The June United Nations Climate Meetings, formally called the 60th sessions of the Subsidiary Bodies (SB60), get underway next Monday, the 3rd of June, at the UN Climate Change headquarters, in Bonn, Germany.
The meetings are expected to take stock of the implementation of COP28 decisions, held last year in Dubai.
The meetings also present an opportunity to prepare for decisions to be adopted at the next COP29, to be held in Baku, Azerbaijan, in November this year.
Simon Stiell, UN Climate Change Executive Secretary, is expected to give an opening speech on Monday 3 June at the opening plenary (scheduled to start at 10:00 CET), to set the scene for the June UN Climate Meetings.
Some 6,000 participants are expected to attend from National delegates and civil society representatives.
They will focus on critical issues such as climate finance, advancing progress on the next round of national climate action plans (Nationally Determined Contributions, NDCs), the timely submission of countries’ first Biennial Transparency Reports, work on National Adaptation Plans, and accelerating climate action through a just transition, and more.
In a statement, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) said it is ready to host High-Level Champions, and its secretariat is organizing a series of events to explore how businesses, cities, regions, Indigenous Peoples and civil society are working alongside governments to progress ambitious climate action ahead of COP29.
The198 – member organization, UNFCCC, is instrumental in getting Governments to keep a global average temperature rise this century of well below 2 degrees Celsius and to drive efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
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