COP26 Shifting Systems Roundtable Series

As COP26 approaches, the world is living with the impacts of climate change. Our climate and environmental boundaries are being tested and our systems are changing faster than we expected.  

With world leaders set for critical climate negotiations in Glasgow, Climate Group presents the Net Zero Futures roundtable series designed to unite and connect leaders in policy, business, finance, and advocacy to share, support and shift systems and realise net zero futures. Each roundtable brings together critical stakeholders from across Climate Group’s networks to co-create a series of recommendations for short term actions and influential levers that could start to shift critical elements within key emitting systems towards a net zero future.  

Systems change for a net zero future requires radical collaboration which is only possible if these stakeholders work together and utilise their influence in critical areas. This roundtable series asks participants to share best practice, lessons learnt, and the challenges they face to support the development of key recommendations for short term action that can shift key systems towards a net zero future. 

Aims: 

• Share cross sector and cross industry learnings to support systems shifts 
• Support the development of key action areas to shift systems in the short and long term   
• Shift critical elements and understand the levers that can result in shifting systems  

Objectives: 

• Prioritise: Understand what must be prioritised to create systems change for the short, medium and longer term from different perspectives 
• Prepare: Learn from different stakeholders on how to prepare your organisation to have an impact and what you can do to contribute to shifting systems 
• Pathways: Develop a set of recommendations for business, governments, NGOs, and financers to take real short-term actions and help shift the system being discussed

Roundtables:

Shifting Systems – Asia Energy: Funding the phase out of coal

Date: Thursday, 4 November

Time: 7.30am – 9.00am GMT

Drawing on Climate Group’s existing work across the region and bringing together stakeholders from across Climate Group’s business systems, the Under2Coaltion, and the wider finance community, this roundtable seeks to define a set of key action areas and appropriate financing mechanisms to finance the transition away from coal dependency in the region.

 

Shifting Systems – Finance: Banking on systems change

Date: Thursday, 4 November

Time: 12.30pm – 2.00pm GMT

In partnership with Oliver Wyman, this roundtable brings together leading global banks and policy makers to share the progress they have made since Paris, the challenges they have faced and the role they need to play in the next decade. This session will discuss how to reasonably shift financing for sectors that contribute materially to climate change and how banks can work together to consistently measure financed emissions and financing the systems shifts we need across different sectors.

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Shifting Systems – Justice: Embedding environmental and social justice

Date: Monday, 8 November

Time: 8.00am – 9.30am GMT

Bringing together members from Climate Group’s business action campaigns and  subnational governments from around the world, this roundtable will discuss how to meaningfully engage and support communities on the ground, creating inclusive transition plans for a net zero future.  

 

Shifting Systems - Industry: A net zero materials revolution

Date: Tuesday, 9 November

Time: 8.00am – 9.30am GMT

This roundtable brings together key stakeholders from policy, business and investment to create tangible recommendations for the built environment on accelerating the demand for green materials.  

 

Shifting Systems – Supply Chains: Leading scope 3 emission collaboration

Date: Tuesday, 9 November

Time: 3.30pm – 5.00pm GMT

In partnership with Estée Lauder Companies, this roundtable brings together leaders from across the industry spectrum to share lessons learnt, best practice and the opportunities that lie ahead if organisation put competition aside and design collaborative strategies to tackle shared challenges.

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