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Draft CMA decision proposed by the President

The Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Paris
Agreement,
Emphasizing the importance of multilateralism in tackling climate change and the
crucial role of international cooperation in implementing the Paris Agreement to the highest
possible ambition,
Acknowledging the devastating impacts of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic and
the importance of ensuring a sustainable, resilient and inclusive global recovery, showing
solidarity particularly with developing country Parties,
Also acknowledging that climate change is a common concern of humankind, Parties
should, when taking action to address climate change, respect, promote and consider their
respective obligations on human rights, the right to health, the rights of indigenous peoples,
local communities, migrants, children, persons with disabilities and people in vulnerable
situations and the right to development, as well as gender equality, empowerment of women
and intergenerational equity,
Noting the importance of ensuring the integrity of all ecosystems, including the ocean
and the cryosphere, and the protection of biodiversity, recognized by some cultures as Mother
Earth, and noting the importance for some of the concept of ‘climate justice’ when taking
action to address climate change,
Guided by equity and common but differentiated responsibilities and respective
capabilities, in the light of different national circumstances,
Expressing appreciation to the Heads of State and Government who participated in
the World Leaders Summit in Glasgow and for the increased targets and actions announced
and the commitments made to work together and with non-Party stakeholders to accelerate
action in key sectors by 2030, noting that some Parties chose to endorse the Glasgow Leaders’
Declaration on Forests and Land Use1 and the Breakthrough Agenda,2
Recognizing the important role of civil society, including youth and indigenous
peoples, in addressing and responding to climate change, and highlighting the urgent need
for action,

I. Science
1. Recognizes the importance of the best available science for effective climate action
and policymaking;
2. Welcomes the contribution of Working Group I to the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change Sixth Assessment Report and looks forward to the related forthcoming
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports;
3. Expresses alarm and concern that human activities have caused around 1.1 °C of
warming to date, that impacts are already being felt in every region, and that the carbon
budget consistent with achieving the Paris Agreement temperature goal is being rapidly
depleted;

1 Available at https://ukcop26.org/glasgow-leaders-declaration-on-forests-and-land-use/.
2 Available at https://ukcop26.org/cop26-world-leaders-summit-statement-on-the-breakthrough-
agenda/.
 4. Stresses the urgency of increased ambition and action in relation to mitigation,
adaptation and finance in this critical decade to address the gaps in the implementation of the
long-term goals of the Paris Agreement;

II. Adaptation
5. Notes with serious concern the finding from the contribution of Working Group I to
the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Sixth Assessment Report that every
additional increment of global warming worsens climate and weather extremes and their
impacts on people and nature;
6. Recognizes that adaptation needs will continue to increase with the severity of impacts
in line with rising temperatures;
7. Emphasizes the urgency of scaling up action and support to enhance adaptive capacity
and reduce vulnerability to climate change in line with science and the priorities and needs
of developing country Parties;
8. Welcomes the adaptation communications and national adaptation plans submitted to
date, which enhance the implementation and understanding of adaptation actions;
9. Requests Parties that have not yet done so to submit their adaptation communications
pursuant to decision 9/CMA.1 ahead of the twenty-seventh session of the Conference of the
Parties (November 2022) so as to provide timely input to the first global stocktake;
10. Reaffirms that, pursuant to Article 7, paragraph 13, of the Paris Agreement,
continuous and enhanced international support shall be provided to developing country
Parties including for developing and implementing their national adaptation plans, adaptation
communications and other actions;
11. Invites the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to present to the Conference
of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement at its fourth session
(November 2022) the findings from the contribution of Working Group II to its Sixth
Assessment Report relevant to assessing adaptation needs and calls upon the research
community to further the understanding of global and local impacts of climate change,
response options and adaptation needs;
12. Welcomes the Adaptation Committee’s work on approaches to reviewing the overall
progress made in achieving the global goal on adaptation reflected in its 2021 report,3 carried
out in accordance with decision 1/CMA.2, paragraph 14;
13. [Placeholder for paragraphs on the global goal on adaptation on completion of CMA
decision];

III. Adaptation finance

14. Notes with serious concern that the current provision of climate finance for adaptation
is insufficient to respond to worsening climate change impacts in developing country Parties;
15. Urges developed country Parties to urgently scale up their provision of climate
finance for adaptation so as to respond to the needs of developing country Parties as part of
a global effort;
16. Recalls Article 9, paragraph 4, of the Paris Agreement and calls upon developed
country Parties to at least double their collective provision of climate finance for adaptation
to developing country Parties as a step towards achieving a balance between mitigation and
adaptation in the provision of scaled-up financial resources;
17. Calls upon the private sector, multilateral development banks and other financial
institutions to enhance finance mobilization in order to deliver the scale of resources needed
to achieve climate plans, particularly for adaptation, and encourages Parties to continue to

