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Address To The Opening Plenary Of The UN June Climate Meetings, Sixty-Second Session Of The Subsidiary Bodies (SB62)
Monday, 16 June 2025, 8:56 pm | UNFCCC
Even if imperfect, even if no country gets everything it wants, this is human solidarity in action, with real-life benefits for billions of people. More >>
Key Rules Agreed For Credible Climate Project Crediting Under UN Carbon Market
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 5:55 pm | UNFCCC
Known as the Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism (PACM), it enables countries and other actors to work together on reducing greenhouse gas emissions by generating high-integrity carbon credits that support global efforts to fight climate change. More >>
Executive Secretary Simon Stiell’s UN Climate Change Speech At The 2025 Nature Summit Panamá City, Panamá
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 5:01 pm | UNFCCC
We simply cannot afford a two-speed transition, where some countries race ahead with clean energy and climate resilience and leave others behind. Because a supply chain is only as strong as its most fragile link. More >>
UN Climate Chief: Clean Energy Shift Is Now Unstoppable; Finance Roadmap, Adaptation, Just Transition Are Key
Friday, 7 February 2025, 7:26 pm | UNFCCC
Indeed, without UN-convened global climate cooperation – with its origins here in Brazil in 1992 – we would be headed towards up to 5 degrees Celsius of global heating – a death sentence for humanity as we know it. More >>
UN Secretary-General's Remarks To The G20 Session On Sustainable Development And Energy Transition
Saturday, 30 November 2024, 10:59 pm | UNFCCC
Every country’s new plans must align with 1.5-degrees – with unambiguous, absolute emissions reduction targets for 2030 and 2035. More >>
COP29 Closing Statement Of UN Secretary-General António Guterres
Sunday, 24 November 2024, 3:26 pm | UNFCCC
I had hoped for a more ambitious outcome – on both finance and mitigation – to meet the great challenge we face. But this agreement provides a base on which to build. More >>
COP29 UN Climate Conference Agrees To Triple Public Finance To Developing Countries, Protecting Lives And Livelihoods
Sunday, 24 November 2024, 3:24 pm | UNFCCC
UN Climate Change News, 24 November 2024 – The UN Climate Change Conference (COP29) closed today with a new finance goal to help countries to protect their people and economies against climate disasters, and share in the vast benefits of the clean ... More >>
UN Climate Chief At COP29 Closing: "New Finance Goal Is An Insurance Policy For Humanity"
Sunday, 24 November 2024, 3:22 pm | UNFCCC
Executive Secretary Simon Stiell UN Climate Change Delivered remarks to the COP29 Closing Plenary Baku, Azerbaijan, 24 November Excellencies, Delegates, Colleagues, Friends, I want to start by thanking the Presidency for all they have done to enable ... More >>
UN Secretary-General Remarks To The Press At COP29
Friday, 22 November 2024, 2:21 pm | UNFCCC
To deliver an ambitious and balanced package on all pending issues, with a new finance goal at its heart. Failure is not an option. More >>
UN Climate Chief: Climate Finance Is Core Business To Save The Global Economy And Billions Of Lives
Sunday, 20 October 2024, 6:10 pm | UNFCCC
COP29 must be the stand-and-deliver COP, recognising that climate finance is core business to save the global economy and billions of lives and livelihoods from rampaging climate impacts. More >>
UN Climate Chief: From "An Epidemic Of Underinvestment” In Africa To "Unlocking A Goldmine Of Human & Economic Benefits"
Tuesday, 24 September 2024, 8:48 pm | UNFCCC
An Africa ascending, an Africa empowered to take bolder climate actions is in every nation's interests. More >>
June Climate Meetings Take Modest Steps Forward; Steep Mountain Still To Climb Ahead Of COP29
Saturday, 15 June 2024, 3:47 am | UNFCCC
The Bonn Climate Change Conference concluded after two weeks of intensive work across a range of issues where progress is needed on the path to the UN Climate Change Conference (COP29) this November in Baku, Azerbaijan. More >>
UN Climate Change Exec Sec Speech: A Very Steep Mountain To Climb For Ambitious Outcomes At COP29
Saturday, 15 June 2024, 3:31 am | UNFCCC
We must uphold the science. And one thing is absolutely clear - success requires getting more serious about bridging divides and moving quickly from streamlining to specifics. More >>
UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell Speech On The Enhanced Transparency Framework
Tuesday, 11 June 2024, 6:35 pm | UNFCCC
We need a paradigm shift on climate transparency. We should not see reporting as a burden, but as an incredible opportunity -to learn from the data and to design more effective policies. To direct resources where they’re needed most. And to ... More >>
UN Body Adopts Historic Human Rights Protections For Carbon Market Mechanism
Saturday, 4 May 2024, 4:55 am | UNFCCC
The Appeals and Grievances Procedure has immediately come into effect, marking a significant milestone in the operationalization of the Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism. More >>
UN Climate Change Partners With Global Visual Arts Sector To Increase Climate Action
Saturday, 20 April 2024, 7:03 am | UNFCCC
The Charter will become the visual arts pillar of UN Climate Change’s Entertainment & Culture for Climate Action alliance, which aims at accelerating the transition of arts, film, music, and other relevant sectors to reduced greenhouse gas emissions ... More >>
Simon Stiell (Executive Secretary, UN Climate Change) Address To Chatham House: Two Years To Save The World
Thursday, 11 April 2024, 10:42 am | UNFCCC
As of today, national climate plans - called Nationally Determined Contributions or NDCs - in aggregate will barely cut emissions at all by 2030. More >>
Executive Secretary Simon Stiell, UN Climate Change: Speech At Opening Segment Of Copenhagen Climate Ministerial, 21 Mar
Friday, 22 March 2024, 5:05 am | UNFCCC
"This year we meet under the shadow of the WMO’s report showing the latest temperature increases that have been off the charts." More >>
UN Body Steps Up Pace To Implement Vital Carbon Crediting Mechanism
Saturday, 2 March 2024, 2:18 pm | UNFCCC
The United Nations Body charged with implementing a new carbon crediting mechanism under the Paris Agreement has expedited plans for action at their first meeting since COP28. The Supervisory Body of the Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism took a firm ... More >>
Challenge Launched At COP28 To Harness Artificial Intelligence For Climate Action In Developing Countries
Sunday, 10 December 2023, 7:40 am | UNFCCC
The UN Climate Change Technology Executive Committee (TEC), together with Enterprise Neurosystem , a non-profit open-source artificial intelligence (AI) community, has launched the AI Innovation Grand Challenge to identify and support the development ... More >>
