This document discusses structuring technical and political outputs for a successful Global Stocktake (GST) process under the UNFCCC. It identifies key recipients of messages from the GST, including parties to the UNFCCC as negotiators and implementers, as well as non-party stakeholders. It argues the GST outcomes should take a solutions-oriented approach across mitigation, adaptation, loss and damage, and finance. Specifically, it suggests clear signals, highlighting high impact opportunities, and providing technical resources. Finally, it discusses how the GST could help reinvigorate the UN climate regime by strengthening its norm-setting and catalytic roles in climate action.

1. Structuring impactful technical and political outpu
for a successful GST1
OECD CCXG
Sebastian Oberthür
22 March 2023

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► Parties (negotiators)
► Parties (implementers)
► Various non-Party stakeholders (investors, companies,
CSOs, sub-national authorities, etc. – implementation)
► UNFCCC secretariat, COP Presidencies, High-Level
Champions, etc.
1. Recipients of messages/signals

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► Parties (negotiators) – international process and related
arrangements, including for future NDCs, etc.
► Parties (implementers) – (sectoral) signals/direction (and
accompanying information) in high-level outputs
► Various non-Party stakeholders – (sectoral) signals/direction and
links to intergovernmental process/accountability, primarily in
high-level outputs
► UNFCCC secretariat, COP Presidencies, High-Level Champions,
etc. – international process and related arrangements, including
for Marrakech Partnership and Global Climate Action Portal
1. Recipients of messages/signals

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⇒Key challenge of how to get more
technical information to main
recipients
1. Recipients of messages/signals

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OUTLINE
➢ Sectorally focused signals and solutions for Mitigation,
Adaptation & Loss and Damage and Finance
2. Solutions-oriented approach

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Solutions-oriented approach - GST outcomes in three tiers
Clear signals
High impact opportunities
Technical Resources

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MITIGATION

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MITIGATION

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MITIGATION

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ADAPTATION AND LOSS AND DAMAGE

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ADAPTATION AND LOSS AND DAMAGE

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ADAPTATION AND LOSS AND DAMAGE

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ADAPTATION AND LOSS AND DAMAGE

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FINANCE

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FINANCE

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Re-invigorating the UN climate regime
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➢ Strengthening the UN Climate regime's norm-setting function
➢ Strengthening the UN climate regime’s catalytic role in the wider
landscape of climate action (IOs, IFIs and ICIs )
➢ The GST could pave the way inter alia by:
➢ Identifying and recognizing relevant needs and potentials
➢ Highlighting the catalytic role of the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement
➢ Inviting the UNFCCC secretariat, COP Presidencies and the Marrakech
Partnership with the High-Level Champions to advance related action
➢ Important action can be taken by the UNFCCC Secretariat, the
COP Presidency and others on the basis of existing mandates

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