Slow climate adaptation is threatening lives and economies.

We need a global adaptation finance push.

Even amid competing priorities the reality is simple: if we do not invest now, we will face escalating costs every year.

New @unep.org #AdaptationGap Report explains: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

The world has a new science-policy panel on chemicals, waste and pollution.

This result is thanks to so many, including our two Intergovernmental Meeting Co-Chairs, 🇺🇾 Ambassador Laura Dupuy Lasserre and 🇯🇵 Vice-Minister Yutaka Matsuzawa.

Very grateful to them both for their leadership and support.

Big step to #BeatPollution!

Countries have just agreed to establish a new global science-policy panel to support the management of chemicals and waste and to prevent pollution.

The panel will equip countries with the science needed #ForPeopleForPlanet: bit.ly/45z01DE

“During complex times, environmental multilateralism has yet again delivered for people and for our planet,” says UNEP Executive Director @ingerandersen.bsky.social as countries agree to establish a new global science-policy panel on chemicals, waste and pollution. bit.ly/45z01DE

Countries from the Alliance of Small Island States are making their voices heard at #INC5.

As plastic pollution washes up on their shores and is found in the fish they catch, they are calling for an ambitious #PlasticsTreaty.

Delighted to meet 🇫🇯 🇼🇸 🇻🇺 🇦🇬 🇹🇻 delegations and hear their priorities.

We must end plastic pollution. At #INC5 we have reached the moment of truth for a #PlasticsTreaty.

People are demanding this deal.

Including Myles Kariuki from 🇰🇪 who wrote to me and INC Chair Luis Vayas to say 'please help us'.

We cannot let Myles or others down: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

If we don’t deliver #ClimateAction now, the future is already written.

The data is clear. The science is clear.

And we cannot negotiate with either.

Today at #COP29, @unep.bsky.social presented the latest data from our #EmissionsGap & #AdaptationGap reports.

A thread 🧵

As UNEP's #EmissionsGap Report shows, current commitments put the world on course for temperature rise of 2.6-2.8°C this century.

To keep 1.5°C alive, nations must collectively commit to cut 42% of annual GHG emissions by 2030 in upcoming NCDs 3.0

More in our report ➡️ www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

But the #AdaptationGap continues to grow.

While @unep.bsky.social data shows adaptation finance to developing countries increased from $22 billion to $28 billion in 2022 - much more is needed to close the gap, including capacity-building & technology transfer support

➡️ www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

To implement a #PlasticsTreaty we will need finance from all sources - public, private and blended finance - to help lower costs, adopt innovative solutions and support small businesses in developing countries.
 
At #COP29, UNEP, IFC and UNCDF discussed how we will work to deliver this.

All eyes on G20 for breakthrough as COP29 climate talks stall

Great team picture of authors, editors, secretariat members and directors responsible for the publishing of UNEP‘s Adaptation Gap Report 2024, presented at an official session during the UNFCCC Conference of the Parties 29th session in Baku, Azerbaijan (18 Nov. 2024). Thank you all for your support!

And now, UNEP Executive Director Ms. Inger Andersen presenting the Emissions Gap Report 2024 at the UNFCCC Conference of the Parties 29th session in Baku, Azerbaijan this afternoon!

UNEP Executive Director Ms. Inger Andersen presenting the Adaptation Gap Report 2024 at the UNFCCC Conference of the Parties 29th session in Baku, Azerbaijan this morning!

Fact.

Join us tomorrow at the United Nations Environment Programme’s presentations of the emissions and adaptation gap reports at the Climate Summit COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan!

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