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URL:https://www.adaptation-fund.org/event/adaptation-to-climate-change-pol
 icy-challenges-and-private-initiatives-ahead-of-the-paris-climate-summit/
SUMMARY:Adaptation to Climate Change: Policy Challenges and Private Initiat
 ives ahead of the Paris Climate Summit
DESCRIPTION:The French Embassy in Sweden and the Stockholm Environment Inst
 itute invite you to a high-level event dedicated to economic and political
  dimensions of adaptation to climate change. The purpose of the event is t
 o initiate a dialogue with a broad set of public and\, in particular\, pri
 vate stakeholders on adaptation needs and opportunities.\n\nHigh-profile s
 peakers and panellists will also explore the ‘Agenda for Solutions’\, 
 including the role of French and Swedish companies in promoting adaptation
  to climate change in developed and developing countries\, and the financi
 ng dimension of adaptation to climate change.\n\nAgenda:\n\n8:30-9:00 Coff
 ee and registration\n\n9:00-9:30 Opening speech: On the road to Paris 2015
  Climate Conference\nAmbassador Jacques Lapouge and SEI Executive Director
  Johan L. Kuylenstierna\n\n9:30-10:40 First roundtable: The importance of 
 climate change adaptation and its significance in the climate negotiations
 \nKeynote speech by Laurence Tubiana\, French Ambassador for Climate Chang
 e Negotiations\nRoundtable panellists: Anna Lindstedt\, Swedish Ambassador
  for Climate Change • Youssef Nassef\, Coordinator Adaptation\, UNFCCC S
 ecretariat • Youba Sokona\, South Centre\, Former Coordinator of the Afr
 ican Climate Policy Centre • Paul McAleavey\, Head of Air and Climate Ch
 ange\, European Environment Agency\n\n10.40-11:05 Coffee break\n\n11:05-11
 :10 Film: Adaptation without borders\nSEI researchers Adam John and Magnus
  Benzie travel through Senegal to explore how the country is planning to a
 chieve food security in the face of climate change impacts both at home an
 d abroad.\n\n11:10-12:10 Second roundtable: Towards an agenda for solution
 s\nKeynote speech by Jens Henriksson\, CEO and President\, Folksam\nRoundt
 able panellists: Marc Nezet\, Country President\, Schneider Electric Swede
 n • Matilda Gennvi Gustafsson\, Sustainability Director\, Ericsson • M
 arcus Karlsson\, Head of Public Affairs\, Michelin Nordic\n\n12:10-13:10 T
 hird roundtable: How to finance adaptation to climate change?\nKeynote spe
 ech by Marcia Levaggi\, Manager of the Secretariat of the Adaptation Fund 
 Board\nRoundtable panellists: Charlotte Petri Gornitzka\, Director General
 \, Sida • Sasja Beslik\, Head of Responsible Investment and Governance\,
  Nordea • Mathilde Girard\, CFA\, Sustainable Banking\, Crédit Agricole
  CIB • Juan Hoffmaister\, Co-Chair\, UN Adaptation Committee\n\nEach rou
 ndtable concludes with a Q&amp\;A with the audience.\n\n13:10-13:15 Closin
 g remarks\nSEI and the French Embassy\n\n13:15 Lunch and mingle\n\nThis ev
 ent will be followed\, at 2 pm\, by the Gordon Goodman Memorial Lecture 20
 15\, given by Ambassador Laurence Tubiana\, at the Royal Swedish Academy o
 f Sciences (registration required).
CATEGORIES:Global Events
LOCATION:Stockholm\, Sweden\, Grev Turegatan 16\, 114 46 Stockholm\, Sweden
 \, Stockholm\, Sweden\, 114 46\, Stockholms län\, Sweden
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