Iyaleta coordinates panels on "Adaptation Policies and Cities" at COP27
Activities with researchers and activists at Brazil Climate Action Hub presents the Global South’s view on climate change and reducing inequalities
Transferring knowledge for the implementation of adaptation actions based on the experiences and institutional research from the Global South are strategies that will be presented at the Brazil Climate Action Hub at the 27th Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC (COP27), in the city of Sharm El-Sheikh – Egypt, on November 11th (Friday) by 10:00 am-12:45 pm (Egyptian time) / 5:00 pm-7:45 am (Brasília time), with the Panels “Adaptation Policies and Cities” and “Strategies and Adaptation for the urgent transition of Food Systems” (online broadcasting).
The activity has as organizers the Iyaleta Research Association (coordination), Greenpeace Brasil, City Hall of Rio de Janeiro, Grupo Boticário Foundation, Working goup Climate and Ocean from the Climate Observatory, FUA Agroecological Fund, WWF-Brasil, Center for Sustainability Studies of Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV)Brazilian Institute of Consumer Protection, Carta de Belém Group, Federation of Organs for Social and Educational Assistance (Fase), and Institute of Socioeconomic Studies (Inesc).
The first Panel, “Adaptation Policies and Cities” will be presented in a confluence format based on the exchange of experiences and research of the institutions that compose the activity. Each of them experiences the means to live in the Global South and, therefore, seeks advancement in the negotiations and approval of the mechanisms and financing of policies that reduce the impacts of climate events on ocean biodiversity and eliminate inequalities on the populations. The organizations exhibiting on this panel are the Iyaleta Research Association, Greenpeace, Grupo Boticário Foundation, and the Climate and Ocean WG of the Climate Observatory.
The panelists are: Diosmar Filho – researcher from Iyaleta Research Association; Daniela Costa, Greenpeace Brazil’s Climate and Justice manager; and André Rocha Ferretti, from Boticário Foundation Group. On the occasion, the Strategies for National Adaptation Plans: A case study from Brazil” will be launched, and the studies “Ocean without mysteries: unraveling adaptation and climate resilience” and the dialogue “Adaptation to climate change in the urban boundaries of the Legal Amazon” will be presented.
The second panel, “Strategies and Adaptation for the urgent transition of Food Systems”, count on researchers and activists who will present the dimensions of Agriculture in the Paris Agreement: climate, biodiversity, and food systems at risk; Food for the health of populations and the planet. There will also be the exchange of evidence, recommendations, and local experiences with potential replicability and gain of scale, from the “Pathways to food security and impacts of climate change on food production: multi-stakeholder panel” to the “Challenges of Fighting Hunger in the post-pandemic context.” The exhibiting organizations for this panel are: FUA Fundo Agroecológico, FGV, IDEC, Fase/Grupo Carta de Belém, and Inesc.
The panelists are: Aline Carvalho, coordinating professor of the Sustentare Project at the University of São Paulo – USP; Letícia Tura, national executive director of Fase/Grupo Carta de Belém; Izabela Borba, administrative coordinator of FUA (Fundo Agroecológico); and Anine Giuberti Coutinho, coordinator of the Healthy and Sustainable Food Program – IDEC).
The two panels will be mediated by Diosmar Filho, researcher at the Iyaleta Research Association.
