The Subsidiary Bodies’ meeting is now at its typical inflection point: with only two days to go, parties are doing their best to reach convergence on as many issues as possible. On some, they seem to be succeeding. Among them is the consideration of the 2024 joint report of two key loss and damage bodies—the Executive Committee of the Warsaw International Mechanism (WIM) and the Santiago Network. Parties also agreed on a basis for continued discussions on the mandate of the Consultative Group of Experts, which is the constituted body that supports developing countries’ reporting.
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On other issues, delegates made substantive progress but struggled to agree on how best to capture progress without preempting further expressions of views and prejudging decisions to be adopted in Belém. This is, for example, the case with the Adaptation Fund’s transition to exclusively serving the Paris Agreement and the 2024 review of the WIM. Another round of informal consultations may help resolve some of these impasses.
There is a range of issues on which the outcome remains more uncertain, however, including:
- the just transition work programme, with the co-facilitators liaising with the Subsidiary Body Chairs regarding the placeholder text on “cross-border impacts of climate measures, including trade impacts”;
- negotiations on the mitigation work programme, which have turned to reflecting on the possible creation of a digital platform, considered an “insufficient” response by many parties; and
- the technology implementation programme, with parties having vastly different expectations for its operationalization.
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Informal Consultations Throughout the Day
Informal consultations on response measures
Informal consultations on matters relating to least developed countries (LDCs)
Informal consultations on the just transition work programme
Informal consultations on national adaptation plans (NAPs)
Federica Fricano, Italy, and Joseph Teo, Singapore, facilitate discussions on the just transition work programme
Informal consultations on the Climate Technology Centre (CTC)
Co-Chairs Stig Svenningsen, Norway, and Pemy Gasela, South Africa, facilitate discussions on the CTC
Co-Chairs Claire Holzer Fleming, UK, and Isatou Camara, The Gambia, speak during the informal consultations on the Adaptation Fund
Informal consultations on the Consultative Group of Experts
Informal consultations on gender and climate change
Troika Event
A Troika event is held by the COP 28, COP 29, and incoming COP 30 Presidencies
Liliam Chagas, incoming COP 30 Presidency
Elchin Allahverdiyev, COP 29 Presidency
Yalchin Rafiyev, COP 29 Presidency, speaks with Túlio César Mourthé de Alvim Andrade and Liliam Chagas, incoming COP 30 Presidency
Catherine Diam-Valla, UN Development Programme (UNDP)
Marc-André Lafrance, Canada
Delegates listen to the discussion
Aisha Abdulazeez Barde, Commissioner for Environment and Climate Change, Taraba State, Nigeria
Christopher Bartlett, Vanuatu
Civil Society Action
Members of civil society demonstrate, calling for an end to fossil fuel projects in the Amazon
Around the Venue
Jasdev Rai, Sikh Human Rights Group
Kishan Kumarsingh, Trinidad and Tobago, and Patrick Spicer, Canada, Co-Facilitators for Global Stocktake procedures, speak with the UNFCCC Secretariat
Elfriede More, Austria, speaks with delegates from Saudi Arabia
Delegates meet informally in the corridors
Ephraim Shitima, Zambia
Paul Watkinson, France, and Xolisa Ngwadla, Botswana
Simon Stiell, UNFCCC Executive Secretary, signs an MoU with Pema Gyamtsho, Director General, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)
