Top of the COP: Industrial-Scale Collaboration for a resilient, net zero future
Nigel Topping, CMG
Founder Ambition Loop, former UN Climate Change High-Level Champion at COP26, Member UK CCC, NED at UK National Wealth Fund
TOP OF THE COP: INDUSTRIAL-SCALE COLLABORATION FOR A RESILIENT, NET ZERO FUTURE
Friday 11 November 2022
Industry drives the engine of our modern world, but it’s also the largest contributor to global emissions. The challenge to achieving decarbonization across the board is huge.
On Decarbonization Day, under the Breakthrough Agenda , countries representing more than 70% of global GDP launched a package of 25 new collaborative actions to be delivered by COP28 to speed up decarbonization under five key breakthroughs : power , road transport , steel , hydrogen and agriculture . These measures are designed to cut energy costs, rapidly reduce emissions and boost food security for billions of people worldwide whilst also ensuring a just transition for green jobs.
In addition, building adaptation and resilience into the industry transition is vital for the protection of goods, services and local economies.?
We need to produce what people want, in a way the planet can afford. Read on for more about how both the Breakthrough Agenda, and action within individual industrial sectors, are stepping up to this challenge.?
Today’s Key Announcements
GLOBAL CLIMATE ACTION EVENTS SCHEDULE
FOR MORE INFORMATION AND WEBCAST, ACCESS HERE
Breakthrough Agenda One Year On: Launch Breakthrough Priority Actions?
Location: Action Room 1 (Ibis)?
Time: 8:00 - 9:30am
Marrakech Partnership Action Event - Industry-Scaling Practical Solutions to Accelerate Industrial Decarbonization by 2030?
Location: Action Room 1 (Ibis)
Time: 10:00 - 12:00
Launch of the roadmap for climate actions in the events sector - Net Zero Carbon Events
Location: Action Room 2 (Lotus)
Time: (10:00-12:00)
Just Transition and the Future of work?
Location: Capacity Building Hub
Time: 11:50 - 12:50?
Marrakech Partnership Implementation Lab: Industry-Cement Breakthrough: from insight to concrete action?
Location: Action Room 1 (Ibis)
Time: 12:30 - 14:00
Futures Lab: Carbon and Biodiversity Credits in Africa
Location: Action Room 1 (Ibis)
Time: 12:30 - 14:00
Fashion on the net zero
Location: Action Room 1 (Ibis)
Time: 14:30 - 16:00
Marrakech Partnership Implementation Lab: Industry-Steel Breakthrough: from Insight to Action in this Critical Decade?
Location: Action Room 2 (Lotus)
Time: 14:30 - 16:00
Futures Lab: Carbon Dioxide Removal: Pioneers from the Global South
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Location: Action Room 1 (Ibis)
Time: 16:30 - 18:00?
Futures Lab: The Future of Food
Location: Action Room 1 (Ibis)
Time: 18:30 - 20:00
EXPLORE COP27
The Children and Youth Pavilion?
For the first time ever at a UNFCCC Conference, children and young people will have a dedicated space at COP27 alongside world leaders, ministers, prominent non-State actors and other delegates. Designed to amplify children and youth voices within global climate policymaking, the COP27 Children and Youth Pavilion will be entirely led by young people and has been co-created and run by influential child and youth networks. A full programme of events is here .
To celebrate Youth & Future Generations Day yesterday, the High-Level Champions Nigel Topping and Mahmoud Mohieldin stopped by the Children and Youth Pavilion to celebrate the voices of young people at COP27.?
The Resilience Hub: Showcasing Resilience Solutions Everyday
The Resilience Hub continues to deliver on its mandate to elevate the knowledge of front line leaders and demonstrate locally-informed resilience solutions which can be implemented at scale. Click here for the full agenda. The Hub is accessible in-person in Area C and virtually here .
No More Fairy Tales: stories to save our planet
Before we can build the resilient zero carbon economy that we have promised future generations, we must first imagine it.?
Stay inspired by reading today’s story drawn from an anthology of short stories written by a variety of authors such as Kim Stanley Robinson, Paolo Bacigalupi and others. These stories present positive visions of what a sustainable society might look like and how we might get there.
