Paris Climate Conference Side Events

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Lead organizer: Party, UNFCCC, IGO, NGO INDC related side events at COP 21/CMP 11 17/11/2015

Scheduled Time Room Organizer Co-organizer Title Theme Speakers

10/12/1513:15-

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12 (300pax)Dominican Republic

Midwest Research

Institute/National Renewable

Energy Laboratory

(MRI/NREL)

Linking Low Emission Development

with National Climate Goals

An interactive event to share lessons learned from the Dominican Republic and

countries in Asia and Africa on advancing Low Emission Development

Strategies and linking them with national climate goals, including INDCs,

through innovative policies and measures.

Mr. Omar Ramirez, Executive Vice President, National

Council on Climate Change, Dominican Republic

Mr. Stephen King'uyu, Gov of Kenya,

Mr. Ron Benioff - Director, LEDS GP Secretariat,

Other LEDS GP country government representatives

04/12/1518:30-

20:00

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01 (300pax)Philippines

Jubilee South Asia Pacific

Movement, Inc. (APMDD-JS)

Making Below 2 Degrees a Reality:

Climate Smart Development in a

Vulnerable and Emerging Economy

Participatory INDC process to show how the Philippines, a vulnerable country

with emerging economy, mobilized key sectors to agree on sectoral/national

baseline scenarios, emission reduction targets as well as supporting political

decision-making process for INDC submission and its implementation.

Expert Panel with representatives from the Philippine

government (Climate Change Commission; Energy,

Transport, and Waste sector agencies); NGO (Institute

for Climate and Sustainable Cities) and academe.

09/12/1513:15-

14:45

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03 (200pax)Tunisia ClimateNet

Succeeding INDCs implementation

in the Maghreb region – identifying

opportunities and challenges

We discuss options for successful implementation of INDC elements in the

Maghreb region. Experts from Tunisia, Morocco, GIZ and UNDP will share their

views on challenges and opportunities for low carbon development, and

domestic programs (e.g. NAMAs) and reflect them against the local

circumstances.

Tunisia, Morocco, GIZ, UNDP, ClimateNet experts

02/12/1515:00-

16:30

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01 (300pax)

Inter-American

Development Bank (IDB)

Centre for International

Governance Innovation (CIGI)

The new role of climate financing

& clean innovation policy &

practice

It is necessary to implement a comprehensive and multisector approach to

address the various dimensions of Climate Change. The IDB continues

supporting countries to meet the climate change objectives that these are

proposed on their INDCs. Join us for a talk on financing, policy & practice.

IDB - Luis Alberto Moreno, President; Amal-Lee Amin,

Chief of the Climate Change and Sustainability Division,

CIGI - Bianca Jagger, Senior Fellow; David Runnalls,

Director of the Environment and Energy Program.

01/12/1516:45-

18:15

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04 (200pax)

International Tropical

Timber Organization (ITTO)Myanmar

REDD+ within INDCs: Governance

lessons learnt from community

forest management in the tropics

REDD+ finds prominent place in the INDCs of many developing countries that

face serious governance and tenure issues. This event will share lessons

learned from community forest management in Myanmar and elsewhere in

tropics and discuss common principles for effective forest governance

Nur Masripatin (DG for Climate Change, MoEF,Indonesia); Thaung Naing Oo (Director of FRI,

Myanmar); Kimiko Okabe (REDD+ R&D Center, Japan);

Melanie Heath (Director, BirdLife Int’l) (TBC); Baku

Takahashi (JICA’s REDD+ project in Vietnam); and

Charles Barber (Director, World Resources Institute,

USA)

30/11/1513:15-

14:45

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03 (200pax)

Nordic Council of Ministers

(NCM)

Nordic Development Fund *

(NDF), Nordic Environment

Finance Corporation (NEFCO)

NAMA development for

sustainable transformation –

Nordic experiences of NAMA

support

The side event provides practical insights on how NAMA development helps

achieve sustainable impact and contribute to sector wide transformation, build

the foundation for calculations of INDCs and national targets. Focus on Nordic

financed NAMAs in Peru, Vietnam, Nicaragua, Honduras and Bangladesh.

