Скачать или смотреть The Paris Agreement’s “Report Card”: How the Global Stocktake Can Raise Global Ambition

On September 22, EDF and the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions jointly hosted an event on the Global Stocktake (GST) at NY Climate Week.

Speakers:
Kaveh Guilanpour (moderator), Vice President for International Strategies at the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions
Angela Churie Kallhauge, Executive Vice President for Impact, Environmental Defense Fund
Cassie Flynn, Strategic Advisor on Climate Change, United Nations Development Programme
Frances Way, Executive Director, High-Level Climate Champions team
Kate Larsen, Partner, Rhodium Group
Marcelo Mena, Chief Executive Officer, Global Methane Hub
Sebastian Oberthür, Professor, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and University of Eastern Finland

Due to technical issues, Angela Churie Kallhauge’s remarks were not captured in the recording. We’re including the full text of her remarks here:

Thanks, Kaveh. I also want to thank everyone for joining us at EDF’s headquarters in New York City as well as those of you joining online from around the world. I recently joined EDF as the Head of Impact. In this role, I lead the organization’s efforts to identify and promote ambitious climate solutions with equitable benefits to people around the world. As part of this role, I also oversee EDF’s strategy around multilateral climate negotiations, including the Global Stocktake process.

The Global Stocktake is a process that requires countries to assess the collective progress made toward achieving the Paris Agreement’s long-term goals on climate mitigation, adaptation, and finance. It is a key part of the agreement’s ratchet mechanism.

The first Stocktake is underway and will conclude next year at COP28. The outcome is meant to inform countries next NDCs, due to the UN climate agency in 2025. The result of this process, if done right – meaning if it’s informed by the latest scientific findings and taken seriously by countries as part of their commitments as signatories of the Paris Agreement – can provide countries with the impetus and information to more effectively implement and increase the ambition of their nationally determined contributions (NDCs).

As the IPCC’s WGIII report reminded us earlier this year in detailed but stark terms, the world is far off track from meeting the Paris Agreement goals and from averting climate disaster. We need to reduce emissions by nearly half by 2030 in order to limit warming to 1.5C with no or limited overshoot.1 Instead emissions continue to rise. But importantly, the WGIII report focused on pathways and solutions that can be implemented this decade to get us back on track. The message was clear: we need to act fast.

This is where the Global Stocktake can play a key role. The process will allow countries to see the gap between where they are now and where they need to be in terms of their own NDCs. But more importantly, it will allow countries to see how to get there, highlighting near-term solutions available today that could have deep climate impacts. With the right policies to deploy these solutions this decade, the world might have a chance at fulfilling the promises made in Paris seven years ago.

One of the reasons we are having this event today is to discuss the need to make the Global Stocktake process as impactful as possible and discuss some – but certainly not all – of the high-value mitigation opportunities that countries should be thinking about as they engage in this process and consider their next NDCs.

But first, countries must take the process seriously. For it to be successful, the Global Stocktake needs to be more than a box that countries can check as part of their Paris Agreement commitment.

Last year EDF and C2ES launched a partnership to help shape the Global Stocktake process and identify key opportunities with high mitigation potential available to countries. We are working with experts from around the world to help countries distill the signals from the IPCC and other research bodies into impactful, readily available solutions to reduce emissions and drive collective ambition toward meeting the Paris Agreement goals. You’ll hear more about this project later in the meeting.

But now, without further ado, I’ll pass it back to Kaveh to get us started.