20. March 2024
On 21 and 22 March, Commissioner for Climate Action Wopke Hoekstra will attend the Copenhagen Climate Ministerial to kick off preparations for the COP29 UN Climate Change conference to be held in November in Azerbaijan. This will be the first major international gathering since COP28 in Dubai where ministers will meet in person to discuss the implementation of the COP28 outcome and set the roadmap and priorities towards COP29.
On Thursday, Commissioner Hoekstra will attend the session on “Building on the UAE Framework for Global Climate and Resilience and the COP28 outcomes on loss and damage to strengthen adaptation action and global resilience”. In the margins, he will meet bilaterally with COP29 President-designate, Mukhtar Babayev; UK Minister of State for Energy Security and Net-Zero, Graham Stuart; and Chair of the Alliance of Small Islands States (AOSIS) and Samoa Minister of Natural Resources and Environment, Cedric Schuster. In the evening, the Commissioner will join a working dinner hosted by the Danish government, organiser of the Climate Ministerial.
On Friday, Commissioner Hoekstra will take part in two sessions focused on “Nationally determined contributions – implementation and ratcheting up ambition” and on “The COP29 landscape on finance and means of Implementation and ambition”. In the afternoon, he will hold bilateral meetings with John Podesta, Senior Advisor to the President of the United States for International Climate Policy; and Ambassador André Aranha Corrêa do Lago, Brazil’s Secretary for Climate, Energy and Environment of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The Commissioner is heading to the Copenhagen Climate Ministerial just after the EU Member States adopted Council conclusions on green diplomacy yesterday, 18 March.