Martina Jägerhorn / Nordic Development Fund (NDF)

Ash Sharma / Nordic Environment Finance Corporation

(NEFCO)

Others tba

02/12/1511:30-

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08 (150pax)

Center for Clean Air Policy

(CCAP)

International Council for

Sustainable Energy (ICSE)

Transformation in the energy

sector and achieving INDCs

Several factors are driving energy transformation around the world. Now, as

countries plan INDC implementation, is a perfect moment to remove barriers

and encourage clean energy investment. Government and private sector

experts will discuss how to achieve energy sector transformation.

Potential Speakers include

CCAP President Ned Helme

US State and/or developing country leaders (TBD)

Clean energy executives and experts from Australia,Europe, Bloomberg NEF

02/12/1515:00-

16:30

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08 (150pax)

Climate Action Network

Canada (CAN-Rac)

Christian Aid (CA), Earth

Island Institute, Inc. (EII),

Pembina Institute for

Appropriate Development

Equity Review of INDCs – Results

and Lessons Learned For Closing

the Ambition Gaps after Paris

This event will present initial results from the Civil Society Equity Review of the

INDCs, review some of the lessons learned, and discuss the potential of official

& unofficial equity assessment processes in closing the mitigation, finance,

adaptation and L&D ambition gaps in the post-Paris period.

Two Civil society experts (TBC) presentations: 1. results

of the Civil Society Equity Review of INDCs & lessons

learned, 2. Ways forward to closing the ambition gap

after Paris; then a panel of Party representatives (TBC)

responds; then questions and comments from

audience.

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04/12/1511:30-

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01 (300pax)Climate Analytics GmbH

National Institute of Public

Health and the Environment

(RIVM), The Energy and

Resources Institute (TERI)

Data & Values, Science, Politics and

Mechanisms: Ambition and impact

of INDCs and the Global Deal

Transdisciplinary insights and quantitative assessments of the ambition &

comparability of INDCs, and their aggregated impact on achieving the 2/1.5°C

target. INDC & COP21 results determine reduction pathways and thus

energy/land-use system changes, the costs of adaptation, impacts, loss &

damage.

DRAFT SPEAKERS POOL / LIST:

CA: Bill Hare, Marcia Rocha, Florent Baarsch, Felix

Fallasch ---

PBL: Michel den Elzen, Heleen van Soest, Annemiek

Admiraal --- TERI: Leena Srivastava, Ritu Mathur,

Kaushik Ranjan

09/12/1515:00-

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08 (150pax)

Fondazione Eni Enrico

Mattei (FEEM)

University Luigi Bocconi,

Institute of Energy andEnvironment Economics and

Policy (IEFE), University of

Edinburgh

Multi-Level Climate Governance:An integrated analysis of National,

Regional and Local Policies

This side event assesses the current framework of multi-level governance forclimate change control, providing an integrated analysis of national, regional,

and urban policies and commitments. By comparing INDCs according to

different metrics, it provides an overview of their future implementation.

Carlo CARRARO, Vice-Chair IPCC WG III, GGKP and

FEEM, and Edoardo CROCI, IEFE Bocconi Univ; ScottBARRETT, Columbia Univ; Massimo TAVONI, FEEM;

Almut ARNETH, KIT; Christopher KENNEDY, Toronto

Univ; Federica RANGHIERI, World Bank; Patrick BIARD,

Rhônalpénergie-Environnement.

01/12/1511:30-

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04 (200pax)

Greenhouse Gas

Management Institute

(GHGMI)

International Organization for

Standardization (ISO),

Tropical Forest Group (TFG)

It’s Time for Next Generation

Standards Collaboration for

Climate Neutrality and Resilience

Climate actions need bold next generation standards systems and enhanced

stakeholder engagement. We will examine collaboration among standards

setting organizations, innovative framework standards, interactive platforms

for climate neutrality, resilience and sustainability in support INDCs.

Tom Baumann, GHGMI & Chair of ISO TC207 SC7

(Climate Change Standards)

Ira Feldman, ISO Adaptation Task Force

Bob Page, Chair ISO TC207

Tod Delaney, Chair ISO TMB Climate Change

Coordinating Committee

Michael Leering, Secretary ISO TMB CCCC

Invited: UNFCCC, World Bank, VCS, IETA, Gold Standard

and others

11/12/1513:15-

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08 (150pax)HATOF Foundation Ghana

Domestic finance and climate

learning key to Ghana's INDC

Capacity development and finance are important means of implementation for

INDC. The session will explore how Ghana is approach it.

