ACT2025 SETS OUT PLAN FOR COP27 TO ADDRESS THE NEEDS OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES


ACT2025 CALLS FOR ENHANCED IMPLEMENTATION OF ADAPTATION ACTION 

By Alfonso Kasongo 

A consortium of think-tanks and experts based in Kenya,Nigeria, Caribbean,Bangladesh and Colombia among other countries has developed and published a detailed plan that aims at helping decision makers at the forthcoming COP27 negotiations to address the needs of developing countries. 

The   Allied for Climate Transformation (ACT) 2025 says that the  United Nations  Conference on Climate ,  COP27, climate summit next week provides an opportunity for developing countries with a call for enhanced implementation of adaptation action. 

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It notes that the COP27 is taking place against a backdrop of global crises and people all around the world, and especially in vulnerable developing countries, are facing a set of unprecedented adverse climate impacts to soaring energy and food prices. 

The Consortium further notes that COP27 is a critical opportunity for countries, cities and businesses to stand firm with people in vulnerable nations that are worst hit and bearing the excruciating impact of climate change. 

In its statement, Alliance sets out a detailed plan to help decision makers at COP27 address the needs of developing countries. 

It identities five critical areas of action and offers deep insights into how these can be achieved:

The Alliance proposes the need to bridge the mitigation gap so that it helps limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees.

It is also of the view of delivery of high quality and scaled up finance flows, especially to the most vulnerable and also to secure finance for loss and damage. 

The experts further stressed the need for efforts to implement adaptation measures and the implementation of the Paris Rulebook to hold countries and non-state actors accountable. 

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