Effizienz in Aktion: Der stille Motor der Wettbewerbsfähigkeit

Energy efficiency has long been called the “first fuel” of the transition - but in practice, it remains the most undervalued. While efficiency could deliver over 40% of the emissions reductions needed to reach net zero, investments are still falling short, even though they offer the highest return per euro spent.

At COP30, where attention will focus on implementation and industrial decarbonisation, this session will bring efficiency to the forefront - not as an abstract policy goal, but as a proven engine of competitiveness. The event, co-hosted with the Energy Efficiency Movement, will highlight concrete examples from leading companies and financiers showing how efficiency cuts costs, creates jobs, strengthens supply-chain resilience, and can be a bankable investment, while driving measurable emission reductions.

Through two linked dialogues - one on deployment and one on finance - the session will show that the solutions already exist, and that scaling them is a question of structure, not technology.

Organisers: Energy Efficiency Movement & Solar Impulse Foundation

Dialog: Die erste Effizienzdividende

Wie Energieeffizienz, von intelligenten Gebäuden bis hin zu effizienter Beleuchtung und elektrifizierten Systemen, zu unmittelbaren Emissionssenkungen, Kosteneinsparungen und Arbeitsplätzen führen kann und gleichzeitig einen gerechten Übergang ermöglicht.

Veranstalter: Climate Action

Förderung der weltweiten Einführung etablierter Klimatechnologien und -lösungen für Gebäude

This session, co-organised with UNEP’s Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction, will explore how proven technologies and practical solutions can accelerate the decarbonisation of buildings worldwide, unlocking massive energy and cost savings.

Organisers: UNEP, GlobalABC & Solar Impulse Foundation

Optimierung der Nachfrage, Dekarbonisierung des Angebots: Die Energiewende vorantreiben

This two-part high-level session, co-organised with Schneider Electric, ENGIE, and ClimateSAN, will explore how optimising energy demand and decarbonising energy supply, supported by financial innovation and enhanced by artificial intelligence, can jointly accelerate the global energy transition by scaling efficiency, electrification, renewables, and green molecules across sectors to deliver measurable impact.

Confirmed speakers:

• Bertrand Piccard, President, Solar Impulse Foundation
• Lord Adair Turner, Chair, Energy Transitions Commission
• Jon Creyts, CEO, Rocky Mountain Institute
• Dominic Waughray, Executive Vice-President, WBCSD
• Esther Finidori, Chief Sustainability Officer, Schneider Electric
• Gilles Vermot-Desroches, Chief Corporate Citizenship Officer, Schneider Electric
• Nathalie Jaubert, Chief Sustainability Program Officer, BNP Paribas)