*[Enwl-eng] Here is the latest news from the High-Level Champions! (6.12.23)
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6 December 2023
Top of the COP
High-Level Champions' Newsletter for COP28
Cities, buildings and transport drive emission
cuts and resilience
Driving the day
Cities and high-emitting sectors such as
buildings, shipping, and transport are driving collaborative efforts to
electrify, decarbonize and build resilience simultaneously, while new tools
are launched today to address this clear and present “era of loss and
damage”.
Loss & damage
a.. In memory of Saleemul Huq: The
High-Level Champions’ Action After Impacts Lab today will celebrate the life
of Professor Saleemul Huq, Ambassador for the High-Level Champions, who
passed away on 28 October. It will announce a new loss and damage research
fellowship and prize programme in his name, as well as eight tools and
initiatives to address loss and damage. As Huq notably said after the
Champions’ last Action After Impacts event, “we are living in an era of loss
and damage”. Watch a video about Saleem.
Race to Zero
a.. Progress report: Businesses, investors,
cities, regions and academic institutions are reporting progress across all
aspects of the campaign, creating impact on the real economy, according to
the Race to Zero campaign progress report published today.
Built environment
a.. Buildings Breakthrough: A new
construction-focused Breakthrough will launch today, rallying 27 countries
under the shared goal to make “near-zero emission and resilient buildings
the new normal by 2030.” The new Buildings Breakthrough is co-led by France
and the Kingdom of Morocco, and the 27 countries represent a third of the
population and half of global emissions. It will unlock collaboration on
mitigation, climate change adaptation and resilience in the sector.
a.. UAE real estate: Top UAE real estate
developers will today deliver their blueprint for decarbonizing the built
environment, with support from the High-Level Champions. Today’s launch
event sees the formation of a working group to support national ministries
in developing the enabling decarbonisation policies.
Cities, states & regions
a.. Major subnational gathering: Over 50
ministers, plus mayors and subnational officials, are gathering to launch a
joint outcome statement from the Local Climate Action Summit and today’s
Urbanisation and Climate Change Ministerial. It will spur efforts to advance
collaborative, inclusive and ambitious multilevel climate action in line
with the Paris Agreement goals. COP28’s focus on subnational engagement can
help drive momentum from local and regional governments towards
low-emissions, climate-resilient development.
a.. Local stocktakes: Over 25 cities and
regions across six continents have hosted “local stocktakes” under the
banner of #Stocktake4ClimateEmergency, as subnational contributions to the
first Global Stocktake expected to conclude at COP28. The local stocktakes
will enable consultations between national and subnational governments as
they prepare new Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) by 2025.
a.. Local ecosystem restoration: The UN
Environment Programme’s Generation Restoration (2023-2025) project, which
aims to overcome barriers to large-scale ecosystem restoration, will be
showcased at an event today – Local Ecosystem Restoration for
Nature-Positive Cities and Regions. It focuses on the steps needed to
restore local ecosystems and create nature-positive and resilient cities and
regions by 2030.
a.. Urban water resilience: The COP28
Presidency and the High-Level Champions are today launching the Sharm
El-Sheikh Adaptation Agenda Working Group on Urban Water Resilience, in an
effort to advance work to ensure cities can withstand and thrive in spite of
droughts, floods and other water shocks.
a.. Water resilience in Africa: Partners in
the African Cities Water Adaptation Platform – including research
institutions, civil society, development agencies, governments, the private
sector – are working to implement US$20 million worth of donor funded
projects to build urban water resilience in three African cities.
Adaptation & Resilience
a.. Roof Over Our Heads: Launched a year ago
in response to the urgent housing needs of around 1 billion people living in
informal settlements, the Roof Over Our Heads campaign addresses the
challenges against the backdrop of outdated urban development planning and
increased displacements, as detailed in a book launched today. The campaign
has so far cultivated diverse partnerships with various sectors, which have
been vital in providing financial support and expert knowledge. It has
established learning labs in 17 settlements in nine Indian cities, which are
experimenting with new housing solutions.
a.. Adaptation Finance Kuali Fund: Race to
Resilience partners launched the €300 million Kuali Fund on Tuesday, raising
investor capital through innovative blended finance structures to make
smallholder farmers and small businesses more resilient to climate change.
