Water community’s submission to the UNFCCC UAE Belem Work Programm

The Partners of the Water for Climate Pavilion are launching a call for submissions of short video clips from practitioners implementing water and sanitation programs on the ground, which contribute to climate adaptation objectives.

The UAE – Belém work programme on indicators to the GGA Framework should conclude at COP30, but heading into the negotiations, several aspects are still controversial. For ensuring the long-awaited holistic action that the world urgently needs on adaptation, Parties must decide on a robust and balanced set of indicators in the Water and Sanitation Target, and the GGA Framework as a whole.

At COP28, Parties adopted the UAE Framework for Global Climate Resilience or Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA), as part of the UAE Consensus, including a range of thematic and dimensional targets for climate adaptation and resilience, with importantly four targets relating to water and sanitation.

At COP28 - through the Global Stocktake and the Global Goal on Adaptation (GAA), environmental and civil society organizations demanded with unprecedented strength that decision-making parties deliver an adaptation implementation agenda.