Climate Compatible Growth Programme: CO27 Side Events
Africa–Asia: a just transition to low-carbon development Decision-making Tools | Finance | Transport
07 November to 11 November Sharm El Sheikh and online Maritim Jolie Ville Resort & Casino
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CCG is co-organizing five days of side events during COP27 bringing global experts and policy practitioners together for discussion. The broad theme is Africa-Asia: a just transition to low-carbon development, and the event will include sessions covering decision-making tools, finance, transport, and more. CCG is pleased to be joined by two programmes funded by UK Aid, Modern Energy Cooking Services and High Volume Transport.
Speakers will join from an array of important international organizations (including ADB, AfDB, Climate Parliament, ESCAP, GIZ, IEA, SE4All, UNOPS, WB, WRI) research institutions (including Imperial College London, University College London, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford) and policymakers from Kenya, Lao PDR, Costa Rica, and Bolivia.
Side events will include discussion on CCG’s work with the UK Government’s Energy Transition Council, the Green Grids Initiative, E-mobility in Africa, Materials, Macro-economics, Policies for co-benefits, modelling for decision-making, gender quality and social inclusion, and more. These will be done in coordination with the negotiation process, the Africa Pavilion and the themes of COP27 itself.
The objective of the programme will be to create a platform to explore the interlocking themes related to low-carbon and resilient transition against a backdrop of rapidly transforming technological and economic landscapes in energy, transport, industry, and other economic growth sectors. The side-events will debate concerns and priorities in a post-Paris climate change regime with a view to foster meaningful policy dialogue on each of the identified themes. This will culminate in a one-day event, ‘Transport Day’, which will look into the various features of interconnected low carbon infrastructure. The programme is designed to bring together policy makers, researchers and practitioners to debate the evidence base on what works and identify gaps for improving policy and investment decision-making for low carbon actions and planning.
The side-events will take a variety of forms, depending on what’s appropriate for the sub-theme. All are intended to be highly interactive
A strong consensus has emerged among scientists, policymakers, and development practitioners that climate change poses complex challenges to the sustainable development plans of countries in Africa. At the same time, this offers an opportunity to revise the development agenda to make it more proactive to climate-resilient development objectives.
The themes of CCG’s COP27 Side Events explore these challenges and opportunities, and are described below. As the sessions develop and discussions are held, we will update these key messages.
Africa–Asia: a just transition to low-carbon development
In general, discussion on Africa and Asia will consist of debates/discussions around national ownership of development processes, creating and enhancing shared knowledge assets, bridging the gap between policy makers, practitioners (including the private sector), and the research community. The theme will also address the integration of key sectors for development such as agriculture, water, transport, urbanization, and – in particular – energy. All this must be done in the context of a just transition, both in terms of adequate support for development in low-income countries and in terms of making sure all groups of society are benefited.
Key Messages
Energy sectors (and other infrastructure) still need development. The energy future of Africa and Asia will need strategic infrastructure investment that takes a holistic approach.
Finance models need to bring public and private sector finance together.
However, climate financing is notoriously difficult, particularly for Africa. This challenge must be addressed and new, co-created solutions and approaches found.
Enabling environments need to be created to strengthen individual and institutional capacity for sustained climate action.
Strong partnerships, both national and international, are critical if Africa and Asia are to achieve their development objectives.
Decision-making Tools
Integrated planning models and qualitative analyses are critical for developing actionable energy and transport system pathways targeted at country-specific development priorities. The theme will present and showcase the tools and analyses for wider sector interactions with energy and transport systems and evidence to inform the development of policies and programmes focused on climate compatible growth.
Key Messages
Research must be ‘demand-led’ and focused on ‘real-world’ processes.
The evidence-base for this research must be strengthened, as must the promotion of evidence uptake in policymaking and investment decision-making.
Co-creation and ownership of research products is critical if strategies are to be effective and bought into by multiple stakeholders.
Finance
Financing climate change adaptation and mitigation efforts can simultaneously address poverty reduction and sustainable development concerns in Africa. Climate finance can be the catalyst for leveraging private and public resources, opening new economic opportunities, promiting technology deployment, and transforming development pathways.
Key Messages
Finance must be easier to access for lower-income countries.
This will have global climate and development benefits.
New tools and processes must be co-designed by multiple stakeholders to ensure the success of mitigation and adaptation projects.
Just transition principles and ownership inclimate finance is critical if it is to have a lasting societal impact.
