What we need from the Global Stocktake – Insights from the latest UNEP Emissions Gap Report and UNFCCC NDC Synthesis Report

Date: 5 December 2023

Time: 10.00 – 11.00 GST

Location: Action Arena 2 (Al Wakri), COP28, Blue Zone, Expo City, Dubai, UAE

Livestreaming link forthcoming. 

Description: 

This joint UNFCCC and UNEP event features high-level opening remarks from UNEP Executive Director and UNFCCC Executive Secretary and a presentation of the key findings of the UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2023. This is followed by a panel discussion on what we need from the Global Stocktake, and how we can we speed up climate action and implementation this decade.

The event draws on two recent UNEP and UNFCCC reports that both aim to inform the concluding discussions of the first global stocktake under the Paris Agreement:

• The UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2023: Broken Record – Temperatures hit new highs, yet world fails to cut emissions (again): The 14^th edition of UNEP’s Emissions Gap Report provides an updated assessment of the gap between where we are heading in terms of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and where we need to be in 2030 and in 2035 to get on track towards the temperature goal of the Paris Agreement of limiting global warming to well below 2 degrees above pre-industrial levels, preferable 1.5 degrees. This year’s report focuses on what we need from the global stocktake. It also features a deep dive on energy transitions in low- and middle-income countries, and looks at the role of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) in achieving the Paris Agreement temperature goal.
• The UNFCCC 2023 NDC synthesis report synthesizes information from the 168 latest available nationally determined contributions communicated by 195 Parties to the Paris Agreement and recorded in the registry of nationally determined contributions as at 25 September 2023. The report provides a comprehensive picture of global climate action today, and a synthesis of the global response to climate change on all aspects of the Paris Agreement.

Discover full list of UNEP activities at COP28.