Minderoo Foundation Pavilion at cop27
event program schedule
Join us at the Minderoo Foundation Pavilion in the COP27 Blue Zone Area C, Delegation Pavilions Tent 1, Stand P52 to find out how Minderoo Foundation, Fortescue Future Industries and others are driving real global change to tackle climate change.
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Sneak preview of clips from the Minderoo Foundation supported film ‘Deep Rising’ which focuses on seabed mining, and fireside chat with film maker Matthieu Rytz; Former Head of the Office of Environmental Management and Mineral Resources at International Seabed Authority, Dr Sandor Mulsow; and Minderoo Director of Flourishing Oceans, Dr Tony Worby.
Please Note: This event is at the Ocean Pavilion
An engaging high-level panel discussion exploring how we can accelerate a shift toward a low carbon future to avert the worst impacts of climate change – while minimising unwanted environmental harm along the way. https://oceanpavilion-cop.org/
Priority actions for development for finance institutions.
Roundtable or panel session with a chair and kick off interventions, with time for discussion.
Overview
A dramatic scale up of green hydrogen production is needed to decarbonise hard-to-abate sectors and help avert a climate disaster. The potential for green hydrogen projects to benefit emerging and developing economies is unprecedented, due to their renewable energy potential and the need to improve energy access for their citizens and communities.
Estimates of the investment required range from USD 1.2-3 trillion between now and 2030. The development finance institutions (DFIs) have a critical role to play in enabling the shift to a green hydrogen economy, from providing technical assistance, to concessionary funding and risk mitigation.
Session Objectives
- Demonstrate the urgency of action by the development finance institutions to catalyse private sector finance for green hydrogen production and use, and to help create an enabling environment for investment in emerging and developing economies.
- Showcase DFI ambitions and plans.
- Launch the paper Financing Green Hydrogen in Emerging and Developing Markets 2022: Priority Actions for Development Finance Institutions.
Financing the green hydrogen revolution: how to scale up private investment.
Overview
The private finance industry will be critical in financing the large-scale green hydrogen projects needed to decarbonise hard-to-abate sectors such as steel, cement, fertilisers, shipping and aviation.
Private finance, domestic and international, should have a much greater role going forward in mobilising capital for green hydrogen projects in emerging and developing economies, given the fiscal constraints and the greater possibilities for the private sector to participate in large scale projects. Banks and financial institutions will also be important in providing advisory services to public and private sector players as they advance green hydrogen project development.
Session objectives
- Share insights from private finance institutions and investors who are investing in frontrunning green hydrogen projects.
- Explore what actions private finance institutions and public actors can take to attract more private finance and investment in green hydrogen projects in emerging and developing economies.
Sneak preview of clips from the Minderoo Foundation supported film ‘Deep Rising’ which focuses on seabed mining, and fireside chat with film maker Matthieu Rytz; Former Head of the Office of Environmental Management and Mineral Resources at International Seabed Authority, Dr Sandor Mulsow; and Minderoo Director of Flourishing Oceans, Dr Tony Worby.
Faces of the Future exhibition running throughout the day.
Energy for Change — Fortescue Future Industries in conversation with energy youth activists. Join Student Energy for a discussion about the future of energy and the activities driving it. About Student Energy.
Minderoo Foundation Reception — Invite-only event for friends, family and partners of Minderoo Foundation.
Join us to find out more about the work Fortescue Future Industries and its partners are doing to decarbonise. Hear from some of the people on the ground helping to power our journey and find out more about the Infinity Train, powered by gravity!
Let’s talk all things decarbonisation. What is it? How can you achieve it? Why is it important?
Join the SEZ, UNHLCC and Fortescue Future Industries as they discuss green shipping and green hydrogen. They will discuss green shipping opportunities, what is takes to decarbonise shipping from a ship owners’ perspective and how ports can be involved in this greener journey.
The world faces a food security crisis. Record high food prices are increasing hunger and malnutrition and driving millions into extreme poverty. The commodities that have been most affected are wheat, maize, edible oils, and fertilisers.
Ammonia is a very effective fertiliser and is the second-most commonly produced chemical in the world. However, ammonia manufacturing contributes between 1 and 2 per cent of worldwide carbon dioxide emissions. The natural gas can be replaced with green hydrogen produced with renewable electricity through the electrolysis of water. A switch from fossil fuels to renewable energy, green hydrogen and green ammonia therefore has the potential to reduce dependence on fertiliser imports, enhance food security and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
This session will bring together companies, governments and experts to show good practices and project examples, demonstrate the business case for investment in green fertilisers and discuss how government, industry and other actors can do more to help decouple fertiliser production from the volatile natural gas market, and encourage greater self-sufficiency and food security with green ammonia and fertiliser production.
