Day -3, @ COP29: BakuVery exciting day today, full of meetings, symposiums and focused discussions.1. Key reports of the Standing Committee on F...
Published on by Madhukar Swayambhu, Research Head at Vaidic Srijan
Very exciting day today, full of meetings, symposiums and focused discussions.
1. Key reports of the Standing Committee on Finance for COP29
2. Driving Gender-just Energy Transition through Financing and Capacity Building in the Global South
3. Trade and investment policies to advance climate ambition and sustainable development
4. Scaling up Nature Finance and Enterprise in the Amazon Basin and Beyond
5. Artificial Intelligence solutions to enable rapid scale up of Renewable Energy
6. Transformational Adaptation
7. Supporting Indigenous-Peoples led solutions to climate change and loss and damage
8. Ensuring Integrity in the Voluntary Carbon Market
9. Open access activity data and digital tools to help countries and other stakeholders meet their ETF
10. Unlocking the potential for financing methane mitigation from solid waste for the NDCs and beyond
11. Innovation Ecosystems for Climate Action: Digital Technologies, Industrial Solutions, and Governance
12. Scaling up climate action in fragile states: what are the hurdles and how to overcome them?
13. Innovative Pathways for Emission Reduction: Perspectives from NGOs, Government and Private Sector
14. Tackling Corruption: A Missing Piece in the Climate Finance Agenda
15. Fully funded, fair, fast, and feminist phase-out of fossil fuels in the United States
16. Recognizing Net Zero Ambition and Accelerating Progress
The teething troubles have been sorted out. Met some wonderful people doing great work in the environment sector from carbon capture to waste management to governance to finance. This is a platform to showcase the good work, unfortunately all people working on ground are not able to afford taking a stall here, because they’re working for saving the planet, and not making money.
Government and intergovernmental discussions happen in the Blue Zone, at least these people working on ground should get a place in the Green Zone. Or maybe create a White Zone from COP30, so that these wonderful works could be showcased and replicated across the globe. We’ve maximized the foot prints of pollution, now is the time to globalize the footprints of restoration too.
Met some good corporates from Azerbaijan, Saudi ad UAE, all keen to diversify towards NbS, which was a good surprise. In fact, even an industrial training institute was affirmative to add a course on NbS to their curriculum, which was quite unexpected. Met a few environment Ministers from African Union too, who were keen on restoration of natural resources.
That’s the crux of Day-3.