MOPAN virtual high level roundtable: Accelerating the multilateral response to climate change
Oct 27, 2021 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Oct 27, 2021 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Description
Following the publication of Pulling Together: The Multilateral Response to Climate Change, the Multilateral Organisation Performance Assessment Network (MOPAN) with the support of the Government of Luxembourg are organising a High-Level Roundtable of Multilateral Organisation (MO) leaders, Ministers and senior level officials to discuss how to accelerate the multilateral system response to climate change through concrete policy measures.
Leaders of MOs will be invited to present how they are putting climate change at the centre of their strategies, and using innovative approaches to meet international commitments. Ministers from MOPAN members, as well as stakeholders and shareholders of the system, will consider how member states can further shape their policies towards multilateral institutions, in the pursuit of these common goals. Lastly, reflections from private sector perspectives will highlight the conditions that are necessary for private sector investments to be optimised.
The event will identify concrete steps that can be implemented by stakeholders to strengthen the multilateral response.
14:00 Welcome by the MOPAN Secretariat - Suzanne Steensen, Head, MOPAN Secretariat
14:05 Scene setting introduction by the moderator - Laura Tuck, Former Vice President for Sustainable Development, World Bank
14:10 Opening remarks - Franz Fayot, Minister of Economy and Minister for Development and Humanitarian Action, Luxembourg
14:20 Keynote speakers
Zakia Khattabi, Minister for Climate, Environment, Sustainable Development and the Green Deal, Belgium
Carlos Manuel Rodriguez, CEO and Chair Person, Global Environment Facility
Philippe Le Houérou, Economist and former Chief Executive Officer, IFC
14:40 Panel discussion
Jorge Moreira da Silva, Director, Development Cooperation Directorate, OECD
Haoliang Xu, Assistant-Secretary General, United Nations Development Programme
Terhi Lehtonen, State Secretary, Ministry of the Environment, Finland
Jyotsna Puri, Associate Vice-President,, International Fund for Agricultural Development
Sinead Walsh, Climate Change Envoy, Deputy Director-General, Department of Foreign Affairs, Ireland
Bruno Carrasco, Director General of Sustainable Development and Climate Change, Asian Development Bank
15:15 Final reflections
Mathias Cormann, Secretary-General, OECD
15:30 Conclusions and next steps by the moderator, Laura Tuck
