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LOCATION:Bridgetown\, Barbados
SUMMARY:Climate change adaptation\, resilience-building and disaster risk r
 eduction for ports (Part 2)
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:With over 80% of world merchandise trade carried by sea\, seapo
 rts are vital nodes in the network of global supply chains and critical fo
 r access to global markets and the Blue Economy.At the same time\, they ar
 e at the front line of climate change\, particularly rising mean and extre
 me sea levels and extreme weather events - the impacts of which can result
  in significant infrastructure damage\, as well as costly disruption and d
 elay across interconnected global supply chains\, with implications for gl
 obal trade and the sustainable development of the most vulnerable\, includ
 ing SIDS.The sessions will provide a forum for discussion of climate hazar
 ds\, impacts\, risks\, and costs\; technical measures\, standards\, guidan
 ce and methodologies for adaptation\; governance and management approaches
 \; key challenges and opportunities in investment and capacity building fo
 r adaptation and DRR\; and provide related recommendations.This session wi
 ll be followed by a Q and A portion\, key insights and recommendations. W
 atch the live streamProgrammePart 2 (10:00-11:00) Speakers:Austin Becker\
 , Professor and Director of Graduate Programs\, Department of Marine Affai
 rs\, University of Rhode Island (URI)Giuseppe Mancinelli\, Deputy Director
 \, Latin America and the Caribbean\, United Nations Office for Project Ser
 vices (UNOPS)Jennifer Doherty-Bigara Rodriguez\, Senior Climate Change Spe
 cialist\, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)Remarks from the floor:Kana
  Mutombo\, Senior Strategy Specialist Global Sustainability Center\, Ameri
 can Bureau of Shipping (ABS)&lt\;p&gt\;With over 80% of world merchandise 
 trade carried by sea\, seaports are vital nodes in the network of global s
 upply chains and critical for access to global markets and the Blue Econom
 y.&lt\;/p&gt\;&lt\;p&gt\;At the same time\, they are at the front line of 
 climate change\, particularly rising mean and extreme sea levels and extre
 me weather events - the impacts of which can result in significant infrast
 ructure damage\, as well as costly disruption and delay across interconnec
 ted global supply chains\, with implications for global trade and the sust
 ainable development of the most vulnerable\, including SIDS.&lt\;/p&gt\;&l
 t\;p&gt\;The sessions will provide a forum for discussion of climate hazar
 ds\, impacts\, risks\, and costs\; technical measures\, standards\, guidan
 ce and methodologies for adaptation\; governance and management approaches
 \; key challenges and opportunities in investment and capacity building fo
 r adaptation and DRR\; and provide related recommendations.&lt\;/p&gt\;&lt
 \;p&gt\;This session will be followed by a Q and A portion\, key insights 
 and recommendations.&lt\;br&gt\;&amp\;nbsp\;&lt\;/p&gt\;&lt\;p class=&quot
 \;text-align-center\n\nView meeting on unctad.org\nhttps://unctad.org/node
 /45215
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