 So you've all seen the program, which isn't sure why you're here. We have had a lot of discussions in the planning team in the past few weeks about the themes that are angry with the program. You will see that the sessions all follow or tied to particular themes. And before we go off and start engaging with the sessions, we did set aside some time to have each of the theme leads from the partners come up and just to present very briefly a snapshot of what each theme is about. And then we also have a friend that we will invite to the stage to give a human story, a human face, what these themes are about. And I can say more about that in just a minute. So silly would you like to kick us off and say a little bit about what is to be expected in an agricultural theme? Thank you Karina. Good morning everyone. It is easy to be here at the DNC days and you can see who the picture changed. One of the main introductory picture is about food and the food market. So food and the agricultural system are really at the heart of our life. They are at the heart of supporting sustainable development goals, but they are also a part of the main climate solution. You should think that it is not only about industry transport energy in the solution, but it is also in the overall agricultural food system. And in particular, I would like you to remember a few facts. More than 2.5 billion people have agricultural-based livelihoods. This is not even counting people who process and distribute and sell foods on the street. This is a big figure and most of these people are living in the south. In addition, they provide 50% of the food supply for the world and more, 80% in developing countries. This is extremely important. Farmers, especially small-scale farmers, are on the front line of climate change. They are facing many risks, multiple risks, but those extreme events affecting them are big. Agriculture senators have sold more than 26% of the total cost of damage and loss. Here, in changing total damage and loss, we have heard loss and damage. It is mutual compatible terms. It is just used differently by UNTRA and UNFQC. When it comes to drought, agriculture has sold 80% of the total damage and loss. This is really important. So, we are extremely pleased to have these themes treated today as one of our priority issues with all of you. Working with many partners, it is not a fail-speaking alone here, and speaking on behalf of a larger team, we are working together with no legal egos, no logos. Working together, UNTRA and UNICEF set for advocating for putting especially small-scale farmers at the centre of the action. They need to be paid with fair price, not only because they produce good, but also because they sequester and cover with the forest and the soil that they manage properly. They take care of the nature with ecosystem services, and they should be rewarded for that. But this is not happening. Hunger and food security is rising today. I think Ruth can speak more about this, and I know when, now or after. Great, Ruth, can you give us the reality of where you work with the Red Cross in Southern Africa? Thank you. So, as Ruth makes her way to the stage, thank you so much. This is our funding for these days to sponsor participants that really are working with frontline communities on issues we are discussing today. So, for each of the teams that are introduced, we also would like to introduce one of the sponsor participants. They were selected through a competitive process, as Ruth just had a wonderfully compelling story to share with us and so we brought her here to come to join for the NCCD and more. So, what would you like to share with us? Hey, Ruth, I have food in there. Moody, thank you so much for having me. So, access to food is a basic human right. And however it is in the South African context, when food security is threatened due to a worsening climate, over 41.2 million people are fully secure and of this number, 11 million people require urgent assistance, of which the majority are those living in rural areas and are subsistence farmers. These people are primarily dependent on their projects and livestock to support their families and communities. With the negative effects of the drastic climate change in the region, resulting in floods and drought, we are increasingly seeing numerous families are able to meet their daily nutritious needs. As evidenced in rural African communities, we dependent on nettles and wild fruit, increased lifetimes of deaths in Namibia, Lusitun, Botswana and Zimbabwe. Families who are having little or no access to water to cook, to drink, to irrigate their crops and provide water for their livestock. There is also a steady increase in children who can diagnose with malnutrition, which is a byproduct of poor nutrition, which ultimately leads to standard growth, making them more susceptible to health and mental issues. The Federation not only intervenes by providing humanitarian services to address these needs of those vulnerable communities, but we also advocate for long-term sustainable and adaptable solutions to food security at the community level. This is conducted through our national societies as well as our value volunteers. We are working at the household level to ensure those made vulnerable by the floods and drought have access to food and to water. Implementing activities such as the promotion of backyard gardens to improve household access to diversified diets, planting in trees which not only is beneficial for the environment but also has