Transport
Transport is responsible for a large share of GHG emissions, and this trend is expected to increase with rapid urbanization. Meeting growing transport demand while reducing emissions is both an imperative and an opportunity that will consist an array of strategies around more efficient transport systems and vehicles, changes in travel behaviour, use of cleaner fuels, and new low-carbon vehicle technologies. The theme will discuss how climate compatible technology and development, such as electromobility, can deliver important co-benefits, in addition to GHG emission reduction, such as improving air quality, improving energy infrastructures, new jobs, and opportunities for local value creation.
Key Messages
Successful and resilience transport policies require integration with other sectors.
There are potentially significant benefits to the electrififcation of transport in Low- and Middle-Income countries, but the barriers to this must not be ignored.
Finance, technology transfer, and effective governance will all be needed if low-carbon transport is to be achieved.
Energy modelling helps to design pathways toward low-carbon and resilient futures. This session will look at how modelling capacity can be built in different countries and will reflect on the challenges related to the modelling process, tools and data used in various contexts. Examples will be presented by different stakeholders including users of models in developing countries and international institutions involved in capacity building.
Chair
Ariane Millot | CCG, Imperial College London Session format: 10 minute presentations with a Q&A at the end.
Speakers
George Partasides | Energy Officer, Ministry of Energy Commerce and Industry of Cyprus Darlain Edeme | Africa Energy Analyst, IEA Osmar Bolivar | Economic Researcher at Ministry of Economy and Public Finance of Bolivia Chilombo Chila | Energy Planning Unit Coordinator, Ministry of Energy, Zambia Philipp Trotter | Schumpeter School of Business and Economics, University of Wuppertal; CCG, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford.
Systems modelling is essential to understand infrastructure investment that reduces emissions and accelerates growth. Yet developing country-specific data-sets can slow and splinter analysis as different data-sets are collected by different analysists across academia, policy making, and financing. In this session we present a growing body of initiatives that are being developed to produce open, transparent starter kits (see CCG Starter Data Kits) that are available to all to accelerate more coordinated systems analysis faster. This is part of the raw data to policy and investment process, outlined in the figure below.
Chair
Mark Howells | CCG Director / Loughbororough University and Imperial College London Session format: Panel discussion (virtual) with 10 min presentations with questions invited from audience
Speakers
Carla Cannone | CCG, Loughborough University and Imperial College London The 2022 Starter Datakits – Available countries, developing new kits, use in teaching & use in analysis Taco Niet | Simon Fraser University, School of Sustainable Energy Engineering On Automatic Country Model Calibrations – The case of OSeMOSYS Global James Dixon | CCG, University of Oxford The Transport Data Commons and filling gaps in energy focused models Naomi Tan | CCG, Loughborough University and Imperial College London The 2023 Starter Datakits, extensions, directions and how to get involved. Karla Cervantes Barrón | CCG, University of Cambridge Application to models including MATdp and materials needed for African energy supply
Energy systems analysis of countries will lead nowhere unless the analysis is owned by the same countries’ decision makers. National skills will not be sustainably kept in ministries unless there are knowledge management programmes. And, universities are needed to develop programmes to produce the next generation of national analysts and research in a manner that is self sustaining. In this session we explore steps to developing an enabling environment and national energy planning ecosystem. This is part of the raw data to policy and investment process, outlined in the figure below.
Chair
Mark Howells | CCG Director / Loughbororough University and Imperial College London Session format: Panel discussion (virtual) with 10 min presentations with questions invited from audience
Speakers
Kandeh Yumkella | Founder and CEO of The Energy Nexus Network (TENN), and Member of Parliament in Sierra Leone Satheesh Krishnamurthy | Professor and Chair of Energy Technology at The Open University The jointly produced Open Learn collection Ilse Escobar | Department of Nuclear Energy, IAEA Collaboration and the Trieste Summer School Carla Cannone | CCG, Loughborough University and Imperial College London The Partner and CCG ecosystem
There is growing international recognition of the incredible potential of electric cooking to provide a rapidly scaleable alternative to polluting (in both health and carbon terms) cooking fuels. This session will outline the first fruits from an agenda for collaborative work between CCG and MECS in understanding the implications of different scenarios for the scaling of eCooking on overall electricity demand, grid stability, and decarbonization strategies. It will draw heavily on the work of both programmes in Kenya.
