The Business of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation

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This session pulls together business leaders, multilateral financiers and youth activists to discuss different stakeholders' role in climate change adaptation and mitigation. Through interaction with the audience, we will reflect on the facilitators and barriers to achieving a zero emissions economy, and how companies are addressing this challenge.

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Twenty-nine years after establishing the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the world has yet to embark on a path to significantly lower emissions. Under the Paris Agreement in 2015, countries have pledged to keep global warming “well below 2°C” and if possible no more than 1.5°C compared to pre-industrial levels, but the speed of implementing specific policies to deliver on those objectives has been facing setbacks in countries like the US or Switzerland. At the same time, recent extreme weather events in Europe, North America and Asia are a stark reminder of the urgency of the issue. Given the challenges on the political level, could proactive business strategies be part of the solution? What are the success stories and remaining challenges in financing climate change mitigation and adaptation? And how can climate action be accelerated through cross-sector collaboration?