Water and Climate Coalition

Snow and ice in climate change– how to create resilience against worsening impacts of disasters and changing water availability

1 Nov – 10.00-11.30 (UK TIME)
Location: Cryosphere Pavilion

 

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Introduction

 Snow and ice is changing due to climate change, having major impacts on society, the availability of freshwater resources, agriculture, transportation, safety and security, hydropower production, recreation, increasing the risk of floods and droughts, and affecting the viability of ecosystems. Creating resilience against worsening impacts of disasters and changing water availability is therefore urgently needed. 

Objectives

This event will answer the following questions: 

  1. What is needed to really understand how the climate change impacts water resources and especially glaciers and snowcaps? 
  2. How changing water availability from ice and snow will impact our societies?
  3. Could the Paris agreement with the target of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees supported by climate financing save melting glaciers globally? How? 
  4. Are there any other alternative water storage solutions?
  5. What is the importance of education and capacity building to support enhance monitoring of snow glacier and water resources in different region globally and how we can make our societies resilient to climate change impacts? 

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Run of the show

10:00

Introduction to the side event  

Mr. Gilbert F. Houngbo, Chair of UN-WATER (TBC) 

Moderator: Johannes Cullmann WMO 

 

10:00-
10:15 

Opening remarks by co-organizers

  • H.E. Mr. Bahodur Sheralizoda, Chairman of the Committee on Environmental Protection under the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan 
  • H.E. Mr. Petteri Taalas, the Secretary-General of WMO  
  • Ms. Shamila Nair-Bedouelle, Assistant Director General for Natural Sciences, UNESCO 

10:15–10:30 

Keynote speaker:  

  • Mr. John Pomeroy:   key global factor, water availability in water basin, water loss in planet, – global factor, IPCC findings specific case of Pamir 

10:30-11:00 

Panel session:  

  • Mr. Gino Casassa, Director of the Glaciology and Snow Unit, of the Ministry of Public Works (MOP), Chile 
  • Ms. Carolina Adler, Executive Director 
  • Mountain Research Initiative (MRI), Switzerland 
  • Mr. Muzaffar Shodmonov, Committee on Environmental Protection under the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan 
  • Mr. Pema Gyamtsho, Director General of The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) 
  • Mr. Daniel Maselli, Senior Policy Advisor and Focal Point Climate Change & Environment, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, Switzerland  

Moderator 

Mr. Anil Mishra, Chief of Section 

Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme (IHP), Division of Water Sciences, UNESCO  

11:00-11:25 

Discussion with audience 

11:25-11:30 
 

Summary and conclusion 

Johannes Cullmann, WMO  

Moderators

Dr. Johannes Cullmann

WMO, Director, Water and Cryosphere

Mr. Gilbert Houngbo

Chair, UN-Water; and President, IFAD

Mr. Anil Mishra

Chief of Section Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme (IHP), Division of Water Sciences, UNESCO

Keynote speaker

Mr. John Pomeroy

Director, Global Water Futures Programme

Panellists

H.E. Mr. Bahodur Sheralizoda

Chairman of the Committee on Environmental Protection under the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan

Ms. Shamila Nair-Bedouelle

Assistant Director General for Natural Sciences, UNESCO

H.E. Mr. Petteri Taalas

the Secretary-General of WMO

Mr. Gino Casassa

Director of the Glaciology and Snow Unit, of the Ministry of Public Works (MOP), Chile

Mountain Research Initiative (MRI)

Executive Director

Mr. Muzaffar Shodmonov

Committee on Environmental Protection under the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan

Mr. Pema Gyamtsho

Director General of The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)

Mr. Daniel Maselli

Senior Policy Advisor and Focal Point Climate Change & Environment, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, Switzerland

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Matthias Berninger, Senior Vice President, Public Affairs and Sustainability, Bayer

Matthias Berninger

Matthias Berninger (born 1971) is a former German politician and member of The Greens from 1993 until 2007.
From 2001 to 2005, Berninger served as Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection under minister Renate Künast in the second cabinet of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. After leaving the government, he was his parliamentary group’s spokesperson on economic policy from 2005 until 2007.
Since 2019, Berninger has been serving as head of public and government affairs at Bayer.

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