DRAFT
UNFCCC seminar on the development and transfer of environmentally sound technologies for adaptation to climate change
Hilton hotel, Tobago, Trinidad and Tobago14-16 June 2005
Introduction
The Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) at its twentieth session, requested the secretariat, subject to the availability of resources,to organize in early 2005 a seminar on the development and transfer of environmentally sound technologies (ESTs) for adaptation to climate change in order to discuss case studies encompassing short-, medium- and long-term examples of their application, and to report on the findings of this seminar to the SBSTA at its twenty-second session[1]
The SBSTA, at its twenty-first session, noted that the seminar on the development and transfer of ESTs for adaptation to climate change, will be held at the end of June 2005, as mandated by the SBSTA at its twentieth session.
The Expert Group on Technology Transfer (EGTT) at its sixth meeting, prepared the terms of reference for the above-mentioned seminar.
Objectives and scope
The seminar will provide an opportunity for experts from governments, inter-governmental and non-governmental organizations and representatives for the private sector to exchange views and experiences on a range of activities relating to ESTs for adaptation to climate change including concepts, needs for, and identification and evaluation of, technologies for adaptation, experiences and lessons learned and possible next steps in developing, transferring and applying these technologies.
The seminar will have a practical focus, utilizing to the greatest extent possible actual situations and experiences and will address adaptation in a holistic manner. It will be built around a series of case studies encompassing the experience of a range of stakeholders and stages of technology to meet the needs identified during technology needs assessments (TNAs) and on the previous activities (workshop, reports) undertaken by the secretariat, which are relevant to adaptation.
Expected outcome
1. Generate a broader understanding of key stakeholders, Parties, IGOs and the private sector on the issue of technologies for adaptation to climate change in order to advance the transfer of technology to developing countries.
2. Identify options for practical steps to be undertaken by Parties and relevant stakeholders.
3. A preliminary list of available technologies for adaptation in the context in which they were applied.
4. Provide substantive inputs for the forthcoming technical paper on applications of ESTs for adaptation to climate change, which will be available for consideration by the SBSTA at its twenty-fourth session.
UNFCCC seminar on the development and transfer of environmentally sound technologies for adaptation to climate change
Hilton hotel, Tobago, Trinidad and Tobago
14-16 June 2005
[Version 1 - April 5, 2005]
Draft agenda
Tuesday - 14 June
9:00 – 10:00Registration
10:00 – 10:20Welcome and openingMr. Abdullatif S. Benrageb, Chair, Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological AdviceMr. Kishan Kumarshing, Chair, Expert Group on Technology TransferMr. Janos Pasztor, Coordinator, Sustainable Development Programme,UNFCCC secretariat
10:20 – 10:45Keynote address
[Deputy Minister] [Ministry of Environment], Trinidad Tobago
10:45 – 11:15Coffee break [provide opportunity for departure of dignitaries]
Session I: Setting the scene
Part I: Background
Welcome and opening by Chair – Mr. Kishan Kumarshing, Chair, EGTT
11:15 – 11:30Background and context – Ms. Wanna Tanunchaiwatana, Manager, Technology, UNFCCC secretariat
11:30 – 11:45Technologies for adaptation to climate change under the UNFCCC process – Mr. Florin Vladu, Programme Officer, Technology, UNFCCC secretariat
11:45 – 12:30Presentation of the background paper on “Applications of environmentally sound technologies for adaptation to climate change”– UNFCCC consultant
Part II: Seminar expectations
12:30-13:15Comments and inputs from participants on seminar expectations:
- Lead-off comments by representatives from xx, xx, xx, and the xx
