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Private Sector Accelerating Climate Action: Enabling a just transition towards a low-carbon and resilient economy

Venue: Panama City, Panama
Date: 25 October 2023

Organized at the Latin America and the Caribbean Climate Week 2023 by the KCI, in collaboration with SURECO & Partners

 

Background

Private sector holds a key role in accelerating transition towards low-carbon and resilient economy. Not only can it mobilize investment and finance for technologies, but it can also play a key role in creating decent work and supporting the transition of the workforce from the sectors that are affected by the transition to new sectors that can become the backbone of low-carbon and resilient economy.

The COP 25, CMP 15 and CMA 2 adopted the six-year workplan of the forum on impact of the implementation of response measures and its Katowice Committee of Experts on the Impacts of the Implementation of Response Measures (KCI), containing a set of activities to be carried out by the forum and the KCI. As per the workplan, for activity 8, the KCI is to prepare a technical paper.

As part of the strategy to implement this activity, the paper will be developed based on desk review, online survey, interviews, sharing experiences and best practices at events, in compliance with KCI communication strategy. In part, this event is organized to obtain further information through interaction and sharing experience and best practices among participants.

 

Objective

The objective of the event is to obtain information on how the Private Sector is Accelerating Climate Action to enabling a just transition towards a low-carbon and resilient economy and creating decent work from multiple relevant stakeholders through interaction and sharing experience and best practices.

 

Agenda

1. Brief introduction to response measures workstream under the UNFCCC (Agung Adhiasto, Programme Officer, Mitigation at UNFCCC)

2. Session 1: State of play of private sector in Climate Action

Panelist:

  • Karina Barrera, Subsecretaria de Cambio Climático del Ministerio del Ambiente, Agua y Transición Ecológica del Ecuador.
  • Javier Manzanares, Ex Director Ejecutivo Adjunto del Fondo Verde para el Clima y asesor senior en Mercados de Carbono del Banco Mundial.
  • Fernando Andrade, Especialista Técnico en Cambio Climático, Estrategia y Política Climática, PNUD
  • Oscar Guevara, Ejecutivo Principal, Gerencia de Acción Climática y Biodiversidad Positiva en CAF (Banco de Desarrollo de Latino América y el Caribe)
  • Franco Piza, Director Corporativo de Sostenibilidad, Grupo Bancolombia

3. Session 2: Scaling up private sector to enable a just transition towards a low-carbon and resilient economy and the creation of decent work to accelerate climate actions.

Remark by UN Global Compact

Panelist:

  • Sebastián Carranza, Director of Climate Change and Risk Management, Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development of Colombia
  • Colin Young, Executive Director of the Caribbean Community Climate Change Center
  • Diego Arias, Practice Manager at the World Bank
  • Juan Carlos Mendoza, Director of the Division of Environment, Climate Change, Gender, and Social Inclusion at IFAD
  • Una May Gordon, Senior Climate Change & Development Expert, Jamaica

4. Closing remarks (Agung Adhiasto, Programme Officer, Mitigation at UNFCCC and Jessica Jacob, CEO SURECO & Partners)

 

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