Join us for a full programme of events at the GCF-GEF Pavilion in the Area C P122 in the Blue Zone.
GCF events
This session will discuss growing global adaptation needs and sharing lessons learned with implementing adaptation projects. Panelists include government representatives and leading adaptation practitioners who will provide insights on how to improve investments in adaptation, while sharing learnings in how the GCF has built adaptative capacity and increased resilience.
Yannick Glemarec (Moderator)
Executive Director, Green Climate Fund
Lilian Macharia (Moderator)
Director of Portfolio Management, Green Climate Fund
Hon. Mark Brown
Prime Minister, Cook Islands
H.E. B. Battsetseg
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mongolia
Ermira Fida
Deputy Executive Secretary, IPCC
Diann Layne-Black
Climate Change Ambassador, Antigua and Barbuda
GCF events
The event will bring together high-level stakeholders to discuss the importance of sustainable oceans in the context of climate change and showcase “Blue Co”, a transformative co-investment platform that GCF has been leading on the blue economy. As the world’s largest dedicated climate fund, GCF is uniquely positioned to set up a co-investment platform that would allow various stakeholders such as development partners, philanthropies, and the private sector to co-invest at scale in both climate and the blue economy especially focusing on SIDS.
Yannick Glemarec (Moderator)
Executive Director, Green Climate Fund
German Velasquez (Moderator)
Director of the Division of Mitigation and Adaptation, Green Climate Fund
H.E. Philip Davis
Prime Minister, Bahamas
H.E. Kausea Natano
Prime Minister, Tuvalu
Bakoa Kaltongga
Vanuatu Climate Change Special Envoy and the head of delegation COP27,
Muhammad Yusuf
Director of Coastal and Small Island Utilization, Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fishery of Indonesia
Jennifer Morris
CEO, The Nature Conservancy
GEF events
Microfinance is a powerful opportunity to strengthen resilience of local vulnerable populations, particularly small holder farmers, by increasing their access to capital at accessible terms for transitioning to climate resilient and nature positive practices. This panel discussion will explore opportunities, good practices and challenges in catalyzing inclusive and accessible microfinance for localized climate adaptation and resilience impacts at scale.
Laurence Pessez
Head of Corporate Social Responsibility, BNP Paribas
Christoph Jungfleisch
Co-Lead, Scale for Resilience
Kunal Prasad
Co-founder and CEO, Cropin
Janie Rioux
Senior Climate Finance Specialist, IFAD
Luca Torre
Founder and Co-CEO, GAWA Capital
Jason Spensley
Senior Climate Change Specialist, Global Environment Facility
GCF events
Aligning finance with the Paris goals requires the transformation of the financial sector. GCF provides support to financial sector stakeholders through enhancing capacity of financial institutions, developing green financial products, establishing green banks and creating an ecosystem around climate bonds. This event will highlight some key initiatives which aim to align finance flows with climate goals that will help to close the climate finance gap.
Soji Omisore (Moderator)
Deputy Director of the Private Sector Facility Division, Green Climate Fund
Avinash Persaud
Chair, CARICOM Commission on the Economy, Emeritus Professor of Gresham College
Lasitha Perera
Managing Partner, Development Guarantee Group
Kenneth Kasigila
Senior Manager Sustainable Finance Outreach and Relationships, CRDB Bank
GCF events
GCF’s role as a hub of the climate finance architecture requires it to take a leading role in developing innovations and solutions that address climate action. One of the solutions is to spearhead the creation of co-investment platforms in response to IPCC’s call for systems transitions to limit the global warming to 1.5℃ and adapt to climate change. The need for scaling up and accelerating climate investment and innovation is ever-more critical to avert further climate catastrophes. This event will highlight some key co-investment platforms and initiatives being developed that will accelerate climate action.
Soji Omisore (Moderator)
Deputy Director of the Private Sector Facility Division, Green Climate Fund
Abdalla ElEbiary
Chief Investment Officer, Sovereign Fund of Egypt
Keslyn Gilbert-Stoney
Senior Manager, Legal and Governance, Jamaica Social Investment Fund
Jacqueline Novogratz
CEO, Acumen Fund
Christopher Marks
Head of Emerging Markets, MUFG
Mark Dooley
Head of Green Investment Group, Macquarie Group
GEF events
An increasing set of climate adaptation investment funds are achieving impressive results with private sector partners. Others are emerging with strong potential. This panel discussion will explore good practices and challenges in designing, securing initial investment, and capitalizing specific investment funds and other vehicles to drive climate adaptation and resilience impact.
