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UN Global Climate Action
29 March 2023
High-Level Champions'
Newsletter
Knowledge is power: New data tools track net
zero progress
The Race to Zero has launched its Data
Explorer. Developed by Climate Arc, and powered by CDP data, it shows the
progress of the largest 500 Race to Zero member companies by revenue. It is
a critical first step to enhancing transparency on net zero commitments.
Read more about the Data Explorer here and support us in our goal to halve
emissions by 2030 by promoting and sharing this tool with your networks.
Race to Zero partner, the SME Climate Hub
has also launched a free reporting tool. Developed specifically for small
and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) the tool helps summarize SMEs’ annual
greenhouse gas emissions, actions taken to reduce emissions and provides an
opportunity to report on climate solutions.
The SME Climate Hub is a non-profit global
initiative that empowers small to medium sized companies to take climate
action and build resilient businesses for the future. As part of its Climate
Commitment, businesses are required to disclose their progress towards net
zero on a yearly basis.
Likewise, the Race to Resilience has
launched an improved tool to help support the campaign’s mission to increase
the resilience of four billion people living in vulnerable communities. The
Data Explorer provides information on the efforts made by the Campaign’s
partner organizations to increase the resilience of individuals, businesses,
territories and natural systems. The actions implemented by partners are
organized as per the impact systems of the Sharm-el-Sheikh Adaptation Agenda
launched at COP27. The Data Explorer is primarily intended for non-State
actors who are collaborating with the Race to Resilience partners to report
their climate resilience actions and quantify and validate their impact
under a common framework. However, the information provided on the platform
can also be useful to anyone interested in understanding the progress of the
campaign.
Water tight solutions: Outcomes from the UN
2023 Water Conference
More than 50 leading global companies united
to make unprecedented collective commitment to SDG 6 at the recent UN 2023
Water Conference. During the opening day of the Conference held for the
first time in 46 years, over 50 of the world’s largest corporations,
operating in over 130 countries and employing 2 million people worldwide,
launched the Business Leaders’ Open Call for Accelerating Water Action.
The Open Call for Water Action is an
unprecedented appeal for private sector action to help solve the global
water crisis and advance progress on SDG 6 to ensure access to water and
sanitation for all. The Open Call provides a unified commitment by the
corporate sector to the Water Action Agenda, the main outcome of the
historic UN Water Conference.
By joining the Open Call for Water Action,
companies commit to work to build water resilience across their own global
operations and supply chains. They also pledge to work collaboratively
across sectors to achieve collective positive water impact in at least 100
prioritized water-stressed basins by 2030. The strategy aims to contribute
to water security for 3 billion people, and help enable safe drinking water
and sanitation for more than 300 million people.
Water insecurity is one of the most pressing
sustainability challenges of the 21st century, presenting humanitarian,
environmental, and economic concerns. More than 2 billion people lack safe
drinking water; a 40 percent water deficit is projected by 2030; and
water-protecting ecosystems have experienced rapid destruction. Climate
change continues to significantly intensify these risks, adding further
urgency to act. CDP estimates that some USD 300 billion of business value is
at risk due to water scarcity, pollution, and climate change.
Find out more about the Champions’ work on
water here
All hands on deck ahead of crucial IMO
meeting
The United Nations’ International Maritime
Organization (IMO) has concluded its latest round of talks ahead of July’s
critical Marine Environment Protection Committee meeting (MEPC 80) which aim
to decide the shipping industry’s strategy to mitigate the sector’s impact
on climate change.
During the meeting this week of the IMO’s
Intersessional Working Group on Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from
Ships delegates met to discuss and finalize the draft Revised IMO Strategy
on the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from ships.
Dr Aly Shaw, Policy Lead at shipping
consultancy UMAS said “This meeting marked a growing clarity on likely
ambition for 2050 and also 2040, which is a positive sign for an equitable
transition that requires targets aligned with limiting temperature rise to
1.5 or below. However, despite the repeated support across meetings for a
just and equitable transition that leaves none behind – there is little sign
of this commitment being embedded throughout the revised strategy as of
yet.”
