTUAL EWEA/DRR Early warning early action and disaster risk reduction - Local experiences from Latin America

Centro de Innovación Climática y

The session will help the audience understand how EWEA offers an effective and people-centered adaptation to increase resilience, reduce the risk of disasters, and minimize the loss and damage caused by climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean region. In addition, the session will create a space for discussion and exchange between the key actors invited as speakers, which could serve as the basis for future south-south collaboration.

Sostenibilidad Perú. Adapt Chile

22:00 – 23:30

VIRTUAL Opportunities and Challenges for a Just Transition in the Pacific he achievement of the Paris Agreement goals depends on the implementation of progressively more ambitious climate actions by countries, specifically those articulated in their nationally determined contributions (NDCs), and the development and pursuance of long-term low emission and climate resilient strategies (LTS). The transition to a low-carbon future and climate-resilient economies has a global dimension that impacts all actors in society, from governments to businesses to individuals. As countries create the policy framework for implementing their NDCs and LTS, Just Transition issues must be addressed accordingly. Integrating the concept of Just Transition into climate policies is paramount to ensuring “no one will be left behind” and that the benefits of a low-carbon and climate-resilient future will be shared by everyone. It contributes to preserving environmental integrity, and protecting the rights of vulnerable populations, with particular attention to gender issues, indigenous groups, and future generations. Various aspects of a Just Transition include human rights, good governance, due participation, gender equality, social inclusion, social equity, decent work, and alignment with Sustainable

Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Development Goals (SDGs). Countries in the Pacific are some of the most vulnerable in the world to the effects of climate change and disasters. This susceptibility will have a great effect on both the people and economy. Pacific countries have proposed several actions in their NDCs for the transition to a less resource-intensive, more climate-resilient economy. Opportunities relate to sustainable tourism, agriculture, fisheries, and forestry, among others. As climate impact models reveal the most vulnerable areas and regions, governments must make informed decisions about where resources will be best spent. If models show that some areas will most likely suffer severe irreversible damage due to climate change, governments may need to prioritize less vulnerable regions to ensure that resources spent are allocated on long-lasting initiatives and projects. Such decisions may require transitional support actions for affected workers and families. This session will convene a panel of experts and country representatives to share insights and exchange perspectives on the challenges and opportunities in considering a Just Transition in the context of the Pacific countries, what support may be needed to facilitate such transition, and how multilateral institutions may provide support. Moderator Miguel Rescalvo Just Transition Specialist Opening/closing remarks:

Noelle O’Brien Principal Climate Change Specialist, ADB Speakers: Kate Hughes Senior Climate Change Specialist, ADB Vineil Narayan Acting Head of Division and Climate Finance Specialist, Ministry of Economy, Fiji Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner, Climate Envoy, Ministry of Environment, Marshall Islands Lu'isa Tu'i'afitu Malolo Director for Climate Change of the Ministry of Meteorology, Energy, Information, Disaster Management, Environment, Climate Change and Communications, Tonga Zonibel Woods Senior Social Development Specialist, ADB Laurel Anderson Hoffner Consultant for Environment, Gender, and a Just Transition Decent Work Team, International Labour Organization To add this event to your calendar, click here.

23:30 – 00:30

VIRTUAL Building a comprehensive regional approach to climate change mobility- Learnings from the Pacific Climate Change and Human Security Programme

The Pacific are among the most affected regions but are known too for their innovation and resilience. For example, Pacific countries have been engaged in a human mobility project entitled: Pacific Climate Change Migration and Human Security programme (PCCM-HS) which has as one of its objectives the development of a rights-based regional framework to address the issue of climate mobility (migration, displacement and relocation). PCCM-HS is led by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in partnership with the International Labour Organization (ILO), the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP); and the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat and the Platform on Disaster Displacement (PDD) as non-UN implementing partners. The development of the climate mobility regional framework is now pursued under a State-led Joint Working Group (JWG) co-chaired by Fiji and Tuvalu with the inclusion of other Forum member States and the partners of PCCM-HS. The JWG aims to develop a climate mobility regional framework with inputs and guidance of member States and stakeholders in the Pacific and with the advice of experts from the UN and Pacific regional organizations.

Fiji and Tuvalu; UN Agencies of IOM, ILO, OHCHR and ESCAP

TUESDAY, 9 NOVEMBER

Time Type/Location Theme Session Lead Orgs

01:00 - 02:00

VIRTUAL (own Zoom)

SE & E Asia Regional Hub

Ensuring Climate Investments Reflect the Aspirations of the Urban Poor: Roundtable of Southeast Asian Mayors

Climate change adaptation measures must be cognizant of the unique needs and valuable roles of local communities. The session will demonstrate how community-driven development is enabled in selected projects in Southeast Asia from the perspectives of local chief executives. The panelists will share learnings and challenges in delivering resilience-building investments at the community level, focusing on approach, principles, tools and processes that ensure climate adaptation measures reflect the aspirations of vulnerable urban poor communities.

To add this event to your calendar, click here

Asian Development Bank (ADB), Oxfam

06:00 - 07:30 GMT

VIRTUAL Water Digital Tools for Water Resilience

A paradox of the modern world is that advances in technology, which helped create many of the issues we now face, also provide the solutions to addressing them. This event celebrates the role of digital tools in delivering resilience in the water sector. During a 90-minute virtual drop-in session, you will see a range of digital tools addressing water resilience challenges in action, from web-based tools for understanding exposure to physical climate change risks, to the use of digital twins and apps which help deliver water resilience on-the-ground. Join us to explore how digital solutions can deliver water resilience.

