Climate Change and Security

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1 Climate Change and Security Training organized in the framework of the Environment and Security (ENVSEC) Initiative project Climate Change and Security in Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Southern Caucasus Draft Agenda The Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC) 9 11 Ady Endre ut, 2000, Szentendre, Hungary January 31 February 2, 2017

2 Day 1. Part 1: Linkages between climate change and security Date: January 31, 2017 Location: REC Conference Center, plenary room Address: REC, Szentendre, Hungary Time 08:30 Departure time from the hotel 08:45 09:30 Registration of participants 09:30 10:15 Opening Welcome remarks: Ms. Marta Szigeti Bonifert, Executive Director, REC Welcome remarks by ENVSEC partners: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) - Dr. Yurdakul Yigitguden, Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) - Mr. Alisher Mamadzhanov, Environmental Affairs Officer United Nations Environmental Programme (UN Environment) - Mr. Harald Egerer, Head of Vienna Programme Office - Secretariat of the Carpathian Convention United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) - Mr. Stanislav Kim, Programme Specialist Climate Change and Security in the Context of the UNFCCC keynote speech by Mr. Mihail Dimovski, incoming Executive Director, REC Chair: Ms. Gordana Kozhuharova, ENVSEC Regional Desk Officer for SEE, REC 10:15 11:00 Session 1: Overview of the ENVSEC project Climate Change and Security in Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Southern Caucasus Objective: This session will introduce the project and its outcomes, including the training on climate change and security Chair: Dr. Yurdakul Yigitguden, Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities, OSCE 10:15 10:35 ENVSEC project Climate Change and Security in Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Southern Caucasus : Main achievements and outputs Ms. Christine Kitzler, Project Coordinator, OSCE 2

3 10:35 11:00 Introduction to the training on climate change and security and training materials: Objectives and expected outcomes Ms. Mariia Khovanskaia, Senior Expert, REC 11:00 11:15 Coffee break 11:15 12:00 Session 2: Understanding security in the world of a changing climate Objective: This session demonstrates the climate change and security discourse in the context of international climate change negotiations Chair: Mr. Harald Egerer, Head of Vienna Programme Office - Secretariat of the Carpathian Convention, UN Environment 11:15 11:30 Climate change and security in the Fifth IPCC Assessment Report 11:30 12:00 Overview of approaches in research works on climate security. Perceptions of climate change and security risks among communities and individuals (through Skype) Ms. Mariia Khovanskaia, Senior Expert, REC Mr. Roman Kharitonov, Senior Environmental Policy Advisor, National Ecology and Nature Center of Ukraine; Mr. Sergey Kurykin, Senior Expert 12:00 15:30 Session 3: Training on climate change and security assessments Objective: Participants will be presented with a methodology for identifying (regional) climate change and security risks and climate change and security hot spots. Under the guidance of the trainers, participants will assess climate change and security risks for a number of text-book cases and selected potential climate change and security hot spots. The conclusions will be presented at the plenary session. Chair: Mr. Eduardas Kazakevicius, Senior Expert (Climate Change and Clean Energy), REC Trainers: Ms. Mariia Khovanskaia, Ms. Olga Semkiv, Ms. Natalia Alexeeva Resource materials: Excerpt from the Unified methodology of a regional assessment of security impacts of climate change and climate change and security hot spots 12:00 12:30 Climate change and security in the context of the ENVSEC project Climate Change and Security in Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Southern Caucasus. Unified methodology for the regional assessment of the security impacts of climate change and the identification of climate change and security hot spots. Ms. Ieva Rucevska, Expert, Grid Arendal 3

4 12:30 13:00 Work in groups All participants Lunch break 14:00 15:00 Work in groups (continuation) All participants 15:00 15:30 Reporting of groups to the plenary Rapporteurs of the working groups 15:30 15:45 Coffee break Day 1. Part 2: Adaptation to climate change and security risks Good practices and lessons learnt for elaboration and implementation of adaptation strategies Time 15:45 16:45 Session 4: Energy security Adaptation to climate change and security risks Objective: This session examines how to introduce energy security considerations into climate adaptation planning. The security of energy supply infrastructure will be introduced as a case study as one aspect of energy security. Chair: Mr. Stanislav Kim, Programme Specialist, UNDP Resource materials: Module Energy security under climate change impacts 15:45 16:15 Presentation of the training module: Energy security under climate change impacts 16:15 16:45 Case study: Climate change impacts on energy infrastructure as an integral part of energy security Mr. Danko Aleksic, Expert, REC Ms. Edua Malatinszky, Expert, Klimapolitika 16:45 17:45 Session 5: Food security Adaptation to climate change and security risks Objective: This session examines how to introduce food security considerations into climate adaptation planning. The security of supply chains will be introduced as a case study as one of the important aspects of food security. Chair: Mr. Alisher Mamadzhanov, Environmental Affairs Officer, UNECE Resource materials: Module Food security under climate change impacts 16:45 17:15 Presentation of the training module Food security under climate change impacts 4 Ms. Mariia Khovanskaia,

5 17:15 17:45 Case study: Security of supply chains as an integral part of food security Expert, REC Dr. Laszlo Pinter, Professor and Senior Fellow, Central European University & International Institute for Sustainable Development 17:45 18:00 Conclusions and closure of Day 1 Ms. Christine Kitzler, Project Coordinator, OSCE 18:00 20:55 Social event 21:00 Departure time to the hotel Day 2. Adaptation to climate change and security risks: Good practices and lessons learnt for the elaboration and implementation of adaptation strategies Date: February 01, 2017 Location: REC Conference Center, plenary room Address: REC, Szentendre, Hungary Time 8:45 Departure time from the hotel 09:10 09:30 Summary of Day 1; Objectives and agenda of Day 2 Ms. Mariia Khovanskaia, Senior Expert, REC 09:30 11:00 Session 6: Public health security Adaptation to climate change and security risks Objective: This session examines how to introduce climate security considerations into the adaptation of the public health sector. Budapest s Heat Alert System will be introduced as a good practice related to climate security governance in the adaptation process. Chair: Ms. Christine Kitzler, Project Coordinator, OSCE Resource material: Module Public health security under climate change impacts 09:30 10:00 Presentation of the training module: Public health security under climate change impacts Ms. Eva Csobod, Senior Expert, REC 5

6 10:00 10:30 Good practice sharing: Budapest s Heat Alert System: Why protocols matter in the governance of climate security situations Dr. Anna Paldy, Fellow, National Institute for Public Health, Hungary 10:30 10:45 Coffee break 10:45 13:00 Session 7: Water security Adaptation to climate change and security risks Objective: This session aims to demonstrate how to introduce water security considerations into climate adaptation planning. The good practice sharing part of the session will demonstrate how transboundary water cooperation builds trust, prevents conflicts and ensures water security among riparian states based on case studies including from ENVSEC. Various mechanisms and tools for adaptation will be presented. Chair: Ms. Stanislav Kim, Programme Specialist, UNDP Resource materials: Module Water security under climate change impacts 10:45 11:15 Presentation of the training module Water security under climate change impacts. 11:15 11:30 Good practice Preventing conflicts due to climate change in transboundary basins: Lessons learned and examples regarding climate change adaptation in selected transboundary basins. Setting the scene. 11:30 12:00 Case study Enhancing transboundary cooperation in the Dniester River basin through climate change adaptation activities Mr. Ilya Trombitsky, Expert, Eco-TIRAS, Moldova Mr. Alisher Mamadzhanov, Environmental Affairs Officer, UNECE Ms. Tamara Kutonova, Consultant, OSCE 12:00 13:00 Work in groups to discuss water security related case studies from Europe and Central Asia Objective: The aim of the group work is to identify the mechanisms and instruments applied in the case studies and to present them at the plenary. Trainers: Ms. Indira Akbozova and Mr. Vladimir Korneev Resource materials Brief on the case study: Chu-Talas Water Commission as a driver for transboundary cooperation and trust building in the Chu-Talas River basin, with a focus on climate change adaptation activities Brief on the case study: Management of the transboundary Neman River basin: From a common strategy on climate change adaptation to a joint river basin management plan 6

7 13:00 14:00 Lunch break 14:00 15:30 Session 8: Climate change and disaster risk reduction Objective: This session aims to introduce the process of disaster risk reduction (DRR) in climate adaptation planning. A special case study will be presented on how an efficient and sustainable DRR process under consideration of climate change impacts, can contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. Chair: Mr. Filippo Montalbetti, Consultant, UN Environment Resource material: Module Disaster risk reduction in the context of climate change induced security implications 14:00 14:20 Presentation of the training module Disaster risk reduction in the context of climate change induced security implications (through Skype) 14:20 14:50 Good practice Disaster risk reduction in the world of a changing climate, and synergies with the Sustainable Development Goals Ms. Olga Gassan-zade, Independent Expert Mr. Stanislav Kim, Programme Specialist, UNDP 14:50 15:30 Plenary discussion: 15:30 15:45 Coffee break Which elements of the DRR processes are crucial in the target regions to strengthen the countries and regions capacities to mitigate climate security risks? Moderator: Mr. Stanislav Kim, Programme Specialist, UNDP 15:45 17:00 Session 9: Development of a roadmap for adaptation strategies Work in groups Objective: This session will outline a roadmap towards adaptation strategies for the text-book cases and selected climate change and security hot spots discussed on Day 1. Trainers: Ms. Mariia Khovanskaia, Ms. Olga Semkiv Resource materials: All information received during the first two days of the training Chair: Ms. Mariia Khovanskaia,, Senior Expert, REC 17:00 17:30 Reporting by the groups to the plenary Rapporteurs of the working groups 17:30 17:45 Conclusions and closure of Day 2 REC 17:45 Departure time to the hotel 7

8 18:00 Free time/social event in Budapest Day 3. Solving climate security problems: Study tour, group work Date: February 02, 2017 Location: City of Tat; REC Conference Center, plenary room Address: Tat; REC, Szentendre, Hungary Time 07:45 Departure time from the hotel to the city of Tat 07:45 13:45 Study tour to the city of Tat The city of Tat in Hungary is one of the sites contributing to the National Adaptation Geographical Information System (NAGiS). The city has suffered for decades from river and pluvial flooding. In order to address these challenges, scientists developed a mathematical model of local urban floods. The model considers different climate scenarios and the impacts of protection measures. The conclusions were taken into consideration in the construction of flood protection measures following the outcomes of the modeling process. Training participants will see a short presentation on the model itself and on how climate change impacts are taken into consideration. This will be followed by a visit to the construction site. Participants will have a chance to meet with the city authorities and discuss the most important climate security governance topics. All participants 13:45 14:45 Lunch break 14:45 16:00 Session 10: Experience sharing on solutions to climate security problems Objective: The objective of this session is to discuss the following questions in working groups, based on the knowledge gained during the training as well as participants previous experience: How can Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Southern Caucasus learn from each other s experience? What is the future of cooperation in the area of climate security in the target regions? What should be the follow-up to the training and the project? Chair: Mr. Eduardas Kazakevicius, Senior Expert (Climate Change and Clean Energy), REC 8

9 16:00 16:30 Reporting by the groups to the plenary Rapporteurs of the working groups 16:30 17:00 Closing remarks Representatives of OSCE, UNECE, UN Environment, UNDP, REC 17:00 Departure time to the hotel 9