DIFC

Our Path to COP28

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DIFC and the Global Ethical Finance Initiative are bringing the global finance community together to advance thinking and action relating to climate and environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles in the build up to COP28

COP28 is taking place in Dubai from 30 November to 12 December 2023.

The programme will be focused on four core workstreams with GEFI indicative themes and activities outlined below:

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Delivering Net Zero
  • Developing a service offering to support family
    offices and private equity investors in the GCC
    to align their portfolios with Net Zero
  • Planning a CPD-accredited programme
    to build knowledge and awareness of
    COP28 and climate finance
  • Publishing an analysis of c2,000 equity investments
    made by Scottish Local Government Pension Schemes
  • Leveraging our position as UN Principles for
    Responsible Banking Stakeholder Endorser to
    encourage banks to decarbonize their lending books
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Financing the SDGs
  • Delivering a 60-minute introduction to
    finance for nature ‘anchor’ session broadcast
    at UNDPs Nature for Life Hub 2022
  • Scoping a approach to nature and biodiversity as a financial risk taken by central banks across
  • Publishing a 4-part thought leadership series covering:
    • Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD)
    • A Scottish perspective on TCFD and nature
    • Measuring biodiversity
    • Key Challenges for private sector investment
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Unlocking Islamic Finance
  • Working with the High-Level Working Group on
    Green and Sustainable Sukuk to deliver some
    of the recommendations made in the report
    published at the Path to COP28 launch event
  • Leading a 12-month research & development
    programme to create a Tayyib Impact
    Framework (Shariah compliance plus ESG)
  • Conducting a pioneering global retail survey
    looking at consumer awareness and attitudes
    towards Islamic finance and the SDGs
  • Delivering a 6-part thought leadership series covering:
    • Landscape mapping of climate commitments in GCC
    • Deep dive into UAE (commitments, taxonomy, COP28 targets etc)
    • Tayyib and Islamic impact investing
    • Challenges of IFIs engaging with net zero frameworks and other initiatives
    • Islamic capital markets – opportunity for green sukuk
    • Islamic finance OCP28 preview
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Financing the SDGs
  • Developing a service offering to support family offices and private equity investors in the GCC to align their portfolios with the SDGs
  • Promoting SDG linked financial products to attract new funds
    Publishing, in partnership with UNDP, a thought leadership series covering:
    • Introduction to the SDGs
    • SDG Impact Standards
    • Fixed income
    • Listed equities
    • Banking
    • Reporting and Assurance
Path to COP28 Timeline
24 Oct 2022
Path to COP28 Launch

DIFC, Dubai

6-13 Nov 2022
COP27 Programme

IsDB & CGI Blue Zone Events, Sharm el-Sheikh

28-30 Nov 2022
UNDP Nature for Life Hub

Virtual

12 Jan 2023
Climate Training Series with DIFC Academy

Virtual, 13:00-14:00pm (GST)

Register here

1 Feb 2023
Post-COP27 Climate Series Webinar

Virtual

28 Feb 2023
Path to COP28: Sustainable Finance Summit Series 1

Dubai, DIFC

Register here

2 Mar 2023
Climate Training Series with DIFC Academy

9:00am-12:00pm (GST)

Register here

30 Mar 2023
Virtual Ethical Finance ASEAN 2023
7 Jun 2023
Path to COP28: Sustainable Finance Summit Series 2

DIFC, Dubai

8 Jun 2023
Climate Training Series with DIFC Academy

9:00am-12:00pm (GST)

Register here

19-21 Sep 2023
Ethical Finance Global 2023 and SDG Hive

NatWest Group, Edinburgh

30 Oct 2023
DIFC Sustainability Week
Oct - Nov 2023
Pre-COP28 Briefing

DIFC, Dubai

30 Nov - 12 Dec 2023
COP28

DIFC, Dubai

24 Oct 2022
6-13 Nov 2022
28-30 Nov 2022
12 Jan 2023
1 Feb 2023
28 Feb 2023
2 Mar 2023
30 Mar 2023
7 Jun 2023
8 Jun 2023
19-21 Sep 2023
30 Oct 2023
Oct - Nov 2023
30 Nov - 12 Dec 2023

 

More information on the programme

GEFI Website

To get involved or find out about partnership and sponsorship opportunities

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Climate Finance Training Series

-Making finance work for COP28, and COP28 work for finance-

In this Climate Finance Training Series, offered jointly by DIFC Academy and the Global Ethical Finance Initiative (GEFI), we will help finance practitioners to understand the COP process, global trends in climate finance and best practice approaches to developing and implementing net-zero strategies.


Join us for this series as we:

  • Deconstruct COP28 and outline the critical role of finance

  • Help financial services practitioners and stakeholders understand and navigate the myriad of climate finance regulations, initiatives, and frameworks on both a global and local level

  • Highlight best practice approaches in the financial services sector to developing and implementing climate policies and targets

  • Find ways to make finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate-resilient development


You will gain:

  • A tailored programme developed by the GEFI and DIFC Academy supported by the University of Edinburgh

  • A unique delivery model – either online or in-person- facilitated by leading academics and internationally recognised practitioners 

  • Practical insights on the latest global practice through a local UAE lens

  • CPD accreditation with pathways to formal professional qualifications

  • The opportunity to become part of a community of practice

 

More information on Climate Finance Training Series

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