Workshop report - weADAPT

Climate Knowledge Brokers Workshop 2013
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Victor Low (UNEP) mentioned the Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN)
which has received fast start funding and has a specific KM mandate.
Creating links with UNFCCC’s National Adaptation Plans Process is another possibility
that cropped up in a meeting held the following day with Paul Desankar from the
UNFCCC Secretariat. He explained the demand emerging from country delegates for
knowledge management best practice guidelines and capacity building support, and
was interested to learn of the CKB Group’s plans to move in this direction.
Next steps
The Steering Group was mandated to follow up on these and other opportunities, to see if
these might provide a means of furthering the CKB Group’s ambitions.
It was also tasked with developing a clearer description of the CKB Group and its goals, as a
first step is raising its profile and developing specific fundraising plans.
Three more volunteers agreed to join the Steering Group – Mihn Cao (GIZ Fiji), Craig Duncan
(UNISDR) and Aaron Leopold (IISD) – bringing it to 14 in total. So we have a strong core group
to share this leadership role. 11
We agreed to continue meeting as a group at least once a year. Scheduling the annual
workshop around the UNFCCC meetings in Bonn has some definite advantages, not least GIZ’s
excellent meeting room facilities, but other options will be considered. There were also
suggestions to hold regional workshops to reach out to knowledge brokers in developing
countries, and to hold a side event at COP 19 in Warsaw. The Steering Group will follow up
on these ideas.
Timo Leiter (GIZ) outlines
what could be achieved
under Option 2
11 See Annex 5 for a list of Steering Group members
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