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SUMMARY:EBI – UNEP live session: “Upstream decision-making to finance climate resilient infrastructure”
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\n\nAbout this Event\nThis event “Upstream decision-making to finance climate resilient infrastructure”\, co-organised by the ICE-convened Enabling Better Infrastructure (EBI) programme and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP)\, will take place on 25 June\, from 14:30 to 15:30 BST\, via Zoom. The session will be chaired by the current ICE President and EBI Chair\, Prof Jim Hall. \nThis session will exclusively cover investment and finance\, focusing on the assessments and decisions made early in the infrastructure life cycle. \nThe event will delve into the prerequisites for enabling the widest range of relevant financing options for climate-resilient infrastructure\, including public finance\, public-private partnerships\, Multilateral Development Bank financing\, among others. \nInvited speakers will share how they have considered financial needs upfront to avoid bottlenecks further down the life cycle. The session will feature UNEP and the University of Oxford’s recent report on “Enabling Adaptation: Sustainable Fiscal Policies for Climate Resilient Development and Infrastructure”\, which examines key fiscal priorities\, issues and considerations. \nConfirmed speakers:• Alvaro Quijandria\, Senior international consultant working currently with International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the Independent Evaluation Group of the World Bank Group• Fred Sabiti\, UNDP National Technical Advisor at the Rwanda’s Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning (MINECOFIN) \nThis event is part of a series of UNEP & EBI webinars on sustainable infrastructure\, focusing on EBI Principle 4: Scoping ahead to drive success. These webinars provide a platform for governments and stakeholders to discuss pressing infrastructure topics and share experiences from diverse contexts. \nEnabling Better Infrastructure (EBI) programme and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP)\n\nEBI is a programme convened by the ICE. It helps governments see beyond the uncertainties of the day to develop stable\, sustainable and investable infrastructure project pipelines that meet people’s (current and future) needs. The EBI programme brings together independent specialists with deep\, wide-ranging experience to support governments in putting EBI’s principles for strengthening strategic infrastructure planning into practice. The programme is working towards a vision of a world where people can live safe\, healthy and productive lives\, supported by sustainable and resilient infrastructure (that meets everyone’s needs). \nThe United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the leading global authority on the environment. UNEP’s mission is to inspire\, inform\, and enable nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations. For over 50 years\, UNEP has worked with governments\, civil society\, the private sector and UN entities to address humanity’s most pressing environmental challenges – from restoring the ozone layer to protecting the world’s seas and promoting a green\, inclusive economy. Since 2018\, UNEP has supported governments to integrate sustainability and resilience into infrastructure planning\, financing\, and delivery\, with the International Good Practice Principles for Sustainable Infrastructure serving as a guide for policymakers and other stakeholders to integrate sustainability and resilience across the infrastructure lifecycle.
URL:https://bakuclimateactionweek.org/event-details/ebi-unep-live-session-upstream-decision-making-to-finance-climate-resilient-infrastructure/
LOCATION:UCL-Chatham House Grand Challenges kick-off workshop\, UCL Faculty of Laws\, Bentham House\, 4-8 Endsleigh Gardens\, London WC1H 0EG\, United Kingdom\, London\, London\, WC1H 0EG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Events,Mobilising Whole of Society Climate Action
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SUMMARY:A State of Flow: Can Arts And Culture Immerse Water In The Sustainability Agenda
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\n\nAbout this Event\nIn collaboration with The London Museum of Water & Steam and Be Better Sustainability we will discuss the next frontier of sustainability – water! \nBringing together experts in water\, sustainability\, art and culture this panel discussion will explore the complexities of sustainability through the lens of water. Pulling on the threads of a necessary re-Renaissance in thinking to intertwine the science with the artists and storytellers who can mobilise the paradigm shift in thinking more broadly. \nWater offers us a cultural\, spiritual and daily urgency that provides a sustainable development context to explore equity\, innovation\, culture and planetary boundaries. \nWater is the identifiable connection as it flows through the\, often siloed\, pillars of sustainability. Biodiversity\, carbon\, humanity and economy all rely on available water but the assumption around this is increasingly challenged by climate\, urbanisation and contemporary industry. \nThe London Museum of Water and Steam provides a stunning backdrop that enables us to stand on the shoulders of our industrial past to forge forward in the new revolution. \nChair –illana AdamsonCEOBe Better \nPanellists – \nDr Jasmine PradissittoArtist and Polymath \nProf. Jacob Tompkins OBEChief Technical OfficerThe Water Retail Company \nHannah HarteMuseum DirectorThe London Museum of Water and Steam \nTo join us please email info@bebetter.at \nBe Better Sustainability ltd\n\nBe Better’s CEO illana Adamson has a 20 year multidisciplinary focus choke points and levers for sustainability.
