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Virtual Event: Shaping Strong EU Partnerships
Venue Online
Date 17 Dec 2024
Start time 14:00

In this webinar speakers will provide an in-depth look at principles to guide EU partnership implementation and the key considerations for the EU to make when designing partnerships.

COP29: Press conference - Climate Change Performance Index 2025
Venue Natavan, COP29 / online
Date 20 Nov 2024
Start time 09:00

At this press conference we released the Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) 2025.

COP29: Carbon Finance Summit - Session 2
Venue WWF Pavilion (G28), COP29
Date 19 Nov 2024
Start time 15:00

Greening and scaling up public finance is critical, but it is not enough. Significantly scaling up private sector finance, including through greening value chains, green financial products (e.g. funds and loans) and carbon finance is needed to channel more resources toward activities with a positive impact on the environment and society. The Carbon Finance Summit, held over 2 half-days at the Blue Zone at COP29, aims to bring together high-level thought leaders from government, corporate, financiers, civil society and media to highlight the right investments and tools that can most effectively...

COP29: What we need from the next NDCs
Venue Nasimi Amphitheatre (SPE 5), COP29
Date 18 Nov 2024
Start time 13:00

This joint UNFCCC and UNEP event featured high-level opening remarks from the UNEP Executive Director and the UNFCCC Executive Secretary and a presentation of the key findings of the UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2024. This will be followed by a panel discussion on what we need from the next round of nationally determined contributions (NDCs), and how we can speed up climate action and implementation this decade.

COP29: Financing a Just Energy Transition: Exploring the Role of Development Banks and Country Platforms
Venue IDFC Pavilion, COP29 / online
Date 16 Nov 2024
Start time 16:30

In this side event, co-organised by NewClimate Institute and E3G, we examined the scale of financing required for a just transition in the power sector, using Mexico—where reliance on unabated fossil gas is significant—as a case study. The session also explored the challenges development banks face in providing transition finance and their role in innovative solutions, such as country platforms, to scale up financing and improve coordination among key stakeholders. Speakers: Niklas Höhne, NewClimate Institute Imogen Outlaw, NewClimate Institute Anna Nilsson, NewClimate Institute Laura Sabogal...

COP29: Social Pressures and Climate Change: Do Climate Targets Reflect a Just Transition?
Venue MedPavilion, COP29 / online
Date 16 Nov 2024
Start time 14:30

Organised by: MedWaves, the UNEP/MAP Regional Activity Centre for SCP and The Hot or Cool Institute The work programme on just transition pathways, established at COP27, aimed to assess, design, and scale up pathways to achieve the Paris Agreement goals in a way that is just, equitable, and leaves no one behind. “Just transition means different things to different people depending on their context,” noted UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell at First High-Level Ministerial Roundtable on Just Transition, held last year in Dubai. “But one thing is clear: we cannot leave behind...

COP29: What we need now and from the next NDCs – Insights from the UNEP Emissions Gap Report
Venue UN Azerbaijan Pavilion, COP29
Date 15 Nov 2024
Start time 12:00

This side event, organised by UNEP and UNEP-CCC, featured technical presentations on the key findings of the Emissions Gap Report 2024, followed by a panel discussion focusing on the following three critical questions:

COP29: NDC ambition and transitioning away from fossil fuels in a just, orderly and equitable manner
Venue Side event room 3, COP29
Date 14 Nov 2024
Start time 16:45

This side event showed through storytelling and expert discussion how to operationalise commitments to transition away from fossil fuel exploration and production in a just and orderly manner via third generation NDCs.

COP29: Seizing the moment to ratchet net zero ambition
Venue Side event room 6, COP29
Date 13 Nov 2024
Start time 18:30

This side event discussed the global net zero status, reflecting on the UNSG’s Net Zero Progress report, with a focus on subnational governments.

COP29: Just Transition in NDCs and other strategic documents: a catalyst for climate action
Venue NDCP Pavilion, COP29
Date 13 Nov 2024
Start time 15:30

The event brought the voices of different stakeholders shedding light on the importance of including just transition aspects in NDCs and other strategic documents, in line with the Paris Agreement, in order to showcase how such integration of concepts can catalyze climate ambition.

COP29: Moving from Pledges to Progress
Venue Climate Hub
Date 13 Nov 2024
Start time 17:30

At the start of COP29, many of us are wondering how we continue to implement the ambitious goals set out under the Paris Agreement at the speed and scale needed to halve emissions by 2030. As the world’s largest coalition of non-State Actors – learn how the Race to Zero continues to mobilize net zero leaders across society to not only set ambitious targets, but move from pledges, to plans and ultimately – emission reductions. This side event is organised by We Don't Have Time and RaceToZero. Speakers: Jane Eisenhardt, Engagement & Acceleration Manager, Race to Zero Camila Fernandez, Expert...

COP29: Decarbonisation beyond the value chain: navigating between carbon credits and climate contributions
Venue Side event room 4, COP29
Date 12 Nov 2024
Start time 16:45

This side event discussed the "climate contribution" model, what this model entails, the requirements for companies to engage in it, as well as how it can support climate action that goes beyond carbon crediting alone.

Virtual Event: Cities and Buildings in Transition: Systems Change for a Resilient Future
Venue Online
Date 31 Oct 2024
Start time 15:00

High-level voices in these fields will come together to discuss the major shifts needed for sustainable cities and buildings, where we are falling behind, and where we are finding signals of hope. Join us to discover the role of cities and buildings in systems change.

Virtual Launch: How market reforms can drive renewable energy growth in Southeast Asia
Venue Online
Date 29 Oct 2024
Start time 09:30

In this webinar, we presented the report’s key findings and examine their implications for each of the four countries. The session will kick off with a presentation of the report, followed by a panel discussion featuring country experts.

Virtual Launch: Emissions Gap Report 2024
Venue Online
Date 24 Oct 2024
Start time 16:00

This is the virtual launch event of the 2024 edition of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Emissions Gap Report series, which tracks our progress in limiting global warming well below 2°C and pursuing 1.5°C in line with the Paris Agreement. Since 2010, it has provided an annual science-based assessment of the gap between estimated future global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions if countries implement their climate mitigation pledges, and where they should be to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. NewClimate Institute has been contributing to the reports each year since 2014...

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