Action, cooperation, and delivery are the focus of Day Zero at the United Nations climate meeting
Delegations meet with the COP30 Presidency in a gathering that sets the tone for climate negotiations leading to COP30
Today, Ambassador André Corrêa do Lago, COP30 President, formally initiated negotiations at the 62nd session of the Subsidiary Bodies of the UNFCCC (SB62) with a clear call to action, cooperation and delivery.
During "Zero Day," an informal preliminary session held before the official opening of the technical discussions, Ambassador Corrêa do Lago and COP29 President Mukhtar Babayev of Azerbaijan presented three strategic questions to encourage reflection among the delegations. The goal is to strengthen climate multilateralism and achieve concrete results before COP30 in Belém, the Brazilian Amazônia, in November.
The questions challenge countries to consider how they can contribute to:
- Strengthening the multilateral climate regime from now through COP30 and beyond.
- Advancing unresolved issues from COP29, such as the implementation of the Global Stocktake (GST) outcomes – which assesses progress based on the Paris Agreement signed ten years ago – and the Just Transition Work Programme (Programa de Trabalho sobre Transição Justa/JTWP).
- Overcoming the impasses in defining indicators for the Global Goal on Adaptation (Meta Global de Adaptação/GGA) within the UAE–Belém Work Programme framework.
SB62 constitutes the UN Climate Convention’s crucial mid-year sessions. Over two weeks, delegates from nearly 200 nations convene to advance technical details and prepare political decisions for the upcoming COP in Belém. This period is dedicated to negotiators discussing, refining texts, and seeking to forge consensus on essential topics such as adaptation, climate finance, just transition, and the implementation of the Paris Agreement.
Throughout the afternoon in Bonn, the meeting room exuded an atmosphere of engagement and shared responsibility. Delegations now embark on two intense weeks of work across key topics, including adaptation, just transition, climate finance, agriculture, technology, gender, and climate.
“The objective is clear: to make COP30 the COP of implementation, of inclusion, of real practices, of collective effort,” stated the COP30 president. Belém awaits the world with solutions. The COP30 website team will be following the debates live from Bonn.
English Version: Trad. Bárbara Menezes
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