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MPGCA SDG Roundtable: Climate action, life below water and on land-linkages with human activities

Published in COP25 by UNFCCC on 09.12.2019 at 09:30

Type
Global Climate Action
Location
Action Room San Pedro de Atacama
Organizer
MPGCA

1. Opening remarks

MC/Moderator: Birgitta Liss Lymer, Director, SIWI, lead on the Action Platform for Sourceto‐Sea Management


2. Scene Setting


2.1. Science: current knowledge on the impacts and solutions on Land and Ocean and projections towards 2050.

  • Thelma Krug, Vice Chair, IPCC


2.2. Action: progress of cross‐sectoral collaboration of Marrakech Partnership achieved so far and ways forward on ecosystem‐based approaches and nature‐based solutions towards just transition and resiliency

  • Jean Pierre Elong Mbassi, Secretary General, United Cities and Local Government Africa
  • Isabel Torres de Noronha, Future Ocean Alliance


3. Roundtable discussion: how ecosystem‐based approaches and nature‐based solutions can deliver climate action and build social, economic, and environmental resilience.


3.1 Ice‐breaker talk

  • David Suzuki, Co‐Founder, David Suzuki Foundation


3.2. Panelists

  • Belize
  • UK
  • Cyrie Sendashonga, Global Director, Policy and Programme Group, IUCN
  • Sarah Toumi, Founder and CEO, Acacias for All
  • Jan Brooke, Coordinator, Navigating a Changing Climate
  • Eva Zabey, Executive Director, Business for Nature


3.3. Questions and Answers


4. Take‐away messages by the moderator


Closing remarks by Gonzalo Muñoz, High-Level Champion, Chile


Group Photo