Programme

Doconomy & ClimateView presents "Dialogues: The Climate Action Economy", a session exploring how finance, cities, and consumers can collaboratively drive progress toward a climate action economy. Thought leaders and experts in finance, sustainability, and data-driven solutions will discuss the intersection of climate action, financial wellbeing, and systemic change at COP28. Join the conversation to learn how responsible financial practices, data-driven insights, and behavioral science can contribute to addressing climate change while fostering economic stability and transitions to net zero in smart cities.

It has been 8 years since Paris, with 7 years to go to 2030. In the urgent race to combat climate change and achieve global sustainability goals, the intersection of capital markets and corporate sustainability has never been more critical or important.  Join us for a thought-provoking panel discussion where industry experts and leaders will explore how capital markets can play a pivotal role in supporting corporates and provide the necessary financial resources to accelerate corporate efforts toward achieving net-zero emissions on their journey to a net-zero future. 

In this panel, speakers will address the power of large companies and banks to influence the transition towards net-zero, and how science-based and accurate carbon calculations enables them to take control of their value chain emissions while creating long-term resilience and growth for their business. 

In the battle against climate change, the imperative to remove carbon from the atmosphere has never been more urgent and the capital markets will play an important role in accelerating the deployment of carbon removal technologies and initiatives across the globe to ensure we have sufficient capacity by 2050. By participating in this panel discussion, you will gain valuable insights into how capital markets can become powerful catalysts for financing the scale-up of carbon removals. We will also discuss the carbon market’s actions to accelerate up-scaling of the carbon removal market, with a focus on financing decarbonization and responsible leadership across the ecosystem.  Together, we can help combat climate change and protect our planet for future generations. 

As countries strive to achieve ambitious energy and climate goals, particularly through the integration of large volumes of renewables, grid interconnections become increasingly important. Today, interconnections linking different power systems within and between countries and regions allow electricity to flow according to patterns of supply and demand, while simultaneously enhancing system reliability, security, and resilience. In fact, increasing interconnection capacity is now becoming crucial as we focus on maximising the penetration of variable renewables globally. Europe has set the benchmark when it comes to interconnectors, being the world’s largest interconnected grid with more than 400 interconnectors and, according to ENTSO-E, 40 more planned by 2030. However, other regions are also progressing. The SIEPAC (Central American Electrical Interconnection System) project links the power grids of six Central American nations since 2013. Meanwhile, ASEAN countries created the ASEAN Power Grid programme in 1997 and the ASEAN Interconnection Masterplan Study has identified numerous benefits from increased interconnectivity.During this discussion, panelists will share lessons learned and experiences from developing major interconnection projects to accelerate the integration of renewables across geographies.

Export credits are instrumental in expediting the green transition by providing crucial financial support for sustainable projects and initiatives. However, it's imperative that these credits are allocated to the right kind of projects, prioritizing those that have been thoroughly assessed and align with environmentally responsible practices. Join us in a panel discussion to explore the role of export credits in the green transition.

Calculating scope 3 emissions with consistency and scientific rigor is crucial to reach net zero. But businesses are being held back. Listen how leaders in the field are tackling the value chain to drive effective reductions, secure benefits for their business and win the net zero race. 

Climate change stands as one of the foremost challenges of our era, and the urgency to act is paramount. In our pursuit of the 1.5°C target, we must harness every available avenue and rally private investment and financing. In the operationalization of the Article 6 in relation to corporates’ voluntary claims, the chosen design and specified rules could have a significant implication on how much private capital that will be available.  

Cities contribute 70 percent of global greenhouse-gas emissions. As a consequence, cities play a key role in driving the green transition. What distinguishes cities that are leading the green transition? How do city forerunners implement actions with the scale, scope and speed needed to reach the goals set by the Paris Agreement? And how have they enabled stakeholder and citizen inclusion as part of the process? During this session, we welcome representatives from cities leading the green transition along with green city networks to discuss these questions and what can be learned from successful examples. 

