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Towards COP27: Regional forums on Climate Initiatives to Finance Climate Action and the SDGs - Roundtable on Climate Finance – The Energetic Transition in Latin America and the Caribbean

Sustainable development and human settlements
1 September 2022|Event

Ahead of COP27, the UN system, leveraging its convening power, network of experts and influencers at regional levels, will partner with the incoming Egyptian Presidency of COP27 and the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions for COP26 and COP27 to organize a series of five regional forums on “Towards COP27. The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean proposes to address the region’s energy transition as the thematic focus of the Roundtable on Climate Finance, in consideration of both the short-term impacts of the conflict between the Russian Federation and Ukraine on global energy prices and of the medium and long-term potential of the sector for job creation, productive change and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, in accordance with the Paris Agreement.

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Towards COP27: Regional forums on Climate Initiatives to Finance Climate Action and the SDGs Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean Roundtable on Climate Finance – The Energy Transition in Latin America and the Caribbean
Towards COP27: Regional forums on Climate Initiatives to Finance Climate Action and the SDGs Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean Roundtable on Climate Finance – The Energy Transition in Latin America and the Caribbean

Ahead of COP27, the UN system, leveraging its convening power, network of experts and influencers at regional levels, will partner with the incoming Egyptian Presidency of COP27 and the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions for COP26 and COP27 to organize a series of five regional forums on “Towards COP27: Regional Forums on Climate Initiatives to Finance Climate Action and the SDGs” bringing together key stakeholders from public and private sectors, to catalyze additional private sector investment in climate mitigation and adaptation in line with the SDGs. Participants, including public and private financial institutions and countries, initiatives and organizations preparing projects will work together to identify and address financing bottlenecks, to showcase and learn from success stories of private sector investment and share investment-ready climate initiatives in Member States to spur further investment.

The regional forums will focus on convening development cooperation partners and private sector representatives together with countries, initiatives and platforms looking to raise capital for climate investments to foster greater understanding, bridge the gap between investors and projects in need of investment and ultimately catalyze increased investment in critical climate projects.

The round table in Latin America and the Caribbean will be an opportunity to examine priority areas for the region, such as the energy transition, electromobility, strategic minerals and the resilience of Caribbean small island developing states (SIDS). The event will bring together government officials, policymakers and experts, as well as high-level representatives of international organizations, financial institutions, and regional and global companies, to discuss a range of climate transition and resilience projects and define practical steps and commitments for implementing and financing them, for presentation at the COP 27.

 

What are the event objectives?

  • Facilitate engagement with a broad set of partners and stakeholders, to accelerate public and private investment in concrete initiatives, platforms, and projects, and identify and encourage policy actions that correspond to the region’s sustainable energy transition and narrow the current gap in Paris-aligned financial flows.
  • Address barriers to access to financing for development in the different subregions of Latin America and the Caribbean and consider current financing and debt challenges.
  • Identify and share climate finance and investment opportunities that also support the acceleration of the region’s sustainable energy transition
  • Highlight successful examples of countries leveraging investment opportunities for climate action as well as financial institutions and investors turning climate commitments into action and financial flows.
  • Connect representative groups of development partners, governments, and private sector investors to propose and consider concrete instruments and initiatives that accelerate action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

 

Preliminary program

Day 1

TIME & ACTIVITY

FLOW

9:00 – 10.00

Opening ceremony

 
  • Amina J. Mohammed, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General (video message)
  • H.E. Dr. Sameh Shoukry, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Arab Republic of Egypt, President-designate COP27 (video message)
  • Mahmoud Mohieldin, Special Envoy on Financing the 2030 Agenda, Climate Champion COP27 
  • León de la Torre Krais, Ambassador of the European Union in Chile  
  • Joseluis Samaniego, Director of the Sustainable Development and Human Settlements Division, ECLAC

10:00 – 11.30

Energy transition roundtable

 

Moderation and introductory remarks on a just and equitable energy transition in LAC

  • Jeannette Sánchez, Director of the Natural Resources Division, ECLAC

Facilitated discussion where representatives of the energy and finance ministries, and relevant financial institutions present project portfolios on the energy transition, highlighting opportunities for investments.

Cases:

  • David Abiamofo, Minister of Natural Resources, Suriname
  • Jorge Rivera Staff, National Energy Secretary, Panamá
  • Jerónimo Verdugo, Chief of the Project Division, Ministry of Energy, Chile
  • Bernardita Infante, Corporate Finance Manager, Engie, Chile
  • Maurizio Bezzeccheri, Head of Latin America Region, Enel
  • Fernando Branger, Senior Executive and Energy Coordinator, Department of Transport and Energy, CAF- Development Bank of Latin America
  • Rigoberto Ariel Yépez-García, Manager, Infrastructure and Energy Sector, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

Q&A with financial institutions other stakeholders to define their interest to be engaged in portfolio development and financing.

