Our activities for COP 22

Together with the Wuppertal Institute, you will find us at our Official COP Side Event on Friday, 18 November 2016. Full details can be found below. If you'd like to meet up with any of our team whilst in Marrakech, please do not hesitate to contact us at [email protected]. But if you can't make it, you can still tune in! The UNFCCC will also broadcast our side event live on YouTube.

OUR OFFICIAL COP 22 SIDE EVENT

Sustainable development and environmental integrity in post-2020 mechanisms

Co-hosted with Wuppertal Institute

Friday, 18 November 2016: 11:30—13:00
Bering Room
Gold Standard and Wuppertal Institute explore the opportunities within the Paris Agreement to raise ambition for sustainable development and ensure environmental integrity in order to identify the most effective pathways for both within post 2020 market mechanisms.

Speakers

Nicolas Kreibich, Research Fellow, Energy, Transport and Climate Policy, Wuppertal Institute
Martin Hession, International Carbon Markets, European Commission
Aki Kachi, International Policy Director, Carbon Market Watch
Marion Verles, CEO, Gold Standard
Karen Holm Olsen, Senior Researcher, UNEP DTU Partnership

OUR OTHER ACTIVITIES AT COP 22

Workshop: Standards and the Paris Agreement

Friday, November 11: 15:45 – 17:00
Concurrent Experts Roundtable / Participatory Workshop Sessions (III)
Recognizing that the Paris Agreement provides the framework but not the details for implementation of climate action, how will international voluntary standards — such as those promulgated by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO-Geneva) — help identify best practices and policy approaches for mitigation and adaptation? Can an ISO standard on climate finance help mobilize the private sector funds necessary to meet the climate change challenge? How will the ISO voluntary standards development processes coordinate with and complement UNFCCC initiatives? How are voluntary international standards and other “soft law” tools effectively utilized in legal and regulatory regimes? How will voluntary standards help developing countries advance climate action? Or do standards create unintended burdens, such as barriers to trade?

Chair

Prof. Dr. Charles di Leva, World Bank

Gold Standard Speakers

Sarah Leugers, Director of Communications, Gold Standard

Speakers

Ira Feldman, Adaptation Coordinator, ISO TC 207/SC7 and Adaptation Leader, GHGMI

Tom Baumann, International Chair of SO TC 207/SC 7 and co-founder GHGMI

Massamba Thioye, Manager, Sustainable Development Mechanism Program, UNFCCC

Jeffrey Cohen, Senior VP, EOS Climate

Paris Agreement: Fostering Sustainable Development and Carbon Markets

Tuesday, 15 November: 11:00 - 12:30
Green Zone, Room 5

Topics

• The Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals 

• Sustainable Development: an objective or another barrier for mitigation and adaptation? 

• Sustainable Development and the Clean Development Mechanism 

• Article 6: Sustainable Development Mechanism or Emissions Mitigation Mechanism? A CDM 2.0? 
• Article 6: Modalities and Procedures – an early perspective

Moderator

Marcio Viegas, Managing Director, SUST4IN

Gold Standard Speaker

Marion Verles, CEO, Gold Standard

Speakers

Edwin Aalders, Principle Researcher, DNV GL, Verified Carbon Standards

David Hone, Chief Climate Change Adviser, Shell

Abyd Karmali, Managing Director, Climate Finance, Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Andrei Marcu, Director, European Roundtable on Climate and Sustainable Transition (ERCST)

Ivo Mulder, Economics Advisor, REDD+, UNEP (confirming)

Gonzalo Sáenz de Miera, Director of Climate Change Chairman's Area, Iberdrola

Grant Kirkman, Head Relations Management - Climate Finance, UNFCCC

Valvanera Ulargui, General Director, Spanish Climate Change Office (TBC)

Transforming the cooking energy sector towards modern and climate-smart energy services

Tuesday, 15 November: 11:00 – 12:30
Green Zone, GIZ Stand No. 308
This Side Event, organised by theEnergising Development Partnership (EnDev), the Worldbank, the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves (GACC) and the GIZ project Poverty-oriented Basic Energy Servicewill demonstrate the role of cooking energy in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to global warming. The participants will jointly explore ways and innovative instruments to transform the cooking sector in developing countries towards a climate-friendly, clean and sustainable energy service.

Gold Standard panellist

Sarah Leugers, Director of Communications, Gold Standard

Panellists

Mr. Hans Olav Ibrekk, Policy Director, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway (Chair)

Ambuj Sagar, Professor of Policy Studies at the Indian Institute of Technology
Delhi and Co-Author of the 5th IPCC report
Wanjira Mathai, Director, Partnerships for Women’s Entrepreneurship in Renewables (wPOWER), Wangari Maathai Institute
Tosi Mpanu Mpanu, DR Congo, Group of African Climate Negotiators, Member of Board of the Green Climate Fund (tbc)
Frank Fass-Metz, Deputy Director general BMZ, German Board member of the GCF (tbc)
Venkat Putti, Program Manager Climate Finance, World Bank Group

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Tuesday, 15 November: 09:00 – 10:30
Riad Infinity Sea Marrakech
Marrakech, Marrakech-Tensift-Al Haouz, Morocco 
In light of the ratification of the Paris Agreement, the contributions of the private sector will be crucial in the global effort to achieve a carbon neutral economy. This Side Event will explore the role of insetting as an effective tool for reducing companies in reducing their carbon footprint within their value chains to meet the objectives of the Paris Agreement. 

Gold Standard Speakers

Marion Verles, CEO The Gold Standard

Speakers

Brice Lalonde, former Minister, President of Business & Climate Summit

Simon Henry, Programme Director, International Carbon Reduction & Offset Alliance