Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia
Climate Change Vulnerabilities, Social Impacts, and Education for Autonomous Adaptation
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Southeast Asia is one of the world’s most vulnerable regions to climate change, due to its long coastlines, high concentration of population and economic activity in coastal areas, and heavy reliance on agriculture, fisheries, forestry, and other natural resources. Climate hazards such as temperature increase, erratic rainfall patterns, and extreme climatic events (such as strong typhoons and severe droughts) cause adverse effects and impacts on ecosystems’ livelihoods and on many other aspects of human societies. In particular, climate change threatens agricultural production and indirectly food security, ecological stability, and sustainable development.
Climate variability and change present many risks to the well-being of the populations of the Association of Southeast Asia Nations (ASEAN). The vulnerability, capacity, and adaptation assessments conducted at provincial to national scales are designed to provide information to decision-and policymakers on the risks of climate variability, and on the options for managing those risks.
Conducting an integrated assessment is an essential input in developing national adaptation plans. Additionally, ensuring that climate change scenarios are integrated into national policies and programs will prepare stakeholders for and manage the risks of climate variability and climate change.
Objectives:
The main objective of the event is to strengthen the capacity of officials from ASEAN member states on climate change vulnerability assessment and the implementation of successful autonomous and planned adaptation measures.
Expected Outputs:
Expected outputs from the three-day event are:
- The participants from ASEAN member states acquire knowledge on vulnerability assessment and adaptation at national and local scales;
- The participants discussed and shared lessons learned and experiences on vulnerability assessment and autonomous adaptation; and
- Practical learning and knowledge acquisition through field visits in vulnerable areas in Cambodia, where successful local adaptation measures are
Event Details
- Date: 12 - 14 September 2022
- Venue: Siem Reap, Cambodia | Hybrid Workshop
Agenda
| Day 1: Monday, 12 September 2022 | |
08:30 AM – 09:00 AM | Registration |
09:00 AM – 09:30 AM | Welcoming Remarks
Opening Remarks
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Group Photo | |
10.15 AM – 10.30 AM | Coffee break |
| Session 1: Climate change vulnerability, risks, and planning tools Session Chair: Chair AWGCC/ Senior Official of MOE (Mao Hak) | |
| 10:30 AM – 11:10 AM | Climate change and resilient ASEAN
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| 11:00 AM – 12:00 AM | Climate vulnerability assessment using an early warning system, Planning Tools, and Models
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| 12:00 AM - 13:00 AM | Lunch Break |
| Session 2: Socio economic implications of climate vulnerability and framework conditions for adaptation planning Session Chair: Jeremy Gross, Director of Capacity Building, ERIA | |
| 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM | Integrated assessment of the distributional social impacts of climate change among the most vulnerable
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| 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM | Climate change challenges, disaster risks, and successful adaptation measures through standards and infrastructure design
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| 3:30 PM - 3:45 PM | Coffee Break |
| Session 3: Hands-on demonstration and training on climate vulnerability assessment Moderator: Meinhard Breiling, University of Vienna | |
| 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM | Facilitators:
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| Wrap-up and announcements | |
| 6:30 PM | Networking Dinner
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| Day 2: Tuesday, 13 September 2022 | |
| 08:30 AM - 08:45 AM | Resgitration |
| 08:45 AM - 09:00 AM | Recap of Day 1
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| Session 4: Successful climate change adaptation strategies and policies in vulnerable areas Session Chair: Eiji Yamaji, University of Tokyo | |
| 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM | Institutional development in the context of autonomous adaptation to climate change at the national and regional level
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| 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Modernizing infrastructure in the context of climate change vulnerability and adaptation
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| 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM | Discussion Forum |
| 10:45 AM - 11:00 AM | Coffee Break |
| Session 5: An action plan for policymakers and planners to reduce risk Impacts, enhance autonomous adaptation Session Chair: Suresh Babu, IFRI | |
| 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Strengthening climate change and disaster management information database for risk assessment and building adaption Roadmaps: Case of Viet Nam
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| 11:30 AM - 12:00 AM | Strengthening climate and disaster information database for risk assessment and building Adaptation Road maps: Case of Lao PDR
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| 12:00 PM - 12:15 PM | Discussion Forum |
| 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM | Lunch break |
| 1:15 PM - 1:45 PM | Mainstreaming climate change adaptation and enhancing adaptive capacity: opportunities for educational innovation and experimentation
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| 1:45 PM - 2:00 PM | Discussion Forum |
Session 6: Mainstreaming climate change Vulnerability and adaptation into sectoral planning Session Chair: Meinhard Breiling, University of Vienna | |
| 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Costing tools, budgeting frameworks and international support mechanisms for adaptations to climate change
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| 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Discussion Forum |
| 3:30 PM - 3:45 PM | Coffee Break |
| 3:45 PM - 5:30 PM | Peer-to-peer learning in the development of climate change adaptation roadmaps Facilitators:
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| 5:30 PM - 5:45 PM | Presentation of the results of Group Discussions and Reflections of the workshop |
| 5:45 PM - 6:00 PM | Closing Remarks
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Passcode: 136096
