COP29: Live From Baku

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As world leaders and delegates from around the globe gather in Baku, Azerbaijan, join PS live from COP29! As an official media partner of this year's COP, we will be bringing you sessions live from a broadcast studio in the conference's Green Zone.

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Moderator: Rosanna Lockwood
November 14 – Accelerating the Transition to a Decarbonized Future 
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Last year’s IPCC report lent even more urgency to the global push to transition away from fossil fuels. Despite this, global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions grew by 1.1% in 2023 with emissions from coal accounting for more than 65% of that increase. While global investment in renewable energy continues to increase, governments, businesses, and the finance community clearly need to do more – both individually and collectively, to accelerate the move away from fossil fuels.

COP29’s focus on finance presents an opportunity to explore how the necessary capital can be mobilized to reduce emissions from coal, which remains the single largest source of global greenhouse-gas emissions. What must happen to mobilize the scale of finance needed to accelerate the coal-to-clean transition while addressing the related socioeconomic issues? How can Baku catalyze the necessary coalitions to demonstrate progress and to keep everyone's eye on the prize?

This session is produced in partnership with Carbon Trust and the Coal Asset Transition Accelerator (CATA).
10:45 AMPanel Discussion
  1. Sherry Rehman, Senator and Former Federal Minister of Climate and Environment of Pakistan
  2. Chris Stephens, Director of Asia and Africa at the Carbon Trust
  3. Ramesh Subramaniam, Director General and Group Chief of the Sectors Group at the Asian Development Bank
  4. Woochong Um, CEO of the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet
November 16 – Financial Inclusion Is Climate Action (12:15 - 1:00 PM CET)
Financial inclusion through digital technology is increasingly recognized as a key factor in helping vulnerable communities both adapt to climate change and contribute to global decarbonization efforts through homegrown innovation and sustainable development. But with almost one-quarter of people in developing countries still unbanked, and with more than two billion people employed in the informal economy, there is still much more to do to close the inclusion gap and reap the benefits that will follow.

This session is produced in partnership with Mastercard.
12:15 PMPanel Discussion
  1. Ellen Jackowski, Chief Sustainability Officer at Mastercard
  2. Sophie Sirtaine, CEO of CGAP
  3. Kawtar Zerouali, Deputy Director of the Nature Assets Team at the UN Capital Development Fund
  4. TBD

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