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Integrated Renewable Energy Solutions for Addressing Energy, Environment and Climate Challenges

Organiser: Geneva Environment Network

The renewable energy transition is one of the most important development transformations of our time. If carefully planned and sustainably managed, renewable energy technologies present unique opportunities to generate positive outcomes - increased access to clean energy, climate change mitigation and restoration of ecosystems and biodiversity.  However, without effective governance systems and safeguards, it can also introduce environmental and social challenges and aggravate climate and disaster risks. 

This webinar creates a timely and strategic platform on how to sustainably accelerate renewable energy development. Addressing today’s inter-linked challenges requires integrated policy and planning approaches that bring together different sectors, disciplines, and institutions. This webinar features diverse stakeholders to explore how cross-cutting approaches in land-use planning, water and biodiversity management, gender-responsive and community-led strategies can unlock more resilient, inclusive, and nature-positive energy development.  

UNEP, through its collaboration with Norway's Energy for Development (EfD) Knowledge Programme, and working with IRENA, IUCN, WWF and CLEANaction, are also launching a Global Call for Case Studies  to document real-world experiences on addressing the environmental, social and governance dimensions of renewable energy development, including solar, wind, hydropower, geothermal and grid network expansion.  The webinar is expected to touch on these inter-connected issues and further disseminate the Global Call for Case Studies as a platform for promoting greater multi-stakeholder dialogue.

You can find more information here and register via this link.

Renewables for Peace: Financing and Delivering Energy in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Regions

Organiser: International Renewable Energy Agency

The first webinar in the “Renewable Solutions for Vulnerable Communities” series, organised by the IRENA Coalition for Action will explore how decentralised renewables can expand reliable energy access in fragile and conflict affected areas. Nearly one billion people live in fragile or conflict-affected states. These regions account for a disproportionate share of the 655 million people worldwide lacking access to electricity, yet they receive only a fraction of global energy investment. Persistent insecurity, weak institutions, limited bankability deter conventional financing, trapping communities in a cycle of energy poverty that deepens vulnerability and fuels instability.

Conventional energy deployment models often fail in these contexts. Grids cannot be assumed, fuel access is chronically constrained, public finance is often absent, delayed or unreliable, and maintenance chains break under compound operating stress.

Decentralised renewable energy technologies can be deployed rapidly and flexibly. Distributed systems combining solar PV, wind, battery storage and locally available bioenergy can reduce communities’ exposure to attacks on centralised infrastructure and provide reliable energy throughout the year. These solutions can maintain essential services, supporting resilience and recovery.

This webinar will explore innovative approaches to financing and delivering renewable energy in fragile and conflict affected areas, drawing on practical experiences from different regions.

Featured presentations moderated by Aleksi Lumijarvi, Director of Knowledge, Policy and Finance Centre, IRENA:

   Innovative Financing: Corporate P-REC Transactions, P-REC Aggregation Facility (PAF) and Leapfrog Alliance
   Linda Wamune, Program Director, Energy Peace Partners
   Service Continuity Under Stress in Fragile MENA Contexts
   Ahmed F. El Farra, Founder and Principal, Palinvest
   Powering Ukraine’s Recovery through Community Energy Independence
   Hans-Josef Fell, Founder and President, Energy Watch Group

To attend the event, please register here.

Rising Energy Bills, Climate, and the 2026 Midterms

Organiser: Covering Climate Now

Americans are facing an energy affordability crisis, and relief can’t come soon enough. How current officials and winning candidates tackle energy affordability will determine whether states maintain progress in decarbonizing their energy systems or lock in new fossil fuel infrastructure for decades to come. Though candidates are prioritizing the issue in their midterm campaigns, too often, they fail to provide the climate context worsening this crisis.

Join Covering Climate Now and Canary Media for a special conversation explaining what’s causing the energy affordability crisis, including the impact of AI data centers, which are turbocharging energy demand and costs around the country; what elected officials can do; and, crucially, how climate change threads throughout the whole conversation. Come with questions, leave with story ideas!
Panelists

   Savannah Harriman-Pote, Senior Reporter, Hawaiʻi Public Radio
   Charles Hua, Founder & Executive Director, PowerLines
   Leah Stokes, Anton Vonk Associate Professor of Environmental Politics in the Department of Political Science, University of California Santa Barbara

Julian Spector of Canary Media will moderate.

You can find more information here and register via this link.

Columbia Fashion, Energy, and Climate Summit

Organiser: Columbia Center on Global Energy Policy

Co-hosted by: Fashion, Energy, and Climate Network at Columbia Climate School; Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs

Event Partner: Global Fashion Agenda

With support from: Apparel Impact Institute

The Columbia Fashion, Energy, and Climate Summit will bring together leaders from fashion, energy, climate, technology, business, academia, policy, and design. The theme of this year’s program is Fashion and the Climate Future, with discussions focused on examining how energy systems, materials, markets, finance, regulation, trade, and culture are transforming the industry, and what it will take to build a more resilient, competitive, circular, and climate-conscious fashion system.

