Climate negotiators have been meeting twice a year for more than thirty years trying to advance the multilateral response to climate change—the defining challenge of the 21st century. During this time, the process has delivered a number of breakthroughs, from adoption of the Kyoto Protocol and Paris Agreement to the establishment of funds that support mitigation, adaptation, and loss and damage activities. As the day’s discussions at the 2026 June Climate Meetings showcased, such breakthroughs do not happen overnight.
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The decision to establish a just transition mechanism was hailed by some as a key achievement of the last governing body meeting in Belém. Negotiations to operationalize the mechanism are now illustrating how premature this celebration was: parties have widely diverging views as to its function and form. Developing countries want it to deliver means of implementation, whereas developed countries are opposed to creating yet another mechanism to channel money.
Other discussions in Bonn are proving to be just as challenging. These include talks on:
- the Adaptation Fund’s transition to exclusively serving the Paris Agreement;
- the mitigation work programme; and
- how to enhance the efficiency of the negotiations process.
In another part of the venue, delegates brainstormed what activities could be included in the new action plan, “Action for Climate Empowerment,” which aims to promote education, public awareness, training, public participation, access to information, and international cooperation. Throughout the two-day event, participants filled many whiteboards. How many ideas will make it into the new plan remains to be seen.
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Dialogue on Implementing the Global Stocktake Outcomes
Delegates attend the second day of the dialogue on implementing the Global Stocktake (GST) outcomes
Dialogue Co-Facilitator Rita Mishaan, Guatemala
Priyanka Sherwani, Singapore
Vicente Paolo Yu, the Philippines, on behalf of the G-77/China
Margit Norheim Lindgren, Trade Union NGOs (TUNGO)
Sylvia Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen, Research and Independent NGOs (RINGOs)
Delegates listen to the interventions
Julia Gardiner, SBI Chair
Floridea Di Ciommo, Women and Gender
The youngest delegate attending the June Climate Meetings listens to updates on the Global Stocktake
Informal Consultations Throughout the Day
Informal consultations on Art 6.8 (non-market approaches)
Delegates huddle during the informal consultations on matters relating to capacity-building
Informal consultations on research and systematic observation
Informal consultations on the Global Goal on Adaptation
Informal consultations on matters relating to the Adaptation Fund
Implementation of the Baku to Belém Roadmap to 1.3T
High-level speakers during the event
André Aranha Corrêa do Lago, COP 30 President
Yalchin Rafiyev, COP 29 Presidency
A slide highlights the key principles of the roadmap
UNFCCC Executive Secretary Simon Stiell
Gaia Larsen, World Resources Institute (WRI)
Barbara Buchner, Climate Policy Initiative (CPI), and Amar Bhattacharya, Independent High-Level Expert Group on Climate Finance (IHLEG)
Party delegates make interventions throughout the session
Climate Finance Work Programme Workshop
Delegates attend the Climate Finance Work Programme Workshop
Sally Box, incoming COP 31 Presidency of Negotiations, and Ayşin Turpancı, incoming COP 31 Presidency
Workshop Co-Chair Apollonia Miola, European Commission
UNFCCC Executive Secretary Simon Stiell
Delegates break out into groups for more in-depth discussions
Action for Climate Empowerment
The Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE) community is developing a new action plan to promote education, public awareness, training, public participation, access to information, and international cooperation.
Fleur Newman and Laura Vinuela, UNFCCC Secretariat
Moderator Lucy Shea, Futerra
Over two days, the ACE community participates in a series of interactive breakout groups to share ideas.
Delegates share ideas
Ideas for the new ACE action plan are recorded
ACE family photo
Article 6.2 Ambition Dialogue
During the Art 6.2 Ambition Dialogue, delegates receive an update from the UNFCCC Secretariat about progress made
Perumal Arumugam, UNFCCC Secretariat
Daniele Violetti, Senior Director, UNFCCC Secretariat
Moderator Cristina Figueroa, Chile
Moderator Peer Stiansen, Norway
Delegates take note of the interventions
A slide from the EU presentation highlights their approach to carbon markets
Martin Hession, EU
Tirivanhu Muhwati, Zimbabwe
A slide from Zimbabwe's presentation highlights their institutional arrangements
Civil Society Actions
Members of civil society demonstrate in the corridors, calling to 'end genocide everywhere', highlighting the links between militarism, military emissions, military spending, climate injustice, environmental destruction, displacement, and gender inequality.
Around the Venue
Representatives of the Global Forum of Local Communities on Climate Change meet
Jim Skea, Chair, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), speaks with colleagues
Veena Balakrishnan and Marie-Claire Graf, Co-Founders, Climate Youth Negotiators Programme (CYNP), speak with a delegate
Serge Wilmes, Minister of Environment, Luxembourg (center), with the Luxembourg delegation
Delegates speak informally in the corridors
