COP23: Focus on climate action and SDGs

Event Type
Side events and conferences

Location / Date
Bonn, 04.11.2017 until 17.11.2017

German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) und Partner

The international Climate Change Conference 2017, under the presidency of Fiji, was held in Bonn from 6 to 17 November 2017. This year’s delegations at the Climate Change Conference (23rd Conference of the Parties) needed to prove their commitment to the climate-related obligations passed in Paris 2015 and Marrakesh 2016. This time, it was all about the implementation of the Paris and process in establishing the Paris rulebook has been made.

However, the focus was not only on climate change. “Especially regarding the presidency of Fiji, a small island state highly affected by climate-change, awareness needs to be raised on the positive connections between climate action and sustainable development,” Dirk Messner, director of the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), states. “The Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) can only be achieved together as they determine each other.”

Therefore, the DIE explored the connections between SDGs and the Paris Agreement in multiple events in advance and during COP23 and fostered the dialogue between representatives from science, economy, society and politics from the global south and north

Fostering diverse dialogue by DIE

On the weekend before the negotiations started, DIE and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) welcomed high-level guests from the international, national and local politics, economy and civil society as well as from science, media and the arts to the international conference „Climate Action and Human Wellbeing at a Crossroads: Historical Transformation or Backlash?”.  (Conference 4 -5.11.2017, further information: www.crossroadsbonn.org)

Furthermore, DIE created with the „Interconnections Zone“ a transdisciplinary room for dialogue, discussion and mutual exchange. With a thematic focus on the synergies between the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, more than 40 events were organised together with more than 100 partner organisations. (Interconnections Zone 6 - 17.11.2017)

Within the BMZ-financed “Klimalog” project, DIE participated and organised several events in and around the Bonn Zone:

• 6 November 2017
  Side Event “Catalysing Climate Action, Realizing the SDGs: Science, Interconnections & Implementation”
  organised by DIE and DFG, ACTS, IAI
  Location: Bonn Zone
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• 8 November 2017
  German Science Hour „Communicating Climate Science”
  Location: German Pavilion, Bonn Zone
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• 10 November 2017
  Side Event “The 2030 Agenda and the Paris Agreement: towards a new and coherent development paradigm at national and international level”
  organised by DIE, BMZ, GIZ, SEI und WRI
  Location: German Pavilion, Bonn Zone
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• 11-12 November 2017
  Conference Development & Climate Days
  DIE as a co-host partner jointly with IIED, RCCC and many more
  Location: Kameha Grand Hotel, Bonn
  Find further information here: www.die-gdi.de/en/events/development-and-climate-days/

• 12 November 2017
  Event series “Towards a Low Carbon, Green Energy Future”
  DIE as partner of the Embassy of the Republic of Korea, UN Volunteers, IRENA, UNCCD, EnergieAgentur.NRW, ICLEI, EUROSOLAR, UNEP Climate Action, WWEA, Germanwatch, endev, MicroEnergy International
  Location: Hotel Koenigshof, Adenauerallee 9, Bonn
  
  

• 13 November 2017
  Side Event “The role of decision support tools for public-private climate risk insurance solutions”
  organised by DIE, Munich Climate Insurance Initiative (MCII), Oasis LMF, PIK, H2020 Insurance Team
  Location: EU-Pavilion, Bonn Zone
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• 13 November 2017
  Conference “Low-Emissions Solutions”
  together with WBCSD, SDSN, ICLEI
  Location: GOP Theatre, Karl-Carstens-Straße 1, Bonn

• 13-17 November 2017
  School programme with Engagement Global
  Location: Climate Planet, Bonn Zone

• 15 November 2017
  JRF vor Ort: Potentials of Renewable Energies for Sustainable Development
  Location: Interconnections Zone
  More information: www.die-gdi.de/veranstaltungen/potentials-of-renewable-energies-for-sustainable-development/

• 16 November 2017
  Side Event “Clean Energy Transition for Sustainable Development”
  organised by IEA and DIE
  Location: Interconnections Zone
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• 17 November 2017
  Side-Event “Human migration in an era of climate change”
  organised by DIE, Bread for the World and ICSC (Philippines)
  Location: German Pavilion, Bonn Zone
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• 17 November 2017
  Side Event “SDGs – NDC Connections - Interconnections between climate change, Agenda 2030 and national development priorities - Future directions for the SIDS”
  Location: Nordic Pavilion, Bonn Zone
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• 17 November 2017
  The People’s Agenda:  A Human Rights Based Approach to Climate Action
  organised by CIVICUS, Action for Sustainable Development, PIANGO
  Location: Fiji Pavilion, Bonn Zone, COP23

Hinweis

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