Resilience Frontiers programme

Tuesday 8 November

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Focus area

Pathway 1: Transforming humanity’s relationship with nature

09:30-11:30 Opening event

A warm welcome from Youssef Nassef, UNFCCC Director of Adaptation and founder of Resilience Frontiers will launch the programme into a series of interactive activities that will shift our thinking into the Resilience Frontiers mindset.

To kickstart our programme, AI art will help us shape a conversation about the desirable future we want to see.

Moderator: Joshua Amponsem, Office of the UN Secretary General’s Envoy on Youth Speakers:

• Amine Bel Hadj Soulami, BNP Paribas

• Kristen Dunlop, Climate KIC

• Licypriya Kangujam, child environmental activist

• Ovais Sarmad, UN Climate Change

• Sophie Howe, Future Generations Commissioner for Wales

• Xiaomeng Shen, United Nations University

• Youssef Nassef, UN Climate Change

11:30-13:00 What is a good life?

The session will focus on the concept of ‘good’ life as understood by different cultures. The discussion will focus on how concepts such as wellbeing, ubuntu, buen vivir and GNX index, and even Greek philosophy, can help transform people’s relationship with each other and humanity’s relationship with nature.

Moderator: Xiaomeng Shen, United Nations University

Speakers:

• Cristina Coc, Maya Peoples of Southern Belize

• Gakemotho Satau, Botswana

• Kariuki Weru, United Nations University

• Kotchakorn Voraakhom, Porous City Network

• Tracey Cooper, Public Health Wales

15:00-16:00 Future café

Tea, conversation and interactive activity

16:30-18:30 Virtual Reality tour

Experience a city undergoing transformative change and reflect on important questions about the future we want to create.

Wed 9 November

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Focus area

Pathway 2: Lifelong Learning for Environmental Stewardship

08:30-09:30 Future Café

Tea, conversation and interactive activity

Led by UNSSC

09:30-11:30 Learning that lasts a lifetime: Elevating the voices of children to create a better future

Engaging children in meaningful dialogue and action around building resilience is criti-cal to supporting a vision for a better future. In this interactive event, a group of children, representing over 70 countries, will present their perspectives.

Led by Sarah Flynn, TakingITGlobal Youth Association

11:30-13:00 Stewardship of the Future

Every citizen has a role and a saying in shaping-up the future. The event underlines this approach and the need to keep future generations’ wellbeing in mind when creating policies, particularly noting that future generations’ wellbeing encompasses policies beyond the environment and requiring engagement at all stages of life.

Speakers:

• Andy Hoffman, University of Pennsylvania

• Louis Cole, YouTube personality

• Sophie Howe, Future Generations Commission for Wales 14:15-15:00 Performance: AY Young

15:00-16:00 Future café Tea, conversation and interactive activity Led by UNSSC

16:30-18:30 Unlocking learning to build a resilient future Interactive session focusing on inter-generational methodologies. Led by ClimateKIC

Thurs 10 November

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Focus area

Pathway 3: Ensuring universal equitable coverage of, and openaccess to (big) data and information

08:30-09:30 Future café

Tea, conversation and interactive activity

Led by UNSSC

09:30-11:00 Is life better with tech?

The conversation brings together experts and practitioners to reflect on technology as a concept that contributes to humanity and the world’s wellbeing, and promotes equity, rather than the current faster, busier life still very much tied to resource constraints, public health concerns, and uneven power dynamics.

Moderator: Paris Marx, Author

Speakers:

• Eduardo Noboa, BMW Foundation

• Gayle R. T. Schueller, 3M

• Michal Nachmany, Climate Policy Radar

• Monique Kuglitsch, ITU/WMO/UNEP Focus Group on AI for Natural Disaster Management

• Xiaomeng Shen, United Nations University

11:30-13:00 Tech systems for a resilient future

This session focuses on the question ‘What are concrete actions to be taken for technology to promote a desirable and resilient future?’ The discussion will showcase approaches to develop and utilise technologies that will be beneficial for future generations.

