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2024年11月15日
能源与和平是 COP29 第五天的重点 – 能源/和平、救济和恢复日
COP29 主席国正式启动 COP29 能源倡议，呼吁认可 COP29 全球储能和电网承诺、COP29 绿色能源区和走廊承诺以及 COP29 氢能宣言
COP29 主席国通过巴库气候行动呼吁和平、救济和恢复以及建立巴库气候与和平行动中心，解决气候变化、冲突和人道主义需求之间的关键联系
2024 年 11 月 15 日，巴库： 今天，在 COP29 上，来自私营和公共部门以及民间社会的代表和代表齐聚一堂，支持以能源与和平、救济和恢复为中心的倡议和行动。这些承诺与 COP29 提高雄心和促进行动的愿景相一致，为我们衡量进展、发出强烈的市场信号以指导资金流动以及培养社会各界的共同责任感和紧迫感奠定了坚实的基础。
能源计划侧重于绿色能源、氢能和全球储能
在主持绿色能源、氢能和全球储能和电网高级别圆桌会议的同时，COP29 主席国正式启动了三项能源倡议，并呼吁缔约方和非缔约方利益相关者对每项倡议表示认可。这些举措反映了总统府为推进首次全球可再生能源和氢能盘点成果所做的努力。这些举措包括：
COP29 全球储能和电网承诺 – 支持者承诺实现到 2030 年全球部署 1,500 GW 储能的集体目标，是 2022 年容量的六倍多。它还包括承诺到 2030 年在全球范围内增加或翻新 2500 万公里的电网，并认识到到 2040 年需要增加或翻新 6500 万公里。
COP29 绿色能源承诺：绿色能源区和走廊 – 支持者承诺在绿色能源区和走廊中推广，通过开发更大的区域内和区域间互连电网，将丰富的绿色能源发电资源与最需要的社区连接起来。这些电网将实现经济高效且安全的长距离输电。
COP29 氢能宣言 – 支持者承诺扩大可再生、清洁/零排放和低碳氢的生产，并加速从未减排的化石燃料中现有氢气生产的脱碳。它的目标是将绿色氢气产量从目前的每年 100 万吨大幅增加，并减少目前由未减排的化石燃料生产的 96 公吨氢气。
当被问及这些举措时，国际能源署 （IEA） 执行董事 Fatih Birol 表示：“随着世界迅速进入电力时代，国际能源署的分析非常清楚地表明，为了实现能源和气候目标，包括在十年内将全球可再生能源发电容量增加两倍，同时加强能源安全，各国需要迅速增加储能，并扩大和升级其电网。COP29 全球储能和电网承诺以 IEA 的工作为依据，标志着向前迈出了重要一步。我们敦促世界各国政府在努力建立更安全、更实惠和更可持续的能源系统时，将储能和弹性电网作为关键优先事项。
国际可再生能源署 （IRENA） 总干事 Francesco La Camera 评论道：“COP29 能源倡议对于保持 1.5°C 的窗口敞开至关重要。在 COP28 上，世界领导人承诺实现到 2030 年将可再生能源装机容量增加两倍的全球目标。实现这一目标不仅需要扩大发电规模，还需要克服与将可再生能源并入电网相关的挑战。存储解决方案、电网扩展和大量投资是关键的推动因素。作为跟踪可再生能源三倍进展的监管机构，我们 IRENA 相信，各国对当今举措的认可和实施将成为推进与《巴黎协定》目标一致的能源转型的关键。
呼吁采取行动，实现和平、救济和恢复
总统府与埃及、意大利、德国、乌干达、阿拉伯联合酋长国和英国合作，发起了“巴库呼吁气候行动促进和平、救济和恢复”，这是一项具有里程碑意义的倡议，旨在解决气候变化、冲突和人道主义需求的紧迫关系。这是对人们日益认识到气候变化的不利影响（如水资源短缺、粮食不安全、土地退化、流离失所和生计中断）可能成为冲突和不稳定催化剂的回应，尤其是在脆弱地区。
巴库呼吁是在题为“气候与和平：促成联合行动，不让任何人掉队”的高级别小组会议上发起的，以开启 COP29 和平、救济和恢复日，该小组汇集了来自全球北方和南方的部长和政府特使，以制定一项战略，以加强预防气候引发的冲突，并支持具有高度人道主义需求的气候和冲突脆弱国家。
巴库呼吁以前几届 COP 主席国倡导的气候与和平倡议为基础，并建立了巴库气候与和平行动中心，这是一个旨在促进国家、区域和国际和平与气候倡议之间合作的合作平台。该中心将与正在进行的和平与气候工作协同工作，包括 CRSP、CRRP、气候促进和平倡议 （C4P） 和非洲马泰计划的气候维度等。
COP 休战呼吁
