Caribbean Climate-Smart Accelerator

UN 2023 Water Conference
2023-03-22 - 2023-03-24 | New York, NY, United States
Water is a fundamental part of all aspects of life. Water is inextricably linked to the three pillars of sustainable development, and it integrates social, cultural, economic and political values. It is crosscutting and supports the achievement of many SDGs through close linkages with climate, energy, cities, the environment, food security, poverty, gender equality and health, amongst others. With climate change profoundly affecting our economies, societies and environment, water is indeed the biggest deal breaker to achieve the internationally agreed water-related goals and targets, including those contained in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Read the vision statement of the Water Conference.

Financing Resilience and Climate Adaptation for Regional Transformation
2023-03-21 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Port_of_Spain) | Virtual
ABOUT THE FORUM

The Caribbean Climate-Smart Accelerator (CCSA) will host its 5th Investor Forum virtually, on Tuesday, March 21⋅9:00 – 11:00am AST. Focused on “Financing Resilience and Climate Adaptation for Regional Transformation” featuring attendees and panelists with speakers.

Sustainable and Inclusive Infrastructure and Regional Integration
2023-03-16 | Panama, Panama
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and IDB Invest will hold their 2023 Annual Meeting in Panama on March 16-19. Economic and financial leaders from their 48 member countries and the private sector will discuss development challenges and opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean, ranging from tackling climate change to ensuring equitable and sustainable growth.
The meeting will take place in the Panama Convention Center.
The event is the 63rd annual meeting of the Board of Governors of the IDB and the 37th annual meeting of the Board of Governors of IDB Invest, which works with the region’s private sector.
The IDB and IDB Invest Boards of Governors are the IDB Group’s top decision-making bodies, comprising finance and economy ministers and other leading officials.
In Panama, the Governors will discuss ways the IDB Group can enhance its role for Latin America and the Caribbean, as the region’s leading provider of development financing and knowledge.
The event will include seminars on priority topics and will feature the release of the IDB’s annual macroeconomic assessment of the region. Discussion topics include poverty and inequality; the climate crisis and a green transition; biodiversity; gender; diversity and inclusion; sustainable and inclusive infrastructure; and regional integration.
Members of the news media may register for the event before March 9, 2023. Only registered, onsite media will receive information about press conferences and other media availabilities.
More information will be available on the Annual Meeting website.

About us
The Inter-American Development Bank is devoted to improving lives. Established in 1959, the IDB is a leading source of long-term financing for economic, social and institutional development in Latin America and the Caribbean. The IDB also conducts cutting-edge research and provides policy advice, technical assistance and training to public and private sector clients throughout the region. Access our virtual tour
About IDB Invest
IDB Invest, a member of the IDB Group, is a multilateral development bank committed to promoting the economic development of its member countries in Latin America and the Caribbean through the private sector. IDB Invest finances sustainable companies and projects to achieve financial results and maximize economic, social, and environmental development in the region. With a portfolio of $15.3 billion in asset management and 375 clients in 25 countries, IDB Invest provides innovative financial solutions and advisory services that meet the needs of its clients in a variety of industries.

Regional Electricity Sector Regulatory Workshop (RR-ASERT Dialogue)
2023-02-28 08:00 - 17:00 | Barbados, Barbados
This two-day event is being held as the first in a series of CDB Accelerated Sustainable Energy and Resilience Transition (ASERT-2030) Workshops (referred to as Dialogues) within the Bank’s ASERT- 2030 Framework of the Energy Sector Policy and Strategy. ASERT-2030 aims to encourage and support CDB Borrowing Member Countries (BMCs) in their efforts to rapidly increase the scale and pace of their energy sector transition to greater uptake of renewable energy. This first Dialogue, referred to as the Regional Regulatory ASERT Dialogue (RR-ASERT Dialogue), will focus on strengthening regulatory frameworks in BMCs.

Ask CCSA
2023-02-16 11:30 - 12:30 | Virtual
Ask CCSA is a monthly livestream to engage our audience in discussion around the creation of the Climate-Smart zone and its progress. We cover all areas of climate action and welcome your questions using the hashtag #AskCCSA which may be answered live and or on our social media.

