Connecting to COP28

Regional

• European Union Side Event - Showcase how the EU is taking ambitious climate action and supporting climate projects around the world through a program of side events that will be accessible to everyone via an online platform.  

  • • Island Voices Interactive Platform - Island Innovation will provide an interactive platform where islanders can stay updated, exchange knowledge and access content.

      • • • Island of Hope - The Madinat Jumeirah’s Fort Island will be transformed into a space dedicated to sharing positive solutions and inspirational stories at COP28

    • Nordic Co-operation Pavilion - Will cover a wide range of topics on climate change and solutions.  Site also features clips from COP27

    • Canada Pavilion - Highlights pan-Canadian climate action, innovation, leadership and collaboration in the fight against climate change.

    • Africa Pavilion - Platform for discussion and ensure that Africa’s concerns and priorities are adequately considered during the climate change negotiation process.

    • Finland Pavilion - To promote and strengthen Finland’s brand as a green tech hub.

    • Danish Pavilion - Official Danish pavilion in the negotiation zone (blue) at COP28

    • Japan Pavilion - Online component confirmed

    • All-China Environment Federation - Note at last test the English translation feature was nonfunctioning

    • Australian Pavilion

    • C Team Pavilion - China Champions for Climate Action (entrepreneurs)

    • Cameroon Pavilion

    • One Planet Ecuador Pavilion

    • Estonia Pavilion

    • France Pavilion

    • Ghana Pavilion

    • Greece Pavilion

Business and Technology

• • • Technology and Innovation Hub - explores the enabling role of technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship in tackling climate change

    • Green Digital Action - Information and communication technologies (ICTs)

    • Business Pavilion - Go ‘all in’ to transform economies so they work to prevent the worst impacts of the climate crisis. It’s time for governments and businesses to accelerate implementation.

    • World Climate Summit - This Investment COP side event that facilitates the exchange of best practices and innovations across vital sectors crucial to decarbonization efforts in the areas of energy, transport, buildings, industry, finance and nature. 

    • Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA) Pavilion

    • DIGITAL INNOVATION PAVILION - Global Citizen and Youth Empowerment System (GLOCHA)

Energy

• • • European Nuclear Society (ENS)

    • Global Energy Forum - The Atlantic Council Global Energy Forum convenes the world’s top energy and foreign policy decision makers annually to set the global energy agenda for the year ahead and examine the longer-term geopolitical and geo-economic implications of the changing energy system.

    • ABHA International Foundation Pavilion - Abdullah Bin Hamad Al-Attiyah International Foundation for Energy and Sustainable Development

    • Global Renewables Hub - Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC)

Finance and Trade

• • • Benelux and European Investment Bank (EIB) Shared Pavilion - A varied program with interactive side events. Agenda

    • Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) Pavilion

    • World Trade Pavilion - spotlight on trade’s contribution to climate action.

    • IDB Pavilion of the Americas - Inter-American Development Bank.

    • International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) Side Events

    • International Trade Centre (ITC)

    • International Development Finance Club (IDFC)

Climate and Nature

• • • OECD Virtual Pavilion - Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. Covering a broad range of topics and convening leading experts, policymakers, and civil society, the pavilion presents key OECD contributions with insights to drive ambitious and globally effective action on climate change. 

• Climate Action Innovation Zone - 4- 8 December 2023

• UN Global Change Innovation Hub - Aims to promote transformative innovations for a low-emission and climate-resilient future

  • • Ocean Pavilion - Brings together world leaders in ocean science, engineering, and policy to carry the message that the ocean matters to everyone, everywhere and that science must lead solutions to climate change.

    • Cryosphere Pavilion - Place for exhibits, science-policy seminars or “side events,” and ministerial-level events in conjunction with the Ambition on Melting Ice High-level Group

    •  Ambition on Melting Ice (AMI) - Aims to ensure that the irreversible and devastating global impacts of cryosphere loss are understood by political leaders and the public alike: not only within mountain and polar regions, but throughout the planet.

    • The Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) - has several hosted side events linked

    • Picturing Climate Change - Picturing our future. Climate and energy choices this decade will influence how high sea levels rise for hundreds of years. Which future will we choose?

    • Clean Air Task Force (CATF)

    • International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

    • Isha Foundation - Save Soil Movement

Food

• • • Food Systems Pavilion - Thematic Days highlight the critical role that transforming food systems must play in climate mitigation, adaptation and building resilience.

    • Food4Climate Pavilion - Emphasize the need to make the shift towards plant-rich diets, adopt sustainable and resilient agricultural practices, and reduce food loss and waste.

    • Food and Agriculture Pavilion - Will bring together a diverse range of partners to share what they know and to discuss how agri-food systems can be part of the solution to the climate crisis. YouTube Playlist

Health and Wellbeing

• • • Health Pavilion - World Health Organization (WHO) in collaboration with the Wellcome Trust and partners will host 

    • Resilience Hub - 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. (dynamic, inclusive virtual and physical space at the Blue Zone) 

    • 5th Capacity-building Hub - welcomes all interested individuals and entities involved in climate action across all sectors and regions to take part in debates and contribute to focused capacity-building discussions

    • International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)

Entertainment

• Entertainment + Culture Pavilion - Additional Resource on Pavilion

• Storytelling for Action Pavilion - The Bellona Foundation will be hosting meaningful conversations between the entertainment and climate policy communities. 

Education

• • • Monash University Pavilion - Monash is Australia’s most global university with an international footprint and a profound commitment to addressing the global challenge of climate change.

