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2SUMMARY—TESTIMONIALSFROM COMMITTED ACTORS------Ronan DANTEC
President of the association Climate Chance

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GLOBAL CLIMATE ACTION AGENDA :ACCELERATING GLOBAL CLIMATE ACTION
WHAT IS IT FOR?
SINCE WHEN?

Climate Chance supports the Global Climate Action Agenda byraising the voice of Non-State Actors in their diversity, because
they are those who implement the solutions in their territories.
Multi-actor collaborations are essential to meet the challengesof climate change. More than ever, it is time for concrete initiatives adapted to the different territorial contexts. »6INITIATIVES SUPPORTED BY FRANCE

Claire TUTENUIT
General Delegate of Enterprises for the Environment (EpE)

8ACTORS
9STRUCTURE / A FOLLOW-UP TOOL
10MEETINGS
11QUIZZ—Since COP21 and the first Business & Climate Summit, EpE andits member companies participate in COP and they also organise
exchanges with their stakeholders. This involvement within theGlobal Climate Action Agenda makes it possible to build and promote collective corporate initiatives, such as the ZEN2050 project
on carbon neutrality".

Yann FRANÇOISE
Head of the Climate, Energy and Circular Economy Division
for the City of Paris
As an actor involved in international cooperation, Paris intends toactively participate in city diplomacy and strengthen the role ofNon-State Actors in the implementation of the Paris Agreement,
through its dynamic participation in the Global Climate Action
Agenda. In particular, it will advocate the development of longterm climate strategies and policies for cities by 2050. »ACCELERATING GLOBAL
CLIMATE ACTION------The Global Climate Action Agenda is a set of initiatives bringing together States andNon-State Actors to support and accelerate the fight against climate change. It has
been gradually structured internationally since 2014 and was one of the key elements
for the success of COP21 and the adoption of the Paris Agreement in 2015.
The basis of its current organization is defined by the Marrakech Partnership for
Global Climate Action.
Acting as an actual ecosystem, the Global Climate Action Agenda brings togetheractors of all types, at all scales and all over the world. These actors come together andexchange ideas, make commitments, develop solutions with a common ambition:to achieve the objectives of the Paris Agreement.

First universal climate agreement.
Its central objective is to hold theincrease in the global averagetemperature well below 2°C above
pre-industrial levels and pursue
efforts to limit the temperature
increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. In addition, theagreement aims to increase
countries' capacities to cope with
the impacts of climate change andto adapt to its effects.
Non-State Actors (NSA)

They were identified during theEarth Summit in 1992 (Rio deJaneiro, Brazil) as a set of ninemajor groups : women, children
and young people, indigenouspeoples and their communities,
non-governmental organizations

The Global Climate Action Agenda aims to accelerate the fightagainst climate change and to extend it to all sectors of theeconomy and society. In particular, it serves to:
Enhance existing partnerships and encourage new initiatives;l 
Identify good practices and opportunities (environmental,economic, technological);l Create synergies between State and Non-State Actors;l Mobilize financing for low-carbon projects;l 
Identify impacting projects in order to replicate them elsewhere (wetalk about replicability).
l

By strengthening the implementation of climate solutions, the Global Climate
Action Agenda contributes to the achievement of the objectives that countries
have set for themselves in their nationally determined contributions (NDC).

GLOSSARY
Paris Agreement

WHAT IS IT FOR?

(NGOs), local authorities, workers
and their unions, trade andindustry, scientific and technicalcommunity and farmers. Morebroadly, the municipalities,
citizens, banks, finance, financial
services insurance companies,
political parties, the media andorganizations international arealso Non-State Actors.

United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate
Change (UNFCCC)

Conference of the Parties(COP)

Initiative

Supreme decision-making body of
the UNFCCC. It meets annually tonegotiate and monitor theimplementation of the Convention.
Parties are the States that have
ratified the UNFCCC treaty.

convention adopted during theEarth Summit (Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, 1992) and currently
ratified by 197 countries. It aims
at establishing a comprehensive
framework to address thechallenge of climate change.
The term initiative refers to a
new proposal or action.