Mott MacDonald Anglian Water Water Pavilion

Speakers:

Léonie Chatain Manager – Europe Four Twenty Seven, part of Moody’s ESG Solutions

Dr. Amgad Elmahdi Head of MENA Region, Principal Researcher-Water System Analyst and Solutions International Water Management Institute

Sarah Hayes Credo Project Lead, National Digital Twin programme Centre for Digital Built Britain

David Johnson Regional Managing Director Asia Pacific New Zealand and Australia Mott MacDonald

Ana Ruiton Consultant Mott Macdonald

Nasrine Tomasi Technical Director Moata Smart Water Mott MacDonald

Nikki Van Dijk Associate Climate Resilience Advisor Mott Macdonald

08:00-09:00

BLUE ZONE Interview Windows on Resilience – daily highlights show 6

The daily Windows on Resilience show will bring visitors up to date with inspiring initiatives from across the COP26 programme and from around the world. It will mix up films, interviews with resilience pioneers, and reportage from our global colleagues and aims to showcase highlights of the programme, and reminders of what not to miss. It will provide a window for people from around the world into Glasgow and will share the best of adaptation and resilience at COP to audiences around the world.

Atlantic Council (AC), Resilience Knowledge Coalition (GRP), The Resilience Shift (RS)

09:00 - 10:00

VIRTUAL (Giggabox tech support)

Africa Regional Hub

Green Affordable Homes: A Scalable Solution for Inclusive, Sustainable and Resilient African Cities

Affordable green homes have a key role to play in delivering on climate-smart infrastructure, and present a huge opportunity to accelerate the transition to net-zero, drive inclusive growth, and build resilience for

Reall Global Alliance for Buildings & Construction (hosted by

people living on low incomes in cities highly vulnerable to climate change.

Join this session to hear how green and affordable homes have already demonstrated their role in delivering on climate and resilience goals, and what the opportunities are for scaling up across Africa.

To add this event to your calendar, click here

UNEP), Casa Real (Mozambique), Beira Mayor (Mozambique) and Build X Studio (Kenya)

9:15 - 10:45

BLUE ZONE EWEA Technological innovations that connect EWEA and DRR.

Session will help present and launch new tools, data sets, financial innovation and best practices for tackling specific challenges related to the incorporation of early action mechanisms in DRR.

To add this event to your calendar, click here.

Climate Risk and Early Warning Systems (CREWS)

10.45-11.00

FILM Kii Nche Ndutsa (Time and the Seashell) 1 Time and the Seashell surges from a personal preoccupation with vanishing biodiversity in the Indigenous communitIes of the creators. They decided to make this short film when they notices certain animal species had disappeared. In Mesoamerica the seashell is a symbol for time. This short film invites the audience to reflect on past, present and future in a changing landscape. The film is spoken in Mixtec, an Indigenous language from Oaxaca. All key creatives, such as writer, director and producer are Mixtec. The film was shot with limited equipment and crew to reduce Carbon footprint.

11:15- 12:45

BLUE ZONE Cities Urban Resilience and the NDCs: How should the urban resilience practice evolve to help unlock the full potential of the NDCs

The urban resilience practice has been developing for the last decade globally. We have developed tools, processes, and practices. Cities around the world have embraced urban resilience to understand, plan, and act to face complexity. And yet, many questions remain as to how these approaches truly equip cities to deal with the ultimately challenge of climate change. This event will take stock of the strengths of the urban resilience practice as well as what needs to evolve to indeed contribute to unlock the full potential of the urban action in the NDCs, in the current and the next cycles.

To add this event to your calendar, click here. Speakers: Bernhard Barth Human Settlements Officer United Nations Pasquale Capizzi Climate Change Lead Arup Dame Jo Da Silva Global Sustainable Development Director Arup Rene Peter Hohmann Head of Global Programmes Cities Alliance

Arup, UN-Habitat, Universityof Southern Denmark, Resilient Cities Network, Cities Alliance

Dr. Heike Litzinger Head of the City Department BMZ Fruzsina Straus Programme Management Officer UN-Habitat Nicola Tollin Professor University of Southern Denmark

12:00-1330

GCU Health and Wellbeing

“We need to talk about mental health in a changing climate” Climate change and our mental health are intertwined. There are mounting numbers of people understandably experiencing psychological distress as a result of our changing climate. Conversely, the way we think about climate change affects how we act. Without action, we risk increasing deaths by suicide, PTSD, anxiety, depression, and mental health systems incapacitated by climate shocks. With action, "win-wins" are possible to tackle climate and mental health together, producing more resilient communities. This event on mental health explores the impact climate change has on our minds and how to use our emotions, passions, and skills to implement meaningful climate action. To add this event to your calendar, click here.

Speakers:

Extreme Heat Resilience Alliance

Pip Batey Designer Imperial College London

Dr. Gary Belkin Founder and President Billion Minds Institute

James Diffey Climate Change & Mental Health Researcher Imperial College London & The McPin Foundation Dr. Fahmy Hanna Technical Officer WHO Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, World Health Organization

Dr. Emma Lawrance Mental Health Innovations Fellow Imperial College London Prof David Nabarro Special Envoy on Covid-19 World Health Organization

Dr. Lisa Page Elizabeth Wathuti Founder Green Generation Initiative

13.15-14.45

VIRTUAL FOOD & AG

Fostering agricultural innovation for people, nature and climate in Africa The agriculture and food sector is a mainstay of most African economies and livelihoods. Yet, it is one of the most vulnerable to climate change, with smallholders being particularly at risk and in urgent need of adaptation and resilience. However, investments in climate solutions are limited, and uptake of available innovations and access to technologies to address climate change remain low. Dramatically increasing public and private investment in climate smart agriculture technologies and incentivizing innovation is critical. This event will explore how to scale investments and innovations to address climate change in African agriculture through both the public and private sector action, in line with the COP26 campaign on Transforming Agricultural Innovation for People, Nature and Climate. It will interrogate how such action can ensure that the most vulnerable smallholders and women aren’t left behind.

