The ten-year Glasgow work programme on ACE encourages Parties “to designate, assign responsibilities to, and provide support, including technical and financial support, and access to information and materials to national Action for Climate Empowerment focal points” (Decisions 18/CP.26, para. 8 and 22/CMA.3, para. 8), also known as national ACE focal points. The responsibilities of national ACE focal points “could include identifying areas for possible international cooperation and opportunities for strengthening synergies with action under other conventions, and coordinating the preparation of the chapter on ACE in national communications, ensuring that relevant contact information, including weblinks, is provided therein.”

The informal virtual networking meeting responds to the request to the secretariat to support “Increased peer-to-peer exchange among national ACE focal points about ACE activities carried out at the national level through, inter alia, the ACE Dialogues, the regional climate weeks and informal virtual networking meetings organised by the secretariat.” (Four-year action plan of the Glasgow work programme on ACE Activity B.2, priority area coordinated action).

The informal virtual networking meeting is supported by the Action for Climate Empowerment Hub (ACE Hub). The ACE Hub is a three-year collaboration between the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Industry, Climate Action and Energy of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and UN Climate Change. The overarching goal of the project is to foster the implementation of ACE, as well as to enhance the cooperation between national governments, non-Party stakeholders and organizations, experts and companies within and outside NRW in addressing climate change.

Acknowledging the importance of equipping governments with the necessary tools and support for the effective implementation of the Glasgow work programme on ACE and its action plan, this session will look at providing national ACE focal points with an opportunity to exchange experiences on approaches and opportunities for mobilising funding and resources for ACE implementation at the national level. The session was hosted by the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), the secretariat of the One UN Climate Change Learning Partnership (UN CC:Learn), leveraging their experience in supporting countries to develop and implement climate change learning strategies, especially in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

The informal virtual networking meeting was organised as an online event and structured as follows:

• Day one: used to showcase successful projects and examples of approaches to mobilizing resources for ACE from different regions.
• Day two: provided an opportunity for focal points to engage in regional peer-to-peer exchanges on the topic. The schedule for the regional discussions was as follows:

Agenda 

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