Maelis Carraro
Managing Principal, BFA Global
Christoph Grobbel
Co-founder and CFO, Southpole
Jay Koh
Co-founder and Managing Director, Lightsmith Group
Patrick Nussbaumer
Co-lead of the Adaptation Metrics Working Group, UNIDO
Nadine Valat
Public-Private Blended Finance Facility for Climate-Resilient Rice Landscapes, FAO
Jason Spensley
Senior Climate Change Specialist, Global Environment Facility
GEF events
Land restoration is critical for responding to multiple global crises, including biodiversity loss and climate change. However, land restoration cannot be scaled up quickly enough to significantly reduce peak global temperatures and is ultimately limited by existing land uses. While restoring ecosystems is crucial for planetary health, it is no substitute for preventing emissions from fossil fuels. Cost-effective and flexible restoration pathways can be tailored to just about any context and scale if there is political will, inclusive governance, and sustained finance.
Kehkashan Basu
Land Ambassador, UNCCD
Miriam Medel
Chief of External Relations, UNCCD
Martina Fleckenstein
Global Policy Director, WWF International
Dunia Khoury
Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network WECAN
Jessica Troni
UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, UNEP
Carolina Fuentes
Director, Country Programming Division, GCF
Koko Warner
Manager, Vulnerability Subdivision, Adaptation Division, UNFCCC
GEF events
This moderated panel event will explore the security risks that are directly and indirectly linked to nature loss, climate change, and ecological degradation. Panelists will discuss the role of nature as a foundation for human, national, and global security, as well as how the nature-security nexus should be integrated into their fields to better protect people in the places where they live.
Monica Medina
Assistant Secretary for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, US Department of State
Richard Florizone
President & CEO, International Institute for Sustainable Development
Alice Ruhweza
Africa Region Director, Worldwide Fund for Nature
Natalie Unterstell
President, Talanoa Institute
Chizuru Aoki
Lead Environmental Specialist, Global Environment Facility
GCF events
An estimated 50% of all emission reductions needed to reach net zero by 2050 will likely come from technologies that are currently not commercially developed. Technological innovation is crucial to scaling up mitigation and adaptation action thus the need to develop and accelerate new technologies despite the current global macroeconomic outlook. This event will highlight key initiatives that will advance innovative climate solutions in developing countries.
Soji Omisore (Moderator)
Deputy Director of the Private Sector Facility Division, Green Climate Fund
Ilona Porsche
Head of Group, Client Liaison and Business Development, GIZ
Yuri Suarez Dillon Soares
Principal Impact Officer, IDB Lab
Claudia Godfrey Ruíz
Director of Development and Supervision, Profonanpe
Jay Koh
Managing Partner, Lightsmith Group
Robert Bartrop
Chief Revenue Officer, Source Global
Dan Byers
Vice President, Climate & Technology, US Chamber of Commerce
GEF events
The event will highlight the importance and impact of local action and small grants mechanisms with CSOs and local communities. We will discuss on the importance of small grant facilities, exchange knowledges on key factors making small scale intervention effective, and further explore synergies and partnership among the donors to scale up the work.
Miriam Ott
Head of Division, Climate Partnerships, Bilateral Climate Cooperation, International Climate Initiative, Federal Foreign Office, Government of Germany
Appolinaire D. Gnanvi
Directeur Général , Fonds National pour l'Environnement et le Climat (FNEC), Benin
Yoko Watanabe
Global Manager, GEF Small Grants Programme, UNDP
Nune Sakanyan
WICE NGO President, Armenia
Khaled El Noubi
Director, Nature Conservation NGO, Egypt
Catalina Gonda
Climate Policy Coordinator Fundación Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (FARN), Argentina
Paul Hartman
Lead, Nature, People and Climate, World Bank CIF
Filippo Berardi
Senior Climate Change Specialist, Global Environment Facility
GCF events
This side event, co-hosted by CIEL, Tebtebba and the IRM, will discuss how Indigenous Peoples have been impacted by climate finance projects, and how grievance accountability entities like the IRM have helped provide recourse to Indigenous Peoples and others who have been affected by GCF projects.