Hosted by: UKRI, World Bank

15:15-16:45

BLUE ZONE Food & Agriculture

Integrated Solutions for Just and Resilient Food Systems What do we need to do to transition to more just and resilient food systems? How do we ensure that this transition to just, sustainable, and resilient food systems? This event will explore how we can leverage integrated and inclusive approaches to repurposing public agriculture policies, mobilising investments, scaling agricultural innovation, and securing land tenure rights. An expert panel, followed by an interactive audience Q&A, will speak to how these different levers for change

Just Rural Transition Initiative / Meridian Institute

reinforce one another, supporting more resilient communities at the heart of our food and land use systems. To add this event to your calendar, click here. Speakers:

Joan Carling Co-convenor, Indigenous Peoples Major Group and Director, Indigenous Peoples Rights International

Sareh Forouzesh Program Manager Just Rural Transition

Param Singh Founder and CEO MoooFarm

Ann Tutwiler Senior Fellow Meridian Institute

16.45-17.00

FILM Kenya: Weather Wise In East Africa, accurate weather and climate information is essential as risks of extreme weather increase. But this information is not always easy to convey in

simple, practical terms. BBC Media Action connected journalists and climate scientists to help them better understand each other and the needs of their audiences. In the first phase of the project, we worked with 10 radio stations to produce quality programming to help people take action to improve their lives and livelihoods in the face of extreme weather. These four short films show the impact of this work. Weather Wise was funded by the UK Met Office, through UK Aid.

17:15-18:45

BLUE ZONE Arts Cultural Heritage, Resilience & the Built Environment: an intergenerational dialogue When we think to the future we can sometimes forget our past, but many of the tools for future resilience are in our existing knowledge. Drawing on expertise from around the globe you will hear how traditional knowledge can support climate resilience for our built environment, and most importantly communities who rely on it. Building on the success of the Climate Heritage Network’s Pre-COP youth dialogues you will have the opportunity to join intergenerational discussions with experts from Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas about how knowledge of our traditional built heritage can help prepare for a resilient future. To add this event to your calendar, click here. Speakers:

Gül Aktürk Doctoral Researcher TU Delft

Climate Heritage Network Historic England

Carl Elefante FAIA, FAPT, LEED AP, 94th President of the American Institute of Architects

Dr. Hannah Fluck Head Of Environmental Strategy Historic England

Rim Kelouaze Conservation architect and member African World Heritage Youth Forum and Climate Heritage Network Youth Forum

Yoloxochitl Lucio Orizaga ICOMOS Emerging Professional Working Group and Climate Heritage Network Youth Forum

Pedro Palacios Mayor of Cuenca, Ecuador, and Latin America and the Caribbean Co-Chair of the Climate Heritage Network

Priyanka Panjwani Conservation Architect and Co-Ordinator ICOMOS India and Climate Heritage Network Youth Forum

Rosie Paul Co-Founder and Principal Architect Masons Ink Studio

Shanon Shea Miller Director, Office of Historic Preservation City of San Antonio, USA

Morwenna Slade Head of Historic Building Climate Change Adaptation Historic England Ibrahim Tchan Issifou Director And Co-founder Écomusée Tata Somba

19:15-20:15

VIRTUAL (own Zoom link)

Arts & Africa Regional Hub

Exploring the potential for arts, culture and heritage to tackle gender and diversity in climate resilience and adaptation

Entrenched social inequalities and injustices such as those related to gender, race and class remain persistent and tough to tackle. They are often perpetuated in the name of cultural traditions and remain overlooked in international conversations about climate change and

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)/PRAXIS

adaptation. But these inequalities—exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic—profoundly affect how different groups are impacted by, and respond to, the climate emergency. This session will explore the potential for arts, culture and heritage research and practice to include and address gender and diversity in the climate resilience conversation, including examples of reducing the carbon footprint of arts-based research projects. Speakers:

Adi Kumar Land and Housing Activist Dr. Pat Noxolo Senior Lecturer in Human Geography University of Birmingham Minna Sunikka-Blank Associate Professor and Deputy Head at the Department of Architecture University of Cambridge David Swann Professor In Design Sheffield Hallam University

19:15 - 20:45

BLUE ZONE UNFCCC event

NAP Country Platform: Launch of new NAPs The NAP Country Platform offers developing countries that have

LEG/UNFCCC

recently submitted a NAP to the UNFCCC the opportunity to present their NAP in a special event. This event will feature presentations of 6 newly submitted NAPs since the last NAP Country Platform that was held in October 2020.

21.00-22.30

VIRTUAL Energy Supporting Renewable Energy across the Globe with NASA POWER Data This event will be a virtual showcase and live demonstration of the NASA Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) suite of tools. POWER provides solar and meteorological datasets, derived from NASA Earth Observing (EO) data, that support community research in three focus areas: 1) renewable energy development, 2) building energy efficiency, and 3) agroclimatology applications. POWER helps communities to be resilient amid observed climate variability through the easy access of data via a variety of access methods and tools. This event will provide a virtual walkthrough of how POWER’s suite of tools to enhance decision-making for renewable energy projects worldwide. Hosted by: NASA, ICF, USAID

NASA, ICF USAID

WEDNESDAY, 10 NOVEMBER

Time Type/Location Theme Session Lead Orgs

01:00 - 02:00

VIRTUAL (own Zoom)

SE & E Asia Regional Hub

From the Ground-Up: Citizen-Focused Approaches to Strengthen Climate-Resilience in Southeast Asian Cities With increasing climate pressures, Southeast Asian cities are in the race to become more resilient. The session aims to promote citizen-focused approaches in improving climate resilience in cities. It will provide a conceptual framework of urban resilience in Southeast Asia, highlight local initiatives, and explore collaborations in the region. To add this event to your calendar, click here

Kota Kita Foundation

08:00-09:00

BLUE ZONE Interview Windows on Resilience – daily highlights show 7

The daily Windows on Resilience show will bring visitors up to date with inspiring initiatives from across the COP26 programme and from around the world. It will mix up films, interviews with resilience pioneers, and reportage from our global colleagues and aims to showcase highlights of the programme, and reminders of what not to miss. It will provide a window for people from around the world into Glasgow and will share the best of adaptation and resilience at COP to audiences around the world.

