Key implications for LAC of the IPCC Working Group II Report: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability

Name: Key implications for LAC of the IPCC Working Group II Report: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
Start: 2022-03-04
End: 2022-03-04

4 March 2022

Overview

Agenda

Date: March 4

Time: 11:00 (GMT-5)

Broadcast in English on the YouTube channel.

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), in partnership with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), is holding an outreach session on the main aspects of the IPCC Working Group II Report and the implications for Latin America and the Caribbean, reflecting the importance of urgent and immediate action to address climate risks.

The session will include the participation of regional authors of the report Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability so that the main implications derived from the document can be explained. The event is part of a series of sessions on the Working Group II Report, in which the impacts on key sub-regions and sectors will be discussed in depth.

Hosts

Carlos Méndez, Vice-Chair Working Group II Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, IPCC. General Coordinator of the Regional Center for the Study and Use of Savannahs (CREAS).

Gustavo Máñez, Climate Change Coordinator for Latin America & the Caribbean, UNEP

Piedad Martin, Deputy Regional Director for Latin America & the Caribbean, UNEP

Guests

Debora Ley, Lead author IPCC Sixth Assessment Report. Economic Affairs Officer, Energy and Natural Resources at UN ECLAC.

Edwin Castellanos, Coordinating lead author Central and South America Chapter, IPCC Assessment Report. Sustainable Economic Observatory Director at Universidad del Valle de Guatemala. Member of the IAI Scientific Advisory Committee.

Michelle Mycoo, Coordinating Lead Author Small Islands chapter, Working Group II, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Professor of Urban and Regional Planning in the Department of Geomatics Engineering and Land Management at the University of The West Indies. 

Carlos Méndez, Vice-Chair Working Group II Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, IPCC. General Coordinator of the Regional Center for the Study and Use of Savannahs (CREAS).

Opening Remarks

Carlos Mendez, Vice-Chair Working Group II Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, IPCC. General Coordinator of the Regional Center for the Study and Use of Savannahs (CREAS).

Gustavo Máñez, Climate Change Coordinator for Latin America & the Caribbean, UNEP

Round Table

Why it is relevant to have a regional scope over adaptation?

What are the Cross sectoral, intra-regional, and inter-regional issues including consideration of temporal scale?

Guest: Debora Ley, Lead author, IPCC Sixth Assessment Report. Economic Affairs Officer, Energy and Natural Resources at UN ECLAC.

Round Table

Central America has high exposure to droughts, what adaptation options are there? including opportunities, enablers, limits, barriers, adaptive capacity, and finances.

How should local communities adapt to variabilities in Central America?

Guest: Edwin Castellanos, Coordinating Lead Author Central and South America Chapter, IPCC Assessment Report Sustainable Economic Observatory Director at Universidad del Valle de Guatemala. Member of the IAI Scientific Advisory Committee

Round Table

Small Islands are commonly labeled as the “hot-spots” of climate change, may you tell us the risk suffered by them?

What are key adaptation challenges of the Caribbean islands?

Guest: Michelle Mycoo, Coordinating Lead Author Small Islands chapter, Working Group II, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Professor of Urban and Regional Planning in the Department of Geomatics Engineering and Land Management at the University of The West Indies.

Round Table

Given the heterogeneity of data, it is possible to have a coordinated adaptation regional plans?

The population in the region is increasingly concentrating in cities, what are the main adaptation strategies for urban areas?

Guest: Carlos Mendéz, Vice-Chair Working Group II Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, IPCC. General Coordinator of the Regional Center for the Study and Use of Savannahs (CREAS).

Q&A

Closing: Piedad Martin, Deputy Regional Director for Latin America & the Caribbean, UNEP