Road to COP30 and Brazil's Ecological Transition

Speakers:

• Izabella Teixeira, Former Minister of Environment
• Patricia Elle, Systemiq
• Viviane Romeiro, CEBDS
• Ilona Szabó, Igarapé
• Camila Valverde, UN Global Compact 

Norman Foster Institute for Sustainable Cities (NFISC) Programme Launch

Accelerating Economic Transformation to Advance a Just Climate Transition

Spreakers:

• Saber Chowdhury, Special Climate Envoy of the Honourable Prime Minister, Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh
• Espen Barth Eide, MInister of Foreign Affairs, Kingdom of Norway
• Amadou Hott, Special Envoy of the President of the African Development Bank for the Alliance for Green Infrastructure in Africa

The Critical Role of Carbon Dioxide Removal Technologies

Speakers:

• Bill Gates, Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Founder Breakthrough Energy 
• Brad Smith, Vice Chair & President, Microsoft 
• Dr. Arun Majumdar, Dean, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

High-Level SIDS Event at COP28

Speakers:

• Donald Cooper, Transparency Director, UN Climate Change
• Hon. Philip Davis, Prime Minister of Bahamas
• Hon. Kerryne James, Minister of Climate Resilience, the Environment and Renewable Energy from Grenada
• Hon. Sakiusa Tubuna, Assistant Minister for Environment, Public Services and Public Enterprise, Fiji

Building Action Networks for Supporting the Transformation
Towards Climate-Positive Futures   

Speakers:

• Dr. Heba Aguib, Member of the Board, BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt
• Neelam Chhiber, Co-Founder and Managing Trustee, Industree Foundation
• Leslie Johnston, Chief Executive Officer, Laudes Foundation
• Frannie Leautier, Chief Executive Officer, South Bridge Investments 
• Ariesta Ningrum, Manager, Climate Technology Mechanism, UN Climate Change
• Dr. Felicitas von Peter, Chief Executive Officer, Active Foundation
• Dr. Kirsten Dunlop, Chief Executive Officer, Climate-KIC

Taking Action Together for the Most Vulnerable On the Climate-Health Nexus

Speakers:

• Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton
• Teresa Ribera, Third Vice-president of the Government of Spain and Minister for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge 
• Tony Elumelu, Founder, Tony Elumelu Foundation 
• Chelsea Clinton, D.Phil., M.P.H., Vice-Chair, Clinton Foundation   
• Pam Cheng, Executive Vice President, Global Operations and IT, AstraZeneca
• Angela Naef, Chief Research and Development Officer, Reckitt
• Alan Dangour, Director of Climate and Health, Wellcome Trust
• Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization

High-Level Event: #Together4Transparency

Speakers:

• Donald Cooper, Transparency Director, UN Climate Change
• Jessica Sanchez, UN Climate Change
• Dr. Rolph Payet, Executive Secretary, Secretariat of the Basel Convention, Rotterdam Convention and the Stockholm Convention 
• Daniel Truran, B Lab Board Member
• Xiye Bastida, Youth Climate Activist

Cross-industry CEO Roundtable on Private Sector Decarbonization

Speakers:

• Stefan Schaible, Global Managing Partner, Roland Berger
• Miguel Ángel López Borrego, Chief Executive Officer, thyssenkrupp
• Dame Susan Rice, Chair of the Global Ethical Finance Initiative (GEFI) Global Steering Group  
• Driss Berraho, Vice President, Business Development Green Hydrogen, ACWA Power 
• Francois Dao, Vice President, Middle East and Africa, EDF Renewables
• Martin Hoyer, Partner, Roland Berger

Project Generation to Incent Private Capital Mobilization in EMDEs

Speakers:

• Stephanie von Friedeburg, Managing Director, Development Finance Institutions Strategic Partnerships, Citi 
• Hans Peter Lankes, Managing Director & Deputy Chief Executive, ODI
• Joan Lorrea, CEO, Convergence Capital
• James Scriven, CEO, IDB Invest
• Theirry Deau, CEO, Meridiam
• Ahmed Sadeed, CEO, Allied Climate Partners

Integrating Regenerative Agriculture into the Finance Agenda

Speakers:

• Gillian Lofts, Global Sustainable Finance Leader, EY

• Amy Brachio, Global Vice Chair - Sustainability, EY

• Alessandro Cataldo, European Leadership Member & AgriFood Practice Leader, EY
• Wissam Abbas, Group Strategy Director, Al Dahra
• Davida Heller, Head of Sustainability Strategy, Citi
• Elizabeth Nsimidala, Board Member (Africa), World Farmers’ Organisation
• James Stapleton, Senior Strategic Advisor, Advocacy for Impact, CGIAR
• Roland van der Vorst, CEO Rabo Carbon Bank and Head of Innovation Wholesale and Rural, Rabobank

Debt-for-Climate Swaps: A Tool to Supporting the Implementation of the Paris Agreement

Speakers:

• H.E. Mr. Ali Sabry, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sri Lanka
• Erik Grigoryan, Special Envoy of Armenia on Debt-for-Climate Swaps and a Former 

