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UN Climate Change
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7 June 2021
High Level Climate Champions
Newsletter
Blueing the Ocean
In a resilient, zero-emissions economy in
the 2040s, the ocean will look much like it does today: still covering about
70 percent of the earth’s surface, absorbing a quarter of CO2 emissions that
would otherwise remain in the atmosphere, and housing an abundance of marine
life that supports the diets of billions of people.
If we continue with business as usual,
however, the coming decades will bring more ocean warming, acidification,
deoxygenation and biodiversity loss. Pollution and climate change are
already destroying the ecosystems that sequester and store more carbon per
unit area than land forests, and safeguard coastal communities. That
includes salt marshes, mangroves and seagrasses. Some 40 percent of the
population is at risk from rising sea levels, eroding coastlines,
salinization inland and changing fishing supplies.
There is time to course-correct, but it
needs to start in 2021. Businesses, investors, cities, region and national
governments are already placing the race to zero emissions and resilience at
the heart of their health and economic recoveries from Covid-19. Ocean
recovery and regeneration need to play a key role in those near- and
long-term climate strategies.
Danish energy company Ørsted set an example
last week, with a first-of-its-kind commitment to ensure that the impact of
its renewable energy projects on biodiversity is net-positive by 2030. The
company will now work to identify the kinds of projects that will benefit
natural ecosystems, habitats and species.
To drive this kind of bigger, bolder and
faster action for the ocean, the UN High-Level Champions for Climate Action
are calling on at least 20 percent of the ocean sector’s largest companies
to commit this year to reversing blue carbon ecosystems loss by 2030 and to
publicly report their progress. This includes fishing, aquaculture,
container shipping, cruise lines and ports companies, and is based on the
Champions’ new Climate Action Pathway report for the ocean sector.
The shift to zero-emissions maritime
transport, offshore wind energy, the restoration and protection of ocean
ecosystems, and sustainable, low-carbon seafood will simultaneously advance
the Covid-19 recovery, emissions reductions and resilience. Accounting for
the ocean and coastal ecosystems in the first global stocktake on the
implementation of the Paris Agreement, held between 2021 and 2023, and
taking action across policy, research, civil society and finance, will
provide a further boost, according to the International Union for the
Conservation of Nature.
The UN Global Compact and the Champions,
will delve further into what national and local governments and the private
sector can do to accelerate ocean-based climate solutions during a virtual
event today: Catalyzing the Ocean-Climate Ambition Loop Towards COP26. The
event features global ocean leaders including John Kerry, US special climate
envoy, and Thomas Thune Andersen, chairman of Ørsted and Lloyd’s Register.
This will set the scene for World Ocean Day on Tuesday, under the theme ‘one
ocean, one climate, one future - together’.
One Year into the Race to Zero: Leaders
Summit
The past year has seen an unprecedented rise
in the number of companies, investors, cities, regions and national
governments committing to reach net-zero emissions in the 2040s - many under
the UN Race to Zero campaign.
A year after it launched, the Race to Zero
now includes more than 2,300 companies, 700 cities, 160 investors and 24
cities, and is running in parallel with its new sibling UN campaign, the
Race to Resilience. Both are helping to drive a 50 percent reduction in
global greenhouse gas emissions between 2020 and 2030 - while restoring
nature and building resilience for the 4 billion people most at risk from
the climate crisis now.
But the private sector and local governments
also need to join UN Secretary-General António Guterres and the High-Level
Climate Champions in calling on governments to strengthen their climate
policies. The UN Global Compact Leaders Summit on 15-16 June will look at
the transformational shifts already underway and what is needed to
accelerate them. Breakout sessions will focus on cities, transport, bridging
the gap between mitigation and adaptation and engaging the youth, among
other issues. Complementary registration available here.
In Case You Missed It
a.. The Race to Resilience welcomed the
University of Chile’s Center for Climate and Resilience Research as the
Technical Secretariat for the global campaign. (CR)2 join the Executive Team
of R2R with an open call to join the Expert Review Group now open.
a.. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization
and UN Environment Programme warned in a report last week that humans are
already using 1.6 times the resources that nature can provide sustainably.
To address food security risks, they said at least 1 billion degraded
hectares of land should be reinstated by 2030, and called for similar
commitments for the ocean.
a.. More than 50 UN experts last week called
on countries to recognize and implement the right to a safe, clean, healthy
and sustainable environment as a vital response to the current multi-faceted
environmental crisis, the Office of the UN Human Rights Commissioner
announced. They pointed to the climate emergency, pervasive toxic pollution,
dramatic loss of biodiversity, and a surge in emerging infectious diseases
of zoonotic origin, such as Covid-19.
a.. 23 governments joined together to launch
plans to drive global investment in clean energy research, development and
demonstrations this decade, in the second phase of the Mission Innovation
initiative launched in 2015. Mission Innovation 2.0’s members are
responsible for more than 90 percent of global public investment in clean
energy innovation.
a.. There is a 40 percent chance that the
annual average global temperature rise will temporarily reach 1.5°C in at
least one of the next five years, the World Meteorological Organization
warned. There’s a 90 percent chance that at least one of the next five years
will become the warmest on record, surpassing 2016.
a.. 37 percent of heat-related deaths
worldwide can be attributed to climate change, with deaths increasing on
every continent, according to a report in Nature Climate Change. The
findings support the need for greater mitigation and adaptation work, it
added.
a.. Leading athletes have warned that
climate-boosted heat and humidity at the Tokyo Olympics next month could
create a “danger zone”, with a heightened risk of heat exhaustion, heat
cramps and heat stroke, in a report released by the British Association for
Sustainable Sport.
a.. National governments can and should
localize their Nationally Determined Contributions to the Paris Agreement,
by following the example set by work on the UN’s Sustainable Development
Goals for 2030, according to a policy brief by Collaborative Climate Action.
Steps include incorporating efforts from local governments, improving
coordination between different levels of government and addressing links
between sustainable development goals and Paris climate commitments.
a.. The chairs of the UNFCCC’s subsidiary
bodies have started developing a living guideline for organizing the first
global stocktake on the implementation of the Paris Agreement, being held
between 2021 and 2023.
a.. Developing high-impact climate
technology innovation requires public-private cooperation, strong ambition
and consistent project management across different stages of innovation,
participants agreed at the UNFCCC Technology Executive Committee’s recent
event with Future Cleantech Architects. Find a summary and recordings here.
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Mark Your Calendars
a.. Insurance Development Forum: Building
Resilience Summit 2021 - 7 June
b.. Catalyzing the Ocean-Climate Ambition
Loop Towards COP26 - 7 June
c.. World Ocean Day - 8 June
d.. G7 Leaders’ Summit in Cornwall - 11-13
June
e.. UN Global Compact Leaders Summit 2021 -
15-16 June
f.. REN21’s launch of the Renewables Global
Status Report - 15 June
g.. UNFCCC’s Intersessional Climate Change
Conference - 31 May-17 June
h.. UK Clean Air Day - 17 June
i.. UN High-Level Dialogue on Energy -
Ministerial Thematic Forums, 21-25 June
j.. FT Climate Capital: Building Resilient,
Low-Carbon Food Systems - 22 June
k.. London Climate Action Week - 26 June-4
July
l.. Getting Net Zero Right (Champions’
London Climate Action Week event) - 28 June
m.. International speaker series - Race to
Zero: the UN climate champions - 29 June
n.. Asia Pacific Climate Week 2021 - 6-9
July
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