Towards COP29: Peace-Climate-Humanitarian collective action
Thursday, October 3, 2024: 12:00 - 13:30 UTC / 14:00 - 15:30 CET / 08:00 - 09:30 EST
This year, the 29th Conference of Parties (COP29) of the UNFCCC will take place in November in Baku, Azerbaijan. It will address key topics, including raising ambition for mitigation and adaptation through Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) and long-term low greenhouse gas emission development strategies. Parties will work towards enabling action with the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) and other means of implementation, as well as advancing the loss and damage through fully operationalizing both the Loss and Damage Fund and the Santiago Network. The COP29 Presidency agenda will also include a thematic day on Peace, Relief and Recovery on 15 November.
Commitment #5 of the Climate and Environment Charter for Humanitarian Organizations encourages humanitarian organizations to work collaboratively across the humanitarian sector, and beyond, to strengthen climate and environmental action. Commitment #6 of the Charter calls on organisations to use our influence to mobilize urgent and more ambitious climate action and environment protection. Thus, COP29 offers a unique opportunity for actors across the humanitarian, climate/environment and peacebuilding sectors to come together and advocate for ambitious and concrete action.
Follow-up from the webinar:
Find further links shared with participants during the webinar, so that Charter Signatories and humanitarian actors can engage and contribute to the initiatives mentioned:
Join the ECCP Policy Group or if you have any questions about peacebuilding initiatives – please write to Thomas Reeves from Oxfam (treeve1@oxfam.org.uk) and Harriet Mackaill from International Alert (hmhill@international-alert.org)
Advisory Group on Human Mobility and COP29 key messages: if you are interested in learning more about the key messages on human mobility and the advisory group, you can contact Alice Baillat from IDMC (baillat@idmc.ch)
Harriet Mackaill-Hill, Climate and Peace Advocacy Advisor, International Alert/Co-chair of the COP policy group with the the Environment, Climate, Conflict and Peace (ECCP) community of practice
Jacobo Ocharan, Head of Political Strategies, Climate Action Network International (CAN-I)
Kirsten Hagon, Co-Chair, The Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Sub-group on Climate Policy and Diplomacy team lead, the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
Alice Baillat, Policy Advisor, Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) and Coordinator of the Advisory Group on Climate Change and Human Mobility
Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy (AGDA) and ODI, Launch of the new Coordination Mechanism to support implementation of the COP28 Declaration on Climate, Relief, Recovery and Peace, June 2024