Systemiq at COP 28

Brazil is at the forefront of food systems transformation; needing to fight hunger and malnutrition while protecting nature, especially the Amazon rainforest.
Panelists from across Brazil´s food system will discuss the recent advances in policies on food and land use nationally as well as the challenges that still need to be addressed, from delivering integrated public policies, promoting sustainable supply chains and ensuring livelihoods for rural populations.
The event is hosted by the newly created Food and Land Use (FOLU) platform in Brazil and will spotlight how the coalition aims to contribute to Brazil´s ambitions on the road to COP30.

To achieve the Paris agreement and keep 1.5 alive we need ambitious food systems transformation. Why do we talk about “food systems” and what are the implications for climate targets, the pushback and the solutions. What must parties and non-state actors achieve at COP28 to catalyze the transformation ?
A presentation and panel discussion will outline the current state of food systems transformation, propose what a successful outcome outcome at COP28 might look like and define what each set of stakeholders needs to bring to the table to make the transition possible.
The event is hosted by FOLU in collaboration with the Food Systems Partnership members and the Food4Climate Pavillion

An event hosted by the UN Climate Champions & Blended Finance Taskforce

Izabella Teixeira, Co chair of the IRP, and Systemiq Partner Patricia Ellen join a panel of expert speakers to consider the role of the private sector and civil society in Brazil’s green transition.

Discussing the role of communities in regenerative projects for coastal forests, with Indika and Partnerships For Forests.

A focus on regenerative cocoa projects and their positive impacts on nature and communities. Organised by Partnerships for Forests West Central Africa

The Blended Finance Taskforce will host a roundtable which previews critical COP28 climate finance priorities on mobilising capital for climate-positive growth and lays out an action plan to COP30.

In partnership with the Blended Finance Taskforce, Maya Ziswiler, CEO, UBS Optimus Foundation, will host a lunch focused on how to scale blended finance solutions.

Policy and industry perspectives on how green steel and a transition for HTA sectors could support Ukraine’s recovery.

Dr Naoko Ishii, Director of the Center for Global Commons, and H.E Razan Al-Mubarak, UN Climate Change High-Level Champion, are among the speakers at this event organised by the World Bank and Climate Champions​

Opening: Jennifer Morris, CEO, TNC

Launch of the Financial Roadmap: Jennifer Ring, Systemiq; Laura Barlow, Group Head of Sustainability, Barclays; Cristián Samper, Managing Director and Leader for Nature Solutions, BEF; Maya Ziswiler, CEO of UBS Optimus;

Panel discussion: Ignace Beguin, Ocean Lead, Climate Champions; Tim Christophersen, VP Climate Action, Salesforce; Alicia Montalvo, Manager of Climate Action and Biodiversity, CAF; Lord Benyon, UK (TBC); Jenny McInnes, Global Head of Policy and Partnerships, HSBC; Simon Young, Senior Director, Disaster Risk Finance / Parametrics, WTW

Closing remarks: M. Sanjayan, CEO, Conservation International

This panel event presents the Energy Transitions Commission’s ‘Fossil Fuels in Transition’ report, which calls for a rapid phase-down of fossil fuel demand and supply.

Launch of The Breakthrough Effect in ASEAN report which sets out a blueprint for the public and private sectors to unlock tipping points and decarbonize major industries in some of the world’s most climate vulnerable countries – including Indonesia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. The report examines the highest-emitting sectors in ASEAN where there are near-term opportunities for positive tipping points in net-zero solutions. These were found to be power, two-wheelers and buses, industrial heat, shipping and minerals refinery.

This launch event, organised by the COP Presidency and chaired by Amar Bhattacharya, features speakers including Dr Naoko Ishii,  Director for Center for Global Commons at University of Tokyo

Panel 1: Scaling Climate Tech: From Lab to Early Commercialisation. Moderated by Irena Spazzapan, Co-Founding Partner at Systemiq Capital, with:

• Dr. Motaz Alsolaim, General Manager of Innovation and Modern Technology, Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture
• Thane Campbell, Dean of the Venture Science Doctorate at Deep Science Ventures
• Barbara Diehl, Chief Partnership Officer at SPRIND – Germany’s Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation

Panel 2: Scaling Climate Tech: From Early Commercialisation to Infrastructure. Ahmad Butt, Executive Chairman at Deep Science Ventures, with:

• Irina Gorbunova, Head of X-Carb Innovation Fund at ArcelorMittal
• George Polk, Partner at Vision Ridge Partners

At which a moderated panel will consider the positive system impacts of battery-electric container handling equipment in port services.

This event will examine the state of play of food systems finance and explore a variety of innovative mechanisms that could be used to invest in the transition. It will touch on the role of repurposing subsidies, blended finance models for forests, the role of commercial banks and investors, as well as the innovative packages being considered by development-finance institutions.
This event is hosted by the FOLU in partnership with the Center for Global Commons of the University of Tokyo and the Blended Finance Taskforce

Co-hosted by Mission Possible Partnership, this implementation lab will include the presentation of work on Green Market Accelerators.

Accelerating climate-positive growth and sustainable development.
Join FSD Africa & Blended Finance Taskforce’s event on mobilising capital for climate-positive growth in emerging markets.

Including a presentation from Janez Potocnik (virtual), key messages from IRP Co-Chair piece on transition materials

ETC Chair Adair Turner will be presenting ETC analysis on the size of potential emissions reductions that COP28 agreements could achieve by 2030, with High Level Champion Razan Al Mubarak and other speakers.

Find out more about Forest and Climate Leaders Partnership’s Country Packages at these workshops on Peru, Republic of Congo, and Papua New Guinea.

Panel with the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Development Office – finance lessons learned from the Partnerships For Forests and Mobilising Finance for Forests programmes.

A talk with KADIN (Indonesian Chamber of Commerce), Indika Nature, P4F on lesson learned from the globe: challenges, success stories, opportunities in building regenerative forest business with the communities.

Hosted by the COP28 Presidency, UN Climate Champions, Mangrove Alliance for Climate and Global Mangroves Alliance

A Partnerships for Forests panel event with the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, on P4F and MFF programmes.

Talk with KADIN (Indonesian Chamber of Commerce), forestry business, and global offtakers.

Regeneration needs to occur at 4 spatial levels – farm, regional, national, value chain. Much of the corporate and investor focus has been on value chains and farms, ignoring landscapes layer, which is a vital entry point for organizing, incentivizing, and observing regenerative outcomes. We need to foster closer collaboration between actors at each level, landscape-level initiatives show us this is possible as we learn from integrated landscape approaches with regenerative outcomes.
The event is coordinated by Regen10, a FOLU Global Initiative.

Speakers include Steffi Lemke (German Minister for Environment), Jim Skea (IPCC Chair), Janez Potocnik (IRP Co-Chair)

With an address by the Food and Land Use Coalition’s Executive Director, Morgan Gillespy, this is the official global launch of the design guidance for a regenerative outcomes measurement framework rooted in the perspectives of farmers and landscape stewards. Once fully developed, the framework will overcome the disconnects between the prevailing 115 frameworks which largely align towards shallower notions of regenerative, thereby building a critical bridge between agroecological, regenerative and Indigenous foodways.
The event is coordinated by Regen10, a FOLU Global Initiative.