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#HKH2UAE | 29 November – 12 December 2023 | Dubai, UAE
Promoting mountain agenda, ambitious climate action, and the need for investment in the Hindu Kush Himalaya
In line with ICIMOD’s new Strategy 2030, the #HKH2UAE campaign aims to promote the mountain agenda, ambitious climate action and the need for investment in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH). Specifically, the campaign aims to:
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Cryosphere Pavilion
Organizer: Cstep and ICCI
Bhupesh Adhikary, ICIMOD to participate.
Bhutan Pavilion
Organizer: Government of Bhutan
UNFCCC Side Event Room 2
Organizer: Adaptation Division, UNFCCC
Izabella Koziell, ICIMOD to speak.
Meeting room 3, Blue Zone, COP28
The 16th Focal Point Forum will focus on understanding and closing adaptation knowledge gaps in mountains, high-latitude areas, and the cryosphere – NWP’s priority thematic areas for 2024.
Organizer: NWP, Adaptation Division, UNFCCC
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ICIMOD to attend.
Meeting Room 12, DEC South, Blue Zone
Organizer: Government of Nepal
The event aims to forge and promote a unified voice of mountain stakeholders to strengthen regional and inter-regional cooperation across the mountain regions
Chair: Rt Honorable Mr. Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’, Prime Minister of Nepal
Keynote: H.E. Mr. Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary-General
Izabella Koziell, ICIMOD to make presentation on Climate and Cryosphere Crisis: The context of the HKH region
Central Asia Pavilion, Blue Zone
Organizer: Ministry of Natural Resources, Ecology and Technical Supervision, Government of Kyrgyzstan and GSLEP
Izabella Koziell, ICIMOD to make presentation on glaciers and mountains.
IUCN Pavilion, Ground-floor, Thematic building 4 (TA4.135), Blue Zone, COP28
Organizer: IUCN
ICIMOD delegation to attend.
ADB Pavilion
The event includes the launch of the ADB HKH Initiative.
Organizer: Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Organizer: Climate Change Division, Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources, Bhutan
Children and Youth Pavilion
Organizer: COPE, WMO, Sendai Children and Youth Group, Youth Resilience Lab
The session aims to foster a more profound awareness regarding the critical role of education in DRR for children and the tools available to enhance their disaster resilience to contribute to a safer community.
Udayan Mishra, ICIMOD to speak.
Nepal Pavilion
Organizer: Ipas Nepal, Ministry of Health and Population and Ministry of Forests and Environment, Nepal
Pradyumna Rana, ICIMOD to speak.
India Pavilion
The event includes the Launch of the ‘Executive Summary Report on District Wise Risk Assessment for Indian Himalayan Region’
Organizer: Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India
Bhupesh Adhikary, ICIMOD representative to speak.
China Corner Area 1, Blue Zone
Organizer: China – Center for Environmental Education and Communications of The Ministry of Ecology and Environment and Polar Hub, China
Izabella Koziell, ICIMOD representative to speak.
Meeting room 36
World Café Session: Cryosphere mountains and adaptation
Annie Dare, ICIMOD to speak.
Ecuador COP28 Pavilion, MA 01 G3 – Blue Zone
This discussion focuses on building resilience among vulnerable communities in the Ecuador-Colombia border region to address hunger exacerbated by climate shocks. These communities will share their ancestral knowledge in successful climate change adaptation and food security projects.
Organizer: World Food Programme (WFP)
ICIMOD delegation to participate.
GASP Pavilion
This event aims to deepen understanding about investment pathways, strengthen relationships in pursuit of future collaboration, engage participants on investment in the HKH and position ICIMOD in the investment space.
Organizer: ICIMOD
CONCEPT NOTE AND AGENDA
The event will also feature short documentaries highlighting the need to save our snow and protect the mountain ecosystem, in addition to interactive conversation with climate communicators.
Organizer: UNESCO
ICIMOD representative to speak.
Organizer: World Food Programme
ICIMOD to participate.
Organizer: UNESCO and ICIMOD
Action lab 1 (Al-Shaheen), COP28
Organizer: CCAC
Arun Bhakta Shrestha, ICIMOD to speak.
Pem Narayan Kandel, ICIMOD to speak.
Organizer: National Institute of Hydrology, India
The event will include the panel discussion on Productive Use of Renewable Energy (PURE) for Business and Communities Resilience in the Mountain Context and potential for renewable energy investments in the productive use of renewable energy.
Organizer: ICIMOD, AEPC
Sushmita Kunwar and Deepshikha Sharma, ICIMOD to moderate
Avishek Malla, ICIMOD to speak
Nordic Pavilion
This event will bring together partners of the Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) to discuss the important opportunity to increase food security in cryosphere regions by reducing methane and black carbon, identifying key challenges and priority areas.
Organizer: CCAC and ICIMOD
This panel aims to discuss needs for adaptation funding in mountains and highlight pathways for leveraging finance further, such as finding synergies between mitigation and adaptation projects, and by highlighting examples at the national and regional level and from public and private funding representatives.
Organizer: Adaptation at Altitude (A@A)
Deepshikha Sharma, ICIMOD to speak.
Organizer: UNCDF
Organizer: Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE) and ICIMOD
Concept note and agenda
Organizer: Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW) and ICIMOD
This event includes a panel discussion with experts and stakeholders to investigate policy strategies for adaptation and mitigation for the HKH countries in alignment with national and global commitments.
Avishek Malla, ICIMOD to moderate
WMO-IPCC Pavilion
Organizer: World Adaptation Science Programme (WASP)
Organizer: Agha Khan Agency for Habitat
Organizer: UNDP and ICIMOD
Organizer: Department of Hydrology and Meteorology, Nepal, UNDP, ICIMOD
GASP
Babar Khan, ICIMOD to speak.
With this campaign, we are generating interest around three key messages from the HKH region, around three key strands: knowledge-Investment-Cooperation
Positioning the HKH region for compensation and investment
Investing in mountain-specific climate priorities to limit global warming to 1.5°C
Promoting the need to strengthen regional and inter-regional cooperation
We present a synthesis of the commitments from climate-related national documents… Download
This paper presents targets pertaining to renewable energy as put forward by the HKH countries, and the potential of the HKH region… Download
The clock is ticking, particularly for the HKH, as it hurtles towards an irreversible climate crisis. The Pulse of the Planet is becoming weaker. Download
The COVID-19 and climate crises are monumental global challenges. But when tackled in tandem through the prism of sustainable and resilient development… Download
In the truest of senses, the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) is the pulse of the planet. Being on top of the world, changes happen here before they happen anywhere else. Download
Annie Dare
Head, Communications, ICIMOD
Udayan Mishra
Communications Officer, ICIMOD