Clean Cooking Alliance: Cooking, but not on
gas
The Clean Cooking Alliance continues to
transform markets, shape policies, and increase access to clean cooking for
the billions of people around the world who still live without it according
to its 2022 Annual Report. Clean cooking companies received a record US $200
million in investment, marking 2022 as a breakout year for the sector.
Read more on the work of the Champions’
Clean Cooking Breakthrough here.
“What’s Everyone Waiting For?”: The release
of the IPCC’s Synthesis Report:
As the recent report of the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) details, humans are
responsible for virtually all global heating over the last 200 years, the
rate of temperature rise in the last half century is the highest in 2,000
years and concentrations of carbon dioxide are at their highest in at least
2 million years. However, the report also concludes that remaining within
the 1.5°C limit is achievable if we’re ALL prepared to take a quantum leap
in climate action. In response to the IPCC report, UN Climate Change
Executive Secretary Simon Stiell has laid out 3 steps to course correct on
climate change.
Read our interview with Paulina Aldunce,
lead author of the IPCC’s Working Group II in which she says, “ Sadly, the
evidence scientists provide, and the urgency we communicate, isn’t always
reflected in action. And this is frustrating. What is everyone waiting for?”
The High-Level Champions also responded to
the report by saying:
Mahmoud Mohieldin, UN Climate Change
High-Level Champion of the COP 27 Presidency:
“ The IPCC’s latest report once again serves
as a powerful reminder that if we race at speed towards a 1.5°C resilient
world, while also ensuring a just transition and implementing SDGs, we will
be welcomed at the finish line by a fairer and more sustainable future. We
have every reason to believe that this is possible.
Initiatives, including the Sharm El Sheikh
Adaptation Agenda are well on the way to making millions of vulnerable
people more resilient by 2030. We must move forward today with urgency in
order to make the transition more affordable by unleashing just climate
finance at scale while ensuring access to it by developing countries. The
Regional Finance Forums on Climate Initiatives to Finance Climate Action and
the SDGs “ contribute to this goal through catalyzing investment in climate
projects.
Razan Al Mubarak, UN Climate Change
High-Level Champion of the COP 28 Presidency:
"All of us alive today have the privilege of
being responsible for the protection of future life on Earth. If we choose
to ignore this fact, our world of beautiful abundance could soon become a
danger zone.
Nature is our ally in this battle, a
non-negotiable part of the solution to achieve the goals of the Paris
Agreement and help protect us from even graver impacts of a warming world.
The world’s oceans, plants, animals and
soils have absorbed over half of humanity’s emissions in the past decade
alone and will continue to do so if they are protected and restored. The
IPCC has made it clear: the power is in our hands.”
Join the final meeting of the Global
Stocktake technical dialogue!
The Global Stocktake (GST) is a top priority
for COP 28 in order to align efforts on climate action and ramp up ambition
and put us on track to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement. It has been
highlighted by the UNFCCC Executive Secretary as a moment of course
correction towards 2030 and the COP 28 Presidency has emphasised how they
will work to ensure that the world responds to the GST with a clear plan of
action. For the stocktake to be a success, it needs robust input from
everyone.
In the lead up to COP 28 and as part of the
final stage of technical assessment component of the GST, the UN Climate
Change secretariat has launched an Expression of Interest process in
collaboration with the High-Level Champions to assist the co-facilitators in
inviting cities, subnational regions, businesses, investors and civil
society to the third and final meeting of the technical dialogue (TD1.3)
taking place during the Bonn Climate Change Conference in June 2023.
Further information and the detailed design
of TD1.3 will be shared in due course in an information note from the
co-facilitators taking into account the guidance received from Parties,
summary of the second meeting (TD1.2) discussions and inputs submitted to
the GST information portal. While the design and exact numbers are still to
be confirmed, approximately 60 seats will be made available for non-Party
stakeholders to bring their expertise to the discussions and engage with
technical experts from Party delegations.
