Virtual High-Level Dialogue

Wednesday, 31 March 2021 12:00 – 15:00 CEST iea.li/netzerosummit

Draft Agenda

12h00 – Opening – A Grand Coalition to Achieve Global Net Zero 12h10 Moderator: Katherine Dixon, Chief Counsellor, Transitions and Partnerships, IEA CEST • Fatih Birol, Executive Director, IEA • Alok Sharma, COP26 President-Designate, This session will set the scene for the Summit by outlining the IEA’s forthcoming Net Zero Roadmap. The roadmap is a vital foundation for ensuring the world can turn ambitious targets into ambitious, near- term action. Commissioned by the UK COP Presidency, the unprecedented IEA analysis will set out in detail what needs to happen across the global economy to put emissions on a firm path to Net Zero, and in a timescale consistent with keeping the temperature rise below 1.5 degrees. The UK will then set out their agenda for enhancing international collaboration through their COP26 Presidency and beyond. 12h10 – IEA’s Net Zero Roadmap: report highlights 12h15 • Laura Cozzi, Chief Energy Modeller, IEA CEST 12h15 – Virtual Conversation between Major Economies 12h45 Moderators: Fatih Birol, Executive Director, IEA and Alok Sharma, COP26 President-Designate, UK CEST • Xie Zhenhua, Special Envoy on Climate Change, China • Frans Timmermans, Executive Vice-President, European Commission • Raj Kumar Singh, Minister of Power, New and Renewable Energy, India • John Kerry, Presidential Special Envoy for Climate, USA • Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General, World Trade Organisation (tbc) • Additional panelist(s) tbc A discussion among the world’s major economies on achieving global Net Zero, especially how the world can collaborate more effectively. 12h45 – Ministerial Panels 13h55 Ministerial Panels will be developed and led by members of the IEA family with assistance from the CEST Secretariat. The Chairs will present the proposition outlined in the Summit background paper and panellists will be encouraged to respond and build on this proposition. Panel 1: Ensuring Panel 2: Panel 3: Panel 4: Mobilising Panel 5: Building People-Centred Catalysing Near- Enhancing Clean Energy Confidence that Transitions Term International Investment Commitments will Implementation Collaboration on be Realised Key Sectors Co-chairs: Co-chairs: Co-chairs: Co-chairs: Co-chairs: • Dan Jørgensen, • Anders Ygeman, • Anne-Marie • Seamus O’Regan, • Teresa Ribera Minister of Minister for Energy Trevelyan, Energy Minister of Natural Rodriguez, Climate, Energy and Digital Minister, United Resources, Fourth Vice and Utilities, Development, Kingdom Canada President of the Denmark Government and • Zhang Jianhua, • Diego Mesa Puyo, Minister for the • Gwede Mantashe, • Arifin Tasrif, Minister of Minister of Mines Ecological Minister of Mineral Minister for Energy Energy, China and Energy, Transition and Resources and and Mineral Colombia the Demographic Energy, South Resources, Challenge, Spain Africa Indonesia • Representative of the Department of Energy, USA

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• Anne-Marie Trevelyan, Energy Minister, United Kingdom • Seamus O’Regan, Minister of Natural Resources, Canada • Teresa Ribera Rodriguez, Fourth Vice President of the Government and Minister for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, Spain

Role of security in transition • Hiroshi Kajiyama, Minister for Economy, Trade and Industry, Moderator: Alok Sharma, COP26 President-Designate, United Kingdom High-level speakers will be invited to reflect on the major priorities for action in the run up to Glasgow and the forthcoming IEA Ministerial, and how to further strengthen international clean energy architecture going into 2022 and beyond. • Roberto Cingolani, Minister for Ecological Transition, (Partner Host of the COP 26) • Representative from Chile (Presidency of COP 25, tbc) • Barbara Pompili, Minister for the Ecological Transition, (Presidency of COP 21) • Jennifer Morgan, Executive Director, Greenpeace • Christiana Figueres, Founding Partner, Global Optimism (tbc) • Fatih Birol, Executive Director, IEA (tbc)