Adaptation without borders: strengthening cooperation to manage cross-border climate risks

Summary

In our globalised world, the impacts of climate change in one place can create risks in another. As the EU strategy on adaptation makes clear, these impacts “have knock-on effects across borders and continents… even local climate impacts have regional or global repercussions”. This event will explore the implications of cross-border risks for adaptation planning at national, regional and global scales, calling for cross-country engagement and exchanges on adaptation to international climate risks.

Thishybridevent will take place on Wednesday9 November, 11:00-12:00 local time (GMT+2) at the EU Pavilion. You can participate on site at COP27 or participate online.

You can register for the event to participate in-personor online on the EU side events at COP27 page (log in top right).

Speakers

This event will feature the following panellists:

• Katy Harris, Director of Adaptation Without Borders and Senior Policy Fellow, SEI
• Peter Bentley, Adaptation and Resilience Team Lead, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK
• Chris Kiptoo, Principal Secretary, Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Kenya
• Anne Hammill, Director, NAP Global Network
• Estherine Fotabong, Head of Programme Implementation and Coordination Directorate, African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD)

• Tim Benton, Research Director (Emerging Risks) at Chatham House, representing the EU H2020 project CASCADES (Cascading climate risks: towards adaptive and resilient European societies)