PIK expertise at COP24 in Katowice

Here's a list of side events with PIK experts at COP24 in Katowice. Webcasts will be broadcast live at the time and date indicated (CET), and will be available to view on demand after the event, provided by the UNFCCC:
https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/parties-non-party-stakeholders/non-party-stakeholders/side-events-webcast-page#eq-2

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Wednesday, 5.12.

• A new understanding of Paris compatible climate action (Greenpeace International), 15:00-16:30, Warmia

How do we bring the Paris 1.5°C goal to life? Experts, practitioners and decision-makers will present and discuss Paris-compatible climate action happening today with examples from economic sectors, policies, businesses, law and people
Speakers: Dr Jacob Schewe, PIK, Hanna Fekete, NewClimate Institute Heidi Finskas, Vice President CR and CG at KLP Manish Ram, Doctoral Researcher, Solar Economy Group, LUT Happy Khambule, Greenpeace Climate Justice & Liability campaign
Weblink: https://seors.unfccc.int/seors/reports/events_list.html?session_id=COP+24
Event Flyer: https://seors.unfccc.int/seors/attachments/get_attachment?code=6HU5W4REEKLQ3ZQRP1ELYIJ2U453EB0J

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Thursday 6.12.

• Increasing ambition in the low-C transition: challenge and implications of the 1.5 and 2°C targets (EASME), 14:30-16:30, EU Pavilion, Brussels Room

Speakers: Julien Guerrier, Exectutive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME), Dr. Jacob Schewe, PIK, Marta Torres Gunfaus, Institut du développement durable et des relations internationals (IDDRI).
EU side-events programme: http://ec.europa.eu/clima/EUsideEvents.

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Saturday, 8.12.

• Roundtable on Climate Action and SDG12: Impacts for more sustainable and responsible consumption, 15-16:30,  Climate Action Room 2

This event is intended to focus on sustainable and responsible consumption in order to increase understanding on how the demand side is an important part of climate action needed to achieve the long-term aim of the Paris Agreement, as the supply policies, technologies, and investments alone may not deliver the needed reductions in emissions to meet the 1.5C goal.
Speakers: amongst others Ottmar Edenhofer, PIK
Weblink: https://unfccc.int/sites/default/files/resource/GCA%20SDG%2012%20RT%20draft%20programme%202911%20v1.pdf

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Monday 10.12.

• Joint Symposium on Climate Change: Safeguarding Our Climate, Advancing Our Society,  9-16:00, Press Conference 16:15-17:00, University of Silesia, Faculty of Law and Administration, Bankowa 11b St., Katowice.

This year’s UN Climate Summit will be accompanied by a joint symposium – Safeguarding Our Climate, Advancing Our Society - and co-organized by the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). The conference will bring together eminent scientists and representatives of religious communities who will respectively address the questions on the state of the art in climate change research and the ethical aspects of climate change.
Speakers: Jerzy Duszynski, Polish Academy of Sciences, Stéphanie Tiébault, SNRW Institute of Ecology and Environment, Marcelo Sanchez-Sorondo, Chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Patricia Espinosa, UNFCCC Executive Secretary, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, PIK, Ottmar Edenhofer, PIK, and further eminent speakers.
Weblink: https://institution.pan.pl/index.php/international-news/295-cop-24-register

• Press Briefing: Ten New Insights in Climate Science (Future Earth), 12:30-13:00, Room Katowice
  

Speakers: Johan Rockström, PIK, Leena Srivastava, TERI
Weblink: https://briefs.futureearth.org/10-insights-2018/

• Emerging Science on 1,5°C: Mitigation Pathways to Paris, 14:00-14:45,  German Pavilion

How to keep warming in line with the Paris Agreement? How can we achieve a just transition and climate neutrality across key economic sectors?
Speakers: Vera Stercken, BMBF, Elmar Kriegler, PIK, Brigitte Knopf, MCC, Niklas Höhne, New Climate Institute
Weblink: https://www.bmu.de/en/german-climate-pavilion/events/

• City Champions from Asia: China-Japan-Korea Joint Climate Research Initiative towards Zero Carbon, 17:45-19:00, Japan Pavilion

Three countries Environmental Ministers agreed on launching the joint　research on cities towards decarbonization and sustainable development　in Joint Communiqué at The 20th Tripartite Environment Ministers　Meeting among China, Japan and Korea in June 2018, Suzhou, China. We organized the first joint research workshop at Beijing in Oct 2018 with researchers, national governmental officials, local governmental officials and others to discuss about best practices from each 3 cities from 3 countries and national policies. This side event seeks to chart the zero carbon way by introducing best practices in China, Japan and Korea.
Speakers: Yang Xiu, NCSC, Sang In Kang, KEI, Junichi Fujino, IGES, Johan Rockström, PIK, and others
Weblink: http://copjapan.env.go.jp/cop/cop24/en/events/2018-12-10/06/

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Tuesday, 11.12.