To achieve 2030 reduction targets, we must significantly cut our everyday overconsumption, adapting behaviors and lifestyles to mitigate the impacts of climate change. The Sustainable Consumption Index (SCI) by Doconomy and Mastercard facilitates collective reduction efforts by providing indicative figures and interactive simulations for a low-carbon shift in Sweden's consumer footprint. Join the launch to explore data-driven insights and discuss strategies for unlocking our reduction potential and fostering sustainable practices.

Transitioning to clean electricity as the backbone of the energy system represents the cleanest and most efficient way to decarbonise. Massive deployment of clean power and electrification, enabled by grids, is one of the most important strategies in our race towards net zero. Globally we are looking at 4 times increase in generation capacity and a 3-fold increase in transfer capacity as the share of electrification in our energy system goes from 20% up to over 50% by 2050.This transformational change is achievable, but the sense of urgency must be realized by all. The solutions needed to accelerate clean energy transitions will require collaboration on all fronts. As the transport, buildings and industry sectors decarbonize, the interdependencies between these sectors and the power sector increase. Stakeholders from these sectors need to speak each other’s language to find new ways to break down silos and accelerate the energy transition. Different stakeholder groups from countries across the world must also leverage the opportunity to learn from each other, creating new business opportunities and faster pathways to net zero.Moving a resilient energy transition forward will entail replicating, scaling, and speeding up collaboration models. Panelists at this session will share opportunities, challenges and examples related to successfully collaborating across sectors, geographies, and stakeholders.

This session will discuss the EU Green Deal and the impact on EU trade relations with the rest of the world. Special focus will be on how exporters in low- and middle-income countries may be affected by the climate-related EU’s Green Deal legislation. 

Transitioning to a circular economy reduces carbon emissions and is a powerful tool in climate mitigation efforts. Simultaneously a circular economy leads to a decreased demand for virgin raw materials and decreases the pressure on ecosystems, which in turn has a positive effect on climate adaptation efforts. This session explores how circularity offers synergies between mitigation and adaptation and demonstrates how Swedish innovations and circular business models contribute towards this goal.

Sweden has over recent years become the epicenter of impact tech, i.e. companies who based on forefront technology and science build solutions that benefit people and the planet by directly addressing global development goals. During this session, several impact tech companies together with leading representatives from Sweden’s impact tech ecosystem and beyond come together to discuss the role of impact tech to accelerate the global momentum toward a sustainable future. 

The Blue Mediterranean Partnership (BMP) is a platform for coordinating interventions and leveraging resources to enable sustainable blue economy investments in the Mediterranean region.  The BMP seeks to increase coherence, cooperation and coordination among all stakeholders concerned to increase the impact and visibility of sustainable blue economy investments around the Mediterranean.  Today’s event will be a signing ceremony of the Blue Mediterranean Partnership (BMP), which is a key milestone towards making it operational at the start of 2024.   

How could global food systems better sustain our planet and its people by 2040? The urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve ecological conditions to sustain the planet and its growing population by 2040 is the focus of a panel discussion based on Tetra Pak's white paper. The discussion will address three critical issues and five key objectives for a more sustainable future. Stakeholders from various sectors will explore the reconfiguration of global food systems to align with ecological, social, and economic imperatives, including private sector engagement and Tetra Pak's pathways for change. 

To achieve net zero supply chains by 2030-2050, the MASSIV+ partnership explores a cross-industry standard for turning greenhouse gas emissions data into actionable information – and thereby reduce negative impact.  

What is the future of scope 3 emissions? We often speak to the challenges that enterprises are navigating to deliver the transition towards net zero, and seize the opportunities that lie therein. In this panel, you will hear about the solutions. How enabling technology will provide seamless exchange of carbon data. 

The session will discuss how growth, emissions reductions and economic empowerment can go hand in hand, and how successful partnerships and strategic alliances between local business communities in Sweden, the EU and globally are the main drivers of all three. 

The Breakthrough Agenda report 2023 concludes that even if the transition to clean energy and sustainable solutions is accelerating, global emissions are still increasing and there is a need now to deploy near zero emission technologies at scale. For steel this means that we need 70 near zero emission steel plants by 2030. What is needed to get projects off the ground and how can value-chain collaboration and policy measures support this needed acceleration?