The NetZero Target by 2050-2060, confirmed by commitments at COP26 and by the Glasgow Pact, and the Nature Positive Planet by 2030 are our converging agendas for these Awards. Today, all industries need to drive innovations in that sense (climate + biodiversity footprints). As scientists advocated towards the IPCC reports, Climate Technologies are playing a critical role to solve the "mother of all risks for XXI".

We need both DisruptiveTech and Nature Based Solutions towards a new approach of human activities and land-uses. That means investing globally, from science to concrete applications massively scalable in this decade. Shifting them as the new mainstream business models and schemes. We want here to highlight the players showing us the way.

• For Corporates and Entrepreneurs, it is all about staying or becoming the next Leaders in your fields.
• For Investors, it is all about funding Today your stream-revenue for Tomorrow, that aligns portfolios' performance.
• For Public Policies Makers, it is all about how co-designing our acceptable and inclusive reforms to support these geopolitical targets, by maintaining the global warming at 1.5-2°C for a livable Planet.

CLIMATE TECH AWARDS I Showcase Nominees x Top Speakers line-up.

Beyond Awards, it's about scaling and spreading concrete applications for mitigation and adaptation. We want also to co-design the take-away key messages by our diverse sessions, to be back full-filed to the business job. In add, among the ClimateTech Hubs, let's create a global community of "THE WHY" and "THE HOW", by building "THE WHO" with the ClimateTech Coalition.

Solving in time the "Climate Equation" is solving today the "Investment Equation", we want also to play aside as an accelerator for funding climateTech.

For each categories we will have a dedicated RoundTable to discuss on their frontier issues, gathering top-class speakers:

• Energies Mix & LowCarbon industries (including CCS/CCUS)
• Hydrogen Related Sector
• Sustainable AgriFood for Sovereignty (Biodiversity & LandUse preservation)  
• Digital, Space & Finance for Earth System & Risk models  
• Smart & Sustainable Cities (Building & Mobilities)  
• Women for ClimateTech, with Africa-related Applications
• Fashion, Goods & Products
• (e)Commerce, Travel & SupplyChain

"CLIMATE TECH AWARDS" I if Tech is Key, Finance is Fundamental.

For 2050-2060, all investors must realize that "NetZero effort" needs Funding from 2022 and massively before 2030. That requires a complete reboot in the expectation habits: from the "short" to the "patient" but stronger "Return of Investment".

For this special COP27 Momentum for deliveries, we support the pro-active players. This is a must invitation for the participation of Public & Private Organizations: States, Cities, Regulators, Capital Markets, Operators, Industries, Academics and NGOs.

The awards are powered as "Tech For Good": common needs and interests, because our common horizon is delivering the Paris Agreement in time.

The context of our Editorial line, for this Special COP27, after the Glasgow Pact, and seven years after Paris Agreement:

Aligning the Leaderships towards "GreenDeal x ClimateTech x Trillion funding" to deliver Healthier GDP within this decade, and to contribute for a maximum "Peace & Security for the Planet & Humanity" in this XXI Century.

CTA 2022 will be the bridge from Paris-LeBourget (the historic location of COP21, Paris Agreement, and place of the future MediaCenter for Paris2024, First Olympics ever with a positive climate contribution) to Sharm El Sheikh (location of this very special COP27). Everyone is concerned to make things change. Join forces, by these two sides of the same coin, as an overview effect: the carbon neutrality and nature positive related.

Dr Pradeep MONGA & Fabrice F. SENG

CTA Co-Chairs