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Milan: Aus
Ashley W: United States - Sierra Student Coalition
Mary: United States - SSC
Daniele: Brazil - news, communications
Estefania: Peru
Valeria: Peru, Micro-energy strategies group
Rosa Amelia: Cuzco, Peru
Bitia: Peru
Pierre: CLIQUE
Yong: NZ
Rosa: Costa Rica
Goal: more than general aspirational recommendations - we are looking for a platform, or some concrete mechanism for the international framework
What is adaptation?
[definition]
• V: ways to solve problems that happen caused by climate change
• M: preparing for the impacts of climate change
• D: create the way - some places that have already been affected require responses - this is really a problem - creates solutions and ways to resolve problems that are already happening
• E: adapt to climate change - in Peru we need to mitigate but our % of GHGs is really low, our main focus is adpatation because we have very vulnerable communities and activities - we have to manage technologies and resources in a way that helps us survive the impacts of climate change
• Reduce vulnerability
• V: no doubt we need a legally binding document - they must donate money - biggest proportion of finance goes to adaptation but does not seem to be enough - Haiti: so much money sent but way that it was used was vitiated by corruption - more transparency?
• P: we should stop seeing adaptation as developed countries giving money to developing countries - every country is being affected - not about developing countries getting affected, it is about the globe's vulnerability - we are all getting affected by CC, we have to find a solution that can be adopted by the country based on its own culture, tools - real solutions (site-specific) - true that developing countries need support to deal with their issues - not just a problem for developing countries - Green Climate Fund - some countries not contributing because issue is not framed as a global issue
• E: Re-appreciation of ancestral knowledge - implementing in specific contexts knowledge that is already contained in these places - instead of imposing something new (10:42)
• V: sustainability on the effect - not a one-time fix - needs to be sustainable - requires education
• E: develop the tech in a way that incentivises the entire community or utilises what is already owned so that it's not 'foreign' and doesn't require input by outsiders
• V: Analogy with company in AFrica teaching communities how to create renewable technologies
• find a way in which old technologies and new technologies could be built
• important to how poeple understand living - everyday habits - habits have to change to
• pertain to the situation - behavioural change adaptation not about outsiders' solutions about local solutions
• How can we pressure the government to do this?
• Mobilise global momentum for local solutions
• How can we put this concern in the agreement
• [insert milan's response]
• Public politics that contributes
• Important that this is one topic of importance in global context
• Global momentum & site-specific responses
• Tools techniques and technologies to help address current and future problems
• Finding ways to adapt and manage effects of climate change at a global and local level in a way that's sustainable
• Prominence in global political dialogue
• Focus on actual implementation
• Milan talked about contributions
• Youth is the voice of morality - adaptation shoudl be just, sustainable, grassroots, not just money thrown 'top-down', requires bottom-up momentum given site specific nature
• Agreement must support adaptation but language must reflect concerns of respecting local communities, being inclusive, justice,
• Ethos/ framework/ principles?
• Adaptation can't be addressed in a vaccuum - requires framework that addresses principles above
• View that developing countries using the issue to get money
• Not about giving money - about finding real solutions at local ang global level
• Role of private sector: If countries aren't willing to fund adaptation - governments must be held to account - role of private sector in adaptation - contract responsibility out to private company - savings can fund - company gets recognition for good deed - call for private sector input into adaptation projects
YOUTH
• We are going to be the ones living with the effects of climate change granchildren will be living in a radically different world - 16 degrees celsius - that is not liveable -
• We are the ones who will be living with the impacts of cliamte change so we have the biggest stake
• Youth most vulnerable in many ways - adaption important to take into account - the most vulnerable are the real young
A: Governance in adaptation and participation in adaptation - for youth massive issue - we all want to participate but very exclusive process - process must change - governance must change so that they are more inclusive - relationships between government and different stakeholders - how does participation occur - how are decisions made - open the door for future stakeholders to participate
• Local participation/ consultation/ assessment/ risk/ trends
• Wheb objectives too general - governments too specific
• A: Costs incurred in different ways according to locality
o Must be site-specific and diverse, must be bottom-up in order to be effective
• IPCC - very context-specific
• Umbrella that helps to create vase for local approach - needs to be backed up by a bigger picture instrument -
• Costa Rican point of view - NAP - involved with making it- based on municipal plans - should be built by local stakeholders so that there is first an assessment of trends and capacities - reflect different realities in different countries - government does not necessarily fit into the scale of the issue - can be too small and too rigid - sometimes local people and businesses can fill the gap - whatever regions/ countries agree to do - it must be built on local assessment of trends and opportunities - bottom-up based on science
• Vulnerability assessments
• Signs not precise enough to tell you what will happen in your community - data not accessible in certain communities
