Non-State Action Heads to Bonn

The?Bonn Climate Change Conference, from 6-16 June, is an opportunity to set the scene for the first real implementation COP in Sharm El-Sheikh this November.?

Achieving this – and setting the world on course to halve emissions within the 2020s, strengthening the resilience of frontline communities and scale up climate finance and support for developing countries – requires collaboration across the public and private sectors and developed and developing worlds.

The?UN Climate Change High-Level Champions?are working with businesses, investors, cities and regions and civil society to strengthen and accelerate action – both to build resilience and cut emissions within the 2020s, in line with the latest science.

The private sector and local governments are already taking action to address the climate losses and damages faced by at-risk communities; improve best practices for emission reductions and accountability; mobilize finance to emerging markets and developing economies; and contribute to the Global Stocktake process culminating in 2023.?

But it’s still not enough. This is why multilateral collaboration across national governments, businesses, investors, cities and regions is necessary to drive increasing ambition and action.?

To further enhance this collaboration in the run-up to COP27, the Champions are hosting a series of events at the Bonn Intersessional (full programme here). It includes stakeholder engagement workshops with the Marrakech Partnership and the Camda community of analysts and the following lunch sessions reporting back to Parties and participants of the conference on the Champions’ main activities:

• High-Level Champions Update: Resilience and Action After Impacts, under the Race to Resilience campaign – on Tue, 7 June, 1:15-2:45pm. The High-Level Champions, frontline communities and other non-State actors will report on how they are responding to the Glasgow Climate Pact’s call for NGOs and the private sector to help address loss and damage.
• High-Level Champions Update: Taking Stock of Non-State Action Progress, including an update on the annual revision of the?Race to Zero?campaign’s criteria and accountability mechanism – on Wed, 8 June, 1:15-2:45pm. The High-Level Champions and collaborators, will demonstrate how they will contribute to areas of Global Stocktake's Technical Dialogue, to help inform the enhancement of climate action and international cooperation, including the update of Nationally Determined Contributions.?

Technical Dialogue on the First Global Stocktake

The first meeting of the?Global Stocktake's technical dialogue is going to take place from 9-14 June 2022 where there will be an unprecedented proportion of non-Party stakeholders engaging directly with Parties to develop a shared understanding of the latest information on the implementation of the Paris Agreement and progress towards the purpose and its long-term goals, based on the best available scientific information. 45 seats have been made available for non-Party participants across three roundtables, with the High-Level Champions collaborating with the UNFCCC secretariat on the?expression of interest process?on helping to identify the most appropriate and impactful stakeholders to contribute.?

The?co-facilitators?will conduct the first meeting of the technical dialogue?in multiple formats, including two plenary sessions, three roundtables, and a World Cafe. The plenary sessions and roundtables will be open for all accredited participants to attend and listen to the discussions and will also be broadcasted online to ensure all interested audience will be able to follow the discussions via live streaming.

Ocean and Climate Dialogue in Bonn

The?Ocean and Climate Change Dialogue 2022, taking place during the intersessional, charts ways to strengthen ocean-based action on climate change informed by the best available science and knowledge.?

The annual dialogues build on the activities of other workstreams under the UNFCCC, providing a space for coordination and collective efforts to embed the ocean further into national and global climate action. The dialogue spotlights the ocean as a space with huge untapped potential for adaptation and mitigation action, emphasises the need to protect the ocean and marine ecosystems, and discusses pathways to increase the adaptive capacity and resilience of communities dependent on the ocean.

The dialogue, on 15 June at 15:00 CEST in the Chamber Hall of the World Conference Centre Bonn, will explore two topics: "strengthening and integrating national ocean climate action under the Paris Agreement" and "enabling ocean climate solutions and optimising institutional connections”.

Non-Party stakeholders are warmly invited to attend the dialogue and contribute to efforts to link ocean and climate action. The event will be publicly webcast and engagement with panellists and attendees will be possible using Mentimeter.?If you are a registered attendee of the SBs, you can come in person. More information on the ocean workstream under the UNFCCC can be found here, and the latest research needs and directions on the ocean and cryosphere will be discussed in the Research Dialogue.