This briefing, from Sanitation and Water for All, is structured among the three key tracks of climate negotiations at COP28: 1)
Adaptation-Resilience; 2) Mitigation; 3) Climate Financing. It provides key insights on water supply,
sanitation and hygiene across those three tracks for the benefit of COP28 country delegations. Its
primary expected audience is water, sanitation, hygiene and health partners that are part of COP28
preparations and/or willing to brief climate counterparts and negotiators involved in COP28
discussions and negotiations.
The first Global Stocktake of the implementation of the Paris Agreement will conclude at COP 28.
Each stocktake is a two-year process that happens every five years, with the aim of assessing the
world’s collective progress towards achieving its climate goals (i.e., keeping the global temperature
increase below 1.5 C, and progressing towards a Global Goal on Adaptation). This first Global
Stocktake takes place at the mid-point in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development and its SDGs, including Goal 13 (climate action).
There are clear impacts of climate change on water-sanitation-hygiene services exposing
vulnerable populations, but there are also huge opportunities to contribute to global mitigation
and adaptation goals by building a low carbon and climate resilient water and sanitation sector.