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Long-term Strategies and Financing the Energy Transition
Thanks to their clear market signals, long-term low-emission development strategies are vital to driving investments into the energy transition. How can we best help countries devise them and what success stories can show the way?
Article 6.2 Implementation for High Integrity: Updates, Lessons and Challenges
This element of the Paris Agreement allows countries to exchange emission reductions and removals via bilateral agreements. As its global adoption grows, countries face challenges in navigating its complex framework. This event showcased best practices to facilitate the process.
Accelerating Climate Action and Finance to Frontline Communities Affected by Fragility or Conflict
With humanitarian and climate crises worsening worldwide, a side event explored how financing strategies can empower local communities in fragile and conflict-affected areas to build resilient food systems and combat climate shocks.
Navigating Ocean Finance: Investing in a Sustainable Blue Future
Deemed as a “finance COP,” talks in Baku must bridge the gap between international support and financial resources needed for a sustainable blue economy. Experts offered a roadmap for the private sector to catalyze financing to ensure Ocean-based approaches are integrated in climate solutions.
NDC Ambition and Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels in a Just, Orderly and Equitable Manner
With the February 2025 deadline for “third generation” Nationally Determined Contributions approaching, a side event tackled turning COP 28’s Global Stocktake decision on phasing out fossil fuels into reality, focusing on overcoming obstacles while ensuring a just transition.
Innovative Research and Engagement Strategies for a Just Transition in the Global South
Policymakers, civil society groups, and academic researchers shared experiences putting workers and their communities at the center of just transition roadmaps for achieving cleaner economies in equitable, inclusive ways.
Celebrating a decade of NAP Global Network support to developing countries
This birthday party for the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Global Network unwrapped a decade of lessons learned in supporting countries in the Global South in building plans to adapt to climate change.
Cooling the Heat: Enhancing Energy Efficiency of the Refrigeration and Cooling Sector
As the demand for cooling increases in a warming world, government and industry stakeholders explored how to boost energy efficiency in cooling technologies — a potential “low-hanging fruit.”
Key Reports of the Standing Committee on Finance for COP 29
Heralded as the “climate finance COP,” COP 29 puts the spotlight on the need to provide climate finance for developing countries to address the impact of climate change. This side event shed light on trends on climate finance flows, including the result of the USD 100 billion pledge, and best practices in climate finance.