GEF events
The GEF invites you to the launch of the GEF-7 Inclusive Conservation Initiative, a new model for increased direct financing to Indigenous and local community organizations to deliver multiple global environmental benefits and support related cultural and economic development initiatives. Join us to learn more about IP and LC leadership in nine initiatives taking action to address the climate and biodiversity crisis.
Kristen Walker Painemilla
Senior Vice President, Center for Communities and Conservation, Conservation International
Onel Masardule
FCIP Panama and LCIPP
Joseph Itongwa
ANAPAC DRC
Tunga Rai
NEFIN Nepal
Graciela Coy
Ak Tenamit Guatemala
Jason Spensley
Senior Climate Change Specialist, Global Environment Facility
GCF events
Note: The event will take place in the Hatshepsut room, the largest auditorium available for official side events; open to all registered attendees with access to the COP27’s Blue Zone. It will be live streamed here.
This event will bring together global leaders from governments to discuss a vision of the climate finance architecture needed to realize developing countries’ ambitions under the Paris Agreement.
The session will also share an update on GCF’s results since becoming operational in 2015 and showcase a handful of investments that are overcoming key challenges in climate finance.
Yannick Glemarec
Executive Director, Green Climate Fund
H.E. Lazarus Chakwera
President of the Republic, Malawi
H.E. Philip Edward Davis
Prime Minister, Commonwealth of the Bahamas
Anne Beathe Tvinnereim
Minister of International Development, Norway
Jennifer Morgan
State Secretary and Special Envoy for International Climate Action, Germany
John Kerry
US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, United States
Selina Wrighter
Head of Policy and Strategy , Green Climate Fund
Simon Wilson
Chief of Staff a.i., Green Climate Fund
John Haley
Co-Chair, Coalition for Climate Resilient Investment (CCRI)
Ingrid Hoven
Board member, Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
Craig Cogut
CEO, Pegasus Capital Partners
Rebecca Mincy
Investment Director, Acumen Resilient Agriculture Fund (ARAF)
Christopher Marks
Managing Director, MUFG
GCF events
The Second Performance Review of the GCF seeks to inform updates to the GCF strategic plan. In this joint event, the GCF Secretariat and Independent Evaluation Unit will present emerging findings from the Second Performance Review and discuss progress over GCF-1. The event will allow participate to engage and reflect on the emerging recommendations for GCF-2.
Archi Rastogi (Moderator)
Evaluation Advisor a.i., Independent Evaluation Unit, Green Climate Fund
Andreas Reumann
Head of the IEU, Independent Evaluation Unit, Green Climate Fund
Selina Wrighter
Head of Policy and Strategy, Green Climate Fund
GEF events
The IPCC 6th Assessment Report highlights the need to shift from incremental solutions to transformational adaptation. Striking the right balance between immediate needs and longer term solutions is critical. This panel discussion brings explores vision, strategies, challenges and gaps to achieve long-term resilient agricultural development in the developing world.
Enock Chikava
Director of Agricultural Development, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Chizuru Aoki
Adaptation Program Lead and MEA Lead, Global Environment Facility
Nathanial Matthews
CEO, Global Resilience Partnerships
Ana Maria Loboguerrero
Research Director for Climate Action, Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture, CGIAR and AICCRA and ClimBeR Director
Roy Steiner
Senior Vice President of the Food Initiative, Rockefeller Foundation
George Wamukoya
Team Leader, African Group of Negotiators Experts Support (AGNES)
Joint events
GEF, GCF and invited participants will address collaboration opportunities for the 2 institutions to generate long-lasting outcomes in climate change adaptation in SIDS and LDCs. The institutions will update on achievements, share stories of real-life impact, and identify strategic entry points that can be most effective, timely and catalytic to further mobilize climate finance.
