Climate Resilient Development: How to make shifts towards a sustainable future for all?

Climate resilient development refers to the integration of climate change mitigation and adaptation in advancing sustainable development. Climate resilient development takes place through societal choices and associated actions made by multiple civil society, government and private sector actors in diverse arenas. In order to ensure human wellbeing and planetary health, it is urgent to mobilise such actions, and leverage system transitions including in energy, land, ocean and ecosystems, urban and infrastructure, and industry and society. Societal choices founded on ecosystem stewardship, inclusion, equity and justice and knowledge diversity are key to advance climate resilient development.
This session aims to explain how to make climate resilient development actionable. The session will start with a video and a brief introduction of the main concepts - system transitions, pathways, transformations - explaining each component and how they come together. This will be followed by a panel discussion among authors of the recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on practical examples/guides on what climate resilient pathways look like in human and natural systems, how you achieve actor involvement in the different arenas, how you approach regional differences in pursuing climate resilient development, and how actions are rooted in justice, equity and inclusion. The third segment consists of questions from the audience, followed by conclusions.