【COP29 Side-Event】Promoting Adaptation for ”Climate Resilient Development”

Day：2024.12.19

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Person in charge

Operations Strategy Department
Global Environment Department

Overview

Date: 2024/11/13
Host: Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
Location (Name of Pavilion)：Japan Pavilion

Speaker

identity	belong to	title
MIYAZAKI Katsura	JICA	Executive Senior Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer
Fatima Yasmin	Asian Development Bank	Vice-President for Sectors and Themes
WATANABE Kazuki	Ministry of Finance	Deputy Vice Minister of Finance for International Affairs
KENMIYA Misa	JICA	Director General, Office for Sustainability Management, Operations Strategy Department
Dr. Diána Ürge-Vorsatz	IPCC	Vice-Chair
Rosalind Amornpitakpun	Climate Change Adaptation Division, Department of Climate Change and Environment, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) of Thailand	Director of Climate Change Adaptation Guideline and Capacity Development Section
Dr. KAWANISHI Masato	JICA	Senior Advisor on Climate Change
Naeeda Crishna Morgado	Asian Development Bank	Senior Climate Change Specialist
Dr. hab. Maciej M. Sokołowski	Keio University	Specially Appointed Associate Professor, Faculty of Policy Management
MATSUZAWA Yutaka	Ministry of the Environment	Vice Minister for Global Environmental Affairs

Primary objectives and outcomes

Under the Paris Agreement, various measures have been taken to limit the average temperature increase to within 1.5°C. But the impacts of climate change are becoming stronger, and funding scarcity and lack of proper measures are pressing issues.
In developing countries, there is a large gap between adaptation needs and financial flows for adaptation measures, and it is necessary to reduce the impact by promoting “Climate Resilient Development (CRD)” that pursue both climate change measures and sustainable development.
JICA supports adaptation measures including pre-investment reflecting Japan's experience, as well as promote the co-benefits of climate change adaptation measures and solving development issues.

This side event aims to share the directions of realizing “climate resilient development” through synergies between climate change adaptation and sustainable development, with a particular focus on adaptation of multisectoral approach, from the perspectives of international organizations, research institutions, governments, and aid agencies.

Content of the discussions

JICA emphasized the importance of implementing climate change adaptation measures with considering the perspective of human security, and introduced the co-benefit approaches and pre-investment for disaster reduction as tools for realizing “Climate Resilient Development (CRD)” etc. ADB highlighted the importance of cooperation with development finance institutions including Japan, and the Vice Chair of IPCC stressed the importance of pursuing synergies and minimizing trade-offs between climate change and SDGs. MOF introduced the launch of the “Climate Resilient Debt Clause” pilot program. The panel also discussed multi-sectoral efforts to realize CRDs, the use of science and technology, and strengthening monitoring and evaluation.

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