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44th CARICOM Heads of Government Meeting
2023-02-15 - 2023-02-17 | Bahamas, Bahamas
Forty-Fourth Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM

The Forty-Fourth (44th) Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) takes place in Nassau, Bahamas, from the 15th – 17th February 2023.
The Meeting will be held under the Chairmanship of the Prime Minister of The Bahamas, Honourable Philip Davis

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Progress on the CARICOM Single Market and Economy; food security; climate change and climate finance; and security will be among the major topics when Heads of Government of CARICOM meet in The Bahamas 15-17 February 2023

#ASKCCSA Green Hydrogen Opportunities
2023-01-19 11:00 - 12:00
Join our next #AskCCSA live session on Thursday, January 19, 2023 at 11:00am AST to talk through some of the developments in the regional green hydrogen market with Philip Julien Founder & Chairman of Kenesjay Green Limited (KGL).

#ASKCCSA Climate Resilience Execution Agency for Dominica (CREAD)
2022-12-15 11:00 - 12:00
CREAD is responsible for translating Dominica’s bold vision of becoming the world’s first climate resilient nation into action! Submit your questions as we discuss this transition with CREAD’s CEO Francine Baron

UN Biodiversity Conference (COP 15)
2022-12-07 - 2022-12-19 | Montreal, Canada, Montreal, Canada
Despite on-going efforts, biodiversity is deteriorating worldwide and this decline is projected to worsen with business-as-usual scenarios. The UN Biodiversity Conference will convene governments from around the world to agree to a new set of goals for nature over the next decade through the Convention on Biological Diversity post-2020 framework process. The framework sets out an ambitious plan to implement broad-based action to bring about a transformation in society’s relationship with biodiversity and to ensure that, by 2050, the shared vision of living in harmony with nature is fulfilled.
The Conference will also look at the implementation of the protocols of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) that deal with the fair and equitable sharing of benefits from the use of nature, and the safe transport, handling and labelling of Living Modified Organisms.
The first part of COP-15 included the opening of the Meetings and addressed agenda items that were identified as essential for the continuation of the operations of the Convention and the Protocols by the Bureau. This included meetings about administrative matters and technical issues related to CBD programmes.
There was also a high-level segment on 12 and 13 October 2021. Participants focused on the development of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework.
All sessions at COP-15 will be streamed live at cbd.int/live and the main schedule is also available.
Information on Media Accreditation

Follow the latest details about COP-15 using the hashtag #COP15 on social media.

12th Caribbean Conference on Comprehensive Disaster Management (CDM)
2022-12-07 - 2022-12-09 | Savannah Beach Resort & Spa, Barbados, Barbados
The 12th Caribbean Conference on Comprehensive Disaster Management (CDM) on December 7-9, 2022 at the Savannah Beach Resort & Spa, Barbados. This year’s event is headlined by The Honourable Mia Amor Mottley, Prime Minister – Barbados and is the region’s premier event on disaster risk management which is being delivered under the theme: “CDM Road to Resilience: Checkpoint 2022 – Advancing a Risk-based Multi-hazard Approach during COVID-19 & Beyond”.
This seminal event is the Caribbean’s largest gathering of professionals in the field of disaster management and is scheduled to bring together over 1,000 delegates in person and online. The event curates a platform for professional development for disaster risk management (DRM).

2nd Caribbean ESG & Climate Financing Summit
2022-11-29 - 2022-11-30
The 2nd annual Caribbean ESG & Climate Financing Summit arrives in Trinidad & Tobago, in-person for the first time, this November 29-30.
Launched in 2021, the inaugural event gathered 300 corporate, government and finance leaders, in what was a clear indication of the significance of ESG and climate finance to the competitiveness of the Caribbean.
For Caribbean corporates, ESG is no longer optional; it’s urgent: access to capital and trading partners will depend upon it. For Caribbean governments facing down extraordinary threats from climate change, access to climate-linked capital is critical. But in some quarters, the case still needs to be made.
The only forum in the region that gathers corporates, sovereigns, lenders and investors, the 2022 Caribbean ESG & Climate Financing Summit represents an opportunity to make a leap forward and to mainstream a new way of operating, and a new financing ecosystem, for the region.
The transformation is underway. Now we need to implement and accelerate. Be there for the region’s only ESG and climate financing event, as we make what happens next.

Ocean Decarbonization in the Caribbean
2022-11-22 11:00 - 13:00
Please join the Maritimes Energy Association and Net Zero Atlantic for a webinar on ocean decarbonization in the Caribbean. Hear from keynote speaker, Racquel Moses, UNFCCC global ambassador and chief executive officer, Caribbean Climate-Smart Accelerator as well as regional stakeholders on the importance of ocean decarbonization.
The ocean is central to reducing global greenhouse gas emissions and stabilizing the Earth’s climate. This session aims to put together regional stakeholders and Atlantic Canadian companies involved in the Decarbonization of the Oceans and the Blue Economy to look beyond current solutions and brainstorm about high-impact interventions to decarbonize the Caribbean Ocean ecosystem. Our experts will discuss global trends in the sector, the pressing needs in the Caribbean decarbonization space, potential international financial institutions’ support in the space, examples of work by Ports in the region to green the industry, and how to enhance public and private collaboration to create meaningful impact. Atlantic Canada is at the forefront of research and development in the decarbonization of the ocean and electrification of the marine industry, and this webinar should be a way to start linkages between key players in our region and the Caribbean, allowing for future connections and collaborations in the Blue Economy.
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Moving towards Article 6 implementation through capacity building and blending with climate finance - COP 27
2022-11-15 14:30 - 16:00 | Room Akhenaten, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt
The event’s main objective is to improve SIDS’ capacity to implement Article 6. A speedy implementation of Article 6 is made possible by international development of particular methodological tools as well as the role of private and state climate finance in blending with credit sales income.

Leveraging Climate Finance to Build Caribbean Resilience
2022-11-15 09:00 - 11:00 | CARICOM Pavillion
The Caribbean Climate-Smart Accelerator (CCSA) will host an Investor Forum from the United Nations climate change summit, COP27, on November 15, 2022 at 3pm EET. Focused on leveraging climate finance to fund resilience-building initiatives in the Caribbean, this will be the CCSA’s first COP Side Event and will feature attendees and panelists at the summit interacting with speakers.

Materializing the Caribbean Green Hydrogen Opportunity COP27
2022-11-14 07:30 - 20:30 | NDC Partnership Pavilion at COP27, Egypt
Join the NDC Partnership today at #COP27! Watch our featured events on Facebook Live, or attend in our Pavilion, located in Area C, Zone 2, Pavilion #126. #CollectiveAction
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Small island states, climate justice and International Law: Raising ambitions for the SDGs and Paris Agreement commitments
2022-11-11 12:00 - 13:00
International law has been under-utilised as an instrument to hold states responsible for climate-related harm. That is changing. Over the past year, small island states – already experiencing some of the gravest impacts of climate breakdown – have taken strong steps towards securing climate justice through the use of international law.

Race to Resilience Sessions
2022-11-11 09:30 - 10:30
An inclusive virtual and physical space to mobilise action on resilience at COP27 and beyond
Join us at Regional Resilience Hubs in the lead up to the 2022 UN Climate Change Conference (COP27) and take part virtually and in person in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.

The Resilience Hub is designed to connect and inspire people across business, civil society, academia and government to collaborate and scale up action that builds resilience to the impact of climate change and makes communities around the world safer, healthier and more just.
We are motivated by the urgent need to increase the level of ambition and finance given to building resilience, particularly for the world’s most vulnerable populations, and placing locally informed, equitable solutions centre stage in the run up to and during COP.
Following a successful inaugural Hub at COP26 in Glasgow, the Resilience Hub is returning as a dynamic, inclusive virtual and physical space at COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh in November 2022.

Outreach & Diversity in the Environmental and Cultural Sectors
2022-11-11 04:30 - 05:30
Environmental conditions such as flooding or hurricanes can result in temporary or permanent migration or displacement. Such events and movement patterns are anticipated to increase under a changing climate. This can result in economic, societal, and cultural losses, as well as detriments to health. Some people are more likely to suffer than others. What steps might be taken to help make communities more resilient and in ways that would enable them to participate in a Just Transition and reconstruction more fully? To address the dynamic and development of change in complex socio-ecological systems, panelists consider issues of resilience, adaptability and transformability across multiple scales. There is an overarching concern in addressing risk, disaster, humanitarian aid, and rebuilding post-disaster and whether it is possible to foster resilience at small, manageable scales when confronted with larger governance structures and entrenched patterns of resource accumulation that are less resilient.

