CVF-V20 events at COP28
Dubai, UAE – 30 November to 12 December 2023
WEEK 1
| Start | End | Theme | Event/Initiative | Venue | Concept Note and Sign-up link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Friday, 1 December 2023 – World Climate Action Summit | |||||
| 9:30 am | 11:00 am | Finance | Action for Climate Targets: ACT for a Net-Zero Future | UNOPS Pavilion (Zone B7, Bldg 88) | |
| 2:45 pm | 3:45 pm | Finance | COP28 Presidency – Launch of the New Global Framework on Climate Finance – Presidency’s session on Transforming Climate Finance | Al Waha Theatre, Zone B8 | |
| Saturday, 2 December 2023 – World Climate Action Summit | |||||
| 10:00 am | 11:00 am | Finance and Advocacy | Launch of Climate Justice Forum | Sri Lanka Pavilion, Blue Zone B2, Bldg 21 | |
| 10:00 am | 11:30 am | Risk Financing | High-Level Event: Let’s talk about substance. Concrete solutions for responding to Loss and Damage – The Global Shield against Climate Risks | Ghana | CVF Pavilion, Blue Zone B6, Bldg 73 | Sign-up link: High-Level Side Event: Concrete Solutions for Responding to Loss and Damage | The Global Shield against Climate Risks |
| 11:30 am | 1:30 pm | Finance and Advocacy | Rising With The Tide: Tracking Reforms in the International Financial Architecture for Accelerated Development-Positive Climate Action(High-Level event on the CVF-V20 – Global Stocktake on Climate Finance) | Ghana l CVF Pavilion, Blue Zone B6, Bldg 73 |
Sign-up link: https://forms.gle/UBASwU1Ptk5RcyvJ9Rising With The Tide: Tracking Reforms in the International Financial Architecture for Accelerated Development-Positive Climate Action |
| 12:30 pm | 1:20 pm | Risk Financing | Press Conference Germany and Ghana on behalf of Vulnerable 20: Responding to Loss and Damage – The Global Shield against Climate Risks and the Fund | German Pavilion (Blue Zone, Opportunity District, Building OA02G1 – Ground Floor, Zone B5, Number 51) | |
| 1:30 pm | 2:00 pm | Finance and Advocacy | Press Conference: CVF Secretary-General-designate President Mohamed Nasheed | Ghana l CVF Pavilion, Blue Zone B6, Bldg 73 |
Sign-up link: https://forms.gle/UBASwU1Ptk5RcyvJ9Rising With The Tide: Tracking Reforms in the International Financial Architecture for Accelerated Development-Positive Climate Action |
| 2:00 pm | 3:00 pm | Capacity Accelerator | V20 Fellowship: Future Climate Finance Leaders Roundtable | Barbados Pavillion, Blue Zone B5, Bldg 57 | |
| 4:00 PM | 5:00 PM | Biodiversity and Carbon Finance | Investing in the Tropical Belt towards Tackling Triple Planetary Crisis | Sri Lanka Pavilion, Blue Zone B2, Bldg 21 | |
| Sunday, 3 December 2023 – Health / Relief, Recover and Peace | |||||
| 11:00 am | 12:30 pm | Biodiversity and Carbon Finance | High-Level Session: Shifting of the Tropical Belt: Unpacking the Opportunities for Carbon Financing and Biodiversity Protection | Sri Lanka Pavilion, Blue Zone B2, Bldg 21 | Concept Note |
| 4:00 pm | 5:30 pm | Risk Financing | Launch Event of the Global Shield Programme for Resilient Risk Pools | CARICOM Pavilion, Blue Zone B5, Bldg 57 | |
| 4:00 pm | 5:00 pm | Risk Financing | Lessons Learned from Implementing Climate Risk Insurance Solutions in the Pacific | Moana Blue Pacific Pavilion, Blue Zone B3, Bldg 29 | |
| WEEK 2 | |||||
| Monday, 4 December 2023 – Finance / Trade / Gender Equality / Accountability | |||||
| 9:00 am | 10:30 am | Risk Financing | Building together: An inclusive dialogue on the role of insurance solutions in addressing Loss and Damages | IDFC Pavilion Zone B7, Bldg 88 | |
| 10:30 am | 11:50 am | Just Transition | High-Level Opening Just Transition Pavilion: Just Transition Pathways – This Way to Social Justice | Just Transition Pavilion, B7, Bldg 88 (2nd Floor) | |
| 11:00am | 12:00pm | Finance | The Green Climate Fund: Scaling up Access and Impact | Action Arena 1 (Al Hur), COP28 Blue Zone | |
| 11:30am | 12:30pm | Finance | Investing in a Better Tomorrow: Harnessing Financing Coalitions for Accelerating Climate Finance | Philippine Pavilion, Blue Zone B6, Bldg 8 | |
