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13 November 2024
High-Level Champions'
Top of the COP
Newsletter
Significant strides by cities, investors,
businesses, and civil society pave the way for making progress at COP 29
WEDNESDAY 13 NOVEMBER
Welcome to the Top of the COP daily
newsletter, brought to you by the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions.
The Top of the COP will highlight action of non-State actors — businesses,
investors, cities and regions, Indigenous Peoples and youth — accelerating
progress towards 2030 goals.
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Driving the day
World leaders gathering in Baku, Azerbaijan,
for the start of COP 29 can be encouraged by the breadth and scope of
climate action underway across the global economy.
Climate-driven impacts combined with tangible
economic growth opportunities are driving an increase in actions to
decarbonize industries and make societies and economies more resilient.
The Yearbook of Global Climate Action
highlights that rapid growth in clean technology, rising demand for
low-carbon solutions, and the persistent risks of climate change are likely
to drive continued and accelerating action. Launched in the lead-up to COP
29, the 2024 Yearbook is the eighth of the series published by the UNFCCC
secretariat, which provides an overview of the progress, trends and
challenges of real-world climate action taken by non-Party stakeholders, to
inspire further actions and raise ambition.
This annual stocktake of efforts by leaders
across society and the real economy incorporates contributions from the
Marrakech Partnership for Global Climate Action network of non-State
entities and several recent reports. It highlights significant advances over
the past 12 months including: a 473GW expansion of renewable energy capacity
in 2023, marking a 14% increase during the year; a 70% increase in clean
technology manufacturing since 2022; a 35% growth in zero-emission vehicle
sales in 2023 and an 8% reduction in carbon intensity of the cement sector
compared to 2020.
These developments, alongside the continued
growth of the UNFCCC’s Global Climate Action Portal now tracking action from
over 39,000 actors, demonstrate considerable headroom for national
governments to make their next round of nationally determined contributions
(or NDCs) to the Paris Agreement more ambitious than the last in 2020.
The Race is on
The Yearbook also highlighted continued
progress in the Race to Zero and Race to Resilience campaigns. Over the past
12 months, membership of the Race to Zero has grown by 16%, reaching more
than 15,500 members from 150 countries including more than 12,400 companies
of which at least 9,200 are Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), 650
financial institutions, 1,100 cities, 50 states and regions, 1,200 education
institutions, and 80 healthcare institutions.
In addition, the 2024 Net Zero Stocktake found
that Race to Zero members perform better than non-members on good net-zero
practices although more still needs to be done. Additional analysis also
found that campaign members to be 2.5 times more likely to support
science-aligned climate policy, outperforming their peers. Moving from
pledges to plans, Race to Zero members are offering their leadership and
support to help national governments set investable and implementable
national plans.
The Yearbook also reflects important advances
by initiatives helping people adapt to the realities of climate change. For
instance, action by partners of the Race to Resilience now cover more than 2
billion people in more than 160 countries. Members of The Mangrove
Breakthrough support the protection and restoration of more than 65,000
hectares of mangroves, and major companies such as Nestlé and Unilever have
expanded their regenerative agriculture programmes, helping to restore
degraded lands while securing supply chains, and impacting over 500,000
smallholder farmers.
A global problem requires a global solution
Businesses, investors, cities, states and
regions, and civil society rally to support strong national climate plans
(or NDCs) to accelerate a prosperous, net zero future. In this report, the
High-Level Champions highlight the insights, priorities and offers of
support from non-State actors to make them readily available for countries
to leverage in the design and implementation of their NDCs.
In addition, the Truly Global: A Regional
Outlook on the 2030 Climate Solutions report by the High-Level Champions and
Marrakech Partnership outlines how action is accelerating across the globe
from Africa, to Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean, increasing the
resilience of communities, protecting lives and livelihoods and restoring
nature for the benefit of people and planet.
Earlier this year, the High Level Champions
invited Parties and non-Party stakeholders to share their insights and
feedback on how the High-Level Champions and the Marrakech Partnership can
accelerate action and drive implementation. Their inputs are summarised
here.
Uniting leadership for a climate-resilient
future
Today at the Global Climate Action High-Level
Event, the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions of the COP 28 Presidency
and the COP 29 Presidency, respectively, H.E. Razan Al Mubarak and Nigar
Arpadarai will join high-level representatives to send a clear message:
actors in the real economy and across society are crucial in supporting the
design and implementation of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and
National Adaptation Plan (NAPs). They will reinforce the economic
opportunity of the 21st century to future proof their operations, increase
the resilience of their supply chains, create new job opportunities and
support the advancement of development goals.