Chair
Ed Brown | Professor of Global Energy Challenges, Loughborough University and Director, Modern Energy Cooking Services Session Format: Presentations followed by workshop
Speakers
Faith Wandera-Odongo | Senior Deputy Director of Renewable Energy Ministry of Energy, Kenya Samson Ondiek | PA to the Managing Director, Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC). Ariane Millot | CCG, Imperial College London Mark Howells | CCG Director / Loughbororough University and Imperial College London
In 2021/2022, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its 6th Assessment reports on: (i) physical science basis; (ii) impacts, adaptation and vulnerability; and (iii) mitigation of climate change. Together, these reports offer the latest understanding and advances in climate science, adaptation, and responses.
Despite Africa’s minimal contribution to GHG emissions, the IPCC reports inform us that the impact across the continent have been significant. The report also throws light onto the future challenges with adaptation, proposing climate-resilient development.
But what do these reports mean for Africa’s policy and practice community, and communities at large? How can IPCC science be translated into action, including policies and implementation? What are the institutional ways to increase the awareness and use of IPCC outcomes for different stakeholders, i.e., citizens, public sector, private sector and knowledge institutions? In particular, how can the national science and research community use and communicate climate knowledge to decision makers? What are the critical bottlenecks for a wider scientific involvement of African scientists in the IPCC process?
Speakers
Youba Sokona | Vice-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Yacob Mulugetta | CCG Partnerships Director, UCL Yamide Dagnet | Director for Climate Justice at the Open Society Foundation Arthur Petersen | University College London Fatima Denton | Director of the United Nations University Institute for Natural Resources in Africa (UNU-INRA), Ghana
Session format: moderated panel discussion with active involvement from participants.
Good transport infrastructures require big investment and time, which are two things policy makers are usually short of. Transport investment can become focused on shorter term investment priorities, trying to answer immediate needs of growing economies but failing to accommodate the longer-term needs to be greener and more resilient to climate change. This session explores where and how decision support tools and data can do better to achieve infrastructures that meet the economic needs of lower-income-countries as well as the urgent need for low-carbon transport.
Chair
Henry Kerali | Former World Bank Country Director and Professor University of Birmingham Session Format: Panel Discussion
Speakers
Martin Humphreys | Lead Transport Economist, Global Lead for Transport Connectivity and Regional Integration, World Bank Tom Russell | Oxford University, Decision Support Systems for Resilient Strategic Transport Networks in Low Income Countries Jim Hall | Oxford University, Decision Support Systems for Resilient Strategic Transport Networks in Low Income Countries
Nearly three years after the first case of COVID-19, the economic hangover continues. High inflation, tightening monetary policy, a strong US dollar, volatile commodity prices, and the realities of war are all contributing to high global economic uncertainty, with heterogenous impacts across nations. At the same time, previous climate inaction has left a very small window for policy intervention. Are there ways to address our economic, global security, and environmental hurdles at once? What are the key barriers? What do recent efforts tell us and what work still needs to be done?
Chair
Brian O’Callaghan | Smith School of Enterprise and Environment, University of Oxford Session format: Panel discussion with interactive voting and Q&A
Speakers
Phoebe Koundouri | Professor Athens University of Economics and Business & Technical University of Denmark; President of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE) Nicola Ranger | Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford Jean-Paul Adam | Director, Technology, Climate Change and Natural Resource Management Division, United Nations Economic Division for Africa Pekka Morén | Special Representative of Finance Minister, Climate Action at Coalition of Finance Ministers for Climate Action Suzi Kerr | Chief Economist, Environmental Defense Fund
Angela Churie Kallhauge | Executive Vice President – Impact Environmental Defense Fund
Speakers
Lakshmi Bhamidipati | Advisor, Energy and Climate, UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre Bernard Tembo | Independent Data Science and Energy Modelling Expert Lucas Somavilla | CCG Partnerships, UCL Elizabeth Tennyson | CCG National Partnerships, Centre for Global Equality
Countries in the South stand at a critical juncture in their commitment to taking action against climate change. Research will have a crucial role to play in ensuring the uptake of knowledge generated into policy making and the world of practice. The importance of integrating diverse lines of evidence to understand the risks associated with climate change and capitalize on opportunities cannot be overemphasized. The key issue is how to strengthen interactions among researchers, practitioners, and policymakers. Indeed, over the past two decades, there has been a rapid rise in knowledge on climate science, adaptation, and mitigation. Given that climate solutions call for contributions from multiple disciplines and work across sectors, building good partnerships will be critical.
The aims of the side event on the climate research, policy, and practice interface is to share experiences between organizations about their practices, especially how they build and nurture trust and good working practice. It will also discuss ways in which different states behave (and operate) differently in using the contributions made by the research community.
