We would like to thank you, Co-Facilitators, for your exemplary efforts in conducting the third part of this first Technical Dialogue, an essential component of the Technical Assessment phase of the First Global Stocktake. We would also like to thank the secretariat for their hard work in supporting the Technical Dialogue, and all the experts, visual artists, and other non-Party stakeholders who generously shared their time and expertise with the Parties during the Technical Dialogue.
We have listened carefully and interacted intensively with the experts, other Parties, and non-Party stakeholders over the course of this Technical Dialogue. We have raised our views and perspectives both as a Group and through our various constituency groups and individual Parties.
As we now move from the technical assessment phase through the Technical Dialogue towards the political phase under the Joint Contact Group, we wish to highlight the following issues that fully resonate with our lived experiences and aspirations as developing countries and which should be reflected in the Co-Facilitators’ synthesis report of the Technical Dialogue:
- The principle of equity and recognition of the best available science are foundations for the robustness of our findings
- The development context and national circumstances of Parties determine the manner and conditions in which enhanced climate action and international cooperation are undertaken, highlighting the need for policy space, recognition of developing countries’ sustainable development and poverty eradication imperatives, and provision of the enabling means of implementation and support for their climate actions
- The GST’s backward looking and forward-looking elements are both important and integrally and holistically linked, and the GST’s outcomes should reflect this linkage.
Equity and the best available science are key to achieving the long-term global goal. Historical emissions are unequal. The impacts and risks associated with warming are also unevenly distributed. Parties have common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities in light of their national circumstances to contribute to achieving the Paris Agreement’s goals. But many, especially in developing countries, are constrained by structural inequalities and the rapid depletion of the remaining limited carbon budget.
The scientific findings highlighted during the Technical Dialogue form the basis for findings that highlight the need for urgent enhanced actions in relation to mitigation, adaptation, response measures, and loss and damage and the provision of the means of implementation to undertake such actions. Such findings include, but are not limited to, those with respect to historic cumulative emissions; the common but differentiated responsibility for such emissions; the uneven distribution of the adverse effects of climate change; and the gaps identified in terms of mitigation and adaptation action and in the provision of adaptation support and the means of implementation to developing countries.
Equity in substance implies that climate finance and technology transfer at the scale, scope and speed needed by developing countries must be provided by developed countries based on the provisions of the Convention and the Paris Agreement to support and enable just transitions to climate resilience and sustainable development in developing countries in a manner that ensures energy access, energy security, food security, sustainable livelihoods, poverty eradication, and increased economic opportunities for all. These should be in addition to rapid and deep economy-wide emission reductions in developed countries within this decade.
Thank you.