Regional Resilience Hubs Day: Amplifying local voices in the run up to COP28

The agenda will comprise of a general introduction to the Resilience hub and the Regional Resilience Hubs. It will then provide space for the different regional stakeholders to highlight 3-5 main messages emerging from each region’s engagement this year in the context of the Regional Resilience Hubs. These messages will be connected to ongoing discussions that will be part of UNFCCC COP28 such as: The Global Goal on Adaptation, the Stocktake process or the Loss & Damage fund, among others. It will allow the Race to Resilience Campaign to acknowledge these messages and the role of Non Party Stakeholders engagement in the run up to COP28 and the increase in ambition of crucial adaptation outcomes . The session will also serve as a way to announce the start of the Resilience Hub at COP28.
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COP28: Exploring key negotiation topics and messages from civil society

This event will have the presence of Dr. Pilar Bueno, an expert in negotiation, who will address key negotiation topics such as the Loss and Damage Fund and the Global Adaptation Goal, potential key entry points, and messages from civil society.
Join us for an interactive discussion that will help us build a common understanding and strengthen our ability to collectively advocate for ambitious and meaningful progress at COP28. Interpretation will be available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Bahasa Indonesia.»
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Opening session of the Resilience Hub

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Accelerating Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs) access to inclusive and appropriate finance to empower action at the local level.

Event Description: Discussing accelerating access to appropriate and inclusive climate finance for IPLCs.

Accelerating access to appropriate and inclusive climate finance is pivotal to empower transformative climate action at the local level. IPLCs play a crucial role in implementing mitigation and adaptation measures. However, constraints to access funds and appropriate sources of climate finance remain as critical bottlenecks for unlocking resources for local solutions. This event will unpack approaches to contextualize financial and climate language and information, to facilitate predictable, flexible and easily accessible finance for locally-led adaptation (LLA). The event will also explore the importance of democratizing access to climate finance and practical actions for addressing the challenges faced by IPLCs

Reflecting on the Regional Resilience Hubs: What does meaningful and authentic amplification of local voices looks like?

The session will generate space for a critical discussion on what meaningful and authentic amplification of local voices looks like in practice, drawing upon and reflecting on the three years that the regional resilience hubs have been running. Local level voices from across the respective regions, as well as intermediaries, donors and support partners will be invited to discuss the topic.
The session will open up with a keynote message from the minister of environment from Egypt and will be followed by a the launch of two initiatives: i) The 2nd iteration of stories of resilience, lessons from local practitioners from GCA and ii) the launch of an event on scaling up Locally Led Adaptation in Bangladesh. Both interventions will touch upon the opportunity of these initiatives to amplify local voices and highlight potential enablers of further impact of these initiatives in global policy contexts.
These interventions will be followed by a discussion structured to allow local level voices to share their perspectives on what it means for them to engage in global discussions and events, and how best they can be supported to amplify their own voices and influence global discourse on ambitious, inclusive and transformative adaptation and resilience action at the local level. The discussion will also include insights on how to allow local voices to effectively be considered in negotiation and decision-making processes across scales and will aim to identify ‘determinants of meaningful participation’.
As the RegHubs play an important role in amplifying lesser heard voices and underrepresented constituencies from across the respective regions, this event is well situated to allow each RegHub to share key learnings and lend space for local level voices to speak directly to the topic.

Women for Climate Justice: Intergenerational Dialogues between Young Activists and Women’s Leaders in Spaces of Power

If women are the main ones impacted by the effects of climate change, they are also the bearers of solutions to face this problem. In light of this, the panel seeks to connect and value the political work of women of different generations in building paths to the climate crisis. How has the political action of women of different generations made a difference in tackling climate change?

Advancing global climate action: key messages from Gloabl South philanthropy

The session will bring together foundations rooted and/or working in the global South with the aim of co-creating a shared vision among foundations working in the Global South on strategies that contribute to accelerating climate action with justice and equity as well as to map and align actions that other foundations are currently undertaking and planning in the areas identified as crucial for the Global South.

Global Goal on Adaptation: How to bridge the gap between the global process and local progress?

Event Description: This event focuses on the discussion of bridging the gap between global adaptation goals for climate change and local achievements. While the importance of the participation of all parties and stakeholders worldwide is uncontested, the definition of global goals and measuring local achievements remains a challenge. The event is an official side event of the UNFCCC led by Helvetas and the Government of Ecuador, with the participation of the Andes Resilientes project.

Hybrid event.

