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BELOW 2°C TOGETHER WE’LL MAKE IT! 2°COP 21 PARIS | 5 - 11 December 2015 Side events at the German Pavilion Hall 2B | No 51 Version: 10.12.2015 10:00 Uhr The information in this brochure is subject to change. Please refer to the latest version online: http://www.bmub.bund.de/cop-events Programme Climate Action in Practice Saturday, 5 December ............................................................................................2 Shaping the Energy Transition Monday, 7 December .............................................................................................4 Building Resilience Tuesday, 8 December .............................................................................................7 The Low Emission Path Wednesday, 9 December .................................................................................... 10 Local & Regional Climate Action Thursday, 10 December ...................................................................................... 13 Managing Risks Friday, 11 December ............................................................................................ 16 | 1 Saturday, 5 December, 10:00-11:30 Climate, Soil, Biomass – Championing Sustainable Production of Raw Materials Christian Schmidt, Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture, Germany Jean-Christophe Roubin, Ministry of Agriculture, France Prof Dr Klaus Töpfer, former Executive Director of UNEP Martina Fleckenstein, Director of EU Policy, Agriculture & Sustainable Biomass of WWF Alison Cairns, Global Advocacy Director for Sustainable Agriculture and Food, Unilever Prof Dr Folkhard Isermeyer, President of the v. Thünen Institute, Germany Participants will showcase a number of outstanding climate initiatives and achievements, ranging from the sustainable production of cacao, the certification of palm oil and the carbon enrichment of soils, to an analysis of biomass in the Sustainable Development Goals. Saturday, 5 December, 11:30 Film and Discussion: Nature is speaking For further details, please refer to: http://www.bmub.bund.de/cop-events Saturday, 5 December, 12:00-13:30 Rapid Action on Insurance and Climate Resilience Dr Thomas Silberhorn, Parliamentary State Secretary at Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Germany Dr Ngozi Okonlo-Iweala, ARC Governing Board, Nigeria HE Hon. Henry Puna, Prime Minister, Cook Islands Justine Greening, Secretary of State for International Development, United Kingdom HE Siaosi Sovaleni, Deputy Prime Minister, Tonga Michel Liès, CEO SwissRe Todd Stern, Special Envoy on Climate, USA Neven Minica, Commissioner in cahrge of International cooperation and development, EU Commission Maryam Golnaraghi, Director Extreme Event and Climate Risks, The Geneva Association Cornelia Füllkrug Weitzel, CEO Bread for the World, NGO support for InsuResilience Leaders from G7 countries and partner countries and executives showcase their support for InsuResilience – the G7 Initiative on Climate Risk Insurance – and announce a first series of concrete action for 2015 and 2016. 2 | Climate Action in Practice Saturday, 5 December, 14:00-15:30 Amazon Protected Areas, Natural Solutions to Climate Change Minister Manuel Pulgar Vidal, Environment Ministry Perú Pedro Gamboa, Chief SERNANP and REDPARQUES Coordinator Julia Miranda, National Natural Parks Director, World Commission on Protected Areas, Coordinator for South America, Columbia Claudio Maretti, President of Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade, Brasil Francisco Prieto, National Biodiversity Director, Ministry of Environment, Ecuador Andrew Rhodes, Climate Change and Institutional Director, National Natural Protected Areas Commission, México Tarsicio Granizo, Strategy on Protected Areas and Indigenous Territories, WWF Living Amazon Initiative Luis German Naranjo, Conservation Director, WWF Colombia Analiz Vergara, Policy Officer, WWF Living Amazon Initiative Amazon countries’ protected areas systems directors present the Protected Areas and Climate Change Declaration signed by 17 Latin American countries for COP21 and discuss ways to integrate protected areas in global climate action. Saturday, 5 December, 16:00-17:30 Soil Matters – and is a Key Element of Climate Smart Agriculture Thomas Silberhorn, Parliamentary State Secretary, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Germany Monique Barbut, Executive Secretary, UN Convention to Combat Desertification Michel Mordasini, Vice President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Théophile Chabi Worou, Minister of the Environment, Benin Ingrid-Gabriela Hoven, Director General Global Issues – Sector Policies