This side-event will feature four panellists with deep connections to the IPCC, hailing from different parts of Africa and elsewhere, and panellists from government agencies and civil society organizations.
Session Format: moderated panel discussion with active involvement from participants.
Economic and social development are the primary objective of most low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). In these contexts, any climate change commitments warrant consideration of development priorities. This event takes a practical approach to the climate–development nexus, asking “how can we ensure economic and social development without leaving behind climate imperatives?”. Recent research shows that progressing from setting a climate change objective to implementing climate projects comes when climate policies are embedded within development policies. This session discusses a number of key related questions: What strategies can countries use to integrate economic, social, and environmental priorities? Is it more effective to layer climate objectives over the top of development plans or to combine climate and development from the very start? How does this apply to budgetary processes? Which governance and institutional arrangements are required? And are there any good examples to learn from?
Navroz Dubash | Professor at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, India John Katongo Banda | Environmental and Social Inclusion Specialist, National Project Coordinating Unit, Government of Zambia Philipp Trotter | Schumpeter School of Business and Economics, University of Wuppertal; CCG, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford.
This will be a roundtable discussion session featuring a range of speakers who have been involved in official negotiation sessions and other high-level planning prior to COP and official side events. The discussion will be targeted at LCEDN members unable to attend COP in order to give an in-person perspective from those involved in the discussions/negotiations over the key evolving issues, points of convergence/divergence, etc.
Chair
Yacob Mulugetta | UCL Session Format: Roundtable
Speakers
Kandeh Yumkella | Founder and CEO of The Energy Nexus Network (TENN), and Member of Parliament in Sierra Leone Ed Brown | Professor of Global Energy Challenges, Loughborough University and Director, Modern Energy Cooking Services Fatima Denton | Director of the United Nations University Institute for Natural Resources in Africa (UNU-INRA) Youba Sokona | Vice-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
The Green Grids Initiative-One Sun One World One Grid: Green grids accelerators and the role of research, parliamentarians and civil society [Link to Watch on YouTube]
The session will showcase the progress made and research underpinning the Green Grids Initiative-One Sun One World One Grid (GGI-OSOWOG), a global initiative to accelerate the energy transition launched by world leaders at COP26. It will also bring together key actors across the GGI Ecosystem to discuss the challenges of building green grids, what needs to be done, and how—by working in partnership with a multiplicity of actors—we can accelerate the global energy transition.
Chair
Nick Dunlop | Secretary-General Climate Parliament This session will be run in interview format, with each panellist answering 2–3 brief questions posed by the chair, followed by a panel discussion.
Speakers
Sumedha Basu | Policy Director, Climate Parliament Sunita Duggal | Member of Parliament, India Barry Gardiner | Member of Parliament, UK Sanjay Jaiswal | Member of Parliament, India Sergio Missana | Executive Director, Climate Parliament Lucy Pearson | Programme Manager and GGI Ecosystem Coordinator, Climate Parliament Abhishek Shivakumar | CCG, Loughborough University Cliff Rechtschaffen | Commissioner at the Californian Public Utilities Commission
Building on the Session 4 regarding eCooking, this session focuses attention onto the specifics of funding the transition to low-carbon cooking. Drawing on the MECS programme’s work on the clean cooking financial landscape, the session focuses on: leveraging electrification funding for eCooking; results-based and impact funding; patient equity; and the promise and perils of climate finance.
Chair
Ed Brown | Professor of Global Energy Challenges, Loughborough University and Director, Modern Energy Cooking Services Session format: Presentations followed by a discussion
Speakers
Ash Sharma | Head, Beyond the Grid Fund for Africa and Senior Director at NEFCO Faith Wandera-Odongo | Deputy Director of Renewable Energy in the Ministry of Energy, Kenya Alex Money | Director, Innovative Infrastructure Investment Programme, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford
This session will give an update on the ETC and the RRF, highlight success stories in a number of ETC focus countries across a range of energy sectors and geographies, and provides an opportunity to discuss the lessons learned since COP26.
