Nov. 27-Dec. 9 - Booth at COP17

Within the conference hall Adaptation Hub, CARE and the Global Gender Climate Alliance (GGCA) will unite at COP17 to share an information booth under the theme More Equal – More Resilient. CARE promotes social justice–including gender equality–in its climate change policy and programming through its work on community-based adaptation, pro-poor REDD, climate smart agriculture and advocacy at all levels. Under the leadership of IUCN, UNDP, UNEP and WEDO–GGCA is a network of UN agencies, INGOs and CSOs that work to ensure that climate change policies, decision-making and initiatives at all levels are gender responsive. www.gender-climate.org

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Tuesday, Nov. 29 - Lunch Talk - Adaptation in Africa

CARE staff will provide input into a lunchtime Adaptation Hub talk with peers from the Adaptation Hub. African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) will lead the talk. www.adaptationhub.net 

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Wednesday, Nov. 30 - Side Event - U.S. Center, International Conference Center- 15:00-16:30

The Feed the Future Initiative: Building a Food-Secure, Climate-Resilient Future

This seminar will highlight U.S. Government actions to integrate climate change considerations into the Feed the Future Initiative, strengthening developing country community initiatives, and increasing agricultural and pastoral communities’ resilience to climate change. The panel will include U.S. Government food security experts and Feed the Future program partners in Africa. The event will feature an up-close look at a U.S.-supported program in Ethiopia that works to improve the resilience of pastoralists to climate change impacts.The presentation will feature a report/film from CARE Ethiopia and Save the Children UK (www.careclimatechange.org/videos/ethiopia).

Speakers: Moderator: Bill Hohenstein (USDA); Julie Howard (USAID); Dubale Admasu, USAID/Ethiopia; Charles Hopkins, CARE-Ethiopia Pastoral Program Advisor

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Wednesday, Nov. 30 - Side Event - Room 5 - 18:30-20:00

Addressing REDD+ social and environmental safeguards:experiences using REDD+SES and other mechanisms

This event presents how Ecuador, Nepal, Acre (Brazil) and partners including national CSOs, CCBA and CARE are addressing and providing information on REDD+ social and environmental safeguards as well as enhancing multiple benefits, using REDD+ SES with other safeguard mechanisms eg. UN-REDD, FCPF.

Speakers: Speakers for this event will include representatives of: Ministry of Environment of Ecuador, the REDD cell of the Ministry of Forests and Soil Conservation of Nepal, the Government of the State of Acre, Brazil, and potentially the Federation of Community Forest User Groups of Nepal (FECOFUN), CARE, CCBA, UN-REDD.

For more information: www.redd-standards.org

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Wednesday, Nov. 30 - Side Event - Hex River - 18:30-20:00

Addressing the gender dimension of vulnerability: An adaptation framework that works for everyone

An adaptation framework that works for everyone must incorporate complexities of vulnerability. Panelists explore the dimensions of vulnerability from a gender angle, issuing recommendations for effective adaptation planning.

Speakers: Rachel Harris, WEDO; Meena Khanal or Arzu Rana Deuba, Nepal government (gender in NAPAs-NAPs); Pepetua Laatasi, Tuvalu (Vice Chair of the LEG) and CARE
For more information on CARE’s adaptation work: www.careclimatechange.org/adaptation

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Thursday, Dec 1 - 9:00-17:15 - Addressing Climate Change with Innovation and Information

CARE staff will participate in Communications Day, which will explore how to better practice climate change communications for different audiences. The event is at the Southern Sun Elengani Hotel

http://earthjournalism.net/content/climate-communications-day

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Saturday and Sunday, Dec 3-4 - Development and Climate Days / Event and Film Contest

This event is critical for people interested in learning about the latest in climate change and international development and for building contacts with key policymakers, researchers and negotiators from around the world. The D&C Days will focus on “evidenced-based adaptation planning,” with presentations covering issues such as how to generate robust evidence for informing transparent and participatory policy making under uncertainty. www.iied.org/climate-change/key-issues/climate-negotiations-capacity-building/development-and-climate-days-cop17

CARE has entered its Powerful Hands and ALP videos (www.careclimatechange.org/hands & www.careclimatechange.org/videos/africaalp) in the film festival contest associated with the event

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Friday - Dec 2 - 1500-16:30 - Nature-Based Adaptation Policy in Africa

An IUCN-hosted side event

Africa is home to regions and sub regions exposed to some of the greatest risks from climate change and which exhibit some of the greatest underlying vulnerabilities to resultant impacts. IUCN with its partners are organizing a side event on “Adaptation policy in Africa”, the experiences of integrating adaptation into national practice, policy making and opportunities at regional levels. The event will present key messages and practical lessons to date on adaptation in regional or national contexts. This side event will be moderated by Daniel Makokera, (Presenter of the M-NET Pan-African TV Programme called: Eye on Africa with Daniel).

