APAN Hari Kedua

09.30-09.45 Welcome and Highlights of Day 1

Welcome to the 2nd Day of the 7th APAN Forum. Mozaharul Alam, Regional Coordinator, Climate Change Sub-programme at United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), welcomed all the speakers and participants. Meanwhile the highlights of Day 1 was presented by Desiree Llanos Dee (Founder at Tofu Creatives) and Nityalila Saulo (Founder at Tofu Cretaives). They presented the Highlights of Day 1 by showing us the virtual Graphics that can be seen here: https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_lQ0cf9g=/.

09.40-10.45 Plenary on Planning Processes

David Jackson

Emani Kumar

Giuseppe Busini

Nur Masripatin

Nurul Quadir

Rico Hizon

Rico Hizon, Senior Anchor and Director for Content Development at CNN Philippines, moderated the Plenary on Planning Processes. He welcomed the panelists to share their big ideas on Planning Processes in adapting the climate change. He also showed some examples of projects from other countries both local and national project. the first question for the panelist was "What are the challenges of local?"

The first question was answered by David Jackson, Director, Local Development Finance Practice at United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF). He said that the big problem or the challenges of local is how do you connect between local system and the global money. And he suggested the solution of that problem is to reach the gap with the support of European Union. He said that local adaptation level is a problem but Indonesia can give good example in which every Bupati (Regent) can know what is going on in his/her local sector, local investment, local government are part of the solution not as part of problem, young people/youth also involve in the program.

Meanwhile, Giuseppe Busini, Minister Counsellor-Deputy Head of Mission at Delegation of the European Union to Thailand recommended that European Union Green Deal is a strategy that covers all sectors, provide guidance to recovery fund for the Covid-19 pandemic/crisis. 

Emani Kumar, Deputy Secretary General and Executive Director at ICLEI South Asia, integrated the climate resilience into the city activity. Government located the fund for the city government for resilience, in which there are 50-60 city that have the mainstreaming of climate resilience create the rural and urban platform (energy, food, water, etc). 

The panelist from Indonesia, Nur Masripatin, Senior Advisor to the Minister at Ministry of Environment and Forestry,   proposed her solution that in terms of policy we have a complete document of mitigate and the system, for adaptation issue Indonesia integrates the planning and practicing, and for budgeting we combine top down and bottom up approach.  Human resources is also the challenges, the budgeting is also the problem. Adaptation and mitigation program is coordinated under twenty ministry. Willingness to coordinate from the leader (President) with his cabinets/ministries is one of overcoming the problem of climate change adaptation. Indonesia has example where local government has inclusive program for climate change adaptation and resilience.

Different solution was proposed by Nurul Quadir, Adjunct Faculty (Associate Professor) at North South University. He said that  all must be intercorrelated and risk involve planning must be implemented. We have been able to involve people to bring holistic approach to climate change adaption plan in terms of local and national. Furthermore, Nurul said that local level knowledge is important for resilience.

11.15-12.45 Parallel Session

Collaborating Efforts to Strengthening Cities Resilience to Climate and Disaster Risks 

Arlene B. Arcillas

Phurba Lhendup

Armen Rostomyan

Binaya Raj Shivakoti

Inu Salike

The Parallel Session entitled Collaborating Efforts to Strengthening Cities Resilience to Climate and Disaster Risks was moderated by Phurba Lhendup, Head, Climate Change Cluster at Regional Resource Centre for Asia and the Pacific. He led the discussion of sample Experiences of Resilience from the panelists.

Arlene B Arcillas, City Mayor at City Government of Santa Rosa, Laguna, said that local government and members of NGO had discussion of the improvement of the water. All stakeholders, farmers, etc collaborated in the project. Everybody got involved in it. 

The best practices from Nepal was delivered by Dr. Inu Salike, Assistant Professor at Tribhuwan University. She gave two examples of collaborating efforts to strengthening cities resilience to climate and disaster risks:

1. University, we had drawing camp in which local people build their house with the help of UNHDP
2. Relocation issue, what is needed by the local people, so the local government get the benefit from the local people and the local people can get benefit too from local government.

Other example of collaboration was recommended by Binaya Raj Shivakoti, Senior Water and Adaptation Specialist at Inst. for Global Environment Strategies (IGES). He suggested that  we need to do the three collaboration;

1. Collaboration of local government, stakeholder, and local people
2. Collaboration of university, government, and risk information
3. Develop partnership, regional collaboration, connecting best practices, capacity building approaches, such as Initiative by Japanese government.