Chairs
Nilay Shah & Koen van Dam | Imperial College London Session format: Four presentations followed by discussion
Speakers
Daniel Magallon | BASE, Managing Director Ahmed Baroudi | Directeur général de la Société d’Investissements Energétiques (SIE) John Cotton | Senior Programme Manager, Southeast Asia Energy Transition Partnership (ETP) Elizabeth Tennyson | CCG National Partnerships, Centre for Global Equality Faith Wandera-Odongo | Senior Deputy Director of Renewable Energy Ministry of Energy, Kenya
Africa finds itself in the midst of a momentous conversation. This conversation evokes concerns about the scandal of energy poverty across the continent, and new optimism relating to the huge opportunities for energy investment to bring about development dividends, all taking place in the context of a changing climate. To this end, various ‘energy futures’ have been proposed, deeply influenced by competing framings and narratives, that are fuelling the debate on Africa’s energy pathways. These will be discussed in the session in the context of a new paper in Nature Energy.
Chair
Yacob Mulugetta | CCG Partnerships Director, University College London
Speakers
Youba Sokona | Vice-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Special Advisor for Sustainable Development at the South Centre Lily Odarno | Director – Energy and Climate Innovation, Africa, Clean Air Task Force Philipp Trotter | Schumpeter School of Business and Economics, University of Wuppertal; CCG, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford. Dan Kammen | Energy and Resources Group, the Goldman School of Public Policy University of California, Berkeley, USA
Session format: moderated panel discussion with active involvement from participants.
African cities are the most rapidly growing and youngest cities in the world, and they’re changing fast. This offers immense opportunities as well as challenges for urban planning to meet the needs of the people and the economic growth, alongside meeting the urgent progress needed to address climate change. This session looks at the opportunities in urban and transport planning for African cities – considering trends such as transit-oriented development (TOD), where people live closer to jobs and services reducing time and environmental burden on transport and boosting economic growth.
Chair
Heather Thompson | Institute for Transportation and Development Policy, CEO
Speakers
Chris Kost | ITDP, Director Africa Paul Curtis | Vectos, Director Gail Jennings | World Bicycle Relief, Consultant
Building the low-carbon systems and improved infrastructure for climate adaptation requires using many bulk and critical materials such as steel, cement, copper, or lithium. Unless strategies for providing these materials are addressed as infrastructure is built, higher emissions or mineral insecurity will be an issue. This session presents work from different organizations regarding material challenges in different systems and offers ideas to increase the resilience of material provision.
Chair
Karla Cervantes Barrón | CCG, University of Cambridge Session format: 10 min presentations from each panellist followed by questions and a general discussion.
Speakers
Jennifer Layke | World Resources Institute, Energy Program Global Director Francisco Boshell | IRENA, Innovation and Technology Center, Lead Analyst Peter Levi | International Energy Agency, Industry Lead, Energy Technology Policy Division Jonathan Cullen | Professor of Sustainable Engineering, University of Cambridge Isaac Elizondo Garcia | IRENA, Innovation and Technology Center, Consultant
Inclusion is an important yet undervalued part of an equitable energy transition. It is vital in order to build truly sustainable and climate-compatible energy systems. In this session, we will look at inclusivity in energy transitions through the lens of different demographic groups including gender, disability, age, and class. Centering Global South perspectives, we will investigate how accounting for the needs of diverse groups in decision-making can have a positive effect on energy-enabled growth.
Chair
Makena Ireri | Head of Energy at CLASP (NGO) Plenary Session
Speakers
Alexander Haack | Programme Director, Energising Development (EnDev) Samantha Stratton-Short | Head of Strategic Initiatives, Infrastructure and Project Management at UNOPS Elizabeth Wangeci Chege | Energy Efficiency & Cooling Specialist at Sustainable Energy for All Edwin Obiero | Regional Director for West Africa at Practical Action
Limiting global warming to 1.5° Celsius will require the world energy system to undergo profound structural change. Green hydrogen is expected to play an increasing role in the transformation of the energy supply system, and helping to reach the Paris climate goal. To this end, a number of countries are positioning themselves to take advantage of this new technological and market opportunity by becoming a hub for green hydrogen production, both for internal developmental needs and export.
Much discussion will take place at COP27 over the coming two weeks, covering opportunities and risks involved. For the countries in the South who are promoting green hydrogen production for domestic energy purposes and export, it is important to consider the various risks and trade-offs. There are likely to be winners and losers resulting from the implementation of green hydrogen as related to the distribution of development finance, and the benefits distribution across the value chain of green hydrogen. Mapping these out would be important to understand which countries and national stakeholders stand to gain or lose from the green hydrogen value chain.
This side-event will provide a synthesis on the issues raised at various hydrogen events at COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh with a view to reflect on the research opportunities. This side-event will feature panellists from research and policy communities with many years of experience and varied expertise in energy and development issues.
