COP27 Events
Losing the Irreplaceable: Loss & Damage, Culture & Heritage
Event Description
How does one grieve from the loss of irreplaceable? What is the price of cultural extinction? Does loss mean the same thing in every culture? The connections between loss and damage, and culture and heritage, are transversal, complex – and too often missing for the loss and damage conversation.
Culture and heritage along with Indigenous and local knowledge systems are increasingly vulnerable to loss from both slow and rapid onset hazards (and also sometimes maladaptation and mal-mitigation). Migration and relocation bring cultural loss, whether as part of managed retreat or disaster-driven displacement. The results can be devastating, especially for vulnerable communities, unraveling connections, lifeways, livelihoods, and more. Culture also mediates recognition of, and response to, other forms of loss, underscoring the culturally contingent nature of the topic
Venue
Hybrid - Blue Zone, Resilience Hub
Organisers
Climate Heritage Network, Gullah Geechee Nation, City of San Antonio, Climate Justice & Just Transition Donor Collaborative, National Trust, State of California
Culture and Biodiversity: Applying traditional knowledge and practices to support the 30x30 biodiversity target
Event Description
Conservation, Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities land tenure and stewardship. Achieving 30x30 by empowering Indigenous communities without undermining their resilience.
As the preparations for UNFCCC- COP27 intensify, Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities are demanding governments and financial institutions to take urgent climate action. They are collectively upholding and working to advance just and resilient community-led solutions.
The Past and ongoing injustices experienced by Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities continue to accumulate globally due to the fact that they have not been accorded their rights, roles, responsibilities and expectations in the pursuit of conservation goals.
Indigenous Peoples and Local communities particularly Women are simultaneously the most adversely impacted by climate change and socio-ecological degradation, and yet are indispensable actors and leaders with traditional knowledge and effective solutions. Within this struggle, Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities must stand at the forefront of policy-making and action to create long-term systemic change.
Link to Livestream
https://cop-resilience-hub.org/
Venue
Hybrid - Blue Zone, Resilience Hub
Organisers
FIMI - International Indigenous Women’s Forum, Climate Heritage Network, Julie’s Bicycle
Intangible and tangible intersections between culture, climate and gender
Venue
Hybrid - Green Zone, Hall B
Link to livestream
https://cop-resilience-hub.org/
Organisers
Climate Heritage Network
Climate Impact on Cultural Heritage in Egypt - Challenges and Solutions
Event Description
The session will focus on the concept of climate change in Egypt and its impact on its cultural heritage, and the challenges facing specialists in this regard, in addition to proposing solutions to the impact of this phenomenon on antiquities in Egypt. The aim of this session is to provide an overview of Egyptian antiquities and cultural heritage in Egypt, highlight its importance, raise the awareness of the concept of climate change as one of the most important challenges facing us in this period, present a methodology for dealing with the impact of climate change on cultural heritage, and present a crisis management plan on how to deal with the risks related to climate change, in order to put the bases for the necessary measures to address these changes. And coordinate the preparing of a draft concept note that includes mechanisms for the protection of cultural heritage.
Venue
Sharm El-Sheikh Museum (in-person only)
Participants
Experts from the following ministries, organizations and authorities:
Ministry of Environment
The International Council of Museums (ICOM), in addition to ICOM Egypt
The Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ICESCO)
Nuclear Materials Authority (NMA)
National Research Institute of Astronomy & Geophysics (NRIAG)
Organizer
Supreme Council of Antiquities, Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities