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The United Nations is starting out a program that will involve a number of regional gatherings all across the world to expedite climate action and match climate commitments with the Paris Agreement.
“NDCs 3.0 Regional Fora” will assist nations in updating and reworking their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to reduce emissions and maintain the UN’s target of a 1.5°C global temperature increase. by 2025, countries must submit updated strategies for combating climate change.
United Nations Environment Programme, United Nations Development Programme, NDC partnership, and United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Secretariat will coordinate the regional forums. This year’s meetings are planned for Apia, Samoa; Bogota, Colombia; Istanbul, Turkey; Tunis, Tunisia; Bangkok, Thailand; and Kigali, Rwanda, according to a press release.
The United Nations Environment Programme, United Nations Development Programme, NDC partnership, and United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change secretariat will coordinate the regional forums. Meetings scheduled for this year will take place in Apia, Samoa; Bogota, Colombia; Istanbul, Turkey; Tunis, Tunisia; Bangkok, Thailand; and Kigali, Rwanda.
According to the UN, in order to suggest mitigation and adaptation strategies, its regional forums will include knowledge from both the Global Stocktake, an international evaluation of the progress achieved toward accomplishing the objectives of the Paris Agreement, and COP28. In order to meet the target set by the Paris Agreement, 22 gigatons of greenhouse gases need to be eliminated throughout the next seven years, according to the results of last year’s initial stocktake.
The regional forums are characterized by the UN as “closed-doors events, targeting government officials responsible for NDCs revisions from all countries in each region.” The purpose of the meetings is to get people talking about finance options, creating policy avenues, and exchanging implementation tactics for achieving the most effective alignment between global climate goals and pledges. As the forums would bring together leaders from various nations to review measures for reducing emissions, the UN said they will also offer a chance for “peer-learning.”