UBA and GIZ actively promote synergies between greenhouse gas mitigation and relevant sector policies through integrated approaches, focusing in particular on clean air policies and advanced waste management. The focus lies on mitigation potentials, co-benefits and criteria for policy design and implementation. The side event aims to discuss: 

• Why is it beneficial to integrate sectoral and climate change mitigation policies?
• What are potential challenges in designing an integrated approach?
• How are integrated approaches already put into practice and what are key steps to better integrate sector and climate change mitigation policies?

Keynote speaker

• Maria Krautzberger, President, German Environment Agency (UBA)
• Tanja Gönner, Chair of the Executive Management Board,  Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)

Foreseen panelists

• Hakima El Haite, Minister Delegate to the Minister of Energy, Mining, Water and Environment, for the environment of Morocco
• Rodolfo Lacy Tamayo, Vice Minister, Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT), Mexico
• Christian Friis Bach, Executive Secretary United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
• Wu Changhua, Director „Greater China“ of The Climate Group
• Klaus Müschen, German Environment Agency, moderator