COP 休战呼吁今天公布，象征着合作与和平作为全球气候行动不可或缺的组成部分的作用。132 个国家加入了该呼吁，该呼吁得到了 1000 多个国际机构、私营部门代表、民间社会组织和有影响力的公众人物的支持。他们的支持反映了一种强有力的集体认识，即实现气候正义和建设和平从根本上说是相互关联的目标。
加速脱碳的对接
联合国工业发展组织 （UNIDO） 和气候俱乐部今天还正式启动了工业脱碳全球对接平台 （GMP），该平台致力于在主要捐助方和合作伙伴组织在场的情况下加速重排放行业的脱碳。
作为同类平台中唯一一个专门专注于工业部门脱碳的平台，GMP 向所有新兴和发展中经济体开放，并将国家的具体需求与全球技术和财政援助联系起来，以减少能源和排放密集型工业部门的排放。联合国工业发展组织和气候俱乐部现在正在接受各国的正式项目和计划申请，以及机构和捐助者有意成为网络合作伙伴的意向书。
在中亚地区开展可再生能源合作
今天，IRENA 和阿塞拜疆能源部长正式启动了中亚可再生能源加速伙伴关系 （APRECA），这是中亚国家之间的区域合作框架，旨在加快投资并加强区域间联系，最终加速可再生能源部署和贸易，促进绿色工业化并最大限度地提高该地区的社会经济效益。该合作伙伴关系已向哈萨克斯坦、吉尔吉斯共和国、塔吉克斯坦、土库曼斯坦和乌兹别克斯坦的能源部长提出。该公告拉开了 COP29 为期两天的投资论坛的序幕，该论坛的重点是中亚的能源转型投资和金融。
金融界支持可再生氢项目
国际和国家发展金融机构的代表承诺集体支持 10 GW 灯塔倡议。该协议旨在促进合作，争取到 2030 年将新兴市场和发展中国家 （EMDC） 规模在 100 MW 至 1 GW 之间的可再生氢能项目纳入最终投资决策 （FID） 阶段。10 GW 灯塔倡议是对以 COP 为中心的“突破议程”的贡献，该议程召集倡议和国家加强国际合作，以使包括氢在内的清洁技术和可持续解决方案成为到 2030 年关键行业和所有地区最实惠、最容易获得和最具吸引力的选择。
2024年11月14日
价值 10 万亿美元的资产所有者在 COP29 第四天 - 金融、投资和贸易日承诺采取气候行动
来自商界、金融界和慈善界的领导人，包括资产总额达 10 万亿美元的投资者，今天在 COP29 商业、投资和慈善气候平台 （BIPCP） 上宣布，他们将首次联合起来，加速将私人资本部署到气候市场
亚洲开发银行宣布为新项目提供 35 亿美元资金，以帮助应对冰川融化的影响
到 2030 年，阿塞拜疆银行业将向绿色项目拨款 12 亿美元
瑞典宣布向联合国绿色气候基金捐款 7.3 亿美元
COP29 主席国汇集了联合国贸易和发展会议 （UNCTAD）、联合国开发计划署 （UNDP）、世贸组织 （WTO）、国际贸易中心 （ITC）、前任和未来的 COP 主席国、多边开发银行和多边气候基金，共同发起了巴库气候融资、投资和贸易倡议 （BICFIT） 对话
在 COP 开幕日，第 6 条和 NCQG 取得了重大进展。在谈判之外，COP29 主席国正在为其他参与者提供平台，让他们站出来做出贡献。在金融、投资和贸易日，来自私营部门、多边开发银行和慈善组织、气候基金、国际组织和民间社会的代表齐聚一堂，共同努力为切实的气候行动提供资金。
COP29 邀请商业、投资和慈善气候平台 （BIPCP） 的商业领袖参加
COP29 商业、投资和慈善气候平台 （BIPCP） 今天举行，召集了 1,000 多名商业、金融和慈善领袖，讨论私营部门在应对气候变化方面需要发挥的积极作用。此次活动的亮点是资产超过 10 万亿美元的投资者团体宣布，他们将联合起来制定共同的愿景和行动计划，以加速私人资本向气候市场的部署。有关更多信息，请参见此处。
该活动由 COP29 主席国和联合国气候变化高级别倡导者 Nigar Arpadarai 主办，与阿塞拜疆共和国经济部和阿塞拜疆共和国出口和投资促进局 （AZPROMO） 合作。Arpadarai 女士强调了为私营部门培育包容性生态系统以支持气候议程的重要性，她表示：“我们需要为企业创建一个生态系统，使气候变化议程不仅雄心勃勃和强制性，而且实用且可实现。这样的系统应该涵盖发达国家的不少公司，并且必须超越通常的嫌疑人。
该活动的进一步合作伙伴包括AVPN，比尔和梅琳达·盖茨基金会，国际金融公司，马拉喀什伙伴关系，可持续市场倡议，WBCSD，世界经济论坛和XPRIZE。
亚洲开发银行宣布一项新计划，以帮助应对冰川融化的影响
