COP24 Government and Business Pavilion

6th November 2018

The opportunity for COP23 was to tell the positive and ambitious South African climate change story

How best can South African businesses and Government use the COP platform to showcase the significant advances made on both climate change mitigation and adaptation by Government and business. The purpose of this engagement was twofold:

• Strengthen the relationship between the South African business community and Government in addressing the global challenges of climate change and sustainable development; and

• Develop consistent messaging between the South African Government and business that showcase the significant advances in climate change management work undertaken locally

The COP23 South African Pavilion was a tremendous success, with some great content developed

We officially kicked off the SA Pavilion with a cocktail function, and had great events throughout

• We had about 70 people (mostly South Africans) with 3 Deputy Minsters, 3 MECs, 3 Parliamentarians, and the South African Ambassador to Germany

A further significant benefit has been building stronger relationships between Government

and Business

There were however opportunities for improvement and this year we plan to build on those successes and increase our ambition

• Better located and better equipped stand (stand designers and “give aways”)

• Introduce interactive infographics

• Update existing material, videos and infographics and introduce new social media Talanoa linked dialogue social media strategy

• Better media attention

• More involvement from other companies

• Better and earlier communication of our events

Greater interaction, Talanoa Dialogue Theme and Social Media Blitz are key priorities

• We propose that we update the existing infographics

• Create a wall sized augmented reality (AR) map of South Africa that highlights our vulnerability to different climate change scenarios

• Then focus on creating a series of short videos that align with the Talanoa Dialogue covering the three questions:– Where are we now?

– Where do we want to be?

– How are we going to get there?

• Then we use these 90 second videos as teasers through social media to build awareness of South Africa’s efforts and drive focus on the pavilion and the event schedule

• We drive activity to the pavilion using interactive infographics and “give aways” that describe South African culture

Stand Design

The layout around the SA pavilion

The NBI aims to modernise the stand with large scale infographics and expert stand design support

The stand will be designed using low carbon footprint products and materials

Augmented Reality Infographic

Augmented Reality (AR) overlays digital information onto a user’s real-world surroundings through the use of a tablet, smartphone or smart glass device

The holograms seen through the Hololens can be easily manipulated from all angles

Present Future

1.5°C 2.0°C 4.0°C 8.0°C

Digital overlays on biomes map:

1. Biodiversity

2. Population

3. Agriculture

4. Water

5. Tourism

*Slider (below) represents mitigation scenarios and how biodiversity, agriculture, population, tourism and weather will be affected by rising temperatures

Extra information added digitally- method TBC: animations/ videos/ data points, 3D animated charts, etc.

The augmented reality experience is envisioned to be an interactive, wall-sized map of South Africa

Example of Interactive Infographics

Example of Interactive Infographics

Event Schedule

Event Schedule

Please suggest:

• Additional events

• Speakers

Communications and Media (tbc)

We need to do a better job driving media awareness of climate change, of COP and of business and government action

• Media pack out in November– What is climate change

– What is COP

– What are business and government doing about climate change and COP

• During November– Joint Government Business press release

– TV and radio interviews

– Opinion pieces in the media

– Social media Talanoa Dialogue video blitz

• During COP– Joint Government Business press

release

– Progress reports back to SA public

– Live tweeting

– Heightened Talanoa Dialogue blitz

• Post COP– Post COP summary (quick brief)

– Post COP event

– What's next joint business and government press release

How you can get involved

• Your financial support

• Suggestions on content

• Your story – Where you are now?

– Where do you want to be?

– How are you going to get there?

• Support from your media and communications teams

• Your presence in Katowice

South African COP-23 video

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The National Business Initiative is a voluntary coalition of South African and multinational companies, working towards sustainable

growth and development in South Africa and the shaping of a sustainable future through responsible business action. Since our

inception in 1995, the NBI has made a distinct impact in the spheres of housing delivery, crime prevention, local economic

development, public sector capacity building, Further Education and Training, schooling, public private partnerships, energy efficiency

and climate change.

The NBI is a global network partner of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and an implementation

partner of the CEO Water Mandate, We Mean Business and CDP.

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