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Development and Climate Days at COP 17

3-4 December 2011 | Durban, South Africa

Highlights from Sunday, 4 December 2011
Development and Climate days at COP17 Development and Climate Days at COP 17 opened its second and final day on Sunday morning, 4 December 2011. Participants first participated in networking brunch, then met in four sessions. The first session examined information needs and use in different approaches to adaptation, with a stress on ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) and community-based adaptation (CBA). The second session looked at the realities and politics of adaptive decision-making, which included discussions about the role of parliamentarians in adaptation planning. A third session focused on adaptive decision-making in cities, and included a discussion of the Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN) and a look at how Durban conducts adaptive decision-making.

The fourth and closing session consisted of a high-level panel on “Drawing Lessons for National Adaptation Planning,” which tried to address how the two days of discussion about adaptation practice may feed into the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) processes. Panellists included the Chair of the Least Developed Countries Group, top climate officials for Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan, the head of the Climate Change, Biodiversity and Development Division of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and the Director of the Office for Climate Change of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).

The day’s formal proceedings ended at 6:36 pm, after which participants watched the finalists of a film competition sponsored by the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN).

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Room view of “Development and Climate Days at COP 17”


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Session 1: Information Needs and Use in Different Approaches to Adaptation

(L-R): Saleemul Huq, IIED; Hannah Reid, IIED/ELAN; Farah Kabir, Action Aid Bangladesh; Ruth Mitei, CARE Adaptation Learning Programme; Dyborn Chibonga, Malawi

Saleemul Huq, IIED
Ruth Mitei, CARE Adaptation Learning Programme
Farah Kabir, Action Aid Bangladesh

Hannah Reid, IIED/ELAN
Dyborn Chibonga, Malawi
Jessica Ayers, IIED

Rachel Berger, Practical Action
Kinyangi Kevin Kinusu, Pan African Climate Justice Alliance

Nancy Omolo, Rockefeller Foundation
A. Atiq Rahman, Executive Director, Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies
Haresh Bhojwani, Columbia University

Session 2: Realities and Politics of Adaptive Decision-Making

(L-R): Ced Heese, IIED; Achala Chandari, IIED; David Ebong; Nanki Kaur, IIED; Golam Rabbani, BCAS

Ced Heese, IIED
Achala Chandari, IIED
Golam Rabbani, BCAS
David Ebong, Chair, Commonwealth Parliamentary Forum for African Parliamentarians

Jane Mashonganyika, small-scale farmer, Zimbabwe
Nanki Kaur, IIED

Related Links
International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) resources
*Meeting website
*Meeting programme
*Workshop: Making REDD+ deliver for everyone
*Film competition

UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) resources
*Durban Climate Change Conference - November 2011 website
*Durban Climate Change Conference - November 2011 documents
*Durban Climate Change Conference - November 2011 overview schedule
*Durban Climate Change Conference - November 2011 daily Programme
*Durban Climate Change Conference - November 2011 agenda and documents for the Seventeenth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 17)
*Durban Climate Change Conference - November 2011 agenda and documents for the seventh session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parites to the Kyoto Protocol (COP/MOP 7)
*Durban Climate Change Conference - November 2011 agenda and documents for the Thirty-fifth session of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA 35)
*Durban Climate Change Conference - November 2011 agenda and documents for the Thirty-fifth session of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI 35)
*Durban Climate Change Conference - November 2011 agenda and documents for the Resumed fourteenth session of the Ad hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA)
*Durban Climate Change Conference - November 2011 agenda and documents for the Resumed sixteenth session of the Ad hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP)
*Meetings archive

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