Agenda
| Time |
Title |
Teaser |
Organizer |
| 9:00-10:00 |
Bridging the digital divide: ensuring inclusive frontier technology for climate action |
This session will look at: how digital tools can be deployed, it will look at education and training efforts being coordinated in key regions, and it will highlight the importance of interdisciplinary, intersectoral, and international collaboration in the development of standards. It will also reveal capacity building gaps and highlight the positive impacts that this can have on a key fundamental human right: an adequate standard of living. |
ITU, WMO, Climate Change AI, Fraunhofer HHI |
| 10:15-11:15 |
Building Capacity on New Power System for Global Energy Transition and Global Climate Action |
The session addresses the critical need for enhancing global capabilities in developing, implementing, and managing new power systems that can effectively integrate high levels of renewable energy and support the transition to a low-carbon future. |
GEIDCO |
| 11:30-13:00 |
CB Academy: Innovation through collaboration – building capacities to leverage frontier technologies for transforming climate adaptation |
The emergence of frontier technologies such as AI and Machine leaning has potential to complement efforts to bridge the glaring data gap. This session aims to collectively examine through simulation and best practice sharing opportunities at hand and capacities that stakeholders, particularly the most vulnerable ones need to leverage such technologies. |
United Nations University |
| 13:00-13:30 |
Lunch break |
| 13:30-15:00 |
Capacities for Climate Innovation: Artificial Intelligence |
This session will focus on capacity-building needs and approaches of developing countries on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) for climate change adaptation and mitigation solutions. |
UNFCCC, CTCN, UNEP, Enterprise Neurosystem |
| 15:15-16:15 |
How to attract youth to green innovative opportunities? |
The session will be the opportunity to exchange on how to make capacities and skills for green jobs more attractive for youth in order to fully seize green innovative opportunities and contribute to the accomplishment of the global climate objectives and the Paris Agreement. |
Iberdrola |
| 16:30-17:30 |
Local Innovators, Global Change: Youth Talk |
This session showcases the transformative impact of youth-led climate initiatives, providing a platform for young innovators to share their experiences, challenges, and successes. The event will address barriers to resources and visibility, empowering a new generation of climate leaders to collaborate and drive impactful change. |
United Nations Environment Programme, Climate Technology Centre and Network |
| 17:45-18:30 |
Co-Create to Re-Generate |
An interactive workshop focused on co-creating pathways for creative, embodied climate action through experiential education and capacity building activities. The aim is to foster creativity, resilience, and regeneration by expanding our personal, interpersonal, and planetary capacities for a thriving, climate-conscious future. |
NABAD Consulting |
Kickoff podcast
Listen to this introductory podcast of "Frontier Technologies 101" that sets the stage for the thematic day!
What? - Objectives and Topics
The Capacities for Climate Innovation Day at the 6th Capacity-Building Hub aims at enhancing the essential role that capacity-building plays in advancing climate innovation solutions and opportunities. The day intends to promote the exchange of knowledge, ideas and successful experiences related to capacities for climate innovation, boost collaboration among all relevant stakeholders and coordination in capacity-building efforts, as well as to encourage and showcase synergies between capacity-building climate innovation actions and cross-cutting issues such as youth voices, digitalisation and cutting-edge technologies.
Why? - Significance
Innovation allows to develop and deliver new solutions and models that, in the field of climate action, enable to accelerate how to mitigate and adapt to the impacts of climate change. Innovation in the form of new technologies, renewable energy, non-digital innovations and frontier advancements like blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI), and the Internet of Things (IoT), play a key role in climate action. The development and continuous improvement of capacities to favour those technological innovations as well as the capacities to develop, transfer, and scale these solutions effectively are critical in supporting the achievement of the Paris Agreement goals.
Who? - Partners & Organizers