SINCE WHEN?
In 2014, the New York Summit, organised by the United Nations General
Secretariat, launched a series of climate initiatives involving nationalgovernments and Non-State Actors. They formed the basis of theLima-Paris Action Plan (LPAA) adopted in December of the same year.
During COP21 in 2015, the participation of Non-State Actors was unprecedented: more than 70 international coalitions were launched and 10 000
individual commitments were made by companies, cities, regions, NGOs,
universities...
The Marrakech Partnership consolidates the foundations of the Global
Climate Action Agenda and accelerates global climate action for the period
2017-2020. In particular, it has implemented an approach structured
around 7 main themes: energy, transport, industry, cities and buildings,water, land use, oceans and coastal areas.

CHRONOLOGICAL LANDMARKS

CCNUCC=196

STATES + EU

S EPTEMBER 2014: Launch of multi-stakeholder coalitions, United Nations ClimateSummit (New York, United States)
DECEMBER 2014: Lima-Paris Action Plan, COP20 (Lima, Peru)DECEMBER 2015: Recognition of the importance of Non-State A ctor participation in
the preamble of the Paris Agreement (Paris, France)
DECEMBER 2016: Marrakech Partnership for Global Climate Action, COP22 (Marrakech,Morocco)

GLOSSARY
Nationally Determined
Contribution (NDC)

Quantified contributions
corresponding to the national
efforts envisaged in the contextof the fight against climatechange. This quantified
contribution must be revised
upwards every 5 years.
Greenhouse gases (GHGs)

Gases produced by natural or
human-induced (anthropogenic)
processes that contribute tomaintain heat in the Earth's
atmosphere. The main one isCO2, but others are to be taken
into account such as methane(CH4), hydrofluorocarbons(HFCs)...

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COALITIONS
launched since
COP21

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Insuresilience GlobalPartnership (IGP) - 2015
> Providing insurance coverage
to 400 million vulnerable
and poor people> Increasing the resilience ofdeveloping countries to the effectsof climate change

Climate Risk and Early
Warning Systems (CREWS)
2015> Assisting least developed countries
and small island developing States in theincrease of their capacity to effectively RESILIENCE
produce and disseminate early
warnings of climate risks______
Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition (CPLC) - 2014
> Promoting carbon pricing

INITIATIVESSUPPORTED BYFRANCEAIR POLLUTIONCARBON PRICE

Global Geothermal
ENERGY
Alliance (GGA) 2015______> Accelerating the development
Internationalof geothermal energy worldwide______
Solar Alliance (ISA) - 2015
> Massively reduce solar energy costs
FOREST
African Renewable> Promoting its large-scale______
Energy Initiative
deployment worldwide(AREI) - 2015______New-York Forest> Increasing the continent'
Declaration- 2014
Breakthrough Energys installed capacity in>
Halving
thelossofforest
Coalition (BEC) - 2015
renewable energy
areas
by
2020
andhaltingit> Developing investmentsby2030in new energy technologies____________
Central African Forest
SIDS Lighthouses
Initiative (CAFI) - 2015
Initiative - 2014
> Combating deforestation by> Increasing renewable energy
protecting the forest covercapacity in small islandof the Congo Basin
States and territories______

Climate & Clean Air Coalition(CCAC) - 2012
> Raising awareness about the impacts of short-lived
climate pollutants (methane, carbon black, HFCs, etc.)
and about mitigation strategies______WATER / OCEAN______
Ocean & Climate Initiatives Alliance - 2017
> Highlighting ocean-based adaptation andmitigation solutions to climate change______INNOVATION______