Session format
The side-event will take the form of a moderated discussion with active involvement from participants.
Panel
Stephanie Hirmer | CCG Programme Research co-Lead, University of Oxford Yacob Mulugetta | CCG Programme Partnerships Lead, University College London Friedel Sehlleier | Changing Transport GIZ Meron Tesfamichael | CCG, University College London Makena Ireri | Head of Energy at CLASP (NGO) Philipp Trotter | Schumpeter School of Business and Economics, University of Wuppertal; CCG, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford. Bernard Tembo | Independent Data Science and Energy Modelling Expert Karla Cervantes Barrón | Research Associate in Climate Compatible Development, University of Cambridge Mark Howells | CCG Director / Loughborough University and Imperial College London Ariane Millot | CCG, Imperial College London Edwin Obiero | Regional Director for West Africa at Practical Action
Industrial activity in Lao PDR has been a driver of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth in recent decades. Lao PDR industries have changed from agricultural-produce processing to construction and specialized finished products. If Lao PDR is to keep relying on industry to drive its growth while limiting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and achieving its Green Growth goals, increasing national energy and material efficiency in industry is needed. In response, this report explores the current situation and the potential for introducing material and energy efficiency measures. Useful lessons for other LMICs are discussed.
Chair
Karla Cervantes Barrón | Research Associate in Climate Compatible Development, University of Cambridge Session Format: Key speaker introductions followed by key findings of the report
Speakers
Helena McLeod | Deputy Director General, Global Green Growth Institute Mr Virana Sonnasinh | Director of the Department of Planning and Finance, Lao Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment Mark Howells | CCG Director / Loughborough University and Imperial College London Charlotte Weston | Head of Energy Transitions, COP26 Presidency, UK Cabinet Office
Globally, nearly a quarter of all energy-related carbon emissions come from the transport sector, making transport critical to achieving the ambitious Paris Agreement. The contribution from African countries to transport emissions has historically been low compared to the rest of the world, but they are increasing in line with increased prosperity and growing economies. This session will explore how economic growth in African countries can continue without adding to CO2, in other words decoupled. Rather than Africa’s need for improved mobility presenting a threat to the environment, could it present an opportunity by identifying new and better ways to develop low-carbon transport pathways?
Chair
Henry Kerali | Member – HVT Technical Advisory Committee; and Former World Bank Country Director; Professor University of Birmingham Session Format: Panel Discussion
Speakers
Clive Roberts | University of Birmingham, Head of the School of Engineering Gary Haq | Stockholm Environment Institute and Dept. of Environment and Geography, University of York Romanus Opiyo | Stockholm Environment Institute Bronwen Thornton | Walk 21 Foundation, CEO
With the Multilateral Development Banks’ (MDB) commitment to align their investments with the Paris climate objectives comes the challenge of assessing and managing these commitments. Research and tools are playing a key role to support MDBs and other stakeholders in their efforts to support a low-carbon transport transition. The session will share different tools and the latest research as well as discuss the challenges for countries to get on a pathway towards carbon net zero.
Chair
Heather Thompson | Institute for Transportation and Development Policy, CEO Session Format: Five brief presentations (5–10 minutes) followed by a panel discussion and questions from the audience.
Speakers
Alexandr Prodan | Senior Strategy and Policy Officer, AIIB Angelika Zwicky | Senior Economist, KfW Policy Unit Atiq Ahmad | Lead Global Transport Specialist, IsDB Daniel Bongardt | Head of Transport, GIZ Dr Jairo Quirós-Tortós | Professor and Head of the Energy Systems Laboratory, University of Costa Rica Ms. Pamela Chiang | Senior Transport Specialist, ADB Naomi Tan | CCG, Loughborough University and Imperial College London
The transition to E-mobility is gaining momentum in some African countries, although the current market penetration of electric vehicles (EVs) in Africa is low compared with other regions in the world. Future demand for mobility in these countries, and vehicle ownership (two-, three- and four-wheelers) is expected to increase with the rapid urbanization, population growth, and rising incomes. E-mobility can be an integral part of a transition towards clean, inclusive transport systems, which support inclusive growth. However, it is important to identify the challenges and reflect on the policy options for an equitable and inclusive pathway in African countries.
The Sustainable Mobility for All (SuM4All) partnership — a global cooperation on transport and mobility issues with 56 Member Organizations — aims to enhance the discussion and action on e-mobility as part of African countries’ Climate and Transport strategies.
