The Pavilion is a space to introduce new products, business models, innovations and services. Discussing innovation can advance markets and both transform and create supply chains. Innovation can be used to manage change and discover new opportunities. Currently, climate innovation is focused on fostering competitive advantage and sustaining current growth paths, and increasingly to comply with economic and social regulations that ask stakeholders for emission reductions.
With a cluster of climate actors using the Pavilion at COP27 as a collaborative platform, the UGIH can help develop, transfer and deploy solutions that align with the SDGs and climate goals.
The Pavilion featured up to 85 back-to-back sessions, each running for 50 minutes with a 10-minute break between sessions. The sessions focused on a specific climate innovation themes including cities, digital finance, digital for climate, tools, partners for tomorrow (incubators and accelerators), innovation for climate and the SDGs at the UN, youth, gender, and core needs/solutions space.
The Pavilion hosted plenary sessions, knowledge sharing panels, conversations, lightning talks, creative content, workshops, roundtables and ceremonies. Participation in the sessions was both in-person and virtual. You can follow the Innovation Hub action on social media with the #GlobalInnovation4Climate hashtag on Twitter and LinkedIn.
In the Pavilion @ COP27, there were many milestone moments:
- Launch of the UGIH Virtual Hub co-designed by Amazon, OEF and the UGIH
- Showcase “Bamboo Shelters: The Potential of Bamboo as a Sustainable Building Material”
- Launch of the Beans is How food security initiative by the SDG2 Advocacy Hub
- Showcase of “Global Demand and Supply for Green Hydrogen” with a possible declaration by governments and stakeholder groups
- Innovation and Implementation Sessions – Focusing on Goyang City Demonstration Pilot and Extension of Methodology toward Global Cities
- Launch of Every Action Counts coalition of Consumer Engagement Best Practices
- Guidebook including new Ant Group Oceans Initiative and the 10x1000 Tech for Inclusion Program collaboration with GDFA
- Launch of a CEO’s Roundtable: The Role of Exchanges in Creating a Net Zero World
- Showcase “Mobilizing Anticipatory Science for Disruptive Climate Action” by GESDA
- Showcase “Cities & Regions & New European Bauhaus” by Climate KIC
- Showcase “Accelerating urban climate innovation in 2023: the Innovate4Cities Conference and 1st Annual Innovation Summit (GCOM)
- Showcase “Accelerating Solution Oriented Innovation – Our 2050 World
- Showcase “Genesis 2.0: Prototyping use of Smart Contracts for Carbon Credits attached to Green Bonds”
- Call for action on “Global South-North Cooperation on the Digital and Green Twin Transition Leveraging the Power of Digital Innovations” by the GIZ and UGIH
- Call for action on “Innovation and Youth” by the GIZ and UGIH
- Call for action on: Resilient infrastructure in the face of climate change, the global challenges of climate change 2022, by the UNGSF
- The Council of Engineers for the Energy Transition (CEET) statement release, by the UNSDSN
- Launch of ICELI-Mission Innovation/RISE partnership in support for an expanded innovation agenda in Regions and Cities, including development of scanning tool for solution and human need leadership
- Launch of OECD- Mission Innovation/RISE partnership to explore synergies between an expanded climate innovation agenda and a full iceberg approach, including a tool to support policymakers
- Launch of Clean Energy International Incubation Centre by Mission Innovation/RISE
- International Gigaton Challenge for Incubators from all Countries to support an expanded innovation agenda
- Launch of purpose driven assessment tool to support exponential uptake of globally sustainable 1.5C compatible solutions
- Launch of Web-guide for assessment and support of solution providers by Mission Innovation/RISE
Partners and session organizers are invited to promote their sessions using materials from the UIGH Trello board.
The UGIH Virtual Hub launches at COP27 with Version 0 of the site and a vision for COP28 and beyond.
At COP27, the UGIH launched the UGIH Virtual Hub to connect key innovators and investors. The Virtual Hub is designed and built to meet core human needs alongside climate goals. Using a need-based and solution-oriented approach, the UGIH Virtual Hub can be understood as a marketplace that brings together:
Demand actors – Including cities, subnational governments and large companies
Climate and sustainability solution providers – Including cities, subnational governments, large companies, start-ups and those supporting accelerated uptake such as incubators
Enablers – Including financial stakeholders, social media platforms, legal stakeholders, Management consultants, and policy actors
Thanks to all Parties, stakeholders and COP27 participants who joined the UGIH Innovation Hub @ COP27 and brought innovation to the climate change challenge.
