THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND GENDER 2023, 9th to 11th June 2023 TENTATIVE PROGRAM

9th June 2023

11am to 7pm – Arrival of guests and guests pick up from airport to the hotel

10th June 2023

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

11th June 2023

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

2:30pm- 3:00pm: Ways to jump-start the renewable energy transition now

  • Introduction
  • How to jump-start renewable energy transition now
  • Panel Q&A
  • Closing Remarks

3:00pm-4:00pm Entertainment, networking snack break.

4:00pm-5:00pm: End of Day 2 Closing Remarks