As a contribution to this year’s COP27 two papers will be launched, in partnership with the two FCDO funded programmes, the Climate Compatible Growth Programme (CCG) and High Volume Transport (HVT):
Chair
Mark Howells | CCG Director, Loughborough University and Imperial College London Two Input papers (10 minutes each) followed by a facilitated panel discussion
Presentations
Yacob Mulugetta | CCG Partnerships Director, University College London E-mobility in Low-Income Countries in Africa: Finance, Governance, and Equity CCG/HVT & SUM4ALL Secretariat Read the Global Roadmap of Action paper here.
Ben Hartley | Principal Specialist, Energy Efficiency and Cooling, SEforALL Electric mobility and renewable electricity – developing infrastructure for synergies Joint Paper by the SUM4ALL Working Groups Energy & Mobility and E-mobility Read the Global Roadmap of Action paper here.
Panel
Charlène Kouassi | Director, Movin’On LAB Africa Francis Romano | Managing Director, Knights and Apps Jochen Renger | Climate Director GIZ Mark Major | Senior Adviser, SLOCAT Mohamed Hegazy | Climate Champions Team Road Transport Co-lead Nancy Vandycke | Program Manager, Sustainable Mobility for All (SuM4All) and Lead Economist, World Bank
Holger Dalkmann | CCG Transport Lead and HVT Senior Adviser Mohamed Hegazy | Climate Champions Team Road Transport Co-lead
Every year at COP the same topic is raised: the large contribution of the transport sector to CO2 emissions and the lack of substantial reductions seen in the last decades. With the event this year in Egypt, more attention on transport is expected. This is not only from a decarbonization perspective, but also through an equity lens. How to ensure better access to goods and services and markets for all people while keeping emissions at a low level?
With transport being in focus on the second week of the conference, CCG will host a fireside chat with Mohamed Hegazy Climate Champions Team Road Transport Co-lead to discuss these issues. The conversation hosted by Holger Dalkmann, CCG Transport Lead and HVT Senior Adviser, will also touch on the opportunities for transport at COP27 and give an outlook to the expected new initiatives launched in the transport sector in the coming week at COP27.
Greater investment in low-carbon and climate resilient transport is constrained by a limited pipeline of finance-ready projects. Therefore, many national and local authorities work with project preparation facilities that support projects to a point where they are ready to access domestic or international funds and are ready for implementation. The global project TRANSfer, managed by GIZ, has provided support for designing mitigation actions in transport to multiple countries over the past 12 years. With climate finance at the core of COP27, this side event will explore the insights from TRANSfer, the MobiliseYourCity Partnership, and similar initiatives. Join us to discuss questions with nations governments and development banks and agencies, such as: What should future initiatives on climate finance for transport consider doing to maximize their impact? How can successful transport mitigation actions support in ramping up NDC commitments? What difficulties do multilateral development banks perceive in delivering climate action and Paris Alignment?
Chair
Friedel Sehlleier | Changing Transport GIZ Session Format: Presentations with panel discussion
Speakers
Maria Shaw-Barragan | Director – Lending Operations – Global Partners Department (Africa, Caribbean, Pacific, Asia and Latin America), European Investment Bank Esther Gacanja | Climate Change Officer, Ministry of Transport Kenya Luis Guillermo Pinilla | Climate Change Directorate, Ministry of Environment Colombia Juan Carlos Muñoz | Minister of Transport, Chile Daniel Bongardt | Programme Lead, GIZ Ahmed Al Qabany | Senior Climate Change Specialist, World Bank
Two travel between the main pavilion and CCG’s COP27 Side Events a taxi or shuttle bus is recommended:
Shuttle buses – Take shuttle bus SH1, SH5, SH4 or SH6 from the COP venue and get off at Ghazala stop. Keep walking 100m in the same direction as the bus. Our venue, Maritim Jolie Ville Congress Center, is on your right. Shuttle buses run every 5 minutes. Taxis – Sharm is a small city so you should not be paying more than 300 LE return anywhere in the city. The hotel taxi’s are usually safe, clean, on time, have a/c, drivers less likely to increase the price of the journey and you have come back via the hotel if there is a problem.
Our Side Event are being held at the Maritim Jolie hotel Conference centre in the Nuweiba room. There is lunch and refreshments between sessions.
The conference room is visible from the entrance on ground floor, and is indicated by a CCG banner.
Google Maps Directions from the Main COP27 event (Tonino Lambourghini Convention Center) to the CCG events (Maritim Jolie Resort)
Please note, our conference venue is on the other side of the road of the Maritim Jolie Ville Resort & Casinio, about 100m further South.
