Conference impressions • December 02, 2019
Photos: Martin Magunia/Mettle/NDC
A real accelerator for achieving climate goals
Question: What is one of the single most effective investments that governments and cooperation partners can make to accelerate NDC implementation? Answer: Women’s and girls’ increased leadership and participation in climate-smart development. This answer was the headline conclusion of several sessions at the Global NDC Conference. Conventional power structures and discriminating social attitudes still keep…
Understanding the Enhanced Transparency Framework
Transparency is the backbone of the Paris Agreement. Its builds confidence in the entire process – trust that your neighbour is also working hard. It also provides clarity on the world’s collective progress and promotes ambition. The new Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF) agreed at Katowice builds on and enhances existing Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV)…
Snapshot of transparency actions from around the world
In his keynote speech to the Global NDC Conference 2019, Stefan Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research set out the urgency of the climate challenge, referencing the IPCC’s Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 Degrees. Unless we limit average global warming to 1.5°C, a range of climate processes will unfold that…
Worldwide, the youth is rising up – take them seriously by finally sticking to the Paris Agreement!
Nick Heubeck, Fridays For Future
Financing the NDCs: Business as a key partner
The second day of the Global NDC Conference drew attention to the importance of private sector business and finance as key partners in the delivery of the NDCs. Business like other stakeholders wants to play a part in the delivery of the Paris Agreement. Business and finance leaders may have little understanding or engagement with…
Choosing indicators for greater transparency
At the core of the Paris Agreement is the transparency framework, which – among other things – allows countries to hold each other accountable to delivering on national commitments. To track the progress of their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), governments will need to select appropriate indicators. Here are our main takeaways from the session’s expert…
Thursday evening: Climate Pop-Up Theatre
Performers and authors from Asia, Africa, Australia, America and Europe will bring an innovative show to the Global NDC Conference: the Climate Pop-up Theatre! Short drama pieces have been created especially for this conference, inspired by its themes and setting – although all conference participants are encouraged to replicate the show and set up a…
Implementing NDCs: How the private sector is engaging
The first day of the Global NDC Conference ended in Berlin with a powerful thunderstorm cooling an unseasonally hot day (33°C). It’s far worse in Delhi where it hit a record-breaking 48°C on 12th June. At the conference the message is clear that action on climate change has to happen now and not in the…
How are countries getting ready to implement NDCs?
The Global NDC Conference 2019 began today in Berlin, with the aim of inspiring and enabling policy-makers and practitioners to accelerate NDC implementation and climate ambition. One of the conference’s principal themes is ‘integrated governance’. This theme explores: how to work effectively to curb climate change and adapt to its effects, while achieving societies’ other…
Germany’s Environment Minister Svenja Schulze opens Global NDC Conference 2019
Germany’s Environment Minister Svenja Schulze welcomed experts from 90 countries to a “conference to generate momentum on NDCs” at an evening reception in Berlin ahead of the three-day event. Following the adoption of the Paris Agreement Rulebook in Katowice, focus has shifted from negotiation to implementation, with NDCs as a vital component. The Global NDC…
