As COVID-19 is wiping away years of our developmental progress in weeks, the ability to reinvent ourselves and rebuild is more critical than ever before. With the development sector grappling with shrinking resources, the way forward requires a coming together of all stakeholders - nonprofits, government, corporates, foundations, academia and philanthropists.
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This panel will explore questions around re-building with a focus on climate finance. Questions include: Will climate finance now become mainstream? If so, what should be done, and how? How do we join these re-building forces and use climate finance to its fullest?
Speakers - Saurabh Kumar, Harish Hande, Amb. Stig Traavik, Vineet Rai and Mahua Acharya
Session Partner - Climate Policy Initiative
Improving smallholder farmers’ climate resilience is critical, and requires increased access to crucial production resources - land, water, energy, credit. Our panel of experts, with extensive experience in philanthropy, research and implementation will discuss opportunities and approaches to move smallholder farming towards economic security and climate resilience.
Speakers - Vidya Shah, Girish Sohani, Mridula Ramesh and Ganesh Neelam
Session Partner - Tata Trusts, Collectives for Integrated Livelihood Initiatives (CInI)
How effective communications can help mitigate climate change and the lessons learnt from the current Covid-19 pandemic
The Covid-19 crisis has changed the world in a matter of a few months. This is a warning bell of what climate change is slowly bringing the world to. This panel will discuss the role communications can play in mitigating these crises and the lessons learnt from the current pandemic.
Speakers - Jarnail Singh, Anirban Ghosh, Bahar Dutt, Aarti Khosla and Harpreet Bagga
Session Partner - Purpose
The acuteness of the current COVID19 pandemic reaffirms the need — and offers us lessons — to enable collective action against the chronic challenges of non-linear climate risks. The session will focus on the technical, social, and political response needed at various levels to enhance climate action after the pandemic.
Speakers - Sir David King, Shri. Kamal Kishore, Shri. T Vijay Kumar, Sujata Kulshreshtha, Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad and Arunabha Ghosh
Session Partner - Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW)
The tiger is called the ‘striped water god’ as it is an indicator of the health of the tropical ecosystem, which in turn is the conveyor belt that provides climate stability, refuge to immense biodiversity and livelihood to hundreds of millions of humans. Saving tigers is synonymous with fighting climate change!
A talk by Dr. Anish Andheria
Session Partner - Wildlife Conservation Trust
