Monday, November 30
Mobilizing Climate Finance for Development Action, Joint MDB Heads Event
5:30-7:15 PM, OECD Pavilion
The heads of the world’s largest multilateral development banks for a panel discussion on how to mobilize and deploy climate finance to achieve real action on the ground in developing countries. This conversation will shine light on how MDBs will deliver on their commitments to scale up climate finance and support countries as they move to implement the 2015 Paris Agreement.
Tuesday, December 1
Future Energy Pathway, Low Carbon and Climate Resilient Development of the Caspian Region
6:30-8:00 PM, Blue Zone, Room 6
Wednesday, December 2
Financing Resilience and Adaptation: Lessons from the CIF
12:00-1:30 PM, Room 2, Africa Pavilion, Hall 3
Having amassed considerable experience with the Pilot Program for Climate Resilience, the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) will share lessons from its resilience portfolio via country voices. These country experiences can help inform the adaptation and resilience discussions taking place at the CoP.
The discussion will:
1. Share lessons on the programmatic approach adopted by the CIF, highlighting its relevance to climate finance.
2. Showcase successful examples of resilience and adaptation project implementation.
3. Share early experience on engaging the private sector in resilience and adaptation project financing.
Friday, December 4
Proposição de REDD+ para o Brasil: Programa Pense e Compense (REDD+ Proposal for Brazil)
3:30-5:00 PM, Room 9, Espaces generations Climat (Climate Generations Space)
Saturday, December 5
Tracking adaptation progress and enabling readiness
3:00-4:30 PM, Room OR-4
Monday, December 7
The Effective Deployment of Mitigation Finance: The Experience of the CIF
10:00-11:30 AM, Room 2, Africa Pavilion, Hall 3
With investments of over US$ 6 billion in renewable energy and low carbon technologies, the Climate Investment Funds wishes to identify key lessons and approaches that enable the effective delivery of climate finance to support and scale-up country-driven efforts to establish renewable energy pathways. Drawing on key examples as well as the experiences of stakeholders, this panel discussion will allow participants to share their experience of effective climate finance delivery and the economic impact it has had.
Specifically, the event will:
Identify vehicles and approaches that can deliver the financing necessary to close energy funding gaps in developing and emerging economies
Explain how an enabling environment can be created so that private sector financing can be leveraged
Provide examples of countries that have effectively utilized scaled-up climate financing.
Panel:
Mafalda Duarte, Manager, Climate Investment Funds
Zaheer Fakir, Chief Policy Advisor: International Relations and Governance, Department of Environmental Affairs, South Africa
Ingrid Hoven, Director General, BMZ, Govt. of Germany
Aaron Leopold, Global Energy Advocate, Practical Action
Zoe Norgate, Head of International Climate Fund Team, Department of Energy and Climate Change, Govt. of UK
Kurt Lonsway, African Development Bank, Environment and Climate Change Division Manager and CIF Coordinator.
Emerging Solutions to Drive Private Investments in Climate Resilience
5:30-7:00 PM, Room 3, Green Zone, Climate Generations Area
Tuesday, December 8
From Global Commitments to Local Action: National Approaches to Mitigating Climate Change and Advancing Gender Equality
4:45-6:15 PM, Blue Zone, Room OR 01
The 21st Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC COP21) will be momentous for countless reasons—not least because it will culminate years of negotiations toward the post-2015 climate agreement and, as is anticipated, celebrate its launch. But COP21 will also mark an important milestone in ensuring a enderresponsive approach to climate change: with more than 50 decisions mandating action on gender concerns, implementation is now underway of the first-ever comprehensive two-year work programme on gender, as agreed under the Lima Work Programme on Gender. To continue to guide implementation of this and related mandates, COP21 will be an important opportunity to bring together the latest information and strategies on gender and climate concerns, in particular by exploring some of the most effective approaches employed by governments and the international community toward gender-responsive policies, plans and action.
Together with long-time partner International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the Government of Liberia, through its Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), hosts this highlevel Gender Day event to showcase the concrete ways in which countries have implemented international commitments in local contexts. In collaboration with leading governments (Finland, Mozambique and Peru) and nongovernmental organizations (IUCN, ETC/ENERGIA and WOCAN), partners and allies will present the strategies proven most effective in turning ‘words to action’, particularly in ensuring that women’s rights, roles and perspectives influence effective climate change policies and initiatives – in line with commitments for gender equality – and enhance the pursuit and achievement of co-benefits.
Wednesday, December 9
AfDB Panel: Creating Enabling Environments for Private Sector Finance for Renewable Energy in Africa
4:00-5:30, Africa Pavilion, Hall 3