38 COM/ENV/EPOC/IEA/SLT(2022)1 international coal financing, commitments by some countries to phase out domestic coal power, and the launch of the Powering Past Coal Alliance (UNFCCC, 2021[56]).
Creating an environment that maintains attention on the GST An environment that maintains attention and pressure around the GST could be created by leaders at all levels continually emphasising the importance of following up on the final GST decision/declaration within a stipulated time frame. It is important that the global community highlight and promote the importance of the process and the need to ensure GST1 outputs are implemented in 2024-2025 to enhance ambition and international co-operation. Maintaining attention on the GST could be built up through different political moments involving different actors. This could include enhancing linkages with on-going processes within the UNFCCC (e.g. newly established mechanisms and processes in the Glasgow Climate Pact), between the UNFCCC and other international organisations (e.g. World Bank, IMF, FAO, WHO, ICAO, IMO, OECD, IEA), intergovernmental groupings (e.g. G20, G7, MEF, APEC); regional bodies (e.g. UNESCAP, UNECLAC) and non-Party stakeholders (e.g. Marrakech Partnership). Some opportunities to leverage political moments within and outside the UNFCCC process are discussed below.
5.2.1. Leveraging political moments within the UNFCCC A number of high-level political events to consider the outputs of the GST are already envisaged in Decision 19/CMA.1. In considering the outputs and outcomes of the GST, events at the level of Heads of State and Government could maximise political signalling and help inform national processes to achieve the agreed outcome of the GST. Beyond these political moments in the GST process, there are a number of parallel processes and events within the UNFCCC. This includes, new work programmes on mitigation and adaptation and the annual high-level ministerial round tables on pre-2030 ambition from COP27. As the COP Presidency and UNFCCC secretariat prepare these activities, they could seek to optimise linkages with the GST to make best use of everything planned within the UNFCCC process to maintain momentum on the GST. For example, GST outputs or recommendations could help to shape the agendas of high-level roundtables and structure the conversation among participants at these events. Similarly, activities in the new work programmes on mitigation and adaptation could be incorporated into the GST process. For example, these processes could be designed to provide a parallel forum for more in-depth discussions on certain issues (e.g. on sector-specific emission trends, mitigation potentials, technologies, investment patterns, policy options and best practices) which could in turn inform the ‘Consideration of outputs’ component of the GST and potentially translated into targeted political recommendations. Furthermore, if the work programmes are extended beyond their current timeframe, they could become a platform to carry forward the outcomes of the GST in the 2024-25 period. Other political moments could be created around the publication of key reports such as the annual updates by the UNFCCC secretariat to the NDC synthesis report which could help to shine a spotlight on the takeup of GST outputs in subsequent NDCs. Other opportunities could be around publications of future IPCC reports which could provide updates on the science and the state of climate impacts to inform future policymaking.
5.2.2. Leveraging political moments outside the UNFCCC The GST provides a “unique opportunity for advancing and enhancing the conversation between the intergovernmental UNFCCC/Paris Agreement process and the wider landscape of global climate
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