Ocean x Climate Summit
2022-11-11 03:30 - 22:00
THE OCEAN X CLIMATE SUMMIT
On 11 November 2022, Oceanic Global and partners will host an all-day Summit at the Park Regency in Sharm El-Sheikh, to immerse global stakeholders in the importance and potential of the ocean within the climate change narrative, and to support multiI stakeholder action for the ocean and all it sustains.

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Unlocking Private Sector Finance to Accelerate Climate Action in Small and other Vulnerable Countries
2022-11-10 14:30 - 15:00
The Commonwealth Secretariat in collaboration with the Governments of Saint Lucia, Namibia and Zambia will be hosting a COP27 event , ‘Unlocking Private Sector Finance to Accelerate Climate Action in Small and other Vulnerable Countries’. Thursday 10 November and will provide an opportunity to discuss experiences on private sector engagement in climate action by member countries, financing institutions and other non-governmental organisations around readiness initiatives for climate action, climate budget tagging and new financing instruments

Sustainable Innovation Forum at COP27
2022-11-10 09:30 - 10:15
The Sustainable Innovation Forum

With 1.5 degrees in jeopardy, we need bold collaboration and brave action at COP27. The Sustainable Innovation Forum 2022 (now in its 13th year) will convene over 500 heads of state, ministers, CEO’s, investors, multilateral dignitaries, and city leaders in the largest multi stakeholder event at the COP27 negotiations. The Forum aims to enable forge cross-sector partnerships between the non-state actor community, to shift climate action out of silos and leverage ambitious, collaborative global efforts to keep warming within 1.5 degrees.

Date: Day 2 – November 10 2022
Time: 14:30 – 15:10 GMT + 2
Panel: How can data, digitisation and automation secure real decarbonisation and climate action in line with <1.5 degrees warming?
Digitisation and IoT are generating more data than we know how to use. This data enables us to track, monitor, measure and optimise
production across our supply chains as well as drive efficiencies and futureproofing across the built environment. But there are trade-offs
to manage from increasing digitisation including unemployment, energy use of data centres and security risks.
• How can we ensure digital solutions deliver our human and planetary needs?
• How can data driven disruption help us decarbonise energy at the exponential rates we require?
• How is digitisation set to transform different sectors’ adaptation and mitigation efforts; industry, buildings, transport and most
crucially energy?
• How can digitisation drive out inefficiencies in the industrial sectors?

Devex @ COP 27
2022-11-10 05:30 - 07:00
On November 10, Devex will host a series of provocative conversations on global development and climate change on the sidelines of the COP 27 negotiations in person in Sharm El-Sheik. This won’t be your standard COP event. Step outside of the blue zone as we spotlight how low- and middle-income countries are included — or not — in these critical conversations while being the most impacted. We’ll dig into cross-cutting issues such as health, food systems, migration, and finance, and how climate intersects with every facet of achieving the sustainable development goals.

Enabling Universal Participation in the Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF)
2022-11-09 06:30 - 13:00
As part of the transition to the ETF, the UNFCCC secretariat will provide an update on recent transparency outcomes and key milestones between now and 2025. Speakers will address reporting tools, review processes, engagement with developing country Parties, and next steps in ETF implementation.
ORGANIZER: Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

Caribbean Investment Forum
2022-11-08 08:00 - 2022-11-11 17:00
As the Caribbean recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic and re-opens for business, new opportunities are abound. The Caribbean Investment Forum will support efforts to accelerate the region’s transition to a greener and SMARTer sustainable economy creating jobs and opportunity for our people.

Investment projects from 23 Caribbean states in the fields of digital economy, agribusiness, blue economy, sustainable tourism, logistics and transportation and renewable energy will be presented to regional and global investors.

