Resilience Learning Week Special Events
20 November to 2 December 2020

A series of online events that shared regional and global voices, ideas, and learning on tackling climate change and building climate and disaster resilience. The series was organized as part of the "Resilience Learning Week".

Program and Learning Materials
Session / Activity Title Speaker(s)
19 November 2020 Virtual Workshop: ADB and the Green Climate Fund Demetrio Innocenti, GCF ; Noelle O’Brien, ADB
23 November 2020 Interactive Panel Discussion: Bridging the Climate Finance Gap at Local Level
Held via Zoom. This online event highlighted the importance of climate adaptation finance reaching the local level, especially the poor and…
24 November 2020 Virtual Brown Bag: Exploring the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Global Emission Projections
Held via Zoom. This online event explored green recovery packages in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and ADB’s framework to accelerate climate…
25 November 2020 Panel Discussion: The Search for the Perfect Indicator
Held via Zoom. This online event focused on key insights from a new World Bank resilience rating scheme, captured in the recent publication: “The…
27 November 2020 Panel and Group Discussion: Stimulating Private Sector Investment in Resilient Infrastructure
Held via Zoom. This online event explored opportunities to stimulate private sector investment in climate and disaster-resilient infrastructure. …
1 December 2020 Virtual Brown Bag: Paris Alignment of MDB operations Sujata Gupta, ADB; Gianpiero Nacci, EBRD; Christian Ellermann, ADB
2 December 2020 Panel and Group Discussion: A Just Transition to a Low-Carbon and Climate Resilient Asia and the Pacific
Held via Zoom. The Paris Agreement on climate change commits Parties to “taking into account the imperatives of a just transition of the workforce…

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Event Coordinator/s

  • Takeshi Miyata

ADB Organizer/s

  • Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department

Topics

  • Climate Change
  • Disaster Risk Management