At the COP29 climate summit in November in Baku, the parties are expected to decide on one of themost thorny issues of the negotiations: the new global climate finance goal. The new goal is set to strengthen the global response to climate change.
The clock is ticking: The new goal is set to be finalized in Baku and finance needs are mounting as the climate crisis wreaks havoc across the globe. Concurrently, the negotiations on the so called New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) have continued for years with limited progress. After the Bonn Climate Change Conference in June, UN climate chief Simon Stiell described that parties still have “a very steep hill to climb”.
On this complex negotiation agenda, the media has an important role in determining the issues and viewpoints brought onto the public agenda and discussion. Organized for the third consecutive year, this media briefing event provides a unique opportunity to hear directly and ask questions from those deeply involved in the negotiations.
In this event, we will hear from, among others, Todd Howland, Chief of Development and Economic and Social Rights at the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva, Outi Honkatukia, the EU’s lead negotiator for means of implementation, including climate finance, Tina Stege, Climate Envoy for the Marshall Islands and Heidi Hautala, former Member and Vice President of the European Parliament.
Our speakers will shed light on the critical sticking points in the negotiations and elaborate on how an agreement can be reached in Baku as well as provide unique perspectives of the solutions needed to guarantee the human rights of vulnerable communities in fangs of planetary change.
The event will be moderated by award-winning journalist Liselott Lindström, former Africa correspondent for the Finnish Broadcasting Company.