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The Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities (ICSC) joins the Asia-Pacific Climate Week from November 13-17, 2023, at the Johor International Convention Centre in Johor, Malaysia, where policymakers, practitioners, businesses, and civil society representatives will gather to discuss barriers, challenges, and opportunities for climate action in Asia and the Pacific.

ICSC also serves as the co-convenor of the Independent Global Stocktake (iGST) Southeast Asia Hub, a consortium of civil society actors supporting the Global Stocktake (GST) processes of the UNFCCC.

Contact: 

Ira Dominique Guerrero – ira@icsc.ngo, media@icsc.ngo

(All times in Malaysia time, GMT+8)

iGST Affiliated Event:

Engaging Regional Non-State Actors in the Follow-up Period of the First Global Stocktake: Insight from the Independent Global Stocktake

November 15, 9:00-18:00 MYT, Persada Annexe 307

Organized by the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities, ClimateWorks Foundation, Prakriti Resources Centre (PRC), and UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre

This event will discuss the role of the regional non-state actors (NSA) in the GST follow-up processes, identify the gap between the NSA’s own efforts and actual policy, and discuss the conditions necessary to close the gap in the Asia-Pacific region. This affiliated event is a series of sessions to discuss a whole-of-society approach in pursuing collective progress and action to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement, highlighting the complementing roles and responsibilities of countries and NSAs.

Session 1: Integrating the role of NSAs focused on the thematic areas – Adaptation, Finance, and Mitigation

9:30-11:30 MYT (GMT+8)

Panel:

  • Josefina Cobian, Program Manager for Global Intelligence, ClimateWorks Foundation
  • Jingjing Gao, UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre, iGST Adaptation Working Group 
  • Raju Chhetri, Prakriti Resources Centre (PRC), iGST Finance Working Group
  • Wira A. Swadana, Program Manager-Green Economy, Institute for Essential Services Reform (IESR), iGST Southeast Asia Hub

Moderator: Danica Marie Supnet, Interim Director for Climate Policy, Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities (ICSC)

Session 2: Making use of regional collaboration platforms to facilitate regional stocktake

13:00-15:00 MYT (GMT+8)

Panel:

  • Kei Kurushima, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)
  • Sanggeet Mithra Manirajah, Climate Focus 
  • Mozaharul Alam, United Nations Environment Programme
  • Jacqueline Peel, University of Melbourne

Moderator: Yuqin (Ariel) Yu, IGES

Session 3: Building in-country Mechanisms for post-2023 Global Stocktake Processes

15:30-17:00 MYT (GMT+8)

Panel:

  • Jerome Ilagan, Division Chief of the Policy Research and Development, Climate Change Commission, Philippines 
  • Kamisah Mohd Ghazali, Lead for Resilient Environment, Iskandar Regional Development Authority, Federal and State Government of Malaysia
  • Pasang Dolma Sherpa, Executive Director, Center for Indigenous Peoples’ Research and Development (CIPRED), Member of the UNFCCC constituency on Indigenous People’s Organizations (IPO)
  • Mahawan Karuniasa, Chairman, APIKI Indonesia Network, iGST SEA Hub member
  • Danize Marie Lukban, Climate Policy Analyst, ICSC

Moderator: Wira A. Swadana, IESR, Program Manager-Green Economy, iGST Southeast Asia Hub

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Speaking engagements

Bridging the Nexus: Climate Change, Human Mobility, and Human Rights

November 14, 11:30-13:00 MYT, Tanjung Puteri 303

Organized by the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (RWI), Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA), International Organization for Migration (IOM) and Asia Pacific Academic Network on Disaster Displacement (APANDD).

The session aims to gather members of the academe, civil society, UN agencies, along with other stakeholders from the Asia-Pacific region, to tackle the intersections between climate change, human mobility, and human rights. The session falls under Track 4 of the UNFCCC Climate Weeks’ system-based tracks, explicitly referring to societies, health, livelihoods, and economies. (Visit the APCW event page for more information about the respective tracks)

The session will feature a panel discussion, with the following speakers:

  • William Gois, Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA)
  • Danang Aditya Nizar, Raoul Wallenberg Institute (RWI)
  • Danica Marie Supnet, ICSC (for APANDD)
  • Chris Richter, International Organization for Migration

Investing in Justice: Bridging the Climate Finance Gap for Vulnerable Groups

November 17, 9:00-10:00 MYT, Tanjung Puteri 304

Organized by The Foundation for Humanism and Social Innovation and Climate Action Network Southeast Asia

The session aims to explore multiple perspectives from different stakeholders to ensure that climate finance reaches local communities and that the transition in all aspects of climate issues, specifically adaptation, mitigation, and loss and damage, will be just. The event falls under Track 4 of the UNFCCC Climate Weeks’ system-based tracks, explicitly referring to societies, health, livelihoods, and economies. (Visit the APCW event page for more information about the respective tracks)

The session will include a panel discussion with the following speakers:

  • Yudo Dwinanda, Director, General Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, Indonesia
  • Maria Fernanda Lay, President of National Parliament, Timor Leste
  • Danica Marie Supnet, Interim Director for Climate Policy, Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities, Philippines
  • Farah Sofa, Regional Ford Foundation
  • Sandra Winarsa, Program Development Manager, Climate Justice, Yayasan Humanis dan Inovasi Sosial (Hivos), Indonesia
  • Raju Pandit Chhetri, Executive Director of Prakriti Resources Centre (PRC), Nepal