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2023 Annual High-level Ministerial Round Table on pre-2030 Ambition
09 Dec. 2023
10:00h - 13:00h
GST/UTC+4
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates
Meeting Room 5 (Overflow in Meeting Room 6)
Mitigation
Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish
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2023 Annual High-level Ministerial Round Table on pre-2030 Ambition
09 Dec. 2023
10:00h - 13:00h
GST/UTC+4
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates
Meeting Room 5 (Overflow in Meeting Room 6)
Mitigation
Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish
Related Information
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Previous high-level ministerial round table on pre-2030 ambition

Communications to Parties and Observer Organizations

Message To Parties and observers States - 2023 Annual High-Level Ministerial Round Table on pre-2030 ambition

Message to UN and IGOs - 2023 Annual High-Level Ministerial Round Table on pre-2030 ambition

Message to Constituencies of Admitted NGOs - 2023 Annual High-Level Ministerial Round Table on pre-2030 ambition

Webcast
Summary by the President

Mandate

CMA3 decided to convene an annual high-level ministerial round table on pre-2030 ambition, beginning at its fourth session (decision 1/CMA.3, para. 31).

Objective

Taking place at the start of the second week of COP 28, the objective of the high-level ministerial round table on pre-2030 ambition, is to provide ministers a space to discuss the mitigation outcome at COP 28, to hear all views and to address key political issues relevant to unlocking an ambitions COP 28 outcome on mitigation.

Moreover, with the first year of activities under the Sharm el-Sheikh mitigation ambition and implementation work programme and mitigation work programme and as mandated by Decision 4/CMA.4, paragraph 17, participants will also hear from the co-chairs of the mitigation work programme on the global dialogues and investment focused events, held in 2023 on accelerating just energy transition and the annual report of the work programme to set the scene of the discussions at the roundtable.

Focused guiding questions

In the light of discussions before and during COP28 - and the mandate of this roundtable:

  • How should a COP28 mitigation outcome be framed to accelerate both individually and collective action to keep 1,5 alive, in line with the bottom-up structure of the Paris Agreement?
  • How do we ensure that everyone have access to technology and finance to ensure the implementation of zero- and low-emission solutions that are needed to enhance ambition by all, and how should this be reflected in a COP28 outcome?

Participation and Format

Please note that owing to limited capacity of the venue, participation and attendance in the dialogue is strictly by registration.  Details on the registration and access modalities for Parties will be shared directly with National Focal Points closer to the date of the event. Please refer to the message published by the incoming COP 28, CMP 18 and CMA 5 Presidency related to the organization of the 2023 high-level ministerial round table on pre-2030 ambition on the webpage for further details.

The 2023 high-level ministerial round table will also be webcast.  Webcast link will be made available here in due course. Interpretation in the official languages of the United Nations will be provided.

Provisional programme

Time (GMT +4) Session titles/description
10:00 – 10:15
Opening by

Co-Chairs

  • H.E. Grace Fu, Minister for Sustainability and the Environment, Singapore

  • H.E. Espen Barth Eide, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Norway

Welcome address by

  • H.E. Dr. Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, President of COP 28

  • Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary, UNFCCC secretariat
10:15 – 10:45
Scene-setting presentations 

The 2023 annual report of the Sharm el-Sheikh Mitigation Ambition and Implementation Work Programme 

Amr Osama Abdel-Aziz and Lola Vallejo, co-chairs of the Sharm el-Sheikh Mitigation Ambition and Implementation Work Programme

  • Co-chairs of the Sharm el-Sheikh Mitigation Ambition and Implementation Work Programme present on the 8 sub-topics of the MWP 2023 Global Dialogues
    Presentation

Energy Transition Dialogue

Mary Burce Warlick, Deputy Executive Director, International Energy Agency (IEA)

  • Priorities for pre-2030 mitigation for the energy sector and messages emerging from the COP28-IEA Energy Transition Dialogue
    Presentation

GST Technical Phase to Political Phase

Harald Winkler and Farhan Akhtar, co-facilitators of the Technical Phase of the first Global Stocktake

  • The GST co-facilitators present a summary of the High-Level Event on Mitigation under the GST and notable findings from the Technical Phase of the GST relevant to questions discussed at the HLMRT on pre-2030 ambition
    Presentation
10:45 – 12:45
Round table discussion

Co-chaired by 

  • H.E. Grace Fu, Minister for Sustainability and the Environment of Singapore and
  • H. E. Espen Barth Eide, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Norway
Focused Guiding Questions:

In the light of discussions before and during COP28 - and the mandate of this roundtable:

  • How should a COP28 mitigation outcome be framed to accelerate both individually and collective action to keep 1,5 alive, in line with the bottom-up structure of the Paris Agreement?
  • How do we ensure that everyone have access to technology and finance to ensure the implementation of zero- and low-emission solutions that are needed to enhance ambition by all, and how should this be reflected in a COP28 outcome?
Format:

  1. The dialogue will be held in a round table setting, to be chaired by the two ministers.

  2. Once the round table discussion opens, ministerial co-chairs will open the floor for interventions and invite Ministers with raised flags to speak, with priority given to Ministers speaking on behalf of groups of Parties, then to Ministers speaking on behalf of Parties, then to Party representatives.

  3. Interventions should be limited to three minutes; Parties should note that otherwise it may not be possible to accommodate all speakers in the allocated time period.

  4. Participants may submit written statements for publishing on this web page to the secretariat at mitigation_meetings@unfccc.int
12:45 – 13:00
Summary of discussion and closing remarks

Ministerial Co-Chairs

 

More information coming soon.

For any questions, please contact mitigation_meetings@unfccc.int