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20/05, 18.00 CEST

Webinar - Exploring Faith-Based Community Climate Action

Organiser: Covering Climate Now (CCNow)

Pope Francis may have been a climate trailblazer, earning himself the moniker the “climate pope,” but he’s far from alone: Leaders across many faiths joined him in advocating for urgent action on climate. Globally, faith communities are playing a powerful role in promoting environmental stewardship with land conservation and tree planting projects and addressing climate change by transitioning to renewable energy, divesting from fossil fuels, and organizing community-driven sustainability efforts.

Join a one-hour press briefing co-hosted by Covering Climate Now and partner outlet the National Catholic Reporter in which we dig into how faith communities are tackling climate change. Panelists will include Dr. Iyad Abumoghli, director of the Faith for Earth Coalition at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and Reba Elliott, the head of advocacy at Laudato Si' Movement. Brian Roewe, lead reporter for EarthBeat, a project of the National Catholic Reporter, will moderate.

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20/05, 18.30 CEST

Webinar - How can India strengthen its resilience to extreme heat?

Organiser: Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW)

As many Indian states face heatwaves and the extreme heat is breaking records globally, the Council onEnergy, Environment and Water (CEEW) is hosting a virtual dialogue to deliberate on strategies for advancing India’s resilience to extreme heat on 20 May 2025. As extreme heat events in India become more frequent, intense, and prolonged, it is essential to rapidly scale up heat resilience efforts. A comprehensive understanding of heat risks district by district is a critical step in this process. CEEW has conducted detailed research to map heat risks across India’s districts, using 35 indicators covering climatological changes in heat indices, land-use and land-cover changes, building and population density exposures, green cover, and socio-economic and health-related vulnerabilities. At this dialogue, we aim to launch the report titled “How Extreme Heat Is Impacting India: Assessing District-level Heat Risk” and foster discussion on the strategies for building resilience against extremeheat. The discussions will focus on the disaster risk reduction strategies, ranging from the implementation of heat action plans to strengthening health resilience and securing financing solutions.There will also be a focused discussion on leveraging heat-related data for risk management and early warnings. These discussions will help in shaping a comprehensive plan for enhancing heat resilience and adaptive capacity at the national, state, and local levels.

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21/05, 14.00 CEST      

Webinar - Nature-based solutions for climate-resilient cities: digital tools for decision-makers

Organiser: Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)

As cities worldwide struggle with the growing impacts of climate change, nature-based solutions (NBS) could offer a powerful path to enhance urban resilience. During the webinar, participants can explore highly relevant digital platforms empowering cities to implement nature-based solutions to solve urban adaptation challenges on local level.

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21/05, 16.00 CEST

Webinar - Building Climate Resilience Through Protected Areas

Organiser: The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)

On May 21, IISD will host a webinar in collaboration with WCS and WWF to unpack what protected areas are, the benefits they offer for both people and nature, and why they are a vital part of climate adaptation. The webinar will also showcase real-world examples of how nature-based solutions, local community engagement, and climate adaptation efforts can work together to build more resilient ecosystems and livelihoods.

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21/05, 18.00 CEST

Webinar - Prep Your Climate Coverage: Summer Heat and Hurricanes

Organiser: Covering Climate Now (CCNow)

Don’t wait until an extreme weather event strikes to learn how climate change is fueling changes to our weather systems. From severe storms starting in the spring to record heat in the summer, each season brings with it a host of extreme weather events that are becoming more frequent and intense due to climate change.

This Prep Your Climate Coverage session, co-hosted by Covering Climate Now and Climate Central, highlights emerging climate attribution research on hurricanes and extreme heat, explores how journalists have reported on the human impacts of these events, and offers vetted language to make the climate connection in your own reporting this summer.

