2022.11.8 TUE

19:00 - 20:30

STS forum COP 27 Special Symposium on Regional Action on Climate Change

Organizer

Science and Technology in Society forum (STS forum)

Seminar abstract

In considering and constructing actions to address the recent challenges of climate change and to secure sustainable development, importance of providing the most up-to-date and accurate scientific knowledge to various community stakeholders and relevant policymakers can't be overemphasized.
In particular, in the crisis situation of COVID-19 and climate change in recent years, climate change issues, water and food security issues, ecosystem and biodiversity conservation issues, health issues, and many other issues are interacting locally and globally and consequently make the situation much more complex and complicated. In order to develop appropriate countermeasures against these complicated, intertwined, and ever-changing risks and situations, it is urgently required to provide community stakeholders and policymakers with the latest and the most accurate scientific knowledge on those issues.
At this special symposium, based on the above recognition, internationally recognized experts on climate change will review and discuss the following themes, which have been discussed at many international fora, including the STS Forum and its subsidiary conference, RACC. While reviewing the results of the discussions, we plan to further develop the discussions and disseminate the results widely to the world.

1. Interaction of multiple intertwined risks among climate change, water and food security issues, ecosystem and biodiversity conservation issues, and health issues. Their regional impacts, countermeasures, and recovery measures.
2. The state of resilience in the most vulnerable regions and measures to improve it. In particular, vulnerability of food supply and water security under recent climate change conditions. An appropriate countermeasures.

Speakers

【Local Speakers】

• Dr. Ismail Serageldin（Bibliotheca Alexandrina） Founding Director Emeritus
• Mr. Hiroshi Ono（Ministry of the Environment） Vice Minister for Global Environment Affairs
• Professor Adel El-Beltagy（International Dryland Development Commission (IDDC)） Chair
• Prof. Phoebe Koundouri（European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists） President
• Dr. Michio Kawamiya（Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC)） Director, Research Center for Environmental Modeling and Application, Research Institute for Global Change

【Online Speakers】

• Prof. Hiroshi Komiyama（Science and Technology in Society forum (STS forum)） Chairman
• Prof. Jim Falk（University of Melbourne） Professorial Fellow, School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
• Dr. Peter H. Gleick（Pacific Institute） President Emeritus
• Prof. Rattan Lal（The Ohio State University） Distinguished University Professor of Soil Science
• Prof. Charles Kennel（University of California, San Diego (UCSD)） Distinguished Professor and Director Emeritus, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Session Summary

At this special symposium, internationally recognized experts on climate change reviewed and discussed the following themes, which have been discussed at many international fora, including the STS Forum and its subsidiary conference, RACC. While reviewing the results of the discussions, we developed the discussions and disseminate the results widely to the world.

• 1. Interaction of multiple intertwined risks among climate change, water and food security issues, ecosystem and biodiversity conservation ssues, and health issues. Their regional impacts, countermeasures, and recovery measures.
• 2. The state of resilience in the most vulnerable regions and measures to improve it. In particular, vulnerability of food supply and water security under recent climate change conditions. An appropriate countermeasures.

Message and Results

Though it was the first time to hold an event at COP for STS forum, 20 on-site participants and 42 online participants, total 62 Hybrid participants from all over the world had an excellent opportunity to exchange active and earnest discussion.
In this symposium, importance of providing the most up-to-date and accurate scientific knowledge to various community stakeholders and relevant policymakers had been reconfirmed in considering and constructing actions to address the recent challenges of climate change and to secure sustainable development of human beings. And through the discussion there, information on what should be coveyed to those stakeholders and how had been clarified and disseminsted to the world. We wish to continue to urge also at the coming COP meetings the importance of providing relevant stakeholders with the latest and the most accurate scientific knowledge and strengthening the Knowledge-Action Networks.
https://www.stsforum.org/racc2022/archive/