Each story links to a webpage where readers can see how they can help to make the story a reality. Compiled by the Green Stories Project , in association with Herculean Climate Solutions .
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT…
"The world around us is changing faster than ever, and the speed of change is not going to slow down. As such, we cannot delay action – just see what happened to the world’s supply chains in response to external stressors such as Hurricanes Katrina and Ian, Covid 19 and Brexit." CEO of Resilience Rising, Seth Schultz explains why and how the maritime sector is putting resilience on an equal footing with mitigation.
Imagine a city running out of water – homes and businesses go for days without cleaning, hospitals halt many of their services, residents line up in the middle of the night to collect water, risking human health, the economy and public safety. Smita Rawoot, Urban Resilience Lead at WRI, introduces a new Africa-focused blended finance instrument, the ACWA Fund, that supports city leaders to fund and scale high-impact water resilience solutions across Africa.
Flooding in Nigeria this year has displaced more than half a million people, according to the National Emergency Agency. Abiola Durodola, from the AdvoKC Foundation, and flood risk analyst, Abiade Idunnu explain the scale of the challenge and the opportunity before States and non-States actors alike to build resilience for the country before it's too late.
All sectors must, and can, play a part in e resilience as the world's most climate vulnerable people and communities. Find out more about GSK’s pledge to protect RREE support 15 million people, a major step towards Race to Resilience’s goal to build the resilience of four billion people globally by 2030.
Race to Resilience has launched a public consultation to help improve and strengthen an initiative to help partners report action, and quantify and verify impacts under a common framework.
City and subnational government signatories to Cities Race to Resilience have more than doubled since COP26, with more cities and subnational governments pledging to join the global campaign every day.
The Mangrove Breakthrough is a science-based, measurable, and achievable goal for non-State actors and governments to collectively restore and protect mangroves at the scale needed to secure the future of these vital coastal ecosystems. Created in collaboration with the Global Mangrove Alliance this is a critical agenda to deliver the Sharm El Sheikh Adaptation Agenda and mitigation 2030 Breakthroughs.
WHO ARE THE HIGH LEVEL CHAMPIONS?
The UN Climate Change High-Level Champions enhance and strengthen the engagement of non-Party stakeholders in collaborating with Parties, to deliver the goals of the Paris Agreement. To connect the work of governments with the many voluntary and collaborative actions taken by cities, regions, businesses, investors and civil society, at COP 21, countries decided to appoint two High Level Champions.?
The current Champions are Mr. Nigel Topping and Dr. Mahmoud Mohieldin. Working with the Marrakech Partnership , they build on the legacy of their predecessors to engage with non-Party stakeholders and activate the ‘ambition loop’ with national governments. Their work is fundamentally designed to encourage a collaborative shift across all of society towards a decarbonized economy so that we can all thrive in a healthy, resilient and net-zero world.
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2 年Well done Nigel Topping The economies of the free world desperately need a quick immersion on the real differences between the two; the ‘physicality of work’ and the ‘mentality of performance’. The First Industrial Revolution of the Mind https://bit.ly/3UWUHS1
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2 年Thanks for sharing Nigel Topping . I've seen first hand how buckling infrastructure and little or no investment have stifled the ambitions of these countries for decades. Spurred on by this lack of investment and poor productivity, local non-State investors and big businesses are beginning to take matters into their own hands, stepping into the space where states and institutions have failed to deliver, so many times before. These initiatives are very timely, placing these countries in a great position to leapfrog "Western" countries to lead the way in the adoption of renewables, particularly solar and wind, as the costs come tumbling down. Clean electricity generation is at the heart of decarbonisation. It is a shame that Natural Gas and Coal remain as the easy options for that quick export buck, that continue to fuel the failings of the West. Often, in these countries, sparsely populated and remote regions (separated by vast distances) expose the expense and fragility of building and supporting the EV and 5G infrastructure that we are told provides all the answers to our climate problems. Elsewhere, crisis upon crisis repeatedly bashes public confidence, pushing back the decarbonisation journey that we must all embark upon.
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