Strengthening Climate Resilience: Adaptation Pathways for a Sustainable and Secure Future

The Ukrain­ian Cli­mate Office (UCO) is proud to par­tic­i­pate in the UN Cli­mate Change Con­fer­ence (COP30) in Belém and host a high-lev­el side event focused on strength­en­ing cli­mate resilience and advanc­ing adap­ta­tion path­ways.

This ses­sion will bring togeth­er pol­i­cy­mak­ers, sci­en­tists, and inter­na­tion­al part­ners to explore how Ukraine and oth­er coun­tries are imple­ment­ing adap­ta­tion strate­gies, inte­grat­ing cli­mate risk man­age­ment into nation­al plan­ning, and mobi­liz­ing sup­port to build resilient soci­eties.

Panelists:

— Pavlo Kar­tashov, Deputy Min­is­ter, Min­istry of Econ­o­my, Envi­ron­ment and Agri­cul­ture of Ukraine

— Dr. Eva Kracht, Direc­tor Gen­er­al for Inter­na­tion­al and Euro­pean Pol­i­cy, Ger­man Min­istry for the Envi­ron­ment, Cli­mate Action, Nature Con­ser­va­tion and Nuclear Safe­ty

— Antho­ny Agotha, Ambas­sador at Large / EU Spe­cial Envoy for Cli­mate and Envi­ron­ment (EEAS, MDGLOBAL)

— Dr. Svit­lana Krakovs­ka, Senior Sci­en­tist, Ukrain­ian Hydrom­e­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Insti­tute; IPCC AR6 Lead Author

— Ingrid Tim­boe, Senior Pol­i­cy Lead and Deputy Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, Alliance for Glob­al Water Adap­ta­tion (AGWA)

Par­tic­i­pants will dis­cuss prac­ti­cal approach­es to address cli­mate vul­ner­a­bil­i­ties in key sec­tors includ­ing agri­cul­ture, water man­age­ment, ener­gy, and infra­struc­ture, while pro­mot­ing nature-based solu­tions and region­al coop­er­a­tion.

The ses­sion will also high­light how resilience to cli­mate impacts sup­ports social and eco­nom­ic sta­bil­i­ty, empha­siz­ing the con­nec­tions between adap­ta­tion, risk reduc­tion, and sus­tain­able peace.

By shar­ing Ukraine’s expe­ri­ence and engag­ing with glob­al part­ners, the event will iden­ti­fy oppor­tu­ni­ties for col­lab­o­ra­tion, invest­ment, and inno­va­tion that enhance adap­ta­tion efforts and strength­en com­mu­ni­ties’ abil­i­ty to thrive in a chang­ing cli­mate.

Join us at the Ukrain­ian Pavil­ion to explore how Ukraine is build­ing path­ways toward a sus­tain­able and cli­mate-resilient future!

The event is joint­ly orga­nized by the Min­istry of Econ­o­my, Envi­ron­ment and Agri­cul­ture of Ukraine and the Ukrain­ian Cli­mate Office/C4CA Project. The Capac­i­ties for Cli­mate Action (C4CA) project is imple­ment­ed by GIZ on behalf of the Ger­man Gov­ern­ment with­in the frame­work of the Inter­na­tion­al Cli­mate Ini­tia­tive (IKI) and co-financed by the Euro­pean Union.