and Programmes, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Germany Gousmane Moussa, Conseiller au Cabinet du Premier Ministre, Secrétariat Exécutif du Conseil National de l’Environnement et du Développement Durable, Niger Shri R. Amalorpavanathan, Deputy Managing Director, National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development, India Deborah Bossio, Director Soils Research Area, International Center for Tropical Agriculture - Regional Office for Africa Panelists will discuss the importance of rehabilitation of soils and sustainable land management for supporting food security, as well as for climate change adaptation and the provision of mitigation co-benefits. Climate Action in Practice | 3 Monday, 7 December, 10:00-11:30 Harvesting the Low hanging Fruit: Launch of Nitric Acid Climate Action Group Jochen Flasbarth, Secretary of State, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB), Germany (tbc) N.N. Ministry of Environment and Climate, Norway Lambert Schneider, Accociate Stockholm Environmental Institute SEI (tbc) John Kilani, UNFCCC (tbc) Silke Karcher, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB), Germany Launch of Nitric acid climate action group. Aim is to globally assure abatement of N2O emissions from nitric acid production by 2020 – up to 1% of mitigation gap. It offers information, support with transformation strategies and result based payments for mitigation up to 2020 where necessary. Monday, 7 December, 12:00-13:30 Enhancing Mitigation Action Pre- and Post-2020 Sean Healy, Öko Institute,Germany Wolfgang Obergassel, Wuppertal Institute, Germany Niklas Höhne, NewClimate Institute, Germany Vicki Duscha, Fraunhofer ISI, Germany Katja Eisbrenner, Ecofys, Germany Options for enhancing mitigation ambition before and after 2020, within the Paris Agreement and beyond will be presented. This includes a discussion on how to support further ambition in INDCs, as well as the potential of non-UNFCCC initiatives. 4 | Shaping the Energy Transition Monday, 7 December, 14:00-15:30 Towards Carbon Neutrality – 100 % Renewable Energy and More Dr Barbara Hendricks, Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMUB), Germany Dr Edgar E. Gutiérrez Espeleta, Minister for Energy Affairs and the Environment, Costa Rica Maria Krautzberger, President of the German Environment Agency, Germany Klaus Milke, Chairman of Germanwatch, Germany Dr Harry Lehmann, German Environment Agency, Germany (Moderation) National decarbonisation strategies will be presented and their transferability to an international level discussed. One focus is on cross-sectoral approaches due to the understanding that decarbonisation goes beyond a renewable energy service based electricity sector. Monday, 7 December, 16:00-17:30 Climate Action and a successful Economy – an Oxymoron? Urban Ried, Head of Department, Federal Minister of Economic Affairs and Energy, Germany Prof Lord Nicholas Stern, London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom John Danilovich, Secretary General, International Chamber of Commerce, former Ambassodor to the United States The Event focusses on the question how an economically successful country like Germany with a strong industrial base can pursue ambitious climate change and energy policies without negative effects on its prosperity but as a driver for innovation. Shaping the Energy Transition | 5 Monday, 7 December, 18:00-19:30 Advancing Energy Autonomy of Small Island Developing States Jochen Flasbarth, State Secretary, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB), Germany Anote Tong, President of Kiribati (tbc) Moises Tavares Borges, Director-General, Ministry of Environment, Housing and Land Use Planning, Cape Verde (tbc) Christine Lins, Executive Secretary REN21 Tao Wang, Director of Mitigation and Adaptation, Green Climate Fund Dr Henning Wuester, Director of the Knowledge, Policy and Finance Centre, International Renewable Energy Agency Busso v. Bismarck, Head of Business Development, Qinous GmbH SIDS are making progress implementing renewable energy targets by exploring and including centralized and distributed renewable energy applications in power systems. Panelists will discuss challenges and enablers for a successful transition to renewably powered SIDS. Monday, 7 December, 20:00-21:30 Film and Discussion: 1.5 – Stay Alive. Climate Change in the Caribbean: Science Meets Music Steffen Bauer, German Development Institute Carlos Fuller, International and Regional Liaison Officer Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre, Belize Ingrid-Gabriela Hoven, Director General Global Issues, Sector Policies and Programmes, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ),