California at COP 26 Events
Please stay tuned as we plan to add more events.
| Name of Event | Date and Time | Participants | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| “America is All In” Press Event / Panel Discussion | 7-8 a.m. PT 2-3 p.m. Glasgow time Tuesday, Nov. 2 | California Lt. Governor Eleni Kounalakis, Councilmember Kelly King, Maui County, Hawaii; Shelly Schlenker, Executive VP and Chief Advocacy Officer, CommonSpirit Health (virtual); Bob Holycross, Chief Sustainability Officer, Ford Motor Company; Ruth Miller, Climate Justice Director, Native Movement. Remarks from Gina McCarthy at the beginning. | Livestream: https://youtu.be/LeoNm7sLpfY |
| Press Event / Panel Discussion | 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. PT 6:30-7:30 p.m. Glasgow time Tuesday, Nov. 2 | California Lt. Governor Eleni Kounalakis, White House National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy, Governors of LA and NM. Hosted by the U.S. Climate Alliance. | Livestream: https://youtu.be/LeoNm7sLpfY |
| Press Event / Panel Discussion | 5:30-6 a.m. PT 12:30-1 p.m. Glasgow time Wednesday, Nov. 3 | California Lt. Governor Eleni Kounalakis, Special Envoy John Kerry, Governors of LA and NM | |
| Keynote Presentation at COP26 GEMM Summit | 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. PT 2-8 p.m. Glasgow time Wednesday, Nov. 3 | Sam Aseffa, Director of the California Governor’s Office of Planning and Research | The summit will include a focus on demonstrating the capabilities of new networks of lower-cost GHG and pollution gas sensors deployed in Glasgow and the San Francisco Bay Area. |
| Live from COP with David and Caroline | 4:30 a.m. PT 11:30 a.m. Glasgow time Thursday, Nov. 4 | California Energy Commission Chair David Hochschild in a live zoom interview with VELOZ | Webinar info |
| Roundtable Discussion on coastal and marine issues organized by UNFCCC High-Level Champions Race to Resilience Campaign in the Blue Zone | 7:30-10:30 a.m. PT 2:30-5:30 p.m. Glasgow time Friday, Nov. 5 | California Natural Resources Agency (CNRA) Secretary Wade Crowfoot will participate. | Media inquiries: Alexander Saier Chief, Communications and Knowledge (mobile) +49 172 179 8835; email: asaier@unfccc.int UNFCCC Press Office: press@unfccc.int See also: http://unfccc.int |
| Strengthening Synergies through the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework and Promoting Transformational Change to Restore Balance with Nature | 4:45 a.m. PT 11:45 a.m. Glasgow time Saturday, Nov. 6 | CNRA Secretary Wade Crowfoot will participate. | Organized by UN CBD Secretariat. |
| California Delegation Meeting with National Congress of American Indians | 6 a.m. PT 1 p.m. Glasgow time Saturday, Nov. 6 | Participants: CalEPA Secretary Jared Blumenfeld, Governor's Climate Advisor Lauren Sanchez, CNRA Secretary Wade Crowfoot, Javier Kinney, Dawn Sturdevant Baum | Organized by UN CBD Secretariat. |
| Hearing the voice of subnational governments: learning from the Edinburgh Declaration for biodiversity | 7:30 a.m. PT 2:30 p.m. Glasgow time Saturday, Nov. 6 | CNRA Secretary Wade Crowfoot will participate. | The event aims to highlight the contributions of the Edinburgh Process and its resulting Declaration to the upcoming discussions of the 15th meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP 15, Spring 2022 in Kunming, China) and explore how this successful story can be replicated in the UNFCCC context by hearing from the experience of signees and important stakeholders. |
| Low Carbon Construction Task Force Announcement | 9:15 a.m. PT 4:15 p.m. Glasgow time Saturday, Nov. 6 | CNRA Secretary Wade Crowfoot will participate. | This event will launch a new Pacific Coast Collaborative Task Force to reduce embodied carbon and toxic materials in infrastructure and construction. |
| A Natural Response to Climate Change – Integrating Nature-Based Solutions into Nationally Determined Contributions | 11 a.m. PT 6 p.m. Glasgow time Saturday, Nov. 6 | CNRA Secretary Wade Crowfoot will participate. Other panelists include TNC and WWF CEO’s Jen Morris and Carter Roberts, Minister Meza from Costa Rica, and U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Oceans, Environment and Science Assistant Secretary Monica Medina. | Organizers: World Wildlife Fund and The Nature Conservancy |
| Under2 Coalition General Assembly | 5:30 a.m. PT 1:30 p.m. Glasgow time Sunday, Nov. 7 | CNRA Secretary Wade Crowfoot will participate. | |
| Leadership Panel on Agriculture, forestry and land use transition | 6:10 a.m. PT 2:10 p.m. Glasgow time Sunday, Nov. 7 | CNRA Secretary Wade Crowfoot will participate. Other speakers include the Governors from Jalisco, East Kalimantan and Matto Grosso as well as leaders from Brittany and Isle of Man. | Organizers: Under2 Coalition |
| Leadership Panel on Agriculture, forestry and land use transition | 6:10 a.m. PT 2:10 p.m. Glasgow time Sunday, Nov. 7 | CNRA Secretary Wade Crowfoot will participate. Other speakers include the Governors from Jalisco, East Kalimantan and Matto Grosso as well as leaders from Brittany and Isle of Man. | Organizers: Under2 Coalition |
