🌍 Plenary Dialogues
Global Dialogue on Climate Change Adaptation & Disaster Risk Reduction
Each session of the Plenary Dialogue will be structured with a Keynote Address by an eminent speaker followed by Panel Discussion with 4 experts to be moderated by a subject matter specialist, all within the time frame of 90 minutes for each session.
Day 1: (3 June 2026)
1. Building Synergies and Accelerating CCA and DRR in Global, Regional, National and Local Plans and Strategies
- Integrated risk governance across global frameworks (Paris Agreement, Sendai Framework, SDGs, New Urban Agenda)
- Accelerating implementation of the frameworks
- Regional Initiatives for integrated risk governance
- Experience with national, sub-national and local plans
2. Climate-Resilient Agriculture and Medicinal Plant Resources
- Biotechnology and Genomics for Climate-Smart Agriculture
- Harnessing Medicinal and Aromatic Plants for Sustainable Adaptation
- Indigenous Knowledge and Agroecology for Climate Change Resilience
3. Advancing Health Resilience through Modern Medicine and Nanotechnology
- Modern Medicine and Pharmaceutical Innovations – addressing climate-driven health risks and strengthening preparedness
- Nanomedicine and Nanodiagnostics – emerging tools for precision healthcare in the context of climate change
- Biotechnology for Health Resilience – leveraging molecular and cellular innovations to enhance adaptive capacity of health systems
Day 2: (4 June 2026)
4. Justice and Equity for Vulnerable Countries and Communities
- Inclusive climate-disaster risk management and sustainable development, 'leaving no one behind’
- Reducing vulnerabilities of poor and marginal communities
- Gender, climate and disasters
- Reducing risks of most vulnerable countries - SIDS and LDCs.
5. Financing Resilience: Closing Adaptation and DRR Investment Gap
- Adaptation gaps across regions and sectors
- Promises and Prospects of Adaptation Fund, Green Climate Fund, Loss and Damage Fund, Disaster Response and Mitigation Fund, Public-Private Partnerships and CSR
- Climate and disaster insurance for enhancing financial resilience
- Opportunities and challenges of emerging carbon markets for building resilience
Day 3: (5 June 2026)
6. Innovation and Technology for Climate and Disaster Resilience
- Early Warning Systems for mitigating climate and disaster risks
- Recent innovations in Remote Sensing, Drones and GIS technologies
- Climate and disaster resilient infrastructure.
- AI, robotics and big data analysis for climate and disaster risk management
7. Cities, Nature and Climate-Disaster Nexus
- Pattern and trend of climate and disaster risks in an urbanising world
- Building climate and disaster resilient cities
- Nature Based Solutions – opportunities and challenges
- Urban pollution and heat island effects and remedies
Day 4: (6 June 2026)
8. Tourism, Medical, Business Continuity Livelihood and Disaster Management
- Cross Industry Integration between different stakeholders
- Risk Management Tourism Industry
- Resilience, Recovery and Sustainable Tourism
9. Global-Local Convergence: From Policy to Practice
- Mechanisms to translate global frameworks into local actions.
- Lessons learnt on mainstreaming climate and disaster risk reduction in development plans
- Good and bad practices on community based DRR
- Lessons learnt on community based CCA
10. Resilience Action Agenda
- What needs to be done to accelerate implementation of global frameworks on CCA and DRR during 2025-2030
- Beyond 2030
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