a medicinal aspect, rehabilitating water points and innovating livestock water production just to name a few. In closing, I would like to urge that we develop naughty sectoral programs that will assist communities in identifying, minimizing and managing the effects of climate change to ensure that they achieve the primary goal of providing food for their families. Thank you. We're going to have this early warning and reaction to leave no one behind. And the picture that you're seeing is an image of a totally right-crossed staff and volunteers delivering two canoes to a community that is at risk of rising water levels due to the West African monsoon. So of course, taking early action and having those canoes in place based on early warning, we know consultants help save lives, livelihoods, and reduce the cost of responding to disasters. We're really keen to see that there's a tension at the level for bridging this climate that we're seeing in the past between the humanitarian world and the developing climate world. And so we're excited to offer three sessions on the program today. We're going to link to early warning, early action to leave no one behind. The first session is about the use of remittances. Can we explore the potential for use of remittances to fund early action based on early warnings? And you'll see that program being led by colleagues from the Climate Center and our secret work, a few others. We also have one program on what I just mentioned, translating these global commitments for taking, strengthening early warning systems and taking early action. We have a lot of commitment at the global level, putting in the recent on-cast summit. What does it take to make sure they transit to reality at the national level and truly benefit for the most vulnerable communities? And so we'll have a session on that exploring the challenges and opportunities for doing so. And the third session under this theme is a bit, not what you would expect when you think of early warning, early action. You may have seen on the program a session about climate grief. We do know, we have information about the world that awaits us and we do try to often say there's hope, there's a lot that we're doing, the global community is coming together, but nonetheless we are noticing on the people feeling anxiety, depression, what we may be able to label climate grief about the future, not about what's already happened, about what awaits us. And so the third session under this theme will be unpacking this concept of climate grief, trying to understand what it's about, what we can do about it, how we can manage it and it's then going to be quite out of the box. So please come and join any of those sessions. We look forward to seeing you there. And for the human face of the early warning, early action theme, I'd like to thank my colleague from the Kenya Red Cross, Esther, to share a bit of her experiences working on this. Thank you Karina. Good morning. So I'm part of a local branch in the Ruby and I would like to share our experience. One, the 22th of April last year, 119 households were swept away in Sinanga village in Kibera and this was due to flash floods where a stream nearby washed its banks and the water went to their homes. To put this into perspective, 601 persons were displaced just in one night. And to add on that, we lost two people in that incident. So what happened this year, we as Red Cross and other partners, we came together and decided we needed to do early warning and action and also work with the communities. So what we've done is that we've collaborated in the Kenyan Meteorological Department and other partners where they over weekly forecasts. So we use this weekly forecast stream for the communities. However, the weekly forecast has also been enhanced by ensuring that we give potential impacts of the weather events that will be occurring between the week. So we break this information. Of course, the production is usually in English. So we work with our community-based disaster response teams to break all the information into a local language. And where we translate it into Swahili and Shem, which is mostly used by the young people. And we sell this information via social media, using Facebook, using WhatsApp, by videos or just messages or just voice messages. The other thing is that we also work with local media. Something interesting in Nairobi is that every informal settlement has a local media that, like a local FM radio, that is, you shall use this in the locals. So we are using those media houses to offer advisories on what the community should do when there are these events and what is expected and what that means for everyone within Nairobi. So we've managed to share information about what the community should do, like moving from the lower grounds to higher grounds. Of course, we've also shared about the dangers of working in still water, moving water, and also information about emergencies. In case someone is distressed, they can call the recourse to support them. The other thing is that we've also collaborated with the local communities to open up drainage systems. One of the huge challenges, especially in the informal settlement, is that you don't have a proper structured way of waste disposal. So this waste disposal, you shall clone the drainage system and when there is rainfall, then the water has no place to go. So of course, currently since the second week of October till today, we've experienced enhanced rainfall due to positive in the ocean dipole. That is