COP27: join Systemiq and partners in Egypt

As decision makers gather in Egypt, we invite you to hear from and connect with Systemiq’s experts and our system change partners.

Regenerative Forestry Business: Building Community Based Forest Enterprises

The event will highlight the role of Market Access Players, the prospects and opportunities in regenerative forestry business; build confidence in forestry businesses; and emphasize the importance of building inclusive business (with indigenous and local communities).

Moderator: Widharmika Agung, Speaker: Katherine Stodulka

Open to Blue Badge holders, registration not required. See here for more information.

Food Systems Pavilion

The Food and Land Use Coalition is FOLU to co-Host pavilion programming, contributing specifically on Increase Sustainable Investment (09/11), Boosting Nature Positive production and soil health (11/11), and Scale Climate Resilient Agriculture (12/11).

Open to Blue Badge holders; Register on Food Systems Pavilion website.

SDG Namibia One – Scaling a Green Hydrogen Economy in Namibia

Hosted by the Government of the Republic of Namibia, the Environmental Investment Fund, Climate Fund Managers and Invest International.

Designed as an innovative blended finance platform SDG Namibia One Fund will provide private sector developers access to capital from an early stage of development, and then throughout the subsequent stages of implementation of the project, enabling predictability of funding and continuity of development momentum

Accessible to Blue Badge holders.

Climate Justice in Climate Finance: Designing Equitable Climate Finance Transactions

The “Friends of South Africa” group is hosting an annual meeting at COP27 focused on putting climate justice at the heart of climate finance. Bringing together community leaders, civil society, private finance, development practitioners, government and academia, we will focus on action needed in the next 12 months to put climate justice at the heart of climate finance commitments including design and implementation of JET-Ps.

Invitation only: please contact [email protected]

​Bridging companies & policymakers “Unlocking the Potential of Regenerative Forest Business for Climate Change Goals”, alignment CoP & B20​.  Nature-positive and regenerative business models are crucial to tackling global warming, protecting species against extinction, creating jobs and building social and economic resilience to future shocks. But they are still in their infancy. The challenge is to get to scale. Join this Session to learn about how business in the tropical region has committed towards regenerative nature, food and forestry practices in the country. For example, in Indonesia, the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KADIN) has championed a new initiative called “Regenerative Forestry Business” which aims to raise knowledge, facilitate dialogue, and promote solutions for its business members on regenerative forestry opportunities.

Speakers:

• Dr. Ir. Agus Justianto, M.Si. (DG Sustainable Forest Management, Indonesian Ministry of Environment and Forestry)
• Silverius Oscar Unggul (KADIN Indonesian Chamber of Commerce)

Open to Blue Badge holders​; registration not required. More info: https://kadinregforest.com/ and https://www.wemeanbusinesscoalition.org/cop27-business-pavilion/

Indigenous Peoples’ Food and Knowledge Systems: Regenerative, Resilient and Protectors of the Land

Regen10 is a new global collective endeavor that attempts to discern – through a participatory and inclusive process – what it would take to enable 50% of the world’s food to be produced in a way that delivers positive outcomes for people, nature, and climate, providing affordable, nutritious food for 10 billion people, within the decade.

The event will be moderated by Melissa Pinfield, Program Director of the Regen10 Global Hub at the Meridian Institute, and Morgan Gillespy, Director of the Food and Land Use Coalition. Speakers will include leading figures drawn from farming, philanthropy, science and indigenous communities.

Blue badge holders register here

Business Opportunities & Climate Actions Balancing Economics, Ecological & Social Benefits.  KADIN’s Regenerative Forestry Business Hub initiative is a concrete action of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce & Industry (KADIN Indonesia) to support the government’s mission to mitigate climate change. KADIN will give policy recommendations to governments (both Indonesia & donor community) Ministry of Environment & Forestry.

Open to Blue Badge holders​; registration not required. See here for more information: https://kadinregforest.com/

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New Roles of the Chemical Industry toward Carbon Neutrality by 2050

Of all the hard-to-abate industries, the chemical industry is considered particularly difficult to decarbonize because carbon is often embedded in its extremely diverse products. The Center for Global Commons at the University of Tokyo, together with Systemiq, proposes pathways for the chemical industry to reach scope 1-3 net zero while staying within the Planetary Boundaries, as well as new roles the chemical industry should take on. Organised by the University of Tokyo, the hybrid event will present our latest research results and discuss with global leaders how the chemical industry can transform itself into a climate solution.
Daisuke Kanazawa of the Center for Global Commons and Systemiq’s Sophie Herrmann present the findings, with expert panelists:

– Lord Adair Turner (Chair, Energy Transitions Commission)
– Chad Holliday (Co-Chair, Mission Possible Partnership)
– Paul Polman (Co-Founder and Chair, IMAGINE)
– Shinichi Kihara (Deputy Director-General, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan)
– Naoko Ishii (Executive VP, Professor at Institute of Future Initiative, Director of Center for Global Commons, University of Tokyo)

Accessible to Blue Badge holders;  remote registration here

Dinner, Forest One: Thrive Amazon Report presentation. The AYA Coalition will launch its first report “Thrive Amazon: Brazil’s pivot to become a green growth engine”, at a joint event with Impact One, MATA and AYA. The program includes a panel discussion on “Co-Creating our Future with Indigenous Communities” and a Yawanawá ceremony with traditional chants. The report, prepared by Systemiq as part of the AYA Earth Partners Coalition, shows the Amazon’s role in driving global emissions to zero. It lays out the pathways to reach net zero in land use, industry, and energy systems while ensuring resilience in the Amazon. An initial set of solutions are proposed to catalyze action for the transition.

