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Technology for effective climate action exists but, according to environmentalist Bertrand Piccard's intervention in a COP 27 side event, it needs to be “pulled” to market: “What we should expect from decision-makers today is to be much more ambitious in legal frameworks, norms, and standards to create a necessity” to use efficient technology.

Cooperative mechanisms such as Japan's Joint Crediting Mechanism contribute to achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement and realizing a decarbonized society, panelists of a side event argued.

UN climate and biodiversity processes happen too often in siloes, each attracting a different set of experts and thus creating separate conversations. In an event on Ocean-based climate solutions, panelists called for much greater cooperation between biodiversity and climate international frameworks.

As countries strive to put climate adaptation at the heart of decision-making, tools such as the National Adaptation Plans process, established in 2010 under the Cancun Adaptation Framework, came under focus at a side event on the challenges of devising, implementing, and monitoring NAPs.

A concerted effort to reach the goals of the Paris Agreement would require a quadrupling of critical mineral requirements for clean energy technologies by 2040. The mining sector must reposition itself to supply these critical minerals, while ensuring they are extracted and traded in a responsible manner.