Resilience from Source to Sea in South Asia

COP26 Satellite Event

Organizers: International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), International Center for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), the British Embassy (BEK), Kathmandu, Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)

Link to join event(Meeting ID: 849 9385 0404, Passcode: 361639)

Presentation and Videos for the Source to Sea Event can be found here (Google Drive) OR here (MS Teams).

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About the event

The event showcases resilience interventions being delivered from ‘Source to Sea’ in South Asia with an emphasis on scaling up practical solutions and bringing in civil society and community voices to show that local adaptation works and can be scaled. It will be anchored in the Resilience Hub at COP26 and will be a virtual event ‘stopping in’ at various points from the high mountains to the plains and sea – and highlighting how climate finance is being used to build resilience and support community adaptation.

Objective

The event aims to call for COP26 to agree to increased investment in local level solutions and ensure support reaches the most vulnerable.

Agenda

Time (UK Time)		Programme	Presenter
	11:45	Welcome and objectives	Saleem Ul Huq, International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD)
MOUNTAINS
1	11:50	Ice stupas	Sonam Wangchuk, Founding Director, Students’ Educational and Cultural Movement of Ladakh (SECMOL) (Virtual)
2	11:55	Glacial Lake outburst flood risk management	Arun B Shrestha, Senior Climate Change Specialist, ICIMOD (Recorded presentation)
HILLS
3	12:00	Springshed management in the HKH	Sanjeev Bhuchar, Senior Water Management specialist, ICIMOD (Virtual)
4	12:05	NCCSP – iLAPA implementation	Radha Wagle, Joint Secretary, Chief, Climate Change Management Division, Ministry of Forests and Environment (MoFE), Nepal (In person)
5	12:10	Climate smart agriculture	Madan Pariyar, Senior Advisor, International Development Enterprises (iDE) (In person)
PLAINS
6	12:15	Coping with water stress and flooding	Daljeet Kaur, Climate and Environment Advisor, Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO) Dilip Singh, National Project Manager, UNDP India Johnson Topno, Regional Head of Programme, Phia Foundation (Recorded video)
7	12:22	Urban flood management – Kolkata	Okju Jeong, Urban Climate Resilience Specialist (Consultant), Climate Change Resilience Trust Fund (UCCRTF), Asian Development Bank Bonapart Masangcay, GIS Focal & Administrator, SPADE, Asian Development Bank (Virtual)
8	12:27	Floating vegetables in floodplain	Haseeb Irfanullah, Independent Consultant – Environment, Climate Change, and Research System (Virtual)
9	12:30	Loss and damage responses – to cyclone Amphan	Istiakh Ahmed, Programme Coordinator, ICCCAD Rafiqul Islam Montu, Freelance journalist (Virtual)
COASTS
10	12:34	Rainwater harvesting in coastal zone	Mohammad Mahmodul Hasan, Coordinator, Climate Change Program, Christian Commission for Development in Bangladesh (CCDB) (Virtual)
	12:37	Panel discussion with resilience experts at COP26 and in the Region	Moderator: Saleem Ul Huq, Director, ICCCAD Panellists: Pema Gyamtsho, ICIMOD Madan Pariyar, iDE Radha Wagle, MoFE Nepal B Rajeshwari, MGNREGA Commissioner, Jharkhand Johnson Topno, Phia Foundation Sonam Wangchuk, SECMOL
11	12:55	Remarks and closing	Anne Marie Trevelyan, COP26 Resilience Champion (Pre-recorded)

Resilience from Source to Sea in South Asia

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Resilience from Source to Sea in South Asia

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Scaling nature-based solutions for water and green mountain livelihoods in Bhutan

Spring revival and springshed management for strengthening water security and climate resilience in the HKH

Development and implementation of science-based springshed management in the Indian Himalayan Region (IHR)