IKI Events 2024

In 2024, the International Climate Initiative (IKI) made use of various different formats to enter into dialogue with its stakeholders. These formats included network evenings at major conferences such as the Climate Change Conference or the Convention on Biological Diversity, as well as virtual events like the IKI Brown Bag Lunch series, in which IKI project teams discussed their results with a well-informed specialist audience. Below is an overview of the IKI event highlights in 2024.

IKI High Level Event at COP29

At the High Level Event in the German Climate Pavilion, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action Robert Habeck spoke with Crispian Olver from the Presidential Climate Commission of South Africa regarding the cooperation between Germany and South Africa on just energy transition.

Leading experts subsequently held a panel discussion on the financing of climate change mitigation. Participants in the discussion were Jennifer Lee Morgan (State Secretary and Special Envoy for International Climate Action, Federal Foreign Office), Eva Kracht (Head of the Department for International and European Affairs, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection), Saliem Fakir (Executive Director of the African Climate Foundation), Anjali Viswamohanan (Asia Investor Group on Climate Change, AIGCC) and Andrea Hurtado Epstein (Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico).

IKI network evening at COP29

Some 90 participants from the IKI community came together for the IKI network evening on the sidelines of the COP29 in Baku. In his presentation, Professor Dr. Niklas Höhne, expert on international climate policy and co-founder of the New Climate Institute, opened the discussion on the mobilisation of financial resources for climate change mitigation and how IKI projects can contribute to this.

The highlight from the perspective of the IKI was the network evening, which took place in a very special atmosphere in the Botanical Garden of Cali. At this event, 75 participants discussed practical methods to ensure the active inclusion of important stakeholders – in particular indigenous peoples and local communities – in nature conservation actions. The evening offered a dynamic platform for networking and exchanging ideas on biodiversity conservation and the challenges associated with the implementation of the targets of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF).

IKI projects were also active in Cali with their own side events or with experts at events. The CBD COP 16 topic page provides an extensive overview of these events and also presents a summary of the most important results of the conference in a compact format.

IKI Brown Bag Lunch series of events

The IKI also touched on some key topics itself this year with its own IKI Brown Bag Lunch (BBL) format.

Scheduled as a regular lunchtime event, this virtual format offers implementing organisations the chance to provide an informative behind-the-scenes look at their own projects and then talk about these projects with other stakeholders. The format’s target group includes IKI ministries, ZUG and other organisations from the IKI network. The IKI organised four well-attended BBL events during 2024.

Click on the individual event link for detailed information about the topics addressed at each of these 2024 IKI Brown Bag Lunches. Topics ranged from deforestation to issues relating to the financing of climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation.

IKI online seminars

Furthermore, the IKI staged four online seminars in 2024, accompanying its calls. In these events, participants were given the opportunity to obtain detailed information on the individual procedures. For all those unable to attend the events, the IKI recorded the seminars and uploaded them to its website after completion.

The independent complaint mechanism of the IKI (IKI UBM) held a total of eight online seminars at regular intervals to provide detailed information.

Gender Community of Practice

The IKI Gender Community of Practice (IKI G-CoP) is a format to support implementing organisations and improve the transfer of knowledge and experience relating to the implementation of the IKI Gender Strategy and promotion of gender justice in their projects. The IKI G-CoP is a regular and interactive event open to all IKI implementing organisations and is cooperatively staged by the IKI Office of Zukunft – Umwelt – Gesellschaft (ZUG) gGmbH and the IKI implementing organisations.

The relevance of a joined-up approach to gender justice, climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation was underlined by the keen participation of more than 200 participants in the first G-CoP meeting. Based on this potential, two further meetings were held, one on “Building the Community” in June and the other on “The Nexus of Gender and Biodiversity” in December 2024.

The format is characterised by continuous further development and the high level of participation of the attendees. For example, at the December event, five implementing organisations presented their practical experiences and lessons learned, which were subsequently discussed in groups.

Due to the great interest, three further meetings are planned for 2025.

IKI Annual Report 2024

This article is part of the IKI Annual Report 2024.