Event
11 Nov 2022

High-level Session on Human Well-Being, Climate Change, Migration, Biodiversity, Land Regeneration and Resource Preservation

  • Date
    11 Nov 2022, 10:00am
  • Organizer

    UNFCCC

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At COP27 UN Climate Change Global Innovation Hub Pavillon 

The UNFCCC session seeks to explore how to ensure human well-being including the satisfaction of core human needs of nutrition and health, shelter, access, leisure and clothing in line with climate and sustainability (including the biodiversity, land regeneration and resource preservation agendas) goals. Particularly it will explore how the three conventions (climate change, biodiversity, and desertification) can contribute to the satisfaction of the core human needs in line with the climate and sustainability agenda. 

Moderator: Youssef Nasser, Director, Adaptation, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

Speakers:

  • Massamba Thioye, Project Executive, UN Climate Change Global Innovation Hub 
  • Andrea Meza, Deputy Executive Secretary, United Nation Convention for Combat Desertification (UNCCD)
  • Caroline Dumas, IOM DG`s Special Envoy for Migration and Climate Action
  • Izabella Teixeira, Co-chair, International Resource Panel
  • Maria Virginia Vilariño, Lead Author of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) on Climate Change Mitigation (Working Group III), Member of Expert Peer Review Group (EPRG)
  • Manuel Otero, Execute Secretary, Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture 
  • Dipa Bagai, Country Head, India Program, Natural Resources Defence Council