• Minister of Environment  

• Bo Li, Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
• Dr. Frank Rijsberman, Director General, Global Green Growth Institute
• Deanna Morris, Economic Affairs Officer, United Nations ESCAP

Connecting the Dots: Technology’s Role in Delivering Sustainability Reporting Readiness

Speakers: 

• Melanie Nakagawa, CVP and Chief Sustainability Officer, Microsoft
• Esther An, Chief Sustainability Officer, CapitaLand Investment, Singapore
• Carol M. Browner, Senior Of Counsel, Covington
• Dr. Michael Okoroafor, Chief Sustainability Officer, Concordia

Financing for resilience: catalyzing community-based financing for adaptation and loss and damage

Speakers:

• Yamide Dagnet - Director of Climate Justice, Open Society Foundations
• Sara Jane Ahmed, Finance Advisor to the Vulnerable Group of Twenty (V20) Ministers of Finance of the Climate 
• Joshua Amponsem, Co- Director of the Youth Climate Justice Fund
• Dr. Rola Dashti, UN Under-Secretary-General, Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA)
• Georgia Levenson Keohane, CEO Soros Economic Development Fund (SEDF)
• Ambassador Seyni Nafo, Coordinator the African Adaptation Initiative (AAI)

Global Energy Interconnection: Advancing Just and Inclusive Energy Transition

Speakers:

• H.E. Mr. XIE, Zhenhua, China's Special Envoy for Climate Change
• XIN, Baoan, Chairman, GEIDCO
• H.E. Mr. LI, Junhua, UN Under-Secretary-General, High-level representative, UN Climate Change
• Daniele Violetti, Senior Director, UN Climate Change
• Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, Director, Center for Sustainable Development, Columbia University
• H.E. Mr. Mohamed Shaker El-Markabi, Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy, Egypt
• H.E. Ms.Rola Dashti, UN Under-Secretary-General, Executive Secretary, UNESCWA
• H.E. Ms. Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana, UN Under-Secretary-General, Executive Secretary, UNESCAP
• H.E. Mr. XU, Haoliang, Under-Secretary-General and Associate Administrator, UNDP
• Tatiana Molcean, Executive Secretary, UNECE (tbc)
• Dr. Fatih Birol, Executive Director, International Energy Agency (IEA)

Women are Leading the New Climate Revolution

Speakers:

• Laurence Tubiana, CEO, European Climate Foundation (ECF)
• Catherine McKenna, Principal, Climate & Nature Solutions and Former Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Canada
• Nemat (Minouche) Shafik, President, Colombia University
• Paloma Costa, Socioenvironmentalist, Cycling Activist, Climate Educator and Youth Mobiliser
• Bogolo Kenewendo, Africa Director and Special Adviser, UN Climate Change High-Level Champions
• Helen Watts, Executive Director, Student Energy
• Eduarda Zoghbi, Development Officer, Rocky Mountain Institute

Accelerating Climate Innovation on the Road to Net Zero

Speakers:

• Dr. Gayle Schueller, SVP & Chief Sustainability Officer, 3M  
• Jim Coulter, Executive Chairman & Managing Partner, TPG Rise Climate
• Santosh Kumar Singh, Chief Sustainability Officer, Adani Green
• Ditte Juul-Joergensen, Director General DG Energy, European Commission
• Rachel Jetel, Co-Director, Systems Change Lab, World Resources Institute

• Anna Kruip, Senior Manager,
  Environment and Climate, UN Global
  Compact
• Badr Jafar, COP28 Special
  Representative for Business &
  Philanthropy, and CEO of Crescent
  Enterprises
• Jason Williams, VP, Interest Rates Research, Citi
• Brendan Oviedo Doyle, President at the Peruvian Renewable Energy Association
• Sarah Penndorf, Senior Program Manager, Sustainability and Strategy Operations, Google
• Rei Goffer, Co-Founder, Chief Strategy Officer at Tomorrow.io
• Leen Govaerts, Unit Manager at VITO

Moving at the Speed of AI: How AI Accelerates Progress on Climate Solutions (AI)

Speakers:

• Christopher J.L. Murray, Director, Institute for Health Metrics & Evaluation
• Juan Lavista Ferres, VP & Chief Data Scientist, Microsoft
• Andrew Zolli, Chief Impact Officer, Planet Labs PBC
• Loretta Hieber Girardet, Chief of the Risk Knowledge, Monitoring and Capacity-Development, UNDRR
• Vanessa Gray, Head of the Division for Least Developed, Countries, Small Island Developing States, and Emergency Telecommunications, ITU
• David Kirkpatrick, Journalist, The Climate Capitalist

The Paris Agreement Implementation and Compliance Committee: Enhancing Parties´ Accountability
 

Speakers:

• Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary,  UN Climate Change
• Christine Adam, Director, Legal Affairs Division, UN Climate Change
• Luisa Rodríguez, Legal Officer and Secretary to the Committee, UN Climate Change
• Amb. Syed Haider Shah, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Pakistan
• Henrik Hallgrim Eriksen, Chief Negotiator, Norway 
• Gao Xiang, Chair of the Consultative Group of Experts (CGE), China 
• Christina Voigt, PAICC Co-Chair, Norway
• Haseeb Gohar, PAICC Co-Chair, Pakistan 

UN Climate Change Philanthropic Leadership Platform (PLP) Philanthropy Roundtable @ COP28: Leveraging Smart Philanthropy for Innovative Climate Solutions

Speakers:

• Amir Dossal, Founder and President, Global Partnerships Forum
• Chhaya Kapilashrami, Senior Director, Operations Coordination, UN Climate Change
• Mutassem Daaboul, Co-Founder & Managing Director, Canex Aluminum
• David Dietz, Director of Impact, NEXUS Global
• Bella Wiggs, Director, Wiggs Family Foundation and Co-chair, New Gen Network, Philanthropy Australia
• Charles Oppenheimer, Clean-tech investor, Champion for nuclear energy & Founder, Oppenheimer Project
• Olivia Dell, Next-Gen Investor, Partner, Regeneration VC, and Co-Founder, NOVA Impact
• HRH Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed bin Talal Al Saud, Founder and CEO, KBW Ventures

• Andrea Camponogara, RCC Global Lead, UN Climate Change
• Yamikani Idriss, Ministry of Natural Resources and Climate Change, Malawi
• Alina Averchenkova, Grantham Research Institute
• Anthony Okon Nyong, African Development Bank
• Nareerat Panmanee, Government of Thailand
• Sebastián Carranza Tovar, Government of Colombia
• Mariana Panuncio-Feldman, NDC Partnership

• Michael Johnson, Technical Director, Berkeley Air Monitoring Group
• Nathan Borgford-Parnell, Science Affairs Coordinator, Climate and Clean Air Coalition
• Indu Murthy, Science Affairs Coordinator, Climate and Clean Air Coalition
• Rob Bailis, Senior Scientist, Stockholm Environment Institute
• Stefania Abakerli, Senior Climate Specialist, The World Bank

ISO Certification Ceremony 

Speakers:

• Chhaya Kapilashrami, Senior Director of Operations, UN Climate Change
• Anca Westley, Director of Event Strategy & Sponsorship, COP28 UAE
• Daan van der Wekken, Head of Sustainability, BSI
• David Groves, Specialist – Sustainability of Event Strategy & Sponsorship, COP28 UAE
• David Groves, COP28 UAE

Digital Climate Library

Speakers:

• Chhaya Kapilashrami, Senior Director, Operations Coordination Division, UN Climate Change
• Omar Samra, Adventurer, Eco-Entrepreneur and Global Chair, the Climate Library
• Adiam Gafoo, COO, Arts Help
• Mo Ghoneim, President, Billboard Canada
• Jingwen Yang, Information Management Officer, Operations Coordination Division, UN Climate Change
• Del Titus Bawuah, Founder, Web3 Accra

• Dr. Sylvia Earle, Oceanographer & Founder, Mission Blue
• Baroness Patricia Scotland, Secretary General, The Commonwealth
• Hon Ralph Regenvanu, Minister of Climate Change, Energy and Environment, ​​Vanuatu 
• Tiago Pitta e Cunha, CEO, Oceano Azul Foundation
• Xiye Bastida, Arctic Angel & Co-Founder, Re- Earth Initiative
• Johan Rockström, Co-Founder, Stockholm Resilience Centre & Director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
• Pam Pearson, Founder & Director, International Cryosphere Climate Initiative & Alliance Against Melting Ice
• Inge Relph, Executive Director & Co-founder, GlobalChoices

Launch Event: Biodiversity Harmony in Action AQUAE's Holistic Approach to Preservation, Sustainable Finance, and Collective Consciousness

Speakers:

• Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Founder of the Art of Living Foundation
• Ovais Sarmad, Former Deputy Executive Secretary, UN Climate Change
• Dr. Vin Menon Co-founder and CEO, AQUAE Impact
• Gaurav Monga, Acting Head of Resource Mobilization and Partnerships, UN Climate Change
• Amir Dossal, Co-founder and Chairman, AQUAE Impact & Founder and President, Global Partnerships Forum

Engaging the Private Sector regionally

Speakers:

• Andrea Camponogara, RCC Global Lead, UN Climate Change
• Nadia González Burgos, NDC and LT-LEDS Specialist, RCC Latin America 

• Kelly Witkowski, Manager, Agricultural Climate Action and Sustainability, Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture

• Francisco Minuche, Vice Minister of Agriculture, Ecuador

Water IS the Climate Challenge

Speakers: 

• Virginia Ribeiro, Head of Sustainability and Corporate Governance, Sabesp
• Adrien Portafaix, on behalf of Science Based Targets Network
• Michael Toh, National Water Agency, Singapore
• Farid Al Awlaqi, Head, Global and Water Generation, TAQA
• Franck Gbaguidi, Director of Sustainability, Eurasia Group