Adaptation Without Borders: Knowledge Sharing and International Cooperation to Manage Transboundary Climate Risks

When: Monday 18 November at 15:30-17:00 (GMT+4)
Where: Climate, Peace & Transboundary Resilience Pavilion, COP29, Azerbaijan.

This is an official side event of COP29.

Climate risks affect neighbouring countries through shared ecosystems or infrastructure and can cross continents and oceans. Transboundary climate risks include food and water shortages, threats to trade and energy supplies, widening inequalities, forced migrations and geopolitical conflicts.

At last year’s UN Climate Change Conference, Parties recognised that climate change impacts are often transboundary and involve complex, cascading risks that require knowledge-sharing and international cooperation. This event, hosted by UNEP, Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI) in collaboration with Overseas Development Institute (ODI), discusses what this means in practice, the materiality of these risks and how we can build resilience in vulnerable regions affected by this global challenge.

Event Objectives:

• Raise awareness of transboundary climate impacts and risks with global, regional and national adaptation policymakers;
• Showcase successful examples of regional cooperation to manage transboundary climate risks;
• Identify recommendations and entry points for the integration of transboundary climate risks into relevant policy processes (e.g., Global Goal on Adaptation and National Adaptation Plans);
• Foster the creation of partnerships to advance regional cooperation around transboundary climate risks.

For more information, contact anna.kilponen@un.org