Global Sustainable Development Report 2023 Consultation Workshop
2022-11-07 08:00 - 2022-11-09 17:00
Latin America and the Caribbean Regional
The Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR) was originally mandated by the United Nations Member States in the outcome document of the 2012 “Rio +20” conference on sustainable development, “The Future We Want”. Three years later, as part of the 2030 Agenda, Member States reaffirmed the importance of the GSDR and requested in 2016 that it would be written by an independent group of
scientists (IGS). The first report was published in 2019. The next report is scheduled for release in September 2023. The IGS, appointed by the United Nations Secretary-General, consists of 15 leading experts from the
natural and social sciences, representing developed and developing countries. The current group is co- chaired by Prof. Imme Scholz of Germany and Prof. J. Jaime Miranda of Peru.
As requested by Member States, the GSDR aims to strengthen the science-policy interface and to provide evidence-based guidance on global sustainable development issues and the implementation of the 2030 Agenda. The report is an important instrument to inform the deliberations at the quadrennial Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Summit (next held in September 2023), where it is presented to
heads of state, who take stock on the progress towards the 2030 Agenda. The 2023 report will be launched at the half-way point on the 2030 Agenda when decision-makers will be looking for practical solutions that can accelerate progress.
The 2023 GSDR will incorporate a broad range of existing scholarship on SDG implementation. It will build on the 2019 GSDR which identified four levers for change as well as adding a fifth lever on capacities:

Governance
Economy and finance,
Individual and collective action
Science and technology
Capacities

It will also build from the six entry points identified in the 2019 GSDR where interlinkages among the SDGs are especially strong such that interventions can address many goals and targets:

Strengthening human wellbeing and capabilities
Shifting toward sustainable and just economies
Building sustainable food systems and healthy nutrition patterns
Achieving energy decarbonization with universal access to energy
Promoting sustainable urban and peri-urban development
Securing the global environmental commons

For the 2023 GSDR, the IGS will expand on the 2019 report with a focus on accelerating action and overcoming impediments that stand in the way of making the levers work together toward transformation through the entry points. Acceleration and enabling transformations is critical as the world struggles to rebuild in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic. The time dynamics of transformation and implementation are explicitly addressed — moving from emergence toward acceleration and finally to stabilization. The focus will be on identifying concrete recommendations and tools grounded in evidence for accelerating the implementation of the SDGs and on making the field of science more supportive to this acceleration.

Technical Dialogue under the first Global Stocktake at COP27
2022-11-06 - 2022-11-12
At COP26 in Glasgow, the first global stocktake (GST1) was launched with the goal of assessing the collective progress towards achieving the purpose and long-term goals of the Paris Agreement, as well as enhancing climate action and support. The outcome of the GST in 2023 will inform Parties when updating and upscaling their actions and support, as well as in enhancing international cooperation on climate action.

Decarbonization Panel: Low Carbon Pathways in Caribbean Shipping and Ports Services
2022-11-02 09:00 - 11:00 | Sheraton Puerto Rico Hotel & Casino, 200 Convention Boulevard, San Juan, Puerto Rico

CANNING CONFERENCES Energy and Renewables
2022-10-27 12:30 - 14:30 | Eversheds Sutherland, 1 Wood St, London EC2V 7WS, 1 Wood St,, London, United Kingdom
In Canning House’s upcoming Sustainable Development conference, we look again at Latin America’s progress in its Energy and Renewables sectors, and where key opportunities can be found, in partnership with Eversheds Sutherland.

ESG and Net Zero: Securing a sustainable future for the Caribbean
2022-10-27 10:00 - 13:00
We are all impacted by climate change and some parts of the world, like the Caribbean, are being more acutely impacted sooner than others. Our event aims to bring together regional leaders from government and business to convene a discussion on environmental, social and governance (ESG) and net zero trends and the likely implications for the Caribbean, and to make the case for action, now, to help secure a sustainable future.

3rd Annual Caribbean Future Summit
2022-10-25 11:00 - 13:00
The Caribbean Future Summit is the world’s most iconic summit curating an active network of investors, tech entrepreneurs, celebrities, politicians, and business moguls. Each year the program gathers 1000 pioneers from across the Caribbean and around the world to address and tackle challenges that affect the Caribbean’s future. The summit serves as a platform for influencers who are sourcing innovative solutions and partners that leverage exponential technology to accelerate the Caribbean as the world’s leading tech, tourism, and creative hub.
11:00am-11:30am EST Spotlight Panel Session The Caribbean career perspective and the investment ecosystem of the future- Speaker share career advice and opportunities available in the tourism and technology sector.
