Climate risks lie in the occurrence of natural disasters and cross-country trades of goods such as medical and food supplies. Photo: urf / Getty Images.
Through a series of engaging short talks, this roundtable will showcase stories and case studies of cross-border climate risks from regions around the world – cutting through their complexity and revealing their impacts in real terms – and distill the policy implications for national, regional and global actors. Interventions will demonstrate how a step-change in regional and global cooperation on adaptation could better manage the impacts of these risks on our economies, environments and societies and maximise the co-benefits shared adaptation action could bring. Through a fast-paced and solutions-focused session, we’ll discuss the critical bottlenecks that are holding back progress to strengthen global resilience to these sorts of risks, and the solutions we need to implement across scales.
Agenda
- Welcome – Owen Grafham, Chatham House
- Introduction to cascading climate risk and adaptation without borders – Katy Harris, Adaptation Without Borders
- Stories and case studies of cross-border climate risks from AwB partner organisations around the world:
- Kenya’s reliance on pharmaceutical imports from India – Tabby Njung’e, Justdiggit Foundation
- Jamaica’s dependence on US maize imports – Magnus Benzie, SEI
- Nepal’s exposure to glacial lakes outburst floods (GLOF) originating in Tibet – Arun Shrestha, ICIMOD
- Transhumance and regional natural resource management in West Africa – Sarah Opitz Stapleton, ODI
- Climate risks in Tunisia – challenges to adaptation in the agri-food system and implications for Europe – Hanne Knaepen, ECDPM
- Audience discussion: How can countries come together to address these issues?
- Final remarks on the critical bottlenecks that are holding back progress to strengthen global resilience to these sorts of risks, and the solutions we need to implement across scales – Owen Grafham, Chatham House
