Morning Plenary (8:30-10:00)
Human Interactions with Climate
Chair: Heide Hackman (Director of Future Africa and Strategic Advisor on Transdisciplinarity and Global Knowledge Networks at the University of Pretoria, South Africa)
- Tasneem Essop (Executive Director, Climate Action Network - International) - Remotely: How to deal with climate extremes, especially in terms of inequality and climate injustice
- Saleemul Huq (Director International Centre for Climate Change and Development, Independent University Bangladesh) - Remotely: Attribution of climate change, especially in the Global South and in support of Loss and Damage (Title to be confirmed)
- Aromar Revi (Director, Indian Institute for Human Settlements - IIHS) (Title to be confirmed)
Panel discussion: Human Interactions with Climate - a dialogue covering behavioral, social, economic and political dimensions
Moderator: Mercedes Bustamante (Professor, University of Brasilia and Coordination of the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel, Brazilian Ministry of Education)
Panelists
- Laurice Jamero (Climate Change, Adaptation and Resilience Expert - Klima Laboratory, Manila Observatory and Asia Foundation Development Fellow)
- Anna Stewart Ibarra (Executive Director, Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research - IAI) - Remotely
- Ousmane Ndiaye (Director of Meteorology of the Senegal National Agency for Civil Aviation and Meteorology - ANACIM) - Remotely
- Flavien Joubert (Minister for Agriculture, Climate Change and Environment of Seychelles) - Remotely
Evening Dialogue (18:00-18:45)
Perspectives of Transformational Challenges - Examples from the Global South
Chair: Maria Ivanova (Director of the School of Public Policy and urban Affairs; Professor of Public Policy)
- Maxwell Gomera (UNDP representative of Rwanda)
- Abou Amani (Director, Intergovernmental Hydrological Program) - Remotely
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