Please Note: This event is at the Ocean Pavilion
Shipping is essential for healthy global trade transporting 90 per cent of goods across the globe. However, shipping contributes 3 per cent of global emissions -projected to increase by 50 per cent by 2050, putting at risk efforts to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius required to meet the Paris Accord. At COP26, many Parties began to focus on tackling emissions from the transport sector. COP27 presents an important opportunity to build on this work and develop practical ways in which to start to decarbonise now.
Moderator: Dr. Tony Worby – Director, Planet Portfolio & Flourishing Oceans, Minderoo Foundation
Panellists:
- Dr Mark Hutchinson, CEO, Fortescue Future Industries
- Katharine Palmer, Shipping Lead, Climate Champions Team
- David Barrow, Vice President South Asia, Marine & Offshore, Bureau Veritas
- Susan Ruffo, Senior Advisor for Ocean and Climate, United Nations Foundation
All day — Visual exhibition on the volume of water and what that can power.
Please Note: This event is at the Ocean Pavilion
Like CO2 emissions, the flow of plastic waste to the environment, especially the ocean, is an adverse side-effect of economic activity. Unlike CO2, the social cost of plastic pollution is not well understood and effective management requires a better resolution of risks. This panel will focus on the current state of knowledge about plastic in the ocean, potential links to climate, and potential impacts on human and environmental health.
Moderator: Emma Silver
Panellists:
- Dr. Tony Worby – Director, Planet Portfolio & Flourishing Oceans, Minderoo Foundation
- Dr. Phillip Landrigan (virtual) – Director, Global Public Health Program and Global Observatory on Planetary Health, Boston University, Minderoo-Monaco Commission
- Dr. Hauke Kite-Powell – Research Specialist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Marine Policy Center
- Prof David Wirth – Dean’s Distinguished Scholar at Boston College Law School, Director of International Programs
- Aarthi Ananthanarayanan – Climate and Plastics Initiative, Oceans Conservancy
Green hydrogen is made by splitting H2O (that’s right, water!) with renewable electricity into oxygen (which we need to breathe) and hydrogen — it’s that easy. Dr Charlotte Kirk, a scientist in Fortescue Future Industries’ Science and Technology team, will explain how water is used in the green hydrogen generation process and economy whilst discussing issues such as water sustainability, security, responsibility and the usage comparison to the fossil fuel and agricultural industries.
Without long-duration energy storage to back up solar (when the sun doesn’t shine) and wind (when the wind doesn’t blow), we risk blackout and brownout or a return to fossil fuels. This is the ignored crisis within the crisis. Green hydrogen will play an important role in decarbonising hard-to-abate sectors, such as steel, and will be an important tool in long duration storage of renewable energy. This event will discuss the actions that the Australian state governments and companies have taken to accelerate the development of long-duration energy storage. Join us to discuss the importance of ensuring any long-duration energy storage activities are done sustainably.
Moderator: Eddie Rich, CEO International Hydropower Association
Panellists:
- Julia Souder, ED of Long Duration Energy Storage (LDES) Council — global perspective
- Atle Harby, SINTEF — global perspective on modelling long-duration energy storage needs
- Fortescue Future Industries — Australian international investor perspective
- Video message from Chris Evans, CEO of QueenslandHydro — Australian development
- Kane Thornton, CEO of Australian Clean Energy Council — Australian systems perspective
Bruh Ayele Terfie, Fortescue Future Industries in conversation with Zalina Shamsudin Head of Asia-Pacific Programmes and Lily Burge Senior Policy Research Analyst, Climate Bonds Initiative.
On Energy Day at COP 27, GH2 is convening a panel of industry leaders to discuss the role of global standards and certification in accelerating green hydrogen production.
Minderoo Foundation’s Emma Silver will moderate an expert panel as we discuss the role supply chain transparency must play in ending the plastic pollution crisis and protecting our planet.
This is a climate emergency, but how do we solve it? Join Dr Charlotte Kirk, Fortescue Future Industries’ chief scientist, to discuss how green ammonia could be a major step forward in reducing global carbon emissions and combatting climate change.