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Driving ambitious climate action through stronger collaboration on transparency
In the coming months countries have two unique opportunities to take decisive action to tackle the climate emergency. 2024 is a pivotal year for climate transparency and ambition as countries are required to submit their first-ever Biennial Transparency Reports (BTRs) by December 31, 2024 under the Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF) of the Paris Agreement. Only two months later, by the end of February 2025, countries must also submit their next Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).
Enhancing access and increasing impact: the role of the multilateral climate funds
Joint declaration of the heads of the Adaptation Fund, the Climate Investment Funds, the Global Environment Facility and the Green Climate Fund
The need for collective, urgent, and ambitious action on climate is greater than ever before. As the results of the first global stocktake make clear, the world is not on track to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement. While progress is seen in some areas, much more is needed to reach net zero and adapt to climate impacts. A rigorous “all of economy, all of society” approach is needed across all systems and sectors.
Addressing the climate crisis and learning from a pulse oximeter
Chizuru Aoki leads the Global Environment Facility’s engagement with international conventions and oversees its climate change work, including through the Least Developed Countries Fund and Special Climate Change Fund. In an interview, she reflected on her career as an environmental engineer, researcher, manager, and negotiator, and shared candid insights from her family’s experience with COVID-19.
What does your role at the GEF entail?
Connecting forest health to climate action
Rocío Cóndor is an FAO Forestry Officer working on the Enhanced Transparency Framework and coordinating the GEF-funded Capacity-building Initiative for Transparency work related to the forest sector, known as CBIT-Forest. In an interview, she reflected on the ways solid data can inform good decisions when it comes to sustainable forest management.
What does your work entail?
'As an engineer, I am interested in solving challenging problems'
Milena Gonzalez Vasquez is a Global Environment Facility Climate Change Specialist. In an interview, she shared how her background in engineering prepared her for a career helping countries transform their energy systems, protect their forests, and find other solutions to avert a climate change crisis.
What is your role at the GEF?
Helping countries better monitor and report on forest and land-use under the Paris Climate Agreement
FAO and GEF team up in new project to make forest data more transparent, accessible and available
Countries meet to discuss efforts to increase transparency around climate change commitments
Experts from donor and recipient countries met last week to share information about progress in meeting their Paris Climate Agreement commitments. The third annual Global Coordination Meeting and Technical Workshop gathered participants in the Capacity-building Initiative for Transparency (CBIT) on May 21-23 in Rome, Italy.
New coordination platform for transparency will help implement Paris Climate Agreement
The Global Coordination Platform of the Capacity-building Initiative for Transparency (CBIT) will support openness and delivery of national climate plans in developing countries.
Helping Developing Countries Track Progress on Paris Agreement
The GEF Secretariat held a special event on the Capacity Building Initiative for Transparency (CBIT) during the Bonn Climate Change Conference in May 2016. The CBIT originated as a request from the UNFCCC COP to the GEF at its last meeting in Paris in order to help developing countries in their efforts to build institutional and technical capacity for enhanced transparency.