COP 27
8 -17 November 2022
PROGRAMME
Tuesday 8 November
Focus area
Pathway 1: Transforming humanity’s relationship with nature
09:30-11:30 Opening event
A warm welcome from Youssef Nassef, UNFCCC Director of Adaptation and founder
of Resilience Frontiers will launch the programme into a series of interactive
activities that will shift our thinking into the Resilience Frontiers mindset.
To kickstart our programme, AI art will help us shape a conversation about the
desirable future we want to see.
Moderator: Joshua Amponsem, Office of the UN Secretary General’s Envoy on Youth
Speakers:
• Amine Bel Hadj Soulami, BNP Paribas
• Kristen Dunlop, Climate KIC
• Licypriya Kangujam, child environmental activist
• Ovais Sarmad, UN Climate Change
• Sophie Howe, Future Generations Commissioner for Wales
• Xiaomeng Shen, United Nations University
• Youssef Nassef, UN Climate Change
See the summary for the day in Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB)
11:30-13:00 What is a good life?
The session will focus on the concept of ‘good’ life as understood by different cultures.
The discussion will focus on how concepts such as wellbeing, ubuntu, buen vivir and
GNX index, and even Greek philosophy, can help transform people’s relationship with
each other and humanity’s relationship with nature.
Moderator: Xiaomeng Shen, United Nations University
Speakers:
• Cristina Coc, Maya Peoples of Southern Belize
• Gakemotho Satau, Botswana
• Kariuki Weru, United Nations University
• Kotchakorn Voraakhom, Porous City Network
• Tracey Cooper, Public Health Wales
15:00-16:00 Future café
Tea, conversation and interactive activity
16:30-18:30 Virtual Reality tour
Experience a city undergoing transformative change and reflect on important
questions about the future we want to create.
Wed 9 November
Focus area
Pathway 2: Lifelong Learning for Environmental Stewardship
09:30-11:30 Learning that lasts a lifetime: Elevating the voices of
children to create a better future
Engaging children in meaningful dialogue and action around building resilience is
criti-cal to supporting a vision for a better future. In this interactive event, a group
of children, representing over 70 countries, will present their perspectives.
Led by Sarah Flynn, TakingITGlobal Youth Association
08:30-09:30 Future Café
Tea, conversation and interactive activity
Led by UNSSC
See the summary for the day in Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB)
11:30-13:00 Stewardship of the Future
Every citizen has a role and a saying in shaping-up the future. The event
underlines this approach and the need to keep future generations’ wellbeing
in mind when creating policies, particularly noting that future generations’
wellbeing encompasses policies beyond the environment and requiring
engagement at all stages of life.
Speakers:
• Andy Hoffman, University of Pennsylvania
• Louis Cole, YouTube personality
• Sophie Howe, Future Generations Commission for Wales
14:15-15:00
Performance: AY Young
16:30-18:30 Unlocking learning to build a resilient future
Interactive session focusing on inter-generational methodologies.
Led by ClimateKIC
15:00-16:00 Future café
Tea, conversation and interactive activity
Led by UNSSC
Thurs 10 November
Focus area
Pathway 3: Ensuring universal equitable coverage of, and open-
access to (big) data and information
09:30-11:00 Is life better with tech?
The conversation brings together experts and practitioners to reflect on technology as
a concept that contributes to humanity and the world’s wellbeing, and promotes equity,
rather than the current faster, busier life still very much tied to resource constraints,
public health concerns, and uneven power dynamics.
Moderator: Paris Marx, Author
Speakers:
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Eduardo Noboa, BMW Foundation
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Gayle R. T. Schueller, 3M
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Michal Nachmany, Climate Policy Radar
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Monique Kuglitsch, ITU/WMO/UNEP Focus Group on AI for Natural Disaster Management
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Xiaomeng Shen, United Nations University
08:30-09:30 Future café
Tea, conversation and interactive activity
Led by UNSSC
See the summary for the day in Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB)
11:30-13:00 Tech systems for a resilient future
This session focuses on the question ‘What are concrete actions to be taken
for technology to promote a desirable and resilient future?’ The discussion will
showcase approaches to develop and utilise technologies that will be beneficial
for future generations.
Moderator: Richard Foster-Fletcher, MKAI.org
Speakers:
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Paris Marx, Author
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Sheila Ochugboju, Alliance for Science
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Steven Ramage, Group on Earth Observations
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Zeyad Kotb, The German University in Cairo
13:00-15:00
Virtual Reality tour
16:30-18:30 Book Lab: Transportation as a public good?