Potential speakers will include interalia:

1.Minister of Finance, Ghana2.CEO, HATOF Foundation,

3. Representative of the One UN Climate Change

Learning Partnership (UN CC:Learn)

4.Professor Felix Asante, University of Ghana

5.Professor Puis Yanda, University of Dar es Saleem

6. Professor Zwedu Eshetu, Addis Ababa University

09/12/1515:00-

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04 (200pax)

Humane Society

International (HSI)

Brighter Green, Inc., Chatham

House

Meat: the big omission from the

talks on emissions. Public

understanding and policy options

Leading experts and government officials will discuss the climate impacts of

meat and dairy consumption, public awareness, and potential policy and

behaviour-change solutions. The focus will be on action post-Paris (incl.

INDCs), as well as new research and work in Brazil, China, UK and the US.

R. Bailey, Director, Energy Environment and Resources

Program, Chatham House

Government officials or leading experts from Brazil,

China and US

Member of European Parliament (from the Sustainable

Food Systems Group)

A. Clark, Sustainable Food Campaigner, Humane Society

International EuropeM. MacDonald, Executive Director, Brighter Green

07/12/1511:30-

13:00

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02 (300pax)

International Institute for

Sustainable Development

(IISD)

Finland, New Zealand

Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Climate

Change: national action and

international phase out

Presentation of International Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform Communiqué.

National action and effort on subsidy reform. Inclusion in INDCs. Ending USD

550 billion subsidies has emissions reduction potential of 10% and liberates

finance for investment in renewable energy & energy efficiency initiatives.

Panelists to include Ministers or Heads of State from

Friends and key countries, high level representatives

from MDB, private sector and an economist, e.g. New

Zealand, Morocco, Indonesia, Fatih Birol (IEA), Jim Kim

(WB), Felipe Calderon, Elon Musk (Tesla), Jeffrey Sachs,

Michael Bloomberg, Scott Vaughan (IISD)

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08/12/1515:00-

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03 (200pax)

London School of

Economics and Political

Science (LSE)

Inter-Parliamentary Union

(IPU)

Credibility of national actions and

INDCs: worldwide legislative and

policy developments

Legislators,negotiators & policy experts discuss the three new studies on

credibility of national actions,global legislation and comparison of climate

policy in China,US & EU, and the implications for the post-2015 agreement &

steps post-Paris to ramp up ambition

Prof. Nick Stern, LSE;

Hon. Saber Chowdhury, IPU President;

Dr. Alina Averchenkova, GRI;

Members of Parliaments;

Senior negotiators

05/12/15 16:45-18:15

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PennsylvaniaEnvironmental Resource

Consortium (PERC)

National Spiritual Assembly of

the Baha'is of the UnitedStates, Unitarian Universalist

Association (UUA), Widener

University

Examination of how nations haveand should consider equity and

justice in setting INDCs.

This event will examine how nations have and should set INDCs on the basis of

justice, the role of contrarian obstruction, and recommend a mechanismneeded to assure that nations set INDCs on the basis of their fair share of safe

global emissions.

Peter Adriance, U.S. Baha'i Office of Public Affairs,

Peggy Clarke, UU Assoiation, Dr. Jan Dash,UU

Association, Donald Brown,PERC, John Dernbach,Widener Law School,Hugh Brakey, Griffith University,

Prue Taylor, Univ of Auckland, Peter Burdon, Univ of

Adelaid, Maria Silvia Muylaert, Brazil

02/12/1516:45-

18:15

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01 (300pax)

Transport Research

Foundation (TRF)

Institute for Transportation

and Development Policy

(ITDP)

Linking ambition to action- Success

factors for low carbon

development pathways in

transport sectors

Once countries have agreed on INDCs and mitigation targets in December, the

next big challenge is to put in place policies and measures that satisfy these

ambitions. Policy makers/ implementers will discuss success factors for moving

from concept to implementation in low carbon transport policies.

