APAN Hari Ketiga

 

09.30-09.45 Welcome and Highlights of Day 2

Mozaharul Alam, Regional Coordinator, Climate Change Sub-programme at United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), welcomed all the speakers and participants to the 3rd Day of the 7th APAN Forum. The highlights of Day 2 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=/.

09.45-10.45 Science and Assessment

Veronica Pedrosa

Anand Patwardhan

Nicola Willey

Nambi Appadurai

Johannah Nalau

Robert Watson

Veronica Pedrosa, Independent Broadcast Journalist, moderated the plenary session. 

http://www.asiapacificadapt.net/adaptationforum2020/2021/03/05/resilience-outlooks/

As a Professor at School of Public Policy University of Maryland, Anand Patwardhan suggested that  science has been doing many jobs to overcome the climate change. Innovation and resolution from the science give the best solution of climate change. Science has contributed to overcome the problems by doing Action Research. Learning process needs conscious effort to adapt to the climate change. It must involve the researcher, policy makers, stakeholders, etc. Here is the message from Anand Patwardhan:

TOGETHER, WE CAN PROMOTE 

THE USE OF ROBUST SCIENCE AND DATA 

AS FOUNDATIONS OF EFFECTIVE RESILIENCE BUILDING

Meanwhile, Nicola Willey, UK Regional Director at British High Commission Singapore, said that the research program had intersection between science and communication of the climate change adaptation. She proposed two programmes with its aims of the first program are to develop the capacity, to develop the adaptation of the causes dan the impact of weather, to motivate people to responsible to the environment, to share the best practices from every country or institution, and to bring a lot data to give the information. The aims of the second program are research, increasing resilience, agriculture.

The example from India in which the technology is developed there were shown by Dr. Nambi Appadurai,  Director (Climate Resilience Practice) at World Resources Institute - India. He showed us how science help the methodology to adapt to the climate change. Agriculture in India is initiated by NICRA. 

Other examples of the use of technology were shown by Johannah Nalau, Science Committee at United Nations Environment Programme - World Adaptation Science Program. He showed us that in the Pacific island there is the program to connect the climate with science and meteorology in that country. Other example in Banoa with community, particularly bird. If the birds move somewhere, the community knows that it means that the climate has changed.

Dr. Pema Gyamthso, Director General at ICIMOD - Butan delegation, showed other example how ICIMOD adapts the technology to reduce carbon emission. We got the country member to take action to the challenges of the climate change.

Robert Watson, Head of the Scientific Advisory Group at UNEP - APCC, recommended that we need project to adaptation to the climate change. Adaptation is very context specific which needs action from NGO, govern, people, stakeholder. We need to take into action from the local community. We must know the consequences before we take action. What we need to do are to produce climate resilience agriculture, to provide food security, to restore the green land especially forest, to restore marine, to make sure all the process come together, and to make sure everybody get involved. And the last but not least are national policy or political will between government, private sector, and  people.

So, the key messages from this session are as follows:

• The lack of quantity data  is the second challenge
• We should explore how science and the experiment will help the nature
• Adaptation to nature need to consider
• Global cooperation is really necessary to address the climate change
• Come together, come forward to bring together to discuss the issue
• Harmonize, to deal with the climate change and biodiversity
• Work together between national and international
• Resilience can be build by science and assessment
• Embed robust scientific information.

11.15-12.45 Enhancing resilience across borders: using science to call for regional action in the HinduKush Himalaya

Professor Kristie Ebi

Arun Shresthra

Mozaharul Alam

The panelists on this session are Sivapuram Prabhakar (Research Manager at Institute for Global Environmental Strategies), Professor Kristie Ebi (Department of Global Health at University of Washington IPCC), Dr. Arun Shresthra (Regional Programme Manager at ICIMOD), Frida Lager (Research Associate at Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), Adaptation Without Borders), Mozahurul Alam (Regional Coordinator , Climate Change Sub-programme at United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)), and Dr. Dhrudap Choudhury (Chief, Scaling Operations at ICIMOD researcher, practitioner, India).

To sum up the discussion of this session, there are some key messages from the panelists. 

• think about risk in order to know the impact to other field 
• intensify cooperation and coordination 
• present scientific and mechanism

 The whole issues about assessment that have been discussed are:

1. The national boundary is not a physical boundary. We need to go beyond the boundary of the national boundary. It is the sector, stakeholder that carry out the assessment. 
2. The national boundary and the scope. It not about the development of making progress. Socio economic development is also important.
3. The climate is not static. It is dynamic.
4. The necessity to expand the scope into the country. 
5. We must understand what is happening in the country outside the boundary.
6. The regional contribution and coordination among the countries are very important.

Other information can be seen on the link:

https://www.icimod.org/article/understanding-the-chamoli-flood-cause-process-impacts-and-context-of-rapid-infrastructure-development/

https://www.icimod.org/hkh-calltoaction/

14.00-15.30 Status and challenges for linking scientific knowledge to strengthening socio-economic resilience to climate-related disasters 

Arghya Sinha Roy

Kazuaki Takahashi

Peter Noel King

Masaaki Nagamura

The parallel session was moderated by Arghya Sinha Roy. The opening remarks was delivered by Kazuaki Takahashi. The first panelist, Prof. Kazuhiko Takemoto (Visiting Professor at United Nations University) discussed about the action to climate change and disaster. In Japan, most ministers are responsible to the climate change and discuss it in a symposium. The symposium had a dynamic discussion which concluded:

1. The development of science-based tool
2. Enhancing international cooperation
3. Cooperation among stakeholders to address 3 Agendas

The symposium organized the strategy for enhancing the synergy, they are as follows:

• Historical Wisdom
• Pre-disaster reconstruction efforts
• Adaptive Recovery (recovery from disaster)

Dr. Peter Noel King, Senior Policy Advisor at institute for Global Environmental Strategies IGES, showed IGES actions for the integration of Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR):

1. Asia-Pacific Adaptation information Platform (AP-PLAT) for creation of an enabling environment for climate-risk informed decision making and bankable adaptation action
2. IGES will provide the Coordination Office of the Capacity Program under AP-PLAT

Masaaki Nagamura, Fellow General Manager International Initiatives at Tokio Marine and Nichido Fire Insurance Co. Ltd, presented how climate change affects business activities and how weather-related disasters affects insurance payment.

16.15-17.00 Origami Night

The third day of the 7th APAN forum was closed by the instructor of origami Bryony. The participants made a hat and a bird from origami paper.

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