COBENEFITS at COP25

Meet us at the COP25 in Madrid.

“Press Brief­ing on Just Tran­si­tion: Expe­ri­ences in Ger­many and South Africa”
Fed­er­al Min­istry for the Envi­ron­ment, Nature Con­ser­va­tion and Nuclear Safety
Decem­ber 12^th, 2019. 09:30 am
Ger­man Pavilion
COP 25 Brief­ing: Co-Ben­e­fits for Just Ener­gy Futures in South Africa

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“Mobil­is­ing Co-Ben­e­fits and rais­ing NDC ambi­tion with Just Tran­si­tions: Latin Amer­i­can perspectives”
Decem­ber 3^rd, 2019. 10:30 – 12:00 h
EU Pavil­ion, Room Helsinki

“Strengthen­ing cli­mate promis­es: near-term mit­i­ga­tion via joint action on NDC pro­vi­sions & air quality”
Decem­ber 4^th , 2019. 13:15–14:45
UNFCCC Side Event at COP25 — Room 1

“How to con­nect the social and eco­nom­ic co-ben­e­fits of cli­mate action to nation­al devel­op­ment priorities?”
Decem­ber 5^th, 2019. 9:30 – 10:30 h
IASS Co-Cre­ative Reflec­tion & Dia­logue Space at the Blue Zone

“Trans­for­ma­tive poten­tial of small-scale ener­gy access invest­ments: link­ing com­mu­ni­ty action to SDGs and NDC implementation”
Decem­ber 6^th, 2019. 13:30 – 14:45 h
SDG Pavilion

“Social and Eco­nom­ic Co-Ben­e­fits of Cli­mate Change Mit­i­ga­tion: Employ­ment, Indus­tri­al Devel­op­ment and Ener­gy Tran­si­tion”
Decem­ber 6^th, 2019. 15:00 – 17:00 h
Turkey Pavilion

 

Infor­ma­tion is reg­u­lar­ly updat­ed. Should you have ques­tions regard­ing our COP activ­i­ties, please con­tact us via mara.gomez@iass-potsdam.de

Detailed infor­ma­tion can be found below.

“Mobil­is­ing Co-Ben­e­fits and rais­ing NDC ambi­tion with Just Tran­si­tions: Latin Amer­i­can perspectives”
Decem­ber 3^rd, 2019. 10:30 – 12:00 h
EU Pavil­ion, Room Helsinki

Co-ben­e­fits of cli­mate action are essen­tial dri­vers to raise ‑NDC ambi­tion. Like­wise fun­da­men­tal is includ­ing just tran­si­tion mea­sures into NDC imple­men­ta­tion. How can co-ben­e­fits be active­ly mobi­lized for ambi­tious and ear­ly action? How can just tran­si­tion mea­sures be effec­tive­ly includ­ed into NDCs? In the con­text of COP 25, the IASS, Cli­mate Strate­gies and the GIZ Mex­i­co are pleased to invite you to a live­ly exchange on co-ben­e­fits, just tran­si­tions and NDC ambi­tion to make Latin Amer­i­ca more inclusive.

Agen­da:
10:30–10:35	Keynotes and Welcome.
10:35–10:45	Key Results of Co-ben­e­fits Mex­i­co Studies
10:45–11:15	FIRST PANEL: Co-ben­e­fits and the glob­al ener­gy transition
11:15–11:45	SECOND PANEL: Strength­en­ing NDCs through Just Transition

Con­trib­u­tors (sub­ject to change):

• Say­da Meli­na Rodríguez, Sec­re­tary of Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment of Yucatan (SDS)
• Florib­er­to Vásquez, Sub­sec­re­tary of Cli­mate Change of Oax­a­ca (SEMAEDESO)
• Deb­o­rah Fer­reira, Insti­tute for Advanced Sus­tain­abil­i­ty Stud­ies (IASS)
• Laima Eicke, Insti­tute for Advanced Sus­tain­abil­i­ty Stud­ies (IASS)
• Hec­tor Rodriguez, Insti­tute for Advanced Sus­tain­abil­i­ty Stud­ies (IASS)
• Peter Glynn, Bond Uni­ver­si­ty, Inter­na­tion­al Cham­ber of Com­merce (ICC)
• Ana Toni, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, Insti­tute for Cli­mate and Soci­ety Brazil (ICS)

 

“Strengthen­ing cli­mate promis­es: near-term mit­i­ga­tion via joint action on NDC pro­vi­sions & air quality”
Decem­ber 4^th , 2019. 13:15–14:45
UNFCCC Side Event at COP25 — Room 1

Glob­al mit­i­ga­tion com­mit­ments are far from being suf­fi­cient, and coun­tries are required to update their NDC in 2020. In this side event we dis­cuss the poten­tial for inte­grat­ed action on air qual­i­ty and cli­mate to ratch­et up cli­mate mit­i­ga­tion efforts and pro­vide fur­ther mit­i­ga­tion con­tri­bu­tions? How can inclu­sion of short-lived cli­mate forc­ing pol­lu­tants (SLCPs) such as methane and black car­bon in cli­mate plans ben­e­fit near-term cli­mate, air qual­i­ty, and health? This event show­cas­es activ­i­ties of nation­al as well as non­govern­men­tal actors that tack­le both cli­mate and air qual­i­ty challenges.

