GAIA at COP27 - Official Events

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Learn from GAIA experts and allied partners about how zero waste is a vital climate solution that helps create better jobs, more resilient cities, and a livable future for all. For more information, go to www.no-burn.org/cop27-zerowaste.

The following events are located within the official conference venue, any person wishing to access the side event area must be duly registered as part of a delegation of a Party or an observer organization and in possession of a conference badge. The link to access the virtual platform for badge-holders will be provided here as soon as it becomes available.

However, with the exception of the press conference and events at pavilions, all events will be livestreamed on the UNFCCC youtube channel and will be accessible to everyone regardless of badge status. All livestreams can also be accessed on the www.no-burn.org/cop27-zerowaste webpage.

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Nov 10, 10AM EET: This panel will discuss the contested lines being drawn at COP 27 between neoliberal policies and techno-fixes and the demands of frontline environmental justice communities from around the world.

Nov 11, 12PM EET: Waste management will be one of the critical topics tackled at COP27, where host nation Egypt plans to put forward the Africa Waste Initiative, an initiative hoping to catalyse both adaptation and mitigation solutions and aiming at treating and recycling 50% of the waste produced in Africa by 2050. In this press conference, civil society experts both from Africa and abroad will reflect on how the Africa Waste Initiative underscores the importance of tackling waste as a climate solution, as well as the plan’s promises and potential pitfalls– particularly when it comes to waste trade, unfair labor practices for informal recyclers, and other human rights abuses that arise from the intersection of colonialism, capitalism, and the waste industry.

Nov 11, 3:30PM EET: This cross-cutting session will showcase climate solutions and community interventions currently implemented in Africa. These are on the way to putting African countries on the path of decarbonising high-emitting sectors such as waste, oil and gas, cement, and transport.

Nov 14, 3:30PM EET: The plastics and petrochemical sectors generate vast amounts of GHG emissions and threaten the health of frontline communities.

Nov 14, 5PM EET: Speakers will present which measures need to be taken by Global Methane Pledge signatories to ensure ambitious methane cuts & explore the need for diplomatic efforts to develop an int’l governance framework on methane mitigation.

Nov 16, 3PM EET: GHG emissions in cities can be greatly reduced through just transition strategies toward circular and zero waste local economies. Panelists will reflect on how cities around the world are using zero waste strategies to reduce waste and emissions to meet their Paris Climate Agreement targets. The panel will underscore measures that support a just transition for workers and marginalized communities.

Nov 17, 11AM EET: We will discuss how national and local governments could work and show good examples on public policies, data information, and environmental justice consideration.

Nov 17, 12:30PM EET: To realize a resilient, climate-just future, effective climate interventions must include organized urban poor communities – particularly women and youth – as lead designers, planners, and implementers of climate solutions. Evidence shows that these communities have the skills, capacities and systems to drive and deliver locally-led adaptation and channel climate finance directly to communities who need it most. This event will illustrate the power of urban poor communities to produce governance and finance models that advance climate justice from the ground up, highlighting the transformative power of these strategies when partnerships with other stakeholders facilitate replication and scaling up of the work.

Nov 17, 1:15PM EET: Speakers will present which measures need to be taken by Global Methane Pledge signatories to ensure ambitious methane cuts & explore the need for diplomatic efforts to develop an int’l governance framework on methane mitigation.

Nov 17, 4:45PM EET: Co-organized with the World Biogas Association, speakers from government, advocacy, and climate finance will address the importance of organics management for waste methane reduction in different regional contexts.

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