Date: Saturday, January 18, 2020 Time: 9:30am to 3pm Venue: Deloitte Offices, 35/F One Pacific Place, Admiralty, Hong Kong The UN Conference of Parties (COP) on climate change held its 25th meeting in December 2019. This follows from the landmark Paris Accord on Climate Change of December 2015 where 160 countries committed to targets to reduce carbon emissions and thus global warming. Hong Kong, for instance, made a commitment to reduce carbon by 20% by 2020. Inspired by this challenge, we plan to hold our own COP 25 meeting as a simulation exercise for youth in HK on Saturday, January 18. We welcome youth in HK and students from all universities/ colleges/ secondary schools to participate in this Model UN-style simulation of intergovernmental negotiating on climate policy. Program Rundown: 9:30 Registration 10:00 Welcome remarks, by Glenn Shive (HKAC) 10:15 Status of Climate Negotiations in the UN COP 25, Robert Gibson, HKUST and Lawrence Iu of Civic Exchange 10:50 Climate impacts of NDCs for team countries as per C-Roads by Alissa Tung (CCIL) 11:10 Country teams meet to review country briefing texts, plan new NDCs for 2030, and decide on reps to the three policy sector groups 11:35 Bi-lateral negotiations on NDCs (six pairs of country teams) 12:10 Policy sector concurrent meetings: Business for Green Public Policy, led by Glenn Shive, HKAC Energy and Power Production Forum, led by Joel Laykin, IPPF Environmental Action Alliance, led by John Sayer, Carboncare Innolab 1:00 Lunch (sponsored by Konrad Adenauer) Country teams decide, submit new NDCs 1:45 An Update on Energy And Power Around the World, presented by Joel Laykin, Secretary General, Independent Power Producers Forum (IPPF) 2:15 YOUNGO: the global climate action initiative of the UN: how can HK participate? Presented by Tina Kwan, Natalie Chung of YOUNGO Hong Kong 2:45 Second C-Roads global temperature projections based on new NDCs, presented by Alissa Tung, Gigi Lam (CCIL) 3:00 Climate Action in Hong Kong: How can we get to carbon neutrality by 2050? Discussion led by Ms. Waltraut Ritter, Knowledge Dialogues 3:00 Adjourn For more information please contact Pauline Lau (paulinelau@hk-ac.org.hk or telephone: 3943-8748). ***Note that registration requires a HK$300 deposit with the HKAC to hold your place. This deposit will be returned to you in full upon completion of the program on Saturday, January 18, 2020.*** ***You may pay your HK$300 refundable deposit in cash at the HKAC office, or via Faster Payment System (FPS), or mail your check to the following address.*** If you have Faster Payment System (轉數快), you can pay at FPS60713484 and send us an email regarding the payment to Ms. Pauline Lau (paulinelau@hk-ac.org.hk). If you want to pay in person/via check, our address is: Hong Kong America Center Room 503, Esther Lee Building Chung Chi Road, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR.