What can COP25 deliver?
On the one hand, this 25th UN Climate Change Conference has a mainly technical agenda. On the other hand, it is set against the backdrop of ever clearer scientific evidence and real-world experience that the world needs to change its course if the goal of the Paris Agreement is to be met and global warming to be limited to as close as possible to 1.5 °C. SEI Research Fellow Cleo Verkuijl identifies key ways in which COP25 can deliver on climate ambition.
Here are some of the key tasks parties to the UNFCCC have before them at COP25.
The new Production Gap Report shows that the world is on track to produce 120% more fossil fuels than can be burned under 1.5°C warming.
Guidance for national adaptation planning needs to help Least Developed Countries assess indirect climate risks.
Data from SEI’s Aid Atlas tool highlights problems with spending funds aimed at tackling climate change. This needs urgent attention.
Multilateral development banks must work and think differently across all operations to help spur net-zero carbon transitions that are “just”.
The disconnect between global climate and sustainable development agendas is often reflected in policy incoherence at the national level fostering inequality.
