24 July 2024
The Roadmap to Mission 1.5 COP Presidencies Troika – COP28, COP29, COP30 – has issued a second letter to Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Released on 23 July 2024, the letter was signed by HE Dr. Sultan Al Jaber, COP28 President & UAE Special Envoy for Climate Change; HE Mukhtar Babayev, COP29 Incoming President & Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources, Republic of Azerbaijan; and HE Marina Silva, Minister of the Environment and Climate Change, Brazil.
This marks the second time, since their initial debut as a Presidency Troika at the Copenhagen Climate Ministerial in February, when they issued their first letter outlining their vision for a Roadmap to Mission 1.5.
This second letter, focusses on the importance of Parties submitting their next round of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) by February 2025. The Troika have expressed their commitment to fostering collaborative action to ensure that ambitions are raised to meet the 1.5 Mission in the next round of NDCs.
Recognising the importance of the next NDC iteration, the Presidencies note their commitment to “utilizing the Troika mechanism to continue fostering international collaboration, generating ideas, building ambition and catalyzing support to the Parties for designing and communicating the next generation of NDCs – due by February 2025. These NDCs must be truly transformational, mainstream climate action into broader development planning, catalyze investment for effective climate action and support the sustainable development goals.”
Earlier, on 18 July, 2024, the COP29 President-designate, HE Mukhtar Babayev in his first letter to Parties and Constituencies, had outlined the principles of COP29; the two pillars of the COP29 vision–Enhance Ambition, Enable Action; Presidency milestones; and enumerated on pathways to delivery.
These letters serve as important communication tools for the three Presidencies, asserting their collective intent in seeking to focus attention on shared priorities, galvanise momentum and raise ambition by Parties.
GLOBE notes that Parliaments have not been referenced in these Letters as key constitutional stakeholders and we remain committed to ensuring their engagement.
Towards this we are mobilising the wider parliamentary constituency in our role as the UNFCCC Focal Point for the Parliamentary Group, and initiating partnerships with key actors towards meaningful parliamentary engagement in the next round of NDCs 3.0.
