Introduction

Climate change increasingly impacts communities, countries, and ecosystems, leading to serious loss and damage as well as changing patterns of human mobility. To enhance climate action and contribute to building long-term resilience, SLYCAN Trust has signed a partnership agreement with the Government of Niger to collaborate on a range of activities including evidence generation on loss and damage, human mobility, cultural loss, resilience-building, and youth engagement. The event will also launch the EthicalX: Climate & Innovation Hub in Niger, which is established to support and enhance ethical, sustainable, and climate-friendly entrepreneurship in the country.
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This workshop is organized by SLYCAN Trust and its representatives in Niger, Jeunes Volontaires pour l’Environnement du Niger (JVE-Niger) and Réseau de la Jeunesse Nigérienne sur le Changement Climatique (RJNCC)

Objectives

• Engage stakeholders and collect inputs on climate-induced loss and damage and human mobility in Niger.

• Create awareness and highlight existing evidence as well as needs for evidence creation on a local, national, and regional level.

• Contribute to the analysis of policies and the enabling environment on climate-related human mobility and loss and damage.

• Strengthen collaboration for climate action, resilience-building, and entrepreneurship in Niger as well as public-private and multi-actor partnerships.

• Launch the partnership between SLYCAN Trust, its local representatives, and the Government of Niger.

• Launch the establishment of an EthicalX: Climate & Innovation Hub in Niger and identify needs, opportunities, and synergies related to ethical, sustainable, climate-friendly, and resilient entrepreneurship in the country.

• Map a way forward for collaboration, evidence generation, and engagement with relevant regional and international processes on climate change with key stakeholders in Niger.

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  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

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  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

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  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