Good COP, Bad COP: What is at stake for global development at COP27?
Join us on 15 November 2022 to discuss perspectives from the Global South on climate change and global development, with specific insights from the Maldives and the Lake Chad region.
Climate change is already impacting every region on earth. However, these impacts are not felt equally. Low- and middle-income countries suffer disproportionately from the adverse consequences of climate change, although they are the least responsible. There are high stakes for global development at the 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Join us to discuss perspectives from the Global South, with specific insights from the Maldives and the Lake Chad region.
15 November 2022
18:15-19:15 CET, Doors open: 18:00
ETH Zentrum, ML Building, Room F39
The event is organised in collaboration with ETH4D as part of Mirror COP27, an event series hosted by the Student Sustainability Commission at ETH Zurich. See the full programme external page here.
Speakers:
Thibyan Ibrahim serves as Assistant Director of the Ministry of Environment, Climate Change and Technology of the Republic of Maldives. In his current role he is involved with climate finance and resource mobilisation, while also being involved with adaptation and mitigation projects. He also undertakes adaptation negotiations in the UNFCCC process as a coordinator for the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS).
Dr Medinat Abdulazeez Malefakis is a Senior Lecturer at NADEL. She is an academic and policy expert in terrorism, violent conflicts, humanitarian displacement, and peacebuilding. Medinat leads the Nigeria country portfolio for the Global Survivors Fund and is a board chair for the US peacebuilding non-profit Build UP.
Jasmine Neve is a Senior Lecturer NADEL. Her focus areas are climate change and sustainable development, climate finance, disaster risk reduction and environmental migration. Jasmine has a background in Climate System Science, Political Science, and International Relations.