Forum for Climate, Poverty and Development

1. Forum for Climate, Poverty and Development

2. 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

3. 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?)

4. 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