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Climate Solutions to Keep 1.5° Alive
The UN Development Programme (UNDP) Office in Geneva, in partnership with the Geneva Environment Network (GEN), has launched in April 2024 a series of events bringing together partners, comprised of UN agencies, member states, academics, CSO and activists, to discuss the progress society has made since 2015 towards achieving the objectives of the Paris Agreement. The series is an informative exercise to raise awareness on the climate crisis and to encourage everyone to take an active part in finding solutions while calling for ambitious climate policies.
About the Series
The UN Development Programme (UNDP) Office in Geneva, in partnership with the Geneva Environment Network (GEN), has launched in April 2024 a series of events bringing together partners, comprised of UN agencies, member states, academics, CSO and activists, to discuss the progress society has made since 2015 towards achieving the objectives of the Paris Agreement.
The current narrative on climate often focuses on the doom and gloom and catastrophic impacts of the climate crisis. The series argues that humanity is making progress, albeit not at the pace and scale needed. Hope matters. It galvanizes energy and incentivizes commitment. It creates a positive dynamic for action. As we underscore the importance of planetary boundaries and the alarming trajectory, the goal of the series is to show that humanity can take meaningful actions that are forward looking and moving the needle. The series is an informative exercise to raise awareness on the climate crisis and to encourage everyone to take an active part in finding solutions while calling for ambitious climate policies.
The series is part of a wider advocacy effort to mobilize energy towards achieving the Paris Agreement and influencing climate policies to deliver ambitious nationally determined contributions (NDCs) by UN Climate Conference COP30. Altogether, the series of events in Geneva aims at contributing to the UN Secretary-General’s global campaign advocacy to deepen efforts to keep the 1.5° goal alive.
International Geneva being at the center of numerous debates and negotiations in the fields of science, health, human rights, development, trade and green finance, employment, peacebuilding and security, disaster risk reduction, humanitarian issues, as well as new technologies and innovation, has therefore a unique cross-disciplinary expertise to move forward climate action.
Series Events
Pushing Boundaries Through Collective Action: How Can Citizens Drive Systems Change and Catalyze Climate Action? | Climate Solutions to Keep 1.5° Alive | GEN @ 25
2 December 2024 | 15:30 – 17:00 CET | Palais des Nations, Room XVII | With the support of We Don’t Have Time and 2050Today
Bringing to light initiatives showing how citizens around the world are catalyzing climate action, pushing for out of “business-as-usual”, and adding a transformative impetus to the political agenda.
Peoples’ Climate Vote: What does the world want in terms of climate action?
27 June 2024 | 15:30 – 17:00 CET | WMO HQ, Room Obasi | With WMO
Sharing the findings of the largest global public opinion survey on climate change, this event explored climate policies which have helped move the needle in fulfilling the promise of the Paris Agreement.