Bucharest is hosting the Climate Change Summit (CCS), an international climate conference on the 4th and 5th of October 2022 organized by the ‘BRD – Groupe Société Générale’, a Romanian Bank, and ‘Social Innovation Solutions’, an organization active in the fields of sustainability, social impact, and innovation.
The event is the country's first summit dedicated to climate change, and it intends to become an annual benchmark event for national and European leaders in the field, as well as to identify solutions applicable at the local and regional levels in the field of climate policy and sustainability.
With the goal of finding solutions to the climate challenges at a European and regional level, CCS will bring together more than 100 speakers from 20 countries, including decision-makers, public and private leaders, and more than 500 specialists, scientists, entrepreneurs, and business, political and civic leaders.
Some of the speakers at the Climate Change Summit are Linda Zeilina – CEO and founder, The International Sustainable Finance Center; Mark Campanale – Founder, Carbon Tracker Initiative; Oliver Harman – Cities Economist, Oxford University; Hacina Py – Chief Sustainability Officer, Société Générale; Nicolas Brien – President, European Startup Network; Giedrimas Jeglinskas - Assistant Secretary-General for Executive Management, NATO; Tania Santivanez – Regional Officer, UN Food and Agriculture Organization; and Ștefania Racolta-Cruceru - Associate Director, Head of EU Green Finance.
The transition to a green economy, sustainable finance and investment, sustainable solutions in energy, agriculture, and the food industry, and how technologies such as AI and Blockchain can become tools capable of mitigating the effects of climate change are among the most important topics that the Summit's first edition will address.