亚洲开发银行（亚行）今天启动了一项新的区域计划，旨在促进中亚、南高加索和巴基斯坦在冰川融化的灾难性影响下的可持续用水和粮食安全。
在绿色气候基金 （GCF） 的支持下，亚行将在阿塞拜疆、吉尔吉斯共和国、塔吉克斯坦和乌兹别克斯坦开展冰川风险评估。
这些资金将构成该计划的科学和技术基础，该计划名为“从冰川到农场”（Glaciers to Farms），该计划设想从包括亚行、绿色气候基金、其他发展伙伴和私营部门在内的一系列参与者那里筹集高达 35 亿美元的资金，但须经这些机构的董事会批准程序。除了水和农业投资外，该计划还将支持受冰川融化威胁的脆弱社区，特别是在脆弱的山区。
阿塞拜疆银行业宣布承诺开展绿色项目
阿塞拜疆银行协会主席 Zakir Nuriyev 先生代表阿塞拜疆银行业宣布了一项承诺的细节，该承诺将拨款 12 亿美元用于阿塞拜疆的绿色和可持续项目发展，直到 2030 年。这些资金将支持有助于阿塞拜疆向低碳经济转型的项目。在此之前，阿塞拜疆中央银行推出了新的绿色分类法来指导可持续投资。
瑞典为保护低收入和中等收入社会免受气候变化的影响做出贡献
瑞典已宣布向联合国绿色气候基金 （GCF） 捐款 7.3 亿美元。这将支持低收入和中等收入国家投资于适应措施，以保护其社会免受气候变化的影响，还将支持对气候倡议的投资以减少排放。这使得瑞典在本周早些时候向损失和损害基金捐款 1900 万欧元后，在 COP29 上的总捐款达到 7.49 亿美元。
支持巴库气候融资、投资和贸易对话倡议
过去、现在和未来的 COP 主席国今天批准了 COP29 巴库气候融资、投资和贸易倡议 （BICFIT） 对话。在创建 BICFIT 的过程中，COP29 主席国还将联合国贸易和发展会议 （UNCTAD）、联合国开发计划署 （UNDP）、世界贸易组织 （WTO）、国际贸易中心 （ITC）、多边开发银行和多边气候基金聚集在一起。
BICFIT 将通过确保前届和未来 COP 之间的讨论、行动和倡议的一致性、连续性和交付性，确保金融、投资和贸易处于气候变化议程的中心，以支持 UNFCCC 和巴黎协定。
BICFIT 对话将纳入现有的全球倡议，例如格拉斯哥净零金融联盟 （GFANZ）、气候行动财政部长联盟、气候贸易部长联盟、气候外国直接投资联盟和新发起的巴库中小企业绿色转型全球联盟，以使气候融资、投资和贸易与可持续发展优先事项保持一致。
COP29 主席穆赫塔尔·巴巴耶夫 （Mukhtar Babayev） 在评论当天的事态发展时说：“COP29 主席的计划基于两个支柱。增强雄心壮志并推动行动。这意味着制定明确的气候计划并提供我们所需的资金。当我们调动气候融资时，我们允许更高的雄心壮志，当我们发出更高的雄心时，我们会建立信任以释放更大的财务承诺。
我们需要来自私营部门、慈善机构、多边开发银行和气候基金、国际组织和民间社会的所有行为体做出贡献。
巴库气候融资、投资和贸易倡议 （BICFIT） 的启动以及商业、投资和慈善气候平台 （BIPCP） 的推出代表了我们将关键合作伙伴聚集在一起以加速雄心勃勃的气候行动的坚定承诺。
联合国项目署署长兼 BICFIT 倡议联合负责人 Achim Steiner 在评论启动第 29 届联合国气候变化框架公约 （COP29） 巴库气候融资、投资和贸易倡议 （BICFIT） 对话时表示：“脆弱国家绝不能因为资金限制而无法实施其雄心勃勃的气候行动。为了在 COP29 及之后迎接这一时刻，我们需要在国内和国际上对公共和私人融资进行重大转变，包括改革全球金融架构。BICFIT 倡议是促进气候融资、投资和贸易领域合作和创新解决方案的主要平台，使各国能够应对这一艰巨而重要的变革性结构性变革之旅。
联合国贸易和发展会议 （UNCTAD） 秘书兼 BICFIT 对话倡议联合负责人 Rebeca Gryspan 在评论启动第 29 届联合国气候变化大会巴库气候融资、投资和贸易倡议 （BICFIT） 对话时表示：“到 2025 年，发展中国家每年将需要 1.1 万亿美元的气候融资，预计 9000 亿美元来自外部来源。这一举措使我们能够使贸易、投资和金融与气候目标保持一致，将利益相关者聚集在一起，确保这三个驱动因素协同工作。更好的协调将降低公正转型的总体成本，利用共同的优势，并最大限度地减少气候政策与可持续发展之间的冲突。
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15 Nov, 2024