Con­trib­u­tors:

• Yer­i­ma Peter Tar­fa, Fed­er­al Min­istry of Envi­ron­ment, Nigeria
• Dr. Mark G. Lawrence, Direc­tor, Insti­tute for Advanced Sus­tain­abil­i­ty Stud­ies (IASS)
• Nathan Borgford-Par­nell, Cli­mate and Clean Air Coali­tion (CCAC) – Enhanc­ing NDCs, reduc­ing air pol­lu­tion and improv­ing human health 
• Sha­reen Yawa­nara­jah, EDF Inter­na­tion­al Pol­i­cy Man­ag­er – Methane mea­sures for enhanc­ing NDCs
• Dr. Maria Amparo Gar­cia Arroyo, Direc­tor Gen­er­al of Mex­i­can Nation­al Insi­tute of Ecol­o­gy and Cli­mate Change (INECC)
• Bala Bap­pa, Fed­er­al Min­istry of Envi­ron­ment, Nige­ria – Devel­op­ment of Nigeria’s Nation­al Action Plan on SLCPs 
• Asmau Jib­ril, Fed­er­al Min­istry of Envi­ron­ment, Nigeria

 

“How to con­nect the social and eco­nom­ic co-ben­e­fits of cli­mate action to nation­al devel­op­ment priorities?”
Decem­ber 5^th, 2019. 9:30 – 10:30 h
IASS Co-Cre­ative Reflec­tion & Dia­logue Space at the Blue Zone

Closed Door round-table dis­cus­sion for exchang­ing lessons learned on imple­men­ta­tion and cli­mate pol­i­cy elab­o­ra­tion. How can we increase the mutu­al learn­ing, coop­er­a­tion between coun­tries? How to con­nect the social and eco­nom­ic co-ben­e­fits of cli­mate action to nation­al devel­op­ment pri­or­i­ties? COP atten­dees and co-ben­e­fits stake­hold­ers who are look­ing to take a break from the flood of infor­ma­tion at the cli­mate con­fer­ence and wish to reflect on rais­ing NDC ambi­tion through just tran­si­tions are wel­come to reg­is­ter here.

 

“Trans­for­ma­tive poten­tial of small-scale ener­gy access invest­ments: link­ing com­mu­ni­ty action to SDGs and NDC implementation”
Decem­ber 6^th, 2019. 13:30 – 14:45 h
SDG Pavilion

The event will fea­ture experts and ener­gy prac­ti­tion­ers explor­ing prac­ti­cal ways of anchor­ing nation­al and glob­al poli­cies and com­mit­ments in the local con­text as well as oppor­tu­ni­ties to ampli­fy local knowl­edge and inno­va­tion through larg­er pol­i­cy frame­works. The event will be orga­nized in the form of inter­ac­tive pan­el with pan­el mem­bers con­sid­er­ing the fol­low­ing topics:

• How to increase ambi­tion for off-grid ener­gy access in the ener­gy-relat­ed com­po­nents of the NDCs?
• How to achieve bet­ter syn­er­gies and align­ment on the ground between access to ener­gy (SDG7), cli­mate action (SDG13) and oth­er SDGs?
• What are approach­es to lever­ag­ing exist­ing know-how and exper­tise across dif­fer­ent stake­hold­ers in the coun­try, but also across countries?
• What are the key bar­ri­ers and oppor­tu­ni­ties in scal­ing up off-grid solu­tions in sup­port of the NDCs and the SDGs?
• What role can the UN play in tar­get­ing invest­ment and assis­tance to NDC imple­men­ta­tion at the local lev­el and link­ing it to achieve­ment of SDGs?

Con­trib­u­tors:

• Car­men Dienst, Head of Research Unit “Inter­na­tion­al Ener­gy Tran­si­tions” at the Wup­per­tal Institute
• Will­ing­ton Ortiz, WISIONS Region­al Coor­di­na­tor at Red­Bi­o­LAC (Latin America)
• Local prac­ti­tion­er ACCESS (Africa) or HPNET (Asia) (TBC),
• Mara Gomez, Insti­tute for Advance Sus­tain­abil­i­ty Stud­ies (IASS)
• Bahareh Seye­di, Glob­al Ener­gy and Cli­mate Pol­i­cy Advis­er, UNDP

 

“Social and Eco­nom­ic Co-Ben­e­fits of Cli­mate Change Mit­i­ga­tion: Employ­ment, Indus­tri­al Devel­op­ment and Ener­gy Tran­si­tion”
Decem­ber 6^th, 2019. 15:00 – 17:00 h
Turkey Pavilion

This side event will present the notion and glob­al exam­ples of co-ben­e­fits approach regard­ing cli­mate change mit­i­ga­tion, and renew­able ener­gy per se. Assess­ments of co-ben­e­fits mobi­liza­tion in Turkey and Mex­i­co, espe­cial­ly on employ­ment and indus­tri­al devel­op­ment will be among the key topics.

Con­trib­u­tors:

• Ümit Şahin, Senior Schol­ar and Coor­di­na­tor of Cli­mate Stud­ies, Sabancı Uni­ver­si­ty Istan­bul Pol­i­cy Cen­ter (IPC)
• Bengisu Özenç, Senior Econ­o­mist, Bilkent University
• Hec­tor Rodriguez, Research Asso­ciate, Insti­tute for Advanced Sus­tain­abil­i­ty Stud­ies (IASS)
• Yael Taran­to, Senior Ener­gy Ana­lyst, SHURA Ener­gy Tran­si­tion Center
• Paul Kishi­mo­to, Post­doc Research Schol­ar, Inter­na­tion­al Insti­tute for Applied Sys­tems Analy­sis (IIASA)
• Hec­tor Pol­litt, Head of Mod­el­ling, Cam­bridge Econometrics
• Eliz­a­beth Press, Direc­tor, Plan­ning and Pro­gramme Sup­port, Inter­na­tion­al Renew­able Ener­gy Agency (IRENA)

 

Impressions

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