Invitation only

Fireside chat with Co-chairs of the Independent High-Level Expert Group, Lord Nicholas Stern and Dr Vera Songwe, who will discuss their report on a comprehensive agenda for climate finance.
Hosted by the Blended Finance Taskforce.

Invitation only.

Regen10: Unlocking the Potential of Productive and Regenerative Food Systems

To celebrate the inception of Regen10, a global endeavor aiming to rapidly improve our understanding of how regenerative and agroecological approaches could potentially transform our food system to achieve global goals on food security, climate and biodiversity.

Blue badge holders register here

The Business Case for Net Zero in the US | Energy Transitions Commission (ETC) – USA.  The United States is committed to a net-zero greenhouse gas emissions footprint by 2050. Incrementalist approaches will be insufficient to meet this goal, which requires combining public policy implementation, technological progress, and changes to operational norms and strategies in public and private sectors. These efforts will be successful only if they effectively galvanize private sector leadership in decarbonizing the US economy. This Energy Pathways USA panel brings together top US private sector leaders to discuss key net-zero challenges and opportunities for their own operations, and those effecting the broader American and international landscape.

Moderator: Jackson Ewing, Senior Fellow, Duke University Nicholas Institute of Environment, Energy & Sustainability

Open to Blue badge holders Please contact Jackson Ewing and Philip Lake for more information and if you would like to attend.​

Changing Systems – Resource Solutions for Planetary Stability. In this dialogue, IRP Co-Chair Izabella Teixeira will engage with policymakers and thought leaders to demonstrate how the resource-smart models of the future must be at the centre of transformative climate action. The dialogue will focus on reducing the planetary impact of major resource-using systems, including energy, nutrition, and the built environment. The dialogue aims to:
• Show how decoupling resource use from environmental impact and human wellbeing is achievable in different ways across different global contexts.
• Kick-start collaborative visioning of future provisioning systems, inspiring business and policy actors to work towards tomorrow’s economy – focused on delivering human wellbeing and planetary health.
• Demonstrate how forward-thinking business models are already delivering for people and planet together, and how they can become attractive to investors.

Blue badge holders may attend. Attend virtually by streaming on UNFCCC Innovation Hub’s Youtube page: https://trello.com/b/juFEDULF/un-climate-change-global-innovation-hub  

Going beyond demonstration projects by 2030 to put steelmaking on a 1.5°C pathway
This session will consider the latest analysis and practical examples on what is needed across technology, policy, finance and demand levers to get low-carbon steel plants in the ground around the world – and how action can be accelerated and scaled across regions, in particular, emerging markets and developing economies.

Moderated by Annie Heaton, CEO ResponsibleSteel; confirmed speakers include:

• H.E. Rania Al-Mashat, Minister for International Cooperation, Egypt;
• Nigel Topping, COP26 High Level Climate Action Champion;
• Adair Turner, Chair of the Energy Transitions Commission;
• James Mnyupe, Green Hydrogen Commissioner, Namibia;
• Sumant Sinha, Chairman and Managing Director, ReNew Power.

Blue badge holders may attend. For further inquiries, contact [email protected]

Transformational Economics Meets Transformational Leadership: Pathways to Emergence from Emergency. Organised with Earth4All, the Club of Rome, Open Society Foundations and Systemiq, these two 45-minutes discussion sessions look at how we can spur action on the 2050 agenda, put Planetary Emergency commitments into overdrive during this decade of action, and demonstrate what transformational economics and leadership look like in practice. Bringing in recommendations from our Planetary Emergency Plan, the Earth4All transition pathways and International System Change Compass framework, this event highlights opportunities for collective action and innovative, inter-dependent (policy) solutions for long-term systemic shifts.

• Sandrine Dixson-Declève (The Club of Rome)
• Johan Rockström (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Earth4All)
• H.E. Silveria Jacobs (Prime Minister of Sint Maarten) (TBC)
• Kaddu Sebunya (Club of Rome, African Wildlife Foundation)
• Naoko Ishii (Club of Rome, Centre for Global Commons, Earth4All)
• Raysa França (Youth4Nature)
• H.E. Mia Mottley (Prime Minister of Barbados) (TBC)
• Yamide Dagnet (Open Society Foundations)
• Zakia Khattabi (Minister for Climate, Environment, Sustainable Development and Green Deal, Kingdom of Belgium)
• Dr. Mahmoud Mohieldin (High-Level Champion for Climate Action)
• Sheela Patel (The Club of Rome, SPARC)
• Vanessa Terschluse (The Fifty Percent)

Open access with access to the Innovation Zone.

Beyond decarbonization: Tackling the triple planetary crisis through systemic resource efficiency and circular economy. Ministerial-level session on joint messages from IRP, IPCC and IPBES science.  In this Side Event, insights from the UN’s leading science policy platforms will highlight the central role that the global use of natural resources plays as a key driver of the triple planetary crisis, and point to potential solutions for climate and biodiversity through systemic resource efficiency and circular economy. Implications for policy will be highlighted by Ministerial-level policymakers, and UNEP’s 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production (10YFP).

Overall objectives are:

1. Highlighting the vital role of systemic resource efficiency and circular economy for climate action;
2. Creating a joint message by leading experts on resource use, climate and biodiversity policies;
3. Following up on the decisions made under the German G7 presidency (see ‘Berlin Roadmap on Resource Efficiency and Circular Economy’)

Blue badge holders may attend. Attend virtually by streaming on the German Pavilion’s website: https://www.german-climate-pavilion.de/program/10 ​