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Session description
This session will explore how electrifying buildings and improving energy efficiency is essential to achieving rapid, large-scale reductions in building sector emissions. As the sector accounts for more than a third of global energy-related emissions, the transition to buildings designed for lower operational energy demand, including efficient, electrified heating and cooling, is critical to climate action.
Speakers from Japan, the United Kingdom, France, Kenya and the USA will share public and private sector perspectives on whole life carbon as a design and decision-making framework and the importance of cutting operational emissions without delay. Representatives from the Government of Japan (MLIT), the UK Climate Change Committee, the International Energy Agency, Daikin, Arup and others will explore how electrified, energy-efficient solutions can accelerate the decarbonisation of the built environment.
Agenda
| Item | Presenters | Timing |
1. Brief opening remarks | Hongpeng Lei, Mitigation Branch director, UNEP | 3 mins |
2. Keynote speech
| Itsuhiro Miura, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Government of Japan | 7 mins |
| 3. Setting the scene | Kazuya Shimada, CSR and Global Environment Center, Daikin | 5 mins |
| 4. Fireside dialogue | Nigel Topping, Chair of UK Climate Change Committee Joscha Rosenbusch, PEEB Co-Secretary (GIZ) and Co-Chair of the Global ABC Finance Hub Chaired by Dr. Erin Gill, Global Corporate Affairs and Partnerships Leader, Arup | 20 mins |
| 5. Panel discussion with audience Q&A | Caroline Ray, Building Engineer and Director for East Africa, Arup David B. Calabrese, Executive Vice President, Deputy General Manager, Washington, DC Office, Daikin U.S. Jane Cohen, Senior Policy Analyst, IEA Graeme Maidment, Cool Coalition Executive Committee, International Institute of Refrigeration Moderation by Audrey Nugent, Director of Global Advocacy, World Green Building Council | 50 mins |
| 6. Brief closing remarks | Katsuyuki Sawai, Senior Executive Officer, Daikin Industries | 5 mins |
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