Building CAF’s Vision on the Ocean and Blue Economy of Latin America and the Caribbean
Zone Time: Sharm el-Sheikh
Location: Spanish Pavilion (Area B - Delegation Pavilions 3 - P27)
Organizer: CAF - Development Bank of Latin America
With the interest in building CAF's strategic vision for the ocean in Latin America and the Caribbean, COP27 presents an ideal context. This event is an essential part of the participatory process providing an opportunity to present, share and receive feedback from key actors on the ocean assembling CAF’s vision.
Business Strategies in a Multicrisis Context – The Case of Spanish Companies
Zone Time: Sharm el-Sheikh
Location: Spanish Pavilion (Area B - Delegation Pavilions 3 - P27)
Organizer: Spanish Green Growth Group (GECV).
The event will present sustainable business solutions to successfully tackle the current multicrisis context across all economic sectors. Spanish companies hold a very robust leadership in fields such as infrastructures, finance, energy, industry, etc. This leadership could serve as a good basis to lead by action and accelerate climate transition.
Water and Adaptation to climate change: Spain’s Challengesater and Adaptation to climate change: Spain’s Challenges
Location: Spanish Pavilion (Area B - Delegation Pavilions 3 - P27)
Organizer: Ministry of Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge International Desalination Agency Global Water Partnership
Reliant on connected Spanish, EU and UN regulations on Climate Change, Spain’s Water Strategy establish the water’s planning and management principles, and adapts the existing system to the impacts of climate change increasing its resilience, addressing its main environmental, social and economic challenges in this new scenario.
Opening The Energy Day in the Spanish Pavillion: "Acceleraring Energy Transition to maximize opportunities and to ensure Energy Security"
Zone Time: Sharm el-Sheikh
Location: Spanish Pavilion (Area B - Delegation Pavilions 3 - P27)
Organizer: MITECO (Minister for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge)
The Energy Day would deal with all aspects of energy and climate change. Invasion of Ukraine has led to terrible humanitarian consequences for the Ukrainian population, a profound economic impact on Europe as a whole, and worsening tensions in international commodity markets, especially energy markets. As a consequence, the current situation is increasing the speed and the ambition of the energy transition. Including renewable energy and energy transformation, with a specific focus on just transition in the energy sector, and Green hydrogen as a potential energy source for the future. It would also include energy efficiency and ways to manage the envisaged global just transition in energy. Spain has organized this sessions in the Spanish Pavillion to show the Spanish Case in order to provide an example of how the aceleration of energy transition can maximice the opportunities that this transition involves. International organizations will stress the importance to acceletrate this energy transition especially in this context.
The Spanish Case: Energy transition at the centre of the economic and social agenda. Key priorities and lessons learnt from the Spanish experience.
Zone Time: Sharm el-Sheikh
Location: Spanish Pavilion (Area B - Delegation Pavilions 3 - P27)
Organizer: MITECO
Spain is a reference at the international level in terms of renewable energy potential, energy transition policy and value chain. In an complex contex in Europe, Spain's response has been clear: we need more, faster and better energy transition. Climate change is a main concern in Spain and the energy transition agenda has been at the center of the political and social landscape. In this panel, the Secretary of State for Energy from Spain will outline the key policy priorities, challenges and lessons learnt, and will give way to a debate with civil society and private sector to understand how corporations, NGOs and academia are contributing to make the energy transition have a wider support base and happen faster, and better. This will link over to the "case studies" session in the afternoon.