At COP 26, Parties welcomed the improved
Marrakech Partnership for Global Climate Action for enhancing ambition
2021-2025 from the High-Level Champions, where supporting the GST is one of
the main priorities and uses the timelines of the GST process to build and
plan around, and also encouraged the High-Level Champions to support the
effective participation of non-Party stakeholders in the GST.
As such, the High-Level Champions strongly
encourage the active participation of cities, subnational regions,
businesses, investors, and civil society from all regions to highlight the
opportunities for transformational climate action and support Parties in
this process. To be considered for participation, please submit your
expression of interest available on this webpage before Tuesday, 11 April
23:59 CEST.
Accelerating to net zero
Chile’s Water Utilities Association -
Asociación Nacional de Empresas de Servicios Sanitarios A.G., (ANDESS) has
joined the Race to Zero as an Accelerator. In this capacity,
the Association commits to aligning with
Race to Zero’s criteria; accelerating membership; sharing knowledge and
hosting events; engaging with the Race to Zero team and enhancing diversity,
across regions and sectors.
ANDESS' mission is to highlight the key role
the sanitation industry must play in the development goals and environmental
protection of Chile. The news was welcomed by Maisa Rojas,Chile’s
Environment Minister.
Similarly, sustainability consultancy Giki
has also joined the Race to Zero as an Accelerator. Giki works with everyone
from small businesses through to global companies to help educate and engage
staff to build sustainable behaviours which cut carbon at home and at work.
In Case You Missed It
● After the historic decision that was
taken last year at COP 27 to create a Loss and Damage fund, the committee
tasked with operationalizing the fund is meeting for the first time. Remarks
were shared by UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell to open
the first meeting of the Transitional Committee on the operationalization of
the loss and damage fund. The meetings can be viewed online here.
● European Union countries have given
final approval to a landmark law to end sales of new CO2-emitting cars in
2035. The EU law will require all new cars sold to have zero CO2 emissions
from 2035, and 55% lower CO2 emissions from 2030, versus 2021 levels. The
targets are designed to drive the rapid decarbonisation of new car fleets in
Europe.
● A new report jointly released by UN
Climate Change and CDP finds companies in the Fashion Industry Charter for
Climate Action are making promising strides when it comes to climate action,
with more than 80% of them publicly reporting on their progress in line with
their commitments. According to the report, some companies are making good
on their climate commitments, demonstrating ample opportunities to reduce
emissions across their supply chains, but others are falling short in their
efforts to drive down emissions.
● New research published by Climate
Group shows that funding for climate action and policies at subnational
level is essential to keep the world on track for 1.5 degrees of warming,
especially as state and regional governments represent over 50% of all
environment and climate spending. The research looks at the mechanisms
states and regions can use to raise funds to accelerate to net zero and
adapt to climate change: particularly carbon pricing, green bonds, national
government funding and taxes and fees. The report also examines ways in
which subnational governments can effectively spend climate finance and how
they can also help other groups access that finance.
● More than 500 common species of fish,
seaweed, coral and invertebrates that live on reefs around Australia have
declined in the past decade according to a study published in the Nature
journal. The study monitored 1,057 species and found 57% of them had
declined, and almost 300 were declining at a rate that could qualify them as
threatened species. It concludes global heating was likely the main driver
of hte falls, with marine heatwaves and a rise in ocean temperatures hitting
species that live on rocky and coral reefs.
● Launched ahead of the UN 2023 Water
Conference, the new edition of the UN World Water Development Report focuses
on twin themes of partnerships and cooperation. Published by the UN
Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the report
highlights collaborative ways actors can work together to overcome common
challenges. Globally, two billion people do not have safe drinking water and
3.6 billion lack access to safely managed sanitation, the report found.
