Second meeting of the Technical Dialogue (TD1.2) of the first Global Stocktake

Credit: UNFCCC

Background:

The slideshow of the opening meeting can be found here.

The first GST is unfolding in a critical decade for climate action. It will end in 2023 and is designed to have a key role to set the course for further ambitious climate action and support, providing an opportunity to focus the global climate engagement on implementation r climate action.

TD1.2 will take place during the first week of COP27 in Sharm el Sheikh, from 6 to 12 November 2022. It will be a space for open and direct conversations. Our aim is to develop a deeper and more comprehensive understanding of collective progress made under the Paris Agreement. Based on this understanding, we hope to provide forward looking for signals that can inform ambitious climate action and support, as well as enhanced international cooperation for climate action.

In part, this could be enabled through our discussions at the Technical Dialogue to identify good practice and opportunities for enhanced actions and support and find creative ways to overcome barriers and challenges to climate action, in the light of equity and ambition, and informed by the best available science.

More information on Non-Party Stakeholder participation in the second meeting of the Technical Dialogue of the first Global Stocktake

Focus of TD1.2

The dialogue will focus on how gaps in the implementation of the Paris Agreement can be bridged towards supporting an outcome of the first GST that informs Parties in updating and enhancing their climate actions and support as well as enhancing international cooperation for climate action and on identifying opportunities for action across all thematic areas of the GST.

All thematic areas of the technical dialogue will be discussed in a balanced, holistic and comprehensive manner with a balanced allocation of time between thematic areas (Mitigation; Adaptation; Means of implementation and support), taking into account equity considerations and ambition, based on the best available science.

The co-facilitators have selected experts and facilitators based on pre-established criteria to moderate the roundtables, world café and focused exchanges. They were chosen due to pre-established criteria, and more information on this can be found on the information note. More information on the experts can be found below:

Events at COP 27

Information on the experts and facilitators for TD1.2's roundtables, world cafe and focused exchanges can be found here.

Roundtables

Three roundtables will be organized at TD1.2, following the same clusters of topics as at TD1.1 (Mitigation, including Response Measures; Adaptation, including Loss & Damage; Means of Implementation (MoI) and support, which includes capacity-building, finance, and technology). These will meet in two, two-hour sessions. We have requested a plenary setting for the roundtables, within which four breakout groups will take place under each roundtable. This will allow for more in-depth discussions and focus on specific topics. All participants will hear prompts on all four topics in the particular RT at the beginning of the RT, and also hear report backs from the breakout groups at the end, to ensure transparency and inclusivity. First roundtable meeting: After hearing prompts from invited experts, participants will divide into four small breakout groups to discuss each prompt in greater detail. The breakout group topics can be found in section IV of the information note.

Along with the experts, a facilitator will be assigned to each breakout group to guide the discussions, which will be recorded by a rapporteur (Party delegations will be invited to be rapporteurs for each of the breakout groups. Second roundtable meeting: will begin with a report back from the first meeting of discussions by the facilitators and rapporteurs. After which, the breakout groups discussions will continue. Towards the end of these discussions, participants will discuss any convergences around findings within the group and how to capture outputs of their discussions, which will be reported at the closing Plenary meeting. The topics for roundtable discussions can be found in section IV of the information note. Note that placement of an issue in a roundtable gives it a ‘home’ and ensures it will be discussed, while it can be raised in other discussions as well. Based on feedback from TD1.1, the co-facilitators are working with experts to develop both a detailed prompt for each discussion, as well as further sub-questions for which the co facilitators will request participants within the breakout groups to respond. While participants are free to continue to raise other relevant issues within the discussions, the co-facilitators request that the discussions within these sessions be as focused as possible on their assigned topics in order to enable to make the discussions as productive as possible.

