Monday briefing: what to expect from COP28

<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: museo-sans; font-size: 12.0pt; color: #0a0a0a;">In this week's briefing, Innovation Forum's Ian Welsh and Bea Stevenson talk about the key issues up for negotiation at COP28, which begins this week in Dubai. In particular, they discuss the different positions around clean energy agreements, and the need to establish a new loss and damage fund.</p> <p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12.0pt; color: #0a0a0a;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12.0pt; color: #0a0a0a;">Bea Stevenson talks to Gotz Martin, director of sustainability and strategic projects at Golden Agri-Resources, about the outcomes and impact that he hopes will come from this week's webinar, 'The pathway to nature-positive business: definitions, measurements and targets'. <a href='https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_10pVSGc0TY6TtoLvGFMMzA'>Register for the webinar here.</a> </p> <p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12.0pt; color: #0a0a0a;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12.0pt; color: #0a0a0a;">Bea also speaks with Veronique Schmitt, Bayer Crop Science’s head of communications for EMEA, about why they have been working with Innovation Forum to put out the 'Focus on Farmers' series. Register for Tuesday's webinar, <a href='https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/6017010979335/WN_x-TUw9IURvOMGQJvHp2PIQ'>'Regenerative food systems in Africa: scaling solutions to empower smallholder farmers', here.</a></p> <p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12.0pt; color: #0a0a0a;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0in; font-family: museo-sans; font-size: 12.0pt; color: #0a0a0a;">Plus, Innovation Forum's Hanna Halmari talks to Ian Welsh about what to expect from Innovation Forum's <a href='https://www.innovationforum.co.uk/conferences/sustainable-apparel-and-textiles-conference'>sustainable apparel and textiles conference</a> in April.</p>