Programme

17:00–18:00

Opening Event: E4CA at COP31

DEval, Global Environment Facility, Green Climate Fund, Independent Development Evaluation, AfDB, Rockefeller Foundation

Sven Harten, Jörg Faust, Geeta Batra, Karen Rot-Münstermann, Oscar Garcia, Shawna Hoffman

17:00–18:00

Embedding Evidence in the New Climate Finance Landscape: Evaluation, Efficiency and Climate Finance Decision-Making

International Initiative for Impact Evaluation - 3ie, Adaptation Fund, New Development Bank, Global Environment Facility Independent Evaluation Office

Constanza Parrao, Neha Sharma, Manas Puri, Marie Gaarder, Geeta Batra

18:00–19:00

Beyond Green Finance: How Development Banks Can Turn Finance and Policy Engagement into Systemic Green Change

EBRD, IDB Invest, PEM Consult, Technopolis Group

Alejandra Palma, Piril Ozgercin, David Papp, Eric Buhl-Nielsen, Ricardo De Vecchi Galindo

18:00–19:15

Climate at the IMF and World Bank: What Independent Evaluations Show

Center for Global Development, Independent Evaluation Office, IMF, Independent Evaluation Group, the World Bank Group

Nancy Lee, Miguel de Las Casas, Lauren Kelly, Sabine Bernabe, Pablo Moreno, Julie Rozenberg, Bella Tonkonogy

10:00–11:00

Climate Smart Agriculture, Resilience and Food Security: What works?

University for Development Studies, Oda Bultum University, Ethiopia, UM6P J-PAL Agricultural Lab for Africa (UJALA)

Eliasu Mumuni, Beifa Fana Megersa, Hicham El Azami, Jihane Ajijti, Leigh Winowiecki

11:30–12:30

Urban flooding - Risks, technologies and community response

Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), University Púnguè, University of Cape Town, African Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI), Global Green Growth Institute

Architesh Panda, Hélio Vasco Nganhane, Pedro Pintos Santos3, Alexandre Oliveira Tavares, Johannes Bhanye, Vairaj Arjune

10:00–11:00

Just Energy Transition

Pan-African Collective for Evidence, Factum Solutions Guarantee Ltd, Sri Lanka based Asia Pacific focused Think Tank

Andile Madonsela, Verangika Upananda

11:30–12:30

From demonstration to system transformation: What 18 years of evidence from the Clean Technology Fund tells us about transformational Climate Finance

itad / Climate Investment Funds

14:00–15:00

From Plans to Practice: Portfolio Evidence on Climate Resilience in African Transport Infrastructure

Independent Development Evaluation (IDEV), African Development Bank Group

Joseph Mouanda

15:30–16:30

Clean Cooking and Livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa

MBARARA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, Tigray Institute of Policy Study, University of Liverpool, Albertine Rift Conservation Society

JUSTUS ASASIRA, TINE COMPERNOLLE, Jo Van Caneghem, TOM OGWANG, Ashenafi Manaye Demissie, Selemawit Amaha, Adefires Worku, Haftu Abrha, Matthew Shupler, Placide Bienaimé Hashimwimana, Marcel Bahizi, Eric Sibomana, Godfrey Musafiri

10:00–11:00

When Climate Finance Meets Policy Reform: Evidence from AIIB’s Climate Policy-Based Portfolio

Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

Eskender Zeleke

11:30–12:30

Gender, Informality, and Carbon Accountability in the Circular Economy

ASSOIATION SONGTAABA POUR LE DEVELOPPEMENT ASTD, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, Instituto 17

ILBOUDO Omer Jeanin Wendkaato, Sanoj, Alessandro Sanches Pereira, Atiq Zaman

14:00–15:00

Modelling decarbonisation pathways: from global pledges to buildings and cities

NUST, PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, Climate Strategies

Usama Bin Perwez, Isabela Schmidt Tagomori, Detlef van Vuuren, Ioannis Dafnomilis, Michel den Elzen, Ana Gonzalez Alonso

15:30–16:30

Building Climate-Resilient Waste Systems in the Global South

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Instituto 17, IU International University of Applied Sciences, University of Engineering and Technology Peshawar, Pakistan

Vincent Kok Sin Woon, Alessandro Sanches Pereira, Siham Bouguern, Sikandar Bilal Khattak, Manssor Ahmad Khan, Muhammad Abas, Atiq Zaman

