COP28
November 30th – December 12th
COP28 Dubai (2023)
The Conference of the Parties or COP brings together the states party to the Convention each year for two weeks of intense dialogue and negotiation in order to move the conversation forward around Climate Change.
Philanthropy Cortes Solari, through the MERI Foundation, once again organizes the Science for Climate Action pavilion together with the IPCC and the WMO, calling on the public and private sectors and civil society to take concrete actions for mitigation and adaptationto tackle Climate Change. The main aspects of the approach are: conservation of biodiversity, environmental education and the role of philanthropy.
Panelists
MERI Foundation is convinced that in order to face climate change and its impacts, it is necessary to work collaboratively with the public, private and civil society sectors.
Inger Andersen
Executive Director of the UNEP
HE Razan Al Mubarak
IUCN Chair
HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco
Foundation Prince Albert II
Francisca Cortés Solari
Executive President Philanthropy Cortes Solari
Jim Skea
IPCC Chair
Ladislaus Chang’a
IPCC Vice-Chair
Ramon Pichs-Madruga
IPCC Vice Chair
David Cooper
CBD Secretary
David Ainsworth
CBD
Max Bello
Mission Blue
Patricia Morales
CEO Philanthropy Cortes Solari
María Neira
Director of the Department of Public Health and Environment at the World Health Organization (WHO)
Cristian Samper
Bezos Earth Found
Torsten Thiele
Blue Finance Senior Advisor at ORRAA- Ocean Risk & Resilience Action Alliance
Charlotte Mogensen
Head of Program, Velux Foundation
Nathalie Hilmi
Head of Environmental Economics at the Monaco Scientific Centre (CSM)
Tristan Tyrrell
Program Officer, Biodiversity and Climate ChangeProgram Officer, Biodiversity and Climate Change CBD Secretariat, United Nations Environment Program (UNEP)
Sonia Español
Executive Director MERI Foundation
Adel Ben Youssef
Professor of Economics, University Côte d’Azur
Lykke Ogstrup Lunde
Board Member, Velux Fonden
Julian Barbière
Head, Marine Policy and Regional Implementation Section. Integovernemental Oceanographic Commission
Dan Crockett
Director, Blue Marine Foundation
Alexandra Dempsey
Chief Executive Officer, Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation
Lina Hansson
Coordinator of Initiatives Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation
Cecile Sabourault
Director of the Laboratory Unit ECOSEAS (Ecology and Conservation Science for Sustainable Seas) Université Côte d’Azur
Abdalah Mokssit
Secretary of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Ekkehart Ernst
Gemlabs STOA International Advisory Board
Badr Jafar
Executive Director, Crescent Enterprises
Anthony Waldron
University of Cambridge
José Miguel Berguño
VP Senior Corporate Services
Richard Herrington
Director of the Department of Earth Sciences at the Natural History Museum (NHM) in London, United Kingdom
Rym Ayadi
President and Founder of EMEA Euro – Mediterranean Economists Association (EMEA)
Ligia de Castro
Climate Change Advisor Ministry of Environment – Panama
Carlos Duarte
Scientist and Academician King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Program
GMT+4 Dubai
COP28 will take place from November 30 to December 11, with each day having a special and complementary approach to the previous one.
Day / Hour |
Thursday, November 30 |
|---|---|
| 13:30 – 14:30 | Sustainable Finance and Climate Change. |
| 15:00 – 16:30 | Round Table: Blue- Economy and Climate Change. |
| 15:00 – 17:00 | Round Table: Blue- Economy and Climate Change. |
| 18:00 – 19:00 | Opening |
Day / Hour |
Friday December 1st |
| 09:00 – 11:00 | Governance Challenges Triple Crisis. |
Day / Hour |
Saturday December 2nd |
| 09:00 – 10:30 | The Role of Environmental Philanthropy in the Implementation of the Climate UN Process. |
| 10:30 – 12:30 | Workshop: Philanthropy and CC. |
| 18:00 – 19:00 | Conservation. |
Day / Hour |
Sunday December 3rd |
| 13:15 – 14:45 | Ocean and Climate Action. |
| 15:00 – 16:00 | Health and Climate Change. |
| 16:15 – 17:15 | Study of species as indicators of Climate Change. |
| 17:30 – 19:00 | NovoPangea Latam Dialogue. |
Day / Hour |
Monday December 4th |
| 09:00 – 10:00 | Target 30×30 and Climate Action. |
| 13:45 – 14:45 | Blue-Green Economy: Valuation of ecosystem services. |
| 15:00 – 16:00 | The raw-materials challenge: How the metals and mining sector will be at the core of enabling the energy transition. |
Day / Hour |
Tuesday December 5th |
| 15:00 – 16:00 | Businesses with a focus on climate and biodiversity. |
| 16:15 – 17:45 | Private Adaptation to Climate Change: The Case of the Mining Industry. |
Day / Hour |
Wednesday, December 6 |
| 13:15 – 14:30 | From Pledges to Action for Corals. |
Day / Hour |
Friday December 8 |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Mobilizing Industry and Society to Conserve and Restore Coral Reefs. |
| 13:15 – 14:15 | The Role of Higher Education and Research in the decision making process. |
| 14:30 – 16:30 | Transforming education to empower youth and enhancing the particpation of young people in climate change science and IPCC process: challenges, opportunities, Lessons Learned. |
Day / Hour |
Saturday December 9 |
| 14:45 – 15:45 | Conservation model examples. |
| 16:00 – 17:00 | Unheard Voices: Emerging Leadership in Coral Conservation and Restoration from the Global South. |
Day / Hour |
Sunday December 10 |
| 09:00 – 11:00 | Ancestral knowledge and Climate Change. |
| 14:15 – 15:15 | Cold-Water Corals: Hidden Treasures in the Deep Ocean. |
Day / Hour |
Monday December 11 |
| 11:15 – 13:00 | OceanVIsion. |
| 13:30 – 14:30 | RED SEA. |
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