Tshewang Dorji
Climate Change Specialist, Global Environment Facility
Fumihiko Tominaga
Green Climate Fund, Green Climate Fund
H.E Demetrio Do Amaral De Carvalho
Secretary of State for the Environment, Timor Leste
Farhina Ahmed
Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Bangladesh
Madeleine Diouf
Climate Change Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, Senegal
GCF events
This event will highlight key findings from evaluations on GCF access modalities, including the Request for Proposals (RFP), the Simplified Approval Process (SAP), and Direct Access modalities. It will also look at the effectiveness of the GCF’s approach to Private Sector and Country Ownership and highlight experiences from other MDBs.
Archi Rastogi (Moderator)
Evaluation Advisor a.i., Independent Evaluation Unit, Green Climate Fund
Alexandra Köngeter
Evaluator, German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval)
Andreas Reumann
Head of the IEU, Independent Evaluation Unit, Green Climate Fund
Theo Sands
Principal Evaluation Manager, Independent Evaluation Department, EBRD
Margaret Ann
Active Private Sector Observer to the GCF Board, Executive Director of the Climate Markets & Investment Association (CMIA)
GEF events
The global challenge of climate change requires concerted efforts between all levels of the public and private sectors - new alliances, unconventional collaborations and a shared vision for action. This session will explore leading private sector led multistakeholder partnerships across food systems, oceans, energy, cities and fashion that have the scale and resources to drive systemic transformation while ensuring an equitable transition.
Josh Harris
Director Communications, We Mean Business Coalition
John O’Nile
Head of Forests and Carbon, Salesforce
Alis-Daniela Torres
European City-Business engagement specialist, ICLEI
Stephania Avanzini
Director OP2B, WBCSD
Karen Wang
Youth Ambassador, GAUC (Global Alliance for Universities on Climate)
Scarlett Benson
Lead on Beyond Value Chain Mitigation, SBTi
Matthew Reddy
Senior Private Sector Specialist, GEF
GEF events
This session will provide an opportunity for collective learning and knowledge sharing by leading food systems actors. The lessons learned and findings from the Food System Summit, multi-stakeholder initiatives, and sectoral approaches that can deliver deep, rapid and systemic transformation of the food system will be explored with a focus on GEF’s integrated approaches that align with the “One Health” approach to healthy people and a healthy planet.
Sara Farley
Director, Food Systems, Rockefeller Foundation
Sean De Cleene
Head of Food Systems, WEF
Gunhild Stordalen
Founder and President, EAT Foundation
Owen Bethell
Environmental Impact Lead, Global Public Affairs and ESG Engagement, Nestlé
Matthew Warnken
Chair Corporate Carbon and MD, Agriprove
Matthew Reddy
Senior Private Sector Specialist, Global Environment Facility
GCF events
Climate finance needs to be deployed at scale to meet agriculture’s multiple challenges. This event will present how GCF is working with partners to support, de-risk and leverage additional investment in climate-resilient food systems. The focus will be on showcasing the successful and innovative initiatives from the GCF’s portfolio and jointly strategize for future co-investments in agri-food systems transformation.
Juan Pablo Hoffmaister (Moderator)
Multilateral Governance Manager, Green Climate Fund
Belal Shqarin
Director of Climate Change, Ministry of Environment, Jordan
Milagros Sandoval
Co-Facilitator for the Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture and Director of Climate Change, Ministry of Environment of Peru
Rebecca Mincy
Investment Director, Acumen Resilient Agriculture Fund (ARAF)
Graham Watkins
Climate Change Division Chief, IDB
Joost Oorthuizen
Board member, &Green Fund
Donald Moore
Executive Director, Global Dairy Platform (GDP)
Joint events
This joint GCF-GEF event presents an opportunity for Great Green Wall (GGW) partners to present the progress made, updating the status of ongoing support for climate action in the GGW. The event will also provide an interactive venue for countries and partners to exchange ideas on how to enhance synergy and scale support for the GGW Initiative.