Mr. Armen Rostomyan, Senior Programme Specialist at AIT Regional Resources Center for Asia and Pacific, recommended that we need various technic experiences for resilience, conduct various level of assessment, need special technical skill, financial allocation for conducting the assessment, disaster resilience and the city people resilience, need the data that is analyzed properly. City resilience need political support to share and socialise this assessment of resilience. We must consider local people and local need to get to successful resilience program/planning.

To wrap up or the summary of this session, there are:

The success of climate change must involve university, stakeholder, UNESCO, collaboration of every country, partnership, local government, city government, national government, understanding knowledge and skill, and functioning the institution. 

 14.00-15.30 Parallel Session

Integrating nature-based and ecosystem-based elements in national adaptation planning

Julie Greenwalt

Alexandre Meybec

Cristina Romanel

Lis Mullin Bernhardt, Programme Officer, Climate Change Adaptation Unit at United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), led the discussion of this parallel session and gave the overview.

The first panelist is Jessica Troni, Head of Climate Change Adaptation Unit at United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). She said that UNEP plans to better advocacy and programming. UNEP has project planting mangrove, restoring forest and dunes, and planting million trees. That is the reason why UNEP has useful framework for the next generation.

As a response to adaptation planning, Paul Desanker, Manager of the Adaptation Division at UNFCCC,  recommended five key points:

1. NAP is the main modality for government to address adaptation action and climate change

2. NAP helps developing country with adaptation components and communication

3. Adaptation should happen in all level

4. NAP is hoped embraces to all level and give guidance to do so

5. All countries now focus on what they are doing and setting up infrastructure to support the adaptation planning.

Julie Greenwalt, Consultant at Go Green for Climate , NAP Global Network. Julie has mentioned that 125 countries are currently undergoing NAP and national biodiversity and carrying out some of the steps of the NAP process. Only 21 countries have submitted a NAP, and many over 61 have received the GCF funding for the NAP process. There are some opportunities to strengthen EbA in NAP processes, they are as follows:

1. Our economies and well-being rely on healthy ecosystems
2. Advance protection of biodiversity with climate adaptation goals
3. Integrate EbA solutions across all sectors
4. Apply effectiveness criteria to deliver intended outcomes
5. Measurable and time-bound targets

The latest Progress on NAPs report is available at https://unfccc.int/sites/default/files/resource/sbi2020_inf13.pdf

Alexandre Meybec, Senior Technical Adviser at Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), published the publication Addressing Forestry and Agroforestry in National Adaptation Plans.

The link between sectors that need to be created in the NAP process in order to give contribution from the forest to the ecosystem. Our publication stresses the important of forest and trees for adaptation.

Some examples of NAP program can be seen on the picture below.

And the link to the NBS page on the NAP Global Network with links to the two publications: https://napglobalnetwork.org/themes/nature-based-solutions/

Cristina Romanel, Programme Officer at World Health Organization (WHO), published the Mainstreaming Health in Nature-Based Solutions through HNAPs. The aim of the quality criteria for Health National Adaptation Plans are as follows;

1. Leadership and enabling environment
2. Cross-sectoral coordination
3. Comprehensive coverage of climate-sensitive health risks (CSHRs)
4. Comprehensive coverage of adaptation options
5. Resourcing
6. Monitoring, evaluation, and reporting

The quality criteria above provides the guidance of health for every country. 

The link to the NBS page on the NAP Global Network with links to the two publications: https://napglobalnetwork.org/themes/nature-based-solutions/

The link to the NAP Forestry Guidelines by FTA and FAO: http://www.fao.org/in-action/naps/news-events/detail/en/c/1333340/

The WHO Manifesto provides 6 essential prescriptions and over 80 targeted areas for action. See https://www.who.int/news-room/feature-stories/detail/who-manifesto-for-a-healthy-recovery-from-covid-19

15.45-16.15 Key Messages from the Day

Alejandro Jimenez

Jennifer Debrum, RMI Ridge to Reef Project Coordinator at United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), said that the guideline of NAP is very benefit  in implementing EbA.

Chompunut Songkhao, Environmental Official at Off. Nat. Res. and Env. Policy and Planning, said that Thailand have national adaptation plan with six dimensions: water, agriculture, food, charity, natural resources, and  human resources. Having opportunity to have project with Germany and Australia to develop the understanding of the EbA.

As an International Consultant at UNEP Alejandro Jimenez said that UNEP has published Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) guidelines for National Adaptation Plans (NAPs). The guideline will help every country to implement the program of adaptation of climate change. 

16.15-17.00 Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) Trivia Night

The Trivia Night was organized by APAN Seretariat, GIZ Philippines with Am and Hermes Huang as the  technical facilitators. At this session participants were asked to answer some quizzes by using Kahoot Digital Application. The quizzes were about to review on climate change, to exchange knowledge and networking among participants and the technical team.