Strengthen Early Warning System,
Enhance Climate Change Adaptation Capacity

This event will share and demonstrate China’s adaptation to climate change, as well as successful cases and experiences in global disaster prevention and mitigation and meteorological services of the “Belt and Road” initiative

Event description

The event is hosted by the Department of Climate Change of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment and the Department of Science and Technology and Climate Change of the China Meteorological Administration, and organized by the National Center for Climate Change Strategy Research and International Cooperation, the World Meteorological Organization, the Asian Development Bank, and the Global Center on Adaptation. In combination with the United Nations Action Plan for Early Warning for All, representatives of the government, international organizations, universities, research institutions, media and other representatives are invited to attend the meeting to share and demonstrate China’s adaptation to climate change, as well as successful cases and experiences in global disaster prevention and mitigation and meteorological services of the “Belt and Road” initiative.

Program

8:30-9:00 Video on “Early Warning, Early Action”

Opening Remarks
Host: Xia Yingxian, Director General of the Climate Change Department of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, PRC
9:00-9:30

• Zhao Yingmin, Deputy Minister, MEE, PRC
• Bi Baogui, Deputy Administrator, China Meteorological Administration (CMA)
• Abdulla Ahmed Al Mandou, President of World Meteorological Organization
• Fatima Yasmin, Vice President of the Asian Development Bank
• Ede Ijjasz-Vásquez, Senior Advisor, Africa of GCA

Session I: Progress in implementing policies to climate change adaptation
Host: Chen Zhihua, Deputy Director General of National Climate Strategy Center (NCSC)
9:30-9:50

• Keynote speech: Progress in the implementation of the National Climate Change Adaptation Strategy 2035 – Hou Fang, Deputy Director, Climate Change Department of MEE
• Keynote speech: General Adaptation in ADB – Arghya Sinha Roy, Principal Climate Change Specialist, ADB
• Keynote speech: Status and Trends of Adaptation Actions – Ede Ijjasz-Vásquez, Senior Advisor, Africa, GCA
• Keynote speech: World Climate Adaptation Science Program – Cynthia Rosenzweig, UN WASP

Session II: Monitoring, Evaluation, and Early Warning
Host: Zhang Xingying, Deputy Director General of the Department of Science & Technology and Climate Change, CMA
9:50-10:15

• Facing Increasingly Intensified Extreme Weather and Climate Events Under Global Warming – Zhai Panmao, Co-Chair of IPCC AR6 WGI, Vice Chair of China National Expert Panel on Climate Change
• China Climate Change Monitoring, Assessment and Adaptation – Yuan Jiashuang, Deputy Director General of National Climate Centre, CMA
• China’s Practice in the Development of Early Warning System against Meteorological Disasters – Chen Hui, Deputy Director General of Public Meteorological Service Centre, CMA
• Early Warning and Adaptation to Climate Change Actions and Practices in the United Arab Emirates – ***On behalf of the United Arab Emirates
• FengYun Satellite Supports Climate Actions – Zhang Peng, Deputy Director General of National Satellite Meteorological Centre, CMA

Session III:  Key Actions to Climate Change Adaptation
Host: Zeng Qin Director General of Department of International Cooperation, CMA
10: 15-10:35

• Action and Practice on Adaptation to Climate Change in Chinese Cities – Pan Jiahua, Vice Chair of China National Expert Panel on Climate Change, and Member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
• Climate Change Adaptation and Sustainable Development – Li Zheng, Member of China National Expert Panel on Climate Change, and President of Institute of Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Tsinghua University
• China’s Agricultural Adaptation to Climate Change Policies and Actions – Chen Minpeng, Professor, Renmin University of China
• Climate Adaptive Agriculture – Shen Li, Co-founder of Hema and Head of the Sustainable Development Department