D&C Days: day two

The second day of the 2016 Development & Climate (D&C) Days event at COP22 continued conversations on how the world can deliver on the ambition of last year's landmark Paris Agreement. The event had the theme 'Global ambition. Local action. Climate resilience for all'. Here's what happened:

  1. The 14th D&C Days event took place on 12-13 November 2016 at the UN climate talks in Morocco. It featured three programme streams to look at efforts to deliver the goals of the Paris Agreement, ways to ensure equitable decision-making on climate finance, and how to bridge the gap between climate and humanitarian development work
  2. Day two started with the arrival of a high-profile guest
  3. Setting up day 2 at #DCDays Global ambition. Local action. Climate resilience for all. https://t.co/LPex7Y1zGI
    Setting up day 2 at #DCDays Global ambition. Local action. Climate resilience for all. pic.twitter.com/LPex7Y1zGI
  4. It's 14 years since Saleemul Huq, now a senior fellow at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), founded D&C Days, and he started the second day of the conference by summing out day one and revealing a bold plan to re-invent COP itself
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  6. At #DCdays @SaleemulHuq summarises day 1, highlights need to communicate climate solutions to the powerful - not just challenges & problems
  7. #DCdays @IIED climate legislation explored as enabler of planning accountability and independent review - let's lobby for more legislation
  8. @IIED #DCdays let's listen more to women and those at the adaptation rock face and climb above the climate risks that are coming
  9. Day 2 at Development & Climate Days has started with a vision from @SaleemulHuq for a focus on action and an "inside out COP" #DCdays
  10. Day2 opening of #DCdays by @SaleemulHuq: we need to reverse the way we do COP: implementors should be at the centre https://t.co/xjk5fcPqOv
    Day2 opening of #DCdays by @SaleemulHuq: we need to reverse the way we do COP: implementors should be at the centre pic.twitter.com/xjk5fcPqOv
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  12. We need to move to "inside out COPs" where the implementers sit in the plenary and Negotiators in side event rooms! #DCdays @ICCCAD
  13. Learnings from @SaleemulHuq: beware the "information push trap".Don't carry out research without listening to local voices to guide #DCdays
  14. The challenges and issues posed by mobility and displacement were explored in the first session of the day, which forced participants to consider their emotions should they be affected
  15. Participants at #DCdays are playing a climate mobility game, emphasising the human reactions to environmental change and displacement  https://twitter.com/SpinOnBike/status/797745666483257344 
  16. Migration and climate: more challenging than we anticipated. #DCdays  session #COP22 https://t.co/S28JNWXfV7
    Migration and climate: more challenging than we anticipated. #DCdays session #COP22 pic.twitter.com/S28JNWXfV7
  17. #dcdays When the shock came, the gentleman on the left was forced to migrate to our table. He felt lost. https://t.co/a41Oh1ShGg
    #dcdays When the shock came, the gentleman on the left was forced to migrate to our table. He felt lost. pic.twitter.com/a41Oh1ShGg
  18. "Feeling lost & unprotected during #DCdays #displacement simulation at #COP22" - a reaction to the climate mobility game
  19. Another one: "Sense of fatalism quickly sets in: either luck/good fortune or powerless/despair" #DCDays  https://twitter.com/IIED/status/797747172917858304 
  20. Experiencing #forcedmigration at #DCdays: small groups protect against #climate induced shocks, lead to hostility "get out, no room for you"
  21. After the interactive elements, participants heard first hand experience from Fiji on how increasing population movement due to climate change is affecting her country
  22. The first #DCdays session of the day is addressing #migration & displaced peoples: participants learning lessons from Fiji #COP22  https://twitter.com/pennyurquhart/status/797747739203432448 
  23. Climate-driven relocation should be "thorough and slow" - Teresia Powell, Ministry of Environment, Fiji #dcdays #cop22
  24. #DCdays @IIED internal migration as an adaptation strategy is hard for policy makers to appreciate - let's help to understand with evidence
  25. #DCDays women need to be involved in decision making, risk assessments and relocation sites in times of disasters. #worldbank #GFDRR
