Accelerating Subnational Climate Action: Practices, Cooperation, and Insights
Organizer: iGDP
This event highlights innovative practices and cross-regional cooperation in subnational climate action. Participants include representatives from think tanks, local governments, environmental foundations, and international experts. The session features keynote presentations and a roundtable discussion to foster dialogue and knowledge exchange.
iGDP will present our report: Advancing Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gas Mitigation in China: Outlook to 2035.
The report contains our mapping of international and China’s existing domestic actions on non-CO₂ GHGs reductions and our recommendations on how China can strengthen its policy framework.
Methane as the Emergency Brake on Warming - Global Momentum, Australian Leadership
Organizer: The Sunrise Project
Methane cuts are central to achieving the 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement. This session brings together global leaders to share progress on reducing methane and explore how Australia in partnership with the Pacific, can advance global ambition through a potential COP31 presidency.
Leveraging Technology and Finance in Methane Mitigation from the Agricultural Sector
Organizer: Solutions for Our Climate
Effective mitigation measures in the agricultural sector are dependent on regional, socio-economic and natural environmental factors.
Current financing only covers a small fraction of the sector’s entire emissions, highlighting the need for diversified and innovative funding models to enable widespread adoption of methane mitigation technologies and methods.
Promote Just Transition: Bring International Experiences on Decarbonization of Coal Industrial Chain
Organizers: iGDP, Agora, Coshare Environment
Support an acceleration of just coal transition and the coal industrial chain decarbonization, as well as promote the exchange of best practices on coal transition between China, the EU, and ASEAN.
Rooted in Real-Life Scenarios, Partnerships Spark Climate Action Momentum
Organizers: C Team, China Chain Store & Franchise Association
This event will explore cooperative approaches to create a climate action ecosystem, deeply rooted in life scenarios. It will discuss how to drive change through capacity building for individuals, communities and chain-stores. Practices on sustainable agri-food supply chain and waste reduction will be shared.
iGDP will be sharing a collection of local climate solutions.
How can CSO contributions to the Paris Agreement be optimized? On-the-ground experience from Montreal Protocol CSOs
Organizer: Solutions for Our Climate
This event is to provide a common platform for CSOs from the Montreal Protocol–considered to be the most successful MEA–to gather and to share their valuable insights on how CSO contributions to the Paris Agreement may be optimized, drawing from their experience seeing the Montreal Protocol evolve from its beginnings all the way to the Kigali Amendment, cementing its status as a de facto climate agreement with the potential to avoid up to 1 degree of warming by 2100.