INFORSE at UNFCCC COP28, December 2023

UNFCCC COP28 SIDE EVENT, Blue Zone
Date: Saturday, 9 December 2023, Time: 15:00-16:30 Dubai, UAE
Section B6. Room: SE Room 7, B #85 & ONLINE
Title: Sustainable lifestyles, Sufficiency Supporting Just Climate Action, Stronger NDCs
Sustainable lifestyles, sufficiency, can help reducing emissions in high-emission countries with affluent lifestyles. Policies supporting these should be included in the GST and new NDCs. New European research shows the specific sufficiency actions and policies that can make the difference.
- Organisers: INFORSE, négaWatt, France; Fraunhofer ISI, Germany; SE, Denmark.

Proceedings of Pesentations:

• What is sufficiency, why is it necessary, desirable and how is it possible. Results of literature review. - by Prof. Lorenzo Pagliano, Director of End-use Efficiency Research Group, POLIMI, Italy. (pdf, 3,9 MB)

• European Research in Sufficiency. Introduction to FULFILL Project. Results of surveying 9500 people. - by Dr. Vicki Duscha, Fraunhofer ISI, Germany. (pdf, 2.7 MB)

• Local sufficiency initiatives driven by engaged citizens and how local authorities can help making them succeed. Result of surveying 50 initiatives. - by Judit Szoleczky, INFORSE-Europe (pdf, 2.8 MB)

• How Europe can reduce GHG emissions faster with emphasis on sufficiency and demand reductions, the CLEVER scenario for EU-27. - by Yves Marginac, Association négaWatt, France. (pdf, 2.2 MB)

• Sufficiency policies in NDCs and the EU countries national climate and energy plans (NECPs): what is there already and how to make sufficiency policies drive faster decarbonisation. - by Gunnar Boye Olesen, INFORSE/SE, Denmark. (pdf, 2.5 MB)

• Comments by Sascha Gabizon, Women Engage for a Common Future (WECF).

The FULFILL "Fundamental Decarbonisation Through Sufficiency By Lifestyle Changes" Project is funded by the Horizon 2020 Program of the European Union in 2022-24.

* Download: PROGRAM - 9 Dec 2023 (pdf)
* Watch: UN ClimateChange YouTube Channel

* FULFILL Project: fulfill-sufficiency.eu
* UNFCCC Side Events: UNFCCC's list of side events at COP28
* Proceedings at INFORSE's web site: inforse.org/cop28.php
* INFORSE-Europe at FULFILL: inforse.org/europe/FULFILL.htm

* Presentations at UNFCCC SB58, 10 June 2023, Sustainable Lifestyles for Climate Action and Policies for ALL
* UNFCCC COP Proceedings archive

UNFCCC COP28 SIDE EVENT, Blue Zone
Date: Friday, 8 December, 2023, Time: 11:30-13:00, Dubai, UAE,
Section B6, SE Room 1, B #79. & ONLINE
Title: 100% Renewable & Local Solutions: Africa, South Asia & Local Climate Resilience and Poverty Reduction
Showcasing Community & Eco-Village Development: transition to 100% renewables, climate mitigation, adaptation & resilience with social co-benefits, income generation, food security, livelihoods, gender. Online Catalogues. Examples Participatory planning & training in Africa, South Asia & around the world.
- Organisers: Global Ecovillage Network (GEN), INSEDA (INFORSE-South Asia), Nordic Folkecenter for Renewable energy, SusWatch Kenya.

Proceedings of Presentations:

• Introduction slide (pdf, 0.2 MB)

• Climate Resiliency in Ecovillages by Rob Wheeler, Global Ecovillage Network; (pdf, 3,8 MB)

• ReGENerative Education - by Piedad Viteri, Ecopopulation, GEN Ecuador. (pdf)

• Participatory planning of ecovillage development concept in South Asia, including women - by Anzoo Sharma & Manesh Shresta, CRT Nepal. (pdf, 2.4 MB)

• Local solutions in Nepal, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka; ways of promotion the local solutions. Available solutions for climate change adaptations. - by Sanjiv Nathan, INSEDA India & INFORSE-SA. (pdf, 3.7 MB)

• Local solutions in East Africa, database of local solutions. - by Mary Swai, TaTEDO, Tanzania, INFORSE-EA & Judit Szoleczky, INFORSE. (pdf, 1.5 MB).

• Importance of Train-the-Trainer programs on sustainable solutions. - by Daniele Pagani, Nordic Folkecenter for Renewable Energy, Denmark. (pdf, 2.1 MB)

• 100% renewable energy for Kenya, Uganda including local solutions’ contributions. - by Nobert Nyandire, SusWatch Kenya. (pdf, 1 MB)

* Download: PROGRAM - 8 Dec 2023 (pdf)
* Follow LIVE at UN ClimateChange Channel
* More at UNFCCC's list of side events at COP28
* Presentations: UNFCCC SB58, 8 June 2023, 100% Renewables, Local Climate Solutions in East Africa, South Asia

INFORSE Exhibition at UNFCCC COP28, Blue Zone
Stall. Booth No. 1. Date: 1- 6 December, 2023

Organisers: INFORSE (Global Network), AIWC (India), INSEDA (India), Suswatch (Kenya) and SE (Denmark) in cooperation with INFORSE regions of South Asia - East Africa - Europe

Sustainable lifestyles, sufficiency, policies to reduce emissions from affluent lifestyles, transition to 100% renewables, inclusion in new NDCs. Results of new sufficiency research in Europe and India. Focus on Gender. Online catalogues of local solutions in Africa, S.Asia. Eco-village Development

Read more: UNFCCC's list of exhibitors at COP28

INFORSE Relevant Projects/Themes:

Sufficiency, Sustainable Lifestyles by European research team of FULFILL Project: Fraunhofer ISI (coord), & Wuppertal Institute, Germany; Eurac & Polimi, Italy: Association NegaWatt, & JDI, France; Green Liberty, Latvia; and INFORSE-Europe Denmark.

EASE-CA Project in East Africa by INFORSE-East Africa: SusWatch Kenya, UCSD and JEEP in Uganda, TaTEDO in Tanzania; INFORSE, and Nordic Folkecenter for Renewable Energy in Denmark.

ONLINE CATALOGUE of Local Sustainable Solutions in East Africa

Eco-Village Development (EVD) Project in South Asia by INFORSE-South Asia: INSEDA in India, Grameen Shakti in Bangladesh, IDEA in Sri Lanka, CRT-N in Nepal; INFORSE, DIB in Denmark and CANSA.

INFORSE 100% Renewable Scenarios Global, EU & National

ONLINE CATALOGUE of Local Sustainable Solutions in South Asia

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