The Ultimate Directory on Climate Change Webinars

Join us online for an insightful session with SFU's Jonathan Moore, where we'll explore how climate change impacts salmon watersheds.

Access to climate finance is essential for a just and peaceful transition. Of countries most vulnerable to climate change, more than half are also impacted by conflict. Research shows that a very small percentage of climate finance are reaching those conflict affected and fragile states. Even within fragile states, climate finance is more likely to be spent in less fragile areas and often does not reach marginalised groups. Climate finance offers opportunities to increase resilience, reverse environmental decline and build peace. However for climate finance to support peace, it must be sufficient, reach fragile and conflict-affected states and fund projects that are conflict-sensitive and peace-positive. At the moment, it does not. Barriers such as donor risk appetite, state capacity, project compliance and bureaucratic process hinder progress in this space. While there is an increasing awareness within multilateral development banks, climate funds and national governments of these challenges, they are often approached as novel. Yet much can be learnt from the experience of the peacebuilding and development community about managing risk and designing and implementing projects in fragile settings. This panel seeks to discuss what climate funds can learn from development and peacebuilding communities as well as how they can better work together in conflict and fragile affected states to deliver effective climate finance. Speakers: - Diane Myriam A Sheinberg, Peacebuilding Fund Programme Manager, UN- Chris Hodder, Climate Security and Environmental Advisor to Somalia, UNSOM- Karen Meijer, Senior Researcher, Climate Change and Risk Programme, SIPRI- Dethie S. Ndiaye, Country Representative, Burkina Faso Country Office/ Représentant-Résident, Bureau Burkina Faso - Global Green Planning & Implementation – GGP&I- Pia van Ackern, Policy Officer Climate, Peace and Security - German MFA Moderator: Claire McAllister, SIPRIThis webinar is an installment in the series, The Peace Piece: Primers for Peace at COP28, an online briefing series designed to inform policymakers, researchers, and practitioners about opportunities for peace at COP28. To learn more and view the full series, please visit: https://www.ecosystemforpeace.org/cop28.Thursday 16 November14:00-15:00 CETZoomRegistered attendees will receive a zoom link via calendar invitation in advance of the meeting. Please email [email protected] with any questions or concerns.

Ever felt the struggle of finding the delicate balance between effectively communicating about sensitive or loaded topics while maintaining a nuanced approach? In this webinar, Liesbeth Aerts (Infopunt Proefdieronderzoek, Information Point on Animal Research) and Matthias Meersschaert (Belgian Climate Centre) will share their expertise and experience in effectively communicating about delicate subject like climate change or the use of animals in research. Through an interactive discussion, they will explore the pressures and hesitations scientists face in communicating effectively about similar delicate topics, identify common communication pitfalls, and share strategies to overcome these challenges and enhance engagement!

This webinar addresses challenging societal issues such as climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution, health and social inequities. The focus is on integrative research approaches that minimize trade-offs and find synergies to ensure a safer, fairer and healthier world. It highlights experiences from a range of integrative projects, profiling barriers, enablers, benefits and challenges of designing integrative research for policy and practice. Speakers: Donald Warne, Alastair Brown, Margot W. Parkes, Adetoun Mustapha, Ramon Lorenzo Luis Rosa Guinto, Anna Stewart Ibarra, Manushi Sharma