This is a recording of a webinar hosted by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) on 19 June, 2020, that discussed what kind of collaboration and action is needed to tackle these global crises of COVID-19 and the climate emergency.

This was the first online event in a series hosted by IIED and the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) on the climate crisis and COVID-19 – working together for the change we need, which will be hosted between June and October 2020.

In conversation with colleagues around the world, from civil society organisations to universities and governments, this series will look at what we can learn to make us more ready for the new ways of working we need to tackle the climate crisis.

Building resilience, capacity, and adaptation have always provided a pathway to change – how can we use what we know and have achieved so far to ramp up our climate ambition? Drawing on lessons learned through capacity building, advocacy, and grassroots action, how can we catalyse a different future?

The speakers were: Saleemul Huq, director of ICCCAD in Bangladesh, and an expert on the links between climate change and sustainable development, particularly from the perspective of developing countries; Fatima Denton, director of the Institute for Natural Resources in Africa at the United Nations University, Ghana; and Achala Abeysinghe, the country representative for Papua New Guinea (PNG) at the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), leading the country programme on green growth and climate resilience. The event was facilitated by IIED director Andrew Norton.

More information: https://www.iied.org/climate-covid-19-collaboration-we-need