CAN PreCOP 17 Workshop
1921 October 2011
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, East Africa
The main objectives of the program:
1. Provide space for southern CAN members and other stakeholders to work on a common and unified southern voice for greater influence at Seventeenth Conference of Parties in Durban.
2. Strengthen the South–South dialogue and discussion in order to support the CAN‐International policies to have impact in the climate negotiations through broader understanding and knowledge base.
3. Strengthen and reinforce the connection between the southern civil society members to continue dialogue and strategize for future advocacy and actions in their respective country and regions.
4. Have dialogue and interaction with African governments and/or the African Union.
Day – One
Time Activities Responsible Remarks
09:00‐09:15 Registration and arrival of participants
09:15‐10:15 Opening Session Gov. Representative
CAN – David HBF ‐ Patrick
10:15‐10:30 Introduction of the participants Raju
10:30‐10:45 Objectives and agenda review of 3 days Facilitator
10:45‐12:15 Path to sustainable future, is low carbon development the answer? :
• Environment, Climate Change and sustainable development ‐ how do we live up to the challenge? • How secure does the future look in the context of
present climate crisis?
• Does low carbon path give the answer for the
Chair‐ Patrick Berg Panellists‐
‐ Chandra Bhushan ‐ India ‐ Shirley Atatagi – Cook Island
‐ Mohamed ‐ Kenya ‐ Jiayi ‐ China
Each participant speaks for 10 minutes and the chair moderates for discussion for additional
Global South and what is means for countries at different stages of development (eg. emerging economies, LDC, island states)?
Note: Presentation to be followed by comments and Q&A
questions
12:15:12:30 Tea/Coffee Break
12:30‐01:30 Regional Breakouts –
1. Identification of major regional issues, threats and challenges related to climate change.
2. Prioritise three issues.
3. What are the policy choices and how can these be addressed from (regional and international) policy perspective.
4. How can these be reflected to international climate negotiations (UNFCCC and other forums) and what role should CAN or boarder civil society play to reflect this?
Facilitator‐ Julie‐ Anne
01:30‐02:30 Lunch Break
02:30‐03:00 Sharing the outputs from group breakouts
03:00‐04:00 Panel discussion ‐ Adaptation, Agriculture, Mitigation (NAMA), Finance, Technology, REDD/LULUCF and legal, (??) what’s on the table and how can these marry with expectation?
Note‐ while the panellists make their presentation on the current positions they will also link to the outputs of previous regional breakouts.
Chair‐ Rajen Awotar Panellists
Adaptation –
Agriculture ‐ Harjeet Mitigation (NAMA) ‐Lama Finance – Mahlet
Technology‐ Manjeet REDD/LULUCF ‐ Gaines Capacity Building ‐ Mona
Each participant speaks for 7 minutes
moderated by the chair
04:00‐04:15 Tea/Coffee Break
announcements
05:00‐06:00 Effort Sharing (Mitigation Actions):
Sharing on outcomes of CAN’s discussion on Effort Sharing followed by discussion.
Where do North and South stand on sharing their carbon mitigation actions?
Who needs to do how much to share the equitable burden?
Presenter – Sanjay Vashist
PowerPoint presentation for half hour followed by questions and comments
07:30 Welcome Dinner
Day – Two
Time Activities Responsible Remarks
09:00‐09:15 Review of Day One
09:15‐09:30 Agenda review for the day Facilitator
09:30‐11:00 Regional Dynamics and synergy (also link to efforts sharing discussions):
• What roles can regional bodies like African Union, SAARC, ASEAN, etc. play for a better outcome? • In the backdrop of the changing world politics, can
these bodies make difference in the overall functioning of the G77+China dynamics? • Dynamics within G77+China, what needs to be
done in order to be more effective?