The Fashion, Energy, and Climate Summit will also feature Global Fashion Agenda’s third annual Policy Master Class during Climate Week NYC. The class will explore how brands can build long-term supply chain resilience amidst shifting regulatory and political landscapes.

You can find more information here and register via this link.

Nuclear Energy Policy Summit 2026

Organiser: Atlantic Council

On Tuesday, September 22 and Wednesday, September 23, from the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, the Atlantic Council Nuclear Energy Policy Initiative will host its third annual Nuclear Energy Policy Summit.

The 2026 Nuclear Energy Policy Summit will survey dramatic changes in the domestic and global nuclear energy policy landscapes over the last year. The Summit will address novel partnerships in the public and private sectors that will be crucial to funding and implementing new nuclear projects; the efforts of first-mover US states to deploy next-generation nuclear technologies; the role of nuclear energy in meeting increased global energy demand; and the nexus between domestic nuclear energy deployment and a robust civil nuclear export program.

You can find more information here and register via this link.

Supply chain risk tools webinar

Organiser: Stockholm Environment Institute

Join this online webinar, organized by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) and co-hosted by SEI York’s Sustainable Consumption and Production team. Explore how the Global Environmental Impacts of Consumption (GEIC) indicator and ENCORE can help you understand and manage risks in global supply chains.

Global supply chains under pressure

Around half of the food consumed in the UK comes from other countries, making the continued flow of goods through global supply chains essential. Long-term pressures such as climate change and biodiversity loss can affect countries’ ability to grow and process resources, while recent international conflicts have highlighted the short-term fragility of these supply chains.

Tools that map global supply chains and the environmental impacts linked to production and consumption can help countries like the UK understand and manage these risks.

What to expect at the webinar

During the webinar, developers of the Global Environmental Impacts of Consumption (GEIC) indicator and ENCORE will introduce the tools and explain how they can inform policy and supply chain risk management.

Simon Croft, a mathematician and modeller at SEI based at the University of York, specializes in global supply chain analysis, agricultural commodity flows and environmental impact assessment. He will introduce the GEIC dataset and its underpinning model, which he helped develop, and explore how the indicator can support risk and security assessments.

The webinar will also introduce ENCORE’s value chain functionality and conclude with a Q&A, giving participants the opportunity to put questions to the speakers

This webinar is organized by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) and co-hosted by SEI York’s Sustainable Consumption and Production team, based at the University of York. For questions about the event, please contact Katie August (Katie.August@jncc.gov.uk)

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Protecting Revenues in the Age of Critical Minerals: Key lessons in addressing tax avoidance in the mining sector

Organiser: International Institute for Sustainable Development

As major economies race to secure supply chains for the energy transition, resource-rich countries face a once-in-a-generation opportunity to ensure this boom translates into lasting economic benefit. Yet, with billions in public revenue lost to corporate tax avoidance each year, capturing a fair share of revenues from mining remains a critical challenge. This webinar will map the main sources of tax avoidance in mining and share practical solutions to combat tax avoidance in the sector.

Growing demand for critical minerals is creating unprecedented potential for financial benefits across mineral-rich countries in the Global South. However, revenue leakage continues to drain vital public resources.  

To mark the launch of a new deep dive analysis on base erosion and profit shifting in mining, to be released end of September, IISD and the Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Metals, Minerals and Sustainable Development, are hosting a webinar mapping the main sources of tax avoidance in mining and sharing practical solutions for resource-rich countries to safeguard mining revenues during the critical minerals boom.  

Drawing over a decade of hands-on work alongside governments, tax administrations, and international partners, the session will share examples of how countries across Africa, Asia, and Latin America are building expertise in combatting tax avoidance, designing and enforcing efficient fiscal strategies, and concretely securing fair revenues.

As momentum builds toward October's EITI 2026 Global Conference and the the IGF’s Annual General Meeting, this webinar offers an early look at one of the main challenges facing resource-rich countries today.

The webinar will include a presentation by mining tax experts from IISD, intervention from government officials and civil society. The discussion will be followed by a Q&A session.

You can find more information here and register via this link.

SEI at Science Summit Nairobi: Interconnections Across Climate, Food Systems and Global Development

Organiser: Stockholm Environment Institute

For the first time, the annual Science Summit, taking place alongside the 81st UN General Assembly, will feature a segment in Nairobi, Kenya, extending beyond New York.

Hosted at the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), SEI’s Science-Policy Dialogue will gather global perspectives to discuss how science contributes to the Sustainable Development Goals and the importance of investing in African-led research.

This session will highlight African science, innovation, and local solutions that can strengthen resilience and contribute to global food security and sustainable development.

You can find more information here and register via this link.

