Youth Dialogues: Inclusive Intergenerational Climate Finance

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Join us for an intergenerational discussion of outcomes from the Youth Dialogues on Inclusive Climate Finance recently hosted by the COP29 Presidency Youth Climate Champion and the World Bank Group’s Connect4Climate program, which provided opportunities for youth to learn about institutional climate finance processes and share their own policy priorities with experts.

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Energy Transition and Green Jobs
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<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">Transitioning to a low-carbon future starts with clean energy. The good news is that the emerging renewable energy sector</span>—wind, solar, hydro—<span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">has the power to drive job creation worldwide.</span></span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong><span style="color:#008000">Goal:</span> </strong><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">This working group will generate proposals to drive the energy transition and foster green jobs in the wake of the pandemic.</span></span></span></p>

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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">Read our article on&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.connect4climate.org/article/sustainable-recovery-building-b…; style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(17, 85, 204)">Sustainable Recovery</span></a></span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">Watch #Youth4ClimateLive&nbsp;</span><a href="https://youtu.be/EG20_RyOqVU&quot; style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(17, 85, 204)">Episode 2: Driving Sustainable Recovery</span></a></span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:18px">Read <a href="http://India’s Solar Learning Curve Inspires Action Across the World" target="_blank">"India’s Solar Learning Curve Inspires Action Across the World,"</a>&nbsp;a World Bank Feature Story on the hard&nbsp;but vital work of expanding solar energy infrastructure in India and beyond</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px">Check out what transpired at <a href="§%09https:/www.seforall.org/events/seforall-youth-summit-2021">SE4All’s 2021 Youth Summit</a></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px">Add your input to <a href="https://studentenergy.org/">Student Energy’s Global Youth Energy Outlook</a></span></p>
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Adaptation and Resilience
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<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">Climate change is already here, and whatever changes we implement&nbsp;now will take decades to start undoing the damage. So even as we work to reimagine our economies and enshrine sustainability in policy, we must also address the realities of global warming that are facing us today.</span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px"><strong><span style="color:#008000">Goal:</span> </strong><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">This working group&nbsp;will focus on enhancing the role of youth in driving adaptation and resilience, in part by eliminating barriers to entry.</span></span></p>

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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:arial">Read Connect4Climate’s article on </span><a href="https://www.connect4climate.org/article/adaptation-resilience-collectiv…; style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(17, 85, 204); font-family:arial">Adaptation and Resilience</span></a></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:arial">Watch #Youth4ClimateLive </span><a href="https://youtu.be/hPXbGd7iOXk&quot; style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(17, 85, 204); font-family:arial">Episode 8: Driving Adaptation and Resilience</span></a></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px">Read the <a href="https://gca.org/reports/global-youth-call-to-action-adapt-for-our-futur… Youth Call to Action: Adapt for our Future</a> report</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px">Read about the <a href="https://gca.org/youth-in-climate-adaptation-moving-towards-the-digitali…; target="_blank">digitalization of agriculture</a>&nbsp;in&nbsp;this post from the Global Center on&nbsp;Adaptation</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px">And check out&nbsp;these&nbsp;helpful resources on&nbsp;<a href="https://gca.org/programs/youth-leadership/">youth leadership in adaptation</a>, also courtesy of the GCA</span></p>
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Nature-Based Solutions
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<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">Technology can help us build a sustainable economy, but we can't forget that the ulimate key to life on Earth is nature itself. Nature-based solutions</span>—approaches to sustainable development&nbsp;respecting and drawing inspiration from the wonders of the world around us—<span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">will allow us to restore the vibrancy of life on earth, saving endangered species, protecting ecosystems, and revitalizing areas damaged by&nbsp;sea rise, drought, and desertification. </span></span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong><span style="color:rgb(0, 128, 0)">Goal:</span>&nbsp;</strong><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">This working group will explore the interrelations between climate change, nature and health, generating strategies&nbsp;to build back better via&nbsp;natural solutions.</span></span></span></p>