Energy and Peace Are The Focus At COP29 Day Five – Energy/Peace, Relief and Recovery Day
COP29 Presidency officially launches COP29 Energy Initiatives calling for endorsements for the COP29 Global Energy Storage and Grids Pledge, the COP29 Green Energy Zones and Corridors Pledge, and the COP29 Hydrogen Declaration
COP29 Presidency addresses the crucial nexus of climate change, conflict and humanitarian needs through the Baku Call on Climate Action for Peace, Relief, and Recovery and establishment of the Baku Climate and Peace Action Hub
November 15th, 2024, Baku: Today at COP29, delegates and representatives from the private and public sectors and civil society came together to support initiatives and actions centered around energy and peace, relief and recovery. Aligned with COP29’s vision to enhance ambition and enable action, these commitments build a strong foundation for us to measure progress, send strong market signals to direct financial flows, and foster a sense of shared responsibility and urgency across all sectors of society.
Energy initiatives focus on green energy, hydrogen and global energy storage
While hosting a High-Level Roundtable on Green Energy, Hydrogen and Global Energy Storage and Grids, the COP29 Presidency officially launched three energy initiatives and called on Party and non-Party stakeholders for endorsement of each. These initiatives reflect the Presidency’s efforts to take forward the outcomes of the first Global Stocktake on renewable energy and hydrogen. The initiatives include:
COP29 Global Energy Storage and Grids Pledge – endorsers commit to a collective goal of deploying 1,500 GW of energy storage globally by 2030—more than six times the capacity of 2022. It also includes a commitment to add or refurbish 25 million kilometres of grids globally by 2030, recognising the need to add or refurbish an additional 65 million kilometres by 2040.
