Techno Villa English: APAN Hari Keempat

09.30-09.45 Welcome and Highlights of Day 3

Mozaharul Alam, Regional Coordinator, Climate Change Sub-programme at United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), welcomed all the speakers and participants to the 4th Day of the 7th APAN Forum. The highlights of Day 3 was presented by Desiree Llanos Dee (Founder at Tofu Creatives) and Nityalila Saulo (Founder at Tofu Creatives) by showing us the Virtual Graphics that can be seen here: https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_lQ0cf9g=/. Hermes facilitated technical matter.

09.45-10.45 Plenary on Technologies and Practices

Veronica Pedrosa

Ashok Khosla

Wali Haider

Kotchakorn Voraakhom

Suil Kang

The Plenary session on Technologies and Practices was moderated by Veronica Pedrosa, an Independent Broadcast Journalist. The technologies and practices were discussed by some panelists, they are as follows:

Ashok Khosla, Chairman at Development Alternatives group and TARAlife
Wali Haider, Farmers Major Group Representative at Roots for Equity
Kotchakorn Voraakhom, Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Landprocess and Porous City Network
Suil Kang, Chief Supervisor at International Environmental Research Institute

The discussions from the panelists were summed up in this report. The first panelist, Ashok Khosla gave some examples of Technologies and Nature-based Solution that can be adapted and adopted for Universal Prosperity, Social Resilience, and Climate Change.

Other examples of using technology in Pakistan was proposed by Wali Haider such as Agrofuel, Biofuel from sugar cane, multitasking machine, and biotechnology that are introduced to the farmers.

Another example of nature-based solution was recommended by Kotchakorn Voraakhom with her project namely GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE in Bangkok. This project tried to overcome the people's problems such as sinking, flooding, and drowning because Bangkok lies under the sea level.

Other recommendations of using technology is from Suil Kang. His recommendation are:

Applying tech to resilience
Technology of adaptation should be identified, encouraged and promoted
Partnership, stakeholder, effective coordination, local and national government must be involved.

Those triangular cooperation in prioritizing the resilience of climate change is very needed.

At the end of the session, Veronica as the moderator asked two questions to the panelists:

What should be done to resilience of climate change to reduce the disaster that is caused by the climate change?
And what should we do by using technologies and practices to adapt to resilience of climate change?

The first panelist, Wali Haider, suggested that (looking from the rural perspectives) we should develop sustainable production, indigenous knowledge, maximizing the productivity, adopt and adapt agriculture such as crops that is the result of using the technology. Meanwhlile, Kotchakorn Voraakhom (looking from the urban perspective) said that the balance of bottom up and top down policy is very important.

Differ from the previous panelists, Suil Kang (looking at his perspective) suggested that we need to strengthen resilience, we need innovation and technology solution, we need consider and apply appropriate technology and consider local context, consider stakeholder, consider all aspect of technology (hardware, software), and of course cooperation is also really a key of that.

To sum up the discussion, Ashok Khosla recommended that we need to show to the society to make sure that the financial value of the nature are forest, water, and biodiversity.

11.15-12.45 Building community resilience by scaling up women's access to technologies and strengthening voice and leadership

Mohammad Naciri

Buena Bernal

Nadya Hutagalung

Prof. Joyashree Roy

Soma Dutta

Nguyen Van Anh

Asa Heden

The discussion of this session was moderated by Nadya Hutagalung, an Environmental Advocate & TV Presenter at United Nations and founder of Green Kampong. She asked some questions to the panelists such as "How to support women to access to technology?" and "How Covid-19 impact women?"

Mohammad Naciri (Regional Director at UN Women) discussed on how women can amplify and empower to the situation of Climate Change and pandemic Covid-19 and how to bring practices to resilience.

Asa Heden, Head of Development Cooperation at Embassy of Sweden in Bangkok, said that woman is an agent of change. Their quality is important for resilience of climate change. Sweden has three agendas for women: right, respect, rule of law. Sweden also gives chance to women and girls to improve their capacity, to have equal access in decision making, equal right, accountability, empowerment, and transparency.

In line with Asa Heden's perspective, Prof. Joyashree Roy (Bangabandhu Chair Professor at Asian Institute of Technology) said that women are as change makers. Women leadership and voices must be put in the agenda. How women can be change makers to resilience, women need:

more information
to understand her role
to have option to choice
to have access to technology, infrastructure, information, training

The institution have important decision to empower women to resilience. The institution must change and use the technology quickly by training and investment the technology facility.

