We need stakeholders at the table to raise ambition & accelerate action

Climate change will not be solved by technology and industry alone. It must be solved by systems that welcome, integrate, and serve marginalized and front-line communities. Every year we delay in devising and deploying such inclusive systems, we limit our ability to escape the worst impacts of persistent climate emergency.

The Citizens’ Climate delegation at COP26 included 33 people from 15 countries, from 5 continents, representing volunteers in 75 countries.

Achieving, and acting on, high ambition will require real, ongoing, and robust participation of citizens and stakeholders in communities, and through capable institutions, at all levels.

To make the Glasgow Pact a real foundation for preventing persistent climate emergency, investment and action must move fast enough to avoid more than 1.5ºC of global heating. That will mean mobilizing finance for adaptation, loss and damage, and resilience-building measures, fast enough to ensure no nation or community is left to fend for itself against deepening climate emergency.

This makes 2022 the year of Action Plans, and a year that needs to be characterized by unprecedented inclusion, participatory process, and deference to the rights and needs of stakeholders.

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This post is excerpted from an article published by Green 2.0. For more information about CCI work at COP26, see:

• CCI COP26 Agenda Brief

• CCI report on the Glasgow Climate Pact

• Reinventing Prosperity 1 Year Report

• Aims for new ACE Work Programme

• CCI report on the Glasgow Work Programme for climate civics

For more comprehensive coverage of COP26, see:

• For detailed news about each day of formal sessions at the COP26, visit the Earth Negotiations Bulletin by IISD.

• For official COP26 negotiations documents, visit the UNFCCC Glasgow Conference documents section.

• To track climate action from non-state actors, including investors, industry, and municipalities, follow the Race to Zero.