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Fostering Empowerment and Resilience in the Building Sector
Protection and restoration of peatlands are critical actions if the world is to meet climate targets under the Paris Agreement. This event highlighted policies, funding, and best practices for keeping these carbon sinks in the climate fight.
Multi-sector collaboration: Accelerating Climate Action and Delivering the Global Methane Pledge
The need for significant cuts in methane emissions requires technological innovations and collaboration across sectors. At this event, oil and gas industry leaders and financial experts discussed new commitments to reining in this contributor to climate change.
Advancing Sustainable Forest Management: Financing Mechanisms for Carbon and Biodiversity
Forest-based solutions play a vital role in supporting climate mitigation, adaptation, and conservation strategies, biodiversity, and the livelihoods of those who depend on forest resources. This event underscored the need for stronger investment and the importance of international partnerships for sustainable forest management.
Gender Just Climate Solutions
Approaches to effectively achieve the Paris Agreement must be both gender-equitable and locally driven to amplify the voices of those most adversely impacted by the climate crisis at the frontlines.
23rd Meeting of the Contracting Parties to the Barcelona Convention (COP 23)
Delegates praised the Convention as an example of how to translate global commitments into regional action. The week’s highlights included the adoption of the new Programme of Work and Budget 2024-2025, and the Portorož Ministerial Declaration, in which Parties commit to a healthy Mediterranean environment.
Climate Finance: The Role of the Climate Funds in Supporting Developing Countries
The four major climate funds jointly announced their commitment to enhance access to and increase the collective impact of climate finance. At this event, high-level leaders discussed the drive to achieve coherence and complementarity in crucial climate finance processes.
Land and Environmental Defenders: Advancing Climate Justice
These activists are central to the fight against environmental degradation, with Indigenous territories comprising 70% of the world’s protected biodiversity.
A Just Transition Work Programme with the Trade Unions Delivering Climate Justice
Representatives of trade unions, workers, and youth called for solidarity between climate and labor movements to achieve a just transition and combat the climate crisis. This event stressed basic rights – labor, energy, food, and others – at stake in the push for climate and social justice.