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| . | 9.00 | P5 - WORKING WHERE IT MATTERS: DEVELOPING TAILORED APPROACHES TO CLIMATE ACTION IN CITIES
By 2050, global urban population is estimated to grow to 6.4 billion. Annual GHG emissions of the world's largest 100 cities are equivalent to an estimated 75% of emissions in EU countries. Scaling up actions for low carbon city development would substantially reduce emissions and enhance resilience. Working with cities matters: what is needed to trigger climate action at scale? Panelists will discuss mitigation potential and options in cities as well as different alternatives to strengthen resilience, present solutions that cities need, and how to catalyze financing for low-carbon city development |
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| . | 10.45 | W1 - PREPARING FOR THE NEXT GENERATION OF CARBON PRICING INSTRUMENTS
An increasing number of countries which represent very diverse economies are evaluating and piloting innovative approaches to cost-effective greenhouse gas mitigation, including domestic emissions trading schemes, new carbon crediting instruments, and carbon taxes. They are all laying the groundwork for a predictable price on carbon, but keeping track of these trends and developments is not easy. Panelists will review the emergence of regional or domestic initiatives in this new generation of countries taking action towards climate change, what the drivers and opportunities behind this bottom-up process might be, and what challenges the current generation of carbon markets can help overcome. | W2 - PRODUCING POWERFUL INCENTIVES THROUGH RESULTS-BASED FINANCING
Performance¿based payments produce powerful incentives and can often result in effective robust project implementation structures. Panelists will introduce different forms of results-based financing and how it can interact with other forms of finance to generate opportunities in climate markets with significant development co-benefits. They will share lessons learned in designing and implementing existing programs and discuss the potential specifically for methane as well as for broadening its application in order to achieve sustained and recurrent climate investment. | W3 - STATE OF CLEAN ENERGY IN 2013 - POLICY UPDATE & MARKET BRIEFING
The world's clean energy investment & deployment landscape has undergone dramatic changes in recent years. Join this special session to learn more about: current and projected trends in global clean energy investment and deployment; key economic, policy, and technology factors that are driving these developments; how major markets, like the US, Europe, China, and India, are enabling or impeding clean energy deployment; how different types of investors are evaluating various clean energy project risks and opportunities and more. |
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| . | 12.00 | W4 - A POST-DOHA LOOK AT THE FRAMEWORK FOR VARIOUS APPROACHES AND NEW MARKET MECHANISMS (FVA/NMM)
The new framework (FVA) that facilitates the further development of market based instruments and allows linking of those that already exist must be attractive to all key actors: developing countries, developed countries, and investors. The design will have an important impact on the ability of the FVA to achieve this. The FVA now under discussion at the UNFCCC, in combination with plans for a New Market Mechanism (NMM) under the Convention, offers the opportunity to deliver such a global market that could then sit at the heart of the new agreement negotiated under the ADP. Will this be a boom or a burden on the carbon market? | W5 - PUBLIC AND PRIVATE CLIMATE FINANCE: FINDING THE RIGHT BALANCE
If the international community is committed to financing large-scale mitigation of GHG and adaptation to climate change, multi-sector discussion must focus on building architecture that enables practical solutions capable of utilizing the full spectrum of instruments which could be deployed on a blended basis. Public policy and finance play a crucial role in creating an incentive framework for private flows while private initiatives are essential to raise resources on a large enough scale. This session will hear from international climate finance experts on potential barriers for mobilization and delivery of public climate funding, while exploring private sector solutions and alternative paradigms that might drive massive sums of private sector financial flows into mitigation and adaptation activities. | W6 - DRIVING LOW-EMISSIONS DEVELOPMENT AT THE SUB-NATIONAL LEVEL: EXPERIENCES FROM THE FIELD
Amidst uncertainty in the international climate regulatory landscape, sub national governments are moving ahead with bold climate policies and market based approaches to low-emissions development. This session will highlight experiences from the field with presentations from cities and states that are driving the low-carbon agenda at the local scale by putting into action innovative ideas with global implications. |
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and Visit the Trade Fair
| SD1 - CARBON EXPO SPECIAL DIALOGUE- THE BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP FOR MARKET READINESS (BPMR): SUPPORTING BUSINESSES AND SHARING BEST BUSINESS PRACTICES IN THE NEXT WAVE OF CARBON MARKETS Business Practices in the Next Wave of Carbon Markets
