Date: 18 November 2024
Time: 12:00-13:00 AZT
Location: SPE 5-Nasimi, Amphitheatre / Zone B 188, Global Climate Action space Baku, Azerbaijan
This is a UNEP side-event of the UNFCCC COP29.
Organizer: UNEP
Description: This UNEP side event features high-level opening remarks from UNEP’s Executive Director, UNFCCC’s Executive Secretary, and the Special Adviser to the UN Secretariat General on Climate Action and Just Transition and a presentation of the key findings of the UNEP Adaptation Gap Report 2024. This is followed by a panel discussion focusing on the importance of closing the enormous adaptation finance gap, which is of relevance in the context of the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) for climate finance, to be established during COP 29 in Baku. For the first time, this year’s report also assesses opportunities for enhancing capacity-building and technology transfer to improve the effectiveness of adaptation planning and implementation, which are only making slow progress. Moreover, the report reflects progress towards several of the targets laid out in the UAE Framework for Global Climate Resilience (UAE FGCR) that was agreed at COP 28 in Dubai.