Roundtable 1: Mitigation, including response measures

Breakout group	Timing	Speakers	Topic/Questions
1	RT1.1 - Wednesday 9th November 10:00-12:00 CAT, Plenary II Ramses RT1.2 - Thursday 10th November 10-12:00 CAT, Plenary II Ramses	Expert: Jamal Srouji Facilitator: Thelma Krug	Enhancing global mitigation pathways: Assessing collective progress on mitigation and enhancing ambition, fairness and implementation towards the achievement of the Paris Agreement long-term goals, taking into account nationally determined contributions and long-term low greenhouse gas emission development strategies by Parties
2		Expert: Arunabha Ghosh Facilitator: Kaveh Guilanpour	Transforming energy and industrial systems: Assessing collective progress in and enhancing mitigation efforts in energy production and consumption as well as industrial and transportation systems
3		Expert: Sandeep Sengupta Facilitator: Frances Seymour	Transforming land and other systems: Assessing collective progress in and enhancing mitigation efforts and preserving and enhancing greenhouse gas sinks in AFOLU, waste, and other systems
4		Expert: Moustapha Kamal Gueye Facilitator: Samantha Smith	Response measures: Assessing collective progress in and enhancing efforts made to address the social and economic consequences and impacts of response measures while implementing mitigation policies and actions towards the achievement of the Paris Agreement long-term goals

Roundtable 2: Adaptation, including loss and damage

Breakout group	Timing	Speakers	Topic/Questions
1	RT2.1 Wednesday 9th November 12-14:00 CAT, Plenary II - Ramses RT2.2 Thursday 10th November 12-14:00 CAT, Plenary II Ramses	Expert: Alvin Chandra Facilitator: Richard Klein	Art 7.14 a: Recognize adaptation efforts of developing countries
2		Expert: Anne Hammill Facilitator: Thomas Hale	Art 7.14 b: Enhance the implementation of adaptation action: moving from plans to implementation and increasing ambition towards transformative adaptation, taking into account barriers, challenges and opportunities
3		Expert: Anand Patwardhan Facilitator: Ko Barrett	Art 7.14 c: Review of the adequacy and effectiveness of ongoing adaptation and support at different scales
4		Expert: Richard Choularton Facilitator: Debra Roberts	Assessing collective progress and enhancing efforts on averting, minimizing and addressing loss and damage, moving from knowledge generation to implementation

Roundtable 3: Means of implementation and support:

Finance, technology and capacity building

Breakout group	Timing	Speakers	Topic/Questions
1	RT 3.1 Tuesday 8th November 11-13:00 CAT, Side Event Rooms Memphis, then moving to Memphis and Osiris RT3.2 Thursday 10th November 14-16:00 CAT, Plenary II Ramses	Expert: Nick Robins Facilitator: Preety Bhandari	Finance: Aligning financial flows and meeting needs for system-wide transitions to net zero emissions and transformative climate resilient development
2		Expert: Sandra Guzman Facilitator: Josué Tanaka	Finance: Enhancing the catalytic role of international climate finance for scaling up climate action
3		Expert: Gabriel Blanco Facilitator: Sara Traerup (Day 1) Kentaro Tamura (Day 2)	Technology: Enabling and enhancing cooperation on innovation and technology development and transfer
4		Expert: Ayman Cherkaoui Facilitator: Sonja Klinsky	Capacity: Enhancing and retaining capacities in support of Paris Agreement implementation

Focused exchange

In addition to the world café and roundtables, we will host focused exchanges on intersections across thematic areas of the GST. Several panelists will be invited to kick off each exchange, followed by an interactive exchange to allow for active participation and discussion among participants from Parties, observer organizations and NPS. The discussions will be facilitated by the Technical Dialogue co-facilitators and will be captured in the summary report. More detail on the topics for these discussions is provided in section IV of the information note and additional details on panelists will be provided on the GST website ahead of the meeting.

