Events
Upcoming events
COP 28 Side Event | Strategic Communications for NAP Implementation: Lessons from three francophone countries
This session will feature the experiences of three francophone countries—Central African Republic, Haiti, and Madagascar—in disseminating and promoting their NAP documents by using creative and strategic approaches to craft engaging key messages and target audiences through diverse channels.
COP 28 Side Event | Financing the Future: How should big banks respond to the climate crisis?
How should big banks respond to the climate crisis and what is the role of COP 28 and national governments in regulating the banking sector? This COP 28 side event will explore opportunities, challenges, and lessons learned.
COP 28 Side Event | Gender-Responsive Adaptation Action: Progress in NAP processes
This session will provide an update on the progress made in mainstreaming gender considerations into NAP processes globally. It will also showcase the efforts of three francophone countries supported by the NAP Global Network—Côte d’Ivoire, Haiti, and Senegal—to address gender inequalities through adaptation action.
COP 28 Side Event | Accelerating Impact: Implementing learning in climate change adaptation policy
This panel will bring together governments from Commonwealth countries to examine what governments and other actors have learned from implementing climate adaptation in the context of NAP processes, the factors that drove or contributed to learning, and challenges in knowledge.
COP 28 Side Event | Partnering for Climate: Supporting Nature-based Climate Solutions for Adaptation
In this COP 28 side event, Partnering for Climate project hosts will discuss the implementation potential of nature-based solutions for adaptation in Canada, sub-Saharan Africa, and Small Island Developing States, as well as Canada’s role in accelerating global climate action.
COP 28 Side Event | Tackling Climate Change in Africa's Protected Areas
This COP 28 side event will focus on climate change challenges in protected areas and potential interventions, including nature-based solutions.
COP 28 Side Event | A Strategic Imperative: Advancing climate-sensitive peacebuilding
This event will examine opportunities for aligning peacebuilding and adaptation objectives, highlighting perspectives from countries and development agencies who are confronting these twin challenges on the ground.
COP 28 Side Event | Using Progress Reporting to Advance Your NAP: How countries track and assess progress
This event will launch a new NAP Global Network report that explores various approaches to NAP implementation, assessment, and reporting by countries worldwide. Discussions will shed light on the different systems and contexts in which progress reporting has been made to inspire and inform stakeholders about the importance of assessing progress.
COP 28 Side Event | Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform: Bridging discussions in climate and trade forums
This COP 28 side event will explore how fossil fuel subsidy reform is addressed across the climate and trade space, highlighting the actions being taken through UNFCCC processes and at the WTO.
Strengthening Natural Infrastructure Through Public Policy
Highlighting efforts in public policy to strengthen nature-based solutions and opportunities in natural infrastructure.
COP 28 Side Event | Sustainable and Climate-Friendly Reconstruction of Built Environment After Conflicts and Disasters
In this COP 28 side event, international and Ukrainian experts will discuss frameworks, technologies, policies, and practical steps toward a sustainable reconstruction of infrastructure and built environment after conflicts and disasters.
COP 28 Halfway Point Webinar
Catch up on progress from the first week of COP 28 in Dubai and learn what to watch in the second week of the climate conference.
COP 28 Side Event | Advancing International Cooperation and Knowledge Exchange for Implementing Just Energy Transitions in Coal Regions
This COP 28 side event will discuss how partnerships foster collaboration and knowledge exchange across countries and how the new Just Energy Transition in Coal Regions Knowledge Hub can serve as a digital ‘one-stop shop’ on just energy transition.
COP 28 Side Event | What Skills and Capacities Are Needed at Sub-national Levels to Implement NAPs?
This event will examine the importance of sub-national and local-level engagement in national adaptation policies and plans, discussing how capacities and networks can be enhanced to enable vertical integration in decision-making and ensure inclusive and gender-responsive adaptation action.
Advancing Natural Infrastructure 2024 Forum
A premier event to discuss natural infrastructure on the Canadian prairies and shape the future of prairie water infrastructure by working with nature
Trade + Sustainability Hub 2024
Alongside the Thirteenth WTO Ministerial Conference (MC13) we will be running our Trade + Sustainability Hub, bringing together thought leaders from both within and outside governments for a series of conversations on the challenges of building cooperative trade policy that delivers for sustainable development.