CGIAR's Role in Shaping Climate Action at COP29: Key Tracks and Contributions

CGAIR Climate Impact Platform. 2024. CGIAR's Role in Shaping Climate Action at COP29: Key Tracks and Contributions. Blog Post. Montpellier, France: CGIAR System Organization.

A cohesive global strategy is crucial to meet the climate goals and agreements. CGIAR emphasizes the importance of enhancing institutional alignment, refining financing frameworks, and expanding technical assistance to support country-led adaptation plans and investment pipelines. Strategic partnerships can strengthen governance and facilitate the use of technical cooperation platforms, streamlining efforts across food, land, and water systems. By prioritizing coordinated action, CGIAR seeks to empower smallholder farmers, enhance resilience, and contribute to a sustainable transformation of food systems in line with the Paris Agreement.

To achieve this, CGIAR has prioritized some crucial tracks within the UNFCCC process. These include engaging with the COP Presidency, addressing the new collective quantified goal (NCQG) on climate finance, setting the global goal on adaptation (GGA), enhancing agriculture and food security, promoting gender equality, developing non-market approaches, and addressing loss and damage.

At COP29 we continued to monitor and contribute to these seven tracks, making 10 submissions to the UNFCCC.