The panel will include Pascal Girot – CARE Senior Climate Change Advisor for Latin America and the Caribbean

Saturday - Dec 3 - 8:00-18:00  - Agriculture & Rural Development Days

Learning Event: Smallholder Agriculture – What Role for Carbon Finance?

In small-holder agriculture in western Kenya, and in other similar contexts, it is becoming increasingly clear that a voluntary market agricultural carbon project is not financially viable without substantial public sector subsidies. The rationale for a direct payments for ecosystem services-based approach at farmer level is also questionable as some key barriers to adoption may not necessarily be addressed by cash payments to farmers. At the same time, there is a growing realization of the need for an integrated approach to enhancing and sustaining small-holder agricultural production, building resilience to climate change, and climate change mitigation, with the overall goal of enhancing food security. However, even if mitigation is not the primary goal, performance-based carbon finance may still have an important role to play. This event will present and review these arguments and their implications for the design and financing of climate smart agriculture initiatives, and climate change financing policy.

The event will be presented by CARE; the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS); and Ecoagriculture Partners / www.agricultureday.org/learning-events

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Saturday - Dec 3 - Exploring the Synergies between Ecosystem and Community-based Adaptation – Rio Pavilion - 13:30-15:30  

ELAN event - THE ECOSYSTEMS AND LIVELIHOODS ADAPTATION NETWORK enhances poor and marginalized people's resilience to the impacts of climate change by integrating ecosystem and right-based approaches into adaptation policies and practices. www.elanadapt.net

14:00-14:40 - Tine Rossing, CARE's Global Climate Change Adaptation Coordinator, to speak as part of the discussion

Sunday - Dec 4 - IIED Development & Climate Days - Day 2 – Morning Session - Exploring Information Needs and Knowledge-Making Opportunities

11:30-13:00 - Monitoring, Evaluating and Prioritizing Adaptation Options

Tine Rossing, CARE's Global Climate Change Adaptation Coordinator

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Sunday - Dec 4 - Olive Convention Centre - Forest Day -- All day event

13:30-14:30 - Gender Issues in Forest-Based Mitigation and Adaptation

Speakers:

• Andrea Quesada-Aguilar, WEDO
• Jeannette Gurung, WOCAN
• Raja Jarrah, CARE

   

  CARE staff will attend Forest Day. Now moving into its fifth year, it has become one of the most intensive and influential annual global events on forests. At its heart, it is a platform for anyone with an interest in forests and climate change to meet once a year to ensure that forests remain high on the agenda of global and national climate strategies, and that those strategies are informed by the most up-to-date knowledge and experience. Forest Day presents an opportunity for stakeholders from different backgrounds and regions to network, share their experiences and debate the pressing issues facing forests around the world.

  www.forestsclimatechange.org/events/forest-day/forest-day-5.html

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Monday, Dec. 5 - Lunch Talk -  Toolkits for adaptation / Climate modelling

CARE staff will lead a lunchtime Adaptation Hub talk with peers from the Adaptation Hub - Led by Tine Rossing, CARE's Global Climate Change Adaptation Coordinator. The event will be with the Institute of Development (IDS) and Tearfund in planning the talk. www.adaptationhub.net 

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Tuesday, Dec. 6 - Lunch Talk - Gender in Adaptation

CARE staff will provide input into a lunchtime Adaptation Hub talk with peers from the Adaptation Hub. The Global Gender Climate Alliance (GGCA) will lead the talk.  www.adaptationhub.net  

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Tuesday, Dec. 6 - 11:30-13:00 -  Southern Voices on Climate Change Policy Choices (with CAN-I)

Members from the Southern Voices Capacity Building Programme Meeting -- MEETING FLIER

www.climatecapacity.org

NEW REPORT - NOV '11 - Southern Voices on Climate Policy Choices

Analysis and lessons learned from civil society advocacy on climate change

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