Time: 16:00-17:30
NAP Expo venue: Lusaka, Zambia (in-person)
This session is co-organized by UNEP, UNDP and UNDRR. It will feature experience sharing from LDCs and NAP Expo participants.
Context
The event explores the critical role of climate risk mapping tools in advancing climate adaptation planning. As climate change intensifies, vulnerable communities must prepare for its impacts by integrating effective adaptation strategies. Climate risk mapping tools offer a powerful way to identify, visualize, and assess the specific climate risks faced by different regions, allowing planners to make informed decisions and prioritize adaptation actions. By combining data on climate projections, climate impact, socio-economic vulnerabilities at the national and local level, these tools have the potential to engage a wide community and enhance the implementability of the NAP. This event highlights how innovation in climate risk representation can drive effective adaptation, enhance resilience, and empower communities to better navigate a changing climate.
The objective of the session is to explore innovative approaches to representing and communicating climate risk, with the aim of strengthening decision-making and adaptation planning efforts. The participants to the session will learn about existing climate risk mapping tools and potential to develop similar tools in their countries. UNEP has developed an interactive landscape and support to adapt it at the national scale in interested countries is available.
Agenda
Scene-setting: interactive landscape for nature-based solutions
Panel discussion: climate risk mapping tools in practice (innovative features, needs, challenges)
Break out group discussion in knowledge clinic format
Conclusion