  26. Interesting graph by @theIRC showing relation between #migration & #LaNina: patterns of #somali #refugee increase in #dabaab, Kenya.#DCdays https://t.co/PRziZs2QFi
    Interesting graph by @theIRC showing relation between #migration & #LaNina: patterns of #somali #refugee increase in #dabaab, Kenya.#DCdays pic.twitter.com/PRziZs2QFi
  27. Mary Robinson @MRFCJ on the #DCdays migration debate: "If we can fulfill the Paris ambition, 1.5 degrees, fewer will be displaced" #COP22 https://t.co/7Yb5I3rzno
    Mary Robinson @MRFCJ on the #DCdays migration debate: "If we can fulfill the Paris ambition, 1.5 degrees, fewer will be displaced" #COP22 pic.twitter.com/7Yb5I3rzno
  28. So logical but often forgotten in the #migration debate: in principle people want to stay, not leave! Good remark by @UNmigration at #DCdays
  29. Relocation very expensive, not only economically, but psychologically, spiritually: Titilia Somics from #Fiji #DCdays #COP22 #migration
  30. Can we uncouple climate migration from security and vulnerability issues and link it to solutions and development? @IIED #DCDays
  31. By 2085, even at warming of 1.5 degrees, 4 mln people will be in places where it's impossible physiologically to live - @UNmigration #DCdays
  32. #climatechange often a hidden factor inducing #migration, behind eg search for a job #DCdays #COP22 Follow @CAREClimate for upcoming report!
  33. What are the dangers of making migrants of the most poor and vulnerable who migrate to survive? #DCdays @UNmigration
  34. There was a surprise during the following session on how climate and development practitioners can benefit from the inspiration, skills, methods and mindsets developed by applied improvisation
  35. The session I've been waiting for - rethinking how we design interactive events in the climate & development space @RCClimate #DCdays #COP22
  36. Pablo Suarez explains how balloons, insects, virtual reality, art, virtual reality and applied improv can elevate climate dialogues #DCDays
  37. How we can work better with partners? Lessons from improvisational theatre and jazz with @RCClimate at #DCdays #COP22  https://twitter.com/ClarisseLKS/status/797773673000210433 
  38. How to link #ambition with #action, #being with becoming and #community with #COP22 within the frameworks #DCdays  harder than you'd think! https://t.co/WjitlTJOn4
    How to link #ambition with #action, #being with becoming and #community with #COP22 within the frameworks #DCdays harder than you'd think! pic.twitter.com/WjitlTJOn4
  39. At #DCdays volunteers help us learn what to do in a heat wave: drink water, help your neighbour, rest, find shelter! https://t.co/SgqXGgLxHg
    At #DCdays volunteers help us learn what to do in a heat wave: drink water, help your neighbour, rest, find shelter! pic.twitter.com/SgqXGgLxHg
  40. Flashmob! Drink water. Get to shelter. Help your neighbour. Heatwave awareness at #DCdays #COP22 pic.twitter.com/4cICcU0HRG
  41. Now it's time for the #DCdays participants to see if they remember the four steps! Kinesthetic learning with @RCClimate #COP22 pic.twitter.com/5i0bJEgih6
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  43. During lunch, the Thomson Reuters Foundation took the opportunity to talk to former Irish president Mary Robinson about climate adaptation and, the big news of this year's UN climate talks, the election of Donald Trump as US President. Meanwhile, the collective communications staff continued to beaver away promoting key messages from D&C Days
  44. The comms hub at #DCdays hard at work. So much interesting stuff to tell everyone about and share with our audiences. https://t.co/zA4gwxPNG6
    The comms hub at #DCdays hard at work. So much interesting stuff to tell everyone about and share with our audiences. pic.twitter.com/zA4gwxPNG6
  45. The afternoon parallel sessions saw participants choose between a focus on forest fire prevention and improved ovens and boilers in Morocco; the synergies between Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs), National Adaptation Plans (NAPs), and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); and how to mobilise private sector finance for adaptation, which is the focus of the coverage below:
  46. Advice from @IFC_org on mobilising private sector finance for adaptation. "People will start paying attention when costs are clear" #DCDays  https://twitter.com/alertnetclimate/status/797803418052083712 
