About the Department of Conservation and UC Davis Affiliate Event
The California Department of Conservation and UC Davis are hosting a day-long symposium “Managing Lands in a Changing Climate to Improve Agricultural Resilience, Food Security, and Health”. The symposium is an official affiliate event of the Global Climate Action Summit (GCAS).The symposium aims to center on the key GCAS themes, which focus on land stewardship and sustainable communities. The goals of the symposium include:
- 1. Share models of success that emphasize integrated approaches to inspire innovation and action.
2. Identify innovative strategies and actions that have the greatest promise to promote agricultural resilience, food security, and health in a changing climate.
3. Connect with fellow symposium participants in support of deepening and expanding networks, inspiring creative thinking and pioneering partnerships.
4. Inspire commitments to creating change through managing land and resource use in innovative ways, with a long-term view to sustaining ecosystem and agricultural services as well as population and planetary health outcomes.
AGENDA
Morning Plenary Session, Mondavi Jackson Hall
9:00 Welcome
9:30 Integrated Approaches: Successful Models to Tackle Complex Challenges
Integrated approaches are key to manage the numerous resource components of landscapes and to design climate actions that balance population and planetary health needs. The panel will debate new approaches and models of success to tackle complex challenges that can be shared and scaled.
10:30 Break for Networking and Refreshments
11:00 Strategies for Success from Around the Globe - Replicating, Scaling, Iterating for Local Implementation
A discussion of the climate actions and roles of subnational, national, universities, and community groups to manage lands and integration of actions from local to national. Panel will also discuss implementation of land-use planning and other strategies for ensuring agricultural resilience, food security, and health.
12:30 Lunch
Boxed lunch provided; participants encouraged to engage with Non-Governmental Organization and Research Center tables
Afternoon Session, Mondavi Jackson Hall
1:30 California Dialogue— Actions and Strategies Strengthening Agriculture, Forest Resilience and Food Security
2:30 Lightning Talks | Success Stories at the Ag-Food Security Nexus
3:00 Break for Networking and Refreshments
3:30 Combating the Impacts of Climate Change on Food Systems and Disease Issues at Multiple Scales
4:30 Lightning Talks | Success Stories at the Food-Health Nexus
Afternoon Breakout Dialogue Options, Vanderhoef Studio Theatre
Agricultural Conservation and Resilience– Harnessing the Wisdom in the Room Toward Action
Dialogue in small groups to explore:
• Opportunities to create or strengthen effective strategies and partnerships to accelerate action in agricultural conservation and resilience;
• Strategies to effectively share innovative practices with an emphasis on actions that are readily scalable and adaptable.
Pre-Registration Required: 3:30 PM Breakout Session 2
Improving Food Security and Health – Harnessing the Wisdom in the Room Toward Action
Dialogue in small groups to explore:
• Opportunities to create or strengthen effective strategies and partnerships to accelerate action in agricultural conservation and resilience;
• Strategies to effectively share innovative practices with an emphasis on actions that are readily scalable and adaptable.
5:00 Key Ideas and Outcomes from Afternoon Sessions & Wrap Up
5:45 Networking and Poster Reception
7:00 End
About the Global Climate Action Summit
The Global Climate Action Summit will bring leaders and people together from around the world to “Take Ambition to the Next Level.” It will be a moment to celebrate the extraordinary achievements of states, regions, cities, companies, investors and citizens with respect to climate action. It will also be a launchpad for deeper worldwide commitments and accelerated action from countries—supported by all sectors of society—that can put the globe on track to prevent dangerous climate change and realize the historic Paris Agreement. The decarbonization of the global economy is in sight. Transformational changes are happening across the world and across all sectors as a result of technological innovation, new and creative policies and political will at all levels. States and regions, cities, businesses and investors are leading the charge on pushing down global emissions by 2020, setting the stage to reach net zero emissions by midcentury. The Global Climate Action Summit will take place in San Francisco Wed, Sep 12, 2018 — Fri, Sep 14, 2018, you can learn more about the main event at GlobalClimateActionSummit.org