COP29 Green Energy Pledge: Green Energy Zones and Corridors – endorsers commit to promoting in green energy zones and corridors to connect sources of abundant green energy generation with the communities most in need by developing larger intraregional and interregional interconnected power grids. These grids will enable cost-effective and secure transmission of electricity over long distances.
COP29 Hydrogen Declaration – endorsers commit to scale up renewable, clean/zero-emission and low-carbon hydrogen production and accelerate the decarbonisation of existing hydrogen production from unabated fossil fuels. It aims to significantly increase green hydrogen production from one million tonnes annually today and reduce the 96 Mt of hydrogen currently produced from unabated fossil fuels.
When asked about the initiatives, International Energy Agency (IEA) Executive Director Fatih Birol remarked: “With the world moving at speed into the Age of Electricity, the IEA’s analysis has made very clear that in order to meet energy and climate goals – including tripling global renewable power capacity this decade while strengthening energy security – countries need to rapidly increase energy storage and also expand and upgrade their electricity grids. The COP29 Global Energy Storage and Grids Pledge, which is informed by the IEA’s work, marks an important step forward. We urge governments around the world to make energy storage and resilient grids key priorities as they strive to build more secure, affordable and sustainable energy systems.”
International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) Director-General Francesco La Camera commented: “The COP29 Energy Initiatives are vital to keep the window towards 1.5°C open. At COP28, world leaders committed to the global goal of tripling renewable capacity by 2030. Achieving this goal requires not only scaling up generation, but also overcoming the challenges associated with integrating renewables into the grids. Storage solutions, grid expansion and significant investment are critical enablers. As the custodian agency for tracking progress towards tripling renewables, we at IRENA are convinced that countries’ endorsement and implementation of today’s initiatives will become the key for advancing energy transitions aligned with the Paris Agreement’s objectives.”
A call to act on peace, relief and recovery
The Presidency, in collaboration with Egypt, Italy, Germany, Uganda, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom, launched the Baku Call on Climate Action for Peace, Relief, and Recovery—a milestone initiative aimed at addressing the urgent nexus of climate change, conflict, and humanitarian needs. It is a response to the growing recognition that climate change’s adverse effects—such as water scarcity, food insecurity, land degradation, displacement, and livelihood disruptions—can act as catalysts for conflict and instability, especially in vulnerable regions.
The Baku Call was launched at the High-level panel titled “Climate and Peace: Enabling Joint Action to Leave No One Behind” to inaugurate the COP29 Peace, Relief, and Recovery Day, which brought together ministers and governmental envoys from both the Global North and South to develop a strategy for increased prevention of climate-induced conflicts and support for climate and conflict vulnerable nations with high humanitarian needs.
The Baku Call builds upon climate and peace initiatives championed by previous COP Presidencies, and establishes the Baku Climate and Peace Action Hub, a cooperative platform designed to facilitate collaboration between national, regional and international peace and climate initiatives. The Hub will work in synergy with ongoing peace and climate efforts, including the CRSP, CRRP, Climate for Peace Initiative (C4P) and the climate dimension of the Mattei Plan for Africa, among others.
The COP Truce Appeal
The COP Truce Appeal was unveiled today, symbolizing the role of cooperation and peace as indispensable components of global climate action. 132 countries have joined the Appeal, which is supported by over a thousand international institutions, private sector representatives, civil society organizations and influential public figures. Their support reflects a powerful collective recognition—that achieving climate justice and building peace are fundamentally interconnected goals.
Matchmaking to accelerate decarbonisation
UNIDO and the Climate Club also today officially launched the Global Matchmaking Platform (GMP) for Industrial Decarbonisation, which is a platform dedicated to accelerating decarbonisation in heavy-emitting industries in the presence of key donor and partner organisations.