  47. "People don’t change because they see the light. They change because they feel the heat” #DCdays #COP22
  48. Insurance and risk are intimately related: adaptation risk reduction makes insurance cheaper or makes it available at all @Allianz #DCdays
  49. Insurance is fundamentally inclusive - The industry needs to work together to understand shared risk better. @Allianz @WMBtweets #DCdays
  50. Financiers need understand adaptation risk but civil society, states and developers must meet halfway and learn finance. @WMBtweets #DCDays
  51. Business working to lower its own risk and creating co-benefits for communities - "that is not adaptation finance" #dcdays #COP22
  52. Big problem is that most of world's insurance policies aren't in the same place as most of the world's disasters #dcdays #COP22
  53. Lower default rate on loans with climate smart action - so can farmers taking climate smart action get preferential loans? #DCdays #COP22
  54. Some highlights from the other sessions happening at the same time
  55. #DCDays seeking strategies to break silos between NDCs, NAPs and SDGs #WRIClimate
  56. Challenging conventional community #adaptation conversations to include different private sector actors is a welcomed change at #DCdays
  57. Obstacle to breaking down silos between NDC, NAP and SDG : no institutional home for SDG in many countries #cop22 #DCdays #globalgoals
  58. #DCDays the INDC process was rushed as which might affect alignment with the NAPs at sectoral level thus affecting the national priorities
  59. Seeking synergies between INDCs, NAPs & SDGs: Morocco's NDC & NAP align with 11 of 17 SDGs #DCdays https://t.co/tkci2nsCoC
    Seeking synergies between INDCs, NAPs & SDGs: Morocco's NDC & NAP align with 11 of 17 SDGs #DCdays pic.twitter.com/tkci2nsCoC
  60. The closing panel, moderated by Mary Robinson, brought together the three strands of discussions over the two days, highlighting the key messages and actions required to ensure that global ambition translates into local action and delivers climate resilience for all.
  61. High level panel at the closing ceremony of #DCdays with Mary Robinson @MRFCJ https://t.co/1RtTRdlROR
    High level panel at the closing ceremony of #DCdays with Mary Robinson @MRFCJ pic.twitter.com/1RtTRdlROR
  62. How can global commitments become meaningful change at the local level? - @IIED @MRFCJ #DCdays
  63. "To implement the Paris Agreement means we change all our habits" - Hakima El Haite, Morocco env. min #dcdays #cop22
  64. TR_Foundation: "Up to now have dealt with development without women and we can’t do it anymore" - Haikma El Haite, Moroccan env min #dcdays
  65. "If there is a big dam or a big land grabbing for solar energy, it’s not 'clean' energy anymore" #dcdays #indigenous #COP22
  66. We cannot have solutions without human rights of indigenous people - Hindou Ibrahim #DCdays 

#climatechange #cop22 #nolandgrab https://t.co/AKGOnDVZ3i
    We cannot have solutions without human rights of indigenous people - Hindou Ibrahim #DCdays #climatechange #cop22 #nolandgrab pic.twitter.com/AKGOnDVZ3i
  67. #DCdays @IIED call from Hindu on final panel to make COP more inclusive and decisions respective of human rights - inside-out COP next time!
  68. Journalists too often looking for climate "victims", not open to more complexity among the affected - Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner #dcdays #COP22
  69. Youba Sokona: clusters of communities across levels need to take action on #climatechange and the interactions btwn them important #DCdays pic.twitter.com/mDPndYmkQBhttps://t.co/mDPndYmkQBpic.twitter.com/mDPndYmkQBhttps://t.co/mDPndYmkQBpic.twitter.com/mDPndYmkQB
  70. #DCDays hears from Youba Sokona: Article 6 of #UNFCCC calls for education, training on continuous basis, not just when extreme event happens
  71. "communities should be at the center of our interventions" - their vulnerabilities and their needs. @IIED #cop22 #dcdays @MRFCJ
  72. Social protection can be used to achieve adaptation goals and financing this is important says Patrick Phiri of Malawi Red Cross #DCdays https://t.co/N9aUthBfY7
    Social protection can be used to achieve adaptation goals and financing this is important says Patrick Phiri of Malawi Red Cross #DCdays pic.twitter.com/N9aUthBfY7
  73. Mary Robinson @ #DCDays: For good #communication, you need to be really, really clear - & get rid of all those acronyms nobody can remember!
