Implementation must accelerate, to make progress towards the Paris Agreement Goals

An all-of-society approach to make progress towards the Paris agreement goals and respond to the climate crisis is necessary according to a technical report on first global stocktake.

While Parties to the 2015 Paris Agreement have taken widespread actions to address climate change and its impacts, ambition and implementation must be accelerated rapidly. Many creative and actionable solutions to overcome challenges are ready to be implemented, finds a key technical report on the global stocktake.

The global stocktake was designed under the Paris Agreement to assess our global response to the climate crisis and chart a better way forward. The global stocktake is held every five years and is intended to inform the next round of nationally determined contributions to be put forward by 2025.

The global stocktake started with a data collection phase in 2021, collecting a wide range of inputs from Parties, international bodies, and non-Party stakeholders.  A technical dialogue was carried out across three meetings in 2022 and 2023 and was chaired, with the assistance of the UN Climate Change secretariat, by two co-facilitators Farhan Akhtar and Harald Winkler, nominated by developed and developing countries respectively. The scope of technical discussion was very broad, including mitigation, adaptation and support, as well as loss and damage and response measures. Cutting across all these topics were ambition and equity – all informed by best available science.

The synthesis report of the technical dialogue published today summarizes 17 key technical findings from the discussions. Across the topics, the report makes clear that there is progress, but much more needs to be done.  While there are well-known gaps, the technical findings highlighted existing and emerging opportunities and creative solutions to bridge these gaps. Good practices and proposals to accelerate implementation, action and support, are highlighted in all areas.

The report lays a strong scientific and technical base for the conclusion of the first global stocktake in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, at the UN Climate Change Conference COP28. 

During this final phase - the consideration of outcomes, a series of high-level events will be held to discuss the implications of these technical findings. These discussions will inform a decision and/or declaration summarizing key political messages, identifying opportunities, good practices, and challenges to enhance climate action and support.

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