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SEI’s delegation is hosting several side events and contributing to over 20 events at the United Nations Climate Change Conference or Conference of the Parties, COP28. Drawing on SEI’s five priorities, our researchers will share new insights on topics such as climate finance, transboundary climate risks and energy transition.
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Experts from three SEI centres will be at COP28, contributing to over 20 events as speakers, panellists and moderators. For more details about these engagements, browse the five thematic tabs.
Our COP28 delegation will also be hosting four side events in Dubai and one online dialogue after the COP28 negotiations have concluded. These events are listed under the tab SEI events below.
The findings of the Production Gap Report 2023 will serve as backdrop for a lively exploration of how countries can align their plans for coal, oil, and gas production with Paris Agreement commitments.
A panel will discuss opportunities for policy and leadership in phasing out fossil fuels.
Past event / SEI experts will discuss opportunities for policy and leadership in phasing out fossil fuels at COP28.
Achieving just transitions will require policy tools that help national governments balance their climate and development goals. This event will explore how climate policies can be designed coherently to enable a just transition and ensure that adaptation and mitigation measures account for existing inequalities, address development needs for vulnerable groups, and leave no one behind.
Join us and listen to examples on how interactions between climate change, sustainable development and inequality can be managed within national contexts to achieve a just transition.
Past event / SEI experts will discuss governance mechanisms to manage inequalities stemming from climate policies and achieve a just transition at COP28.
Team Leader: International Climate Risk and Adaptation; Research Fellow
SEI Headquarters
Our side event will have a panel discussion on the topic of carbon inequality, highlighting its importance in the negotiations. What do equitable climate solutions mean? This will be followed by a moderated Q&A session on economic policy measures that can tackle inequality and achieve emissions reduction. We will then have a presentation of the new carbon inequality data available on the emissions inequality dashboard.
Past event / Experts discuss inequalities in CO2 emissions across the world linking the emissions to income levels at COP28.
Bhupender Yadav, Minister of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, India, and Romina Pourmokhtari, Minister for Climate and the Environment, Sweden, are hosting this official side event that will inform about the objectives of the next phase of the Leadership Group for Industry Transition, LeadIT 2.0.
The event will address how to accelerate a just and equitable industry transition through partnerships, technology co-development, and financial and technical assistance focused on industry decarbonization for emerging and developing economies.
Past event / This official COP28 side event will address how to accelerate a just and equitable industry transition.
COP28 marks the conclusion of the first global stocktake. Did we come up with a roadmap to accelerate climate action? Was an agreement on operationalising the Loss and Damage Fund achieved? What questions were left unsolved and what issues need to be addressed before the next conference of parties in 2024?
We gather a prominent panel to share insights into the COP28 negotiations.
Past event / After COP28, SEI hosts an online dialogue with Linköping University in collaboration with Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research and Mistra Geopolitics
SEI Affiliated Researcher
Team Leader: International Climate Risk and Adaptation; Research Fellow
SEI Headquarters
SEI Affiliated Researcher
Chair of Swedish Climate Policy Council, Research Director and Deputy Director of SEI
SEI Headquarters
13:00-14:30 Greener Transport must be Inclusive Transport. The session is part of a three day conference hosted by University of Birmingham called Mobility Futures.
Team Leader: International Climate Risk and Adaptation; Research Fellow
SEI Headquarters
Chair of Swedish Climate Policy Council, Research Director and Deputy Director of SEI
SEI Headquarters
17:15-18:00 UAE Debt-for-climate swaps as a climate finance instrument: What Role Can the Nordic Countries Play in Alleviating the Burden of Debt in the Global South? Venue: Nordic Pavilion
Initiative / The initiative explores implications of transboundary climate risks and strengthens cooperation to meet the global challenge of adaptation to climate change.
Project / This project explores the link between social and economic inequality and the unsustainable carbon dioxide emissions that fuel human-caused climate change.
Project / The Leadership Group for Industry Transition (LeadIT) aims to enable the transition of heavy industry towards net zero carbon emissions by 2050.
Project / This project aims to critically examine how the dynamics of geopolitics, human security and global environmental change interrelate.
Feature / Frida Lager discusses the journey towards just resilience in European climate adaptation using the context of urban areas to illustrate some key findings.
Feature / The Global Transboundary Climate Risk Report provides insights on 10 transboundary climate risks that remain overlooked in climate policies.
Other publication / This brief offers five recommendations for businesses to improve the sustainability and resilience of their supply chains through a just transition.
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