Speakers include representatives from national and

municipal transport authorities implementing

mitigation activities in the transport sector, transport-

NAMA developers, international financing

organizations, NGOs and donors engaged in low carbon

transport

10/12/1515:00-

16:30

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01 (300pax)

United States Council for

International Business

(USCIB)

Chamber of Commerce of the

United States of

America,Mouvement des

entreprises de France *

(MEDEF), World Steel

Association (Worldsteel)

Business Perspectives on INDCs

Business will

-discuss implications for domestic & global outcomes from policy + market

changes, e.g. in trade & investment, from INDCs

-present experiences w/business engagement in developing INDCs -

recommend ways to involve business in assessment/improvement

Business representatives from developed and

developing nations, academics, and respondents from

national delegations

08/12/1511:30-

13:00

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02 (300pax)

University of Cape Town

(UCT)

Centre for Policy Research

(CPR), SouthSouthNorth

Projects Africa (SSN Africa)

How will INDCs shape

development? Views from Chile,

China, Colombia, India, Peru &

South Africa

We reflect on the interactions between INDCs and development outcomes.

The experiences of building INDCs within MAPS, China & India revealed the

complexity of decarbonisation, integrating multiple objectives and facing

implementation in developing countries. An agenda for further work is

proposed.

Emilio La Rovere (IES Brasil, C OPPE), Rodrigo Suarez

(Government of Colombia, ECDBC), Hilton Trollip (South

Africa, MAPS, ERC), Navroz Dubash (India, CPR), Niklas

Hohne (New Climate Institute), Rodrigo Palma (MAPS

Chile), Teng Fei (China, Tsinghua University), Stef

Raubenheimer (South Africa, MAPS)

04/12/1515:00-

16:30

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08 (150pax)Earth Innovation Institute *

Asociación de Comunidades

Forestales de Petén

(ACOFOP), Institute for

Conservation and Sustainable

Development of Amazonas

(IDESAM)

Fostering Bottom-Up, Jurisdictional

Low-Emission Development in

Tropical States and Provinces

Jurisdiction-wide LED-R strategies provide a framework for implementing

REDD+ goals on the ground. We explore multi-stakeholder processes, new

policy structures, and innovative finance mechanisms—including NAMAs and

INDCs—that are enabling state-wide transitions to sustainability in the tropics.

Daniel Nepstad (Executive Director, EII), Governor

Cornelis M. H. (West Kalimantan, Indonesia), Darrel

Webber (Secretary General, RSPO), Indigenous

Representative from AMPB, Brazilian State Governor

(TBC), Mariano Cenamo (Idesam)

08/12/1511:30-

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Fondation pour les etudes

et recherches sur le

developpement

international * (Ferdi)

ClimateWorks Foundation,

Ca' Foscari University, Venice

(UNIVE)

Can national policies and INDCs

alone lead to a workable and

effective climate regime?

This side event examines how INDCs can be implemented after the Paris

agreement. It identifies a set of policies at the national and international level

to achieve INDCs, examines current progress and looks at other mechanisms

that can enable a move towards a low carbon economy.

Moderator: Ana Toni, Instituto Clima e SociedadeSpeakers:

Carlo Carraro, Ca' Foscari Univ. of Venice and FEEM,

Surabi Menon, ClimateWorks Foundation,

Roger Guesnerie, College de France,

Jaime de Melo, Ferdi and Univ. of Geneva,

Scott Barrett, Columbia Univ.,

Robert N. Stavins, Harvard Univ.

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30/11/1513:15-

14:45

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04 (200pax)

Secretariat of the United

Nations Framework

Convention on Climate

Change (UNFCCC)

JISC side eventThe potential for crediting mitigation actions across countries with different

types of INDCs

01/12/1518:30-

20:00

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01 (300pax)

Secretariat of the United

Nations Framework

Convention on ClimateChange (UNFCCC)

Synthesis report on the aggregate

effect of INDCsPresentation of the synthesis report as per mandate 1/CP.20 16 (b)

N.B.: Side events might be rescheduled or cancelled. Kindly consult the web schedule (https://seors.unfccc.int/seors/reports/events_list.html?session_id=COP21)

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