The Fourth Central Asia Climate Change Conference (CACCC-2021) will be held on July 26-27, 2021, in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. The conference will be conducted as a mix of in-person and virtual meetings.
The objective of the conference is to strengthen the regional dialogue, information and knowledge exchange in order to support climate-resilient evidence-based decision-making systems, as well as to explore the possibilities to ensure the synergy in climate projects implementation between international finance organizations and the development agencies in Central Asia.
A series of our publications will be dedicated to the speakers and moderators of the upcoming event. And, today, we would like to introduce you to a lead expert in the international climate change policy Olga Pilifossova. She will be a speaker at the CACCC-2021 thematic session on climate policy and the role of civil society.
Dr. Olga V. Pilifossova is a lead expert in the international climate change policy with a Ph.D. in climatology from the Moscow Global Ecological Institute. Currently, she is a Manager of the Adaptation Programme at the UNFCCC secretariat, where she leads the team supporting negotiations and implementation on many aspects of adaptation, including the work of the Adaptation Committee, the principal UNFCCC institution on adaptation; the cross-cutting adaptation provisions of the Paris Agreement, such as Adaptation communication and Transparency; Nationally determined contributions, adaptation input to the Global stock take, and the Technical Examination Process on Adaptation.
Prior to this work, for 14 years she worked on progressively complex assignments at the UNFCCC secretariat, spearheading technical work and support for negotiations on different aspects of climate change, including GHG inventory, the interface between international policy and science; impacts and vulnerability methods and tools; scientific, technical and socio-economic aspects of adaptation. From 2010-2012 she worked at the specifically founded unit at the Executive Direction and Management of the secretariat. She served as a secretary to the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action, providing overall coordination of the substantive support of the Bali Action Plan process that eventually lead to the Paris outcome in 2015.
Before joining the secretariat, Dr. Pilifossova led climate change work in Kazakhstan, managing the inter-agency team working at the Kazakh Institute for Climate and Ecology, which prepared the first national communication under UNFCCC on all aspects of climate change. From 1999 - 2001 she served as the coordinating lead author for the adaptation chapter of the IPCC third assessment report. The report broke new ground by providing a comprehensive and systematic analysis of climate change adaptation, its typology and its linkages with sustainable development and equity.
Stay tuned for further updates to know about other interesting speakers of the CACCC-2021.
