Adaptation Fund Innovation Days - Day 1

Adaptation Fund Innovation Days – Day 1

October 3, Tuesday / Room 520F, Montreal Convention Centre

13:30 – 14:30 Session 1. Innovation in adaptation- What is it?

Session #1 Highlights:

Session Recording available here.

A dynamic session curated by the Adaptation Fund to discuss a global vision for innovation in service of adaptation to climate change. The session will offer a variety of perspectives explored by a panel of thought leaders on the questions of:

What is innovation in context of adaptation?
Why must we innovate?
In the context of adaptation, where does innovation come from?
At what scale does innovation in adaptation happen?
Where should more focus and support go?
Whose responsibility is it?

The session consists of a speaker introduction round, followed by facilitated discussion amongst the panel in response to the key questions. Alternative viewpoints will be explored and the essence of innovation in adaptation unpicked.

Speakers

Mikko Ollikainen, Director, Adaptation Fund
Alain Bourque, Executive director, Ouranos
Bernhard Kowatsch, Director innovation accelerator, WFP
Alois Mhlanga, Climate Technologies Innovation Unit, UNIDO
Saleemul Huq, Director, International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD)
Christa Joy Burton, Dept of Environment, Antigua & Barbuda
Marianella Feoli, Executive Director, Fundecooperacion for Sustainable Development, Costa Rica
Jean Lemire, Ministry of International Relations and Francophonie of the Government of Quebec
Adaptation Fund hosts: Saliha Dobardzic, Marcus Johannesson
Facilitation: Eleanor Saunders

14:30 – 15:30 Session 2. Innovation in adaptation- What does it look like?

Session #2 Highlights:

Session Recording available here.

An inspiring session on real world applications of innovation in adaptation. Organizations on the cutting edge of adaptation projects describe what innovation on the ground looks like. In this interactive session audience participation is encouraged as speakers are placed around the room to facilitate group conversations.

Questions to be explore are:

What are some of the best examples to-date?
What are the main challenges and/or opportunities?
What could innovation actors (financiers, policy-makers, private sector, etc.) do better to support adaptation?
Learning from experience: how can we better leverage failure?

Highlights from the in-room discussions will be brought to the stage by the speakers to highlight key ideas and thought-provoking comments. The session will culminate with a lightening round of speaker’s best examples of innovation in adaptation to date.

Speakers

Rafael Moser, Programme Specialist, UNCDF
Elfatih Eltahir, MIT
Shaun Ogilvie, Ngāi Tahu Research Centre
Katherine Bocanegra, Prakriti Resources Centre
John Reid, Ngāi Tahu Research Centre
Annie Huang, Ngāi Tahu Research Centre
Tui Warmenhoven, He Oranga mō ngā Uri Tuku Iho Trust
Emily Campbell, GNS Science
Tamara Alefaio Greenstone, Micronesia Conservation Trust (MCT)
Christa Joy Burton, Dept of Environment, Antigua & Barbuda
Pedro Zuccarini, IDDI, Dominican Republic
Laode Syarif, Executive director, Kemitraan, Indonesia
Phuntsho Choden, Program Officer at Bhutan Trust Fund for Environmental Conservation
Marco Ibarra, Program Manager, Agencia chilena de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo, Chile
Marianella Feoli, Executive Director, Fundecooperacion for Sustainable Development, Costa Rica
Adaptation Fund hosts: Saliha Dobardzic, Marcus Johannesson
Facilitation: Eleanor Saunders