Climate Adaptation and Resilience: The Road to COP26

The Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) invites you to watch this briefing on raising global ambition to fund and implement climate adaptation and resilience.

During Earth Day week (2021), the Biden-Harris Administration hosted the Leaders Summit on Climate and unveiled its new greenhouse gas reduction goal—the U.S. Nationally Determined Contribution—under the Paris Agreement. Designed to build momentum ahead of the next meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, COP26, the Summit was expected to focus on how major emitting countries can redouble efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions across sectors and geographies.

This briefing highlights the complementary global efforts to advance climate adaptation and resilience in the lead-up to COP26. These efforts are intended to share best practices, develop metrics, and mobilize countries and subnational actors dedicated to protecting people and nature. Speakers discuss the key roles of financing, implementation, disaster preparedness, and the need for systemic action in building resilience.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

00:00 - Start
07:50 - Andrew Jackson, Deputy Director for Adaptation and Resilience, Climate and Environment Department, British Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
26:12 - Leonardo Martinez-Diaz, Senior Advisor to the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, U.S. Department of State
43:55 - Alice Hill, David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment, Council on Foreign Relations
01:00:22 - Rachel Jacobson, Deputy Director, American Society of Adaptation Professionals
01:13:38 - Q&A

Speakers:

Andrew Jackson, Deputy Director for Adaptation and Resilience, Climate and Environment Department, British Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Leonardo Martinez-Diaz, Senior Advisor to the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, U.S. Department of State

Alice Hill, David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment, Council on Foreign Relations

Rachel Jacobson, Deputy Director, American Society of Adaptation Professionals

Moderated by: Daniel Bresette, Executive Director, Environmental and Energy Study Institute.