Mr Mahindra called on companies worldwide to commit to the Science Based Targets initiative
ahead of the Global Climate Action Summit hosted in California in September 2018.
As part of the Marrakech Partnership, ICLEI was invited to facilitate the Resilience Workstream
of Global Climate Action on Cities and Human Settlements.
The Challenge
Areas of the Global Climate Action Summit are established around internationally relevant impact sectors (e.g., land use, jobs, sustainable communities, etc.).
In a time of great uncertainty over the
future of global climate action, the Climate Change Media Partnership (CCMP), led by Internews» Earth Journalism Network (EJN), will bring 14 journalists from around the world to report directly from the upcoming climate talks.
In the years since Copenhagen, those inside and outside the political drama of what goes on at the UNFCCC process have come to recognise the multilevel, multilayered
nature of global climate action, where an intergovernmental treaty is just one, and perhaps not even the most central, element.
As a «champion» with
Tubiana of the Global Climate Action Agenda, El Haite is also focused on finding ways to track commitments by subnational governments and private - sector investors and link those with the more formal, national pledges.
These contributions will be posted online on the We Are Still In website, and showcased during the
week of the Global Climate Action Summit in California and at the next iteration of major UN climate talks in Katowice, Poland (COP24 in December).
The World Water Council was granted UNFCCC observer status in 2016 and has been actively participating with the Convention in various ways, including as a
co-convenor of the Global Climate Action Day for Water during CoP22.
Dozens of nations, including China, Saudi Arabia and European Union states, have submitted documents to the United Nations in recent weeks about the
state of global climate action.
The announcement by the Mahindra Group responds to one of the five «Summit Challenges» being presented to sub-national governments, business and civil society worldwide in
advance of the Global Climate Action Summit.
We are still headed in the right direction, but since the U.S. took its foot off the accelerator, the
risk of global climate action slowing down has increased.
UN Climate Change News, Bonn, 2 May 2018 —
Organizers of the Global Climate Action Summit (GCAS) taking place this September in San Francisco have today provided new evidence of how cities, states, regions, businesses and investors are taking climate ambition to the next level.
The summit will take place alongside the UN General Assembly and will bring together international leaders from business, government and civil society to showcase the unstoppable
momentum of global climate action.
Based on these consultations, the champions finalized their proposal for the
future of global climate action and on 17 November presented and published the Marrakech Partnership for Global Climate Action.
That's why from 8 - 9 September 2018, a massive people's mobilisation for a Fossil Free world
ahead of the Global Climate Action Summit will ensure our demands are front and centre, and ringing in our elected officials» ears as they meet in California the weekend after.
Organizers
of the Global Climate Action Summit (GCAS) taking place this September in San Francisco have today provided new evidence of how cities, states, regions, businesses and investors are taking climate ambition to the next level.
The summit annually takes place alongside the UN General Assembly and brings together international leaders from business, government and civil society to showcase the unstoppable momentum
of global climate action.