| 11:30am | 12:30pm | Finance | Leveraging Special Drawing Rights for Climate and Development | Al Saih Roundtable, Blue Zone | |
| 12:00 pm | 1:00 pm | Finance | Launch Event: Final Report of the Independent High Level Expert Group on Climate Finance | GCA Lab 1 (Al Shaheen) B7, Bldg 92 | |
| 12:30 pm | 1:20 pm | Finance | Climate Resilient Debt Clauses – A Call to Action | Al Saih Presidency Roundtable, Blue Zone, B8 | |
| 4:30 pm | 5:30 pm | Carbon Finance | High-Level Roundtable on Voluntary Carbon Markets | TBC | |
| 5:00 pm | 6:00 pm | Finance | Financing for Resilience: Overcoming hurdles to catalyze Regional Action & Locally-led Adaptation and Loss and Damage Financing | UNFCCC Pavilion Zone B2, Bldg 74 | |
| Tuesday, 5 December 2023 – Energy, Industry and Just Transition | |||||
| 12:00 pm | 1:30 pm | Finance | Africa’s Sustainable Future: Mobilizing Climate Finance at Scale | Blue Zone | |
| 1:00 pm | 2:10 pm | Finance, Energy | Emerging Success Stories for a Just Coal-to-Clean Transition: The Example of ACEN in the Philippines | Philippine Pavilion, Blue Zone B6, Bldg 80 | Sign-up link: https://rb.gy/gyd1lp |
| 3:00 pm | 4:40 pm | Finance | Unpacking the African Climate Summit – Leveraging External Finance for Africa’s Green Industrialization | Ghana l CVF Pavilion, Blue Zone B6, Bldg 73 | |
| 5:30 pm | 6:30 pm | Finance, Energy | Legislatures Dialogue on Tripling Renewable Energy by 2030 | TBC | |
| TBC | TBC | Finance, Energy | Accelerating Energy Transformation in Southeast Asia | Philippine Pavilion, Blue Zone B6, Bldg 80 | |
| Wednesday, 6 December 2023 – Multilevel Action, Urbanization and Built Environment / Transport | |||||
| 9:30 AM | 10:15 AM | Risk Financing and Adaptation | Harnessing Resilience, Navigating Finance: Unpacking the Akosombo Paradigm | Ghana l CVF Pavilion, Blue Zone B6, Bldg 73 | |
| 10:30 am | 12:00 pm | Culture | RewriteCOP: Rewriting Our Future with Arts and Science in Climate Policy Spaces | Ghana l CVF Pavilion, Blue Zone B6, Bldg 73 | Sign-up here |
| 11:30 am | 1:00 pm | Risk Financing and Adaptation | Accelerating Climate Smart Innovation in Agriculture by Addressing Loss & Damage and Innovative Sources of Finance | SE Room 9 | |
| 1:30 pm | 2:30 pm | Finance | Why do self-centered companies give their vendors climate insurance? (Event on the V20’s Sustainable Insurance Facility) | Sri Lanka Pavilion, Blue Zone B2, Bldg 21 | Concept Note |
| 3:00 pm | 4:30 pm | Culture | RewriteCOP: Rewriting Our Future with Arts and Science in Climate Policy Spaces | Sri Lanka Pavilion, Blue Zone B2, Bldg 21 | Sign-up here |
| 7:00 pm | 8:30 pm | Finance | Financing strategies for increasing economic and social prosperity | Resilience Hub, Blue Zone B7, Bldg 83, Level 1 | |
| Thursday, 7 December 2023 | |||||
| 2.00 pm | 3:30 pm | Finance, Energy | Devex Climate + Summit: How to Ensure the Clean Energy Transition Leaves No One Behind | Warehouse Four, 4B Street, Al Quoz, Next to LED World – Dubai – United Arab Emirates | Event Information: Climate + | A Devex Summit at COP 28 |
| Friday, 8 December 2023 | |||||
| 9:00 am | 10:30 am | Finance, Energy | Seminar on Belt and Road Green and Low-carbon Transition | China Pavilion, Blue Zone B5, Bldg 58 | |
| 5:00 pm | 6:00 pm | Finance / Civil Society / Youth | Civil Society’s Role in the Global Shield against Climate Risk | Ghana | CVF Pavilion, Blue Zone Zone B6, Bldg 73 | |
| Saturday, 9 December 2023 | |||||
| 9:00 am | 10:00 am | Climate Change & Forced Displacement: loss and damage in focus (Film showing with Climate Refugees) |
Ghana l CVF Pavilion, Blue Zone B6, Bldg 73 | ||
| 9:30 am | 10:20 am | Just Transition Pavilion | Small Business – Big stakes: Bringing SMEs into the Just Transition | Just Transition Pavilion, B7, Bldg 88 (2nd Floor) | |
| 3:00 pm | 4:30 pm | Finance | Funding the Green Transition: Navigating Developing Countries’ Climate Finance Needs | SE Room 8,B6, Bldg 82 | |
| Sunday, 10 December 2023 | |||||
| 11:00 am | 11:45 am | Risk Financing | Driving Climate Resilience: Public-Private Insurance Partnerships for Development | World Bank Group Pavilion Stage Zone B6, Bldg 70 | |