● The world is facing an imminent water
crisis, with demand expected to outstrip the supply of fresh water by 40% by
the end of this decade according to a new report from the Global Commission
on the Economics of Water. Johan Rockstrom, the director of the Potsdam
Institute for Climate Impact Research, co-chair of the Commission and a lead
author of the report said the world’s neglect of water resources was leading
to disaster. “The scientific evidence is that we have a water crisis. We are
misusing water, polluting water, and changing the whole global hydrological
cycle, through what we are doing to the climate. It’s a triple crisis.” The
report’s authors say nations must start to manage water as a global common
good, because most countries are highly dependent on their neighbours for
water supplies, and overuse, pollution and the climate crisis threaten water
supplies globally, the report’s authors say.
● UN Climate Change and COP 28
Presidency have launched a bid to put marginalised youth at the centre of
climate talks. The International Youth Climate Delegate Program will sponsor
100 young people to attend COP28 in November. Delegates from countries on
the list of Least Developed Countries (LDCs), Small Island Developing States
(SIDS), Indigenous Peoples and other minority groups around the world will
be prioritised. Anyone interested and eligible can apply here. Deadline:
Wednesday, 7 April 2023.
● The Scottish Government in
collaboration with the International Institute for Environment and
Development (IIED) has released the Practical Action for Addressing Loss and
Damage” report. It follows on from the conference Addressing Loss and
Damage: Practical Action hosted by the Scottish Government in October 2022
in collaboration with the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions and the
Global Resilience Partnership. The conference brought together international
representatives and practitioners to articulate best practice and explore
innovative opportunities to address and finance loss and damage and
contributors presented more than 30 case studies of action already being
taken. The report draws together the evidence presented in those case
studies to explore some of the key issues faced by communities, governments,
donors, the private sector and others working to address inescapable climate
impacts in their regions, countries and systems.
● The Race to Resilience (RtR) is
looking for new members of its technical advisory body, the Methodological
Advisory Group (MAG) through an Open Call for Nominations. The MAG advises
the development and refinement of the Race to Resilience’s Metrics Framework
and the methodological processes associated with its application, aiming to
esquire the credibility, transparency and robustness of the Race to
Resilience. More application information and selection criteria can be found
in the application here. Deadline: 29 March 2023
● IRENA's World Energy Transitions
Outlook Preview highlighted that although progress is being made with the
global investment across all energy transition technologies reaching a
record high of USD 1.3 trillion in 2022, yearly investments must more than
quadruple to over USD 5 trillion to stay on the 1.5°C pathway, and
cumulative investments between now and 2030 need to total USD 44 trillion,
with energy transition technologies representing 80% of the investment, or
USD 35 trillion.
● IIGCC has released net zero guidance
for infrastructure, to help investors align and manage infrastructure
portfolios with the goal of achieving global net zero emissions by 2050 or
sooner
● UN Climate Change is boosting the
capacity of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable countries to adapt to
the inevitable impacts of climate change, which include ever more severe and
more frequent floods, storms, and droughts. One key activity is to train
experts to formulate national adaptation plans which are crucial to access
funding for specific adaptation projects, which can range from measures to
make food systems more resilient to improving water services. In addition,
the Technology Executive Committee and the children and youth constituency
of UNFCCC have identified the latest trends in technologies such as remote
sensing and artificial intelligence can help people adapt to the impacts of
climate change, allowing them to better prepare for storms, floods, and
fires.
● São Tomé & Príncipe, Singapore, and
Suriname have reported their efforts and progress on their climate actions
to the UN Climate Change secretariat. The reports demonstrate solid climate
action progress and varying needs for financial, technological and
capacity-building support to . increase climate action.
● Watch the Climate Pledge's Future
Forward series on the Climate Champions’ website from 4 April. Future
Forward is a character-driven documentary series featuring people and
businesses pioneering industry innovation on the front lines of climate
change. Each film profiles visionaries fighting for their dream of a better
world, the complex hurdles to igniting corporate change on a global scale,
and a contagious hope—and inspiration—for the future.