 

4. Wrap up, agreements and road map to COP27

11.30 – 12:00

Coffee break

Networking

12:00 – 13.30

Electromobility roundtable

 

Moderation and introductory remarks on the value chains for urban electromobility in LAC

  • Joseluis Samaniego, Director of the Sustainable Development and Human Settlements Division, ECLAC

Facilitated discussion where representatives of national and subnational governments and relevant financial institutions, present project portfolios on the electromobility value chain development, highlighting opportunities for investments.

Cases:

  • José Salvador Handal Candray, Secretary of the National Council of Energy, El Salvador
  • Sandra Briceño Pérez, Department of Climate Financing and Means of Implementation, Climate Change Division, Ministry of the Environment, Chile
  • Alimar Benítez, Director for Mobility Intelligence, District Secretariat for Mobility, Bogotá, Colombia
  • Wagner Chagas, Director of Operations, SPTrans, São Paulo, Brazil
  • María Belén Loor, Executive Director, CONQUITO, Quito, Ecuador
  • Felipe Cevallos Becker, General Manager and Co-founder, Reborn Electric Motors, Chile

Q&A with financial institutions and other stakeholders to define their interest to be engaged in portfolio development and financing.

 

Wrap up, agreements and road map to COP27

13.30 -14.30

 

Lunch

 

14.30- 16.00

Presentations by development banks on relevant climate financing project pipelines

 

Moderation and introductory remarks

  • Daniel Titelman, Director of the Economic Development Division, ECLAC

Presentations:

  • Rigoberto Ariel Yépez-García, Manager, Infrastructure and Energy Sector, IDB
  • Joaquim Leite, Senior Country Engagement and Finance Specialist Interim Regional Manager for LAC, NDC Partnership Support Unit
  • Edgar Salinas, Senior Executive of Climate Change Coordination, CAF -Development Bank of Latin America

16.00-16.15

Wrap up and closing remarks
  • Nigel Topping, Climate Champion COP26
  • Joseluis Samaniego, Director of the Sustainable Development and Human Settlements Division, ECLAC

 

16.15 – 18.00

Cocktail

Networking

 

Day 2

TIME & ACTIVITY

FLOW

9:00 – 10:30

Sustainable and equitable critical and strategic mineral supply chains for the energy transition Roundtable

 

Moderation and introductory remarks on sustainable and equitable critical and strategic mineral supply chains for the energy transition in LAC

  • Jeannette Sánchez, Director of the Natural Resources Division, ECLAC

Facilitated discussion where representatives of ministries of mining and relevant financial institutions present project portfolios on mining value chain development, highlighting opportunities for investments.

Presentations:

  • Franklin Molina, Minister for Hydrocarbons and Energy, Plurinational State of Bolivia
  • Pamela Morales, Undersecretary for Mining Development, Ministry of Productive Development, Argentina
  • Willy Kracht, Undersecretary for Mining, Ministry of Mining, Chile
  • Roberto Salvarezza, President, YPF Technology (Y-TEC), Argentina
  • Leonardo Valenzuela, Deputy Director of Mining Contracts, Production Development Corporation of Chile (CORFO). Joint presentation with:
  • Patricio Jarpa, General Manager of Nanotec
  • Andreé Henríquez, Executive Director of the Technological Center for Circular Economy
  • Marcelino Madrigal, Chief of the Energy Division, IDB

Q&A with financial institutions and other stakeholders to define their interest to be engaged in portfolio development and financing.

 

Wrap up, agreements and road map to COP27

 

10:30 – 10:45

Coffee break

Networking

10:45 – 12:15

Presentation of initiatives on Climate financing for resilience in Caribbean SIDS and other vulnerable states

Moderator:  Dillon Alleyne, Deputy Director of ECLAC Subregional headquarters for the Caribbean 

 

  • Hon. Christopher Coye, Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development, Belize
  • Sheldon Mclean, Coordinator, Economic Development Unit, ECLAC Subregional Office for the Caribbean
  • Sabina Frederic, President of the Argentine Agency for International Cooperation and Humanitarian Assistance-White Helmets, Argentina (pro tempore Presidency of CELAC)
  • Nadia Spencer-Henry, Debt Manager, Ministry of Finance and Corporate Governance, Antigua and Barbuda
  • Dr. Angus Friday, Blue Economy Director, Waitt Institute
  • Colin Young, Executive Director, Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre

Exchange with financial institutions and other stakeholders

 

12.15- 12.30

Closing remarks and next steps towards COP 27
  • Nigel Topping, Climate Champion COP26    
  • Ambassador Wael Aboulmagd, Special Representative of the COP 27 President-Designate
  • Mahmoud Mohieldin, Special Envoy on Financing the 2030 Agenda, Climate Champion COP27    
  • Joseluis Samaniego, Director of the Sustainable Development and Human Settlements Division, ECLAC

Practical information

September 1 -2, 2022

Celso Furtado conference room, ECLAC, Santiago, Chile

September, 1rst  2022 - 9:00- 17:00  CLT time

September, 2nd  2022 - 9:00- 17:00  CLT time

 

Meeting Number: 829 9518 6574

Meeting Password: 792349

Go to: https://cepal-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ghcCV-KVTWWF8WsUc1l6Sw

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