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22/05, 17.00 CEST

Webinar - Funding the Future: Enabling natural infrastructure through federal programs

Organiser: The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)

From restored wetlands to urban tree canopies, natural infrastructure is proving to be a cost-effective, multi-benefit solution to Canada's infrastructure challenges. IISD's new report, Funding the Future, highlights how federal programs can better support these nature-based solutions—and why doing so matters now more than ever. The webinar will share the results of the report, the updated design of a federal funding program, and municipal perspective on accessing federal funding, wrapping up with discussion and audience questions.

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23/05, 15.00 CEST

Webinar - Global Critical Minerals Outlook 2025: Technical Webinar

Organiser: International Energy Agency (IEA)

The 2025 edition of the IEA’s annual Global Critical Minerals Outlook includes a detailed assessment of the latest market and investment trends, along with their implications for critical mineral security. As in last year’s Outlook, it will provide a snapshot of recent industry developments and offer medium- and long-term projections for the supply and demand of key energy minerals, taking into account the latest policy and technology developments.

The 2025 Outlook will also explore key issues such as mineral supply chains for emerging battery technologies; recent innovations in mining, refining and recycling; policy mechanisms to support diversification; and strategic minerals for applications beyond the energy sector. Additionally, the report will include a comprehensive review of mineral markets and policy developments in different regions. It will be accompanied by an updated version of our Critical Minerals Data Explorer, an interactive online tool that allows users to explore the latest IEA projections.

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27/05, 09.30 CEST

Webinar - Europe’s critical minerals dilemma: Between ESG ideals and strategic reality

Organiser: The European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR)

Europe has positioned its high environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards as central to its global partnerships, particularly in efforts to develop sustainable critical raw materials (CRM) value chains with mineral-rich African countries such as Namibia, Zambia, the DRC, and Rwanda. With Africa home to around a third of the world’s known mineral reserves, these partnerships are key to Europe’s strategy to secure and diversify its CRM supply chains, vital for energy and military security. Yet, despite these ambitions, actual European investments in mining and CRM value chains in Africa remain minimal. Strict ESG compliance and the exclusion of mining from the EU’s Sustainable Finance Taxonomy are major deterrents for European companies. Meanwhile, African countries prioritize industrialization, job creation, and economic growth—goals that may not align with Europe’s ESG-first approach.

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27/05, 18.00 CEST

Webinar - Cities in Transition

Organiser: The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)

Urban design can reduce energy consumption, emissions, and transform cities into “complete communities” supporting well-being and strengthening economic performance.

Yet while climate change is frequently considered within urban planning circles, urban planning itself has received little attention within climate and energy policy. A recent report by IISD highlights the overlooked role of urban planning and outlines how compact, walkable, and transit-connected communities are essential for reducing emissions, improving quality of life, and saving cities money.

On May 27, join report authors Zachary Rempel and Ronja Bechauf for a conversation on how better city design can drive real climate solutions. This webinar will explore findings from IISD’s recent Cities in Transition research, which offers a new direction for energy and climate policy.

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28/05, 14.00 CEST

Webinar - Access to affordable and sustainable energy for all: what can policy and regulation do?

Organiser: Florence School of Regulation (FSR)

This debate, jointly organised by FSR and UNECE, aims at discussing energy access in the context of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, with a focus on the more vulnerable categories of the society.

As the global community accelerates efforts toward meeting the Sustainable Development Goals, energy access remains a fundamental pillar. Ensuring that all people—regardless of geography or income—have reliable, affordable, and clean energy is a challenge that demands coordinated regulatory action, informed policy, and multilateral cooperation. This 1.5-hour debate will delve into how regulation and policy can help close the energy gap, with high-level contributions from both European and international perspectives.

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28/05, 15.00 CEST

Webinar - Ocean Investment Protocol: Aligning financial flows with the transition to a Sustainable Ocean Economy

Organiser: UN Environment Programme, Financial Initiative (UNEP FI)

A Sustainable Ocean Economy—often termed the sustainable blue economy—is increasingly recognized as both an ecological imperative and a financial opportunity. As the ocean contributes critical ecosystem services, food security, and economic prosperity, its value continues to grow. If the ocean economy were treated as a country, it would have ranked as the fifth-largest globally in 2019, with its gross value added doubling from US$1.3 trillion in 1995 to US$2.6 trillion in 2020, according to the OECD. This growth, averaging 2.8% annually, underscores the ocean’s expanding role in global sustainable development and economic resilience.