As the only platform of its kind focused specifically on decarbonising industrial sectors, GMP is open to all emerging and developing economies and connects country-specific needs with global technical and financial assistance to reduce emissions in energy and emissions-intensive industrial sectors. UNIDO and the Climate Club are now accepting formal project and programme application requests from countries as well as expressions of interest in becoming network partners from institutions and donors.
Partnering up for renewable energy in Central Asia
Today, IRENA and Azerbaijan’s Minister of Energy formally launched the Accelerated Partnership for Renewable Energy in Central Asia (APRECA)—a framework of regional cooperation amongst Central Asian countries that fast tracks investments and enhances inter-regional connectivity to ultimately accelerate renewable energy deployment and trade, foster green industrialisation and maximise socioeconomic benefits in the region. The partnership was proposed to energy ministers from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. This announcement kicks-off a two-day investment forum at COP29 focused on energy transition investments and finance in Central Asia.
Finance community supports renewable hydrogen project
The representatives of international and national development finance institutions pledged their collective support for the 10 GW Lighthouse Initiative. This aims to foster collaboration towards bringing renewable hydrogen projects of between 100 MW and 1 GW in size in emerging markets and developing countries (EMDCs) to Final Investment Decision (FID) stage by 2030. The 10 GW Lighthouse Initiative is a contribution to the COP-centered “Breakthrough Agenda”, which convenes initiatives and countries to strengthen international collaboration to make clean technologies and sustainable solutions, including hydrogen, the most affordable, accessible and attractive option in key sectors and in all regions by 2030.
14 Nov, 2024
Leaders from business, finance and philanthropic communities—including investors worth a collective $10 trillion in assets—announced today at the COP29 Business, Investment, and Philanthropy Climate Platform (BIPCP) that they will unite for the first time to accelerate the deployment of private capital into climate markets
Asian Development Bank announces $3.5billion of funding for new programme to help counter the impact of melting glaciers
Azerbaijani banking sector to allocate $1.2billion to green projects through to 2030
Sweden announces contribution of $730 million to the UN Green Climate Fund
COP29 Presidency brings together UNCTAD, UNDP, the WTO, International Trade Center (ITC), previous and future COP Presidencies, multilateral development banks and multilateral climate funds to create the Baku Initiative for Climate Finance, Investment, and Trade (BICFIT) Dialogue
In the opening days of COP, there has been significant progress on Article 6 and the NCQG. Outside the negotiations, the COP29 Presidency is providing the platform for other actors to step up and contribute. Finance, Investment and Trade Day saw representatives from the private sector, multilateral development banks and philanthropic organisations, climate funds, international organisations, and civil society come together in a collective effort to finance tangible climate action.
COP29 hosts business leaders for the Business, Investment, and Philanthropy Climate Platform (BIPCP)
The COP29 Business, Investment, and Philanthropy Climate Platform (BIPCP) took place today, convening over 1,000 business, finance and philanthropic leaders to discuss the active role the private sector needs to play in addressing climate change. Highlighting the event was the announcement from investor groups—with over $10 trillion in assets—that they will unite to develop a shared vision and action plan to accelerate the deployment of private capital into climate markets. More information is provided here.
The event was hosted by the COP29 Presidency and the UN Climate Change High-Level Champion Nigar Arpadarai, in collaboration with the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Export and Investment Promotion Agency of the Republic of Azerbaijan (AZPROMO). Ms. Arpadarai reinforced the importance of fostering inclusive ecosystems for private sector to support the climate agenda, stating: “We need to create an ecosystem for businesses which will make the climate change agenda not only ambitious and mandatory, but also practical and achievable. Such a system should encompass more than a few corporations in the developed world and must reach beyond the usual suspects.”
Further partners for the event included AVPN, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, International Finance Corporation, Marrakesh Partnership, Sustainable Markets Initiative, WBCSD, World Economic Forum and XPRIZE.
Asian Development Bank announces a new programme to help combat the impact of melting glaciers
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) today launched a new regional program to promote sustainable water use and food security in Central Asia, the South Caucasus and Pakistan amid the catastrophic impacts of melting glaciers.