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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">Read Connect4Climate’s article on&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.connect4climate.org/?q=article/nature-based-solutions-harmo…; target="_blank"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(17, 85, 204)">N</span>ature-Based Solutions</a></span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">Watch #Youth4ClimateLive&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color:transparent">Episode 4: </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb8gStJ68eM&quot; target="_blank">"Driving N</a></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb8gStJ68eM&quot; target="_blank">ature-Based Solutions"</a></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px">Participate in the <a href="https://www.youth4nature.org/storytelling">Youth4Nature Storytelling Campaign</a></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px">Find out more about the <a href="http://www.decadeonrestoration.org/&quot; target="_blank">U</a><a href="https://www.decadeonrestoration.org/">N Decade on Ecosystem Restoration</a></span></p>
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Financial Flows
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">We can’t achieve a low-carbon future if finance and financial flows do not support it.&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color:transparent">Subsidies to coal and gas have long hindered the affordability of green energy technologies</span>—it's time to bring an end to these perverse incentives<span style="background-color:transparent">. Innovative market-based solutions exist for creating low-carbon economies, and we need to harness them to drive the global economy toward a sustainable model. When&nbsp;climate-positivity is linked with profit, the goals of the climate movement will be much easier to reach at the required scale.</span></span></span></p>

<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong><span style="color:#008000">Goal:</span> </strong><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">This working group will produce&nbsp;proposals on how countries can realign their financial flows to facilitate&nbsp;a low-carbon future.</span></span></span></p>

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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">Read&nbsp;<a href="http://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/100_billion_climate_finance_re…; target="_blank">"Delivering on the </a></span><a href="http://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/100_billion_climate_finance_re…; target="_blank"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(17, 85, 204)">$100 Billion Climate Finance Commitment and Transforming Climate Finance</span></a>,&nbsp;a<span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">&nbsp;report from the UN</span></span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">Get a quick primer on climate finance&nbsp;from </span><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/carbo…; style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(17, 85, 204)">Science Direct</span></a></span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">Bone up on the World Bank Group's efforts in&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/climatechange/brief/world-bank-carbo…; style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(17, 85, 204)">Climate Finance</span></a></span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">Study the World Bank Group's materials on&nbsp;</span><a href="https://ieg.worldbankgroup.org/evaluations/carbon-finance&quot; style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(17, 85, 204)">Carbon Markets</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">&nbsp;and how they can help cut back on greenhouse gas emissions</span></span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">Study&nbsp;</span><a href="https://ieg.worldbankgroup.org/evaluations/carbon-finance&quot; style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(17, 85, 204)">Carbon Markets</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"> and how they can help cut back on greenhouse gas emissions</span></span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Learn from UNCHR how <a href="https://www.unhcr.org/55005b069.pdf&quot; target="_blank">Carbon Financing</a> can support the world's most vulnerable populations</span></span></p>
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Tourism
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">Plane flights, boat rides, lodging, souvenirs and other elements of tourism&nbsp;contribute heavily to carbon emissions. For some countries, tourism represents a significant percentage of&nbsp;GDP, but that doesn't mean climate consciousness isn't an option: it just means more work needs to be put in to green the tourism economy as we build back from Covid-19. "Ecotourism" has become a popular niche in the last ten years, but we have to reimagine tourism from top to bottom to properly address its impacts on our atmosphere.</span></span></span></p>

<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong><span style="color:#008000">Goal:</span> </strong><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">This working group will generate proposals to guide the smart, sustainable recovery of the tourism industry worldwide.</span></span></span></p>

