Climate Change -
Extractive Industries -
Resource Efficency @COP23
Two-part specialist side event to UNFCCC’s COP23
Bonn, November 08th 2017
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Background
A growing world population and the successful pursuit of emerging markets for prosperity leads to a growing demand for raw materials. Existing trends consider a population growth of about 28% and a 71% higher resources use per capita, would lead from 2015 to 2050 to an increase of annual global resource extractions and resource use by 119%. Consequently, GHG emissions would be about 41% higher and go together with negative environmental impacts such as, water depletion, and the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services threatening human well-being.
At the same time, primary resource extraction has to adapt to a changing environment as well. The demand for critical raw materials, which are essential building blocks of green technologies such as renewable energies and e-mobility, is expected to increase significantly. This poses new challenges for a sustainable management of the sector, including its supply chains.
When it comes to fossil resources (oil, gas, coal) the urgency of a paradigm shift is even greater. If the 2°-temperature goal shall be achieved and technological development progresses at current rates, many fossil fuel assets will have to become “stranded”. This in return poses great risks for public finances of developing countries relying on exports of fossil fuels.
It is therefore evident that there is a strong nexus between resource use and global climate change. As a consequence emissions pathways consistent with the Paris Agreement long-term temperature goal require a much more efficient and effective use of raw materials and resources. To contribute to mitigating global climate change, countries should consider these potentials underestimated so far for raising the level of ambition of their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC).
The two-part technical event will therefore highlight from different perspectives possible strategies for addressing the manifold challenges the resource sector faces under conditions of climate change.
Speakers And facilitators
Dr. Romero Bertolini
Senior Associate, NDC Partnership
Dr. Peter Buchholz
Head, German Mineral Resources Agency
Siân Bradley
Research Associate,
The Royal Institute of International Affairs - Chatham House
Dr. Monika Dittrich
Research Assistant,
Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
Prof. Paul Ekins
Director, Institute for Sustainable Resources, University College London
Jonathan Eckart
Project Manager, Global Battery Alliance, World Economic Forum
Kirsten Hund
Senior Mining Expert, World Bank
Senior Economics and Policy Researcher, Columbia Center for Sustainable Investment
Dr. James Morrissey
Senior Researcher, Energy, Climate and Poverty, Oxfam America
Valérie Quiniou
Vice President Climate, Total
Vaibhav Rathi
Manager Environment Management, Development Alternatives
Dr. Tania Rödiger-Vorwerk
Deputy Director General for Environment and Infrastructure, Federal Ministry of Economic Coop-eration and Development (BMZ).
Miryam Saade
Economic Affairs Officer, Natural Resource and Infrastructure Division, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
Birgit Schwenk
Head of Division, European and International Aspects of Resource Efficiency, Raw Materials Policy, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB)
Dr. Detlef Schreiber
Head of section, Environmental Policy, GIZ Division Environment & Climate Change
Dr. Paul Taylor
Manager for Environmental Stewardship, International Council on Mining and Metals
Natasha Walker
Facilitator, Process Consultant
Dr. Helge Wendenburg
Director General, Water Management and Resource Conservation, German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB)
Stephan Wolters
Senior Project Manager, adelphi research GmbH
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