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Global Climate Action for Sustainable Goal UN Climate Change

Global Climate Action for Sustainable Goal UN Climate Change

Global Climate Action for Sustainable Goals UN Climate Change

Global Climate Action for sustainable goals UN Climate Change: At the United Nations Climate Change conference in Paris, COP 21, governments agreed that mobilizing stronger and more ambitious climate action is urgently required to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement. Action must come from governments, cities, regions, businesses and investors. Everyone has a role to play in effectively implementing the Paris Agreement.

The Paris Agreement formally acknowledges the urgent need to scale up our global response to climate change, which supports even greater ambition from governments. The decision text of the Paris Agreement recognizes the commitments from all actors, including those launched through the Lima–Paris Action Agenda.

In recognition of the need for catalyzing stronger and more ambitious climate action by non-Party stakeholders, and mobilizing all levels of society, there are different channels through which non-Party stakeholders can engage in the UNFCCC process and contribute to the effective implementation of the Paris Agreement.

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Intergovernmental negotiation process

UNFCCC sessions are not open to the public. Only the representatives nominated by organizations duly admitted by the COP can attend the UNFCCC conferences as observer representatives. Information on how to obtain observer status and ways to engage in the intergovernmental negotiation process is available here.

 

 

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Marrakech Partnership and High Level Champions

Under the leadership of the High-Level Champions, the Marrakech Partnership for Global Climate Action supports implementation of the Paris Agreement by enabling collaboration between governments and the cities, regions, businesses and investors that must act on climate change.

 

 

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Global Climate Action Awards

The UN Global Climate Action Awards recognize innovative and transformative solutions that address both climate change and wider economic, social and environmental challenges.

 

 

Empowerment

The Action Empowerment Unit supports the intergovernmental work on gender and climate change, Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE), and children and youth under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement.

Action for Climate Empowerment & Children and Youth

Action for Climate Empowerment

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Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE) refers to efforts related to implementing Article 6 of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, and Article 12 of the Paris Agreement. The overarching goal of ACE is to empower all members of society to engage in climate action, through the six ACE elements: climate change education and public awareness, training, public participation, public access to information, and international cooperation on these matters. ACE plays a key role in enabling the changes in systems, attitudes, and behaviors needed to foster low-emission, climate-resilient, and sustainable development. Due to its close linkages with the six elements, children and youth is a cross-cutting focus under the ACE agenda.

Children and Youth
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Parties to the UNFCCC have recognized the importance of youth as agents of change in addressing and responding to climate change and have called for the meaningful inclusion of youth within Parties’ delegations and in climate policy design and implementation processes. Meaningful participation of children and youth in climate policy and action is essential for fair, inclusive, and ambitious climate action under the Paris Agreement and the Convention at all levels.

Gender and Climate Change

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Parties to the UNFCCC have recognized the importance of gender mainstreaming through targets and goals in activities under the Convention and Paris Agreement as an important contribution to increasing their effectiveness, fairness and sustainability and that the full, meaningful and equal participation and leadership of women in all aspects of the UNFCCC process and in national- and local-level climate policy and action is vital for achieving the long-term climate goal.

Tracking & Recognition

Understanding the current state of climate action by all stakeholders is crucial in identifying gaps and strengthening global efforts to combat climate change. These could be pursued by promoting transparency of the progress of all actors engaging in climate action through monitoring, evaluating, and acknowledging voluntary climate initiatives. The Global Climate Action Portal plays a central role in presenting these voluntary actions and tracking their progress, whereas the work under the Recognition and Accountability Framework aims to enhance the accountability of non-Party stakeholder’s climate action, especially on net zero commitments.

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Global Climate Action Portal (GCAP)

The Global Climate Action Portal (also known as NAZCA: Non-State Actor Zone for Climate Action) is an online platform launched in 2014, that showcases climate commitments and progress that are taking place around the globe by countries, regions, cities, companies, investors and other organizations.

 

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Recognition and Accountability Framework

The Framework’s main objective is to set out the principles of engagement, governance, and data management to recognize net zero leadership and ensure greater accountability for climate actions by ‘non-state ’actors – that is, by businesses, investors, and city and regional governments.

 

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Climate Neutral Now

The Climate Neutral Now Initiative is one of several initiatives launched by the UNFCCC secretariat to increase climate action by engaging non-Party stakeholders (sub-national governments, companies, organizations, individuals).

 

 

 

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