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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">Read the UN News article&nbsp;<a href="http://news.un.org/en/story/2019/12/1052791&quot; target="_blank">"</a></span><a href="http://news.un.org/en/story/2019/12/1052791&quot; target="_blank"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(17, 85, 204)">Greener tourism: Greater collaboration needed to tackle rising emissions</span></a><a href="http://news.un.org/en/story/2019/12/1052791&quot; target="_blank">"</a></span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">Size up the&nbsp;</span><a href="https://sustainabletravel.org/issues/carbon-footprint-tourism/&quot; style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(17, 85, 204)">Carbon Footprint of Tourism</span></a>&nbsp;with this resource from Sustainable Travel International</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Learn from Climate Brief&nbsp;where in the world tourism has <a href="http://www.carbonbrief.org/tourism-responsible-for-8-of-global-greenhou…; target="_blank">disproportionate impacts on climate</a></span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px">Familiarize yourself with <a href="https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/environment/publication/banking-on-p…; target="_blank">"Banking on Protected Areas: Promoting Sustainable Protected Area Tourism to Benefit Local Communities,"</a>&nbsp;a new report from the World Bank</span></p>
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#DrivingAmbition: Non-State Actors' Engagement
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This article is part of a series on topics to be explored at this year's #Youth4Climate: #DrivingAmbition event. Check back regularly for updated content!

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Food
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<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrZViyhwo_A]</span></span></p&gt;

<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Food production and food systems have an outsize impact on our climate. Did you know that <a href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/food-systems-responsible-for-one-third-of-h…; target="_blank">food systems are responsible for fully one-third of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions</a>? This is not how it has to be, however: we have the power to support planet-positive farming and circular agricultural practices. <a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/03/5-ways-transform-food-system-sus…; target="_blank">Transforming our food systems is both possible and essential.</a></span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:#008000"><strong>Goal:</strong></span>&nbsp;<span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">This working group will&nbsp;draft proposals on how to improve climate resiliency in food systems and how to productively engage the food industry on ways it can promote sustainability and climate-consciousness.</span><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">​</span></span></span></p>

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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">Read this detailed breakdown of <a href="https://www.ipcc.ch/srccl/chapter/chapter-5/&quot; target="_blank">Food Security</a> in a dedicated chapter from an IPCC report</span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">Entrepreneurs are able to create new technologies to address the world’s most pressing challenges, and thus have a key role to play in combatting the climate crisis. In order to come up with the innovative solutions we need to drive #ClimateAction around the world, we have to invest in entrepreneurs.</span></span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong><span style="color:#008000">Goal:</span> </strong><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">This working group will help identify ways to foster transformation processes and push accelerators into climate technology markets to help entrepreneurs realize their ideas.</span></span></span></p>

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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">Read our #Youth4Climate </span><a href="https://www.connect4climate.org/article/innovation-and-entrepreneurship…; style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(17, 85, 204)">Innovation and Entrepreneurship article</span></a></span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px">Watch Episode 7 of Youth4ClimateLive,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH6QbsaKlPc&quot; target="_blank">"Driving Innovation &amp; Entrepreneurship"</a></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent">Explore the many&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.climatecolab.org/contests&quot; style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 122, 183);"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(17, 85, 204)">innovation-oriented climate contests</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent">&nbsp;open for submissions on the Climate CoLab website</span></span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">Read about the UNFCCC’s work on&nbsp;</span><a href="https://unfccc.int/ttclear/tec/brief12.html&quot; style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(17, 85, 204)">Energizing Entrepreneurs to Tackle Climate Change</span></a></span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="background-color:transparent; font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Read <a href="http://blogs.worldbank.org/climatechange/innovation-climate-change-adap…; target="_blank">"</a></span><a href="http://blogs.worldbank.org/climatechange/innovation-climate-change-adap…; target="_blank"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(17, 85, 204)">Innovation in climate change adaptation: Does it reach those who need it most?</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent; font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="http://blogs.worldbank.org/climatechange/innovation-climate-change-adap…; target="_blank">,"</a> a blog post from the World Bank Group</span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">Visit the </span><a href="http://innovate4climate.com&quot; style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(17, 85, 204)">Innovate4Climate</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"> website and </span><a href="https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/su/fAUMLon/i4c2021updates&quot; style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(17, 85, 204)">subscribe to the newsletter</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">.</span></span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">Read through </span><a href="https://unfccc.int/ttclear/misc_/StaticFiles/gnwoerk_static/brief12/bd8…; style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(17, 85, 204)">UNFCCC’s TEC Brief</span></a></span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent">Read up</span><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"> on how the <a href="http://www.centreforpublicimpact.org/insights/fight-climate-change-yout…; target="_blank">Commision for Environmental Cooperation</a> facilitates collaboration and public participation for young innovators.</span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Sports and climate go hand in hand. Just as a&nbsp;clean climate is essential for fair and enjoyable sports—<a href="https://www.climatecentral.org/news/report-pouring-it-on-climate-change…; target="_blank">abnormal rain</a> washes out playing fields, <a href="https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/29870359/air-quality-issues-expect…; target="_blank">poor air quality</a> harms players' health—sports are an essential means of communicating the value of the natural world to mass audiences. As our own #Sport4Climate initiative has shown, sports can be a powerful vehicle for driving climate action.</span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong><span style="color:#008000">Goal:</span> </strong><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">This working group will form proposals to develop the role of the sports sector within the Climate Action Agenda, strengthening the sports industry's role in raising climate awareness and incentivizing it to&nbsp;set an example of climate consciousness through its own actions.</span></span></span></p>