Vietnam, as Nguyen Van Anh (Director at CHIASE) said, has made a big effort in reducing the poverty in the last ten years. The ethnic minority, poverty, economic, education, access to water, technology, natural disaster, agriculture, gender equality are the issues in ethnic minority in Vietnam. But some

efforts have made in Vietnam in resilience to Climate Change:

processing area in mountainous area or ethnic minority to improve the agriculture product
all women have good services
women receive some support for the housework from husband, doctors, etc.

According to Buena Bernal, as a Journalist at CNA (Chanel News Asia), the success factor in women is providing news room management such as room for news, for healthy, for story telling, for mass protest, for vaccination, for humanity, etc. Baseline information and data are also very important for empowering women.

Other question from Nadya to the panelists: How do we scale up women to build community resilience?

There are multiple answers from the panelists regarding to multiple role of women in building community resilience. Some of the answers are as follows:

1. Women must be supporting each other. According to Soma Dutta, things that must be considered if we want to empower women

Women work in groups
Enterprise women in capacity building
The important of mentorship

2. Women need more science, collaboration, paving the way for other women, giving chance female to be a leader, knowledge, no gender bias discrimination. Story telling that tells women and show that women is has the important role in the community (Buena Bernal).

3. Nguyen van Anh suggested that

Active participation from the women is really appreciated
The need aspiration and expectation from women leadership
Women empowerment or empower women in gender equality, long time support for women, build the capacity for women in technology, internet, information
Gender law to help the women
We need policy maker in local/community and national level
Build capacity on women through forum discussion.

4. Prof. Joyashree recommended that

Women must have access to technology to carry on their house working for example: cooking, water heating, etc. so they could not loose their livelihood.
No gender disaggregation
New paradigm where women can lead without falling behind
Give a chance for women to become a leader. Targeted information. Who are women leaders who wants to change the community through media.
Women need infrastructure, financial, all targeted on that, all best practices from women to show to the community through mass media in order to be a role model to be a sample of how to build the capacity of women
Investing/promoting women will add value, for example telling the problem to change maker story, we need change framing the issue from problem maker into the changing maker.

More information about women can be seen on the link: https://www.empowerforclimate.org/en

14.00-15.30 Harnessing Climate Technologies and Practices to Strengthen Nature-based Resilience

Clara Landeiro

Rose Mwebaza

Sanjay Srivastava

Hak Mao

Maija Bertule

Trupti Jain

Roland Treitler

Clara Landeiro (CTCN Regional Manager -Asia-Pacific at CTCN) as a moderator asked some questions to the panelists. The question number one is "What can be learned from the regions' experiences in implementing climate technologies and practices for nature-based resilience that can be leveraged to address current and post pandemic challenges?"

The panelists in this session are among others:

Dr. Rose Mwebaza, Director at CTCN
Dr. Sanjay Srivastava, Chief of Disater Risk Reduction, UN ESCAP
Dr. Hak Mao, Director of the Department of Climate Change at Ministry of Environment Cambodia, GSSD/MoE
Ms. Maija Bertule, Senior Technical Advisor, UNEP-DHI Centre on Water and Environment
Ms. Trupti Jain, Founder Director at Naireeta Services Private Limited
Roland Treitler, Senior Advisor at GIZ

OECD as reported by Dr. Rose Mwebaza suggested that nature-based and nature-based recovery are important. Clean water and flood protection are highly dependent on biodiversity. Covid-19 do not compromise with biodiversity. OECD fosters cross sector, technology and practices in Asia Pacific region. The example of environment Best Practice is from Peru with Green Climate Fund programme.

According to Dr. Sanjay Srivastava, we need technology of protecting cost, adaptation scientific strategy, and nature-based equipment to combine with other nature-based resources such as developing using machine and data statistic.

Dr. Hak Mao gave some examples of project in Cambodia. Recently we have regional project in the coastal area of Cambodia. The project is to restore the dam, to provide water and to attract the tourist. Another project is to promote non timber forest product, to protect the natural resource, to protect soil erosion and to promote ecotourism.

Ms. Maija Bertule works with the supporting technical to increase the awareness of nature-based solution, political will, interest in designing deliver ecosystem services in the community. Nature-based solution plays important role on daily basis in providing livelihood. The experience of water management, biodiversity protection, climate change adaptation, ecosystem protection are very important.