Mission innovation (MI)______

Assessing Low Carbon
Transition (ACT) - 2015
> Proposing sectoral methods to assess
the alignment of companies’ strategies withthe requirements of a low-carbon world______
Sciences Based Targets(SBT) - 2015
> Developing a methodology
to evaluate companies' GHG emission
reduction targets

2015> Enhancing adaptation to climate change
in river basins, lakes and aquifers (Paris> Doubling public funding for
Pact on Water)
research and development (R&D) in> Making water management an element
low-carbon energies in 5 yearsof the company's climate strategy> Strengthening cooperation(Business Alliance for Water andbetween member countries
Climate)> Mobilizing private investors to> Strengthening the resilience ofbring new solutions to market
hydrological systems in urban areas(Alliance of Megacities for Water andClimate Change)> Reducing CO2 emissions fromdesalination (Global Clean Water
Desalination Alliance)

2015

EVALUATION

Global Alliances for Waterand Climate (GAfWaC)

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Global Alliance forCities Climate Finance
Biofuture Platform - 2016
Buildingsand Construction
Leadership Alliance> Promoting international coordination- 2015
(GABC)(CCFLA) - 2014
on advanced low-carbon fuels
Mobilise
Paris Process on Mobility> Facilitating transition to>
Catalyzingand accelerating> Supporting the development of the bio-economyand Climate (PPMC) - 2015
Your City - 2015
zero-emission,energy-efficient______
financing for urban climate action> Implementing sustainable> Promoting the development ofandresilient
realestate> Maximizing investments______
4 per 1000 initiative - 2015
urban mobility plans insustainable and low-carbon transport
in low-carbon and climateProgramme for Energy> Improving food security
100 cities and national public> Raising the voice of non-state
resilientinfrastructures
Efficiencyin Buildings>
Adapting
agriculture
totheeffects
policies on urban mobility
actors in the transport sector in the>Bridging
theinvestment
gap
2016(PEEB)
ofclimatechangein 20 countries by 2020
meetings of the Global Climate Action
between urban areas______> Financing projects to improve the> Contributing toAgenda with political decision-makers____________
energy performance of large-scale
climate change mitigation______
buildings in emerging andTransport Decarbonisation
developingcountries
Alliance (TDA) (2017)______AGRICULTURE> Demonstrating that it is technically possible toPowering Past Coal Alliancedecarbonise the transport sector and that it
CITIESREAL
ESTATE(PPCA) - 2017brings economic and social co-benefits______> Accelerating the shift away from traditional
AND CONSTRUCTION
coal-fired power plants in a sustainable andeconomically inclusive manner
TRANSPORT______
COAL PHASE-OUT

ACTORSSTRUCTURE
9The Global Climate Action Agenda gathers more than 12 000 stakeholders
from 180 countries, including 9 000 local authorities and 2 400 companies
engaged in 20 000 actions registered by the UNFCCC.
Beyond individual initiatives, the Global Climate Action Agenda supports
multi-stakeholder coalitions in order to create synergies, develop concrete
local or global solutions, and thus accelerate the transition to a lowcarbon economy.

The Global Climate Action Agenda is led by two high-level
champions who set out a vision. Selected for a two-year term by
the COP presidencies, the champions work together to:
make the Global Climate Action Agenda visible at a high level;
connect the actors;l encourage new initiatives.
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The two champions are supported by a team from the UNFCCC
Secretariat responsible for:
 rganizing meetings between the actors of the Global Climate Action Agenda;
omonitoring the progress of climate initiatives;l 
writing different documents to report on the Global Climate Action Agenda;l 
ensuring the coherence of the many international climate meetings indifferent regions of the world.
ll279
Regions

2 659
Companies

952
Investors

9 450
CitiesNUMBER OF ACTORS

977
Organizations
93
Cooperatives
initiatives

14 41021 955Emissions
Reduction59%

TOTAL ACTIONS

Bonds
Insurance
14%

CarbonPrice
14%

Renewable
Energy10%

Resource
Consumption
1%
EnergyEfficiency
3%

Source : climateaction.unfccc.int

NAZCA is the platform that identifies the individual and collective commitments
made within the Global Climate Action Agenda.
Global Climate Action Portal:

unfccc.int/sites/default/files/resource/Summit-to-Summit-Programme.pdf

Newsletter of the Marrakech Partnership:

A FOLLOW-UPTOOLThe Global Climate Action Portal, formerly known as NAZCA, relaunched today with a newinteractive map and country profile pages.