Climate Justice and Democratic Decision Making at COP: Challenges and Opportunities

In this event, we will have the opportunity to hear from representatives of traditional and indigenous communities, young people, and women from civil society, as they share their experiences and lessons to foster the engagement of local actors in decision-making spaces. Their insights will be invaluable in addressing the barriers and encouraging broader and more inclusive participation.

Empowering the Vulnerable: Evaluating Locally Led Adaptation for Climate Finance Accountability in Least Developed Countries – Lessons learned on implementing scorecards for LLAP

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Brazil towards COP30: indigenous and local community protagonism in tackling the climate crisis.

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How do we create a viable pathway for climate finance that benefits young people from traditional communities?.

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We Are Green Finance, We Are The Solution

This event will be hosted by CAF as an open dialogue with international financial institutions,investment fund as and green funds to highlight their role in Latin America and the Caribbeanand analyse the impact of their requirements in the region. The dialogue will focus onopportunities for scaling-up resources and collaboration among the funds and regional entities.

Capacity-building day – South-South Capacities Day.

The session aims to build on the potential of south-south collaboration and assess opportunities to pave more effective and target-oriented processes on capacity-building for transformative climate action for youth. The session will build on workshops and conversations held at African and Latin America Climate Week, culminating in this public session to share perspectives and lessons learned from southern-led capacity-building initiatives and propose innovative ideas to bring south-south cooperation on capacity-building for climate action at scale.

Stakeholder Mapping: Launch of the Nature Accountability Map

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Triangular Cooperation for change: building bridges and capacities in the global south 

The main goal of the event is to understand new opportunities and ways to enhance international support for capacity-building initiatives at all levels, especially by strengthening the cooperation with IDRC, and designing strategies to move forward and ensure that capacity-building reaches the next level, by fostering international cooperation.

Water regulation and conservation: connecting Andean experiences in Ecuador and Peru

This event will share the initiatives undertaken in Ecuador and Peru to conserve and regulate water in mountain ecosystems, addressing changes in water availability caused by climate change that impact both human activities and the environment. Emphasizing lessons learned and contributions to global processes.
Activity in Spanish.

Gender just climate transitions: global perspectives on the implications for land rights and the care economy

Perspectives on the just transition regarding the care economy.

Regenerative and nature-positive agriculture as an avenue to build climate resilient food systems

The session will provide a comprehensive view of regenerative food systems that can address global food security, resilience, and climate change mitigation. It will introduce systemic approaches to transform food value chains and showcase the launch of an alliance committed to sustainable rice production, demonstrating scalable actions. A focus on translating regenerative practices into actionable investments with scientific backing and supportive policies will be followed by examples of successful indigenous knowledge at various scales, emphasizing their potential for wider adoption. Finally, an open discussion will explore the path forward for scaling regenerative agriculture to build climate-resilient food systems.

Event: ‘Unholly Alliances’: Fostering multi stakeholder coalitions for food system transformations

This session will aim to bring along critical actors within the food value chain to discuss how to achieve coalitions for transformative and resilient food system change amid stakeholders who may traditionally not be able or choose not to come together, into unholy alliances. The round table will allow the participants to exchange experiences, challenges and lessons learned in the food sector on the importance and difficulties of generating partnerships between academia, public, private, and third sectors, to scale-up transformations in the food systems.

Hybrid event.

Taking forward locally led action on climate and nature – Building partnerships, delivering change

This event will bring existing and new partners together, to share experience, unpack critical issues which may enable or stop locally led action, and hold each other accountable for action. It will be an interactive session with opportunity for audience participation and will link to other LLA events to be held across the two weeks of COP28.

The Philanthropic Engagement and Advocacy Learning Initiative will provide a platform for philanthropic organizations based in the global South and/or advocating for entities from this region to expand their influence on the global climate agenda and drive meaningful change through strategic collaboration, informed decision making, and collective advocacy efforts.

The Resilience Hub is the main pavilion for climate resilience and adaptation at COP, the Hub aims to drive the conversation and agenda around resilience and place locally-informed, equitable resilience solutions for people and nature at the heart of the COP process. It also aims to amplify the local voices of the most vulnerable and climate affected.

Avina plays an important role as managing partner of the Resilience Hub and leads the Latin America & Caribbean Regional Resilience Hub.

Together, We are delivering a programme of in-person and virtual engagements to bring the local voice to the global platform from May to November 2023.

To know more about LAC Regional Resilience Hub access here.

Whether you are attending COP online or in-person, the platform allows you to follow sessions, interact with attendees and learn all about the Hub, including the regional hubs which have been taking place around the world in the run-up to #COP28.

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