Atlantic Council (AC), Resilience Knowledge Coalition (GRP), The Resilience Shift (RS)

9:15 - 10:45 Calendar Invite (note for Karen)

BLUE ZONE Infrastructure Future proofing transport: design codes and standards - why do they matter and how can they evolve? Standards and design codes matter: they are the cornerstone of resilient transport infrastructure and indeed of life in the modern world. Engineers build, operate and maintain to design codes and standards, and these must incorporate changing climate risk, otherwise infrastructure cannot be climate resilient. This session will showcase a raft of helpful initiatives including international, European and British adaptation standards. It will present other best practice examples of design codes and strategies, and stories from infrastructure operators describing their continuing journey of

Infrastructure Operators Adaptation Forum (IOAF), Climate Sense, University of Birmingham, Coalition for Climate

climate resilience. The presenters will discuss with the in room and virtual audiences: 1. How can we create evolving standards and codes for an evolving world? 2. How can we support and engage climate resilient standards and codes in LMICs? To add this event to your calendar, click here. Speakers:

Jan Brooke Director Pianc Lisa Constable Weather Resilience and Climate Change Adaptation Strategy Manager Network Rail

Dame Jo Da Silva Global Sustainable Development Director Arup

Prof John Dora Chair, IOAF Infrastructure Operators Adaptation Form/ Climate Sense

Resilient Investment, Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure

Sarah Greenham Research Fellow University Of Birmingham Nick Pyatt DIRECTOR, LEAD TRAINER Climate Sense Tim Reeder Senior Consultant Climate Sense

Alison Walker Climate Change Manager Hs2

10:00 - 11:30

VIRTUAL (Giggabox tech support)

Africa Regional Hub

Community Action to Ensure Inclusive Climate Adaptation and Mitigation

Climate action planning has too long been seen as the realm of professionals. Governments around the world are planning for their citizens rather than with their citizens. Nowhere is this more evident than in cities where urban poor populations who already face marginalization and exclusion are rarely given a seat at the table in climate action planning processes. To transform climate action planning from another tool of exclusion, urban poor communities must lead by example – creating their own climate action plans rooted in their local contexts and lived experiences. Such efforts in Nigeria and Malawi demonstrate the enormous potential for such an approach to directly impact and feed into

city-level climate action plans.

To add this event to your calendar, click here

11:15- 12:45

BLUE ZONE Cities Fostering connections between nature and play, for children’s well-being and resilience.

The powerful combination of a diversity of play experiences and direct contact with nature has direct benefits for children’s physical, mental and emotional health, and to build their resilience. But the effects of urbanisation, such as land take and diminished biodiversity, can make it difficult for children to develop and maintain meaningful contact with nature, and to play freely and safely.

This event aims at demonstrating how by fostering the linkages between nature and play, government authorities, communities and key stakeholders, can create and safeguard valuable ecosystem services whilst reclaiming play in cities, with benefits for the planet and society.

To add this event to your calendar, click here. Speakers:

Ramallah Ahmed Abu-Laban City Director, Chief Resilience Officer

Sara Candiracci Associate Director Arup Dame Jo Da Silva

Arup, Real Play Coalition, Resilient Cities Network

Global Sustainable Development Director, Arup

Jennifer Lenhart Global Lead WWF Cities Lina Liakou Global Director of City Engagement and Knowledge, Resilient Cities Network on behalf of the Real Play Coalition Anne Martin Research Fellow University of Glasgow

Lord Mayor Representative from Belfast (Play Ambassador City)

Piero Pelizzaro Chief Resilience Officer, Representative from Milano (Play Ambassador City)

Janet Sanz Deputy Mayor, Representative from Barcelona (Play Ambassador City) Louise Thivant Lead, Child Friendly Cities Initiative UNICEF

13.15-14.45

FILM After Ice Glaciers reflect our past and reveal our future. Four years in the making, this short film exposes the impacts of 30 years of glacier melt in the Hornafjörður region of Southeast Iceland. By combining archival aerial photography from the National Land Survey of Iceland with current day drone footage, researchers can shed light on the breath-taking scale of ice loss and the changing relationship between people and nature in Iceland. While the climate crisis remains an invisible threat elsewhere in the world, this film offers an emotive and sobering reflection on a place where the impacts of global warming are writ large across the landscape. For more info, please visit: www.climatevis.com/after-ice

13:15-14:45

BLUE ZONE Knowledge for transformative action towards a resilient future In this engaging and interactive session, participants will learn about ways of generating and using local knowledge on adaptation and resilience, ways of forging innovative researcher-practitioner-community partnerships and components of an enabling environment for moving research and knowledge into action for effective adaptation.

