On 19 June 2020 at 11:00 (GMT+1), the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) is hosting a webinar on "Climate, COVID-19, and the Collaboration We Need".
Context
The coronavirus crisis has triggered unparalleled global action and exposed stark social and economic inequalities and system weaknesses. COVID-19 has shown us that we need to abandon the old, normal way of dealing with global emergencies. It has highlighted that long-term complex challenges and short-term crises demand a new response and new ways of working. As we look ahead, what do we need to do differently? And what can we learn from the pandemic and the global crisis of inequality that can help us tackle the climate crisis?
This event will bring together international think tanks to discuss the kind of collaboration and action that is needed now to achieve transformative change, and prepare us for a radically different world.
About the Series
This is the first online event in a series hosted by IIED and the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) on the climate crisis and COVID-19 – working together for the change we need, which will be hosted between June and October 2020. In conversation with colleagues around the world, from civil society organisations to universities and governments, this series will look at what we can learn to make us more ready for the new ways of working we need to tackle the climate crisis. Building resilience, capacity, and adaptation have always provided a pathway to change – how can we use what we know and have achieved so far to ramp up our climate ambition? Drawing on lessons learned through capacity building, advocacy, and grassroots action, how can we catalyse a different future?
About the speakers
- Andrew Norton (chair) is director of IIED. He is an applied anthropologist working on a range of issues related to social and environmental justice.
- Saleemul Huq is the director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) in Bangladesh, and is an expert on the links between climate change and sustainable development, particularly from the perspective of developing countries.
- Fatima Denton is the director of the Institute for Natural Resources in Africa at the United Nations University, Ghana.
- Achala Abeysinghe is the country representative for Papua New Guinea (PNG) at the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), leading the country programme on green growth and climate resilience.