H.E. Josefa Leonel Correia Sacko
Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, African Union Commission
Carolina Fuentes
Director of the Division of Country Programming, Green Climate Fund
Aloke Barnwal
Senior Climate Change Specialist, Global Environment Facility
Andrea Meza Murillo
Deputy Executive Secretary, UNCCD
H.E. Sem Barr Mohamed Abdulahi
Minister of Environment, Nigeria
H.E. Saratou Rabiou Garama
Minister of the Environment and the Fight against Desertification, Niger
H.E Lalya Aly Karama
Minister of Environment, Mauritania
Inger Andersen
Executive Director, UNEP
Dina Saleh
Regional Director of the Near East, North Africa and Europe Division, IFAD
Chizuru Aoki
Lead Environmental Specialist, Global Environment Facility
GCF events
The session will showcase some successful approaches to measuring adaptation impact and how these have contributed to improving transparency of the GCF result measurement for adaptation.
Vladislav Arnaoudov (Moderator)
Senior Specialist, Green Climate Fund
Rebecca Mincy
Investment Director, Acumen Resilient Agriculture Fund (ARAF)
Lifeng Li
Director, Land and Water Division, FAO
Fazle Rabbi Sadeque Ahmed
Deputy Managing Director, Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation (PKSF)
Sapira Patel
Head of Environment and Social Governance, DBSA
Laila Darouich
Climate Policy Consultant, Perspectives Climate Group
GEF events
The event we will explore the energy and food transition in Africa including the barriers and opportunities for (Nationally Determined Contribution) NDC implementation. This will include a dialogue with an expert panel to discuss what opportunities, including the policy, regulatory and legislative changes that can facilitate accelerated implementation. The event will be followed by a drinks reception, with light snacks, providing you the opportunity to mingle with our speakers and other audience members on how to support nationally determined low carbon transitioning in these sectors in light of current global challenges.
Nachilala Nkombo (Moderator)
Country Director Zambia, WWF Zambia
Jackie Kimeu
Energy & Climate Change Coordinator, WWF Kenya
Vanessa Vaessen
Planning Officer Climate Change, German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ)
Davinah Milenge Uwella
Lead Africa NDC Hub, Africa Development Bank
João Campari
Practice Lead Food, WWF International
Fernanda Carvalho
Head of Policy Climate & Energy Practice,, WWF International
GEF events
With over 104 UNFCCC decisions that include gender mandates, the call from the Generation Equality Forum to enact Feminist Action for Climate Justice, and Commission on the Status of Women outcomes and recommendations on achieving gender equality in the context of climate change – this event showcases examples on how we can rise to the challenge of meeting commitments by driving gender-responsive and inclusive climate actions.
H.E. Ibrahim Thiaw
Executive Secretary, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)
H.E. Gerson Barrios Garrido
Minister of Environment and Natural Resources, Government of Guatemala
Lucy Mulenkei
Executive Director of the Indigenous Information Network, Chair of the GEF’s Indigenous Peoples Advisory Group, and co-founder of FIMI,
Maria Elena Herrera
Director of Forestry Development at the National Forestry Financing Fund (FONAFIFO), Costa Rica
Jamie Wen-Besson
Senior Gender Programme Manager, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Mana Omar
Founder of Sasal and Youth Leader, Generation Equality’s Feminist Action for Climate Action
Natalie Isaacs
Executive Director, 1 Million Women
Lorena Aguilar
Executive Director of the Kaschak Institute for Social Justice for Women and Girls, Binghamton University
GEF events
The WASP Science-for-Adaptation Policy Brief on the Global Goal on Adaptation is the sixth issue in the series published by seven UN agencies that form the World Adaptation Science Programme (WASP): UNEP, WMO, UNFCCC, IPCC, GEF, GCF and UNU. This issue discusses the Global Goal on Adaptation and its adequacy of adaptive response commensurate with the temperature goal of the Paris Agreement and a collective effort is required to operationalize the Global Goal on Adaptation, noting that there are no agreed frameworks, methods, indicators, or metrics to assess progress towards the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA).
Kristie L. Ebi
Professor, Center for Health and the Global Environment , University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Johanna Nalau
Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia
Chizuru Aoki
Lead Environmental Specialist, Programs Unit, Global Environment Facility
Pa Ousman Jarju
Director, Country Programming Division, Green Climate Fund
Zita Sebesvari
Head, United Nations University – Institute for Environment and Human Security
Anne Olhoff
International Senior Advisor, CONCITO
Saleemul Huq
Director, International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD)
Alvin Chandra
Climate Change Specialist, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Nairobi, Kenya
GEF events
This side event will provide an opportunity for country leaders and key actors to discuss how the transparency framework is further enhancing climate ambition. Speakers will reflect on how the Enhanced Transparency Framework implementation is enabling sound domestic policy and decision making at national level and what is the role and contribution of the Capacity-Building Initiative for Transparency (CBIT) in this regard.
