COP29 Baku

COP29 Official Side Event: Ensuring NDC Success: Connecting Global Renewable Energy Targets with Regional and National Ambitions

Connecting global renewable energy targets with NDCs and exploring regional collaboration and multistakeholder approaches to address policy, financing, and grid integration challenges to drive the energy transition.

Global climate commitments aim to triple renewable energy capacity and double energy efficiency by 2030. These targets must be translated into actionable steps at the national level through Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), which serve as a framework for countries to outline their climate action. NDCs are inherently multistakeholder as they must involve multiple stakeholders across government, private sector, civil society, and academia for policy alignment and integrated planning. This multistakeholder process is essential to meeting national targets, fostering societal support, and aligning with the global climate agenda.

However, effective NDC implementation requires long-term planning and coordination between global targets, national actions, and regional strategies. This involves aligning NDCs with broader regional and market-driven approaches for renewables integration, ensuring that planning processes are coherent and support economic resilience. Regional collaboration is also critical in achieving coherence between countries’ individual climate and energy goals, ensuring that technical, financial, and policy pathways are consistent across borders and scaling up the impact of NDCs.

This session will explore how global renewable energy and energy efficiency targets can be effectively connected to the NDC process and highlight the importance of regional collaboration. It will also dive into the opportunities and challenges of integrating renewable energy across different countries and regions, emphasising the importance of coordinated long-term planning, infrastructure, and policy alignment.

The discussion will focus on how NDCs as a multistakeholder process can drive increased ambition, secure societal support for renewables, and address technical and policy challenges. The session will draw on experiences from different regions to illustrate the opportunities they identify to support country targets and drive economy-wide transitions and common challenges, such as financing, grid integration, and policy alignment.

Objectives

  • Connect Global and National Goals: Demonstrate how global renewable energy and energy efficiency targets can be effectively integrated into the NDC process, emphasising the role of regional strategies in ensuring coherence and scale.

  • Highlight Regional Collaboration: Showcase successful examples of regional cooperation that have supported NDC implementation, providing lessons on overcoming technical, financial, and policy barriers.

  • Drive Multi-Stakeholder Processes: Discuss the necessity and opportunities of multi-stakeholder engagement in implementing NDCs, emphasising its role in increasing ambition, securing societal support, and ensuring effective implementation.

  • Promote Market-Based Approaches: Explore how regional markets and industrial hubs can drive economic-wide transitions, supporting the broader decarbonisation of sectors like transport, agriculture, and urban development.

  • Create a Blueprint for Action: Develop actionable recommendations for aligning NDC implementation with broader climate goals through inclusive planning and regional collaboration, inspiring participants to adopt more ambitious approaches.

Target Audiences

  • Government Representatives: National and sub-national officials responsible for climate policy, renewable energy integration, and NDC implementation, particularly those involved in regional cooperation.

  • Private Sector and Industry Leaders: Companies in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and related industries seeking to explore new markets and contribute to regional energy transitions.

  • Civil Society and NGOs: Organisations advocating for climate action and supporting community-level renewable energy projects, ensuring societal buy-in for ambitious NDCs.

  • Academia and Research Institutions: Experts contributing research on renewable energy, regional planning, and multi-stakeholder processes for climate adaptation.

  • International Organisations and Development Partners: Entities providing technical and financial support for NDC implementation, with an interest in fostering regional and global coherence.

Agenda

Date: 18 November 2024
Time: 18:30 – 20:00 AZT / 15:30 – 17:00 CET
Location: COP29 Baku, Blue Zone, Side Event 7

  • 18:30-18:40 - Welcome and scene-setting
    • Rana Adib, Executive Director, REN21
  • 18.40-18:50 - Lightning Talk: The Global Landscape of Renewables in NDCs
    • Ilina Stefanova, Lead IRENA Coalition for Action, IRENA
  • 18:50-19:10 - Fireside Chat: NDC Success: How are countries integrating renewables in NDC processes in the lead-up to Belem?
    • Margalita Arabidze, Head Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Policy and Sustainable Development Department, Georgia’s Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development (online)
    • Maria Cristina Cifuentes, Just Transition Lead Negotiator at the Climate Change and Risk Management Directorate, Colombian Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development
    • Sara Hernandez, Country Engagement Specialist, NDC Partnership
    • Goksen Sahin, Senior Advocacy Expert, ICLEI Europe
    • Moderator: Rana Adib, Executive Director, REN21
  • 19:10-19:15 - Sprint Q&A
  • 19:15-19:45 - Panel: Multistakeholder Discussion: Regional Collaboration to Achieve National Ambitions
    • Ahmed Al Jameel, Climate Policy Expert, Centre for Environmental Policy - Faculty of Natural Sciences, Imperial College London
    • Gloria Alvarenga, Director of Integration Access and Energy Security, OLADE
    • Antonella Battaglini, Executive Director, Renewables Grid Initiative (RGI)
    • Nadia Chioukh, International Cooperation and Communication Manager, Regional Center for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (RCREEE)
    • Hajar Khamlichi, North Africa Director, Pooled Fund on International Energy (PIE)
    • Moderator: Rana Adib, Executive Director, REN21
  • 19:45-19:55 - Sprint Q&A
  • 19:55-20:00 - Closing remarks
    • Rana Adib, REN21

Contact

Mara Zainea
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Antonella Battaglini
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