The inaugural Dublin Climate Dialogues seeks to scale up ambition in the run up to the critical COP26 Summit. On May 19 and 20, the Dialogues will bring together senior government representatives from the US, China, Europe, UK and the UN along with high-profile business representatives and leading economists to forge a declaration on how to turn net-zero pledges into concrete energy policies and actions to be adopted at COP26 including ways to strengthen the 2015 Paris Agreement. The Declaration will be handed to the COP Presidency at the conclusion of the conference.
On day two, the event will also aim to set-out how global energy systems should be recast to facilitate net-zero and on the technology underpinning the drive to sustainability.
Our High-Profile Speaker List confirmed to date includes
John Kerry
U.S. Special Presidential Envoy For Climate
Damilola Ogunbiyi
Chief Executive Officer And Special Representative Of The UN Secretary-General For Sustainable Energy For All, Co-Chair Of UN-Energy
Executive Director, International Energy Agency, Paris
Fiji’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York and Chair of the Pacific Small Island Developing States
Chief Executive, Green Finance Institute
President of the Paris Peace Forum and Brunswick Europe Chair
Chairman and CEO of Liebreich Associates
Adjunct Professor for Climate Justice in Trinity College Dublin and Chair of the Elders
French Greens/EFA Member of the European Parliament
International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) Director of Knowledge, Policy and Finance Centre
Dublin Climate Dialogues
Designed to encourage meaningful conversations towards a more effective Paris Accord. The topics for presentation and debate include:
- The impact and cost of current and future damage of climate change
- The social and economic benefits to global GDP from decarbonising energy and industrial production
- The benefits of an accelerated global decarbonisation pathway and the opportunities to deploy renewable technologies at scale, including storage and green hydrogen
- The opportunities for global trade in a world of carbon pricing and border adjustments
- The role of the private sector in effecting the transformation, including financing the transition to sustainability.
This event will be critical to attend for anyone in a leadership position who is serious about climate change and decarbonising our economies
Steering Committee
Chairman and Founder, Mainstream Renewable Power, CEO and Founder, SuperNode
Former President of the European Parliament and Chairman, SuperNode
Global Head of Corporate Affairs, Mainstream Renewable Power
Director of the UCD Institute for Discovery
Director, Energy Institute, University College Dublin
Global Lead Renewables and Decarbonisation, KPMG
Former Deputy Executive Secretary, UNCCD and Director of Energy and Climate Change, UNIDO
Director of Irish Institute for Chinese Studies at UCD and UCD Confucius Institute for Ireland
Marketing Manager, Mainstream Renewable Power
Director of Major Strategic Partnerships, University College Dublin
Partner and International Head of Clean Energy and Sustainability, Eversheds Sutherland
