The International Conference on Climate Change and Gender 2024 7th to 9th june 2024 Tentative Program
7th June 2024
11am to 7pm
Arrival of guests and guests pick up from airport to the hotel.
8th June 2024
8:30am-9:00am
Registration of guests
09:00am-10:00am
Breakfast, Canadian National Anthem, Opening Remarks from the Chairperson of the Organizing Committee
10:00am-10:30am
Workshop Session: Mental Health and Climate Change
- Welcome, opening remarks and panel introduction
- The importance of investing in mental health as a form of taking action against climate change
- Panel Q&A
- Closing Remarks
10:30am-11:00am
Indigenous responses of dealing with climate change.
- Introduction
- Indigenous responses to Climate Changes
- Panel Q&A
- Closing Remarks
11:00am-11:30am
How cities in the Global North prepared to cope with Climate Change
- Introduction
- Global North Preparedness in coping with Climate Change
- Panel Q&A
- Closing Remarks
11:30am-12:00pm
Session on How cities and villages in the Global South are prepared to cope with Climate change.
- Introduction
- Global South Preparedness to cope with climate change.
- Panel Q&A
- Closing Remarks
12:00 -1:00pm:
Cultural Dance and Music Interlude- Lunch Break
1:00pm-1:30pm
session on Food Sustainability, Security & Sovereignty
- Introduction
- Food Sustainability, Security & Sovereignty
- Panel Q& A
- Closing Remarks
1:30pm-2:00pm
Session on Climate, Pandemic & The social Determinants of Health
- Introduction
- Climate, Pandemic & The Social Determinants of Health
- Panel Q&A
- Closing Remarks
2:00pm- 2:30pm
Session on Climate, Education and Media: Paying Attention to a Crisis. How can we build climate literacy, how film/TV do climate Change wrong, how the news media fails to report on climate emergency & what we can do
- Introduction
- Climate, Education and Media
- Panel Q&A
- Closing Remarks
2:30-3:00pm
Session on Does healing this human caused climate crisis to require a rebalancing of global inequality?
- Introduction
- Does Healing this human caused climate crisis to require a rebalancing of global inequality?
- Panel Q&A
- Closing Remarks
3:00pm-3:20pm
Break and snack
3:20pm-4:00pm
Session on Countries in the Global North are disproportionately responsible for historic emissions.
- Introduction
- How the Global North is responsible for the historic emissions.
- Panel Q&A
- Closing Remarks
4:00pm-4:30
End of Day 1 Closing Remarks and Networking
9th June 2024
8:30am-9:00am
Registration of guests
09:00am-10:00am
breakfast, Canadian National Anthem, Opening Remarks from the Chairperson of the Organizing Committee
10:00am-10:30am
Session on Organizing Communities for climate change.
- Welcome, opening remarks and panel introduction
- Organizing Communities for Climate Change
- Panel Q&A
- Closing Remarks
10:30am-12:00pm
Leadership Workshop
In this interactive workshop, participants will discuss how civil society and communities can most effectively become part of the national and global response, mechanisms and how to influence the budgets of the developed countries to finance global action against climate change.
12:00pm-1:00pm
Anti racism and decolonizing the climate change responses sessions, moving from rhetoric to reformation.
- High Level Panel of thought leaders, experts, and activists to provide insights and share reflections on the theme of addressing racism, racial discrimination and decolonizing the climate change response towards ending inequalities both within organizational cultures and ending climate change.
- The session will bring the fore experiences, challenges, gaps and opportunities for addressing specific needs of people of color and other minority ground.
- Ensuring resourced action(programs) for ending inequalities related to intersecting identities.
- Monitoring, measuring impact and accountability for implementation of diversity, equity and inclusion strategies, policies, and programs towards ending racial and intersectional inequalities.
1:00pm -2:00pm
Cultural Dance and Music Interlude- Lunch Break
2:00pm-3:00pm
Canada’s International action on climate
- Introduction
- Canada’s priorities, Paris Agreement, Climate and clean Air Coalition, Canada’s international Climate finance
- Panel Q& A
- Closing Remarks
3:00pm-4:00pm
Entertainment, networking snack break Closing Remarks
4:00pm-5:00pm
End of Day 2 Closing Remarks