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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">Take a look at The Climate Reality Project to learn </span><a href="https://www.climaterealityproject.org/blog/how-climate-crisis-threatens…; style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(17, 85, 204)">How The Climate Crisis Threatens The Future of Sports</span></a></span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">Check out Connect4Climate’s&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.connect4climate.org/initiatives/sport4climate&quot; style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(17, 85, 204)">#Sport4Climate initiative</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">&nbsp;to see how we’ve worked alongside the sports sector to drive climate action over the years</span></span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px">Read up on UN Climate Change's <a href="https://unfccc.int/climate-action/sectoral-engagement/sports-for-climat…; target="_blank">Sports for Climate Action</a> initiative too</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px">Get a better sense of the interplay between <a href="https://climatenexus.org/climate-issues/climate-change-and-sports/&quot; target="_blank">"Climate Change and Sports"</a> in this helpful article from Climate Nexus</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">Operating under the wasteful paradigm of "fast fashion," the modern&nbsp;fashion industry is one of the leading contributors to water pollution and is responsible for fully 10% of the world's annual greenhouse gas emissions. It is infamously resource-intensive, too: Did you know that <a href="https://unfccc.int/news/un-helps-fashion-industry-shift-to-low-carbon&q…; target="_blank">the production of a single pair of denim jeans consumes 10,000 liters of water</a>? There will always be a need for clothing, but the fashion sector needs a serious makeover if we're to have a chance at a sustainable future.</span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px"><strong><span style="color:#008000">Goal:</span> </strong><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">This working group will brainstorm ways in which the fashion industry can reconceptualize to contribute positively to&nbsp;the&nbsp;Climate Action Agenda instead of hindering it.</span></span></p>

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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px">Familiarize yourself with the <a href="https://unfccc.int/climate-action/sectoral-engagement/global-climate-ac…; target="_blank">Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Action</a></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">Read the&nbsp;World Bank Group's article,</span><a href="https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2019/09/23/costo-moda-medio-a…; style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(17, 85, 204)">&nbsp;</span></a><a href="http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2019/09/23/costo-moda-medio-am…; target="_blank">"How Much do Our Wardrobes Cost to the Environment?"</a></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px">Get acquainted with the <a href="https://unfashionalliance.org/&quot; target="_blank">UN Alliance for Sustainable Fashion</a>, an initiative dedicated to bringing the world of fashion into alignment with the Sustainable Development Goals</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">Check out Connect4Climate’s </span><a href="https://www.connect4climate.org/initiatives/fashion4climate&quot; style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(17, 85, 204)">#Fashion4Climate initiative</span></a>&nbsp;to see how we've worked with the fashion sector to bring its problems to light and move forward constructively</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The arts offer the opportunity to communicate the impact of climate change and the need for unified action in a uniquely resonant, emotional way. At Connect4Climate, we interface with the arts regularly&nbsp;through our #Music4Climate and #Film4Climate initiatives, striking up inspiring collaborations&nbsp;with creative people around the world.</span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong><span style="color:#008000">Goal:</span> </strong><span style="background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">This working group will explore strategies of engaging with the art and entertainment sectors&nbsp;on climate issues and develop novel approaches to using film, music and more to communicate the essential message&nbsp;of climate action.</span></span></span></p>

