Forum for Climate, Poverty and Development

Concept note for our group – identify our themes/thinking Rationale for the forum –There is room for improvement in current policies, mainly due to inconsistencies, fragmentation of scholarship and practitioner/academia –Creating a meeting place for practitioners and academia, exchange info, cooperation within projects –Dialogue: foster policy relevant research and dialogue with policies –Link researchers, practitioners and policy makers –Distribute reach out to wider community Objectives –Improve current approaches –Dialogue and reframing agenda in Norway Themes to be addressed –Link poverty and vulnerability –Linkage between policies and community level measures/across scales –Transforming society and development thinking –Potential small steps –Climate change measures and marginalisation processes –Transforming systems (e.g. financial systems) Concrete activities

How do we work together? Policy processes – address specific documents –Government white paper –IPCC disaster report (December) Next meeting – informal dinner? Theme discussions (e.g. Energy as part of adaptation) Inform how things are done on the ground (e.g. present results from research or development projects) Awareness raising Represent the vulnerable? Webpage/ web-based discussion in addition to meetings Capacity development, e.g. connect with MOST (UNESCO’s ’Management of Social Transformation’ programme?)

Action Document (pdf) explaining what the forum is Suggest themes for forum to address Identify critical events/policy processes –E.g. 15th February Red Cross/Crescent meeting with key actors (Solheim, Brende, etc.) Identify potential themes for discussions Informal dinner Rewrite (policy note into a) concept note Workshop organised for wider community (or panels) – e.g. NFU conference in Copenhagen Kronikk (op-ed)? Investigate/find out action platforms (webpage) –List of members