Climate Champions engagements at Bonn SB58
Key engagements and activities of the Climate Champions during this year’s Bonn Climate Change Conference (5-15 June).
Exponential Roadmap Initiative: And now for the good news from the IPCC report, the 1.5C target is still viable
The latest climate report from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was full of bad news: Climate change is already killing people and destroying nature. We’re way off-target on the commitment to stabilize temperature rises to 1.5°C, which is needed to ensure a livable future on Earth.
And yet there was also some good news in the report.
“The world’s leading scientists conclude that all the solutions to halve emissions by 2030 ‒ from wind and solar energy to electric vehicles and heat pumps ‒ are here already. And these solutions are scalable; they can be deployed rapidly. And, most importantly, they are all affordable,” Owen Gaffney and Johan Falk write.
Not only MUST the next decade see the fastest economic and energy transformation in history – it also CAN see that transformation.
Find the full opinion piece in Reuters Events Sustainable Business
The five pillars of climate action we will raise at the Bonn Climate Conference
As the Bonn Climate Change Conference gets underway, UN Climate Change High-Level Champions for COP27 and COP28, Mahmoud Mohieldin and Razan Al Mubarak, outline their priorities.
Why is the Global Stocktake important for climate action?
Find out more about the process for taking stock of the implementation of the Paris Agreement, which concludes at COP28 this December.
Sharm El Sheikh Adaptation Agenda to take centre stage at Bonn 2023
Midway between COP27 and COP28, the global climate community gears up for a landmark event that promises to inject strong momentum into enhancing global action on adaptation and resilience as an utmost priority.