Scale for Resilience, GAWA Capital, the Spanish development agency COFIDES,
and the European Commission support this effort to benefit 500,000 farmers
and small businesses in Latin America, the Caribbean and India while
reducing 22 million tonnes of CO2. The EU pledged €17 million earlier this
year.
Shipping
a.. Green hydrogen for shipping: Around 30
organizations including green hydrogen producers, cargo owners, ship
operators, ports, and equipment manufacturers have signed a joint
commitment, released today, to enable the use of renewable hydrogen-derived
shipping fuel this decade. This will help to meet the International Maritime
Organization’s 2023 emissions targets, including commitments for fuel use,
fleet development and port infrastructure needed to get the nascent green
hydrogen industry to scale.
a.. Clean cargoes: 10 companies are joining
the Cargo Owners for Zero Emission Vessels, the collaborative platform
announced during COP28, bringing the total to over 35 freight buyers working
to drive ambition and action toward zero-emissions ocean transport.
a.. Green pioneer: Fortescue’s Green Pioneer
ship, the world’s first vessel to run on green ammonia, arrived in Dubai
this week from Singapore, where it was recently converted from running on
fossil fuels.
Land transport
a.. Road Transport Breakthrough: 28
countries have adopted binding zero-emissions policies for light duty
vehicles and 33 have set voluntary targets for medium and heavy duty
vehicles — including six new signatories on Tuesday — according to the
Accelerating to Zero Coalition’s COP28 progress report. The report looks at
work across seven transport initiatives to develop coordinated signals on
the pace of the transition to zero-emissions vehicles and to support
implementing actions.
a.. Transport-energy ministerial
round-table: Transport and energy ministers met international organizations
on Tuesday to discuss how to integrate the shift to low-emissions transport
fuels and electricity with the energy transition, focusing on the need for
green hydrogen and electric land transport.
a.. Finance for electric land transport:
Countries, financiers and businesses on Monday confirmed their alignment on
plans to fast-track investment in zero-emissions vehicle projects. In
addressing the challenge of high initial costs and policy barriers through
innovative finance tools, such as payment security mechanisms,
zero-emissions vehicle deployment can be scaled to the thousands. Among the
participants are the UAE, UK, Netherlands, World Bank, Amazon, DHL, and C40.
a.. Transforming land transport: Recognizing
that electrification alone is not enough to decarbonize road transport, the
High-Level Champions have proposed three measures to help reduce the need
for travel, shift towards active and public transport, and reduce
mobility-related energy use. More comprehensive sector breakthroughs at
COP29 support developing NDC policies and delivering walkability, active
mobility and public transport measures.
a.. Resilient land transport: Race to
Resilience and Sharm El-Sheikh Adaptation Agenda (SAA) partners are
publishing a report today looking at public and private efforts to make land
transport infrastructure resilient to climate change impacts. The report
sets out eight calls to action to advance this work, such as setting global
standards, targets, and taxonomy, and increasing finance. The SAA can spur
these changes by 2030 by encouraging the adoption of new technology, design
and materials.
Global Stocktake high-level events
a.. The High-Level Committee of the first
Global Stocktake: Discussions at the World Climate Action Summit centred
around adaptation, means of implementation, and mitigation, facilitated by
the High-Level Champions for COP28, COP27, and COP26, according to a summary
of the COP28 opening event. Participants included 29 heads of state and
government, 21 ministers, and three UN system organizations. World leaders
recognized that the private sector, subnational governments, women, youth,
Indigenous Peoples, local communities and others have an important role to
play in implementing climate action.
a.. Accountability and implementation
dialogue: Learn about the major voluntary initiatives that are helping
provide the foundation and momentum for businesses, investors, cities,
regions and civil society to collaborate with governments, at an event today
on accountability and implementation.
About the High-Level Champions
Created under the Paris Agreement, the UN
Climate Change High-Level Champions have a mandate to connect the work of
national governments with voluntary and collaborative action taken by
cities, regions, businesses, investors and civil society worldwide. Through
the Race to Zero and Race to Resilience campaigns, the Champions are
mobilizing robust, science-based commitments and actions to reduce
emissions, build resilience and end nature loss in line with limiting global
warming to 1.5C.
For more news from COP28, visit
climatechampions.unfccc.int.
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