Friday, 1st December – UN Climate Change Global Innovation Hub Pavilion, Blue Zone
The session presented sustainable pathways covering the energy, land-use, and food sector utilizing up-to-date modeling solutions, including insights from top experts in the field. A comprehensive approach to harness the synergies across Integrated Assessment Models was at the epicenter of the UN SDSN Global Climate Hub. The Hub introduced its latest report, “Modeling Net-Zero Pathways” The report provides insights into net-zero strategies for each country in the EU-27, the UK, and the Balkans. The workings and output of which were also discussed in the session. The experts analyzed the trade-offs and complementarities underpinning economic and social policies using tangible results from Integrated Assessment Models and engaged in fruitful dialogue towards leveraging results from distinct sectors of economic activity to develop science-driven human-centric pathways to sustainability. These pathways aimed to promote transformative solutions and foster just transitions.
Speakers:
- María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs and of Defense of Ecuador; Former President of the UN General Assembly, Executive Director, GWL Voices for Change and Inclusion
- Jeffrey Sachs, President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and University Professor at Columbia University
- Phoebe Koundouri, Professor Athens University of Economics and Business & Technical University of Denmark, President EAERE, Chair SDSN Global Climate Hub, Co-chair SDSN Europe
- Christos Stylianides, Minister of Maritime Affairs and Insular Policy of Greece
- Dogan Keles, Professor Technical University of Denmark, Head of Section, Energy Economics and Modelling (EEM)Sustainable energy systems for EU and the Balkans
- Aline Mosnier, Scientific Director FABLE Consortium
- Yannis Ioannidis, Professor at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, President of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- Ebun Akinsete, Senior Researcher, Sustainable Development Unit Athena Research and Innovation Center; Head of Unit, UN SDSN Global Climate Hub; Founding Partner, GEN Sustainable Solutions
- Yuen Yoong Leong, Director, Sustainability Studies, SDSN; Professor, Sunway University, Malaysia – The ASEAN Green Future project
- Philippe Tulkens, Head of Unit, climate and planetary boundaries, DG Research and Innovation at European Commission
Moderator: Phoebe Koundouri
