Moving from ‘Form to Function’ for Strengthening Climate Policy and Governance in Economic Sectors
Day 1 (8 March 2021) - 7th Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum
Stream: Economic Sector Resilience
Enabler: Policy and Climate Governance
Lead organiser: Government of Maldives
Session Title: Moving from ‘Form to Function’ for Strengthening Climate Policy and Governance in Economic Sectors
Climate governance is critical for providing a shared decision-making environment for resilient economic development – across all sectors, stakeholders and levels. This session will discuss progress and identify priorities for strengthening governance including strengthening delivery systems, embedding uncertainty in decision-making and adopting metrics to support resilient economic development from global to local grassroots level.
Key messages:
• It will be critical to develop and operationalize system-wide, cross-sector and multi-scalar resilience solutions in key economic sectors, such as agriculture, fisheries, tourism, forestry, trade and industry, that adopt holistic approaches for strengthening resilience through improved policies, legal frameworks, institutional set-up, multi-stakeholder coordination mechanism and resource allocation.
• Tools, approaches and systems are needed to measure the outcome of resilience actions in economic sectors with a special focus on their equity and sustainability.
• It will be important to provide incentivizes for resilience actions as part of COVID-19 recovery of economic sector to ensure policies, assets and institutions being created as part of the recovery are resilient to future shocks and stresses and support countries and the region pursue climate resilient development.
Keynote :
Ahmed Waheed - Director, Climate Change Department, Ministry of Environment, Maldives
Moderator:
Cristina Rumbaitis del Rio - Action Track Co Manager, Global Commission on Adaptation
World Resources Institute (WRI)
Presenters:
Stefan Kohler - Senior Infrastructure, Resilience and Project Management Advisor, United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), Bangladesh
Nanki Kaur - Regional Programme Manager, Adaptation and Resilience Building, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)
Shailaja Narwade - Grassroots Leader, Farmer and Entrepreneur, Swayam Shikshan Prayog (SSP)
Neha Rai - Climate finance and M&E specialist, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Panellists:
Aslam Perwaiz - Deputy Executive Director, Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC)
Andreas Hofmann - Project Manager Tourism for Sustainable Development Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)