    • Arizona State University (ASU) Pavilion - The Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory at Arizona State University

Special Interest

• Faith Pavilion - UNEP and the Muslim Council of Elders, in close collaboration with the COP28 Presidency, have formed a strategic multi-partnership with FBOs and civil society partners to host a first-of-its-kind Pavilion in the Blue Zone.

• Women’s Resilience to Disasters (WRD) Programme - The objective is for WRD countries to (i) adopt gender-responsive decision-making and governance systems, and (ii) enable targeted action to build the resilience of women and girls.

• Commonwealth Pavilion - Advocacy for urgent global climate action, amplify the voice of small states and vulnerable countries of the Commonwealth.

• ISO (International Organization for Standardization) Pavilion - International standards are a critical tool for transforming climate commitments into effective action.

• Parliamentary Pavilion - The Global Legislators Organization (GLOBE)

• Multilevel Action & Urbanization Pavilion

• Changing Climate: Our Future, Our Choice - Produced by the Museum of the Earth in Ithaca, NY, this site accompanies a permanent exhibit that highlights past, present, and potential climate change.

• History of Climate Science Research - An interactive timeline of climate science research from University Corporation for Atmospheric Research - Center for Science Education. 

• Possible Futures - A virtual version of an exhibit that opened 25 June 2021 at the Glasgow Science Centre.  A project of Museums for Climate Action.

• UNFCCC -- 25 Years of Effort and Achievement - An interactive timeline showing key milestones in the evolution of international climate policy.  This was produced by United Nations Climate Change.

• Climate Connection Virtual Exhibition - Step into the British Council’s virtual headquarters in Stratford, UK, to take the tour now! See how our cultural relations approach has connected young people and hard-to-reach communities in more than 200 countries to the world, to opportunities and to each other, to solve the climate crisis together.

• NCA Interactive Atlas - The 5th National Climate Assessment — often referred to as NCA5 — was published in 2023.  This site taps into the power of maps and stories to share information from NCA5.

• C-ROADS - A climate simulator policy developed by Climate Interactive.  Commonly used as an educational tool in mock UN climate workshops.

• Climate Action Tracker -  A suite of interactive tools for analyzing changes in emissions, energy production, and other climate related development variables.  Also looks at projected changes.  Developed by a consortium of climate policy institutes.

• Climate Dashboard - A set of interactive graphs of global temperature, greenhouse gasses, and global mean sea level that is regularly updated.  Produced by the 2° Institute.

• Climate Impact Map - An interactive atlas of potential temperature change, mortality, and energy costs for various emission scenarios.  Developed by the Climate Impact Lab.

• Climate Toolbox - A suite of tools designed to look at the impact of different emission scenarios on regional climate, agriculture, wildfire, and water resources for the contiguous United States.  Unique to the toolbox is the Future Climate Tool which focuses on a variety of climate impacts on tribal lands.  Click here for a video introduction to the Toolbox developed by Climate Toolbox.org (a coalition of the University of Davis and five public agencies)

• Climate Trace - A data visualization tool for greenhouse gas emissions developed by a nonprofit coalition.  Data contained in the this database is derived from a suite of sources (e.g. remote sensing, ground-based monitoring, etc.) rather than self reporting from countries or emitters.

• Coastal Risk Screening Tool - An interactive atlas of the impact of sea level rise and coastal flooding on coastal cities around the world.  Developed by Climate Central.

• En-ROADS - A climate-energy simulator developed by Climate Interactive.  Good for understanding how models works and investigating various strategies for keeping global average temperature increase to within the Paris target of 1.5 to 2.0°C above preindustrial average.

• IPCC Working Group 1 Interactive Atlas -  A data analysis and visualization tool developed by the IPCC to accompany the first volume of the Sixth Assessment Report.  Allows the user to investigated how some of the climate impacts described in the report might impact the area their own region.

• Systems Change Lab Dashboard - An interactive visual used for exploring current progress towards decarbonizing the global economy sufficient to keeping average global temperature increase to 1.5°C.  Developed by the Systems Change Lab.

• Table of Solutions - An online catalog of specific strategies for decarbonized the global economy.  Produced by Project Drawdown.

• Climate Data Mapper Interactive - visualize climate data via an interactive web map.  Produced by NOAA.

• NorEast: Stream Temperature Data Inventory - A website developed to serve as a coordinated, multi-agency regional framework to map and store continuous stream temperature locations and data for New England, Mid Atlantic, and Great Lakes States.

• ESG Ratings & Climate Search Tool - Explore the potential ESG & Climate risks and opportunities of over 2,900 companies

• The Global Climate Action Portal - An interactive online platform where countries, regions, cities, companies, investors and other organizations can display their commitments to act on climate change on a map.

• Climate Risk & Resilience Portal (ClimRR) - Examine simulated future climate conditions at mid- and end-of-century for a range of climate perils.

• Picturing Climate Change - Climate Central’s Picturing Our Future tool visualizes how sea level rise could transform 190 iconic locations around the world if we exceed 1.5°C (2.7°F) of warming. These projected sea levels may take hundreds of years to be fully realized. (also under exhibits)

• Climate Shift Index - Analysis using Climate Central’s Climate Shift Index shows how human-caused climate change influenced heat over the last 12 months in 175 countries and 920 cities. Over that time, 90% of people worldwide (and 49% in the U.S.) experienced at least 10 days of temperatures very strongly influenced by climate change.