Published annually, the Yearbook takes stock of the Global
Climate Action Agenda’s progress and presents a selection ofactions and initiatives. This document demonstrates that significant
progress in the fight against climate change is at work and contributes
to the achievement of the Paris Agreement’s objectives.

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All the actors involved in Global Climate Action meetseveral times during the year. COP are the climax ofthese exchanges, with specific sequences dedicated to
the Global Climate Action Agenda.

GLOSSARY
These sequences make possible a link, including at a high politicallevel, between the climate negotiations conducted by the States andthe European Union and the actions of Non-State Actors.
Launched at COP23, the Talanoa Dialogue represents an opening of
the climate negotiations: Non-State Actors are now able to actively
participate and submit their ideas on how national governments canimprove their greenhouse gas emission reduction targets and adaptation actions.
Regional Climate Weeks are a lever to mobilize States and NonState Actors. This networking at the regional level (Asia, Africa, Latin
America) promotes the deployment of solutions around common
issues to a continent or a regional community.
Climate action is also developing through complementary meetingsof the Global Climate Action Agenda, such as the One Planet Summit
and the G7 Summit.
The One Planet Summit is an initiative of the President of the French
Republic, launched in 2017. It brings together public and private
actors around the core issue of climate financing.
The G7 summit or "Group of 7" brings together Canada, France,Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States.
This summit is a meeting place where France promotes Global
Climate Action initiatives.

Talanoa Dialogue

launched in 2017 at COP23
by the Fijian Presidency. It is
named after the word used inFiji and the Pacific to describe
an open, participatory andtransparent dialogue. The goal
is to share stories, develop
empathy and make wise
decisions for the common good.
Within the UN framework, thisdiscussion format was establishedat COP24 to collectively assess
progress towards achieving theParis Agreement’s objective.
The Talanoa Dialogue is structured
around three questions:> Where are we now?
> Where do we want to go?
> How do we get there?
Given the success of theDialogue, the format could be
renewed in the future.

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AMONG THESE ACTORS, WHICH ONE IS NOTPART OF THE NON-STATE ACTORS (NSA)?

4 THE GLOBAL CLIMATE ACTION AGENDA IS...

A | Local governments (regions, departments,municipalities)|B National governments (countries)
C | Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)
D | Companies

A | Collaborations between Non-State Actors
and States on climate change
B | Climate negotiations between States
C | A list of actions to be undertaken
between each COP

2DURING WHICH COP WAS THE
MARRAKECH PARTNERSHIP FORMALIZED?

A | COP21 in France in 2015
B | COP22 in Morocco in 2016
C | COP23 in Germany, under the Fijian presidency, in 2017

IS THE GLOBAL CLIMATE AGENDA
3 HOW
FOR ACTION ALSO CALLED?
A | The timetable for action
B | The Marrakech Partnership for Global
Climate Action|C The Action Directory

5WHERE CAN WE FIND THE COMMITMENTS OFTHE GLOBAL CLIMATE ACTION AGENDA?

A | In the Yearbook, an annual document
B | On the NAZCA online platform
C | There are too many to identify

6) HOW MANY HIGH-LEVEL CLIMATE CHAM6PIONS ARE SIMULTANEOUSLYDEVELOPING THE GLOBAL CLIMATE ACTION AGENDA?
A | 1
B| 2
C| 3Answers: 1/b ; 2/b ; 3/b ; 4/a ; 5/b ; 6/b10

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