● Join B-Lab and the Race to Zero for a
webinar to learn about how you can be part of the Race to Zero. If you don’t
currently have a net zero commitment with one of the Race to Zero Partners,
come along to find out more about how you can join.
● Four Regional Climate Weeks, Africa,
Middle East and North Africa, Latin America and Caribbean, and Asia-Pacific,
will be held this year to build momentum ahead of COP28 and the conclusion
of the first Global Stocktake.
For more news from across the Race to
Resilience and Race to Zero Communities, check out
climatechampions.unfccc.int and Marrakech Partnership for Global Climate
Action/UNFCCC.
Keeping up with the Champions
● Mahmoud Mohieldin spoke to the
Economist at its 8th annual Sustainability Week. During the conversation on
“Driving the flywheel faster on the journey to a net-zero future”, Mohieldin
discussed how momentum from COP 27 can be maintained into COP 28.
● Razan Al Mubarak participated in the
Road to COP 28 launch event during which she discussed the importance of her
role as High-Level Champion in strengthening the engagement of non-State
actors in supporting Parties in global climate action.
● Mahmoud Mohieldin was named the Most
Influential Personality of the Year Award by Daily News Egypt.
● Mahmoud Mohieldin attended the 35th
Board meeting of the Green Climate Fund in Incheon, South Korea, where he
addressed the Board Members about the need and urgency to meet the global
climate finance needs, especially under the dire global socio-economic
conditions the world is currently experiencing . The meeting closed with the
approval of $ 587.7 million for seven new projects in developing nations,
four of which already got their contractual agreements signed.
● Razan Al Mubarak attended the Monaco
Blue Initiative where she highlighted the importance of accelerating efforts
to protect and conserve marine ecosystems for their climate mitigation,
coastal communities resilience and biodiversity benefits.
● Mahmoud Mohieldin participated in a
public lecture organised by the Economic Research Forum and Nile University
on how businesses and governments can work together to tackle climatic
stresses and achieve the SDGs.
● In a session hosted by UN ESCWA on
"Planning and Financing Sustainable Development in Times of Recovery and
Crisis", Mahmoud Mohieldin highlighted how the current economic conditions
necessitate the activation of innovative financing tools and blended
finance. Specifically, he urged the need to assess financing development
priorities in a holistic manner in order to determine the size of the
financing gap.
● On the sidelines of Indonesia's
presidency of the ASEAN Group 2023, Mahmoud Mohieldin participated in a
side-event discussing the interlinkage between ESG standards and Islamic
finance. Mohieldin shared that total Islamic financial assets currently
exceed USD 2 trillion as per latest estimates, including annual zakat
contributions amounting to about USD 300 billion across the Muslim world.
However, Zakat - as well as other forms of Islamic Solidarity Fund - remains
underutilised when it comes to bridging the SDG financing gap.
Mark Your Calendar
● Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable
Development 2023, 27-30 March
● VIII Latin American Forestry Congress
and V Argentine Forestry Congress, 27-30 March
● Chile’s Global Adaptation Week, 27
March – 4 April
● 9th Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue,
28-29 March
● 2023 UNECE Regional Forum on
Sustainable Development, 29-30 March
● Economist Sustainability Week, 29-31
March
● International Day of Zero Waste 2023,
30 March
● Shifting the Transport System: What
You Need to Know, 30 March
● The European House, 34th Annual
Workshop “The Outlook for the Economy and Finance”, 30 March - 1 April
● The Future We Want: What have we
learned since Rio+20?, 3 April
● Ocean Visions Biennial Summit 2023,
4-6 April
● World Health Day 2023, 7 April
● World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings,
10-16 April
● G7 Ministers’ Meeting on Climate,
Energy and Environment in Sapporo, 15-16 April
● ECOSOC Forum on Financing for
Development (FfD Forum) 2023, 17-20 April
● International Mother Earth Day 2023,
22 April
● Fourth UN World Data Forum 2023, 24-27
April
● Green Climate Fund, Board Consultation
Meeting, 24-28 April
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