Platform – Virtual (ZOOM)
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Introduction
The impacts of climate change threaten to undo hard-won gains in sustainable development that countries have made in recent decades. Climate change is putting increasing strain on biophysical systems, including land, water, biodiversity, and ecosystems, and exacerbating food insecurity and poverty across the globe. Poor and vulnerable people, who contribute little to global carbon emissions, are affected the most by climate change and are the least equipped to cope and adapt. Following decades of inroads in reducing extreme poverty, progress on Goal 1 (No Poverty) and Goal 2 (Zero Hunger) has halted. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, more people have been pushed back to living in extreme poverty and severe food insecurity. There is a clear overlap between the people living in poverty and those facing food insecurity. Both groups are also the most vulnerable to climate change impacts and face the most severe climate related impacts on their livelihoods. Reducing these vulnerabilities, by fostering and securing livelihoods, will strengthen the resilience of resilience of poor and vulnerable groups to climate impacts and help reignite progress on SDG 1 and 2. Transformative change is necessary to meet the global development goals amid the changing climate of the planet. It must occur in how resources are managed and allocated, and by pursuing SDGs and decarbonisation in a way that is inclusive, especially for the most vulnerable people in the region, namely women, older persons, children, persons with disabilities and indigenous peoples. The key enablers of transformative change range from education and financing to regional cooperation and multi-stakeholder partnerships. The enablers require action from the public and private sectors, and various stakeholders, such as education and research institutions, financial institutions, civil society and international organisations. The action must be taken at the local, national, regional and global level. Only then we can ensure that policymakers and other stakeholders take action at the climate poverty-hunger nexus.
Objective
While the interlinkages between climate, poverty and food insecurity are complex, yet clear, so too is the need for integrated responses to these challenges. We will delve on bringing climate action, poverty reduction and hunger alleviation closer together and present a vital opportunity to drive effective implementation for transformational change. This high level policy dialogue is organized to provides a stocktake of climate impacts on Goal 1 (no poverty) and Goal 2 (zero hunger), with analysis of impacts. Importantly, we will try to identify the lessons and practices from across the globe that can provide inspiration for ways forward on accelerating climate action while reducing poverty and hunger.
High Level Panel of Speakers |
Dr. Arvind Kumar |
Dr. Amit Ghosh |
 Dr. Arvind Kumar is a strategist and key-influencer in development sector with more than 29 plus years of experience as an author, columnist, Water and Human Rights Pro-activist, and specializes in concepts like ecosystem-based adaptation, water-energy-food nexus, with specific emphasis on Transversal approach of inter-linkages between water, environment and SDGs. He has published over 500 plus research articles and several books. He is a proud recipient of Achievers Award for his contribution to the Environment from International Human Rights Organization in collaboration with United Nations Information Centre, India. |
 Shri Amit Kumar Ghosh, an I.A.S. Officer of the Uttar Pradesh Cadre holds a B.E. (Electronics) from the Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, M.Sc in Public Management and Governance from London School of Economics and M.A. in Defence Studies from Meerut University. He is holding the post of Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, Government of India and is responsible for formulating schemes and programmes for the welfare of the disadvantaged sections of the society. |
| H.E. Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus | Dr. Nagesh Kumar |
 Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was elected WHO Director-General for a five-year term by WHO Member States at the Seventieth World Health Assembly in May 2017. He is the first person from the WHO African Region to head the world’s leading public health agency. After taking office as WHO Director-General on 1 July 2017, Dr Tedros initiated the most significant transformation in the Organization’s history, which has generated a wide range of achievements. |
 Dr. Nagesh Kumar is the Director and Chief Executive of the Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (ISID). Prior to taking up this role in May 2021, Dr Kumar served as Director at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission of Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), holding several senior management roles during 2009-21 including as Chief Economist, Director of Macroeconomic Policy and Financing for Development Division and Social Development Division at the UNESCAP headquarters in Bangkok and as Head of the South and South-West Asia Office located in New Delhi, that he also had the privilege of establishing. |
