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Virtual High-Level Dialogue Wednesday, 31 March 2021 12:00 – 15:00 CEST iea.li/netzerosummit 12h00 – Opening – A Grand Coalition to Achieve Global Net Zero 12h10 MC: Katherine Dixon, Chief Counsellor, Transitions and Partnerships, IEA CEST • Co-Chair of Summit, Fatih Birol, Executive Director, IEA • Co-Chair of Summit, Alok Sharma, COP26 President-Designate, United Kingdom 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 – Conversation between Major Economies 13h00 Moderators: Fatih Birol, Executive Director, IEA and Alok Sharma, COP26 President-Designate, UK CEST • Zhang Jianhua, Minister of Energy, 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 • Amani Abou-Zeid, Commissioner for Infrastructure and Energy, African Union Commission • Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General, World Trade Organisation A discussion among the world’s major economies on achieving global Net Zero, especially how the world can collaborate more effectively. 13h00 – Ministerial Panels 14h00 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- Accelerating Clean Energy Confidence that Transitions Term Technology and Investment Commitments will Implementation Innovation in Key be Realised Sectors Co-chairs: Co-chairs: Chair: Co-chairs: Chair: • 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 Sweden • Diego Mesa Puyo, Government and Minister for the • Gwede Mantashe, • Arifin Tasrif, Minister of Mines Ecological Minister of Mineral Minister for Energy and Energy, Transition and Resources and and Mineral Colombia the Demographic Energy, South Resources, Challenge, Spain Africa Indonesia 2 This session will This session will This session will This session will This session will examine how to put explore how to consider what fora consider how to focus on how to people at the centre improve the and institutions are ensure investment ensure that of clean energy implementation of needed to enhance flows are aligned collective aspiration transitions, clean energy international with clean energy is translated into addressing transitions across collaboration within goals. It will collective action. employment, equity the IEA family. It will each energy use consider what is The panel will and inclusion examine the sector. It will needed to examine how to issues. The mechanisms, consider what strengthen build confidence discussion will be institutions and potential collaboration across within the informed by the processes that coordination gains the policy and international system work of the IEA’s ensure countries exist, what sort of investment that the policies and Global Commission have access to collaboration can communities, and to strategies that are on People-Centred effective technical better access them, de-risk renewable being put in place Clean Energy and policy support and what kind of finance. over the next 10 Transitions. for developing institutions and fora years are aligned national energy that requires. with long term transition strategies. commitments. Belgium Brazil Australia Austria Germany European Lithuania Czech Republic Luxembourg Greece Commission Norway European The Netherlands Finland Hungary Thailand Commission Portugal Ireland Mexico Agence française du Israel Singapore Slovak Republic Kenya développement United Kingdom South Korea Climate Action Poland African Union Enel United Kingdom Network Commission Switzerland LafargeHolcim Institutional ClimateWorks International Trade Eni SEforAll Investors’ Group on Foundation Union Hitachi ABB Power UN High-Level Climate Change Iberdrola Confederation Grids Champions for International Energy International Energy Global Focal Point International Atomic Climate Action Agency Agency SDG 7 Youth Energy Agency World Economic Net Zero Asset Quadrature Climate Constituency International Forum Owner Alliance Foundation NTPC Renewable Energy International Energy Agency Agency Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Services Africa International Energy Agency 3 14h00 – Leaders’ Plenary – Toward Glasgow and Beyond 15h00 CEST Moderator: Fatih Birol, Executive Director, IEA Role of energy security in transition Hiroshi Kajiyama, Minister for Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan One of the Panel Co-chairs will provide brief conclusions and next steps, including how international clean energy governance can be strengthened. • Dan Jørgensen, Chair, Minister of Climate, Energy and Utilities, Denmark • Arifin Tasrif, Minister for Energy and Mineral Resources, Indonesia • 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 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, Italy (Partner Host of the COP 26) • Juan Carlos Jobet, Minister of Energy, Chile (Presidency of COP 25) • Barbara Pompili, Minister for the Ecological Transition, France (Presidency of COP 21) • Christiana Figueres, Founding Partner, Global Optimism • Fatih Birol, Executive Director, IEA 4 .
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