Financing a Transition Away From Fossil Fuels: Building an implementation network for Santa Marta workstream 2

Organiser: International Institute for Sustainable Development

Countries seeking to transition away from fossil fuels face significant financing and macroeconomic barriers, from large upfront investment needs and limited fiscal space to external economic vulnerabilities, legal obstacles, and financial incentives that can work against reform. In two regionally tailored webinars, IISD and its partners will bring together governments, financial institutions, think tanks, and civil society organizations to move from identifying these challenges to exploring practical solutions.

Drawing on existing initiatives and useful precedents, the discussions will identify actions and quick wins ahead of the Tuvalu conference, while helping build a network that can support country-led implementation.

This webinar aims to:

• Enable inputs from stakeholders, particularly from the Global South on workstream 2 of the Santa Marta process.
• Gather initial expressions of interest from participants in joining a coordinated network focused on the macroeconomic dependencies and financial incentives pillar.

You can find more information here and register via this link.

4th Berlin Forum on Chemicals and Sustainability

Organiser: UN Environment Programme

The 4th Berlin Forum on Chemicals and Sustainability will take place online on 7 October 2026, from 13:00 to 17:00 CEST.

Hosted by Germany's Federal Ministry for the Environment, Climate Action, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, in collaboration with the Inter-Organization Programme for the Sound Management of Chemicals (IOMC), this year's Forum focuses on mobilizing finance to support sound chemicals and waste management worldwide.

Opening remarks will be delivered by German Federal Environment Minister Carsten Schneider and IOMC Chair Hilda Van der Veen (UNDP), followed by a keynote from UNEP Executive Director Inger Andersen on unlocking finance and investment for zero-pollution business models.

The Forum comprises two thematic sessions. The first examines public sector finance and policy tools—including Extended Producer Responsibility schemes—for mobilizing private investment in chemicals management, particularly in developing countries. The second explores how the private and financial sectors, including banks and insurers, can better integrate chemicals-related risks into investment decisions.

The event will close with reflections on implications for the First International Conference of the Global Framework on Chemicals (GFC IC1), featuring the GFC Secretariat and IC1 presidency (Pakistan).

You can find more information here and register via this link.

Energy Planning Week 2026

Organiser: International Renewable Energy Agency

Energy Planning Week 2026 is the first working gathering of the energy planning community after COP31 — four days in Bonn built around exchange. Those who join work directly with peer governments on live planning cases, engage the institutions that finance implementation, and help shape the partnerships that will define the planning agenda for 2027.

Good planning underpins every successful energy transition. Turning political ambition into long-term scenarios, credible roadmaps and investment-ready pipelines takes deliberate, sustained work that brings together policy, technical delivery and finance. As countries move from climate commitments to implementation, the quality of that planning increasingly determines whether transitions are timely, affordable and just. 

Initiated in 2018, IRENA's Long-Term Energy Scenarios (LTES) Network and the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM) Initiative on LTES connect government planners and practitioners directly with one another. Together they provide a peer-to-peer platform to exchange knowledge and good practices in the use and development of scenarios, promoting wider and more effective use of LTES in government for energy and climate policymaking. Much of this exchange has taken place through the International Forum on Long-Term Energy Scenarios, the Network's annual flagship event, which has brought hundreds of scenario practitioners from government, academia, technical institutions and industry since 2019. GET.transform complements this peer exchange with direct, country-level support. A technical assistance programme implemented by GIZ and co-funded by the European Union, Germany, Norway, the Netherlands, Sweden and Austria, it works with individual countries to advance their power sector transformations and turn plans into investment-ready projects. The Global Coalition for Energy Planning (GCEP) brings these strands together at a political level. Launched in June 2025 following Brazil's 2024 G20 Presidency, with IRENA serving as its Secretariat, GCEP is a high-level platform that connects planning and finance ministries to close the investment gap in the energy transition.

In 2026, this work converges in a new flagship format: Energy Planning Week 2026, co-hosted by IRENA and GET.transform. Taking place two weeks after the close of COP31 and ahead of the seventeenth IRENA Assembly in January 2027, the Week brings the energy planning community together to translate political commitments into the scenarios, roadmaps and investment-ready projects that make them real.

You can find more information here and register via this link.

Overview of Recent Energy Case Law from the CJEU, December 2026

Organiser: Florence School of Regulation

During this event two senior FSR legal experts will provide an in-depth analysis of the most notable energy cases at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) from recent months.

The FSR Law Area will provide a comprehensive review of the most significant energy cases before the Court of Justice of the European Union in recent months. Kaisa Huhta (Part-Time Professor FSR; Professor of Energy Law, University of Eastern Finland) and Adrien de Hauteclocque (Part-Time Professor, FSR; Visiting Senior Fellow, LSE) will offer an expert analysis of the latest developments in case law. The discussion will also cover an overview of the most significant pending cases.

Following the presentation, an interactive Q&A session will be held, allowing attendees to engage directly with the experts and enhance their understanding of the topics discussed.

The list of cases to be covered will be published online in due course.

You can find more information here and register via this link.