| Dr. Satya S. Tripathi | Dr. Katsuo Matsumoto |
 Dr. Satya S. Tripathi is Secretary-General of the Global Alliance for a Sustainable Planet. A development economist, lawyer and changemaker with over 40 years of varied experience, Mr. Tripathi is also the Chancellor of Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences – and Senior Distinguished Fellow on Innovative Finance at the World Agroforestry Centre. He has served with the UN for more than two decades in key positions and was most recently the UN Assistant Secretary-General, Head of New York Office at UN Environment and Secretary of the UN Environment Management Group. |
 Dr. Katsuo Matsumoto is the Director General, Infrastructure Engineering Department, JICA, He has been the Chief Representative, JICA India office from June 2018 to August 2021. He has worked for the Official Development Assistance (ODA) projects in ASEAN and the South Asian countries, including regional corridor projects for the past 30 years. He graduated from Hitotsubashi university, and has worked with Overseas Development Cooperation Fund (OECF), Japan International Cooperation Bank (JBIC) and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). He obtained a master’s degree from Columbia University in the U.S. and a Ph.D. from University of Tokyo. |
| Dr. Roderico H. Ofrin | Mr. Svante Helms |
 Dr. Roderico H. Ofrin is WHO Representative in India. Dr Ofrin comes with a rich experience of over two decades in public health, mostly in WHO’s South-East Asia Region. His extensive experience and expertise covers critical issues impacting health of people in the 11 Member countries, including India. Associated with WHO since 2002, Dr Ofrin has served in multiple roles starting as a Public Health Officer in a war-ravaged island nation of Timor-Leste, assisting in setting up of its health systems. He holds a Doctor of Medicine from the University of the Philippines; and a Master’s in Public Health from Hebrew University Hadassah, Israel. |
 As the Hub’s National Pathway Manager, Mr Svante Helms leads the Hub’s country assistance and coordination of country support with other food system actors. He is in direct contact with National Convenors and governments; UN agencies, IFIs, CSOs, and other actors at country level; and he is engaging with food system coalitions and networks on how best to provide country assistance. Svante is seconded by the WFP and comes from a position as Country Director for WFP in Bhutan, where he led inter-agency food system assistance to the government through close Rome-based agency partnership; food system dialogues, pathway development and translation into national strategy frameworks; connecting the climate and food system agenda and mobilising resources for the government for national pathway implementation. He brings 18 years of experience with the UN. Prior to that, Svante worked with the Red Cross, is also a founder of tech and tourism startups and an author. |
| Dr. Katinka Weinberger | Mr. Ruhiza Jean Boroto |
 Dr. Katinka Weinberger is currently Chief of the Environment and Development Policy Section (EDPS) in UNESCAP responsible for the assessment of key emerging issues related to the environment and the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development and coordinates regional responses, including on climate ambition, food systems, ecosystems health and environmental governance. She has twenty-five years of experience in agriculture, environment and sustainable development at international level, working through multi stakeholder processes, and focusing on the interconnections of economic, social and environmental dimensions of development. |
 Mr. Ruhiza Jean Boroto is Senior Land and Water Officer at FAO. He develops and manages the Global Framework on Water Scarcity in Agriculture in the context of climate change, a Partnership established in April 2017 and hosted by FAO, consisting of government agencies, international organizations, research institutions, advocacy groups and professional/membership organizations all committed to collaborate in identifying priority actions for the adaptation and scaling up of successful responses to increasing water scarcity and climate change threats to agriculture production. |
| Ms. Shweta Tyagi | |
 Ms. Shweta Tyagi is Chief Functionary, India Water Foundation. She is results-focused development sector professional with a 23 plus years of demonstrated history and a proven ability to manage project teams to deliver multiple projects and programmes across diverse sectors of sustainable Development, Water and Sanitation, Social Development, Livelihood Generation, climate change etc. Excellent knowledge of project management and strategic planning of partnership creation and coordination, as well as advising decision-makers and strengthening capacities. Experience of Natural Resource management among rural communities for implementing. |
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