10:00–11:00

Urban Planning and Governance

Environmental Protection Agency of Liberia, ENEA, The Climate Institute, Ahmedabad University, Global Environment Facility

Arthur R.M. Becker, Paola Clerici Maestosi, Shaurya Patel, Minal Pathak, Nupur Joshi, Neeraj Kumar Negi

11:30–12:30

Mixed approaches - Nature-based solutions and integrated urban resilience

WASCAL (West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use), Campbell South Asia/ Global Development Network, International Institute for Environment and Development

Adama KANE, Suchi Kapoor Malhotra, Howard White, Hugh Sharma Waddington, Nora Nisi

14:00–15:00

Urban Heat - Cooling Strategies and Clean Air

Fundacion Octaedro, University of Cambridge, Kotebe University of Education, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, RISE Institute for Regenerative Spatial Systems Science e.U. (RISE)

Daniel Romero-Alvarez, Irene Torres, Priyanka Jha, Pawan Kumar Yadav, Mekonnen Amberber Degefu, Eskender Zeleke, Martin Röck

10:00–11:00

The IMF and Climate Change

Mahmoud Mohieldin, Miguel de Las Casas

11:30–12:30

Climate Finance Institutions

Global Environment Facility, DEval

Neeraj Kumar Negi, Geeta Batra, Magdalena Orth, Thomas Wencker

15:30–16:30

Carbon Pricing

Ministry of Climate Change and Environmental Coordination, Government of Pakistan, UNDP, Imperial College London, Net Zero Lab

Muhammad Waqas Khan, Sanaa Enkhtaivan, Saruul Dolgorsuren, Eric Nowak, Papa Orgen, Benedict Probst

11:30–12:30

Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Action: Agent and Guide

Fondation Eboko, Kemitraan Partnership for Governance Reform

Vanessa Mavila, Kevin Moull, Tracy Pasaribu

14:00–15:00

Accessing, sustaining & scaling finance

Global Environment Facility, Adaptation Fund, International Institute for Environment and Development

Neeraj Kumar Negi, Geeta Batra, Vladislav Arnaoudov, Susan Louise Legro, Mariana Vidal Merino, Pia Triechel, Anaa Hassan

15:30–17:00

From evidence maps to evidence use: digital solutions, climate information and climate funds

Campbell South Asia, GSMA, Adaptation Fund TERG (and other Climate Funds)

Suchi Kapoor Malhotra, Samir Hafiz

10:00–11:00

Ecosystem Restoration and Conservation

11:30–12:30

Forests

Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) -- LEDa-DIAL, Université Paris Dauphine-PSL, Independent Researcher, Adaptation Fund TERG (and other Climate Funds)

Kenneth Houngbedji, Benoit Mertens, Antoine Leblois, Eli Nur Nirmala Sari

14:00–15:00

Forests and climate: protection, restoration, land-use and markets

Imperial College London, Kathmandu University, Moana Conservation, The Independent Evaluation Group of the World Bank Group

Eric Nowak, Prashamsa Rayamajhi, Abbal Chhatkuli, Clint Cameron, Olivia Bird, Lauren Kelly, Joy Butscher

15:30–16:30

Blue Economy

Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studes, University of Tasmania, and the Centre for Marine Socioecology, The Independent Evaluation Group of the World Bank Group, Inria Chile

Emily M. Ogier, Nayat Sanchez-Pi, Tiffany H. Morrison, Lauren Kelly, Joy Butscher

14:00–15:00

Climate-resilient food systems and Indigenous knowledge

Heriot-Watt University (HW), Research Centre for Urban Studies (RCUS), UK, Programme of Post Graduation in Architecture and Urbanism (PROGRAU), Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil

Adriana Portella, Sinval Xavier

11:30–12:30

National and Local Ownership and Governance

University of Dar es Salaam, CWS Japan / Asian Disaster Reduction and Response Network (ADRRN), Advocates for Biodiversity Conservation

Peter Msumali Rogers, Takeshi Komino, Vincent Awotwe-Pratt, Sulemana Abdulai, Daniel Enti

14:00–15:00

Technical Capacity-Building, Measuring Resilience, Planning

National Institute of Advanced Studies, Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bengaluru/India, Technical University of Munich (TUM)/ German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), University of Delaware,Newark ,USA, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

Sanjay Kumar Srivastava, Monalicha Sarma, Raquel Guimaraes, Jung-Hee Hyun, Reinhard Mechler