With support from the Green Climate Fund (GCF), ADB will conduct glacier risk assessments in Azerbaijan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
These will form the scientific and technical basis for the program—called Glaciers to Farms—which envisages mobilising up to $3.5 billion from a range of actors including ADB, GCF, other development partners, and the private sector, subject to those institutions’ board approval processes. In addition to water and agriculture investments, the program will support vulnerable communities threatened by glacial melt, particularly in fragile mountain regions.
Azerbaijan’s banking sector announces pledge for green projects
On behalf of the banking sector of Azerbaijan, Mr. Zakir Nuriyev, President of the Azerbaijan Banks Association, announced details of a pledge which will allocate $1.2 billion for the development of green and sustainable projects in Azerbaijan until 2030. The funds will support projects contributing to Azerbaijan's transition to a low-carbon economy. This follows the Central Bank of Azerbaijan introducing a new green taxonomy to guide sustainable investments.
Sweden contributes to protect low-and middle-income societies from climate change
Sweden has announced a contribution of $730 million to the UN Green Climate Fund (GCF). This will support low-and middle-income countries to invest in adaptation measures to protect their societies against climate change and will also support investment in climate initiatives to reduce emissions. This brings Sweden’s overall contribution at COP29 to $749 million following the €19 million it contributed to the Fund for Loss and Damage earlier this week.
Endorsement for the Baku Initiative for Climate Finance, Investment and Trade Dialogue
Past, present and future COP Presidencies today endorsed the COP29 Baku Initiative for Climate Finance, Investment and Trade (BICFIT) Dialogue. In creating BICFIT, the COP29 Presidency has also brought together UNCTAD, the UNDP, the World Trade Organization (WTO), International Trade Center (ITC), multilateral development banks and multilateral climate funds.
BICFIT will guarantee Finance, Investment, and Trade sit at the centre of the climate-change agenda by ensuring alignment, continuity and delivery across discussions, actions and initiatives between previous and future COPs in support of the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement.
The BICFIT Dialogue will incorporate existing global initiatives such as the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ), Coalition of Finance Ministers for Climate Action, Coalition of Trade Ministers on Climate, the Climate FDI Coalition, and the newly initiated Baku Global Coalition for SMEs Green Transition, to align climate finance, investment, and trade with sustainable development priorities.
Commenting on developments from the day, COP29 President Mukhtar Babayev said: “The COP29 Presidency’s plan is based on two pillars. To enhance ambition and enable action. This means setting out clear climate plans and delivering the finance we need. As we mobilise climate finance, we allow for higher ambitions and as we signal higher ambition, we build trust to unlock greater financial commitments.
We need all actors from the private sector, philanthropies, multilateral development banks and climate funds, international organisations, and civil society to contribute.
The launch of the Baku Initiative for Climate Finance, Investment and Trade (BICFIT) and hosting the Business, Investment and Philanthropy Climate Platform (BIPCP) represent our strong commitment to bring critical partners together to accelerate ambitious climate action.”
Commenting on the launch of the COP29 Baku Initiative for Climate Finance, Investment and Trade (BICFIT) Dialogue, Achim Steiner, United Nations Programme Administrator and co-leader of the BICFIT initiative said: “Vulnerable countries must not be held back from delivering on their ambitious climate action because of financing limitations. To meet this moment at COP29 and beyond, we require a major shift in public and private finance, domestically and internationally, including the reform of the global finance architecture. The BICFIT initiative stands as a principal platform for fostering collaboration and innovative solutions across climate finance, investment, and trade, empowering nations to tackle this formidable yet essential journey toward transformative structural change.”
Also commenting on the launch of the COP29 Baku Initiative for Climate Finance, Investment and Trade (BICFIT) Dialogue, Rebeca Gryspan, UNCTAD Secretary Gex`neral and co-leader of the BICFIT Dialogue initiative said: “Developing countries will need $1.1 trillion annually in climate finance by 2025, with $900 billion expected from external sources. This initiative enables us to align trade, investment, and finance with climate goals, bringing stakeholders together to ensure these three drivers work in concert. Better coordination will lower the overall cost of a just transition, leveraging shared strengths and minimizing conflicts between climate policies and sustainable development.”
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