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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px">Learn more about our <a href="https://www.connect4climate.org/initiatives/music4climate&quot; target="_blank">#Music4Climate</a> projects to frame the issues through&nbsp;song</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:18px">Browse this helpful selection&nbsp;of <a href="https://www.connect4climate.org/article/green-films-watch-athome&quot; target="_blank">"Green Films to Watch #AtHome"</a></span></p>
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Transition Forum 2020 Goes Digital
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Under quarantine around the world, many are taking this moment to reflect on the transition needed to ensure a sustainable future for our planet and our children. What exactly should this transition look like? And once the COVID-19 crisis has passed, what should our strategy be for guaranteeing its implementation across industries in an efficient and responsible manner?

Such are the questions posed by the Transition Forum, a climate event bringing together global business leaders, innovators, investors and visionaries whose third annual meeting this year was to take place in Nice, France. Given the circumstances, the event has migrated online, but it promises to be as thorough and insightful as always and to offer more direct interactivity to audience members than ever before.

The online Transition Forum kicks off on Thursday, May 28 at 5:00 PM Paris time (CEST), or 11:00 AM Eastern. Four additional sessions, tackling respectively the vital issues of Food, Housing, Mobility, and Production & Consumption, have been slated for June 4, June 11, June 18, and June 25. All participants will have the opportunity to get involved via interactive Q & A's and breakout sessions and to capitalize on special one-on-one networking opportunities powered by AI on a dedicated event platform.

Want to be a part of the conversation? Register now on the Transition Forum website!

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#GEFLive: Your Digital Window Into the 57th GEF Council
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GEF Live is a partnership between the Global Environment Facility and the World Bank Group’s Connect4Climate global partnership program. The interactive media hub will be in session throughout the 57th GEF Council at the World Bank Group HQ in Washington DC, from December 16-19, 2019. GEF Live is an opportunity for Council participants and invitees to engage in conversation with a global online audience and share ideas and solutions to some of our planet’s most urgent environmental problems.

Through Connect4Climate’s online platforms, GEF Live will host a series of live-streamed interviews on Facebook and Twitter during the four-day event. The program will include GEF’s government partners, agency representatives, civil society leaders, and Global Environment Facility specialists on climate change, oceans, biodiversity, illegal wildlife trade, and more.

You can follow the event on Twitter and Facebook—the latest updates, key moments and the complete live streaming of the four days event—by using the hashtag #GEFLive.

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Above graphic courtesy of the GEF's 2019 report "Financing Adaptation to Climate Change." Banner and thumbnail images courtesy of the GEF website.

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Diving Into Carbon Pricing and Competitiveness
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It was a busy morning with Connect4Climate's #YouthTakeover team at the UN Youth Climate Action Summit. There was a collective interest shared among event goers; it truly felt like momentum towards a sustainable future was picking up in a major way. One aspect of the event  that sparked conversation was the Pollution Pods installation created by artist Micheal Pinky. The interactive experience took less than ten minutes to walk through and used physical and chemical effects to give those who doubt the legitimacy of the warming effects of greenhouse gas emissions a new perspective. Pods simulated air quality from London, New Delhi, Beijing, São Paulo, and Oslo, immersing participants in these environments.

