9:30AM to 10:30AM
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Nature's Climate Fix: Why We All Should Support Seaweed Farming
Featuring WWF Expert: Marcene Mitchell, Senior VP, Climate Change, and Paul Dobbins, Senior Director of Impact Investing and Ecosystems Services, Aquaculture
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WWF’s Senior Vice President of Climate Change Marcene Mitchell will lead a panel with Oceans 2050’s Alexandra Cousteau and other industry experts as they discuss seaweed as a climate change strategy and a conversion-free crop that builds coastal resiliency around the world. Alexandra Cousteau will also debut a new short film exploring the value of seaweed.
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11:00AM to 12:00PM
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Decarbonizing Industrial Heat: Could It Be Easier Than We Thought?
Featuring WWF Expert: Marty Spitzer, Senior Director, Renewable Energy
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Industrial GHG emissions are 23% of US emissions and half of those are from burning fossil fuel for heat. These long neglected and difficult to decarbonize emissions are getting new attention. Join us for an interactive session to learn about recent analysis by the Renewable Thermal Collaborative and Boston Consulting Group showing that we have more opportunities and technology options for meeting our 2030 climate goals than just going after the most difficult to decarbonize sectors that use the highest heat. This interactive session will profile industrial heat emissions in the US in key sectors, highlight opportunities across industry and dive deeper into the promise and challenges for several unsung technology opportunities. You will hear perspectives from key stakeholders, industrial energy users and solution providers.
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12:30PM to 1:30PM
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Wearing it Well: How the Apparel Sector is Accelerating Change in Supply Chains
Featuring WWF Expert: Payal Luthra, Global Apparel and Textiles Lead
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With more and more sectors focusing on Scope 3 data and emission reductions, supply chain data integrity and transparency have never been more critical. In this multi-stakeholder session, panelists from the apparel sector will share reflections, lessons learned, case studies, and tools from their work, discussing the role of open data and cross-sector collaboration in enabling and advancing Scope 3 mitigation measures.
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2:00PM to 3:00PM
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Forests at the Forefront: Delivering High Quality Nature Based Solutions
Featuring WWF Expert: Kerry Cesareo, Senior VP, Forests
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WWF will launch its Nature-Based Solutions Origination Platform (NbS-OP), an innovative vehicle to drive impact at scale for people, climate, and nature across tropical forest landscapes. Supporting a variety of conservation approaches, the NbS-OP will power quantifiable results in priority landscapes using blended finance while simultaneously shifting the global market for transparent, high-integrity NbS.
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3:30PM to 4:30PM
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Moving Faster Without Breaking Things: Accelerating Just and Sustainable Renewables Development
Featuring WWF Expert: Marcene Mitchell, Senior VP, Climate Change
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The U.S. has committed to taking decisive action to curb greenhouse gas emissions and avoid the worst impacts of climate change by containing the rise in global temperatures to 1.5°C. To meet this goal, the U.S. and global partners will need to accelerate the deployment of clean and renewable energy resources at an unprecedented scale and pace.
Escalating demands on the electrical grid, increasing constraints on siting, and the relentless pressure of climate change along with a simultaneous worsening biodiversity crisis continue to present headwinds. However, a rapid and responsible transition to clean and renewable energy is not only a far better future for both people and nature, but also presents vast opportunities for communities, ecosystems, and our domestic workforce. This session will provide national, regional, and local perspectives on these opportunities and how we can increase progress toward an accelerated, just, and sustainable transition to clean and renewable energy resources.
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5:00PM to 6:00PM
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LIVE PODCAST: How Can Companies Advance Global Climate and Nature Goals?
Featuring: Sheila Bonini, Senior Vice President for Private Sector Engagement, WWF and James McCall, Chief Sustainability Officer, HP Inc.
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This live edition of WWF’s Nature Breaking podcast will focus on the role of companies in tackling climate change and biodiversity loss globally. Hear from leaders at WWF and HP Inc. about how they are working together to unlock the power of forests to stabilize climate, nurture complex ecosystems, and support local communities.
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