Hosting an event at MENA Climate Week is an opportunity for organizations to share their experiences and engage in dialogues on issues related to the climate crisis. Events can serve as catalysts for climate action, provide a platform for knowledge sharing and can be important connectors for projects and people across the region and the world.

All events must contribute substantively to the Global Stocktake process by identifying region-relevant actions and timelines necessary to accelerate the progress needed to keep the 1.5 C trajectory reachable. Before applying, please read the section Event Criteria below.

Events last up to 1 hour and will cover topics aligned with one of the tracks of this year’s Regional Climate Weeks. The event selection will be based on: 

• Commitment to strive for limiting warming to 1.5 °C and a climate-neutral and resilient world 
• Representation and ability to mobilize a wide range of actors, stakeholders, and sectors in the region 
• Balanced geographical representation within the region 
• Transformational collaboration within or across sectors 
• Level and type of expertise in the topics related to the four tracks tracks 
• Experience in showcasing cross-cutting issues like gender, just transition, youth, and education 

The selection process will be carried out by MENACW 2023 global and regional partners. Organizations with shortlisted proposals will be contacted, and selected applicants will be informed as early as possible. If your organization wants to organize more than one event, you will need to submit more than one application and select only one track to align with. We strongly encourage organizations to collaborate and submit joint applications.

Applications that don’t fulfil the criteria or are incomplete will not be considered. Multiple application requests from the same organization shall not have the same content, nor the same speakers.

Events will be featured in the official programme and promoted as part of the general MENA Climate Week communications.

Application deadline: 7 August 2023 

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This year, the Action Hub will be located in the most central area of the venue, where participants can meet, congregate and network over coffee and lunch. The Action Hub is ‘the’ space for dynamic and creative climate action events such as musical performances, TED-style talks, film screenings, technology demonstrations, project presentations, and more. 

If you'd like to host a 30-minute event in the Action Hub, please use this form. Please read the Action Hub guidelines before submitting your application. 

Here you will find more information on each of the four tracks, the core global partner supporting each track and the principles that should guide event development. It gives an overview of the challenges and urgency of addressing climate change based on recent IPCC reports and emphasizes the need for local, regional, sub-national and national action and cooperation to enhance climate action and resilience.

The Action Hub is ‘the’ space for dynamic and creative climate action events. It is an inclusive and participatory platform for non-governmental organizations, intergovernmental organizations, youth organizations, academia and more to showcase their work in the region to a regional and global audience. The timeslots are maximum of 30 minutes and provide organizations with the unique opportunity to share their initiatives, announcements, case studies, videos and more at the Regional Climate Week.

Where: An open stage with seating usually located in a central location where participants congregate and network.

Format: The events included in the Action Hub program will adhere to the following criteria:

1. Events will not exceed 30 minutes, including Q&A and wrap-up.
2.  A maximum of 3 speakers and organizers shall ensure geographic and gender balance among their speakers
3. All events held at the Action Hub will be live-streamed and then made available on-demand on the UNFCCC website.
4. Events will be innovative in format and will avoid negotiation-style, technical PowerPoint presentations and panel discussion formats. They may take the format of, for example, TED-style talks, short film screenings followed by interactive conversations involving the audience, announcements relating to outstanding concrete climate actions, presentations of concrete climate action including demonstrations/prototypes and results of the undertaken climate action, media talk-shows, interactive debates involving the audience on-site and online, how-to events, interactive games involving knowledge or examples of climate action, etc.
5. Events will be participatory, inclusive, interactive, lively, and dynamic, involving the audience as much as possible.

Content:

1. Events will demonstrate tangible climate action and highlight opportunities for climate action.
2. Events will fall under one of four tracks (read more about the tracks here):

         a. Energy systems and industry.

         b. Cities, urban and rural settlements, infrastructure and transport.

         c. Land, ocean, food and water.

         d. Societies, health, livelihoods, and economies.

To be considered for an event slot in the Action Hub, the organizer(s) must apply online for an event before the deadline. Applications will be reviewed against the set of criteria described in these guidelines. Applicants may be contacted with questions and requests for additional information and/or resubmission. Once the selection process has concluded, all applicants will be notified of their results. The MENA Climate Week program will then be scheduled and made available online on the UNFCCC website.

Note: It will not be possible to ask for 2 slots back-to-back to form a more extended event. Application requests from the same organization shall not have the same content, nor the same speakers. For any questions, please write to Climate-Week@unfccc.int with the subject line, MENACW Action Hub.