Filippo Berardi
Climate Change Focal Area Coordinator, Global Environment Facility
Ligia Castro
Climate Change Director, Ministry of Environment, Panama
Syaiful Anwar
Director of GHG Inventory and MRV, Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Indonesia
Jigme
Manager, Transparency Division, UNFCCC
Fatima-Zahra Taibi
CBIT GSP Coordinator, UNEP-Copenhagen Climate Centre
Cathy Yitong Li
Facilitative Committee Member and Youth Advisor , UNFCCC Women and Gender Constituency | UNIDO
Carlos Manuel Rodriguez
CEO and Chairperson, Global Environment Facility
GCF events
Indigenous peoples have invaluable and critical contributions to make to climate change mitigation and adaptation. Yet they are also facing serious threats to the realization of their rights from climate change actions. The GCF Indigenous Peoples Advisory Group (IPAG) forms one avenue through the unique and distinct contributions of indigenous peoples are recognized in the GCF. In this interactive discussion, IPAG members will share on-the ground experiences of climate change, challenges and concerns from indigenous peoples, their vision for strengthening partnerships between indigenous peoples, governments and accredited entities of the Green Climate Fund.
Eileen Mairena (Moderator)
Active Observer, Southern Countries
Helen Biagalen-Magata
GCF IPAG
Balkissou Buba
GCF IPAG
Juan Carlos Jintiach
GCF IPAG
Tunga Bhadra Rai
GCF IPAG
Kimaren Ole Riamit
GCF IPAG
Nadine Valat
GCF Team Leader, FAO
Jeffrey Griffin
Senior Coordinator Global Environment Facility, FAO
Fiona Gilbert
Standing Committee on Finance, Australia
Myrna Cunningham-Kain
Vice-President, FILAC
Victor Chiiba
Assistant Director, Forestry Department
GCF events
In July next year, the GCF Board will update its Strategic Plan, aiming to set ambitious directions for the next chapter of the Fund’s climate change programming as the world moves further into the critical decade. This session will be part of the open, inclusive, transparent consultation process on the update of the Strategic Plan, providing an interactive setting for participants to hear from the GCF Secretariat on emerging programming directions and provide input.
Juan Pablo Hoffmaister (Moderator)
Multilateral Governance Manager, Green Climate Fund
Selina Wrighter
Head of Policy and Strategy, Green Climate Fund
Carolina Fuentes
Director of the Division of Country Programming, Green Climate Fund
GCF events
Civil society organisations (CSO) play a crucial role in promoting the agenda of transparency and accountability in implementing climate-financed projects. This side event will bring all major stakeholders to discuss the integrity challenges facing climate projects on the ground and will chart the way towards the development of a CSO Partnership Strategy.
Albert Lihalakha
Head of the Independent Integrity Unit a.i., Independent Integrity Unit, Green Climate Fund
Yannick Glemarec
Executive Director, Green Climate Fund
Aminu Zakari
Executive Director, Centre for Climate Change and Environmental Studies, Nigeria
Anju Sharma
Global Lead on Locally-Led Adaptation, Global Centre on Adaptation
Binayak Das
Project Coordinator, Tools and Methodologies/Climate Change Lead, Water Integrity Network
Brice Böhmer
Climate and Environment Lead, Climate Governance Integrity, Transparency International
GEF events
The session will showcase ongoing efforts to leverage nature-based approaches as a response to the climate crisis in cities and countries from the GEF-funded UrbanShift program. We’ll hear from city and national leaders from Indonesia, Morocco, Costa Rica, as well as high-level experts from the UrbanShift global platform, on how to harness the power of nature to build a sustainable and net-zero urban future where both people and planet can thrive.