For the financial sector, the transition to a Sustainable Ocean Economy presents a unique investment frontier. Private capital is positioned to drive this transition by funding the modernization of trade and energy infrastructure, sustainable food systems, and emerging ocean-related sectors. The Ocean Investment Protocol provides a framework for financial institutions, insurers, development banks, and ocean-based industries to align with Sustainable Development Goal 14 (Life Below Water) and related objectives. By proactively managing environmental risks and leveraging sustainable opportunities, the finance industry can play a pivotal role in shaping a thriving, resilient ocean economy.

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29/05, 15.00 CEST

Webinar - Emerging Practice for Integrating and Implementing Early Warning Systems in NAPs and NDCs

Organiser: The Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES)

This webinar will explore emerging practice when integrating and implementing Multi-hazard Early Warning Systems (MHEWS) and Climate Information Services (CI) into National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) and Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). The webinar aims to further support countries as they begin to formulate their adaptation targets to be considered within NDCs and NAPs, in alignment with the UN Secretary General’s call for Early Warning for All by 2027.

Hosted by C2ES and joined by a range of partners including UNDP, this session will provide practical guidance and insights to help countries effectively incorporate MHEWS and CI into their climate planning and policy frameworks, showcasing some noted emerging practice.

Join us for this timely conversation featuring key experts, country partners and other stakeholders. This is a unique opportunity to gain valuable knowledge before SB62 and COP30 where discussions on NDCs and NAPs will take center stage. Participants will learn from successful country experiences, hear lessons learned, and discover what is working in countries leading the way on MHEWS and CI integration and implementation.

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04/06, 14.00 CEST

Webinar - New trends in electricity regulation: the case of the EU

Organiser: Florence School of Regulation (FSR)

This FSR online debate will shed some light on the new trends in EU electricity regulation, and how it’s adapting to decarbonisation, digitalisation, and distribution grid challenges.

The European Union has one of the most developed electricity systems in the world. Its citizens and firms normally enjoy reliable and affordable access to electricity wherever they are. Building on this solid starting point, the EU aims to decarbonise its electricity mix over the next decade, expand the use of electricity, and put consumers at the centre.

Delivering efficiently on these commitments challenges regulators across the continent and calls for an evolution of the regulatory framework. Solutions designed in the 1990s during the liberalisation of the industry are no longer entirely fit for purpose. Investment needs in grids have increased sharply due to renewables and electrification of final uses. At the same time, and for similar reasons, distribution grids have gained prominence. Innovation is essential to ensure efficiency while providing high-quality services.

This FSR online debate will shed some light on the new trends in EU electricity regulation.

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05/06, 14.00 CEST

Webinar - The regulatory regime of electricity interconnectors with third countries

Organiser: Florence School of Regulation (FSR)

This FSR Debate aims at assessing the regulatory regime currently applicable to interconnectors with third countries and in which way this framework could be enhanced to enable their development.

Electricity interconnectors with third countries, aimed at importing renewable-based electricity into Europe, are likely to become an increasingly important instrument in pursuing the decarbonisation of the EU energy sector. This FSR Debate will explore the regulatory framework applicable to these interconnectors and how it could be enhanced to support their development.

The ambitious decarbonisation targets to which the EU has committed suggest that all available options are considered — including expanding the geographical scope for siting renewable-based electricity generation to non-European regions. This generation is typically characterised by a better endowment of wind and solar resources and is therefore capable of providing energy production at competitive prices in the future.

In this context, some electricity interconnection projects are being considered – under both the regulated and unregulated regimes – between countries in the Mediterranean basin, aiming at a deeper energy sector integration.