Resilience Knowledge Coalition (RKC), Climate and Development Knowledge

The session will be hosted by the Climate and Development Knowledge Network, the Resilience Knowledge Coalition and the Adaptation Research Alliance - three major, global initiatives that seek to ensure that action to enhance adaptation and support resilience that stems from a robust foundation of research, knowledge and learning. These three initiatives will share their different but complementary approaches to ensure adaptation action is locally-led and able to tackle the challenges of climate change in the 21st century. To add this event to your calendar, click here Speakers:

Rosemary Atieno Country Lead Kenya Women Climate Center International

Aditya Bahadur Principal Researcher International Institute For Environment And Development

Dominique Charron Vice President Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC)

Network (CDKN), Adaptation Research Alliance (ARA)

Jesse DeMaria-Kinney Head of Adaptation Research Alliance (ARA) Secretariat Anne Hammill Institute Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) Saleemul Huq Director Icccad

Nathanial Matthews

CEO Global Resilience Partnership

Lisa Mcnamara Global Knowledge Lead for the Climate and Development Knowledge Network, Southsouthnorth

Shehnaaz Moosa Director Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN)

Sohanur Rahman Youthnet for Climate Justice, Bangladesh

Robi Redda CDKN, Country Engagement Lead for Ethiopia

Shuchi Vora Programme Officer Global Resilience Partnership (GRP)

Rosalind West FCDO Co-chair of the Adaptation Research Alliance

14:45 - 16:15

VIRTUAL (Giggabox tech support)

Africa Regional hub

The Missing Link: Enabling Climate Resilient Investments through Regional Planning

National and local level climate risk assessments are well established practices. But there is one missing link: the regional scale, at which value-chains, inter-city and economic corridors function. Understanding the transformative effects of climate change on regional functions and systems is the key to enable truly resilient and sustainable investments. Investors need ways to understand what investment will be viable and where, which value chains will thrive or succumb to climate change, what infrastructure to support or repurpose. This event will discuss promising practices to close this gap and ways to enable a pipeline of climate responsive investments.

To add this event to your calendar, click here

UN Habitat Arup

15.00-15.30

FILM Whatever the Weather Grafting. In Steung Treng province in northern Cambodia, farmers are struggling to make a living because of changing weather patterns and increased numbers of insects and pests. They learn about how grafting plants can help them improve their garden yields.

15:15-16:45

BLUE ZONE EWEA Locally-led solutions to DRR and anticipatory action: challenges, lessons learned and ideas for scaling up.

This session will showcase locally-led and locally-owned solutions to climate adaptation, resilience building and early action, and it will engage participants in a discussion on how anticipatory action can be scaled up and institutionalised. From experiences of integrating communities’ perspectives into local and national DRR plans, to lessons learned in

Global Network of Civil Society Organisations for Disaster Reduction (GNDR)

effective partnerships and communication to understand local priorities, to successes and challenges of implementing early warning early action.

To add this event to your calendar, click here.

17:15-18:45

BLUE ZONE EWEA A humanitarian’s view of the climate finance crisis - the realities and solutions from a practitioner perspective

This session will convene governments and humanitarian and development actors in a practical discussion with the aim of stepping-up climate action and ensuring that climate finance flows to frontline communities. Specifically, the session will share perspectives from humanitarian actors and government officials about the links, missed opportunities and realities of accessing climate finance, present a unified humanitarian voice at COP26, demonstrate concrete initiatives that address the climate and environmental crises and provide a concrete “call to action” for government negotiators to take forward at COP26.

To add this event to your calendar, click here.

Mercy Corps and Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance.

18.30-19.00

FILM The Story of DARAJA and James Leading Kenyan filmmaker, Ondivow, has teamed up with James Kirika, a local community leader, to tell the story of how DARAJA, Africa’s most inclusive urban weather forecasting and early warning system, was created.

19:00 - 20:30

BLUE ZONE Reception A whole value chain approach to climate resilient infrastructure Arup , Jupiter, AXA XL, Anglian Water

19.00- FILM Bangladesh: Amrai Pari (Together We Can Do It)

19.30 In Bangladesh, BBC Media Action produced Amrai Pari (Together We Can Do It) – a reality show that brought communities together to address climate- and environment-related challenges. The project – including this series and other community activities reached 22.5 million people. Audience research demonstrated audiences were better able to understand, prepare for and adapt to natural hazards, especially when they felt their livelihoods were under threat and had support from local government, and felt that the programme reinforced communities’ commitment to work together. Nearly 80% of viewers felt they had a better understanding of how to prepare for extreme weather, while nearly half said they took action after watching the programmes. The series was funded by UK Aid, European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO) and World Vision.

19:15 - 20:45

VIRTUAL EWEA/DRR DARAJA : The Weather Bridge for Early Action. Understanding and Scaling the Ultra Inclusive Early Warning Service in the Race to Resilience Understanding the anatomy of impact : How did a novel city and community forecasting service manage to attain a 98% early action rate from some of the most vulnerable residents of Nairobi ? And how did achieve similar results in parallel in Dar es Salaam where 75% of residents surveyed said the DARAJA service saved them money and protected their assets? We are bringing together the award-winning pioneers of DARAJA - national weather forecasters, Red Cross climate scientists and community leaders - to tell the story of DARAJA, explain how you can join the DARAJA community and to announce a set of new scale-up partnerships that will contribute to the targets of REAP and the Race to Resilience.

Resurgence

Speakers: Aditya Bahadur Principal Researcher International Institute For Environment And Development Dr. Ladislaus Chang'a Director Research And Applied Meteorology Tanzania Meteorological Authority Bapon Fakruddin Technical Director DRR and Resilience, Tonkin + Taylor

Mark Harvey Ceo Resurgence

Yvonne Aki Sawyer Mayor of Freetown, Sierra Leone, Vice Chair, C40 Cities

Stella Stephen Monitoring And Evaluation Officer Center For Community Initiatives (cci)

Evan Thompson Director Meteorological Service of Jamaica

THURSDAY, 11 NOVEMBER

Time Type/Location Theme Session Lead Orgs

01:00 - 02:00

VIRTUAL (own Zoom)

SE & E Asia Regional Hub

Building Water Resilience to adapt to climate-induced new hydrological regimes and its impact at local scale

Water resilience promoted through Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), is often based on long term averages and historical records. This is upended by climate change – frequency and intensity of hydro-meteorological extreme events needs to be anticipated/modelled for the future rather than looking only at the past as they are prominent shapers of planning and management of water resources in urban and food security context. The session will revisit and review the basic premise of IWRM in this context.

