Water Adaptation Community Webinar: Accelerating Adaptation through Large-Scale Nature-Based Solutions

Global

VIRTUAL

7 October 2021, 10:30 CET

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This webinar will explore how to identify a pipeline of large-scale Nature-based Solutions projects that can accelerate adaptation and build resilience

Event description:

Organizations such as the Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) are working to increase the volume of finance committed to climate adaptation. Nature-based Solutions (NbS) have been identified as a key adaptation measure. However, there is a distinct lack of scalable NbS projects across the world. Greater effort must therefore be made to identify a pipeline of large-scale NbS projects that truly accelerate adaptation, and at the same time build the resilience of communities.

Key questions addressed:

  • What are the key building blocks of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) that are effective at scale?
  • What are the various financing mechanisms?
  • What could a roadmap to accelerate NbS look like?
  • What are some of the best examples of NbS implemented in Asia and Africa?

Moderator: Ede Jorge Ijjasz-Vasquez, Senior Advisor to the GCA, Former Regional Director, Africa, Sustainable Development Practice Group, World Bank

Introductory remarks:

  • Opening remarks: Prof. Dr. Patrick Verkooijen, CEO, GCA
  • Malik Amin Aslam, Special Advisor to the Prime Minister for Climate Change, Minister of Climate Change, Government of Pakistan
  • Kabir Bin Anwar, Senior Secretary, Ministry of Water Resources, Bangladesh.

Cases:
What do large scale NbS projects look like and how do we begin to finance these ideas?

  • Africa – Dr. Bregje van Wesenbeeck, Deltares
  • Recharge Pakistan – Dr. Masood Arshad, WWF Pakistan
  • Mekong Delta – Karel Heijnert, Royal Haskoning DHV
  • How do we finance these cases? Anirudh Rajashekar, Pegasys

Panel discussion (facilitated by WWF): What could a roadmap to accelerate NbS look like?

  • Vanessa Ushie, African Development Bank
  • Imelda Dada Bacudo, ASEAN Climate Resilience Network
  • Dr. Bregje van Wesenbeeck, Deltares
  • Dr. Masood Arshad, WWF Pakistan
  • Karel Heijnert, Royal Haskoning DHV
  • Anirudh Rajashekar, Pegasys

Closing Remarks: Stuart Orr, Global Freshwater Practice

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