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Nick Mabey, Founder and Chair of the LCAW Steering Group, celebrates the opening day of London Local weather Motion Week will happen from 22 to 30 June 2024.
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This week marks the sixth 12 months of London Local weather Motion Week (LCAW) #LCAW2024 since its launch by E3G and the Mayor of London in 2019. With over 300 occasions and over 50,000 contributors from world wide, LCAW has now established itself as one of many largest occasions within the world local weather calendar.
The standard and variety of LCAW 2024 occasions exhibit the depth of local weather change experience and world attain of London-based organisations. However offering a platform for bulletins, debate and mobilisation was by no means the top purpose of London Local weather Motion Week. London stakeholders sharing the LCAW ethos made it very clear that it was good to have a good time successes, however the intention should be to drive concrete local weather motion, resulting in the LCAW mission to “harness the facility of London for world local weather motion”.
LCAW 2024 goals to stay as much as this founding mission by addressing the distinctive challenges and alternatives of this election 12 months. A 12 months through which the extra climate-sceptical events made positive aspects within the European elections, the UK election noticed fractures in cross-party help for web zero emissions, and the specter of a future Trump presidency looms over every thing.
Regardless of the political climate, 2015 can be a 12 months through which international locations should start to develop their subsequent local weather targets, which they intend to undergo the United Nations in 2025. These targets will largely decide whether or not the world will achieve protecting local weather change beneath protected limits.
The intention of LCAW 2024 is to spur the cooperation, coverage and diplomacy wanted to realize formidable and actionable local weather objectives in 2025.
The opening Discussion board on the state of local weather coverage will host a sequence of high-level worldwide audio system exploring the politics and geopolitics of delivering on ambition in 2025 and learn how to maintain it within the subsequent turbulent decade. The sensible diplomacy of delivering on ambition will probably be mentioned at Countdown to COP 29 And Mission2025 is launched as a brand new world multi-stakeholder marketing campaign for formidable local weather objectives.
Accelerating the worldwide power transition would be the focus of the Excessive-level dialogue of the Alliance for Coal previously on the iconic Battersea Energy Station, and Invoice Gates hosted Breakthrough Power Summit will promote the subsequent era of power applied sciences.
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A specific focus of LCAW 2024 is on constructing confidence within the availability of inexpensive local weather finance, as that is the important issue wanted by creating international locations if they’re to ship formidable emissions discount targets by 2025.
We’ll host over 100 occasions on all points of local weather finance, together with London should To remain forward in world competitors, we should drive ahead the event of local weather finance markets.
LCAW would be the first Danger minimization summit provoke a technique of re-orientating the worldwide insurance coverage trade to supply merchandise that scale back the dangers of transition financing and supply sustainable and inexpensive safety to probably the most weak.
London will proceed its function as a serious world hub for Clear know-how Innovation by participating a broad vary of impression traders, Enterprise capital And Begin-up Assist occasions like Reset-Join's Pitching and investing, The Blue Earth Discussion board and that Fearless innovation middle and attracts new firms from everywhere in the world.
Though the UK is on observe to shut its final coal-fired energy station this 12 months, it has a serious coverage hole in its plan to realize web zero emissions and urgently wants to extend funding. This hole will probably be stuffed in a brand new Analysis was introduced on the LCAW and would be the focus of main occasions similar to Local weather Innovation Discussion board, PRI Funding Summit And IIGCC Web Zero Summit.
London is house to the world's largest focus of local weather specialists and a massively formidable 2030 local weather goal of web zero emissions. London generally is a distinctive driver of the UK's decarbonisation and competitiveness, however too usually debates assume there’s a zero-sum sport between the capital and different elements of the nation.
To realize constructive synergies, a lot stronger coordination is required between the London local weather cluster and the remainder of the UK. This problem would be the focus of the primary Gala dinner for London Local weather Motion Week which can deliver collectively main stakeholders from London and the UK.
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Lastly, the London Local weather Motion Week has from the start past the local weather bubble to win over a broader spectrum of individuals and establishments to local weather safety.
As we’ve seen over the previous 12 months, local weather motion that’s not primarily based on broad social help will face a backlash that may be exploited for political acquire. London has seen its personal controversies over visitors calming zones and the Extremely Low Emission Zone.
This 12 months, LCAW has elevated public engagement on excessive warmth resilience by way of our “Coping with the warmth” marketing campaign in collaboration with the British Crimson Cross. A particular lesson plan was developed as a part of the common London Local weather Curriculum for all 3600 London colleges. LCAW can even embody many native and group occasions, together with festivals in London, England And Barnet.
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LCAW goals to mobilise London-based industries with big world attain and affect. This 12 months we targeted on trend and the Future Materials Expo and a sequence of sustainable trend occasions by Style present for integration Client.
As a world metropolis and local weather chief, London has the chance to point out different cities taking an analogous path what local weather motion can appear to be for society as an entire. LCAW has launched world initiatives over the previous 12 months, together with Sydney And Shanghai which held their first local weather weeks this 12 months, and by worldwide organisations such because the OECD.
Following LCAW 2024, we’ll set up a year-round Secretariat to assist form, mobilise and align London’s local weather motion all year long, and in addition work globally to foster a world motion for city local weather motion.