Mobilizing the Heritage Sector for Climate Action Taking Ambition to the Next Level

1. Mobilizing the Heritage Sector for Climate Action Taking Ambition to the Next Level September 13, 2018 San Francisco, California

2. AGENDA Climate & Heritage, a short story from Colombia What Nature Based Solutions are Bringing to the Table Futures thinking Take away messages Guiding Climate Adaptation: The Role of Cultural Resource in Enhancing Adaptive Capacity, Strengthening Resilience and Reducing Vulnerability - Oscar J. Guevara - Leveraging the Culture Dimensions of Ecosystem-based Approaches (EbA) to Climate Change Adaption

3. DETAILS 1. Climate & Heritage, a short story from Colombia Guiding Climate Adaptation: The Role of Cultural Resource in Enhancing Adaptive Capacity, Strengthening Resilience and Reducing Vulnerability - Oscar J. Guevara - Leveraging the Culture Dimensions of Ecosystem-based Approaches (EbA) to Climate Change Adaption

4. A SHORT STORY FROM COLOMBIA Port, Fortresses and Group of Monuments, Cartagena

5. A SHORT STORY FROM COLOMBIA TheCoffee Cultural Landscape of Colombia

6. A SHORT STORY FROM COLOMBIA ChiribiqueteNational Park – “The Maloca of the Jaguar”

7. DETAILS 2. What Nature Based Solutions are Bringing to the Table Guiding Climate Adaptation: The Role of Cultural Resource in Enhancing Adaptive Capacity, Strengthening Resilience and Reducing Vulnerability - Oscar J. Guevara - Leveraging the Culture Dimensions of Ecosystem-based Approaches (EbA) to Climate Change Adaption

8. NATURE BASED SOLUTIONS Nature Based Solutions (NBS) “Actions to protect, sustainably manage, and restore natural and modified ecosystems, that address societal challenges effectively and adaptively, simultaneously providing human well being and biodiversity benefits” ( IUCN, 2018) Guiding Climate Adaptation: The Role of Cultural Resource in Enhancing Adaptive Capacity, Strengthening Resilience and Reducing Vulnerability - Oscar J. Guevara - Leveraging the Culture Dimensions of Ecosystem-based Approaches (EbA) to Climate Change Adaption

9. NATURE BASED SOLUTIONS Global Deal for People and Nature Climate change, Sustainable development, water, land use and biodiversity present one integrated challenge that requires a unified response An integrated global approach for putting biodiversity loss and nature restoration at the top of the global agenda Conservation outcomes with global alignment and integration Guiding Climate Adaptation: The Role of Cultural Resource in Enhancing Adaptive Capacity, Strengthening Resilience and Reducing Vulnerability - Oscar J. Guevara - Leveraging the Culture Dimensions of Ecosystem-based Approaches (EbA) to Climate Change Adaption

10. NATURE BASED SOLUTIONS With nature-based approaches, synergies are created between different sectors and a range of political objectives can be reached simultaneously. Nature-based approaches are often more cost-effective and can produce produce important additional socio- economic benefits for the environment, citizens, and the local economy. Illustration: Azote ImagesforStockholmResilience Centre Guiding Climate Adaptation: The Role of Cultural Resource in Enhancing Adaptive Capacity, Strengthening Resilience and Reducing Vulnerability - Oscar J. Guevara - Leveraging the Culture Dimensions of Ecosystem-based Approaches (EbA) to Climate Change Adaption

11. DETAILS 3. Futures thinking Guiding Climate Adaptation: The Role of Cultural Resource in Enhancing Adaptive Capacity, Strengthening Resilience and Reducing Vulnerability - Oscar J. Guevara - Leveraging the Culture Dimensions of Ecosystem-based Approaches (EbA) to Climate Change Adaption

12. FUTURES THINKING • New ways of thinking about the future • Understanding the present context • Connecting present to the future • Identify actions for today that will contribute to maintain / enhance resilience (Emphasis on “values”) VALUES+KNOWLEDGE +RULES How do we connect these ideas? What can we do now to start? What do we value? What do we want? (“knowledge”) How will these values and benefits be affected? (“rules”) How can we prepare our institutions? Address Societal Challenges COMMON GOAL “Effective conservation of nature, biodiversity and Ecosystem Services under climate-induced transformation” Faciliate Transformation & Enhance Resilience Adaptive Management Implementation / integration in policy, management, practice: Guiding Climate Adaptation: The Role of Cultural Resource in Enhancing Adaptive Capacity, Strengthening Resilience and Reducing Vulnerability - Oscar J. Guevara - Leveraging the Culture Dimensions of Ecosystem-based Approaches (EbA) to Climate Change Adaption

13. FUTURES THINKING • Make new commitments to action • Unlock Achievement of Aspirational Targets • Strong action that make clear that your sector is already moving on climate change in tangible and impactful ways. • Challenging your stakeholders to ‘step up’ and take ambition Address Societal Challenges Facilitate Transformation & Enhance Resilience • Despite scientific uncertainty about the details, recognize that a changing climate and climate induced transformation will be significant in the coming years and decades • To allow for change, we need to shift from focusing on preserving features, characteristics or assets to focusing on the benefits societies get from natural heritage • Facilitate learning situations in which participants and stakeholders can examine and experiment with their own theories of change to support climate action • Shifts in governance are needed • Create new forward-looking options and new practices Consolidate Adaptive Management Guiding Climate Adaptation: The Role of Cultural Resource in Enhancing Adaptive Capacity, Strengthening Resilience and Reducing Vulnerability - Oscar J. Guevara - Leveraging the Culture Dimensions of Ecosystem-based Approaches (EbA) to Climate Change Adaption

14. DETAILS 4. Take away messages Guiding Climate Adaptation: The Role of Cultural Resource in Enhancing Adaptive Capacity, Strengthening Resilience and Reducing Vulnerability - Oscar J. Guevara - Leveraging the Culture Dimensions of Ecosystem-based Approaches (EbA) to Climate Change Adaption

15. TAKE AWAY MESSAGES • World Heritage play a critical role in the Climate Change Agenda and making our world more resilient, while also ensuring cultural, social and environmental value for the whole society.. • Its urgent to identify / locate sources of resilience in the heritage sites - and look ahead to whether these “wellsprings” of resilience will persist in a climate – transformed future • The future of World Heritage requires that its role is recognized and valued as the foundation of sustainable and equitable development • Major transformations at different scales is needed, that reflect transformational change in governance of Heritage sites , based on institutional and social learning • Active and effective participation and innovation of civil society and the private sector committed to the future of World Heritage • The next years presents significant opportunities to radically escalate the political relevance of World Heritage and galvanize a cohesive movement to drive change Guiding Climate Adaptation: The Role of Cultural Resource in Enhancing Adaptive Capacity, Strengthening Resilience and Reducing Vulnerability - Oscar J. Guevara - Leveraging the Culture Dimensions of Ecosystem-based Approaches (EbA) to Climate Change Adaption

16. DETAILS 6. Questions & Discussion!

17. Thank you Oscar Guevara ojguevara@wwf.org.co Climate Adaptation Specialist WWF World Commission on Protected Areas Climate Change Specialist Group