Knowledge and tools for low-carbon investment and finance Webinar [Zoom]:
Thursday 27th October 2022 12:00–13:30 GMT | 13:00–14:30 BST
The scale of climate investments needed to achieve a low-carbon transition is huge. Costed needs provided in Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) for developing countries puts this figure at nearly $6 trillion up to 2030. African countries alone will need about $3 trillion to achieve their NDC targets. But the gap between the targets and where we are today is significant, and the global distribution of finance is unequal, with Africa and South Asia accounting for less than 10% of the global total $632 billion disbursed over the 2019/2020 period.
Part of the challenge is that the data and analytical tools to generate the type of knowledge that helps inform investment decisions are simply not there. Understanding how the finance landscape behaves and the character of the investment ecosystem in order to translate financing ambition into tangible projects will be important. This will be a critical theme at the 27th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 27) to the UNFCCC in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.
This webinar brings together some of the leading academics and practitioners to share their insights on the knowledge and information needed to bring together the range of actors in the finance ecosystem and create transformative investment environments that can address multiple development and climate challenges. We expect the webinar to be solution-oriented, and it will take the form of an informal moderated conversation with high level of involvement from participants.
Why has it been so difficult for developing countries in Africa and South Asia to mobilize finance, especially private finance?
What does a good ‘enabling environment’ for investment look like?
What type of investment ecosystems will be needed for scaling up finance flows for low-carbon investments? What type of knowledge is required to incentivize private finance actors and build ‘investment’ confidence?
How do we build ‘compromises’ between meeting the social and economic development agenda of national actors and the profit maximization motives of private investors? What incentives and instrument can best help navigate these seemingly irreconcilable positions?
What role can knowledge institutions play to help maintain momentum, and help lay the foundations for more ambitious climate and development actions?
Finance for mitigation accounts for 93% of the total global finance disbursed in 2020/21. Why is finance for adaptation so difficult? Are there instruments or analytical tools (frameworks) that would help to address this imbalance? Would resilience framing help?
Confirmed Speakers
Mark Howells|Director of the Climate Compatible Growth Programme, Loughborough University and Imperial College London Patrick Nussbaumer | United Nations Industrial Development Organization Alex Money | Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford Robin Kaenzig | Transport Economist Yann Tanvez | International Finance Cooperation
Africa’s road to COP27: Expectations and Opportunities Webinar [Zoom]:
Thursday 13 October 2022 12:00–13:30 GMT | 13:00–14:30 BST
This event has now ended – the recording is available on YouTube.
The 27th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 27) to the UNFCCC will take place in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. COP27 is described as Africa’s COP and promises to offer the opportunity to articulate Africa’s priorities for building transformative adaptation, limiting emissions rise, accessing appropriate finance and addressing loss and damage. Much has happened since COP26 at the global stage that may create hurdles in the negotiations in Egypt. COP27 is taking place in the shadows of mounting energy and food prices and climate-related disasters such as scorching heat waves, droughts and floods in different parts of the world.
This high-level webinar will gather thought leaders and decision makers to engage in a dialogue to unpack the opportunities and challenges for African countries at COP27, and look beyond the COP. The webinar will present perspectives from different stakeholders on this pivotal COP to shed light into expectations and the opportunities for Africa. It will take the form of an informal moderated conversation with high level of involvement from participants.
Discussion Points
What has Africa achieved in the past few COPs, and what are its expectations at the Egypt COP?
What are the critical components that must be addressed for COP to be a success, and what strategies will be adopted?
What is the role of the private sector, NGO community, and Civil Society groups at COP?
How must Africa engage with the low carbon transition, given that the region’s historic emissions are low?
What lessons are to be learnt in the wake of the COVID pandemic and war in Ukraine?
Why did Africa receive little climate finance? What are the major drivers and bottlenecks of climate finance flows including policies and needs? How can sources of private finance be mobilized?
What role can knowledge institutions play to help maintain momentum, and help lay the foundations for more ambitious climate and development actions?
Confirmed Speakers
Kevin Urama, Acting Chief Economist and Vice President for the Economic Governance and Knowledge Management Complex, African Development Bank Fatima Denton, Director of the United Nations University Institute for Natural Resources in Africa (UNU-INRA) Youba Sokona, Vice-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Mark Howells, Director of the Climate Compatible Growth Programme, Loughborough University and Imperial College London Yacob Mulugetta, Climate Compatible Growth and University College London
