ECO welcomes the High Ambition Coalition declaration released yesterday in a packed EU Pavilion. ECO is looking forward to these countries making strong statements in the negotiations shaping the COP decision outcome on ambition.
Argentina, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Ethiopia, EU Commission, Fiji, Finland, France, Germany, Grenada, Italy, Jamaica, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Marshall Islands, Mexico, Monaco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Saint Lucia, Spain, Sweden, UK…
Welcomes the IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C;
Notes with grave concern the significant gap between the aggregate effect of Parties’ Nationally Determined Contributions and aggregate emission pathways consistent with having a likely chance of holding the increase in global average temperature to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels;
Welcomes the Call to Action by the COP23 and COP24 Presidents from the Talanoa Dialogue;
Recalls paragraphs 23 and 24 of decision 1/CP.21 for Parties whose Nationally Determined Contribution contains a time frame up to 2025 to communicate a new Nationally Determined Contribution by 2020 and for Parties whose, Nationally Determined Contribution contains a time frame up to 2030 to communicate or update these contributions by 2020;
Invites Parties to initiate or intensify domestic preparations to review and step up their Nationally Determined Contributions, informed by the outcomes of the Talanoa Dialogue, in a manner that facilitates the clarity, transparency and understanding of the contributions and reflects the Part’y’s highest possible ambition, reflecting its common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities, in the light of different national circumstances;
Urge developed country Parties to step up their actions to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and to increase technology, finance and capacity building support to enable increased mitigation and adaptation ambition by developing country Parties, addressing any gaps in such support, and underlines the importance of achieving the goal of collectively mobilising US$100 billion annually by 2020.
Welcomes the initiative of the UN SG to convene a Summit in 2019;
Calls on Parties to participate in the Summit;
Calls on Parties that wish to participate in the Summit to demonstrate their increased ambition in action to address climate change and the provision of related support.
Invites Parties to communicate their mid-century, long-term low greenhouse gas emission development strategies in accordance with Article 4, paragraph 19 of the agreement well in advance of the twenty-sixth session of the Conference of the Parties and to use the development of these strategies to inform their Nationally Determined Contributions.