Building on the momentum made throughout the
year, the High-Level Champions and Marrakech Partnership Programme at COP29
will inspire further climate action and collaboration across stakeholders
and sectors to drive progress in critical areas including clean energy,
equitable finance and sustainable land-use using the tools and frameworks of
the 2030 Climate Solutions
Mobilising private finance for adaptation and
resilience
Launched at COP 28 by the High-Level Champions
in collaboration with the Atlantic Council, the Call for Collaboration to
accelerate the mobilisation of private finance for adaptation and resilience
brings together public and private actors to define what is needed to scale
finance for adaptation and resilience.
Today, the Atlantic Council Climate Resilience
Center builds on this collaboration, bringing together actors across the
financial system to define concrete and detailed recommendations that have
to be taken to prepare communities, businesses and financial institutions
for climate impacts.
Contributors include approximately 30
specialists from public finance institutions, policy makers, leading private
financial institutions: banks, investors, insurers and civil society.
Together they define what actions are needed to achieve this
transformational effort to scale private finance for adaptation and
resilience in line with the framework of the Sharm- El-Sheikh Adaptation
Agenda.
These include defining adaptation and
resilience finance standards that can be tailored to local needs, and making
National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) investible alongside enabling policies such
as tax breaks and subsidies, mainstreaming adaptation in national climate
plans, and supporting developing countries with capacity and technology and
improving the availability of blended finance instruments.
TeraMed Initiative
Seven Mediterranean Countries committed to
develop one terawatt of renewable capacity by 2030 through the TeraMed
initiative, led by IRENA and the Global Renewables Alliance. With
investments that can reach USD 700 billion, the initiative has the potential
to create three million new jobs in the solar industries alone. Non-Party
stakeholders and national governments are doubling down on the untapped
potential for renewable energies in the mediterranean region, contributing
to the target of tripling sustainable energy capacity launched at COP 28.
Accelerating Africa’s Climate Leadership
African leaders and global partners will come
together today Wednesday 13th at the Africa Climate Summit High-Level event
to examine the impact of the inaugural Africa Climate Summit held in 2023
and launch the Mission 300 agenda.
Led by the World Bank Group and African
Development Bank (AfDB), Mission 300 seeks to connect 300 million Africans
to electricity by 2030 - representing half of the continent’s population
living without electricity and 40% of the global total. The most ambitious
global undertaking in decades, Mission 300 seeks to uplift livelihoods,
power productivity, create green jobs, and achieve net zero goals.
The Accelerating Africa’s Climate Leadership
to Action convening will be co-hosted by the Africa Climate Summit (ACS),
the African Union Commission , and His Excellency, Faure Gnassingbé,
President of the Republic of Togo. Representatives from government, the
private sector, academia, and civil society will be invited to examine
progress on the commitments made under the Nairobi Declaration including
pledges to provide USD 100 billion annually.
Making an impact
In the face of the climate crisis, solutions
are emerging faster than ever, tackling every aspect of the challenge. The
new High-Level Champions’ series, Impact Makers, shines a spotlight on those
leading this change from the ground up – from climate-resilient healthcare
in Nigeria to green transport solutions in Bangladesh, clean energy in
Colombia, sustainable energy in Mozambique, and beyond.
Each day at COP, the High-Level Champions will
introduce new Impact Makers, showcasing the changemakers from around the
world turning ideas into action.
DISCOVER OUR IMPACT MAKERS
Call for inputs: COP 29 climate action
announcements
The UNFCCC secretariat is tracking climate
action announcements made at COP 29, including the launch of:
● climate initiatives;
● pledges and declarations;
● publications and reports;
● any other climate action announcements.
This information will be used to inform the
Global Climate Action Portal (GCAP), formally known as Non-State Actor Zone
for Climate Action (NAZCA), in particular, on its COP 29 event page. Please
find the online form to submit your inputs here or via the QR code below.
About the High-Level Champions: The UN Climate
Change High-Level Champions drive ambitious climate action by connecting the
work of national governments with the many voluntary and collaborative
actions and initiatives from non-Party stakeholders such as cities, regions,
businesses, investors and civil society. This includes delivering the
five-year plan of the Marrakech Partnership for Global Climate Action, in
collaboration with the UNFCCC secretariat and other partners, using the
tools and frameworks included in the 2030 Climate Solutions H.E. Razan Al
Mubarak and Ms. Nigar Arpadarai serve as the current High-Level Champions of
the COP 28 Presidency and the COP 29 Presidency, respectively.
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