The Centre for Social and Economic Progress (CSEP) hosted a webinar titled, “Navigating Triangular Climate Cooperation at COP29 and Beyond” on Thursday, October 3, 2024 from 6:00-7:00 pm (IST).  

The webinar featured a discussion between Nadine Piefer-Söyler, Policy Analyst, Development Co-operation Directorate of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and Avantika Goswami, Programme Manager, Climate Change, Centre for Science and Environment. The event was moderated by Pooja Ramamurthi, Associate Fellow, CSEP.  

The event was live streamed on Zoom and CSEP’s YouTube channel.

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About the event 

Climate finance, knowledge sharing, and technology transfer mechanisms continue to emphasise North-South channels, despite power shifts in global governance. This paradigm is proving insufficient for developing countries to catalyse and implement cost-effective climate solutions. There is an opportunity to explore alternate mechanisms for improved climate action such as triangular cooperation. This modality is a mechanism where two developing countries cooperate, facilitated by a multilateral agency or industrialised country. Triangular cooperation creates a possibility for emerging economies like India to leverage successful experiences from their own development to implement appropriate, context-specific climate action across the Global South.  

With the upcoming COP29, this webinar will try to analyse a few issues regarding triangular cooperation within the larger global climate diplomacy. Is triangular cooperation seen as an attempt to put more equal burden sharing on countries in the Global South? Are countries in the Global South at a stage where they are willing to take on more global climate leadership? How do countries in the Global South navigate triangular cooperation at international fora so that they are more active rather than passive? Will triangular cooperation always be at the fringes within the larger North-South paradigm of climate negotiations? 

Discussants  

Nadine Piefer-Söyler is Policy Analyst in the Development Co-operation Directorate of the OECD, where she leads the work on triangular co-operation. She is also responsible for engagement with countries that are not members of the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) in Latin America and the Caribbean as well as with South Africa and Indonesia. Before joining the OECD, she worked as Consultant for the German development cooperation (GIZ) and as researcher at the Technical University of Darmstadt. Nadine has over ten years of experience working on triangular co-operation in all regions of the world. Her research and consultancy work focused on new development partners, supporting countries in establishing agencies for development co-operation, triangular cooperation, as well as EU foreign and energy relations with the BRICS. Nadine has research and practical experience in Brazil, China, Germany, India, Indonesia, Mexico, and South Africa. 

Avantika Goswami is a Programme Manager at the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) where she leads the Climate Change Programme. She has over ten years of experience across the public, private and non-profit sectors, with an interdisciplinary background in climate and economic research, sustainability, program management, and management consulting. At CSE, she is leading the Institute’s climate policy research and advocacy spanning climate finance, mitigation ambition, carbon markets, methane, forest-based mitigation, trade, and the tracking of UNFCCC negotiations. Prior to her role at CSE, she worked at the Earth Institute in New York City, as a Program Manager. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai, and a Master of Science in Sustainability Management from Columbia University, New York. She has had professional engagements in India, the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and the Maldives. 

Moderator

Pooja Vijay Ramamurthi is an Associate Fellow in CSEP. She has a PhD in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy at the School of Public and international Affairs (STEP) at Princeton University. She studies climate and energy transition policy, particularly focusing on the role that India can play in accelerating domestic and international action towards dercarbonisation.Her work has always been multidisciplinary, where she looks at techno-economic, social and political dimensions of sustainability. She has worked at premier think tanks in India, including the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago and the Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy. She has also worked on projects in Ghana and Cambodia. Her work has resulted in her being invited to international level conferences and publications in peer reviewed journals and leading newspapers.

She is recipient of the Prize Fellowship for Social Sciences at Princeton University. She has also received her double Master’s degree in Sustainable Energy from the Royal institute of Technology, Sweden and Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal via the Innoenergy scholarship granted by the European Union.

Please contact Gurmeet Kaur at GKaur@csep.org for general queries and Ayesha Manocha at AManocha@csep.org for media queries. 

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