1:15-2:45 PM - Global Commission on Adaptation Event
Room: UNFCCC Room TBD
3:00-3:45 PM - World Bank Group - Theme 3: Deep Dive
Venue: NDCP Pavilion
5:00-6:00 PM - NZ Agriculture
Talanoa Dialogue Platform
December 2, 2018 (All day) to December 14, 2018 (All day)
Katowice
Poland
Timezone: Europe/Warsaw
The Connect4Climate program joins the UNFCCC Katowice Climate Meetings, COP24, from 2-14 December. We are broadcasting live interviews every day from the MDB Joint Pavilion, 1-2pm (local time) on our Facebook page. Follow our #MDBTalks to get the latest.
Connect4Climate is also broadcasting certain events throughout the two weeks, and filming partner activities and interviews. We are partnering on events relating to our advocacy initiatives, and will be presenting the “Youth Unstoppable” call-to-action. Throughout COP24, we will be supporting youth engagement, education and knowledge activities, promoting climate leadership, engaging partners, and showcasing action to empower climate commitments.
Follow our social media channels to catch highlights, engaging video content and latest developments. The main Twitter hashtag for the events is #COP24. Also find out more on Virtual participation through the UNFCCC, and follow their Webcast.
Photo Credits: Kaia Rose / Connect4Climate
For the Talanoa Dialogue, the important international conversation in which countries and non-Party stakeholders will check progress and seek to increase global ambition to meet the goals of the Paris Climate Change Agreement, please use the hashtag #Talanoa4Ambition.
The twenty-fourth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 24), the fourteenth session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP 14), and the third part of the first session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement (CMA 1.3) will be held at the International Conference Centre (MCK) and the adjacent Spodek Arena in Katowice, Poland, from 2 to 14 December 2018.
Photo Credits: Kaia Rose / Connect4Climate
The high-level segment of COP 24 will be held in two parts. The delivery of national statements from Heads of State and Government during the high-level segment will take place on Monday, 3 December 2018, and will resume on Tuesday, 11 December 2018 and Wednesday, 12 December 2018 with ministers and delegation heads delivering national statements for those Parties that did not deliver statements on 3 December.
The priority outcome from negotiations at COP24 will be the finalization of the “Paris rulebook”, i.e., the framework of rules that will guide the implementation of the Paris Agreement. The World Bank delegation will be participating in over 60 events, announcements and launches.
The World Bank Group will announce new climate targets for 2025, including a major boost in adaptation, and will present analytical work on mobility, transport, and the energy sector. It will also delve into the topic of just transition, focusing on delivering effective low-carbon pathways to development. It is clear we cannot fight poverty without fighting climate change, including scaling up attention to adaptation, and there is a significant opportunity for cleaner, smarter and decarbonized growth.
MDB Joint Pavilion at COP24
For the first time, seven Multilateral Development Banks (ADB, EBRD, EIB, IDB, IFC, IsDB, and WB) and CIFs will be present at COP with a dedicated pavilion that will serve as a convening and networking hub to promote, discuss and share climate solutions with global leaders, media and online influencers. If you are at COP24, please visit us at our welcome desk for more information on our event schedule.
Photo Credits: Kaia Rose / Connect4Climate
Not in Katowice?
You can watch the MDB Joint Pavilion Facebook Live sessions at www.facebook.com/Connect4Climate 
What is COP24?
COP24 is the informal name for the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
The UNFCCC, which entered into force on 21 March 1994, is a “Rio Convention,” one of three adopted at the “Rio Earth Summit” in 1992. Today, the convention boasts near-universal membership; the many countries to have ratified it are known as Parties to the Convention. Preventing “dangerous” human interference with the climate system is the UNFCCC's ultimate objective.
Watch the live Webcast of COP24 provided by UNFCCC
The Conference of the Parties (COP) is the supreme body of the UNFCCC Convention. It consists of the representatives of the Parties to the Convention, and holds its sessions annually. The COP decides what is necessary to ensure the effective implementation of the provisions of the Convention, and conducts regular reviews to ensure that real progress is being made.
As President of COP24, Poland will hold the Presidency of the Climate Convention for the third time, taking over the COP23 Presidency from the Republic of Fiji
UN Secretary-General António Guterres at COP24 in Katowice, Poland. Photo Credits: Kaia Rose / Connect4Climate
Banner and thumbnail photo credits to Kaia Rose / Connect4Climate
Polish Presidency Key Messages
The Polish presidency plans to focus its message on three key themes:
Technology - development of cutting-edge climate solutions such as electromobility; Human - solidarity and the just transition of industrial regions; Nature - achieving climate neutrality by using forests, land, and water management to absorb CO2.
Explore Connect4Climate’s COP24 program (all in local time)
December 3
All day - Heads of State Day (UNFCCC event)
Sir David Attenborough launched UN campaign to promote climate action by the people. Learn more here. Photo Credits: Kaia Rose / Connect4Climate
December 4
9:30-10:30 AM - Climate Policy Initiative - Innovative finance to build climate resilience
Talanoa Dialogue Platform
10:00-11:30 AM - Electric Mobility and Development (World Bank) 
Hosted by the WB and UTIP, this session presents evidence, viewpoints, and analysis on eMobility programs and explores how governments can design and implement programs that are effective at achieving their intended development aims across climate, economic, and policy dimensions.
Venue: MDB Joint Pavilion
1:30-2:30 PM - Facebook Live sessions - How Costa Rica is Advancing Clean Transportation #MDBTalks
Discover how Costa Rica is advancing the electrification of the Public Transport System with Andrea Meza Murillo, Director of Climate Change, Costa Rica #MDBTalks
Venue: MDB Joint Pavilion - Follow LIVE on the Connect4Climate Facebook page
December 5
12:00-1:00 PM - The Regional Pacific NDC Hub: A regional support platform for enhancing and implementing Pacific Island Countries’ NDCs (GIZ event)
1:00-2:00 PM - Facebook Live sessions #MDBTalks
Slater Jewell-Kemker, director of the documentary “Youth Unstoppable” on how to accelerate the global climate action movement #MDBTalks
Venue: MDB Joint Pavilion - Follow LIVE on the Connect4Climate Facebook page
2:00-3:00 PM - Connecting to Accelerate Climate Action: Youth Unstoppable (World Bank)
To accelerate climate action and rollout transformative solutions a global social movement is needed, with young people at the heart of it. The discussion will assess the role of climate communication to reach global audiences and how to align these with raising climate action ambition.
Venue: MDB Joint Pavilion - Follow LIVE on the Connect4Climate Facebook page
December 6
10:00-11:00 AM - Opening Young and Future Generations Day
UNFCCC/Action Hub event
Youthful Welcome to COP24 Climate Conference - Young and Future Generations Day
1:00-2:00 PM - Facebook Live sessions #MDBTalks
Discover how the World Bank is helping African countries to tackle.
Venue: MDB Joint Pavilion - Follow LIVE on the Connect4Climate Facebook page
Climate is Water = Climate change impacts are channeled through the hydrological cycle and propelled by water through the economy, society, and the environment. We are here with Greg Browder, Global Lead for Water Security and Integrated Resource Management, talking about water’s critical role in both climate mitigation and adaptation. #MDBTalks
1:00-2:30 PM - Intergenerational Inquiry
UNFCCC/Action Hub event
Room: Lubelskie
6:00-7:00 PM - Award Ceremony of the Global Youth Video Competition
The competition was launched by UN Climate Change as part of its work on Action for Climate Empowerment, in partnership with tve (Television for the environment), the Global Environment Facility’s Small Grants Programme, which is implemented by the United Nations Development Programme, and Connect4Climate, and supported by Fondation BNP Paribas and the German Federal Environmental Foundation (Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt DBU). Learn more here.
December 7
12:00-1:00 PM - NDC Partnership - Theme 1 & 2: NDCs: Translating Climate Agenda to National Planning and Budget
Venue: NDCP Pavilion
1:00-2:00 PM - Facebook Live sessions #MDBTalks
Join Alzbeta Klein, Director and Global Head, Climate Business from IFC as she talks climate investment opportunity in cities with Hilen Meirovich from BID Cambio Clima.
Venue: MDB Joint Pavilion - Follow LIVE on the Connect4Climate Facebook page
City resilience financing is important in building resilient cities of the future. Join us as we explore how to do this through private sector financing - with Ede Ijjasz-Vasquez, Senior Director for the World Bank Group’s Social, Urban, Rural and Resilience Global Practice, and Ferzina Banaji, World Bank Group.
We were LIVE from COP24 in Katowice to discuss MDBs approach to the Paris Agreement amd how we can work together to catalyze low-carbon and climate resilient development.
2:00-3:00 PM - Communicating Climate Change Panel
Kaia Rose, Connect4Climate, will be speaking at this event
5:00-6:00 PM - GIZ/BMZ - Theme 3: Financial Systems for Climate Action in Developing Countries
Venue: NDCP Pavilion
December 8
1:00-2:00 PM - Facebook Live sessions #MDBTalks
Join Hans Peter Lankes, IFC - International Finance Corporation VP of Economics and Private Sector, to discuss what the private sector can do to catalyze climate action.
Venue: MDB Joint Pavilion - Follow LIVE on the Connect4Climate Facebook page
Meet the winners of the UNFCCC Global Youth Video Competition and learn how the power of film can raise awareness about climate solutions.
LIVE from COP24: Creating supply, demand, and the tools needed for robust Article 6 transfers.
3:00-6:00 PM - "Youth Unstoppable" screening at the Katowice Climate Film Festival followed by Debate: What do environmental activists want?
The Climate Film Festival is an event that brings climate-themed films to a diverse array of people from across the Upper Silesian metropolitan area. The aim is to raise public awareness of the urgency of climate change and the problems it poses to societies and individuals. The festival is also designed to inspire people to take action against climate change at home and in their communities by shifting to sustainable habits and living in a more environmentally-friendly way. The Festival is aligning with partner organizations across the country to take part in the Climate Conference in Katowice and is bringing leaders from around the world to support the message of the COP24 summit.
About "Youth Unstoppable":
When 15-year-old Slater Jewell-Kemker began working on this documentary, she certainly did not expect to finish a full decade later. She spent that period with a camera in hand, brimming with determination and traveling the world to various UN climate summits while documenting the life of young activists. For them, climate change is not just stories in the news, but equally often it is the alarming daily life of their hometowns and villages. Jewell-Kemker’s film unusually saliently shows that we can still save our planet, but that it will require the collective effort of every one of us, along with bold political decisions that rise above particular political interests of the world’s wealthiest nations.
Watch the Call to Action
Slater Jewell-Kemker talks about her film Youth Unstoppable
4:30-6:00 PM - Launch of the Guide to Communicating Carbon Pricing (World Bank)
The Paris Agreement calls for increasing countries’ ability to manage climate impacts, build resilience, and make finance flows consistent with low-carbon, climate-resilient development. This session will present the IDB and ADB approaches, and showcase how countries can benefit from them.
Venue: MDB Joint Pavilion - Follow LIVE on the Connect4Climate Facebook page
December 9
All day - Sustainable Innovation Forum
As an official affiliate event of COP24, the 9th annual Sustainable Innovation Forum 2018 will build on the success of the last eight years to deliver the most engaging, informative and wide-reaching Forum yet – on the sidelines of COP24.
With COP24 being hailed by the UNFCCC as ‘Paris 2.0’, the Sustainable Innovation Forum presents an opportunity to drive forward the Paris Agreement framework by bringing together 600 delegates engaged with fast-tracking the global green economy.
The forum, hosted by Climate Action, will open with an innovation day providing thought leadership, deep-dive discussion, capacity building and networking on four key themes: Circular Economy, Energy Transition, Sustainable Mobility, and Climate Finance. While day two will deliver further high-level policy discussion and debate, structured and informal networking and inspirational keynote speeches by leading ministers, cities, multilateral organizations, investors and private sector vendors and solution providers.
Venue: Vienna House Easy Angelo
December 10
12:00-1:00 PM - Industry: Business Innovation Accelerating Climate Action
UNFCCC/Action Hub event
1:00-2:00 PM - Facebook Live sessions #MDBTalks
Venue: MDB Joint Pavilion - Follow LIVE on the Connect4Climate Facebook page
How is climate change impacting Europe and Central Asia? Join the conversation with Cyril Muller, World Bank’s Europe and Central Asia Vice President and Robert Tomaszewski from Polityka Insight.
Midway through COP24, World Bank's Senior Director for Climate Change, John Roome joins Lord Nicholas Stern, Co-Chair, Global Commission on the Economy and Climate, in a conversation about the opportunities and risks of a low-carbon and climate-resilient future.
1:15-2:45 PM - Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Action
Pre-2020 stocktake: high-level part
Room: Lubelskie
5:00-6:00 PM - The Future of Wine: Bordeaux 2050
UNFCCC/Action Hub event
6:30-7:30 PM - NDC Partnership - UNFCCC Side Event - Theme 4: Raising Ambition through NDC Investment Plans: Dos and Don'ts
Venue: NDCP Pavilion
7:00-9:00 PM - Fashion reception (TBD)
Venue: Silesia Museum
December 11
9:00-10:00 AM - Adapting to a Changing Climate: The World Bank Group’s Adaptation and Resilience Action Plan (World Bank)
The WBG is setting a new strategic direction and set of actions to scale up its level and commitments on climate change adaptation. The high-level panel will discuss what it will take to boost investment, overcome barriers, and unlock the opportunities of proactive adaptation to climate change.
Venue: MDB Joint Pavilion
11:30 AM-1:00 PM - Sport4Climate event
UNFCCC/Action Hub
Room: Pomorze
1:00-2:00 PM - Facebook Live sessions #MDBTalks
Venue: MDB Joint Pavilion - Follow LIVE on the Connect4Climate Facebook page
The World Bank Group’s Innovate4Climate heads to Singapore for Ecosperity Week 2019 where it will showcase opportunities in clean cooling, battery storage, green finance and Asia’s growing climate markets. The I4C organizers join us live to share what to expect at this year’s Innovate4Climate.
COP24 could be an important step towards the operationalization of Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. Join the conversation with Andrei Marcu, Director of the European Roundtable on Climate Change and Sustainable Transition, to learn more about how the World Bank and other MDBs can support the operationalization of Article 6.
6:00-7:30 PM - Global Climate Action Wrap Up & Momentum for Change Showcase Event
Room: Lubelskie
December 12
12:00-1:00 PM - High-Level Celebration: 2 Years of the Partnership in Action (NDCP)
Venue: NDCP Pavilion
1:00-2:00 PM - Facebook Live sessions #MDBTalks
Venue: MDB Joint Pavilion - Follow LIVE on the Connect4Climate Facebook page
LIVE from COP24: IFC and Canada have enjoyed a strong partnership on blended finance for climate for over 7 years. Learn more about the catalytic power of the IFC-Canada Climate Change Program in this conversation with Canada's Ambassador for Climate Change, Patricia Fuller.
Join the conversation with Irina Ghaplanyan, First Deputy Minister of Nature Protection of the Republic of Armenia, to learn more about Armenia’s work on climate change.
Schwarzenneger at COP24
Climate Action starts on our plates, says Arnold Schwarzenegger at COP24! "Raising cattle, livestocks, creates more pollution than all transportation combined."
December 13
10:00-11:00 AM - High-Level Launch of the first ever Planned Relocation Guidelines (Government of Fiji)
Talanoa Dialogue Platform
10:00-11:00 PM - Momentum for Change: Financing for Climate Friendly Investment
UNFCCC/Action Hub event
Momentum for Change: Financing for Climate Friendly Investment was launched in November 2012 to recognize successful financial innovations for adaptation and climate mitigation. It showcases climate activities promoting low-carbon growth and highly resilient communities through the use of innovative financing mechanisms.
11:00AM-12:00 PM - Climate Action Starts at School
UNFCCC/Action Hub event
11:00AM-12:00 PM - World Bank Group & UNDP - Guatemala - Theme 2: More Than The Sum of Its Parts: Development Institutions Support NDC Implementation under the NDC Partnership
Venue: NDCP Pavilion
1:00-2:00 PM - Stepping Up Climate Action
Room: Lubelskie
1:00-2:00 PM - Facebook Live sessions #MDBTalks
Venue: MDB Joint Pavilion - Follow LIVE on the Connect4Climate Facebook page
CIF is TEN! Watch CIF head Mafalda Duarte, LIVE from COP24, to know more about CIF’s ten years of climate action and its upcoming anniversary event in Morocco.
Join Nancy Saich, European Investment Bank Climate Change Expert, as she talks the highlights of the past two weeks in Katowice and the challenges ahead to meet the Paris Agreement.
Italian Minister Sergio Costa Highlights Importance of Climate Education
"No one is excluded from this process. We are all participants in the fight against climate change"emphasized Italian Minister for Environment, Land and Sea Protection, Sergio Costa, on Education Day at COP24.
"We want to show the world our true intention, to protect the environment with concrete actions, focusing on participation, education and training."
He highlights the importance of early environmental education and training to prepare society with the challenge of solving climate change. Transparency, participation, a common view and a shared path forward are needed to accelerate action and protect the planet.
Minister Sergio Costa also announced Italy's interest in hosting the UN Climate Change COP26 conference in 2020.
Find out more about the Ministero dell'Ambiente e della Tutela del Territorio e del Mare: http://www.minambiente.it/
3:00-4:00 PM - Global Coal Phase-out and The Just Transition
UNFCCC/Action Hub event
4:00-5:00 PM - COP24 Presidency Event
UNFCCC/Action Hub event
5:00-6:00 PM - Empowering Youth to Take Climate Action
UNFCCC/Action Hub event
December 14
12:00-1:00 PM - The Nature Conservancy & Norway - Theme 4: Enhancing NDCs with Natural Climate Solutions
Venue: NDCP Pavilion
1:00-2:00 PM - Facebook Live sessions #MDBTalks
Venue: MDB Joint Pavilion - Follow LIVE on the Connect4Climate Facebook page
