EDF at COP27

This year’s United Nations climate summit comes at a time of war and economic disruption, a time when the effects of climate change are hurting people around the world.

And it’s a time when the science shows we're not moving fast enough to meet our Paris Agreement goals to limit the planet’s warming.

At COP27, a delegation of EDF experts will highlight bold solutions that can put us on track. We’re focusing on speeding the transition to clean energy and ensuring healthy and safe livelihoods, particularly for communities most impacted by a changing climate.

• Advancing toward the Glasgow Climate Pact: A call to action to achieve one gigaton of emissions reductions from forests by 2025
  

  15:00-16:00 EET
  Location: Nature Zone Pavilion

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  Setting an interim goal of achieving 1 gigaton of emissions reductions from forests by 2025 is critical. During this session, speakers will:

  • address the importance of adopting a mid-term milestone towards the Glasgow Pact
  • provide an overview of the gap towards achieving the gigaton milestone
  • propose actions to accelerate progress towards the gigaton goal

  Speakers/Panelists
  

  • Breanna Lujan, Senior Manager, International Policy and Partnerships, Natural Climate Solutions, Environmental Defense Fund
  • Waldez Goes, Governor, State of Amapá, Brazil
  • Lola Cabnal, Director, Ak'Tenamit
  • Dirk Nemitz, Team Lead, AFOLU, United Nations Environment Programme
  • Susan Gardner, Director, Ecosystems Division, United Nations Environment Programme
  • Maggie Charnley, Head of International Forests Unit, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)

• Embracing Sustainable Water Use and Aquatic Blue Food Diversity for Climate Smart Food Systems
  

  8:00 - 21:00 EET
  Location: Food Systems Pavilion

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  Water and aquatic food systems have been undervalued and overlooked in conversations about climate change and food security despite their importance ensuring global food security and the significant impacts that climate change will have in the coming years on our food systems. On November 14, 2022, the Food Systems Pavilion is hosting a day focused on Embracing Sustainable Water Use and Aquatic Blue Food Diversity for Climate Smart Food Systems. On this day, we intend to elevate the importance of water and aquatic foods for achieving global food and nutrition security through discussions of themes such as aquatic nutrition, water data, small-scale fishing communities, sustainable governance and management, and innovations to support sustainable and equitable aquatic food and water systems.

  A series of sessions will bring together policy makers, practitioners, NGOs, funders, and other key actors to discuss themes such as the impact of climate change on water and on aquatic resources, the role of small-scale fishers and farmers as stewards, sustainable governance and management interventions, and innovations to support sustainable and equitable water and blue food use.

  Speakers/Panelists
  

  • Policy makers, practitioners, NGOs, funders, and other key actors in the aquatic foods and fresh water use sectors.
• Official UNFCCC side event: How to bridge the climate finance gap and support smallholders in food systems transformation
  

  11:30 - 13:00 EET
  Location: Official UNFCCC side event: Osiris Room (300)

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  Current financing for climate action in food systems is insufficient for the transformation required. This session will focus on the role of climate finance in assisting producers, especially smallholders, and how to engage them in transitioning to low-carbon agriculture while improving livelihoods.

  Speakers/Panelists
  

  • Moderator: Dhanush Dinesh, Founder, Clim-Eat
  • Fred Krupp, President, Environmental Defense Fund
  • Lini Wollenberg, Climate and Food Specialist, Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT, and University of Vermont
  • Ishmael Sunga, CEO, Southern African Confederation of Agricultural Unions (SACAU)
  • Alzbeta Klein, CEO, International Fertilizer Association (IFA)
  • Jochen Flasbarth, State Secretary, BMZ

• The Health-Methane Nexus: Opportunities for Action  
  

  10:00 - 11:30 EET
  Location: WHO Health Pavillion, Blue Zone

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  Raise awareness of the intersection between methane mitigation strategies and public health, to elevate health considerations in prioritizing methane mitigation strategies and to identify opportunities to accelerate action.

  Speakers/Panelists
  

  • Moderator: Sarah Vogel, Senior Vice President, Healthy Communities, EDF
  • Adrián Fernández,Executive Director, Iniciativa Climática de México
  • Carolina Urmeneta, Program Director for Circular Economy, Global Methane Hub
  • Todd Crane, Principal Scientist on Climate Change Adaptation, International Livestock Research Institute
  • Rodrigo Seguel, Researcher, Center for Climate and Resilience Research

• Exploring Carbon Credit Quality as a Key to Corporate Climate Action
  

  8:30-9:30 AM EET
  Location: We Mean Business Pavillion (Blue Zone)

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  Carbon credits are in high demand from companies and organizations aiming to meet their climate goals and obligations. To achieve these goals and obligations, carbon credits must be of high quality and effectively contribute to the goals of the Paris Agreement. However, not all carbon credits are of high quality, and it can be difficult for companies and users to navigate the carbon market and identify quality. This panel of carbon market experts and quality assessment providers will discuss how and why companies should seek out high quality carbon credits that deliver actual climate benefits as well as social and environmental co-benefits.

  Speakers/Panelists
  

  • Moderator: Ari Alexander, Salesforce
  • Pedro Barata, Environmental Defense Fund and Co-Chair of the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (IC-VCM)
  • Lambert Schneider, Oeko Institut and Carbon Credit Quality Initiative
  • Samuel Gill, Sylvera

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