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The COP29 UN Climate Change Conference, hosted by Azerbaijan this year, will take place from 11 November to 22 November in Baku. In addition to advancing global climate talks and action, this year’s climate conference will focus on setting a new climate goal on finance.
This will replace the previous $100 billion annual pledge made by developed countries to support developing nations in addressing climate change, a target that was not fully met. The new financial framework, known as the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG), aims to better reflect the current financial needs, which could range from $500 billion to $1 trillion annually.
As a key actor in climate action in Europe and abroad, EIT Climate-KIC is going to COP29 to share our expertise in supporting cities, countries, regions and their value chains to bridge the gap between their climate goal commitments and current reality.
We are also going to Baku to listen to other actors, find like-minded organisations we can partner with and learn from, and try to understand how our expertise in driving systemic change could contribute to solving today’s most pressing global challenges.
We will soon update this page with the events and sessions we’ll take part in.
In the meantime, please register to our COP29 list to receive our COP updates.
Please note: all the events will be listen in local time.
11 November 2024 - 10:30 - 11:30
High-Level Session on Accelerating Transformative Climate and Sustainability Innovations – Part 1
Location: Blue Zone, Buta Room
The high-level session will explore how systems thinking combined with moonshot mindsets can serve an expanded climate and sustainability innovation space. The session will feature corporate leaders as panelists.
Moderator: Kirsten Dunlop
More information coming up soon.
11 November 2024 - 12:00 - 13:00
High-Level Session on Accelerating Transformative Climate and Sustainability Innovations – Part 2
Location: Blue Zone, Buta Room
The high-level session will explore how systems thinking combined with moonshot mindsets can serve an expanded climate and sustainability innovation space. The session will include high-level representatives from the UN and other international organizations.
Moderator: Kirsten Dunlop
More information coming up soon.
12 November 2024 - 10:00 – 10:45
Session on Global Coalitions for Climate Innovation: Serving People and the Planet
Location: Blue Zone, WGEO Pavilion
The Global Coalitions for Climate Innovation will focus on global leadership’s role in enhancing the development and effective implementation of transformative climate and sustainability innovation to serve people and the planet. This session is jointly organized by UGIH and World Green Economy Organization (WGEO).
Moderator: Kirsten Dunlop
More information coming up soon.
13 November 2024 - 13:30 - 15:00
EIB Greentech financing panel
Location: Blue Zone, Benelux Panel
More information coming up soon.
13 November - Time tbd
UNFCCC Climate Champions COP29 Business, Investment and Philanthropy Climate Platform
More information coming up soon.
13, 14 November 2024 - 9:00-19:30
Sustainable Innovation Forum
Location: Baku Marriott Hotel Boulevard
EIT Climate-KIC is a partner of the Sustainable Innovation Forum at COP29. The Forum will unite 1,000 global climate leaders from all sectors to build cross-sector partnerships, promote impactful business actions, mobilise green finance, and provide access to cutting-edge solutions for rapid global adoption. Dedicated to advancing transformative innovations, the Forum aims to help us meet our climate commitments and targets, driving a sustainable and resilient future through collaborative efforts.
15 November 2024 - 9:00-19:30
Agri-Food Systems Summit
Location: Baku Marriott Hotel Boulevard
As the world faces growing challenges like food security and climate change, impacting water shortages, it will become imperative to develop new models of multi-stakeholder collaboration to ensure a sustainable and resilient future for our food systems. The Agri-Food Systems Summit at COP29 will bring together 300 diverse stakeholders from across the agri-food sector to showcase solutions and access innovations that will safeguard our food and water systems, paving the way for a sustainable, nature-positive future.
16 November 2024 - 15.00 - 16.30
Building the Business Case for Climate Finance at the Subnational Level
Location: Blue Zone, Room 2
Organised by the MAIA Project, a key initiative under the EU Mission on Adaptation to Climate Change, this event will look at the importance of investing at the subnational level to accelerate mitigation and adaptation action in the context of the negotiations on the New Collective Quantified Goal on climate finance (NCQG).
Subnational actors (state, regions, provinces) can play a critical role to accelerate action on the ground given the proximity to their citizens, territorial approach and engagement with different actors and sectors in their territories. Nevertheless, investment at this level needs to be boosted, and investors and financial actors need to see the interest and attractively for investing at subnational levels.
During the panel, the new Committee of the Region report ‘Adaptation financing mechanisms for action at the local and regional level’ will be referenced.
Moderator: Kirsten Dunlop
18 November 2024 - 14:30-15:45
Cleantech Innovation Ecosystems: What Counts Beyond Numbers for People and Planet
Location: Blue Zone, UNIDO Pavilion
This session will focus on building innovation ecosystems that go beyond traditional quantitative metrics, and highlight success factors from a systemic perspective.
Speakers include:
- H.E. Mr. Hisham Badr, Ambassador, Assistant for Strategic Partnership, Ministry of Planning and Economic Development, Egypt
- Mr. Paulo Savaget, Associate Professor of Engineering, University of Oxford
- Mr. Filippo Berardi, Climate Change Mitigation Lead, GEF
- Ms. Diana Dumitrescu, CEO and Founder, InnovX
- Mr. Zakaria Hachlaf, Secretary-General of the Department of Sustainable Development, Ministry of Energy Transition and Sustainable Development
- Ms. Kirsten Dunlop, CEO, Climate-KIC
- Mr. Alex Ballastioses, Director of Climate Finance, Global Warming Mitigation Project
- Ms. Jacquelyn Francis, Founder and Executing Director, Global Warming Mitigation Project
- Ms. Cansu Durukan, TÜBITAK
- Ms. Zhuldyz Zhumadilova, IGTIC
- Ms. Saule Kozyke, Deputy CEO, IGTIC
- Mr. Peter Oksen, Green Technology & Research Manager, WIPO
- Mr. Antonio Díaz Aranda, Partnerships Coordinator, Youth UNESCO Climate Action Network (YoU-CAN) Steering Committee