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COP31 Business Forum to bring together over 300 executives in New York
The Business Forum New York Dialogue, hosted by the COP31 Private Sector Envoy TOBB and Bloomberg, will take place in New York on Tuesday, September 22, bringing together more than 300 senior executives. The meeting will address the COP31 Action Agenda, while the business community’s roadmap will be submitted to the COP31 Presidency at the summit in Antalya.
The COP31 Business Forum New York Dialogue, hosted by the COP31 Private Sector Envoy, the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Türkiye (TOBB), and Bloomberg, will bring global business leaders together in New York.
The meeting will be held as the opening event of the Bloomberg Green New York program during New York Climate Week. It will begin at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, September 22, at Bloomberg’s headquarters. More than 300 senior executives from the international business community are expected to attend.
Hisarcıklıoğlu and Bloomberg to deliver opening remarks
The opening remarks will be delivered by TOBB President and COP31 Business Forum Chair Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu and Michael Bloomberg, founder of Bloomberg LP and Bloomberg Philanthropies and the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Climate Action.
The guest of honor will be COP31 President and Minister of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change Murat Kurum. Kurum will present the COP31 Action Agenda to the global business community in detail for the first time at the United Nations on September 21.
Private sector response to be discussed
Ali Koç, Vice Chairman of the Board of Koç Holding; Fatih Birol, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency; Makhtar Diop, Managing Director of the International Finance Corporation; and John Denton, Secretary General of the International Chamber of Commerce, will speak on a panel titled “The Private Sector’s Response to the COP31 Action Agenda.”
TOBB President Hisarcıklıoğlu said governments sign agreements while the business community puts those agreements into practice. He announced that they had prepared a business community roadmap to implement the COP31 Action Agenda and that they would submit the roadmap, which will take shape in New York, to the COP31 Presidency in Antalya.
Advisory Board to hold its first meeting
The New York program of the COP31 Business Forum will continue with thematic meetings held from September 22 to 25. The Advisory Board, established to evaluate the proposals that the business community will submit to the COP31 Business and Investment Summit in Antalya, will hold its first meeting in New York on September 23.
The seven working groups, established to develop a common position for the global business community and comprising more than 700 members, will also hold their second in-person meetings in New York from September 22 to 25.
Co-chairs of the working groups
The Electrification and Energy Transition Working Group will be co-chaired by Murat Pınar of Sabancı Holding, Greg Jackson of Octopus Energy, Vincent Petit of Schneider Electric, Jose Manuel Entrecanales of ACCIONA, and Roger Martella of GE Vernova.
The co-chairs of the Industrial Decarbonization Working Group will be Perihan İnci of TÜSİAD, Jayant Acharya of JSW Steel, and Katharina Beumelburg of Heidelberg Materials. The Climate-Resilient Cities Working Group will be co-chaired by Erman Ilıcak of Rönesans Holding, Thierry Deau of Meridiam, and Amanda Hickman of Honeywell.
The Food Security and Agriculture Working Group will be co-chaired by Mehmet Tütüncü of Yıldız Holding and Diane Holdorf of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. Alpaslan Çakar of the Banks Association of Türkiye, John Denton of the International Chamber of Commerce, and Javier Rodriguez Soler of BBVA will serve on the Climate Finance and Investments Working Group.
The co-chairs of the Climate Technologies and Artificial Intelligence Working Group will be Can Dinçer of Arçelik, Clara Barby of Just Climate, and Varun Sivaram of Emerald AI. The SMEs and Emerging Economies Working Group will be co-chaired by Esin Güral Argat of the Kütahya Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Shinta Kamdani of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Proposals to be announced at the Antalya summit
Through the COP31 Business Forum led by TOBB, examples of good practices and implementation-oriented proposals from the global business community on climate issues will be conveyed through official channels to the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP31.
The outcomes of the working groups will be announced at the COP31 Business and Investment Summit, which will be held in Antalya on November 12-13. The summit will be held for the first time in COP history with one day overlapping with the Leaders’ Summit, and the business community’s proposals will be presented in Antalya to the heads of state and government gathered there.
The summit is expected to be the largest business event held to date in a COP Blue Zone. The opening meeting of the COP31 Business Forum was held in London on June 22.
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