• Wide distribution of information - community cooperation and coordination based on actual predictions
• Top-down is best with generalisation and stereotyping
• Must be recognition that local communities have the important stake in the solution
• It's important for us to say that local stakeholders require recognition - effective in terms of results to take a bottom-up approach
• Science may say something, but social and cultural barriers will tell
• Should be a broad call to action by science, which generates options that the local community can choose based on their cultural and societal paradigms (multi-choice quiz)
• Public politics - we neeed more investigation - requires political momentum - universities must do more
• In Costa Rica, lots of research is done - people come from all over the world - but that information is never shared with the people - wide distribution - communities must know - transparency - must be accessible
• options that locals can choose - and transparency
• 2-way information - coastal communities may be more aware of rising of the seas - information can be provided from the ground-up as well - recording information of locals is important for top-down methodology as well
• HDX - humanitarian data analogy
• V: compromising the sharing of best practices and knowledge experiences between various stakeholders
• Transparency and understanding, community involvement and engagement into projects around adaptation,
• Prioritise indigenous communities - prioritise those who don't have access to information
• P: using all kinds of local people -
• Must be technology share (author is Ecuadorian) - petroleum - contaminates Amazon rivers and lakes - old technology destroys environment - important that new tech is transferred
• In context of sharing technologies, must be careful - must be locally suitable -
• Adaptation is a delicate theme - especially with respect to sharing of technology
• Common open-source place for technology
• Sharing information and techology and opening it up
• Ways to optimise certain processes
• Risk to open source: if trillions are put into adaptation - new solutions will be - intellectual property can't come into this - must be kept out - whatever - must be open source and enencumbered by IP
• Open-source - double-edged sword - must protect cultural and indigenous knowledge of local comunities
• Has to be some limits for exploitation
• Do away with WTO
• Recognise conflict between free trade approach and environmental regulation/ what we need
• The corporate paradigmn and the idea of protecting corporate interests is irreconcilable with the solution - must form a part of our declaration
• People don't want to share - we aren't those people, we are young, together, we don't agree with this paradigm/ barrier - our position is to make everything all before everybody
• Current system has huge private investment input -
• Practicality given immediacy
• Encourage countries to adapt policies to back-up intent
o Domestic implementation
• Regional governments need policies
• Human cost to working within limits - our system is out of fashion - does not match for IP, immigration, free trade and so on
• Youth are moral voice
• System is broken
• Not going to work for our future
• Common themes today: solutions to adaptation be equitable, sustainable, just...
Ashley W: United States - Sierra Student Coalition
Mary: United States - SSC
Daniele: Brazil - news, communications
Estefania: Peru
Valeria: Peru, Micro-energy strategies group
Rosa Amelia: Cuzco, Peru
Bitia: Peru
Pierre: CLIQUE
Yong: NZ
Rosa: Costa Rica
Goal: more than general aspirational recommendations - we are looking for a platform, or some concrete mechanism for the international framework
What is adaptation?
[definition]
• V: ways to solve problems that happen caused by climate change
• M: preparing for the impacts of climate change
• D: create the way - some places that have already been affected require responses - this is really a problem - creates solutions and ways to resolve problems that are already happening
• E: adapt to climate change - in Peru we need to mitigate but our % of GHGs is really low, our main focus is adpatation because we have very vulnerable communities and activities - we have to manage technologies and resources in a way that helps us survive the impacts of climate change
• Reduce vulnerability
• V: no doubt we need a legally binding document - they must donate money - biggest proportion of finance goes to adaptation but does not seem to be enough - Haiti: so much money sent but way that it was used was vitiated by corruption - more transparency?
• P: we should stop seeing adaptation as developed countries giving money to developing countries - every country is being affected - not about developing countries getting affected, it is about the globe's vulnerability - we are all getting affected by CC, we have to find a solution that can be adopted by the country based on its own culture, tools - real solutions (site-specific) - true that developing countries need support to deal with their issues - not just a problem for developing countries - Green Climate Fund - some countries not contributing because issue is not framed as a global issue
• E: Re-appreciation of ancestral knowledge - implementing in specific contexts knowledge that is already contained in these places - instead of imposing something new (10:42)
• V: sustainability on the effect - not a one-time fix - needs to be sustainable - requires education
• E: develop the tech in a way that incentivises the entire community or utilises what is already owned so that it's not 'foreign' and doesn't require input by outsiders
• V: Analogy with company in AFrica teaching communities how to create renewable technologies
• find a way in which old technologies and new technologies could be built
• important to how poeple understand living - everyday habits - habits have to change to
• pertain to the situation - behavioural change adaptation not about outsiders' solutions about local solutions
• How can we pressure the government to do this?
• Mobilise global momentum for local solutions
• How can we put this concern in the agreement
• [insert milan's response]
• Public politics that contributes
• Important that this is one topic of importance in global context
• Global momentum & site-specific responses
• Tools techniques and technologies to help address current and future problems
• Finding ways to adapt and manage effects of climate change at a global and local level in a way that's sustainable
• Prominence in global political dialogue
• Focus on actual implementation
• Milan talked about contributions
• Youth is the voice of morality - adaptation shoudl be just, sustainable, grassroots, not just money thrown 'top-down', requires bottom-up momentum given site specific nature
• Agreement must support adaptation but language must reflect concerns of respecting local communities, being inclusive, justice,
• Ethos/ framework/ principles?
• Adaptation can't be addressed in a vaccuum - requires framework that addresses principles above
• View that developing countries using the issue to get money
• Not about giving money - about finding real solutions at local ang global level
• Role of private sector: If countries aren't willing to fund adaptation - governments must be held to account - role of private sector in adaptation - contract responsibility out to private company - savings can fund - company gets recognition for good deed - call for private sector input into adaptation projects
YOUTH
• We are going to be the ones living with the effects of climate change granchildren will be living in a radically different world - 16 degrees celsius - that is not liveable -
• We are the ones who will be living with the impacts of cliamte change so we have the biggest stake
• Youth most vulnerable in many ways - adaption important to take into account - the most vulnerable are the real young
A: Governance in adaptation and participation in adaptation - for youth massive issue - we all want to participate but very exclusive process - process must change - governance must change so that they are more inclusive - relationships between government and different stakeholders - how does participation occur - how are decisions made - open the door for future stakeholders to participate
• Local participation/ consultation/ assessment/ risk/ trends
• Wheb objectives too general - governments too specific
• A: Costs incurred in different ways according to locality
o Must be site-specific and diverse, must be bottom-up in order to be effective
• IPCC - very context-specific
• Umbrella that helps to create vase for local approach - needs to be backed up by a bigger picture instrument -
• Costa Rican point of view - NAP - involved with making it- based on municipal plans - should be built by local stakeholders so that there is first an assessment of trends and capacities - reflect different realities in different countries - government does not necessarily fit into the scale of the issue - can be too small and too rigid - sometimes local people and businesses can fill the gap - whatever regions/ countries agree to do - it must be built on local assessment of trends and opportunities - bottom-up based on science
• Vulnerability assessments
• Signs not precise enough to tell you what will happen in your community - data not accessible in certain communities
• Wide distribution of information - community cooperation and coordination based on actual predictions
• Top-down is best with generalisation and stereotyping
• Must be recognition that local communities have the important stake in the solution
• It's important for us to say that local stakeholders require recognition - effective in terms of results to take a bottom-up approach
• Science may say something, but social and cultural barriers will tell
• Should be a broad call to action by science, which generates options that the local community can choose based on their cultural and societal paradigms (multi-choice quiz)
• Public politics - we neeed more investigation - requires political momentum - universities must do more
• In Costa Rica, lots of research is done - people come from all over the world - but that information is never shared with the people - wide distribution - communities must know - transparency - must be accessible
• options that locals can choose - and transparency
• 2-way information - coastal communities may be more aware of rising of the seas - information can be provided from the ground-up as well - recording information of locals is important for top-down methodology as well
• HDX - humanitarian data analogy
• V: compromising the sharing of best practices and knowledge experiences between various stakeholders
• Transparency and understanding, community involvement and engagement into projects around adaptation,
• Prioritise indigenous communities - prioritise those who don't have access to information
• P: using all kinds of local people -
• Must be technology share (author is Ecuadorian) - petroleum - contaminates Amazon rivers and lakes - old technology destroys environment - important that new tech is transferred
• In context of sharing technologies, must be careful - must be locally suitable -
• Adaptation is a delicate theme - especially with respect to sharing of technology
• Common open-source place for technology
• Sharing information and techology and opening it up
• Ways to optimise certain processes
• Risk to open source: if trillions are put into adaptation - new solutions will be - intellectual property can't come into this - must be kept out - whatever - must be open source and enencumbered by IP
• Open-source - double-edged sword - must protect cultural and indigenous knowledge of local comunities
• Has to be some limits for exploitation
• Do away with WTO
• Recognise conflict between free trade approach and environmental regulation/ what we need
• The corporate paradigmn and the idea of protecting corporate interests is irreconcilable with the solution - must form a part of our declaration
• People don't want to share - we aren't those people, we are young, together, we don't agree with this paradigm/ barrier - our position is to make everything all before everybody
• Current system has huge private investment input -
• Practicality given immediacy
• Encourage countries to adapt policies to back-up intent
o Domestic implementation
• Regional governments need policies
• Human cost to working within limits - our system is out of fashion - does not match for IP, immigration, free trade and so on
• Youth are moral voice
• System is broken
• Not going to work for our future
• Common themes today: solutions to adaptation be equitable, sustainable, just...