The replications in each pod tailored the various concentrations of pollutants such as carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, ozone, nitrous oxide, and particulate matter to make it feel like you were on the street in the center of each city. When users would leave the simulation, they would appreciate the cool breeze coming off the river just that much more. As things were beginning to wrap up for the day, an environmentalist colleague and I were afforded the opportunity to make our way to the High-Level Commission on Carbon Pricing event being held nearby.

Carbon pricing acknowledges the steep human and environmental cost of industrial pollution and shifts that cost, usually shouldered by tax-paying citizens, to polluters themselves. Under this system, if a company elects to include fossil fuels in its business model, it must pay upfront to account for the damage the resulting greenhouse gases will cause down the line. Pricing carbon emissions at the source using a set price per metric ton can make market shifts more predictable and send a clear and consistent message to investors and business leaders.

Michael Pinky's Pollution Pods installation. (Nicole Provost, #YouthTakeover Team)

Carbon pricing never works as a stand-alone measure, but rather as a piece in the much larger puzzle we are now calling a “greener future.” I was surprised to learn that 40 governments worldwide have adopted a price on carbon and that within the United States there are ten states that have already committed or made a future commitment to pricing carbon. In some scenarios a cap and trade mechanism was a viable option both politically and economically.  In other scenarios, like in British Columbia, a tax system was put in place. Regardless, the result was a rapid decline of coal usage solely due to the fact that running costs for these plants were no longer competitive with the price of renewables (natural gas, for instance, is almost 20 dollars cheaper per megawatt hour than coal).

These carbon pricing systems are being used globally to cut economic losses while making environmental gains. Their success in incentivizing power plants to move away from the high emissions of fossil fuels will one day serve as a template for cutting emissions in other major industries, such as maritime shipping, the aviation sector, and concrete and steel production. One concern of some industrial players is that these restrictions on corporations’ productivity could harm their competitiveness by pushing investments into other countries or states where there is no price on carbon. Industry leaders came together at the High-Level Commission event to dispel these fears and make clear that pricing carbon will not hinder economic growth.

The new report launched by the High-Level Commission on Carbon Pricing and Competitiveness during the UN Climate Action Summit in New York concludes that carbon pricing is not going to decrease competitiveness or drive business out. By convening multiple panels, all filled with intelligent industry, academic, and policy experts, the event painted a clear picture of an economy that can flourish against a carbon-priced backdrop.  The panelists suggested that loss of market share and profits will actually primarily affect those in the economy who wish to continue to fight against low-emission alternatives. 

Carbon pricing ensures the cost of pollution is borne by polluters. (JuergenPM, Pixabay)

The panelists agreed that those states that are hesitant about putting a strong price on carbon will suffer in the long run. The concern internationally for competitiveness is minimal since eventually carbon prices will balance out worldwide, making the benefit of moving production insignificant. Another point that panelists stressed was that, regardless of whether governments have set national carbon prices yet, businesses need to set a price on carbon internally. This will help companies smoothly transition into a carbon-priced scenario and future-proof their business.

The consensus was that unlocking the potential of the private sector will be a critical factor in reducing carbon emissions. I found it particularly interesting when data was presented to suggest that pricing carbon has actually driven innovation, investment, and growth. Consumers are becoming proactive in their environmental awareness and beginning to put their money where their mouth is when determining which product or service to purchase. The data shows that consumers will stand by companies and corporations that do right by the environment before worrying about their bottom line. This means that consumers and business leaders alike are poised to enter a cleaner tomorrow. 

We consumers are becoming increasingly aware of how the market will react to our wants and needs. We want companies to act in a sustainable manner. As a learner, I was fascinated by the economic principles that were explained that day; I am sure that I and everyone else in that room learned something new. More importantly, experts in the room clearly got their point across: there is no future that does not include a price on carbon.

Banner image courtesy of Jessica Schlimmer, #YouthTakeover Team.

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