The Climate Agenda towards COP 23 and beyond Facilitated by UCLG Deputy Secretary General Emilia Sáiz, with Yunus Arikan, ICLEI, Emmanuelle Pinault C40 and Rodrigo Messias, nrg4SD.
Emmanuelle Pinault explained C40’s Deadline 2020 initiative, a roadmap for achieving the Paris Agreement, outlining the pace, scale and prioritization of action needed by cities over the next five years and beyond.
Climate change is one of the issues on which local and regional governments have led the way in both action and monitoring globally. The Paris Climate Agreement in 2015 represented a step forward by UN Member States but it remains to be seen whether the commitment of national governments will be reflected in significant action to reduce emissions over the coming years. There is agreement within the Global Taskforce that the climate change agenda needs to be more closely linked to the 2030 Agenda at local level.
In the ensuing debate on the Climate Agenda, the importance of engaging local communities and civil society in climate-related issues was highlighted, as well as the need for better data on adaptation and mitigation at regional levels.
Yunus Arikan, Head of Global Policy and Advocacy at ICLEI, explained plans for local and regional governments' participation in the COP 23 in Bonn from 6-17 November 2017. He underlined that progress on SDG 11 will be reviewed in 2018 and that work is being done to ensure the presence of local governments in all climate negotiations and on raising the profile of small island states in particular.
16 UCLG RETREAT AND CAMPUS 2017
Follow-up actions for the Global Taskforce and networks • Contribute to the Climate Chance Summit • Ensure mobilization for the Local Leaders Summit on Sunday 12 November • Follow the developments of the IPCC