According to Ms. Trupti Jain, we have to sustain at the root level and to coordinate among Asia Pacific countries.

Second question from the moderator Clara Landeiro is "What are major barriers and opportunities to foster wider adoption and scale up of nature-based climate technologies and practices?"

The panelists recommended different answers to that question. Introduce technology as catalyst is the answer from Dr. Sanjay. The barriers that we face according to Dr. Hak Mao are limited in depth research on how important the nature-based solution and limited study of benefit of technology. So through this forum we have opportunity to promote nature-based solution in the country. It is in line with the answer from Maija Bertule that we need a lot more dialogue. We hope that through this forum we can have the opportunity to build existing process for nature based solution policy, to build mechanism, and to build the awareness of nature based solution. And the recommendation from Trupti Jain is that we should invest in technology and all nature-based practices must be replicated collectively.

The third question from the moderator is "What are your recommendations to facilitate investment and engagement of stakeholders, including private sector, in nature-based resilience?"

The first recommendation was given by Dr. Hak Mao. His recommendations are to increase the commitment, to increase the mobilization, to encourage people to visit forest or ecotourism, to encourage the study of assessment, to encourage the government to involve. Maija Bertule recommended to bring stakeholders and local community the need to understand the information and to communicate each other. Trupti Jain recommended to involve local community to find out local based solution. And the last recommendation was given by Roland Treitler. He said that we should learn nature and we need paradigm shift.

The moderator summed up this session. The key notes of the discussion are the role of technology and innovation, providing information, bring stakeholders, private sector, and local community.

Other information can be seen in the link such as about the EbA initiative of WOTR - https://wotr.org/eba/, the value of an ecosystem based approach in dry land regions - https://wotr-website-publications.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/EbA_Info_Brief%20_Series_1.pdf, and analysis of policies and programmes related to EbA https://wotr-website-publications.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/Scaling_Ecosystem_based_Adaptation_in_Maharashtra_India_An_Analysis_of_Policies%20_and_Programmes.pdf.

15.45-16.15 Key Messages from the Day

Mozaharul Alam as the moderator invited the panelists to deliver the key messages from the day. Albert Salamanca said that regional approach to addressing the resilience of climate change is very important. Leadership, mentorship should be given to the women. Women are the change maker who play the important role in building resilience of climate change. Senashia Ekanayake from Sri Lanka concluded that the things to consider are ecosystem area, adaptation action, inclusive, stakeholders, the important of community and young people, partnership and mechanism, and understanding specific local resources. Meanwhile, Arghya Sinha Roy delivered the key recommendations of principle:

Tehnology and practices and combination of local technology
The importance of long partnership among government and private sector
The importance of ensuring the technology and practices to reach the most population
The accessibility and quality of the outcome.

Furthermore Arghya gave three recommendations on what to be done:

Engaging all partners especially private sector
Partnership
The learning of strategy and practices

The last key messages was from Soumya Bhattacharya. There are three main aspect to consider:

The learning from the region
Major barrier and opportunities
Recommendation to facilitate technology and practices can be important to post pandemic situation and to resilience of climate change

16.30-18.00 Special Event Filling the Adaptation Gap

Osamu Mizuno

Kazuaki Takahashi

Valerie Kapos

Aiping Chen

Rajarshi Dasgupta

Tetsuo Kuyama

The speakers of this last session of the day are:

Osamu Mizuno, Principal Fellow at IGES, moderator
Kazuaki Takahashi, Director of Climate Change Adaptation Office at Global Environment Bureau, MoEJ
Valerie Kapos, Head of the Climate Change and Biodiversity Programme at UNEP World Conservation
Aiping Chen, Regional Director, GCA (Global Center on Adaptation) China
Dr. Rajarshi Dasgupta, Senior Policy Researcher at Institute for Global Environmental Strategies
Tetsuo Kuyama, Director of Bangkok Regional Center at IGES

The discussions of this session are summed up in the following report. The biggest adaptation gap is monitoring and evaluation on adaptation. Adaptation finance is growing and evolving but the gap is not closing. Implementation of adaptation action is growing worldwide. Significant scaling up of both public and private adaptation is required to narrow the gap.

GCA's Global Business Plan (Global Center on Adaptation) supports to community as can be seen on the picture.