URL:https://bakuclimateactionweek.org/event-details/a-state-of-flow-can-arts-and-culture-immerse-water-in-the-sustainability-agenda/
LOCATION:UCL-Chatham House Grand Challenges kick-off workshop\, UCL Faculty of Laws\, Bentham House\, 4-8 Endsleigh Gardens\, London WC1H 0EG\, United Kingdom\, London\, London\, WC1H 0EG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Delivering a net zero and resilient London and UK,Events
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SUMMARY:Holding the Earth: Writing from an Open Heart
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\n\nAbout this Event\nThis poetry workshop facilitated by Anne Enith Cooper will be an opportunity to explore our feelings about\, and relationship to\, our home — the earth — and express our hopes and fears for the future. In a sense the earth holds us\, providing everything we eat\, everything we wear\, everything we use\, metals and minerals come from the earth\, and of course the damaging fossil fuels and the raw material for plastics. How can we hold the earth? \nWe live in a tortured world marred by collective trauma; wars\, inequality\, injustice\, poverty and the climate emergency\, and yet we can and do hold hope and we can create. Our stories\, poems\, songs\, can be part of forging a sustainable future. \nThe workshop uses exercises designed to help you write more freely\, with playfulness and curiosity. Workshops take place in a safe and supported space with ground rules established collectively. It will be a journey of discovery. Please bring something to write with and write on. \nThis workshop is free but please register to attend. \nAnne Enith Cooper with The Way of Words\n\nAnne Enith Cooper is a poet\, writer and activist. She is the Founder of The Way of Words\, author of the poetry pamphlet Touched\, editor of three anthologies of creative writing and formerly a poetry editor at the XR Rebel Library. She has created and delivered writing workshops and projects in the community for 20 years. She is a member of National Association of Writers in Education\, Poets for the Planet and Save Cressingham. Her poem Sicilian Salad in the Anthropocene was longlisted for the 2024 Live Canon International Poetry Prize. Her work has also been published by Proletarian Poetry\, The Loose Muse Anthologies and No Planet B. She has performed in New York and London and is currently taking an MA in Writing Poetry at the Poetry School\, London.
URL:https://bakuclimateactionweek.org/event-details/holding-the-earth-writing-from-an-open-heart/
LOCATION:UCL-Chatham House Grand Challenges kick-off workshop\, UCL Faculty of Laws\, Bentham House\, 4-8 Endsleigh Gardens\, London WC1H 0EG\, United Kingdom\, London\, London\, WC1H 0EG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Events,Financing inclusive and resilient climate transition
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SUMMARY:UCL-Chatham House Grand Challenges kick-off workshop: International governance structures for risk underwriting for low-carbon investments in developing countries
DESCRIPTION:About this Event\n  The objective of the workshop is to interrogate the political\, legal and economic aspects of the public international climate finance mechanisms and governance structures required to catalyse investments in low-carbon assets at scale in developing economies. More specifically\, the event will aim to identify the gaps in boosting risk underwriting for low-carbon investments and discuss the areas of intervention through research and policy engagement. In particular\, the workshop will: – Assess the extent to which the dominant concessional international climate finance mechanisms (loans) match market and/or low-carbon technologies maturity. – Explore the role of non-debt instruments that can facilitate market creation\, catalyse investments\, and enhance international climate public finance efficiency. – Discuss the legal and institutional preconditions for scaling up international risk-sharing frameworks\, including the role of multilateral processes (e.g.\, COP\, G20\, BASIC)\, quasi-state actors (such as sovereign wealth funds)\, and emerging proposals for multi-sovereign guarantee facilities. – Address the political economy constraints on international coordination and governance models\, and how these might be overcome through targeted interventions during Brazil’s COP30 and South Africa’s G20 presidency. This event is invitation-only. If you wish to express your interest in attending\, please complete the form below\, and we’ll contact you if we have spare capacity. Contact details: Yaroslav Melekh\, yaroslav.melekh@ucl.ac.uk Organisers are grateful to the UCL Grand Challenges Climate Crisis Programme for their support.   \nUniversity College London and Chatham House\n– UCL Centre for Law and Environment serves as a focal point for the UCL Faculty of Laws’ outstanding expertise and academic strength in the field of the environment and the law. The main goals of the Centre are to advance research and teaching and explore the role of law in meeting contemporary environmental and energy challenges. – UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources focuses its research on a wide range of sustainability challenges – from transitions to net-zero energy systems\, to circular economies and sustainable\, healthy food systems. – Chatham House\, Global Economy and Finance Programme maintains links with policymakers\, practitioners and researchers around the globe\, providing independent analysis of global economic issues such as economics of climate change\, international trade and investment\, developing country debt\, global economic governance and the role of the G7 and G20.
URL:https://bakuclimateactionweek.org/event-details/day-3-3-thematic-high-level-roundtables/
LOCATION:UCL-Chatham House Grand Challenges kick-off workshop\, UCL Faculty of Laws\, Bentham House\, 4-8 Endsleigh Gardens\, London WC1H 0EG\, United Kingdom\, London\, London\, WC1H 0EG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Building climate ambition on the road to COP30,Events
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