Building a climate-resilient and just future for all

Building a climate-resilient and just future for all: managing cascading climate risk in global supply chains

Join the online dialogue

COVID-19 has revealed the vulnerabilities inherent in our global systems and supply chains – how impacts can leap from sector to sector and cascade from country to country – often hitting the poorest and most vulnerable the hardest.

This online dialogue will bring together representatives from the private sector, civil society, governments and international organizations, to shine a spotlight on industry and explore actions to strengthen the resilience of global supply chains.

It will ask how we can better manage the cross-border effects of climate change and spur opportunities for just approaches to adaptation that bring co-benefits at scale.

Agenda

The event will be chaired by:

• Musonda Mumba, Chief of the Terrestrial Ecosystems Unit, UN Environment

Opening remarks by:

• Nigel Topping, UK High Level Climate Action Champion

Keynote speakers:

• Pema Gyamtsho, Director General of ICIMOD and former Minister of Agriculture and Forests for the Royal Government of Bhutan
• Michihiro Oi, Director of International Strategy Division, Global Environment Bureau, Ministry of the Environment, Japan

Panel members:

• Kevin Adams, Research Fellow, Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)
• Ashley Allen, Chief Sustainability Officer, Oatly
• Tom Howes, Head of Energy and Environment, International Energy Agency
• Simonetta Zarrilli, Chief of the Trade, Gender and Development Programme of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

Discussants:

• Eileen Gallagher, Associate Director, BSR
• Djimé Adoum, Executive Secretary of the Permanent Interstates, Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel and former Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation of Chad
• Ayman Cherkaoui, Adaptation Without Borders Ambassador

Closing remarks:

• H. E. Chad Blackman, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Barbados to the WTO and Chair of the WTO Environmental Committee
• Martin Frick, Deputy Special Envoy of the UN Secretary General for the 2021 Food Systems Summit

Event Partners

Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)

Adaptation Without Borders

The Climate Resilience Network convened by the Global Resilience Partnership

The International Energy Agency