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Webinar 1: Making the Case for Integrated Climate and SDGs Action
Tuesday, 15 December 2020
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Webinar


Biographies

Webinar 1 provided participants with evidence they can use to advocate for climate & SDG synergies in their local context. Speakers illustrated and introduced evidence demonstrating the potential to tie climate action to higher levels of job growth and poverty reduction; human health; financing; food security; and resilience.

Guiding Questions:

  • How can SDG & Climate synergies be applied to generate jobs and sustain livelihoods? How are these benefits directed to the most vulnerable and poorest?
  • What financial gains or benefits can be realized by applying SDGs & Climate synergies?
  • What links human health to climate action and other SDGs? What examples best illustrate?
  • With increased food insecurity, how do we make the case for climate & SDGs synergies in agriculture and related sectors?

Watch Webinar 1 Recording:

Program​me:

Opening by Moderator Paul T. Yillia, Director of Operations, The Energy Nexus Network (TENN)

Illustrating the Potential of Climate & SDG Co-Benefits

Jobs, Poverty Reduction and Finance:

  • Leonardo Garrido, Lead Economist, New Climate Economy
    Presentation
  • Mandy Rambharos, Head of Just Energy Transition, Eskom

Human Health, Food Security and Resilience:

  • Huda Jaffer, Director, SELCO-Foundation
  • Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum, Coordinator climate change and health program, World Health Organization (WHO)
    Presentation
  • Deissy Martinez Baron, Regional Program Leader for Latin America of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
    Presentation
Biographies
Deissy Martinez Baron
Regional Programme Leader, CIGAR
Deissy Martinez Baron

Regional Programme Leader, CIGAR

Bio



Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum
Coordinator climate change and health program, World Health Organization (WHO)
Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum

Coordinator climate change and health program, World Health Organization (WHO)

Bio

Huda Jaffer
Director, SELCO-Foundation
Huda Jaffer

Director, SELCO-Foundation

Bio

Leonardo Garrido
Lead Economist, New Climate Economy
Leonardo Garrido

Lead Economist, New Climate Economy

Bio

Mandy Rambharos
Head of Just Energy Transition, Eskom
Mandy Rambharos

Head of Just Energy Transition, Eskom

Bio

Paul T. Yillia
Director of Operations, The Energy Nexus Network (TENN)
Paul T. Yillia

Director of Operations, The Energy Nexus Network (TENN)

Bio


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