Agenda

Opening Remarks

Professor Claudia Valeggia, Director, Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies (CLAIS) at the MacMillan Center; Professor of Anthropology and Spanish and Portuguese.

Keynote Remarks

H.E. Ms. Janine Coye-Felson, Ambassador, Deputy Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of Belize to the United Nations.

Panel I: Climate Finance for Adaptation: Assessing the Role, Effectiveness, and Future of International Funding Mechanisms

Ms. Jennifer Baumwoll, Global Climate Change Advisor, UNDP;
Mr. Ignacio Lorenzo Arana, Director of Climate Change in the Ministry of Housing, Land Planning and Environment of Uruguay;
Ms. Martina Dorigo, Program Analyst, Adaptation Fund

Panel II: Micro-finance as a Tool to Solve Local Level Climate Issues

Mr. Jorge Incer Obando, Deputy Manager, Líneas Verdes, Banpro Group;
Ms. Paula Cortes, Project Officer, ADA, Luxembourg;
Mrs. Cristina Garcia Mejia, Instituto para el Desarrollo de Antioquia Idea, Colombia

Keynote Remarks

Ms. Tonni Brodber, Deputy Representative with the UN Women Multi-Country Office Caribbean.

Panel III: Examining Gender Visibility and Mainstreaming in Climate Adaptation and Disaster Risk Resilience

Ms. Lourdes Fernanda Meyreles, Coordinator for Social Studies of Disaster Risk Program at the Latin American Social Science Faculty (FLASCO RD), Dominican Republic.;
Ms. Una May Gordon, Principal Director, Climate Change Division Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Jamaica;
Ms. Joanna Edghill, Founder and Director of Megapower Limited, Barbados

Keynote Remarks

Panel IV: Creating Climate Resilient Landscapes: Agriculture, Forests, and Other Land Use

Mrs. Adriana Martin, National Coordinator, Integrating Agriculture in National Adaptation Plans (NAP-Ag) Programme, FAO, Colombia;
Dr. Donovan Campbell, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography and Geology at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus (UWI) in Kingston, Jamaica;
Ms. Laura Abram Alberdi, Former Coordinator of the Environmental and Social Unit of UCAR, Argentina

Panel V: Climate Risks and Disasters: Water Management as a Tool for Resilience

Ms. Elizabeth Riley, Deputy Executive Director at the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA);
Ms. Suzanne Ozment, Associate II with World Resources Institute (WRI) Global Water Program;
Dr. Sergio Ruiz Azurduy, Faculty Researcher, Andean University Simon Bolivar, Ecuador