something I also had to learn through a lot of climate science, but it is very important for the community to understand what is happening. So that is what we've done. And so far, we have not received any call of distress from the community. So for us, we feel like the information shared with the communities has really helped in ensuring that they are aware of the environment and the weather events they want to do. The other thing is that we've also been doing a contingency planning and looking at the weather forecast, preparing for the worst case scenarios. Of course, to respond in case there's any distress. So that is my story. Thank you. And we have Santiago of MyDRC to introduce the scene. Thank you very much. My name is Santiago Alba and I'm from MyDRC. And we're going to talk about resilience and finance that most and rocks. And I'm going to talk about the pressure of seeing under the microscope a dry, almost dead piece of moss and put the drop of water and how the moss actually can be so alive. Because the communities that we serve actually are the most resilient of the beings that we have. And the finance that they receive can actually make them support these rocky times that they have ahead. I have today the pleasure to be here with my friend from MyDRC, IED and Climate Kick. And I think one thing that we ought to agree is that we need to get the climate development and finance system right. When only a dollar, every 10, reach on delivers local climate action, we are missing bit of local information, we need to engage innovation. The current system and the way that we are doing it is leaving too many behind. We are not, the climate finance today are not tackling key drivers on gender inequalities, the rise of women, vulnerabilities, chronic poverty, resources, degradations and the impact of climate change. It's the moment that we need to work together even more than ever. The states, governments of all the levels, private sector, civil society and communities, in particular need to engage how climate finance and private investment can build a more resilient future. Today we are going to be asking participants of the session for your perspectives in how actually climate finance can promote inclusivity and can help communities to have and to build more resilient future. So with that I'm going to introduce Gia from the UK that is going to be talking an expert on innovative approach to finance data. So we are working to bridge the data gaps between finance, policy, science and assets and how that actually relates to this theme of financing resilient future is really simple. We've already heard that the current financing systems are not fit for purpose if we want to create a resilient future. The decisions we make today are going to impact our future but currently we don't have the data available or we aren't using it in order to make climate smart lessons in things for example, such as our infrastructure. But I'm here to talk about practical solutions and that's what I'd like to see in the urge for in today's discussions too. The key blocker that we've identified is actually that getting to the crucial data is a lot of the effort currently. It's really difficult to search for it and when you do find it, it can take a really long time to negotiate the licensing rights to it. Which means that we're not making sound investment decisions. But this isn't about the technology it's actually about the culture. It's about the cultural mechanics of data sharing. It's about stepping away from the models that we're in currently which are about closed by default. And it's about understanding that there are many situations where we can and should be sharing data to generate both public and private good. So that's what we're doing. So what we need to do in order to address this problem and scale is actually focus on the infrastructure that we already have in place at scale today which is the web. We're bringing together policymakers, infrastructure builders, financial builders, finance experts, scientists, insurers and NGOs to agree to share principles and practice for data sharing to figure out what the licensing looks like to figure out what the legal, the rights and the liability issues look like too. So we're working on how we can get data flowing across transportation across agriculture, energy, water and construction in a way that allows people to make carbon zero decisions. We're focused on the question of how can we unlock access to data to inform the kinds of systems that we want to create. So I'd actually like to leave you with a reflection today and a question. To find answers in the future we need to understand our investments. To understand our investments we need to enable data access. To do that we need to agree to share principles and practice to change the cultural mechanics of data sharing and we need to take businesses, governments, NGOs and scientists on that journey with us. So my question to you all is what could we enable if we agreed to share principles and practice for data interoperability and scale? What could we create? If you'd like to talk to me more about this I will be here all day or you can head to icebreaker1.org forward slash join. Thanks very much. Our second task theme is establishing resilient cities and infrastructure. We've got Cinta for a brief overview of what's to be expected. As you all know cities are homes they're centers of the economy, centers of power they fuel innovation. But cities are also increasingly affected by climate