C2ES Events at COP27

Recharged U.S. Climate & Energy Landscape: Galvanizing Business Solutions for Net-Zero

Co-organized by C2ES, BCSE, and EEI
Nov 11, 2022, 3-4 p.m. (Egypt) 8-9 a.m. (U.S.)
U.S. Center Pavilion, Blue Zone

Watch the livestream from the U.S. Center

Hear from U.S. business executives about how anticipated shifts in clean energy investment, workforce development, community engagement, daily operations, and deployment of clean technology solutions, will usher in a new era for the U.S. economy. Find out how the IRA is catalyzing greater private investment and how new partnerships across the public and private sectors can help deliver those outcomes.

Speakers

Master of Ceremonies: Nathaniel Keohane, President, C2ES • Lisa Jacobson, President, Business Council for Sustainable Energy • Brian Wolff, President, Edison Electric Institute • Pedro Pizarro, President and CEO, Edison International • Ralph Izzo, Executive Chairman, PSEG • Andres Gluski, President, AES • Kristen Siemen, Chief Sustainability Officer, General Motors • David Bow, Executive Vice President, Plug • Nanette Lockwood, Global Director of Policy and Advocacy, Trane Technologies • Benjamin Cardin, U.S. Senator (D-Md.)

Building A Resilient Future: The Power Sector and The Clean Energy Transition

Organized by EEI
Nov. 12, 2022, 10 a.m.–Noon, (Egypt), 3–5 a.m (U.S. ET)
The Climate Registry Pavilion, Blue Zone

This event will highlight the role that Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the Inflation Reduction Act will play in enhancing resilience efforts. Speakers will showcase how cross-sectoral collaboration identifies and accelerates the most critical adaptation strategies to address the climate crisis. The event will also demonstrate how science-based insights serve as a foundation for a standardized and consensus-based framework to inform infrastructure investment and deployment

Speakers

• Lindsey Doyle
  Climate Engagement Lead, USAID
• Nathaniel Keohane
  President, C2ES
• Ralph Izzo
  Executive Chairman, PSEG
• Pedro Pizarro
  President and CEO, Edison International
• Arshad Mansoor
  President, EPRI

How U.S. companies are implementing the transition to net zero: Experiences across sectors

Organized by C2ES
Nov. 12, 2022, 5-6 p.m. (Egypt) 10-11 a.m. (U.S. ET)
America Is All In (AIAI) Action Center, Blue Zone

This panel discussion will highlight how prominent multinational companies in different sectors, representing utilities, fuel developers, industrial end users, and technology companies, are accelerating the supply and demand of key breakthrough technologies and climate solutions—hydrogen, sustainable aviation fuel, renewable natural gas, 24/7 carbon free energy, and carbon removals—necessary to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement.

Speakers

• Verena Radulovic
  Vice President for Business Engagement, C2ES
  Moderator
• Amy Chiang
  Vice President, Global Government Relations, Honeywell
• Roger Martella
  Vice President, Chief Sustainability Officer, General Electric
• Guy van Nieuwenhove
  Senior Vice President, Director of Portfolio Management & Business Development, National Grid Ventures
• Marsden Hanna
  Head of Sustainability and Climate Policy

Taking Stock of the Global Stocktake

Nov. 16, 2022, 11 a.m.-Noon (Egypt), 4–5 a.m. (U.S. ET)
EU Pavilion, Blue Zone

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The conclusion of the 2nd Technical Dialogue (TD) of the Global Stocktake (GST) will take us past the midway point of COP27 and the GST, which concludes at COP28. In Egypt, Parties and non-Party stakeholders will have just engaged in dialogue on how the international community can go from where it is now, to the achievement of the Paris Agreement goals. What have they learned halfway through the GST process? What can be influenced next year and what do we hope to see at the conclusion of COP28?

Speakers

• Kaveh Guilanpour
  Vice President of International Strategies,C2ES
• Lavanya Rajamani
  Professor of International Environmental Law, University of Oxford
• Juliana Arciniegas
  Project Director, Transforma
• Sebastian Oberthür
  Professor, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and University of Eastern Finland
• Andrew Higham
  Director Plexus Strategy
• Casey Cronin
  Director, Global Intelligence, ClimateWorks