The European regulatory framework, extremely mature and detailed when it comes to interconnections between Member States, is still incomplete and not always clear with regard to the integration with third countries, especially when these are implemented as merchant initiatives.

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12/06, 15.00 CEST

Webinar - Launch Event: Extension of the CBAM Scope

Organiser: The European Roundtable on Climate Change and Sustainable Transition (ERCST)

As the EU navigates the CBAM transitional period, 2025 stands out as a critical year for shaping its future. With crucial reviews underway and key implementing decisions pending before the definitive period begins, the landscape is actively evolving. A central question in current discussions is the potential expansion of the CBAM scope.

This second report under ERCST’s ‘Border Carbon Adjustments in the EU – Phase VI’ workstream will explore the extension of the CBAM scope to additional sectors and downstream products.

At this event, the ERCST will launch and present a paper that analyzes the potential for expanding the CBAM scope to additional sectors and downstream products, in anticipation of the formal review by the European Commission planned for this year.

Based on active stakeholder engagement, it will assess the implications of expanding (or not expanding) the CBAM scope, and offer recommendations on the factors to evaluate when deciding to bring new sectors and/or products under the scope.

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18/06, 14.00 CEST

Webinar - Flexibility and market integration to improve energy affordability and EU competitiveness

Organiser: Florence School of Regulation (FSR)

Join this debate exploring how to unlock flexibility and complete market integration to reduce energy costs and support EU competitiveness.

This debate will focus on how to enhance system flexibility and to complete market integration to minimise the cost of accomodating increasing shares of renewables into the electricity system, thus reducing overall energy system costs to the benefit of EU energy consumers and to improve EU competitiveness. More specifically, the Debate will discuss how to remove the current limitations – e.g. incomplete market integration and barriers to the participation of distributed resources in the markets – to the full potential of renewable-based generation to reduce electricity costs.

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03/06, 15.00 CEST

Webinar - Policy Frameworks for BECCS

Organiser: The European Roundtable on Climate Change and Sustainable Transition (ERCST)

The European Union’s commitment to achieving climate neutrality by 2050 necessitates the deployment of negative emissions technologies, with Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) being a pivotal component. BECCS offers the unique advantage of generating renewable energy while simultaneously removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. However, its large-scale implementation requires careful policy planning to ensure that it aligns with sustainable land use practices and does not adversely affect food security or compete excessively for land resources.

This paper is dedicated to exploring how policy can advance BECCS deployment within the EU in a manner that harmonizes land use with carbon dioxide removal objectives. We will delve into the legislative measures and regulatory frameworks needed to facilitate sustainable BECCS integration into the EU’s climate and energy policies. The discussions will address the complexities of aligning land use policies with BECCS goals, considering the multifaceted challenges of land availability and biomass sourcing.

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03/07,14.00CEST        

Webinar - Advancing the Transition Away from Fossil Fuels in Third Generation National Climate Plans

Organiser: The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)

With only 9 months left before the 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 30), there is an urgent need for countries to deliver ambitious nationally determined contributions (NDCs) that implement the global stocktake outcome, including transitioning away from fossil fuels. However, research from the International Institute for Sustainable Development shows that past NDCs have largely not addressed transitioning away from fossil fuel production, raising the question of how this matter can be included in future NDCs.

Meanwhile, since COP 28, there have been significant changes in the global context of the clean energy transition. United States President Donald Trump has pledged to “drill, baby, drill,” and his tariffs have important implications for clean energy supply chains. In Europe, we have seen some retrenchment of the clean energy transition. However, it remains critical for the Global North to take the lead in the transition away from fossil fuels. In this changing context, this webinar will provide recommendations for strong implementation of the global stocktake outcome in NDCs.

Panellists from governments and international organizations will share their experiences and views on implementing the transition away from fossil fuels via third-generation NDCs, including how to make these plans fundable, and will reflect on how NDCs can facilitate a clean and just energy transition in emerging and developing economies. Panellists will also share what they expect to be contained in NDCs to be delivered by COP 30.

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