The activity will be kicked off with a reading by Paris Marx from his new book, Road
to Nowhere. The reading will serve as a way to spark an informal conversation on the
topic of transportation and considerations of the public good.
Moderator: Louis Cole, Youtuber
Speakers:
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Eduardo Noboa, BMW Foundation
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Genie Birch, University of Pennsylvania
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Paris Marx, Author
15:00-16:00 Future café
Tea, conversation and interactive activity
Led by UNSSC
Fri 11 November
Focus area
Pathway 4: Managing water and other natural resources
equitably and inclusively
09:30-11:00 Discussion: Climate intelligence for all
This session will provide an interactive dialogue space to discuss the role of (big) data,
remote sensing, Earth observations, frontier technologies, and AI for managing water
and other natural resources equitably and building long-term resilience for all.
Moderator: Dennis Mombauer, Director: Research & Knowledge Management, SLYCAN Trust
Speakers:
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Steven Ramage, Chief Engagement Officer, GEO Secretariat
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Lucy Mtilatila, Director of Climate Change and Meteorological Services, Ministry of Natural
Resources and Climate Change, Malawi
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Jennifer Philipps, Advisor, Secretariat of the InsuResilience Global Partnership
08:30-09:30 Future café
Tea, conversation and interactive activity
Led by UNSSC
See the summary for the day in Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB)
11:30-13:00 Discussion: Technology’s interface with nature
The event focuses on the question “What economic, environmental, and social
implications need to be considered in technology research, development,
deployment, diffusion and transfer, especially as it relates to social impact and
natural resource management?”
Moderator: Paris Marx, Author
Speakers:
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Adriana Casillas, Tebrio
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Gijs Bosman, Weather Makers
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Kate Wharton, CrossBoundary
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Nouran El Said, Plug N Grow
14:00-15:00 Film screening: The Last Glacier
The Last Glaciers, which explores the relationship between climate change,
mountain environments, and glaciers. The movie will be followed by an inspiring
conversation.
Speakers:
• Antoine Sire: Head of Company Engagement, BNP Paribas
• Craig Leeson: Director, The Last Glaciers
• Alexandre Anjuere, Executive Director, Electricians without borders
• Tania Chauvin, senior project officer, Electricians without borders
16:30-18:30: Virtual Reality tour
Led by UNSSC
15:00-16:00 Future café
Tea, conversation and interactive activity
Led by UNSSC
Sat 12 November
Focus area
Pathway 5: Cross-cutting day
11:30 - 13:00 Interactive session: Youth visions for the ideal future
A workshops session aimed at drawing out visions of brighter futures and
connections between these visions and the eight pathways.
Facilitators:
Dennis Mombauer, Director: Research & Knowledge Management, SLYCAN Trust
Vositha Wijenayake, Executive Director, Slycan Trust
13:00 - 15:00: Virtual Reality tour
Led by UNSSC
15:00-16:00 Future café
Interactive activity
Led by UNSSC
See the summary for the day in Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB)
Sunday 13 November
No sessions
Mon 14 November
Focus area
Pathway 5: Managing transboundary issues equitably
11:30-13:00 Discussion Beyond boundaries: The future of human
mobility and transboundary resource management
This event is a discussion among speakers and audience on envisioning future with
a different set of ways we divide (or do not divide) the world. Political borders may
not exist or the way we divide our conceptualization of the world is around different,
but well-connected ecological systems.
Moderators/panelists:
Dennis Mombauer, Director: Research & Knowledge Management, SLYCAN Trust
Vositha Wijenayake, Executive Director, Slycan Trust
Thusitha Sugathapala, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
09:00-10:00 Future café
Conversation and interactive activity
See the summary for the day in Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB)
16:30-18:30 Writing the future of boundaries
Creative workshop session led by the Hot Poets
Tues 15 November
Focus area
Pathway 6: Applying a holistic ecosystem-centred approach to
optimise future health and wellbeing
10:00-11:00 Discussion: Regenerative planning
The session of “Regenerative Planning” goes into the mindsets of the speakers to
understand approaches, practices and impact of regenerating positive benefits
related to health, natural resources, socio-economic equality and more.
Moderator:
Kotchakorn Voraakhom, landscape architect, Thailand
Speakers:
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Amira Ayoub, World Green Building Council
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Juan Pastor Ivars, United Nations University
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Mauricio Rodas, Fundacion Ethos
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Ocian Hamel-Smith, Futur/io Institute
09:00-10:00 Future café
Conversation and interactive activity
See the summary for the day in Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB)
11:30-13:00 Discussion: Communities as a living organism
The event is centered around the visualization beyond the typical urban/rural,
human/nature divisions so conceptually common to the present day and into a
reformulation of the human community extending itself into nature, acting as
one living organism.
Moderator: Amira Ayoub, World Green Building Council
Speakers:
Indraneel Dharwadkar, ReGen Villages
Klaus Klaas Loenhart, Harvard
14:00-15:00 Film screening: The Last Glacier
The Last Glaciers, which explores the relationship between climate change,
mountain environments, and glaciers. The movie will be followed by an inspiring
conversation.
Speakers:
• Craig Leeson: Director, The Last Glaciers
• Marc Garcia-Duran, Underwater Gardens International
• Rachel Barr, UBQ
16:30-18:00 Writing the future of wellbeing
Creative workshop session led by the Hot Poets
Wed 16 November
Focus area
Pathway 7: Regenerative food production
10:00-11:00 Discussion: Leveraging AI, machine learning, and advanced
analytics to accelerate smallholder adaptation
The event will help governments and policymakers gain awareness of the potential
for advanced analytics to support agricultural adaptation, transformation, and
resilience, focusing on enabling smallholders to thrive.
Moderator: Richard Choularton, Vice President of Operations, Tetra Tech
Speakers:
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Harm Haverkort, Rabobank, ACORN
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Georgina Campbell Flatter, Executive Director, TomorrowNow.org
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Dr Boniface Akuku, Director of ICT, Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research
Organization (KALRO)
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Molly Brown/Vladimir Eskin, 6th Grain
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Hassan Gomaa, CEO, Tseppas
09:00-10:00 Future café
Conversation and interactive activity
See the summary for the day in Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB)
11:30-13:00 Discussion: Climate Smart Crops: A lifeline for the future
- followed by climate smart food exhibition and tasting
Panel discussion bringing around key stakeholders and changemakers around
together to discuss the importance of investing in climate-smart crops to
address the complex and interrelated challenges of food security and nutrition,
rural development and climate change, behavioral triggers, and barriers, each
from his system level point of view.
Moderator: Engy Abdel Wahab, UN Development Programme (UNDP) Acclab Egypt
Speakers:
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Hassan Gomaa (Tseppas CEO)
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Abdelazem Hassona (Tseppas Business Develpment Manager)
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Mark Wyllie (Beyti CEO; A Joint Venture between Almarai & Pepsico)
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Marwan Rasmy (Programme Development Lead at Greenish)
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Emad Adly (National Coordinator of GEF/Small Grants Program in Egypt)
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Sylvain Merlen (UNDP Egypt Deputy Regional Representative)
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Sarada Krishnan, Crop Trust
16:30-18:30: Hot Poets show
Thurs 17 November
Focus area
Pathway 8: Developing transformative financial instruments
10:00-11:00 Discussion: Finance models for the future
The session will focus on incentivizing the desired future, and what lessons can
be learned from existing models of innovative financing. Economic and financial
barriers to a global resilient future, including beyond climate concerns, will be
touched on, alongside rationales to divert from existing approaches.
Moderator:
Claudia Belli, BNP Paribas Foundation
• Daniel Zimmer, Climate-KIC
• Julie Segal, Environmental Defence
• Nisha Krishnan, World Resources Institute
• Sarada Krishnan, Crop Trust
09:00-10:00 Future café
Conversation and interactive activity
See the summary for the day in Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB)
11:30-13:00 Discussion: Transformative financing
The session will focus on incentivizing the desired future through lessons that
can be learned from real projects that are aligned with Resilience Frontiers’ vision
and which financing model is relevant to pathway 8.
Abir Haddad, Founder and Director, Institute for Legal Transformation
Speakers:
Kat Bruce, Nature Metrics
• Marc Garcia-Duran, Underwater Gardens International
• Sabrina Nagel, YAPU solutions
• Sebastien Soleille, BNP Paribas
15:00-16:30 Closing event
Youth visions for the ideal future led by Slycan Trust, group reflections & Hot
Poets
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