Localizing Climate Governance in Fragile Settings

Date & Time
Jun 19, 2026 | 9.00 - 10.30

Participants
Chair: Rupak Chattopadhyay, Forum of Federations (Canada)
Tabea Campbell Pauli, Independent (Germany)
Tasnia Khandaker Prova, University of Toronto (Bangladesh/Canada)
Laurenne Garneau, Independent (Canada)
Laura Aumeer, Conciliation Resources (United Kingdom)

This session explores how climate response can function when the state is not a partner. From managing decentralization and multi-level governance systems to alternative community leadership, the discussion will draw on cases from Myanmar, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Philippines and Ethiopia, to ponder what climate governance without a center can look like. In this session, we will discuss concrete ideas for how practitioners from conflict, humanitarian, and peacebuilding backgrounds can support local climate leadership, and influence development and aid mechanisms to be more responsive and adaptive to community action.