Note – There will be a short presentation followed by Q & A
Chair – Sandra Guzman Panellists –
AU – Habtemariam SAARC ‐ Sanjay ASEAN – Gurmit BASIC ‐ Gaines Pacific ‐ Shirley G77+C (overall) ‐ Mohamed
Each participants gets 10 minutes analyse the regional dynamics moderated by the chair for comments and questions.
11:00:11:15 Tea/Coffee Break
11:15‐01:00 SouthSouth Experience Sharing:
• Learning from other countries/regions and what
Chair – Harjeet Singh Panellists –
can be replicated?
• What has been the experience of facilitating a regional network – what went well what didn’t (an experience from the Southern Voice Program of CAN or other networks)?
Note – sharing success/failure case stories, policy influence, networking and mobilization for positive change, etc. flowed by interactions and discussions (how about a small group breakouts?)
1. Sammuel ‐ Ghana 2. Manjeet ‐ Nepal 3. Pelenise ‐ Kiribati 4. Patrick Adams ‐
Philippines 5. Sandra ‐ Mexico 6. David
Sacramento ‐ Mozambique 7. Jiayi ‐ China
presenting rather the chair will moderate the entire session with questions and comments for them followed by additional comments and
questions form the floor
01:00‐02:00 Lunch Break
02:00‐03:00 Thematic Issue breakouts:
• Adaptation, Finance, Technology, REDD/LULUCF, Low carbon development path, effort sharing, Agriculture.
• What does this mean to Global South and how to move ahead?
• How can CAN be more influential?
Note – group breakouts are done to discuss and identify the crunch issue for the participants. What do they think about particular issues and what are their expectations?
03:00‐03:45 Sharing the outcomes of the breakouts. Other participants to comment and suggest for necessary changes.
Facilitator ‐ Ranga
03:45‐04:00 Tea/Coffee Break
04:00‐05:00 Presentation from the outcomes of Africa Climate Policy Centre (ACPC) meeting held in Addis Ababa from October 1719, 2011:
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Presenter ‐ ACPC Representative
05:00‐06:00 Preparation for the African Union dialogue:
‐ NGO considers the upcoming COP as an African COP,
‐ Civil Society expectations (CAN)
‐ Solidarity and full support for Africa from Southern civil society for an ambitious outcome in Durban
Facilitator – David
7:30 Socialising Dinner
Day – Three
Time Activities Responsible Remarks
09:00‐09:15 Review of Day One
09:15‐09:30 Agenda review for the day Facilitator
09:30‐11:00 Durban (COP 17) Expectation CAN’s position:
• What are the expectations from Durban? And will these expectations be met?
• What are the possible outcome scenarios from Durban?
• What do the Southern NGOs think on CAN’s expectations?
Note‐ Brief presentation to be followed by comments and interactions and Q&A
Presenter – Julie‐Anne Additional Comments – Mohamed, Harjeet, Shirley, Sandra
PowerPoint
presentation for half hour followed by questions and comments
11:00‐11:15 Tea/Coffee Break
11:15‐12:30 Regional strategy towards COP 17 and beyond (including Rio +20): Regional Group breakouts to prepare strategy and action plan towards COP 17 and beyond.
1. How do we share the outcome generated from the
Facilitator ‐ Sanjay
workshop with boarder stakeholders in respective country/region
2. What do we plan from here to Durban? 3. What next beyond Durban?
4. Any thinking/planning from the respective regions towards Rio +20 ? How can we influence?
Note – Participants will break out into their respective regional groups to engage and share the workshop outcomes with wider civil society organisations and stakeholders back home/region and plan for future activities.
12:30‐01:00 Report back from the regional breakouts Same Facilitator
01:00‐02:00 Lunch Break
02:00‐04:00 African Union Dialogue: Interaction with the representatives of African Union
Note‐ Participants to join the representative of African Union presentation and interactions.
Facilitator ‐ David
04:00‐04:30 Reflection on the African Union Dialogue Same Facilitator
04:30‐04:45 Evaluation Raju
04:45:05:00 Closing and thanks Supporters and CAN
7:30 Good Bye Dinner
