Ministerial Panel 1

Title: On the road to COP28: From Sharm El Sheikh to Dubai

Description: This high-level ministerial panel will offer a platform for countries to discuss key political priorities ahead of COP28. Discussions will center around key topics such as the loss and damage fund, global goal on adaptation, climate finance, carbon markets, just transition, and other priority issues.

Potential Speakers: Ministers, high-level organizational officials

Thematic Focus:

• Loss and Damage
• Global Goal on Adaptation
• Climate Finance, including long-term finance and the New Collective Quantified Goal
• Mitigation, including the just transition work programme

Ministerial Panel 2

Title: The Global Stocktake – Global Dialogue to promote the Green Economy Transition

Description: Objective is to support the first “Global Stock Take” through promoting the exchange of experience and good practice, recommendations, new opportunities and lessons learned, in adaptation including loss and damage, mitigation including response measures, and means of implementation (technology transfer, capacity-building, and climate finance) while aiming to facilitate the assessment of global collective progress at COP28.

Potential Speakers: Ministers and high-profile experts, including from the private sector

Thematic Focus:

• Adaptation, including loss and damage
• Mitigation, including response measures
• Mean of Implementation (finance, technology, and capacity building)

Ministerial Panel 3

Title: The Global Alliance on Green Economy

Description

• Short video of “Global Alliance on Green Economy”
• Scene-setting fireside chat on the Global Alliance on Green Economy
• Panel Discussion

This session will provide an overview of the Global Alliance on Green Economy, as a key enabler of the transition to a green economy and pathway to a net-zero world. The priorities for deployment of the Global Alliance on Green Economy such as the promotion of innovation, facilitating the transfer of technology, enhancement of youth engagement, and mobilization of finance, will be laid out. Key ministers from countries that are party to the Global Alliance will share their perspectives on the transformative potential of the alliance.

Potential Speakers: Ministers from countries who joined the Alliance, high-profile experts

Thematic Focus:

• Article 6 Dialogue and Capacity-Building
• Sectoral Climate Action for NDCs and LT-LEDS
• Climate Finance Enablers
• Just Energy Transition
• Resilience
• Food Security
• Youth Engagement

Roundtable Discussion

Title: The Global Alliance on Green Economy Solutions Forum

Description: This session will contribute towards the identification and showcasing of innovative, feasible, and replicable solutions and options for high impact policies and actions to accelerate the global energy transition, achieve emissions reductions in line with the 1.5-degree goal, accelerate the scaling up of removals, enable just transitions and enhance resilience, towards the achieving of the green economy transition.

Moreover, the forum will allow for the sharing of good practice and success stories from around the world, and specifically from the membership of the Global Alliance on Green Economy, to promote the exchange of actionable lessons learned with the objective of creating tangible partnerships and promoting cooperation.

Countries who have yet to join the Alliance will also be invited to the Forum.

Potential Speakers: officials from countries who have joined the Alliance, tech. experts, mitigation, and adaptation experts

Thematic Focus:

• Innovation (adaptation and mitigation)
• Just transition

Panel Discussion

Title: Private Sector Engagement in Low-Emission and Resilient Pathways

Description: This session will showcase the number of initiatives under the Marrakesh Partnership and the High-Level Climate Champions which have spurred private sector engagement in climate action. The objectives are to show the current level of engagement, as well as encourage other non-party stakeholders to commit to greener action. Examples from the private sector will also be showcased, to demonstrate the business case for climate action.

Potential Speakers: UN officials, High-Level Climate Champions, high-level private sector actors

Thematic Focus: Adaptation and mitigation in the context of the private sector

Networking Event for Matchmaking

Title: The Platform to Bridge the Gap

Description: This session will bring together representatives from development and implementing organizations to present on the type of support available to countries and the modalities for its access.

The objective of this session is to create and launch an international “match-making platform’’ which can be instrumental for mobilizing climate finance for developing countries through key market players such as funds, investors, multilateral development banks, development organizations, private sector, and the UN System, to enable fast-tracked access to finance, capacity-building, and technology transfer to support the “implementation” of Nationally Determined Contributions and long-term strategies in alignment with the Paris Agreement

This platform may set the stage for and contribute to the Sharm el-Sheikh mitigation ambition and implementation work programme discussions taking place ahead of COP28 bringing together the lessons learned from the global and regional forums and dialogues of the work programme discussions. The group of development organizations mobilized to create this match-making platform will constitute a “Friends of the Global Alliance on Green Economy” which will support and promote the Global Alliance through their efforts.

After presentations from support providers and countries, a networking session is proposed.

Potential Speakers: support providers from different backgrounds: multilateral agencies, multilateral development banks, philanthropic foundations, financial institutions, implementing organizations

Thematic Focus:

• Adaptation
• Mitigation
• Climate Finance