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Global NDC Conference
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Wafa Hmadi
Coordinator and member
Young Tunisian Climate Negotiators Group
“The biggest challenge in the NDC process is the implementation phase through targeting the most vulnerable communities and reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in changing and challenging economic and political context.”
Urda Eichhorst
Project Director
GIZ
“Achieving NDCs requires transforming transport. With serious leadership and stakeholder engagement sustainable mobility is possible!”
Amit Bhatt
Managing Director (India)
International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT)
“Fostering international cooperation is crucial to enhance NDC ambition as countries can work together by sharing best practices, providing financial and technical support to developing countries, and engaging in global climate negotiations.”
Zagy Berian
Founder
Society of Renewable Energy (Indonesia)
“Youth can act as a bridge between stakeholders in energy and climate sector, government must involve youth to contribute enhancing the NDC target from individual to group level.”
Samantha Youngeun Shin
Senior Climate Finance Associate
CCAP
“The Global NDC Conference is a great opportunity to gain an in-depth understanding of climate finance tracking experiences from countries and international organizations and to refine the ICAT Climate Finance Guide that CCAP has been developing to better fit the needs of specific countries.”
Alexandra Mieth
Associate Project Manager
MCII at UNU-EHS / V20 Secretariat Policy Support
“I am looking forward to the Gobal NDC conference to exchange ideas with different stakeholders on how we can unlock economic cooperation and innovative financing that enables climate vulnerable countries to reach their self-determined climate positive development targets. “
Sarah Goodenough
Head of Policy
Climate Policy Radar
“Delivering the Paris Agreement requires urgent action, yet insights into effective policy making are hidden within mountains of documents. Arming researchers and decision-makers with a comprehensive evidence base is crucial to halve emissions this decade.”
Joaquim Leite
Head of Climate Finance
NDC Partnership
“Achieving the Paris Agreement requires unprecedented levels of global cooperation. The NDC Partnership supports countries in adopting a whole-of-society and collaborative approach by mobilizing and coordinating technical and financial resources for ambitious climate action.”
Jebi Rahman
Head of Global Implementation
Climate Group
“State and regional governments play a key role in implementing NDCs. There needs to be closer collaboration between national and subnational governments to ensure that NDCs increase in ambition, and are deliverable on the ground.”
Cassie Flynn
Director, Climate Hub
UNDP
“NDCs are one of the strongest tools we have at our disposal to advance sustainable development in the years and decades ahead. From energy and nature to agriculture and transport, NDCs offer unique, sovereign blueprints for investment in areas that can push climate ambition and action.”
Martin Ewald
Managing Director & Lead Portfolio Manager
Allianz
“The Global NDC Conference engenders a unique opportunity to showcase the innovative and impactful work of private markets blended finance.”
Sara Cognuck González
Natural Resource Manager
“Still excited to have participated in the Global NDC Conference and to have been part of the group of 10 young people who were selected for our work in climate policy. It was really inspiring to share and meet more young people in climate action.”
Silvia Elena Gomez Garcia
Secretary of Environment and Sustainability
Government of Antioquia, Colombia
“The Global NDC Conference is an enriching and valuable experience where we strengthened ties with great leaders from different countries.”
Preliminary agenda
Please note that the agenda is subject to change. We are currently finalising session formats, speakers, and timings. The agenda will be updated regularly as more information becomes available.
11 June 2025
Ambition & implementation day
- 8:00
Arrival & registration
- 9:00
Conference opening (part I)
- Welcoming words by Federal Minister (IKI-hosting Ministry, tbc)
- Inspiring keynote speech(es) by influential climate actors
- Spiritual/cultural contribution to conference opening
- Speakers to be confirmed
- 10:00
Conference opening (part II)
- Agenda and logistics
- Who’s in the room?
- 10:30
Break
- 11:00
Plenary panel
- Key question: What makes a good NDC?
