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6:00—6:05pm: Welcome by Elly Vandegrift (University of Oregon) (Main Room)
6:05—6:35pm: Special Topic Discussions, Room 1 (Main Room). The following are the speakers and their topics, along with resources to help you prepare.
Biodiversity- Wijarn Simachaya (Thailand Environment Institute)
- Forest and Deforestation
- Grounding nature-based climate solutions in sound biodiversity science
- Biodiversity - our strongest natural defense against climate change
- Bing VideosLinks to an external site.
Climate Migration- Chris Richter (IOM)
- Top Climate Emergencies Impacting Refugees in 2022
- A new kind of climate refugee is emerging
- Climate migration growing but not fully recognized by world
- Why we need to fear the loss of biodiversity as much as climate change
Trading and Offsets- Renard Siew (Malaysian Carbon Market Association)
- Knowledge quiz: Carbon and Climate
- How cap and trade works
- Carbon Offsets, Illustrated
- The Big Problem with Carbon Offsets
- Emissions Trading (9-minute listen)
Health- Ramon Lorenzo Luis Rosa Guinto (Duke-NUS)
- Is climate change accelerating the risk of disease spreading from animals to humans? (7-minute video)
- A meta-analysis on global change drivers and the risk of infectious disease
- Climate change, its impact on emerging infectious diseases and new technologies to combat the challenge
- Over half of known human pathogenic diseases can be aggravated by climate change
- Climate Change and Infectious Diseases: What’s the Link?
Food Insecurity- Maria Tuazon (FAO)
Clean Energy- Sudhir Sharma (UNEP)
Oceans- Klyra Orbien (PEMSEA)
- Status, Trends, and Transitions in Coastal and Ocean Governance and Ecosystems Amidst the Triple Planetary Crisis and Emerging Polycrisis
- Rising Pressures, Calibrated Responses: The Changing Seas of East Asia
- SEA Knowledge Bank to learn more about the situation and our ongoing efforts in the EAS region
6:40—7:10pm: Special Topics Discussions, Room 2 (Main Room)
7:15: Move to delegation rooms (blue or green)
7:15—7:35pm: Closed delegation discussions
7:30—7:40pm: 2nd round of pledges inputting pledges
7:45—8:00pm: UN CCC discuss simulation results
8:00—8:30pm: Debrief