Dear colleagues,

Welcome to the latest news from NDC ASPECTS, the EU Horizon 2020 project assessing sectoral perspectives to support the Global Stocktake (GST) and subsequent Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to the Paris Agreement. This time, we take a detailed look at the GST’s technical dialogue at the upcoming UNFCCC intersessional in Bonn, we present our latest research results, and we explain our innovate concept of sectoral conversations.

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The third and final meeting of the technical dialogue under the first Global Stocktake will take place during the UNFCCC intersessional meeting in Bonn next week. The purpose of the technical dialogues is to lay the basis for the final, political phase of the GST, which will take place at COP28 in December.

The information note outlining plans for the organization of the third technical dialogue is available online. The note explains that the meeting will include an opening and closing plenary, a set of round table discussions on the main GST topic areas of mitigation, adaptation, and means of implementation. In addition, the meeting will again feature a more open World Café-style event to support interactive discussion. At the previous meetings, in particular the open World Café discussions were welcomed by many participants and observers (see NDC ASPECTS blog posts here and here).

In addition to the substance, the format of the GST’s outcome is yet to be determined. One option on the table is a dual approach featuring a political declaration with high-level political messages, coupled with a decision text that goes into technical detail.

Read the NDC ASPECTS submission to the GST here.

NDC ASPECTS together with Systems Change Lab partners, Climate Analytics, NewClimate Institute, and World Resources Institute, as well as Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Wuppertal Institute, will hold on June 5th at 11:45 a.m. CEST a discussion with leading experts on sectoral insights for the Global Stocktake.

Speakers will examine the catalytic role of international cooperation, highlight scenarios of recent progress made in accelerating systemwide transformations, and explore immediate actions that can help deliver deep emission cuts at the pace and scale required this decade, with a specific focus on efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C.

Register at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/insights-for-the-global-stocktake-system-transformation-intl-cooperation-tickets-641181409857

Sectoral systems differ substantially in their political economies, technologies, financing structures, industrial composition, and international connectedness. Taking these differences into account allows for enhancing international cooperation for climate action.

NDC ASPECTS participants have developed a series of policy briefs on global governance and international cooperation in the sectors agriculture, forestry and other land use (AFOLU), buildings, energy-efficient industry and land transport. The papers discuss the current status of global governance and international cooperation in these sectors and how to improve it.

Read more here.

Sectoral Conversations are at the center of our work in NDC ASPECTS. They inform our analysis and reveal diverse perspectives on global efforts to decarbonize the hard-to-abate sectors that our project is focused on, i.e., energy-intensive industries, transport, buildings, and AFOLU. But what are those conversations anyway and how have they been implemented till now? Learn more in our new video explainer on Sectoral Conversations.

A new opinion article from a team of NDC ASPECTS partners led by Harro van Asselt has been accepted for publication in the PLOS Climate journal. The article discusses ways to leverage the Global Stocktake process for achieving effective sectoral climate governance. The authors also provide a rationale for a sectoral perspective in decarbonisation and suggest ways to strengthen international cooperation among sectoral actors within and without the UNFCCC processes.

More details can be found in the article which will be soon available in PLOS Climate.

You can find out about our notable partner projects here:
https://www.ndc-aspects.eu/about-project/synergies