This event covered the latest findings on the recently published State of Climate Action 2023, which offers a roadmap that the world can follow to avoid increasingly dangerous and irreversible climate impacts, while minimizing harms to biodiversity and food security. It translates the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C temperature limit into 2030 and 2050 targets across sectors that account for roughly 85% of global GHG emissions— power, buildings, industry, transport, forests and land, food and agriculture — as well as those focused on the scale-up of technological carbon removal and climate finance. The report then assesses collective global progress and highlights where action must urgently accelerate this decade to limit warming to 1.5°C.
The findings of the report was followed by a panel discussion on how the findings resonate at a country level and relate to closing the implementation and ambition gaps.
Moderator:
- Rachel Jetel, Co-Director, Systems Change Lab, World Resources Institute
Participants:
- Kelly Levin, Co-Director, Systems Change Lab, the Bezos Earth Fund
- Josefina Cobián, Program Manager, Global Intelligence, ClimateWorks Foundation
- Claire Fyson, Co-Head of the Climate Policy Team, Climate Analytics
- Joe Thwaites, Senior Advocate, International Climate FInance, NRDC
- Katie Lebling, Research Associate, Carbon Removal and Industrial Decarbonization, World Resources Institute
- Adrian Fernandez, President, Iniciativa Climática de México
- Cintya Feitosa, International Relations Advisor, Institute for Climate and Society (iCS)
- Crispin Olver, Executive Director, South Africa Presidential Climate Commission