Moderator: Richard Foster-Fletcher, MKAI.org

Speakers:

• Paris Marx, Author

• Sheila Ochugboju, Alliance for Science

• Steven Ramage, Group on Earth Observations

• Zeyad Kotb, The German University in Cairo

13:00-15:00

Virtual Reality tour

15:00-16:00 Future café

Tea, conversation and interactive activity

Led by UNSSC

16:30-18:30 Book Lab: Transportation as a public good?

The activity will be kicked off with a reading by Paris Marx from his new book, Road to Nowhere. The reading will serve as a way to spark an informal conversation on the topic of transportation and considerations of the public good.

Moderator: Louis Cole, Youtuber

Speakers:

• Eduardo Noboa, BMW Foundation

• Genie Birch, University of Pennsylvania

• Paris Marx, Author

Fri 11 November

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Focus area

Pathway 4: Managing water and other natural resources equitably and inclusively

08:30-09:30 Future café

Tea, conversation and interactive activity

Led by UNSSC

09:30-11:00 Discussion: Climate intelligence for all

This session will provide an interactive dialogue space to discuss the role of (big) data, remote sensing, Earth observations, frontier technologies, and AI for managing water and other natural resources equitably and building long-term resilience for all.

Moderator: Dennis Mombauer, Director: Research & Knowledge Management, SLYCAN Trust

Speakers

:

• Steven Ramage, Chief Engagement Officer, GEO Secretariat

• Lucy Mtilatila, Director of Climate Change and Meteorological Services, Ministry of Natural Resources and Climate Change, Malawi

• Jennifer Philipps, Advisor, Secretariat of the InsuResilience Global Partnership

11:30-13:00 Discussion: Technology’s interface with nature

The event focuses on the question “What economic, environmental, and social implications need to be considered in technology research, development, deployment, diffusion and transfer, especially as it relates to social impact and natural resource management?”

Moderator: Paris Marx, Author

Speakers:

• Adriana Casillas, Tebrio

• Gijs Bosman, Weather Makers

• Kate Wharton, CrossBoundary

• Nouran El Said, Plug N Grow

14:00-15:00 Film screening: The Last Glacier

The Last Glaciers, which explores the relationship between climate change, mountain environments, and glaciers. The movie will be followed by an inspiring conversation.

Speakers:

• Antoine Sire: Head of Company Engagement, BNP Paribas

• Craig Leeson: Director, The Last Glaciers

• Alexandre Anjuere, Executive Director, Electricians without borders

• Tania Chauvin, senior project officer, Electricians without borders

15:00-16:00 Future café Tea, conversation and interactive activity

Led by UNSSC

16:30-18:30: Virtual Reality tour

Led by UNSSC

Sat 12 November

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Focus area

Pathway 5: Cross-cutting day

11:30 - 13:00 Interactive session: Youth visions for the ideal future

A workshops session aimed at drawing out visions of brighter futures and connections between these visions and the eight pathways.

Facilitators: Dennis Mombauer, Director: Research & Knowledge Management, SLYCAN Trust Vositha Wijenayake, Executive Director, Slycan Trust

13:00 - 15:00: Virtual Reality tour

Led by UNSSC

15:00-16:00 Future café

Interactive activity Led by UNSSC

Mon 14 November

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Focus area

Pathway 5: Managing transboundary issues equitably

09:00-10:00 Future café Conversation and interactive activity

11:30-13:00 Discussion Beyond boundaries: The future of human mobility and transboundary resource management

This event is a discussion among speakers and audience on envisioning future with a different set of ways we divide (or do not divide) the world. Political borders may not exist or the way we divide our conceptualization of the world is around different, but well-connected ecological systems.

Moderators/panelists:

Dennis Mombauer, Director: Research & Knowledge Management, SLYCAN Trust

Vositha Wijenayake, Executive Director, Slycan Trust

Thusitha Sugathapala, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

16:30-18:30 Writing the future of boundaries

Creative workshop session led by the Hot Poets

Tues 15 November

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Pathway 6: Applying a holistic ecosystem-centred approach to optimise future health and wellbeing

09:00-10:00 Future café Conversation and interactive activity

10:00-11:00 Discussion: Regenerative planning

The session of “Regenerative Planning” goes into the mindsets of the speakers to understand approaches, practices and impact of regenerating positive benefits related to health, natural resources, socio-economic equality and more.

