Accelerating climate resilient development practice

Location: Event in Christchurch / Ōtautahi

Date and time:  Friday 17 October from 10-2.30pm 

Organisers/Hosts: Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU)

$45

There is a closing window of opportunity to enable Climate Resilient Development (CRD). Dimensions that enable CRD are well known, as are the actions necessary to integrate mitigation and adaptation to advance just, sustainable and liveable futures for all. This workshop addresses the key challenge of better understanding how to practice CRD in the real world. 

This workshop creates space for inspiration and problem-solving through sharing experiences, dialogue, and exploring the different challenges, structural conditions, governance systems, as well as levers for transformative action in the Global South and North. By revealing different realities and aspirations, we explore how Indigenous and place-based knowledge can cut through entrenched and taken for granted ways of thinking to re-imagine CRD pathways and enable transformative local action. 

Leading scholars and practitioners share their experiences of efforts to institutionalise CRD practice, providing reflections from diverse ongoing efforts in different contexts around the world, ranging from local urban planning to indigenous-local government partnerships and disability inclusive climate planning. 

Climate change is an existential peril that is integral to global change. Placing people and their knowledges, rather than physical infrastructure and technical fixes, at the centre of action is central to this exploration of CRD practice. Indigenous and Local knowledges and practices are key to re-shaping place-making and building meaningful lives in the face of disruptive change. 

Workshop participants will be inspired by the stories shared and invited to re-imagine how to overcome barriers and unlock opportunities to deepen, extend, and accelerate CRD practice. Our aspiration is to jointly develop a one-page manifesto on how to operationalise CRD practice that we hope can be taken forward in future Adaptation Futures conferences.

Hosted by Professor Siri Eriksen (NMBU)