Capacity to adapt development pathways to protect human well-being

This virtual seminar will feature: Carolyn Kousky (Associate Vice President, Environmental Defense Fund) who has extensive experience in both scholarship and practice working to support governments and communities in their efforts to enhance adaptative capacity, manage climate risk, and build community resilience; Aditi Mukherji (Director, Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Impact Action Platform at the Consultative Group for International Agriculture Research (CGIAR) and Coordinating Lead Author of the IPCC) whose research and practice focus on just and equitable actions that contribute to water and food security, livelihoods, and resilience for smallholder producers in the Global South; and Claudia Thyme, Senior Adviser Strategy, Engagement & Programmes, Insurance Development Forum (IDF). The seminar will be moderated by Alicia Harley (Senior Research Fellow, Sustainability Science Program, Harvard Kennedy School).

A working paper providing background for the seminar is available here.

This seminar is the second in a virtual bi-weekly series on Building Capacity for Sustainable Development. The series seeks to integrate insights from scholars and practitioners on how to get things done in tackling the multiple intertwined crises of the Anthropocene: climate change, extinction, war, inequality, and rising authoritarianism. Additional information on the series is available here.

The series is organized by M-RCBG, Sustainability Science Program, Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability, Center for International Development, and the Belfer Center for Science and International Affair