UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell delivered remarks at the closing plenary of the June Climate Meetings on 27 June: “We need to go further, faster, and fairer. I commend the hard work that has paid off over the last ten days, including on the Just Transition Work Programme, Gender, NAPs, Transparency and the UAE Dialogue. Work on some other areas, we have struggled.”

“I’m not going to sugar coat it – we have a lot more to do before we meet again in Belém. There is so much more work to do to keep 1.5 alive, as science demands. We must find a way to get to the hard decisions sooner. We will need negotiators to sit together between sessions to find common ground.”