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UN Global Climate Action
12 November 2021
COP 26
Transport and Cities, Regions & Built
Environment Days in Review
Wednesday, 10 November, and Thursday, 11
November, saw important steps towards the end of fossil-fuel powered cars,
planes and ships, and subnational leaders and built environment players take
action towards a zero carbon future.
Towards the end of fossil fuel-powered
transport
Governments and private sector actors took
important steps to transform the way we move by land, air and sea for a zero
carbon future. Find more in-depth news here.
● Over 100 national governments,
cities, states and major businesses have signed the Glasgow Declaration on
Zero-Emission Cars and Vans to end the sale of internal combustion engines
by 2035 in leading markets and 2040 worldwide. At least 13 have signed a
similar memorandum of understanding to end the sale of fossil fuel-powered
heavy-duty vehicles by 2040.
● Companies, countries, regions and
cities committed to accelerate the roll-out of electric vehicle charging
infrastructure and called on others to recognize its importance and follow
suit.
● A number of Latin American cities
including Bogotá, Cuenca and Salvador committed to turn their public
transport fleets to zero-emission by 2035, helping to transform the wider
transport sector - one of the region’s biggest emitters.
● Over 200 businesses from across the
shipping value chain committed to scaling and commercializing zero-emission
shipping vessels and fuels by 2030 and called on governments to get the
right regulations and infrastructure in place to enable a just transition by
2050.
● The International Chamber of
Shipping, the International Transport Workers’ Federation and the UN Global
Compact joined forces to help workers transition to a zero-emission shipping
industry, including learning new skills and creating new, quality jobs.
● Nine big-name brands including
Amazon, IKEA, Michelin, Unilever and Patagonia announced they will shift
100% of their ocean freight to vessels powered by zero-carbon fuel by 2040.
● 19 countries signed the Clydebank
declaration to support the establishment of zero-emission shipping routes,
collectively aiming to create at least six zero-emissions maritime corridors
by the middle of this decade while aspiring to see many more in operation by
2030.
● 28 shipping and wind energy
companies launched Operation Zero, committing to work together to accelerate
the decarbonization of operations and maintenance vessels working in the
North Sea offshore wind sector. They will aim to deploy zero-emission
operations and maintenance vessels in the region by 2025.
● The shift to sustainable aviation
fuels is approaching a breakthrough, with over 80 aviation industry
businesses and large corporate customers now aiming to boost the green fuel
to 10% of global jet fuel demand by 2030. That’s a one thousand fold
increase from today and would save 60 million tonnes of CO2 per year and
provide 300,000 green jobs.
● Three-quarters of corporate sector
commitments submitted to the Science-based Targets Initiative so far this
year have been aligned with 1.5°C of warming, as the Business Ambition for
1.5°C’s campaign has grown from 28 to 1,000 companies in two years. They
represent $23 trillion in market capitalization, according to the campaign’s
newly released status report.
Cities, regions and the built environment
The conditions for political leadership are
set: society wants it, business is counting on it, the money is there, and
cities will benefit. Find more in-depth news here.
● The Yearbook of Global Climate
Action was published, outlining the High-Level Climate Champions’ five-year
vision for enhancing the implementation of commitments and accountability
for progress. It’s seen a 22% increase in the number of actors registered on
the Global Climate Action portal compared to 2020.
● In an event on Thursday – Racing to
a Better World – UN Secretary-General António Guterres, UNFCCC Executive
Secretary Patricia Espinosa, COP26 President Alok Sharma, Scottish First
Minister Nicola Sturgeon and others joined High-Level Climate Champions
Gonzalo Muñoz and Nigel Topping in outlining the plan for the next five
years for an improved Marrakech Partnership for Global Climate Action to
shift the focus of businesses, investors, cities, regions and civil society
from ambition to implementation.
● The £27.5 million Urban Climate
Action Programme launched, which will provide technical assistance to at
least 15 mayors of mega-cities in developing countries, helping them to
shape and deliver goals to reach net zero emissions and build resilience to
climate change.
● 1,049 cities and local governments
are now part of the UN-backed Race to Zero, representing 722 million people.
This has the potential to reduce global emissions by at least 1.4 gigatonnes
per year by 2030, C40 announced at the start of COP26.
● Among those, 593 cities have
committed to shift towards resilient and sustainable energy systems, 501 are
working to build zero-carbon buildings and 415 aim to shift to zero waste.
222 have committed to divest from fossil fuels.
● In addition, 260 governments
representing 50% of the economy and 1.75 billion people now aim to reach net
zero emissions by 2050, as the Under2 Coalition updated its membership
criteria ahead of COP26 in line with a 1.5°C warming. The Race to Zero
campaign already counts 67 state and regional governments.
● And 68 state, regional and city
governments have signed up to a range of ambitious sectoral actions to
accelerate climate progress by 2030, including on clean transportation, the
built environment, energy, nature-based solutions, waste, agriculture,
environmental justice, and inter-governmental cooperation and planning.
● Meanwhile, 33 cities and more than
76 regional governments - including Maharashtra, India’s largest state by
GDP with a population of over 124 million - are now committed to help build
resilience within the decade as members of the UN-backed Race to Resilience
campaign.
● C40’s Mayors Migration Council Task
Force will champion investments to boost adaptation and reduce displacement
in migrant communities, facilitate dignified movement and other efforts as
part of their new agenda. The Robert Bosch Stiftung foundation is putting $1
million into supporting efforts in Africa.
● 16 regional governments and
networks, led by Scotland and Lombardy with Regions4, called on national
governments to drive emission reductions, measurable and coherent actions on
coherent and solutions-oriented collaboration.
● 42 businesses announced that they
have signed the World Green Building Council’s updated commitment to drive
operational emissions to net zero by 2030. It now addresses embodied
emissions - from initial construction - as well.
● US$1.2 trillion in real estate
assets under management are now committed to halving emissions by 2030,
along with 20% of architects and engineers, hitting a Race to Zero
breakthrough on the path to net zero before 2050. The number of construction
companies in the campaign has also doubled in the lead up to COP26.
● San Francisco joined Los Angeles,
Mexico City, Oslo and Budapest in committing to at least halving emissions
from the initial construction of buildings by 2030, with a 30% reduction by
2025. This is as part of C40’s Clean Construction Declaration.
● The Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance, an
international coalition of national and subnational governments and other
stakeholders working to facilitate the managed phaseout of oil and gas
production, launched, led by Costa Rica and Denmark.
● Nine new Partners joined the Race to
Resilience to deliver stand-alone transformative actions including on
digital finance, urban water infrastructure, early-warning weather systems
and knowledge sharing.
● 11 forest sector companies,
including seven of the top 100 companies, have now signed up to the Race to
Zero, representing 10% of global forest and forest product sales. The aim is
to reach 20% by 2023. They are: Finland’s UPM, Chile’s CPMC and Arauco,
Brazil’s Suzano and Klabin, Sweden’s Holmen and Austria’s Heinzel.
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