The world is facing an unprecedented climate crisis and innovative solutions are needed to prevent complex crises from becoming disasters. COP27 is the time to move from talk to bold and rapid collective action.
The UAE Pavilion at COP27 is hosting a special session on 12 November, co-organized by The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and The Risk-informed Early Action Partnership (REAP), to discuss how humanitarian, development, peacebuilding, and climate action partners can work together to build synergies around anticipatory action ahead of the impacts of climate hazards, protecting those most at risk.
This session will showcase how early cross-sectoral action results in lives and livelihoods saved, development gains protected, and resilience built through the full value chain of anticipatory action.
By highlighting the successes and ongoing challenges of innovative partnership models like REAP, and the work of key partners including WFP, it will make an urgent call for even more ambitious commitments to work together to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement and Glasgow Climate Pact, and to mobilise the resources necessary to ensure that action and support reaches the most vulnerable on the frontlines of the climate crisis.
Session speakers:
- UAE Office of the Special Envoy for Climate Change: Mr. Dane McQueen – Director of Partnerships
- World Food Programme: Mr. Gernot Laganda – Director of Climate and Disaster Risk Reduction
- World Meteorological Organisation: Dr. Johan Stander – Director of Services
- UAE Office of the Special Envoy for Climate Change: Mr. Kristofer Hamel – Head of Climate Impact Response
- Government of Mozambique: Mr. António Beleza –Deputy Director of the National Institute for Disaster Management and Head of the Cabinet of the African Union DRR Champions
- African Risk Capacity: Mr. Lesley Ndlovu – CEO
- International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies: Ms. Rania Ahmed – Deputy Regional Director, Middle East and North Africa
Session details:
- Session date and time: 12 November 2022, 1200-1245 (Sharm El Sheikh time), 2:00pm-2:45pm UAE Time
- Venue: The UAE Pavilion
The UAE Pavilion is located in the Blue Zone near the UNFCCC, Egypt and IRENA pavilions. The pavilion is managed by an operations team from the Office of the Special Envoy for Climate Change (OSECC). Anyone attending events in the UAE Pavilion, either as an organiser or audience member will require Blue Zone accreditation
- The session will also be live streamed. This is the virtual link:
When using hashtags, please use:
- #UNinUAE and #UAEforClimate
T Twitter handles: @COP27 / @UN_UAE / @uaeclimateenvoy
- Event Organizers:
- @WFP @GCC_WFP
- @EarlyActionREAP
Examples of WFP’s work from the forefront of climate and hunger – video footage here, photos here.