Towards the end of 2012, and following on the success of the World Bank's Partnership for Market Readiness (PMR), IETA launched a new "Business Partnership for Market Readiness" (B-PMR) to create a new initiative to help businesses in the PMR countries meet the challenges of emissions trading and market based policy tools. IETA aims to enhance the potential for workable international carbon trading models to emerge around the world, to raise the level of understanding and awareness of industries on emissions trading and other market-based policy tools in PMR-implementing countries. This is being done in concert with the host governments of each BPMR country, the World Bank and PMR donor countries. This special lunch dialogue will explore how the BPMR works, gather feedback on the 1st Mission in Guangdong, China, and seek feedback from the audience on how to strengthen to BPMR going forward. |
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| . | 14.00 | P6 - MAXIMIZING THE POTENTIAL FOR GREEN INVESTMENTS: THE CHALLENGE OF EFFECTIVE POLICY IMPLEMENTATION
Transitioning to a pathway of Green Growth is becoming increasingly important as cls countries explore innovative and cost-effective Green Growth Policies to scale-up emissions reductions and foster private sector investment, they are also facing unique challenges in effectively implementing these policies. In this session, panelists from five countries will share emerging experience and key insights into the challenges and opportunities in truly harnessing the green growth potential
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| . | 15.45 | W7 - CDM & JI ¿ THE REVIEW YEAR AND THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM
Governments will spend the year under the UNFCCC taking a deep look at the CDM and JI and the experiences it yielded. What this review then brings to COP 19 in Warsaw is uncertain: What role will the CDM and JI play in a new climate agreement and what supporters does it have? Will Australia's link to the EU restore confidence in Brussels for these mechanisms? This debate and discussion-will try to answer those questions. In any case, the CDM and JI still remain but their glory days have long gone. This session will try to answer the elephant in the room: What next? | W8 - CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FACING ADAPTATION FINANCE
There's no denying that climate change impacts have started to rear their ugly - and costly - heads worldwide. Despite widespread agreement that adaptation measures matter, there's anything but agreement around the potential costs of adaptation, as well as how such measures will be financed. Governments have a significant role to play in financing adaptation. But, for reasons explored during this session, public funds can't be the only solution. Join this session to learn more about: the quest to drive private capital into adaptation activities; innovative adaptation finance instruments and scale-up potential; and the latest on climate-resilient "enabling frameworks", cropping up across regions and sectors.
| W9 - THE MULTIPLE BENEFITS OF CLIMATE SMART AGRICULTURE
Providing food for a growing population at a time of climate change is becoming an increasingly major challenge ¿ agricultural production must increase by 70 percent in order to fill the needs of food security. Yet due to the large emissions from the agricultural sector, countries need to find ways that make agriculture emit less and produce more. How can countries suport innovative approaches that incentivezes climate-smart agricultural techniques that increase farm productivity and incomes, make agriculture more resilient to climate change, while also contributing to mitigation? |
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| . | 17.00 | W10 - ROOM FOR MORE? ADDING COMPLIMENTARY MEASURES TO THE CARBON POLICY TOOLKIT
Carbon markets rarely exist in a vacuum. Indeed, they must fit alongside other measures targeting transportation fuels, renewable energy deployment, energy efficiency measures and many other government policies. This has an impact on carbon markets and prices faced by covered entities. Governments must ensure transparency in the carbon price signal sent to industry, and avoid adding unnecessary complexity to the marketplace. Complimentary measures are already impacting functioning markets in Europe and California, as well as the Kyoto mechanisms. This discussion will look at the regulatory environment for the global carbon market in 2013.
| W11 - NAMAs - REALIZING THEIR POTENTIAL
Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions - NAMAs - are becoming a widely used instrument to promote low emissions development interventions. Governments, international development banks and private companies are testing various approaches to the design of NAMAs. Several countries have made initial NAMA submissions to the UNFCCC, offering useful precedents, while others are currently piloting NAMA programs with the support of donor agencies. Panelists will share main insights gained from experience on the ground so far, and discuss key issues and challenges to bring proposals and prototypes to actual implementation. | W12 - ENGAGING THE PRIVATE SECTOR TO MEET GROWING ENERGY DEMAND: HOW CAN MARKET-BASED INSTRUMENTS SUPPORT RENEWABLE ENERGY & ENERGY EFFICIENCY?
In the wake of an increasing demand for energy, renewable sources of energy and the use of energy efficiency technologies will play an important role in the world's energy markets. The development of renewable energy and the use of energy efficient technologies largely rely on effective public policy strategies that also involve the private sector. This session focuses on market based policy instruments for renewable energy and energy efficiency. It discusses innovative policy options such as renewable energy credits (RECs)and competitive procurement, that have been proven useful in order to engage private sector stakeholders. |
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