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Fostering Technology Innovation to Support Countries in Implementing the Paris Agreement
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.
Promoting and Expanding Implementation of the Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM)
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.
Ocean Futures Lab
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.
Accelerating Action for a Climate-resilient Future Through National Adaptation Plans
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.
18th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development (IGF)
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.