• BMZ Side Event: Climate-resilient urban infrastructure: The G20 work on adaptation, 10:00-11:30, German Pavilion

Existing and additional urban infrastructure - a doubling of which is forecasted for the next 30 years - must be resilient to climate variability and climate change to fulfill its functions. The G20 work on adaptation aims to make lessons learnt available to G20 and their partner countries on this and other key questions around building resilience. Speakers: Ingrid Gabriela Hoven, German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development BMZ, Stephen A. Hammer, World Bank Group, Ottmar Edenhofer, PIK/MCC
Weblink: http://www.bmz.de/de/zentrales_downloadarchiv/cop24/181211_Climate-resilient-urban-infrastructure_10_00.pdf

• Planetary Boundaries and Global Commons - managing risks and solutions (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research/PIK and Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons/MCC), 15:00-16:30, Pieniny

Weather extremes, food security, migration: people's livelihoods depend on climate stabilization. A safe operating space for humanity within Planetary Boundaries and the sustainable use of Global Commons like the atmosphere are concepts combining natural and social sciences to safeguard our future. With regard to these fundamental concepts, what are sound options for managing risks and solutions? What policy lessons can be learned from pioneers like the Global Environmenal Facility and the UK? What lessons from Germany and Poland, which both still heavily rely on coal? And which conclusions should be drawn from this for a more effective European climate policy?
Speakers: Johan Rockström, PIK, Ottmar Edenhofer, PIK/MCC, Jan Minx, MCC, Naoko Ishii, Global Environment Facility, Joanna Maćkowiak Pandera, Forum Energii, Simon Sharpe, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
Weblink: https://seors.unfccc.int/seors/reports/events_list.html?session_id=COP%2024

• Transformational Changes Needed for a 1,5°C World (Global Enviroment Facility), 13:15-14:45, Bieszczady - Zone G

The world is at a critical turning point. The message from science is unequivocal: we are running out of time if we want to avoid making irreversible damage to our global commons, which until now have provided a stable foundation for our societies to grow and develop.
Speakers: Naoki Ishii, GEF, Johan Rockström, PIK, Elmar Kriegler, PIK, H.E. Dr. Vincent Biruta, Minister of Environment, Republic of Rwanda, H.E. Fabiola Martha Munoz Dodero, Minister of Environment, Republic of Peru and other speakers
Weblink: https://www.thegef.org/events/gef-unfccc-cop24

• “Not “or” but “and” – the role of CCS in achieving the 1.5 Objective (Global CCS Institute), 14-15:30, IETA Pavilion

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Wednesday, 12.12.

• BMZ Event: Pursuing 1,5 degrees: Opening up new opportunities for the economy and development, implementing the SDGs, 10:00-11:30; German Pavilion

Implementing ambitious climate policies - aimed at limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees - should not be perceived as only posing challenges for countries and economies. On the contrary, ambitious climate policies can lead to new development prospects with substantial economic and social gains. The earlier action is taken, the greater the potential to achieve synergies with the SDGs.
Speakers: Gerd Müller, BMZ, Lord Nicholas Stern, NCE, Christiane Figueres, Former Executive Chair of the UNCCC, Ottmar Edenhofer, PIK/MCC
Weblink: http://www.bmz.de/de/zentrales_downloadarchiv/cop24/181212_Pursuing-1-5-degrees_10_00.pdf
https://www.bmu.de/en/german-climate-pavilion/events/#c34650

• IPCC Special Report on 1.5°C Global Warming: Chapter 2 - Mitigation Pathways (IPCC), 10-11:30, IPCC Pavilion

• Planetary Health: Food Systems, 13:15-14:45, Lubelskie

This event, jointly organized by EAT and the UN Climate Change secretariat’s Momentum for Change initiative, in collaboration with The Rockefeller Foundation, aims to raise awareness of the role of food systems in addressing both climate change and the sustainable development goals.
Speakers: Johan Rockström, PIK
Weblink: https://unfccc.int/climate-action/events/global-climate-action-events-at-cop24-full-programme

• #EU2050: High-Level Panel on the European Decarbonisation Pathways Initiative, 14:30-16:00, EU Pavilion room 2

Presentation of the findings of the work of the high-level panel on decarbonisation, advising Commissioner Moedas on Research and Innovation priorities.
Speakers: Patrick Child, DDG, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, PIK, and others
Weblink: http://ec.europa.eu/clima/events/0124/calendar_en.htm#schedule

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Thursday, 13.12.

• Coal phase out in Germany – Outcomes of the German Commission on Coal, German Pavilion 13:00-13:45 (Climate Alliance Germany)

What are the first outcomes on the German commission on the coal phase out? An interview with Prof. Dr. Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
Speakers: Christiane Averbeck, Climate Alliance Germany, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, PIK
Weblink: https://www.bmu.de/fileadmin/Daten_BMU/Download_PDF/Klimaschutz/cop24_side_event_programm_german_pavilion.pdf

• What a low-carbon world really looks like in the next decades: Modelling tools used and required for long-term planning (COMMIT and CD-LINKS projects, UBA), 14:30 – 16:00, EU Pavilion

• Climate Policy: Just, in time and people-centred (German Advisory Council on Global Change WBGU, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Germanwatch), 18:30-20:00, Warmia

The effective implementation of NDCs and leveraging increased ambition to achieve the long term goals of the Paris Agreement requires an integrated policy perspective that considers those transittioning to a climate friendly economy and those affected by climate impacts.
Speakers: Federal Ministry for the Environment, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, PIK; D. Messner, UNU-Institute for Environment and Human Security; M. Goepel, German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU); P. Nzioki, Transparency International Kenya; C. Bals, Germanwatch
Weblink: https://seors.unfccc.int/seors/reports/events_list.html?session_id=COP%2024

• NDC and LTS modelling: opportunities, lessons learnt and roadmaps for Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico (COMMIT project and WRI), 18:30 – 20:00, Room Bieszczady