- Themes: Lessons from NDC regional fora and climate weeks, involvement and insights from different stakeholders, country best practices
- Speakers to be confirmed
- 12:30
Lunch
- 14:00
Parallel sessions on ambition & implementation
1. Just transition and inclusive NDC implementation
More details will follow soon.
2. Sectoral decarbonisation pathways for energy
More details will follow soon.
3. Alignment for accelerated and impactful adaptation
More details will follow soon.
4. Transparency: NDC – BTR linkages
More details will follow soon.
5. Pipeline development for NDCs
More details will follow soon.
- 15:15
Break
- 15:45
Parallel sessions on ambition & implementation (repeat)
1. Just transition and inclusive NDC implementation
More details will follow soon.
2. Sectoral decarbonisation pathways for industry
More details will follow soon.
3. Alignment for accelerated and impactful adaptation
More details will follow soon.
4. Transparency: NDC – BTR linkages
More details will follow soon.
5. Pipeline development for NDCs
More details will follow soon.
- 17:00
Plenary reflection
- Sharing key insights and reflections of the first day
- 17:30
Closing of the day
- 18:30
Evening reception
12 June 2025
Finance day
- 7:30
Morning sports & activation (optional)
- 9:00
Plenary opening
- Framing keynote speech(es) on how to drive finance into NDC implementation when climate budgets are collapsing across the globe
- General sensemaking of NDC finance landscape
- Speakers to be confirmed
- 9:30
Plenary panel
- Key question: How do we secure (more) investment for NDC implementation from a broad donor landscape and how do we ensure efficiency and efficacy of spending?
- Themes: Challenges and different/diverging perspectives about public and private finance mobilisation
- Speakers to be confirmed
- 10:30
Break
- 11:00
Parallel sessions on finance
1. De-risking approaches to attract investment
More details will follow soon.
2. Article 6: advancing high integrity carbon markets
More details will follow soon.
3. Investment planning: from paper to process
More details will follow soon.
4. Catalytic finance: exploring opportunities for replication and scale
More details will follow soon.
- 12:15
Lunch
- 14:00
Parallel sessions on finance (repeat)
1. De-risking approaches to attract investment
More details will follow soon.
2. Article 6: advancing high integrity carbon markets
More details will follow soon.
3. Investment planning: from paper to process
More details will follow soon.
4. Catalytic finance: exploring opportunities for replication and scale
More details will follow soon.
- 15:15
Break
- 15:45
Group picture
- 16:00
Plenary panel, with connection & learning in smaller groups at the tables
- Themes: Key insights from the parallel sessions that offer solutions and a possible way forward in financing and investments for NDC implementation
- Format: Plenary discussions in small table groups, with input from (panel) speakers
- 17:00
Plenary reflection
- Moment of reflection and grounding before heading to solutions day
- 17:30
Closing of the day
- 18:30
Dinner cruise with conversations on NDC implementation
13 June 2025
Solutions day
- 7:30
Morning sports & activation (optional)
- 9:00
Case clinic
- Different cases and challenges around NDC processes brought forward by participants and discussed in small groups
- 10:15
Plenary fireside chat
- How to bring solutions to replication and scale?
- How can different actors come in and do their part to bridge the global ambition and finance gap?
- 11:00
Break
- 11:30
Solutions lab (parallel sessions)
- Key question: What are tried-and-tested solutions that work and can be replicated/scaled up?
- Thematic clusters:
- Financing & funding solutions
- Subnational & urban solutions
- Technology, AI & data
- Nature-climate synergies
- 12:30
Conference closing
- Reflect on the conference learning journey, plan concrete next steps, and collectively commit to keeping ambition high
- 13:15
Lunch
- 14:00
Time for bilaterals
- Participants can use the conference spaces (i.e., plenary and parallel sessions rooms, break area) to hold bilateral meetings, connect, exchange ideas, and explore collaboration in a more personal setting
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We are grateful to all the contributors for their support in making our conference possible.
Contributors to the 2025 Global NDC Conference will be announced at a later stage.