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Asian Disaster Preparedness Center

02.00-02.30

FILM Bangladesh: Amrai Pari (Together We Can Do It) 1 In Bangladesh, BBC Media Action produced Amrai Pari (Together We Can Do It) – a reality show that brought communities together to address climate- and environment-related challenges. The project – including this series and other community activities reached 22.5 million people. Audience research demonstrated audiences were better able to understand, prepare for and adapt to natural hazards, especially when they felt their livelihoods were under threat and had support from local government, and felt that the programme reinforced communities’ commitment to work together. Nearly 80% of viewers felt they had a better understanding of how to prepare for extreme weather, while nearly half said they took action after watching the programmes.

08:00-09:00

BLUE ZONE Window into COP

Windows on Resilience – daily highlights show 8

The daily Windows on Resilience show will bring visitors up to date with inspiring initiatives from across the COP26 programme and from around the world. It will mix up films, interviews with resilience pioneers, and reportage from our global colleagues and aims to showcase highlights of the programme, and reminders of what not to miss. It will provide a window for people from around the world into Glasgow and will share the best of adaptation and resilience at COP to audiences around the world.

Atlantic Council (AC), Resilience Knowledge Coalition (GRP), The Resilience Shift (RS)

0800-1000

GCU Cities Integrating a Net-Zero energy system transformation with the needs of sustainable cities The energy and utility industries are in the early stages of a revolutionary transition. Despite the global shift toward renewable energy sources, in the last decade we have continued to provision new reserve, “peaker” power plants – running on heavy fossil fuels – to ensure that we can balance the fluctuations and intermittency of wind and solar power. This is the non-sustainable flipside of renewable power production. Cities and buildings, however, can help play a crucial role in transforming our energy system to meet net-zero goals via clean electrification. For example, to achieve its goal of becoming the first carbon-neutral capital by 2025, the City of Copenhagen partnered with IBM and Andel, Denmark’s largest utility, to reimagine energy consumption. Together, they developed the IBM Utility Flexibility Platform, which dynamically adjusts heat and power consumption based on renewable energy supply, and engages consumers to help with load balancing. The solution allows high-volume consumers – like building owners, companies, real estate firms, shopping malls and supermarkets – to opt to uses less or make their own ventilation, cooling and freezing facilities available to the grid when supply is low. By leveraging buildings’ flexibility, Andel avoids relying on fossil-fueled, reserve power plants to meet demand and thereby avoids the plants’ associated greenhouse gas emissions. Join our panellists to learn how sustainable cities are creating partner ecosystems and deploying technologies to reimagine how built infrastructure can support and accelerate the energy transition.

IBM

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James Curran Chair Climate Ready Clyde, Scotland

Matt Ellis Climate Resilience Lead For Greater Manchester Merseyside And Cheshire And Co-chair Of Uk Core Cities Adaptation Working Group, Environment Agency

Emani Kumar Executive Director of ICLEI South Asia Deputy Secretary General of ICLEI Ruby Papeleras Haddad National Capital Region Coordinator Homeless People’s Federation Philippines Murray Simpson Director, Sustainability IBM Emma Witham Principal Project Manager, Scotland Highland Adapts

08:30 - 09:30

VIRTUAL (Giggabox tech support)

Africa Regional Hub

Feeling the Heat: The Unreported Dangers of Extreme Heat in Africa Life at 50C from the BBC World Service, looks at the ways humans are adapting to climate change around the world, including in-depth films in Nigeria and Mauritania. With unseen footage and previously unreported findings from the series, this session will feature scientists and journalists involved in the making of the films, as well as other experts. It will reveal why weather reports don't reflect the lived reality of heat, meaning that the true dangers of extreme heat in areas where Africans live and work are undiagnosed. Speakers will discuss the obstacles they faced from the authorities when making the series, and when reporting on environmental issues; and why climate justice is impossible without free speech. To add this event to your calendar, click here

BBC World Services, One World Media

9:15 - 10:45

BLUE ZONE Cities Resilient cities for all: enabling inclusive climate responses in the global north and south

Four billion people live in urban areas and could grow by 2.5 billion by 20501. Cities and their regions are critical to addressing climate impacts. It’s essential we understand how national governments, municipal authorities, the private sector and civil society can work together to create more climate resilient cities and regions.

In this 90 minute participative session, we will explore the enablers of change that facilitate urban resilience in the global north and south and how different groups can contribute. We will provide opportunities to share experiences and learn together, strengthening the global community of practice tackling this significant challenge.

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Sniffer, UK Core Cities Adaptation, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

11:15- 12:45

BLUE ZONE Race to Resilience: Transformation Announcements

As one of the biggest climate conferences comes to an end, Race to Resilience partners aiming to make significant and innovative changes to the systems we currently operate in, will share details on the impact they will create through their solutions by 2030. Join us from around the world to learn about how these partners are implementing and scaling Transformations that will support the campaign’s overall goal of reaching 4 billion people in the most vulnerable communities.