Murni Supeno Wijanark
Head of Local Development Planning Department (BAPPEDA), City of Balikpapan, Indonesia
Leila Benali
Ministre de la Transition Énergétique et du Développement Durable, Royaume du Maroc
Franz Tattenbach Capra
Ministro de Ambiente y Energía, Costa Rica
Mauricio Rodas
Former Mayor of Quito, Ecuador, and Visiting Scholar, University of Pennsylvania
Lin O'Grady
Deputy Head, Sustainable Infrastructure Group , European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
Susan Gardner
Director Ecosystems Division, UNEP
Rogier van den Berg
Acting Global Director, WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
Gifti Nadi
Deputy Regional Director for Africa, C40
Maryke van Staden
Director of ICLEI’s carbonn Climate Center, ICLEI
Aloke Barnwal
Coordinator, Sustainable Cities Program , Global Environment Facility
GEF events
The heads of the UNFCCC, UNCCD, CBD and the GEF will explore recent and upcoming actions that will bridge the aims of the three Rio Conventions. The focus is on the need for coordinated measures to meaningfully slow or reverse climate change, land degradation, and biodiversity loss to safeguard human health and livelihoods, and leave a sustainable legacy for future generations.
H.E. Teresa Ribera
Deputy Prime Minister, Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge, Spain
H.E. Yasmine Fouad
Egyptian Minister of Environment and CBD COP 14 President,
H.E. Alain-Richard Donwahi
President, UNCCD COP 15
Carlos Manuel Rodriguez
CEO and Chairperson, Global Environment Facility
Ibrahim Thiaw
Executive Secretary , United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
Elizabeth Mrema
Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity
Simon Stiell
Executive Secretary, Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
David Ainsworth
Head of Communications, Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity.
Joint events
The event will highlight synergies for private sector action by the GEF and GCF, highlighting framework conditions required, challenges, and country perspectives. It will also touch upon the need to attract additional capital into programs led by the two funds and the role of additional donors in this context.
Carolina Fuentes (Moderator)
Director of the Division of Country Programming, Green Climate Fund
Jochen Flasbarth
Parliamentary State Secretary, German Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany
Craig Cogut
CEO, Pegasus Capital Advisors
Soji Omisore
Deputy Director of the Private Sector Facility Division, Green Climate Fund
Annette Windmeisser
Head of the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development’s Climate Finance Division, Germany
Carlos Manuel Rodriguez
CEO and Chairperson, Global Environmental Facility
Margaret Kim
CEO, Gold Standard
GCF events
This event will share learnings from evaluations on the vulnerable countries’ experiences when accessing the GCF resources for their climate priorities in particular for African States, Small Island Developing States, and Least Developed Countries.
Andreas Reumann (Moderator)
Head of the IEU, Independent Evaluation Unit, Green Climate Fund
Satyendra Prasad
Ambassador/Permanent Representative of Fiji, United Nations
Shantal Munro-Knight
Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office, Government of Barbados
Unnikrishnan Divakaran Nair
Head of Climate Change, Commonwealth Secretariat
GCF events
The side event explores the engagement of civil society, gender groups and Indigenous Peoples in implementing GCF policies, strategies and investment activities with a focus on the benefits and challenges of compliance with environmental and social safeguards, the Indigenous Peoples Policy, and the Gender Policy. It will present views on the best practices, lessons learned, and opportunities for improvement for the second replenishment phase.
Bertha Argueta (Moderator)
GERMAN Watch
Yannick Glemarec
Executive Director, Green Climate Fund
Pa Ousman Jarju
Secretary to the Board & Head of Governance Affairs, Green Climate Fund
Erika Lennon
CSO Active Observer for Developed Countries, CIEL
Eileen Mairena Cunningham
CSO Active Observer for Developing Countries, CADPI
Benedict Libanda
CEO, Environment Investment Fund, Namibia
GEF events
This side event will provide an overview of the ASL Program and its partnerships with governments, donors, implementing and executing agencies. A round table will be assembled with high level officials from different stakeholders who will bring their perspective on how to address challenges and ensure regional collaboration (as proposed by the ASL) to conserve the climate and biodiversity services provided by the Amazon and prevent an irreversible tipping point.
