The fourth Global Green Growth Forum convening a select high-level group of 250 green growth leaders and decision-makers will take place on 20-21 October 2014 in Copenhagen. Participation is by personal invitation by the Prime Minister of Denmark only.
See the list of featured participants for 3GF2014 here.
The theme of 3GF2014 is "Changing Production and Consumption Patterns through Transformative Action". Under this heading 3GF2014 will explore key questions like:
- How should we live our lives? - considering sustainable consumption and production patterns.
- Where will we live? - considering sustainable urbanisation.
- What will we live from? - considering innovation as well as financing and enabling environments as drivers for green growth.
Plenary Sessions at 3GF2014
Guided by the overall theme, each of the plenaries is designed to examine global trends, big picture issues and provide deeper thinking into the new directions of the green growth agenda and what this entails for public and private actors.
Topics currently considered for plenaries:
Facing the Consumer/Citizen: focus on mind-set change, sustainable life styles, sharing economy
Enabling the Producer: focus on use of resources and materials, scaling/financing innovation
Transforming our Cities: focus on cities as test beds for green growth, linking finance and integrated urban solutions, city-national disconnect
Transforming the Food Sector: focus on sustainable production/consumption, scaling innovation, fighting soil degradation and food loss & waste
Transforming our Economic Growth Paths: focus on a new climate economy and newer actors (philanthropy, institutional investors)
Transforming the Energy Sector: focus on fossil fuel subsidy reform
Partnership Sessions at 3GF2014
Leveraging or launching specific public-private initiatives on a wide range of areas that dominate today’s green growth agenda. Some of these initiatives have existed for years; others are just emerging. Either way, the aim is to accelerate green growth by addressing the issues of scale and pace, and collectively identifying the potential barriers and opportunities.
Partnership tracks featured at the 3GF pre-meeting in May 2014 and currently being developed:
Energy Efficiency in Buildings: engage stakeholders in key regions and cities to double the rate of energy efficiency in buildings by 2020 through the design and implementation of roadmaps.
Water Resources Management - the Water-Energy Nexus: identify how partnerships between government, business and civil society can manage inter-linkages between energy and water in an integrated fashion.
Valuing Nature in Business: supporting the development of a Natural Capital Protocol which will enable valuation in business and investor decision-making.
Power System Transformation: build and strengthen partnerships between developed and developing economies aimed at accelerating the integration of renewable energy in power systems.
Rethinking Packaging - Unwrapping a more Sustainable Future of Packaging: engage packaging stakeholders to identify barriers and collaborative innovations to close the loop and "unwrap a more sustainable future of packaging" both regionally and globally.
Turning Waste Into a Resource: Processing Organic Solid Waste into Biofuels and and Biochemicals: leapfrogging existing techniques and developing long standing approaches to waste treatment and the processing of organic solid waste into biofuels and bio-chemicals.
Green Energy Off-grid Solutions: enabling small island economies to reduce their dependency on imported energy sources and build the business case for renewable energy.
Creating Sustainable Apparel Value Chains: bring together leading stakeholders in the garment and textile sector to align around a more holistic vision for the sector incorporating environmental performance and the transformation of the whole value chain.
Harnessing Innovation to Unlock Financial Flows for Restoration: restore degraded forest landscapes by socialising restoration strategies, unlocking financial flows more directly to the people who are restoring their lands.
Green Public Procurement and Innovation: focus on scaling up the use of public procurement as a driver and co-financier of green innovation.
Innovation to Transform Food Production: translate the food and agricultural business principles into action by highlighting best practice and innovation in investments in food security and sustainable agriculture.
Pre-launch Sessions
These informal sessions are intended as the "ideas laboratory" of the Forum. They have various purposes; from advancing topical discussions on cutting edge trends to launching concrete collaborative business ventures and/or potential partnerships. Sessions will be held around a convivial breakfast in smaller meeting rooms to ensure intimacy and optimise discussion between the panellists and participants.
Learning Sessions
Focus on the experience of a select group of countries (or cities or regions) in advancing green growth planning, and of engaging business in this process. The cases are explained and explored through the eyes of their respective political leadership and leading business voices. These grounded country perspectives are complemented by international moderators and participants with direct experience in supporting green growth planning in the specific country. Anticipated sessions: China; Kenya, more to follow.
"In Conversations"
Provide a unique opportunity to engage directly in dialogue with a high-level business, academic or political leader. Speakers will `step off stage` individually or in pairs and spend 60 minutes probing, and being probed by a moderator, on their role, experience and strategies for linking innovation, profit and policy.
For more information visit the 3GF website.