  74. "We’re not doing nearly enough in an integrated way to build resilience” to coming - and current - climate impacts @MRFCJ #DCdays #COP22
  75. El Nino: "We see it as a window into a really difficult normal that’s going to come" @MRFCJ #dcdays #COP22
  76. @SaleemulHuq at #DCdays: organizations should invest in capacity building at the country level through universities. #cop22 https://t.co/RiaNR702L5
    @SaleemulHuq at #DCdays: organizations should invest in capacity building at the country level through universities. #cop22 pic.twitter.com/RiaNR702L5
  77. @SaleemulHuq at #DCdays: "The days of funders like the World Bank flying foreign consultants into least developed countries are over" #COP22
  78. "We can never divide security and environmental protections" @hindououmar, Chad #dcdays #COP22
  79. Youba Sokona in #dcdays plenary:there’s a wealth of experience and action to build climate resilience. It’s scale and speed that’s lacking.
  80. "It's important that the #ParisAgreement" was judged to be a very fair agreement"; process was very inclusive - Mary Robinson @MRFCJ #DCdays
  81. Mary Robinson #DCdays We live in a fragmented world but we have the right topics on our agenda #COP22 https://t.co/9SDhrPoElO
    Mary Robinson #DCdays We live in a fragmented world but we have the right topics on our agenda #COP22 pic.twitter.com/9SDhrPoElO
  82. D&C Days: High level panel with Mary Robinson
  83. As part of the session, Robinson asked participants to think about three key words that reflected what they had seen and heard during D&C Days. There was no shortage of willing respondents
  84. Mary Robinson @MRFCJ asked us to find 3 keywords that we take away from #DCdays - mine would be - co-reflect, co-adapt, communicate @IIED
  85. #DCdays 3 words to summarise required action: Integrate, Decentralise, Listen.
  86. Action words for tackling climate change: local, inclusive, integrated #DCdays
  87. Action words from #DCdays @MRFCJ: commmunicate, connect, collaborate (and loads more)
  88. The 2016 D&C Days closed with a moving poem by Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner, of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, to her daughter
  89. "that lucid, sleepy lagoon...there are men who say that lagoon will swallow you one day" @kathykijiner filling #DCdays with some poetry https://t.co/HBA9UPiO0c
    "that lucid, sleepy lagoon...there are men who say that lagoon will swallow you one day" @kathykijiner filling #DCdays with some poetry pic.twitter.com/HBA9UPiO0c
  90. Full house at the high level closing panel with @MRFCJ. Congratulations all - a successful weekend at #DCdays #COP22 https://t.co/Z34Jd5cUdR
    Full house at the high level closing panel with @MRFCJ. Congratulations all - a successful weekend at #DCdays #COP22 pic.twitter.com/Z34Jd5cUdR
  91. Feeling inspired and ready for action following the amazing #DCdays 💪💪 @IIED @IDRC_CRDI
  92. That's it for #DCdays this year. Thanks to all who participated - in Morocco and online around the world. See you next year #COP22 #COP23  https://twitter.com/dominiquesouris/status/797851780096946176 
  93. Some further stories from the day's discussions:
  94. Throughout the two days Jorge Martin worked to illustrate the discussions that were taking place. Here is the final result:
  95. VIDEO: Take a closer look at the huge mural by @jorgemartin illustrating the fascinating conversations at #DCdays at #COP22 pic.twitter.com/MUQ4kANDeu
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  97. During the conference, several participants were interviewed for short films:
  98. VIDEO: @SaleemulHuq's latest daily vlog rounds up the weekend's #DCdays event - and looks forward to #CBA11:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDxqdc2e5M4  #COP22
  99. Mary Robinson at Development & Climate Days 2016 at COP22
  100. "I Represent The Communities At Grassroot" - Constance Okollet, DC Days 2016, COP22
  101. Inclusion And Participation - Agnes Leina, DC Days 2016, COP22
  102. Sharing Experience at Development and Climate Days - Saleemul Huq, COP22
  103. "These Are The People Doing Things On The Ground" - Saleemul Huq, DC Days, COP22
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