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Addressing Climate Fragility Risks in Asia and Pacific: Challenges and Opportunities for Achieving Sustainable Development
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Climate change is one of the key global security challenges of the 21st century. Its impacts are a ‘threat multiplier’ that will increase state fragility, fuel social unrest and potentially result in violent conflict.
Simultaneously, existing state fragility is hampering efforts at adaptation, particularly among vulnerable populations. This threatens to lock many societies into ‘fragility traps’.
Based on a thorough assessment of existing policies on climate change adaptation, development cooperation and humanitarian aid, and peacebuilding, the work by Adelphi, Germany identified several compound risks and recommends that the G7 take concrete action, both as individual members and jointly, to tackle climate-fragility risks and increase resilience.
The compound risks identified are very relevant for the current political discourse in Japan on converging trends (demographic development, urbanisation, etc.) and on issues such as energy security, climate mitigation and adaptation, and disaster risk reduction (DRR).
The overall goal of the session is to raise awareness on climate-fragility risks and implications for sustainable development in Japan. The session will inform audience the results from the joint-research being carried out by Adelphi-IGES with focus on Japanese audience, including results from an expert meeting held in June.
Presentation
 | Lukas RuttingerHis work focuses on the links between environmental change and conflict. He has worked on the security implications of climate change for the UN, the OSCE, the European Commission, the European External Action Service, the German Foreign Ministry, and the G7. He is a specialist, evaluator and trainer on environment, natural resources and conflicts. In addition to analyzing the security implications of climate change, he has developed methods and instruments for analysing and managing conflicts concerning natural resources. He has advised development organisations on sustainable development in post-conflict countries, and devised policies and strategies for tackling complex challenges relating to the environment, resources, instability and conflict. Close | PDF (1.7MB) |
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Panelists
 | Keith AlversonDr. Alverson joins UNEP’s International Environmental Technology Centre (UNEP IETC) as its new director in July 2016 following five years as the Coordinator of Freshwater, Land and Climate Branch of the Division on Environmental Policy Implementation at the UNEP in Nairobi, Kenya. In this role he coordinated, inter alia, UNEP's Ecosystems Based Adaptation Climate Change program of work and the Global Climate Change Adaptation Network. From 2004-2011, Keith served as Head of Ocean Observations and Services at the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO and director of the Global Ocean Observing System, based in Paris, France. Prior to 2004, he was director of the International Geosphere Biosphere Programme's core project Past Global Changes (PAGES) in Bern, Switzerland. Keith has degrees in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and East Asian Studies from Princeton University (1988) and a doctorate in Physical Oceanography from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (1995). He has over 100 publications and has served on number of high level scientific panels. Close | |
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 | Mikio IshiwatariDr. Ishiwatari works at JICA as a Senior Advisor (disaster management and water resource management). He worked at the World Bank as Senior Disaster Risk Management Specialist and as the focal point for the “Learning from Mega-disaster: Lessons from the Great East Japan Earthquake” project in Tokyo. He led formulation of the Japanese assistance policies of climate change adaptation and community-based disaster management and led the preparation and supervision of various JICA projects. He was instrumental in producing several project reviews and papers in the field of disaster risk reduction. Earlier, he worked at various positions of water resources management at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport, Japan for 17 years. He worked as Urban Development Specialist at the Asian Development Bank. Close | PDF (2.8MB) |
 | Takehiko MurayamaHe specializes in environmental planning and policy such as environmental impact assessment, risk assessment, management and communication as well as consensus building with stakeholders. Since 2004, he is a chair of JICA advisory committee on environmental and social consideration for relatively large-scale projects. Currently, he is also a member of the committee on EIA of the Central Environment Council and a co-chair of policy dialogue on chemicals and the environment, Ministry of the Environment. In addition, he has been involved in activities relevant to recovery and reconstruction in Fukushima region where was damaged by the nuclear disasters in 2011. Close | PDF (3.9MB) |
Moderator
Rajib ShawProf. Shaw is the Executive Director of the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) programme of International Council of Science, and also the Senior Fellow of Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES). He is also the chairperson of SEEDS Asia, a Japanese NGO. Previously, he was a Professor in the Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies of Kyoto University, Japan. His expertise includes community-based disaster risk management, climate change adaptation, urban risk management, and disaster and environmental education. He is the editor of a book series on disaster risk reduction, published by Springer, and is the Co-chair of UN ISDR’s Asia Science Technology Academic Advisory Group (ASTAAG). Prof. Shaw has published extensively in scientific journals and books. Close |
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| Date & Time | 12 July 2016, 15:30-17:00 | Language | English /Japanese |
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| Venue | Room502, Pacifico Yokohama Conference Center | Session No. | PL-2 |