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Dr. Sandra Piesik

Dr Sandra Piesik is an award-winning architect, author and researcher specialising in the implementation of global sustainable legislation, nature-based solutions and traditional knowledge adaptation. She is the founder of 3 ideas B.V. Amsterdam based consultancy, a Visiting Professor at the UCL Global Institute for Prosperity, former Policy Support Consultant on Rural – Urban Dynamics to UNCCD and a contributor to the UN-HABITAT “Urban-Rural Linkages: Guiding Principles and Framework for Action to Advance Integrated Territorial Development”.

Dr Piesik is a stakeholder and network member of several UN organisations including UNFCCC: The Resilience Frontiers, the Nairobi Work Programme (NWP), the Paris Committee on Capacity Building (PCCB) and Climate and Technology Centre & Network (CTCN).

Her published work includes Arish: Palm-Leaf Architecture (published by: Thames & Hudson in 2012), she is also the general editor of the encyclopaedia, HABITAT: Vernacular Architecture for a Changing Planet (published by: Thames & Hudson, Abrams Books, Flammarion, Editions Detail and Blume in 2017).  

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Dr. Kusum Lata

Kusum Lata is a professional in the field of climate change working on policies, strategies, capacity building. Presently, she is a well-known expert on economic diversification and just transition of the workforce while she leads the support to international negotiations on the impact of the mitigation policies. She has written technical papers for international negotiations, research papers in reputed journals and chapters in books in the area of her progressive career. She spent the first fifteen years of her career working in India on developing technology for bio-methanation (waste to energy) and biomass gasification and shares two patents through her research.  She completed her doctorate in the field of waste to energy and published many research papers in reputed journals for her doctoral degree research work. Later, she also established herself as qualified technical lead assessor and undertook more than fifty audits in the duration of five years with UNFCCC for accrediting organizations for validating and verifying carbon emission reduction projects. She enjoys working on projects which directly impact the life of people especially in developing countries, which inspired her to work over six months in Togo, Africa to support development and implementation of projects like efficient cook stoves, waste management etc.

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Mr. Christoph Schwarte

Christoph Schwarte is a qualified German lawyer with over 20 years of practical experience in different arenas of international environmental law. He is the executive director of Legal Response International (LRI) - a London based charity that provides free legal support to developing countries and civil society observer organisations in connection with the international climate negotiations. Christoph was a member of the International Law Association’s Committee that developed legal principles related to climate change (adopted in 2014) and has been actively involved in the international climate negotiation for many years. He has co-authored a guide book on the Paris Agreement and regularly advises on climate law. Previously, Christoph served with the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) as an Associate Officer (P-2) and worked at the Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development (FIELD).

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Dr. Moustapha Kamal Gueyeata

Dr Moustapha Kamal Gueye is Coordinator, Green Jobs Programme, at the International Labour Organization. Previously, he served as Head, Green Economy Advisory Services at the United Nations Environment Programme and as a Senior Programme Manager at the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development in Geneva. Earlier, he spent twelve years across Asia working at the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies in Japan. He currently serves in the Steering Group of the Green Economy Coalition and the Advisory Committee of GEO for Business. Kamal holds a Ph.D. from Nagoya University, Japan; DEA and LL.M from Dakar University; and Executive Certificates from the World Bank Institute; Columbia University; Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development, Japan; and Integrated Research and Action for Development, India.

Knowledge Hub

Gender considerations and gender-responsive action for resilient and climate-friendly food systems

14th November, 2022
9.30 a.m. – 10.45 a.m. EEST
Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt

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Gender considerations and gender-responsive action for resilient and climate-friendly food systems

14th November, 2022
9.30 a.m. – 10.45 a.m. EEST
Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt

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IntroductionObjectivesStructureAgenda

Introduction

The impacts of climate change exacerbate underlying vulnerabilities as well as inequalities and often disproportionately affect women. This can include direct economic losses but also non-economic, informal, and unrecorded losses and damages, gender-based violence, displacement, or impacts on health and wellbeing. However, women are not only affected by climate change but can also be critical agents of change and contribute their unique knowledge, capacities, skills, and innovations. 

Therefore, it is vital for any efforts towards food system transformation to acknowledge and address differential risks, impacts, capacities, and priorities. For example, this could include removing access barriers and inequalities; providing livelihood opportunities; conducting capacity-building and entrepreneurship support; developing gender-responsive risk management and finance mechanisms; and empowering women and women-led organizations to engage in climate action and climate related policy processes. 

The session will focus on the importance of building risk-informed, resilient, inclusive, and participatory food systems through gender-responsive policies, plans, and actions. By exploring the role of different stakeholders and identifying good practices, initiatives, and case studies, it aims to enhance gender-responsive food system transformation across the world and connect actors on the local, national, and global level.

Objectives

  • Creating awareness on effective approaches to mainstream and integrate gender considerations as well as intersectional issues into a just food systems transition.

  • Collecting and exchanging knowledge on existing initiatives, good practices, success stories, and case studies related to inclusive, gender-responsive, and participatory climate action in food systems.

  • Enhancing understanding of the role of different actors and networks on strengthening gender integration into climate action and food system transformation, particularly in the context of national policymaking and climate negotiations under the UNFCCC.

  • Highlighting practices, mechanisms, and tools for gender-responsive just transition which could be replicated or scaled up in collaboration between a variety of actors, including the public sector, the private sector, civil society, community-based organizations, women- and youth-led organizations, youth, researchers, and media.

  • Just transition in the energy sector
    - Key elements to ensure just transition in the energy sector
    - Gaps and challenges faced in integrating aspects and strategies of just transition in the energy sector
    - Institutional structures and role of actors in achieving just transition in the energy sector
    - Entry points and opportunities for integrating just transition into climate policy initiatives and actions
    - Success stories, best practices, and experience sharing on initiatives

  • Ensuring just transition in the food sector
    - Key elements of just transition and their relation to global and local food systems
    - Gaps and challenges faced in integrating aspects and strategies of just transition in the food sector
    - Institutional structures and role of actors in achieving just transition in the food sector
    - Entry points and opportunities for integrating just transition into climate policy initiatives and actions
    - Success stories, best practices, and experience sharing on initiatives

  • Gender, inclusion, social protection, and cross-cutting aspects related to just transition
    - Key cross-cutting aspects related to just transition
    - Interlinks for integration of just transition with climate action and into different climate policy and action processes
    - Impacts of COVID-19 and the role of recovery actions in contributing toward just transition
    - Success stories, best practices, and experience sharing on initiatives

Agenda

Agenda

9.30 a.m. - 9.35 a.m.

Welcome & Introduction

Dennis Mombauer

Director: Research & Knowledge Management
SLYCAN Trust

9.35 a.m. - 10.25 a.m.

Panelists

Vositha Wijenayake

Executive Director
SLYCAN Trust

Corry van Gaal

Deputy Director
Food Systems Finance Program
Government of Canada

Dr. Nandini Azad

President
Indian Co-operative Network of Women Limited

Ms. Heylin Reyes Sánchez

Project Manager
Kábata Könana Indigenous Women Association

10.25 a.m. - 10.40 a.m.

Open discussion with audience interventions

2.10 p.m. – 2.15 p.m.

Recap and Closing Remarks

Dennis Mombauer

Director: Research & Knowledge Management
SLYCAN Trust