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Presidency Event: Accelerating Innovation: collaboration for a net zero future
As the flagship innovation event on the COP26 Science and Innovation Day, this event will bring together Ministers, CEOs and leaders from around the world to showcase clean energy solutions. The event will see the launch of new commitments that enhance international cooperation and ensure innovation delivers for all in order to meet our shared goals of the Paris Agreement.
Marrakech Partnership Futures Lab:Reimagining Carbon Removals
2 minutes Welcome Host: Gabrielle Walker, Director, Valence Solutions5 minutesThe story so farSpeaker: Delia Meth-Cohn, Co-Founder, Rethinking Removals45 minutesBuilding the future - an evolving conversationJames Mwangi, Executive Director, Dalberg Group and Founder of Climate Action Platform - AfricaNili Gilbert, Board Member, Rockefeller FoundationJulio Friedmann, Senior Research Scholar, Columbia UniversityJana Dallan, Partner, CarbonextKumi Naidoo, Former CEO of Greenpeace and former Secretary General of Amnesty International10 minsThe Futurist and the Future – a conversation on our vision Kim Stanley Robinson, Author of Ministry for the FutureCathy Li, UNFCCC representative of youth and women10 mins Back to the present - setting the sceneGabrielle Walker, Director, Valence Solutions15 minsThe implementation challengeWalter Shalka, CEO SuzanoElizabeth Wilmott, Head of Carbon Removals, MicrosoftLeo Prieto, CEO Lemu5 minsNext steps and closing remarksNigel Topping, UNFCCC High Level Climate Champion
Dialogue on gender, science, innovation and technology
20 minOpening remarksRose Mwebaza, Director and Advisory Board Secretary, Climate Technology Centre & Network (CTCN) (tbc)Ongoing work highlights:Stephen Minas, Co-Chair, Technology Executive Committee (Chair)Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, Co-Chair, Facilitative Working Group (FWG) of the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform (LCIPP)Karina Larsen, Knowledge and Communications Manager and Gender focal point, CTCN30 minPanel 1: Gender responsive climate technologies - a look at current practice and policyStella Gamma, MalawiSara Lærke Meltofte Trærup, Head of Section, Technology -Transitions and System Innovation UNEP DTU PartnershipTrupti Jain, Naireeta Services, Bhungroo technology (tbc)GJCS Award winner (tbc)30 minPanel 2: Ensuring climate technology and innovation serves everyoneHéléne Molinier, Senior Policy Advisor on Innovation, UN Women and UN Women Global Innovation Coalition for Change (GICC)Mwanahamisi Singano (FEMNET), Gender Just Climate Solutions and Scale Fund (tbc)Jeannette Gurung, Founder and director of Women Organizing for Change in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (WOCAN), Climate resilient agricultural innovation hub for women farmersGCF Gender Focal point (tbc)10 minClosing discussion and summary