Moderator: Kotchakorn Voraakhom, landscape architect, Thailand

Speakers:

• Amira Ayoub, World Green Building Council

• Juan Pastor Ivars, United Nations University

• Mauricio Rodas, Fundacion Ethos

• Ocian Hamel-Smith, Futur/io Institute

11:30-13:00

Discussion: Communities as a living organism

The event is centered around the visualization beyond the typical urban/rural, human/nature divisions so conceptually common to the present day and into a reformulation of the human community extending itself into nature, acting as one living organism.

Moderator: Amira Ayoub, World Green Building Council

Speakers: Indraneel Dharwadkar, ReGen Villages

Klaus Klaas Loenhart, Harvard

14:00-15:00 Film screening: The Last Glacier

The Last Glaciers, which explores the relationship between climate change, mountain environments, and glaciers. The movie will be followed by an inspiring conversation.

Speakers:

• Craig Leeson: Director, The Last Glaciers

• Marc Garcia-Duran, Underwater Gardens International

• Rachel Barr, UBQ

16:30-18:00 Writing the future of wellbeing Creative workshop session led by the Hot Poets

Wed 16 November

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Focus area

Pathway 7: Regenerative food production

09:00-10:00 Future café

Conversation and interactive activity

10:00-11:00 Discussion: Leveraging AI, machine learning, and advanced analytics to accelerate smallholder adaptation

The event will help governments and policymakers gain awareness of the potential for advanced analytics to support agricultural adaptation, transformation, and resilience, focusing on enabling smallholders to thrive.

Moderator: Richard Choularton, Vice President of Operations, Tetra Tech

Speakers:

• Harm Haverkort, Rabobank, ACORN

• Georgina Campbell Flatter, Executive Director, TomorrowNow.org

• Dr Boniface Akuku, Director of ICT, Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO)

• Molly Brown/Vladimir Eskin, 6th Grain

• Hassan Gomaa, CEO, Tseppas

11:30-13:00 Discussion: Climate Smart Crops: A lifeline for the future - followed by climate smart food exhibition and tasting Panel discussion bringing around key stakeholders and changemakers around together to discuss the importance of investing in climate-smart crops to address the complex and interrelated challenges of food security and nutrition, rural development and climate change, behavioral triggers, and barriers, each from his system level point of view.

Moderator: Engy Abdel Wahab, UN Development Programme (UNDP) Acclab Egypt

Speakers:

• Hassan Gomaa (Tseppas CEO)

• Abdelazem Hassona (Tseppas Business Develpment Manager)

• Mark Wyllie (Beyti CEO; A Joint Venture between Almarai & Pepsico)

• Marwan Rasmy (Programme Development Lead at Greenish)

• Emad Adly (National Coordinator of GEF/Small Grants Program in Egypt)

• Sylvain Merlen (UNDP Egypt Deputy Regional Representative)

• Sarada Krishnan, Crop Trust

16:30-18:30: Hot Poets show

Thurs 17 November

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Focus area

Pathway 8: Developing transformative financial instruments

09:00-10:00 Future café

Conversation and interactive activity

10:00-11:00 Discussion: Finance models for the future

The session will focus on incentivizing the desired future, and what lessons can be learned from existing models of innovative financing. Economic and financial barriers to a global resilient future, including beyond climate concerns, will be touched on, alongside rationales to divert from existing approaches.

Moderator:

Claudia Belli, BNP Paribas Foundation

• Daniel Zimmer, Climate-KIC

• Julie Segal, Environmental Defence

• Nisha Krishnan, World Resources Institute

• Sarada Krishnan, Crop Trust

11:30-13:00

Discussion: Transformative financing

The session will focus on incentivizing the desired future through lessons that can be learned from real projects that are aligned with Resilience Frontiers’ vision and which financing model is relevant to pathway 8.

Abir Haddad, Founder and Director, Institute for Legal Transformation Speakers:

Kat Bruce, Nature Metrics

• Marc Garcia-Duran, Underwater Gardens International

• Sabrina Nagel, YAPU solutions

• Sebastien Soleille, BNP Paribas

15:00-16:30 Closing event

Youth visions for the ideal future led by Slycan Trust, group reflections & Hot Poets