Emilie Beauchamp is a senior researcher in IIED s Strategy and Learning group
UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab attends the Climate and Development Ministerial Meeting earlier this month. The UK will host the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow in November 2021 (Photo: Pippa Fowles/No 10 Downing Street via Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
A year ago, the Adaptation Committee was one of the first UNFCCC-constituted bodies to harness virtual meetings.
Meeting virtually is not easy, yet the committee’s 2019-21 workplan requires it to advance several crucial outputs ahead of the 2021 United Nations climate change conference (COP26). These include long-expected recommendations on modalities for the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA), on supplementary guidance for Adaptation Communications, and on the preparation phase of the Global Stocktake (GST).
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Ministers from Antigua and Barbuda, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, the European Union, Fiji, France, Gabon, Germany, Ghana, Grenada, Guinea, India, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Malawi, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Morocco, Norway, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, United States, United Arab Emirates, the Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations, and heads of the Asian Development Bank, Green Climate Fund, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, African Development Bank, Adaptation Fund, Caribbean Development Bank, Global Environment Facility, Inter-American Development Bank, International Monetary Fund, World Bank, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, The Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centres (SPARC) India, The Indigenous Peoples’ Caucus and youth representat
US Should Pledge to Cut Heat-trapping Emissions At Least 50 Percent Below 2005 Levels by 2030 Johnson Banks/COP26
US Should Pledge to Cut Heat-trapping Emissions At Least 50 Percent Below 2005 Levels by 2030
Rachel Cleetus, Policy Director and Lead Economist, Climate & Energy | March 10, 2021, 10:06 am EDT This post is a part of a series on
President Biden has brought the US back into the Paris Agreement and has announced a Leaders’ Climate Summit, now set for April 22 Earth Day. The administration has said it will develop and submit its nationally determined contribution (NDC) under the Paris Agreement ahead of the summit. An appropriately ambitious US NDC should include a commitment to cut its heat-trapping emissions at least 50 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. Such a target is both feasible and commensurate with the country’s responsibility to contribute to global effort
COP26 President addresses UN Member States
Alok Sharma briefs UN Member States on the road to Glasgow
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Excellencies, Secretary General, friends.
It is a real pleasure to speak to you all again to provide this regular update. And as you all know I am now devoting all of my time and energies to the role of COP26 President Designate, whilst continuing as a full member of the UK Government Cabinet.
I hope this tells you how seriously Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the whole of the UK Government are taking our role as incoming COP Presidency.
It recognises the stark facts in front of us. The facts as the Secretary General has just outlined. And the urgent need to increase our collective ambition across all elements of the Paris Agreement.
Thorny issues: achieving a fair and equitable Global Goal on Adaptation
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Blog by Emilie Beauchamp and Cecilia da Silva Bernardo and Maria del Pilar Bueno 25 January 2021 @Emi Beauchamp
Emilie Beauchamp is a senior researcher at IIED; Cecilia da Silva Bernardo is director for cooperation of Angola s Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Environment; Maria del Pilar Bueno is a researcher at CONICET
The international Climate Adaptation Summit on 25 and 26 January aims to spur worldwide efforts to adapt to climate change. The Paris Agreement established the need for a Global Goal on Adaptation, but a new IIED briefing paper argues that to effectively operationalise the global goal, policymakers need to address some fundamental conceptual and technical challenges.