What COP29 hopes to achieve

As described on the glossy COP29 Website

  • Our fixed priority is delivering deep, rapid and sustained emission reductions now to keep temperatures under control and stay below 1.5°C, while leaving no one behind.
  • The first pillar — to “enhance ambition” — combines key elements to ensure all parties commit to ambitious national plans and transparency. 
  • The second pillar — to “enable action” — reflects the critical role of finance, a key tool to turn ambition into action and reduce emissions, adapt to climate change and address loss and damage.
  • It is working to ensure everyone’s voices are heard and perspectives are considered and included so that we deliver inclusive outcomes based on shared solutions.

Editors comment: quite vague really and they could probably announce success based on this criteria without any real difference made….. we will see!

The United Nations Climate Change High-Level Champions with the Marrakech partnership  have produced a document titled Yearbook of Global Climate Action 2024 which details what they think we need to achieve in 2024.

Sections include:

  1. Executive Summary
  2. Tracking Global climate change
  3. Transformation towards climate goals
  4. Whole of Society action areas and stakeholder agreement
  5. Non party stakeholder engagement in the process
This is much more detailed than the COP29 Objectives.