What we need from the Global Stocktake – Insights from the latest UNEP Emissions Gap Report and UNFCCC NDC Synthesis Report

This joint UNFCCC and UNEP event features high-level opening remarks from UNEPs Executive Director and UNFCCCs Executive Secretary and a presentation of the key findings of the UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2023. This is followed by a panel discussion on what we need from the Global Stocktake, and how we can we speed up climate action and implementation this decade.

The event draws on two recent UNEP and UNFCCC reports that both aim to inform the concluding discussions of the first global stocktake under the Paris Agreement:

• The UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2023: Broken Record – Temperatures hit new highs, yet world fails to cut emissions (again): The 14^th edition of UNEP’s Emissions Gap Report provides an updated assessment of the gap between where we are heading in terms of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and where we need to be in 2030 and in 2035 to get on track towards the temperature goal of the Paris Agreement of limiting global warming to well below 2 degrees above pre-industrial levels, preferable 1.5 degrees. This year’s report focuses on what we need from the global stocktake. It also features a deep dive on energy transitions in low- and middle-income countries, and looks at the role of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) in achieving the Paris Agreement temperature goal.
• The UNFCCC 2023 NDC synthesis report synthesizes information from the 168 latest available nationally determined contributions communicated by 195 Parties to the Paris Agreement and recorded in the registry of nationally determined contributions as at 25 September 2023. The report provides a comprehensive picture of global climate action today, and a synthesis of the global response to climate change on all aspects of the Paris Agreement.

Agenda:

Panel I: High-level remarks and presentation of the key findings of the Emissions Gap Report

• Ms. Inger Andersen, Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
• Mr. Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
• Ms. Anne Olhoff, Chief Scientific Editor of the Emissions Gap Report 2023, CONCITO – Denmark’s Green Think Tank

Moderator: Mirey Atallah, Head of Nature for Climate Branch, Ecosystems Division, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Panel II:

• Ms. Inger Andersen, Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
• Mr. Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
• Ms. Minal Pathak, Lead Author of the Emissions Gap Report 2023, University of Ahmedabad
• Mr. Yacob Mulugetta, Lead Author of the Emissions Gap Report 2023, University College London
• Ms. Lornaliza Kogler, Team Lead, Information Unit, Transparency Division, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
• Mr. Joeri Rogelj, Lead Author of the Emissions Gap Report 2023, Imperial College London
• Mr. Oliver Geden, Lead Author of the Emissions Gap Report 2023, German Institute for International and Security Affairs
• Ms. Anne Olhoff, Chief Scientific Editor of the Emissions Gap Report 2023, CONCITO – Denmark’s Green Think Tank

Moderator: Niklas Höhne, Lead author of the Emissions Gap Reports, Founding partner of NewClimate Institute