Event

How to foster “just adaptation”

Name: How to foster “just adaptation”
Start: 2023-09-27 11:00:00
End: 2023-09-27 12:30:00

Join us for an online, interactive webinar examining best practices to create and scale up just resilience in the face of a changing climate.

27 September 2023 at 11:00 BST

ending at 12:30 BST

Event contact

Karen Brandon / karen.brandon@sei.org

African child hands planting vegetables in soil — Photo: Sunshine Seeds / Getty Images.

Climate change puts hundreds of millions of people at risk. Life’s basics – such as water access, food security, and the ability to earn a living – are threatened in many parts of the world. Extreme climate events and disasters are becoming more frequent worldwide. And while climate change affects us all, it poses the greatest threats to populations and communities that are the least equipped to cope.  

How can the world ensure that “just resilience” emerges at this time of escalating risk? What are the hallmarks of measures that can help the most vulnerable groups and ensure that their voices are heard? How can sharing and learning from adaptation successes and failures help support the change needed? 

Please join weADAPT as we embark on a new era of knowledge sharing by hosting this timely session that will probe issues at the forefront of the adaptation agenda. The event is intended to inform thinking about agendas for the Global Goal on Adaptation, National Adaptation Plans, the upcoming Adaptation Futures Conference, and upcoming UN Climate Conference (COP28) in Dubai. 

Experts working at the frontier of climate change adaptation practice and research from around the world will discuss key issues and take your questions. Participants include:

Srilata Kammila, Head of Climate Change Adaptation, UN Development Programme 
Pirawan Wongnithisathaporn, Environment Programme Officer, Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP)  
Dhesigen Naidoo, Head of Adaptation for the South African Presidential Climate Commission 
Frida Lager, Research Associate at SEI and with the Adaptation Without Borders partnership
Sukaina Bharwani, Senior Research Fellow at SEI and a Founder of SEI’s online adaptation platform and community, weADAPT

These participants will provide insights from their experiences to help inform and enhance climate change adaptation efforts worldwide. There will be time for you to ask questions and for participants to offer answers.