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Race to Resilience Campaign together with High Level Champions

11:45 - 12:45

VIRTUAL Africa Regional Hub

How can resilient urban areas be created in the face of rapid population growth? The African urban population is forecast to double by 2050, and Africa will be home to 6 of the worlds megacities by 2030. This growth is happening in a resource constrained environment, in a context of huge inequality and widespread poverty. Growth in Africa must tackle these inequalities and provide infrastructure and services for all. All the while, climate change is going to have the biggest impact on the poor. Arup will facilitate a conversation between key thinkers and planners from cities across the continent, to canvass their local perspectives on this apparent paradox between rapid urbanisation, and resilience. To Add this event to your calendar, click here

ARUP

12:00-1300

GCU Film screening (26 mins), followed by a discussion and Q&A.

Resilience Engineered Episode 1: Preparing for an uncertain future Current approaches to designing infrastructure makes assumptions about the future and these assumptions often do not adequately acknowledge the uncertainty associated with the future operation of the systems. Our assumptions about “what are the chances” shape our thinking about the future and how we should prepare for it. We should be asking ourselves some deep questions: How do we plan well for a future that we can’t predict? What is our goal for the future and how do we do things differently in how we design for that today? The episode establishes broad definitions of risk, uncertainty and resilience – and how these definitions shape our approach to making decisions. It describes how we need to think about the future beyond placing probabilities on certain events happening. Resilience Engineered is a three-part series on some of the most

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pressing challenges associated with 21st Century infrastructure systems development, with the concept of resilience as the underlying theme. This session will screen the first episode of Resilience Engineered (26 mins), which will be followed by a discussion with Dr Kristen MacAskill who hosts the series. There will be time for a Q&A.

13:15-14:45

BLUE ZONE Health The health-climate nexus: delivering a virtuous cycle of benefits lll-health and climate change are interrelated global threats, and the solutions to each are also intertwined. This session, in the format of a series of lightning talks, will highlight where such synergies lie and offer proactive and deliverable solutions, including examples of nature-based, place-based and regenerative solutions that provide climate resilience whilst also contributing to health and wellbeing outcomes. To add this event to your calendar, click here To add this event to your calendar, click here. Speakers:

Fiona Armstrong Founder and Executive Director Climate and Health Alliance Australia

Mott MacDonald

Jane Burston Executive Director Clean Air Fund Jad Daley President And Ceo American Forests

Sophie Howe Future Generations Commissioner for Wales Welsh government

Wisborn Malaya Secretary General The Zimbabwe Chamber of Informal Economy Associations (ZCIEA), Zimbabwe Chamber of Informal Economy Associations David Jácome Polit Chief Resilience Officer Municipality of Quito

Irvan Pulungan DKI Jakarta Special Envoy on Climate Change Jakarta Capital City Government

Amanda Sturgeon Head of Regenerative Design Mott MacDonald

Alice Sverdlik Researcher Human Settlements Group, IIED

Clare Wildfire Global Practice Lead - Cities Mott MacDonald

15:00-1630

GCU Infrastructure What makes urban infrastructure resilient to weather and climate change? Urban infrastructure supports life in our cities and is under stress. The hard and soft engineering interventions we implement to address its resilience will intimately shape our society and our environment for decades to come. Here we showcase transdisciplinary thinking and leadership around what makes resilient, sustainable and just interventions in urban areas that benefit people and the planet. The event showcases practical methodologies to support resilient infrastructure decision-making, with issues contextualised through global case studies on hard engineering, finance, participation, risk and governance, fostering the role of cities as champions for well-being - human and environmental. To add this event to your calendar, click here. Speakers:

Alexandre Cardeman Chief of COR (Centre of Operations), Rio de Janeiro Speaker Dr. Mário Coelho

Dr. Emma Ferranti Senior Lecturer in Civil Engineering, Trees and Design Action Group, School of Engineering University of Birmingham

University of Birmingham Strengthening Infrastructure Risk Management in the Atlantic Area (SIRMA) UKCRIC Coalition for Climate Resilient Investment Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure

Dr. Andrew Quinn Reader in Atmospheric Science and Engineering School of Civil Engineering, University of Birmingham Prof Chris Rogers Director of UKCRIC National Buried Infrastructure Facility School of Engineering, University of Birmingham

Arghya Sinha Roy Principal Climate Change Specialist Asian Development Bank

Elisabeth Shrimpton Researcher University of Birmingham

Claudia Thyme Director Strategic Market Development AXA XL

15:15-16:45

BLUE ZONE Cities Cities & Regions Mobilizing for Housing Resilience By 2030, 3 billion people are projected to live in vulnerable housing, and as disasters increase in strength and frequency, more people are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Resilient housing can be the ultimate protection for families. Build Change will moderate a high-level discussion featuring mayors and regional leaders from the Global North and South to discuss how they are overcoming barriers of people, money and technology to create climate-resilient housing for all. Leaders will share their best

Build Change in partnership with city governments

practices and examples of programs and initiatives on how they are integrating housing sustainability and urban resilience plans and will provide their insights on how other cities can implement and scale resilient housing across the world. To add this event to your calendar, click here.

Jenny Durkan Mayor of Seattle, Washington Elizabeth Hausler Founder & CEO Build Change

Ekrem İmamoğlu Mayor of Istanbul, Turkey

Jorge Munoz Mayor of Lima, Peru Nithya Sowrirajan Director, Global Solutions Google Earth and Earth Engine

17:15-18:45

BLUE ZONE Water Joint Water Pavilion & Resilience Hub Event: Accelerating Action in Water Resilience in Cities and the Built Environment

With increasing numbers of people living in cities, water resilience in the built environment is an increasingly important topic. This event will explore water resilience issues faced by cities and will showcase stories of water resilience solutions from around the globe.