Panel	Timing	Panel members	Topic
1	FE1 - Wednesday 9th November 17-19:00 Meeting Room 2 FE2 - Thursday 10th November 17:00-19:00 Meeting Room 2	Debra Roberts, Jim Skea, Henri Waisman, Racquel Moses	Pathways towards low GHG emissions and climate-resilient development
2		Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, Lindsey Cook, Navroz Dubash, Rachel Kyte, Chizuru Aoki	International cooperation on holistic and integrated approaches

The World Café

Tuesday 8th November, 16:00-20:00 CAT:

SE Room 3 Hatshepsut: Adaptation, including loss and damage
SE Room 4 Khufu: Systems Transformations
SE Room 5 Memphis: Mitigation, including response measures
SE Room 6 Osiris: Means of Implementation and Support: Finance, Technology and Capacity Building

The World Café is an engagement process, which makes use of an informal setting for participants to explore topics across the scope of the GST, in a larger room with several small tables. The setting facilitates interactive exchanges, as participants - Parties and non-Party stakeholders - can rotate and circulate, with signals every 30 or 45 minutes. An expert will remain at each table. Interactive format for short discussions on specific topics will be held near the beginning of TD1.2, moving discussion from the “what” to ‘how’ and ‘how to’. The main points raised will be recorded on flipcharts and written notes (by note-takers from the secretariat, or assistants to experts).

	World Café tables	Experts
	Mitigation, including response measures
1	Urgency to move form incremental to transformational change in order to reduce global GHG emissions around 43% below 2019 levels by 2030, around 60% by 2035 and 84% by 2050 as outlined in the IPCC AR6	Deborah Ramalope
2	Early signs of transformation and key mitigation actions to accelerate it, including avoiding new fossil fuel intensive infrastructure, preparing to enable the transition by further advancing zero carbon technologies, market structures and planning for a just transition, and applying the zero-emission technology and behavioral changes to sustain reductions to zero across systems	Kelly Levin John Kilani
3	Concrete action to be taken by national and subnational governments, institutions facilitating international co-operation, businesses financial institutions and citizens to accelerate transformation towards net zero CO2 or GHG emissions	Natalie Unterstell
4	How do we develop creative and imaginative approaches to impacts of response measures, building on discussions at TD1.1?	Lebogang Mulaisi
	Adaptation, including loss and damage
5	How can adaptation needs of countries be better addressed: innovative tools/support, including finance, technology, enabling environment, across different scales to move away from incremental to transformational adaptation?	Anne Hammill
6	How can support be given for early warning systems at local, national, regional and global scales? How do we use scientific advances in attribution of climate change impacts, in taking regional and local action?	Anthony Rea
7	Methodological gaps: how to assess adequacy and effectiveness of adaptation action and support, how to assess and address transboundary, cascading and compounding risks and impacts, across multiple scales?	Marcia Toledo
8	Technical assistance for averting, minimizing and addressing loss and damage: How to build across efforts on disaster response, longer-term recovery and sustainable development?	Animesh Kumar
	Means of implementation and support
9	How to shift existing financial flows and trends	Sonia Dunlop
10	Supporting deployment of solutions at scale: What can we learn from experience of supporting mitigation and adaptation	Juan Hoffmaister
11	Technology and innovation cooperation: Tools, actors and systems	Rasmus Valanko
12	Capacity: How to enhance and retain institutional capacities at the national level (exchange of experiences and lessons learned)	George Manful
	Systems transformations
13	How do we transform energy systems?	Christophe McGlade, Youba Sokona
14	How do we transform land systems?	Frances Seymour Pasang Dolma Sherpa
15	How do we transform transport systems?	Peter Newman Nguyen Minh Quang
16	How do we transform water systems?	Vidhisha Samarasekara
17	How do we transform industrial systems?	Lydia Elewa Maosheng Duan
18	How do we transform agricultural systems?	Martial Bernoux
19	How do we transform urban and key infrastructure systems?	Siir Kilkis
20	How do we transform health systems?	Jess Beagley Naeema Al-Gasseer