The EU’s external cooperation post-2020: boosting ambitious and coherent climate action

Event Type
Official COP25 Side Event

Location / Date
Madrid, 11.12.2019

The European Commission’s Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development (DG DEVCO), L'Institut du développement durable et des relations internationales (IDDRI), German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)

Together with DG DEVCO and ETTG-partner IDDRI, DIE  co-organized an Side Event on "The EU’s external cooperation post-2020: boosting ambitious and coherent climate action"at the EU Pavilion. This event aimed to bring forth both the policy and research perspectives on the matter, highlighting interlinkages between climate change and sustainable development, with a thematic focus on land and agriculture and a regional focus on Africa.

Speakers
Session 1

• Carla Montesi, Director for Planet and Prosperity, Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development, European Commission
• Martin Kipping, Head of Devision, Climate Policy, German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
• Representative of ACP Group of States (tbd)

Session 2

• Zinta Zommers, Programme Officer, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction and Lead Author of IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land
• Gabriela Iacobuta, Climate Policy Researcher, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
• Jonahan Mockshell, Agricultural Economist, International Centre for Tropical Agriculture, CIAT & Associate Researcher, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)

Moderation

• Lola Vallejo, Climate Programme Director, IDDRI

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