LEDS LAC at LAC Climate Week 2019

The Latin America and Caribbean Climate Weekwill be held in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, from August 19-23, 2019. More than 3,000 attendees are expected to participate, including ministers from the region and senior representatives of multilateral agencies and non-governmental organizations.

The Government of Brazil and the city of Salvador, Bahia, will host Climate Week, which is organized in partnership with a number of international and regional agencies with the main objective of boosting the region's response to climate change.

Meet here the complete agenda.

See here some of the events where the LEDS LAC community participates:

Side event
Discussing the Regional Target on the Use of Non-Conventional Renewable Energy Sources". (event closed)
Date: Wednesday, August 21
Time: 10:00 - 13:00
Organizers: Ministry of Mines and Energy of Colombia with the support of IRENA and LEDS GP-NREL.
Colombia, in its effort to increase the use of non-conventional renewable energy (NCRE), decided to join the Energy Transition Coalition, convened by the Secretary General of the United Nations, and has presented a regional initiative to reach at least 20% of NCRE penetration in Latin America and the Caribbean by 2030, reaching 85. 087MW of installed capacity, where 36,128 MW would come from additional new capacity.087MW of installed capacity, where 36,128 MW would come from new additional capacity.knowing the ambition and the challenge that the establishment of this goal represents for the region, this space for discussion is opened to the countries of the region.

Thematic block 2.2
Infrastructure, Cities and Global Action (Transport)
Date: Wednesday, August 21
Time: 13:30 to 15:55
Room: SDG1
Organizers: SLoCaT, UN Environment, C40, GIZ, LEDS LAC
Marina Grossi, President of CEBDS (Conselho Empresarial Brasileiro para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável - Local Chapter of World Business Council for Sustainable Development); Mr. Arnd Beck, Regional Representation for Latin America, European Investment Bank; Mr. Andrés Alcalá, Principal Executive, Urban Mobility Specialist of Development Bank of Latin America (CAF); Ms. Anie Amicci, Urban Mobility Manager, Brazilian National Development Bank. 

Thematic block 3.1 
Energy transition
Date: Wednesday, August 21
Time: 16:00 to 18:30
Room: SDG1
Organizers: IRENA, WBCSD, LEDS GP, GlobalABC, ICC

Side event
Integral solutions for the implementation of transport components of NDCs

Date: Thursday, August 22
Time: 12:30 to 13:25
Room: SDG 7
Organizers: LEDS LAC with Support
Moderator: Rodrigo Rodriguez, Sustentar
Panelists: Ariel Filadoro, Ministry of Transportation of Argentina; Ramón Cruz, ITDP

Side event 
EUROCLIMA+ supports climate policies: actions and projects in Central and South America
Date: Thursday, August 22
Time: 13.30 hrs
Organizers: EUROCLIMA+
Exhibitors: Jorge Pinto Antunes, DG Climate, European Union; Stephanie Horel, DG DEVCO, European Union; Mariana Gianiaki, National Association of Municipal Environmental Bodies (ANAMMA), Brazil; Cristina García, Climate Change Mitigation Unit Coordinator, Ecuador; Hernán Blanco, Fundación Avina, Chile.

Plenary 5
Long-Term Strategies and Decarbonization
Date: Thursday, August 22
Time: 14:30 to 15:40
Room: SDG13
Organizers: UN Environment, IDB, LEDS LAC
Speakers: Amal-Lee Amin, Climate Change Division Chief, Interamerican Development Bank, Agustin Matteri, UN Environment, Patricia Campos, Ministry of Environment of Costa Rica, Ivan Dario, Ministry of Environment of Colombia, Mr Benno Hain, German Energy Agency, Paola Herrera, CAEM - Corporacion Ambiental Empresarial, Colombia, Emma Torres, Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)

NDC Regional Dialogue
Outcomes of Negotiations, the Road to COP-25 and NDCs in the Region

Date: Monday, August 19
Time: 9:45 - 11:00
Room: SDG 1
Session Chair: Mr. William Agyemang-Bonsu, UNFCCC Secretariat
Speakers: Mr. Carlos Ruiz-Garvia, UNFCCC Regional Collaboration Centre Panama; Ms. Pía Zevallos, Libélula; Mr. Pablo Vieira, NDC Partnership

NDC Regional Dialogue
Concrete Climate Action on the Ground: Resilience and Adaptation (focus on Latin America region) 

Date: Monday, August 19
Time: 16:00 - 17:30
Room: SDG 2
Facilitators: UNDP, World Bank
Speakers: Ms. Belén Reyes - Ministry of Housing, Land Planning, and Environment (Uruguay); Ms. Evelyn Rodriguez - Ministry of Environment (Honduras); Ms. Marleny Oliva Orellana - Ministry of Environment (Guatemala); Ms. Johanna Pinzon - National Planning Department (Colombia); Ms. Marleny Oliva Orellana - Ministry of Environment (Guatemala); Ms. Johanna Pinzon - National Planning Department (Colombia).)

NDC Regional Dialogue
Coordinated Action Plan on Financing NDCs

Date: Tuesday, August 20
Time: 09:00 - 10:30
Room: SDG 1
Session Chair: Mr. Gianluca Merlo, UNDP
Speakers: Ms. Ana Bucher, World Bank; Mr. Raul Salazar, UN Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR); Mr. Carlos Sanchez, Willis Towers Watson; Mr. Mauricio Lavin Valenzuela, Chile; Ms. Gillian Guthrie, Jamaica.

Carbon Pricing, Markets and Sustainable Development in LAC
Communicating Carbon Pricing: Sparking Broad & Durable Stakeholder Support
Date: Tuesday, August 20
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Room: SDG 8
Organizers: Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition (CPLC), the World Bank Group, and the International Emissions Trade Association (IETA)
Speakers: María Paz Cigarán, Libélula (Peru); Paulina Santos, MexiCO2 (Mexico); Guilherme Borba Lefevre , FGV (Brazil); Marina Grossi, CEBDS.

Salvador Climate Change
Mobilizing the money for city-level climate action
Date: Tuesday, August 20
Time: 9:00 - 12:30
Room: SDG 13
Organizers: City of Salvador with support from Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Partners: ICLEI -Local Governments for Sustainability; CPI - Climate Policy Initiative
Language: Portuguese (and Spanish - translation available)

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