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Arup, The Resilience Shift, WaterAid, World Resources Institute, Resilient Cities Network, Stockholm International Water Institute, IWA

19.00-19.15

FILM Honsbossche and Pettemer Sea Defence project in the Netherlands Building with Nature. This short clip highlights the Hondsbossche and Pettemer Sea Defence project in the Netherlands. The project uses Nature-based Solutions including sandy foreshore and sand dunes to protect the coast and offers leisure opportunities for people.

19:15 - 20:45

BLUE ZONE Infrastructure Community voices shape resilience enhancing infrastructure Imagine an urban world where decisions are made through predictions of the future based on carefully modelled data. If you could predict future urban form change, for example, you could plan for the right mix of basic services, housing, and green space. Wrong. PEAK Urban findings and WRI’s World Resources Report highlight that cities are complex systems of systems. They cannot be planned for through the sciences of (P)rediction alone. Our session explores urban (E)mergence from the interactions of city systems and the context-specific (A)doption of new technologies, alongside the valuing of a range of ways of (K)nowing or perspectives as essential.

PEAK Urban and Oxford Martin Informal Cities, University of Oxford World Resources Institute (WRI) Climate Sense

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Juan Carlos Duque founder/director of RiSE-group (Research in Spatial Economics) Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at EAFIT University

Fernando Escobar Mayor of Itagui Michael Keith Director of Peak Urban, University of Oxford Professor at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)

Robin King Director, Knowledge Capture And Collaboration World Resources Institute Ross Center For Sustainable Cities Charlène Kouassi Director Observatoire des Mobilités Africaines (Movin'On LAB Africa)

Shuaib Lwasa principal researcher on adaptation, governance and transformation Global Center on Adaptation

Francisco Obando Policy And Programme Manager Unversity of Oxford

Juan Pablo Orjuela Research Associate University Of Oxford

Susan Parnell Global Challenges Research Professor in the School of Geography at the University of Bristol Emeritus Professor at the African Centre for Cities (ACC) at the University of Cape Town

Nithya Sowrirajan Director, Global Solutions Google Earth and Earth Engine

19:15 - 20:45

VIRTUAL (own Zoom - Owen to provide)

Health & Wellbeing

Empowering heat action at City Hall: The Chief Heat Officer.

This session will feature the first three appointed Chief Heat Officers-(CHOs) in the world. They are city officials fully dedicated to think, plan and implement extreme heat-related policies and actions in the city in order to protect its population from heat-health risks. Each CHO will deliver a short "lightning talk", after which a well-known journalist will moderate a discussion with the CHOs. The CHOs will comment on the kind of challenges they face to advance the heat agenda within and outside City Hall walls. They will also share specific initiatives that are being undertaken in their cities.

Atlantic Council,

Extreme Heat Alliance

22:30 - 00:00

VIRTUAL Cities, Regions, Built Environment

Understanding Urban Systems and Tools for Change - Key to Building More Resilient and Inclusive Cities

We showcase: A framework for change based on the University of Oxford’s PEAK Urban and WRI’s flagship World Resources Report, Towards a More Equal City that offers 7 crucial transformations for equity and sustainability. Cities continue to change and in the onset of an unstable climate, faster than ever before. Change can bring prosperity and wellbeing or exacerbate inequality and misery. Yet, the innovations and tools to improve life and manage change in richer cities remain elusive to the 3.4 billion city dwellers in low-or middle-income countries. Importantly, as seen during COVID19 our world is interconnected. A lack of resilience somewhere affects people everywhere, including through communicable disease and air pollution.

Speakers:

Jaideep Gupte Fellow of the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, and leads the Cities and Sustainable Infrastructure Portfolio of the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF)

Michael Keith Director of Peak Urban, University of Oxford Professor at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)

PEAK Urban/ Oxford Martin Informal Cities/ University of Oxford, World Resources Institute (WRI), UK Research and Innovation (URKI)/ Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF)

Anjali Mahendra Director of Global Research WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities

Francisco Obando Policy And Programme Manager Unversity of Oxford

Susan Parnell Global Challenges Research Professor in the School of Geography at the University of Bristol Emeritus Professor at the African Centre for Cities (ACC) at the University of Cape Town

FRIDAY, 12 NOVEMBER

Time Type/Location Theme Session Lead Orgs

01:00 - 02:15

VIRTUAL SE & E Asia Regional

Catalyzing Investment in Resilient Infrastructure Infrastructure is central to improving the lives of people and achieving

UNOPS, UNEP, Asian Development Bank

Hub inclusive and sustainable development. Investing in resilient infrastructure systems is a human, environmental and economic imperative with clear economic benefits. This side-event will explore catalytic approaches to scale up investment in climate resilient infrastructure in South and Southeast Asia. To add this event to your calendar, click here

08:00 - 09:30

BLUE ZONE R2R feature event

Shifting theory and practice across the infrastructure value chain. The 2 weeks at the COP26 Resilience Hub have brought an unprecedented number of actors from across the value chain together, sharing their theory and practice for enhancing resilience. This is game changing. However, we can still see that decisions and new developments can be made in silos. The Resilience Shift and ICSI are excited to share two new initiatives focused on breaking down these silos, and delivering the climate resilient infrastructure that communities depend on. To add this event to your calendar, click here

Juliet Mian Director The Resilience Shift

ICSI, the Resilience Shift

10:00-11:30

BLUE ZONE R2R event Race to Resilience - Making measurement make the difference to vulnerable people, communities and natural systems

Race to Resilience

12:00-13:30

Window into COP

Resilience Windows into COP

Reflective Event: Pause and Reflect on two weeks of COP26

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14:00-15:30

BLUE ZONE R2R event R2R event

16:00 - 17:30

BLUE ZONE R2R event R2R planning event : next steps

18.00-19.30

BLUE ZONE UNFCCC event

UNFCCC Closing Reception