- Floor open to all participants
13:15 – 14:30Lunch break
Session II: Environmentally sound technologies for adaptation to climate change
Part I: Needs for technologies
14:30 –14:40Opening by session Chair – Mr. Kishan Kumarsingh, Chair of EGTT
14:40 –15:40Methodologies for technology needs assessments (TNAs) and experience in conducting these studies
- The UNDP-GEF handbook for conducting TNAs and its use, representative of UNDP
- Particularities of TNAs for technologies for adaptation, Mr. Kishan Kumarsingh, Trinidad and Tobago and Chair, EGTT
- CTI experience on supporting Parties to assess their needs for technologies for adaptation, representative of CTI
15:40 –16:00Synthesis of needs for technologies for adaptation as expressed in TNAs, National Communications and other national reports
Mr. Florin Vladu, UNFCCC secretariat
16:00 –16:30Coffee break
16:30 –16:50Experiences from the NAPA process – Mr. Paul Desanker, Chair of the Least Developed Countries Expert Group (LEG)
16:50 –17:10Experiences from national communications – Ms. Emily Ojoo-Massawa, Chair of the Consultative Group of Experts (CGE) on National Communications from non-Annex I Parties
17:10 – 17:40Questions and answers
17:40 – 17:50First day wrap up by the Chair, Mr. Kishan Kumarsingh
Wednesday - 15 June
Part II: Identification and evaluation of technologies for adaptation to climate change
09:00 –09:10Opening by session Chair - Prof. Bernard Mazijn, Vice Chair, EGTT
09:10 –09:30[Fresh]Water resources and agriculture tbd and representative of FEO
09:50 –10:10Coastal zones tbd
10:10 –10:30Human health tbd
10:30 –11:00Coffee break
11:00 –11:20Forestry tbd
11:20 – 11:50Questions and answers
Session III: On-going activities and possible synergy
Part I: Financing the transfer of technologies for adaptation to climate change
11:50 –12:10Trends in financial flows and options for innovative financing of technology transfer Mr. Daniele Violetti, UNFCCC secretariat
12:10 –12:30Innovative options for financing the transfer of technologies for adaptation tbd
12:30 –14:00Lunch break
Part II: Possible synergy with on-going activities
14:00 – 14:20Technologies for adaptation to climate change in other MEAs and potential synergy representative of the CBD secretariat, representative of the CCD secretariat
14:20 – 14:50[Mainstreaming climate change adaptation into development assistance and planning: challenges and opportunities representative of OECD][Mainstreaming the transfer of technologies for adaptation into national sustainable development strategies and development cooperation representative of the World Bank]
14:50 – 15:30Questions and answers
15:30 –16:00Coffee break
Session IV: Endogenous technologies for adaptation to climate change
16:00 – 16:20Opening by session Chair - Mr. William Agyemang-Bonsu, Ghana
16:20 – 16:50Endogenous technologies for adaptation to climate change: examples and lessons learned tbd
16:50 - 17:10Regional and global mechanisms to exchange views on and cooperate in the development and diffusion of endogenous technologies for adaptation tbd
17:10 – 17:40Questions and answers
17:40 – 17:50Second day wrap up by Prof. Bernard Mazijn and Mr. William Agyemang-Bonsu, session Chairs
Workgroup discussion on technologies for adaptation in the context of the UNFCCC
17:50 -18:20Set-up two parallel workgroups and distribution and discussion of guiding questions
Open evening
Thursday - 16 June
Workgroup discussion on technologies for adaptation in the context of the UNFCCC
09:00 -12:00Workgroup discussion
12:00 –12:30Reports from the working groups
17:10 – 17:40Questions and answers
12:30 –14:00Lunch break
Session IV: Outcomes and possible ways forward
14:00 – 14:10Opening by session Chair - Mr. Kok Kee Chow, EGTT member
14:10 – 16:00Roundtable debate of the way forward
(facilitated discussion by Chair among all participants, guided by a limited set of topical questions)
16:00 – 16:20Conclusions by Ms. Wanna Tanunchaiwatana, Manager, Technology UNFCCC secretariat and Mr. Kishan Kumarsingh, Chair, EGTT
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[1] FCCC/SBSTA/2004/6