| Public-Private Partnerships as the building blocks for action on Nationally Determined Contributions | 1:05 a.m. PT 9:05 a.m. Glasgow time Monday, Nov. 8 | CNRA Secretary Wade Crowfoot will participate. Other panelists include Ani Dasgupta, President & CEO, World Resources Institute; Sophia Punte, We Mean Business; Ian Simm, Founder & CEO, Impax Asset Management; a Minister (possibly from France, Portugal, Morocco, or Scotland). California will represent a state/regional perspective on the panel. Nik Gowing, the Sustainable Innovation Forum Chair, will moderate the panel. | This event takes place on the opening morning of the Sustainable Innovation Forum, and is designed to explore (a) the critical role of cross-sector partnerships in creating transformational change/accelerating the transition to a net zero global economy and (b) how public-private partnerships can help countries deliver on their Nationally Determined Contributions. |
| Pacific Coast Food Waste Commitment | 3 a.m. PT 11 a.m. Glasgow time Monday, Nov. 8 | CalEPA Secretary Jared Blumenfeld will speak at COP 26, along with Oregon Governor Kate Brown, World Wildlife Fund, WRAP and other partners. | Media inquiries: Meredith Marshburn, mmarshburn@cascadialaw.com Registration and info. |
| Resilient Together: Water and Climate Adaptation Collective Action from the Private Sector | 5 a.m. PT 1 p.m. Glasgow time Monday, Nov. 8 | CNRA Secretary Wade Crowfoot will participate. | Organizers: CEO Water Mandate, UN Global Compact, Pacific Institute This event will explore the value of partnerships in building water resilience. |
| Regions4 High-Level side event at COP26: "The leading role of regions" | 6 a.m. PT 2 p.m. Glasgow time Monday, Nov. 8 | CNRA Secretary Wade Crowfoot participates. | English-Language Recording Spanish-Language Recording Press Release |
| Meeting with Sean Kidney, Climate Bonds Initiative | 7:30 a.m. PT 3:30 p.m. p.m. Glasgow time Monday, Nov. 8 | CNRA Secretary Wade Crowfoot participates. | CBI wants to acknowledge/celebrate the significance of the State issuing their first climate aligned bond, and will present a copy of the certification. They will also provide background on why this is important in the international climate context. |
| Climate Change Adaptation Lab: Resilient Regions and Good Governance | 8 a.m. PT 4 p.m. p.m. Glasgow time Monday, Nov. 8 | CNRA Secretary Wade Crowfoot participates. | Organizers: Scottish Government, Californian State Government, Adaptation Scotland and EIT Climate-KIC |
| Integrated Policies for Ocean Climate Action: Building Coastal Resiliency in the U.S. | 10:30 a.m. PT 6:30 p.m. p.m. Glasgow time Monday, Nov. 8 | CNRA Secretary Wade Crowfoot participates. | This event will focus on implementing priorities to build coastal resiliency including shorelines as working lands; blue carbon nature-based solutions; wastewater and stormwater infrastructure investments to curb pollution; and investment in coordinated science to inform local management decisions and 30x30 goals. Organizers: Ocean Acidification Alliance |
| Reporting Live from COP26 with Secretary Crowfoot | Noon PT Monday, Nov. 8 | CNRA Secretary Wade Crowfoot, CalEPA Secretary Jared Blumenfeld, Jason Kinney, Dawn Sturdevant Baum, Lynda Hopkins, Shereen D’Souza, Amanda Hansen | A live update from Glasgow on COP 26, covering what has happened at the conference and why it matters. Registration required. |
| Signing ceremony of the Joint Declaration on cooperation in the fight against climate change between the governments of New Zealand, California and Québec | 6:30-7 a.m. PT 2:30-3 p.m. Glasgow time Tuesday, Nov. 9 | - Jean Lemire, Québec Climate Change Envoy - James Shaw, New Zealand’s Climate Change Minister - Liane M. Randolph, Chair of the California Air Resources Board (CARB) - Benoit Charette, Québec’s Minister of the Environment and the Fight against Climate Change | Registration required. |
| The Climate Group’s RouteZero “Driving Innovation Forward on Zero Emission Vehicles” Fleet Innovation Panel | 8 a.m. PT 4 p.m. Glasgow time Tuesday, Nov. 9 | CARB Chair Liane Randolph will speak | Learn more and register. |
| U.S. Center's Building a Better Battery discussion | 2 a.m. PT 10 a.m. Glasgow time Wednesday, Nov. 10 | CARB Chair Liane Randolph will participate | More info. |
| Accelerating the ZEV Transition: A One Way Street | 2:45 a.m. PT 10:45 a.m. Glasgow time Wednesday, Nov. 10 | CARB Chair Liane Randolph will participate | More info. |
| Event with the Transport Decarbonisation Alliance | 5 a.m. PT 1 p.m. Glasgow time Wednesday, Nov. 10 | CARB Chair Liane Randolph will participate | More info. |
| Cities, Regions, and Nations Collaborating to Power the ZEV Transition | 7 a.m. PT 3 p.m. Glasgow time Wednesday, Nov. 10 | CARB Chair Liane Randolph will participate | More info. |
| North American Climate Leadership and Strategies on the Road to Net Zero | 7 a.m. PT 3 p.m. Glasgow time Thursday, Nov. 11 | CARB Chair Liane Randolph will participate in a panel with leaders from the U.S. and Mexico | Live-stream. |
| Scaling Up Climate Action on Methane Emissions in Agriculture - A California Perspective | 8:30 a.m. PT 4:30 p.m. Glasgow time Thursday, Nov. 11 | CARB Chair Liane Randolph and Secretary Karen Ross will participate | More info. |