This is a recording of a webinar hosted by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) on 3 July, 2020.

This event served a framing event for resilience at London Climate Action Week (LCAW). It articulated the importance of resilience across agendas and showcased leading perspectives on resilience from LCAW 2020, emphasising the need for ambitious public policy commitments on climate adaptation and resilience in the near term, and exploring what action can be taken in the run-up to COP26 with a view to setting up action over the course of this decade.

The event was co-hosted by E3G and IIED in partnership with the Global Commission on Adaptation (GCA), the Global Resilience Partnership (GRP), and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC).

Introduction and opening remarks
00:26 Jagan Chapagain, Secretary General, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)

Keynote address
07:23 Alok Sharma, president-designate for COP26, and Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, UK

Keynote address
15:40 Jeanne d'Arc Mujawamariya, Minister of Environment, Rwanda

Panel 1: Resilience across global challenges
26:05 Nick Mabey (moderator) is chief executive and a founder director of E3G, a non-profit European organisation dedicated to accelerating the transition to sustainable development

31:35 Professor Sir Andy Haines – former director, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

35:35 Emma Howard-Boyd – chair, UK Environment Agency; and commissioner, Global Commission on Adaptation

41:09 Saleemul Huq – director International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD); and advisor, Climate Vulnerable Forum

47:21 Sheela Patel – Founder-director, the Society for Promotion of Area Resource Centres (SPARC); and commissioner, Global Commission on Adaptation

53:06 Dan Smith – director, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

Panel 2: Perspectives on resilience from London Climate Action Week
1:09:29 Andrew Norton (moderator) is director of IIED. He is an applied anthropologist working on a range of issues related to social and environmental justice

1:13:24 Dr. Amal-Lee Amin – director, Climate Change, CDC and COP26 Unit, Cabinet Office

1:20:08 Prema Gopalan – founder and executive director, Swayam Shikshan Prayog (SSP)

1:27:09 Carlos Sanchez – director, Climate Resilience Investment, Willis Towers Watson

1:33:44 Tenzin Wangmo - Lead negotiator for the Least Developed Countries Group under the UNFCCC

1:39:53 Professor Mizan Khan - Programme Director of LDC University Consortium on Climate Change (LUCCC)

More details: https://www.iied.org/resilience-light-covid-19-climate-action-road-cop26