related hazards. In Europe this summer cities suffered from heavy rains, we see bushfires burning outside of Sydney right now Esther has mentioned the impact of flash floods in East Africa. This year, as part in 2020 governments have committed part of the Cindy framework to create sub-national DRR plans that includes plans, DRR plans for cities. This information is also critical for the creation of maps and will hopefully also feed into ending seas so it's a big year and lots of action can be taken. In our two city sessions this morning the first session will explore some of the challenges. You will hear from the private sector you'll hear from the humanitarian sector you'll hear a local perspective from Nigeria and also a challenge in infrastructure and as the audience you'll be asked to think of solutions to try to address these challenges. Then in the second session you will have the opportunity with UNDRR's printed special D&C date dollars to become an investor. You'll be pitched innovative transformative ideas that could fuel solutions for cities and infrastructure and you will be allowed to choose which of these ideas you would like to invest in to help build a better future and for a little bit of perspective from the ground I'd like to invite Jennifer to the stage she's joining us from Nigeria. I'm from Nigeria I live in Lagos States Africa's largest city with over 21 million people affected by several issues including climate impact issues such as flooding sea level rise erosion and the host of orders 2016 I decided to build a community of young people who would go out into communities and build residents among other young people and especially with local communities. In our second session I will talk to you about an initiative we started for oil spills and pollution especially in the Niger Delta. Now Potacot River State in Nigeria is an orange city where it has several climate change issues pushing more young people to the cities and then the question of residents really comes to what can these young girls especially in this city do when they are pushed by lots of biodiversity and marine life their fishes are dying oil spills causing a real big problem for them and we'll talk about some of the solutions that we've come up with young people trying to mobilize residents in this particular world. So we have one final theme and there's an interesting story behind the nature-based solutions theme we were going to be in Santiago we had a fabulous team from IID fully charged up ready to offer many sessions on nature-based solutions bringing partners from the region our work was going to be everywhere and then we unmoved and the team wasn't able to come to Madrid, the plan has changed and so what we do have is still one session that is focused on nature-based solutions and then we've done the best we can to integrate NBS nature-based solutions to the rest of the sessions and because the IID team that was leading on this is here with us today we do have the pleasure of having Xiaoting from IID to speak to you a little bit about what's in store and with regards to this theme so Xiaoting is I'm recording that and pop up and just warmest greetings to all I'm Xiaoting from IID it's been a great pleasure working with so many amazing partners to bring nature into the DNC day discussions a thriving nature environment is fundamental for human resilience for example these help pollinate crops trees on farm help improve water and nutrient retention birds help control pests and earthworms help improve the fertility of soil all these are essential ecosystem services provided by nature for resilient agriculture systems green roofs and gardens in cities and forested areas around urban watersheds can provide cooling relief for ever-warming cities they can also provide more reliable food sources and clean water supplies forest on mountain slopes can reduce damage caused by avalanches and the risk of landslides and mangroves can protect communities from storm surges help reduce the risk of natural disasters in addition to helping us adapt to climate change nature can also help capture carbon and bring development benefits for the poor and most vulnerable communities working with nature is often the most cost effective and sometimes the only affordable way to adapt to climate change but biodiversity continue to decline at an alarming rate in every region of the world we urgently need to channel more funds and create more incentives for nature based approach to support vulnerable communities who are heavily dependent on natural resources working with nature to build resilience is interlinked with all the other themes at DNC days and touch upon every topic you will be discussing today your discussion on this theme are also very timely as more and more governments and companies including many at this COP are recognizing the importance of finding integrated solutions to the interlinked crisis of climate change and biodiversity loss we hope everyone at DNC days can take this excellent opportunity to share experiences of working with nature including best practices and lessons learned we hope the discussions today can inspire future collaborations to scale up nature based solutions for a shared more resilient future lastly I'm very sorry that I won't be able to turn in person but we are very excited that many participants today are local champions of nature based solutions and can bring their wealth of experience into the discussions we wish you a fruitful day of interactions and inspirations