H.E. Wilbert Gabriel Rozas Beltrán
Minister of Environment, Peru
Uyunkar Domingo Peas Nampichkai
Indigenous leader and member of the “Iniciativa Cuencas Sagradas Amazónicas”, Ecuador
Carlos Manuel Rodriguez
CEO and Chairperson, Global Environment Facility
Valerie Hickey
Global Director for Environment, Natural Resources and Blue Economy, World Bank
Denise Hills
Global Sustainability Director for Latin America, Natura & Co
Carlos Nobre,
Co-Chair, Science Panel for the Amazonia
Pascal Martinez
Senior Climate Change Specialist, Manager ASL program , Global Environment Facility
Joint events
Co-hosted by the two operating entities of the UNFCCC financial mechanism, GCF and GEF, the event on Long-Term Vision (LTV) will review milestones and put forward ambition for implementation under GEF8 and GCF2.
Chizuru Aoki (Moderator)
Lead Environmental Specialist, Global Environment Facility
Daniele Violetti
Senior Director, Programmes Coordination, UNFCCC
Yannick Glemarec
Executive Director, Green Climate Fund
Carlos Manuel Rodriguez
CEO and Chairperson, Global Environment Facility
H.E. Alioune Ndoye
Minister of Environment, Sustainable Development and Ecological Transition, Senegal
Hon. Pennelope Beckles-Robinson
Minister of Planning and Development, Trinidad and Tobago
Faustin Munyazikwiye
Rwanda Environmental Management Agency , REMA
Pa Ousman Jarju
Secretary to the Board and Head of Governance Affairs, Green Climate Fund
GCF events
Unlocking investment at scale for climate solutions is an urgent necessity. The GCF’s Readiness Preparatory and Support Programme has a particularly critical role to take toward NDC/NAP implementation and investment planning. Representatives from Governments, private sector and Readiness delivery partners will reflect upon the current needs for facilitating NDC investment planning and how to make the best use of Readiness to this end.
Carolina Fuentes (Moderator)
Director of Division of Country Programming, Green Climate Fund
Selina Wrighter (Moderator)
Head of Policy and Strategy, Green Climate Fund
Karina Barrera
Undersecretary of Climate Change, Ministry of Environment, Water and Ecological Transitioning, Ecuador
Saada Mohamed
Economist, The National Treasury, Kenya
Carlos Sanchez
Executive Director, Coalition for Climate Resilient Investment
Ingvild Solvang
Head of Climate Action and Inclusive Development, Global Green Growth Institute
GEF events
With a strong focus on galvanizing climate action and support for implementation at COP27, this event will focus on showcasing the Pan African vision for the Great Green Wall Initiative (GGWI). The event will focus on showcasing the commitment of African countries, mobilise political support and partnerships for resource mobilisation to upscale lessons learnt from the implementation of the GGWI in the Sahel region to other regions on the continent to transform livelihoods and landscapes and build the adaptive capacity of African countries.
Elvis Paul Tangem
Coordinator, Great Green Wall for the Sahara and Sahel Initiative, AU Commission
Mohammed Osman
Public Health Specialist, Somalia
Arona Soumane
Climate Change and Green Growth Officer, AFDB
Louise Baker
Managing Director, UNCCD
Komlanvi Moglo
Expert in Renewable Energy/Climate Finance, BOAD
Tabi Joda
One Billion Trees for Africa
Helene Gichenje
Commonwealth Secretariat
GCF events
This event is a public consultation on the revision of GCF's Readiness Strategy and how the Fund can better support developing country climate ambitions.
GCF events
This joint event hosted by AF and GCF aims to present milestones achieved under the CPDAE initiative and how it has contributed to furthering South-South cooperation through tailored capacity-building support for DAEs and NIEs. During this event, participants will exchange their ideas and recommendations for mobilizing greater climate finance in line with the CPDAE objectives.
GEF events
Representatives of the Youth movement regarding climate change, biodiversity conservation and desertification from different parts of the world will be joining us for a conversation about their initiatives and the role of youth in the decade of regeneration.
Máximo Mazzocco
Eco House Global, Argentina, co-organizer of the Regional Climate Conference of Youth for Latin America
Gaamid Gynb
Global Youth Biodiversity Network, Tanzania
Patricia Kombo
Land Hero,
Carlos Manuel Rodriguez
CEO and Chairperson, Global Environment Facility
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