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 explore innovative approaches and instruments for mobilizing finance for adaptation from
private sources;
18. Welcomes recent commitments made by many developed country Parties to increase
their provision of climate finance to support adaptation in developing country Parties in
response to their growing needs;
19. Recognizes the importance of the adequacy, predictability and sustainability of
adaptation finance, including the value of the Adaptation Fund in delivering dedicated
support for adaptation, and invites developed country Parties to consider multi-annual
pledges;
20. Welcomes the contributions [of USD 350 million] made to the Adaptation Fund,
which significantly exceed its mobilization target and represent significant progress
compared with previous efforts;
21. Also welcomes the contributions [of USD 413 million] to the Least Developed
Countries Fund, which significantly exceed its mobilization target and represent significant
progress compared with previous efforts;

IV. Mitigation
22. Reaffirms the Paris Agreement temperature goal of holding the increase in the global
average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to
limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels;
23. Recognizes that the impacts of climate change will be much lower at the temperature
increase of 1.5 °C compared to 2 °C and resolves to pursue efforts to limit the temperature
increase to 1.5 °C, recognizing that this requires meaningful and effective action by all Parties
in this critical decade on the basis of the best available scientific knowledge, reflecting
common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities in the light of different
national circumstances;
24. Also recognizes that limiting global warming to 1.5 °C by 2100 requires rapid, deep
and sustained reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions, including reducing global
carbon dioxide emissions by 45 per cent by 2030 relative to the 2010 level and to net zero
around mid-century;
25. Welcomes efforts by Parties to communicate new or updated nationally determined
contributions and long-term low-emission development strategies that demonstrate progress
towards achievement of the Paris Agreement temperature goal, and further welcomes
commitments to reduce emissions in high-emitting sectors and achieve net zero emissions by
or around mid-century;
26. Notes with serious concern the synthesis report on nationally determined
contributions under the Paris Agreement,4 according to which the aggregate greenhouse gas
emission level, taking into account implementation of all submitted nationally determined
contributions is estimated to be 13.7 per cent above the 2010 level in 2030;
27. Emphasizes the urgent need for Parties to increase their efforts to collectively reduce
emissions through accelerated action and implementation of domestic mitigation measures
in accordance with Article 4, paragraph 2, of the Paris Agreement;
28. Decides to establish a work programme to urgently scale-up mitigation ambition and
implementation during the critical decade of the 2020s;
29. Urges Parties that have not yet submitted new or updated nationally determined
contributions in accordance with decision 1/CP.21, paragraphs 23-24 to do so as soon as
possible in advance of the twenty-seventh session of the Conference of the Parties (November
2022);

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 30. Recalls Article 4, paragraphs 3 and 11, of the Paris Agreement, and urges Parties to
revisit and strengthen the 2030 targets in their nationally determined contributions, as
necessary to align with the Paris Agreement temperature goal by the end of 2022;
31. Requests the secretariat to produce an updated version of the synthesis report on
nationally determined contributions under the Paris Agreement annually;
32. Decides to convene an annual high-level ministerial round table on pre-2030
ambition, beginning at CMA 4 (November 2022);
33. Urges Parties that have not yet done so to communicate, by CMA 4 (November 2022),
long-term low greenhouse gas emission development strategies in accordance with Article 4,
paragraph 19, of the Paris Agreement that set out pathways with plans and policies towards
just transitions to net zero emissions by or around mid-century in line with the Paris
Agreement temperature goal;
34. Notes the importance of aligning nationally determined contributions with long-term
low greenhouse gas emission development strategies;
35. Invites Parties to regularly update these strategies in line with the best available
science;
36. Requests the secretariat to prepare a synthesis report on long-term low greenhouse gas
emission development strategies under the Paris Agreement for consideration by the
Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement at its
fourth session (November 2022);
37. Calls upon Parties to accelerate the phasing-out of coal and subsidies for fossil fuels;
38. Invites Parties to consider further opportunities to reduce non-carbon dioxide
greenhouse gas emissions;
39. Emphasizes the critical importance of nature-based solutions and ecosystem-based
approaches, including protecting and restoring forests, to reducing emissions, enhancing
removals and protecting biodiversity;
40. Invites the Secretary-General of the United Nations to convene world leaders in 2023
to consider ambition to 2030;
41. Recognizes that enhanced support for developing country Parties will allow for higher
ambition in their actions;

V. Finance, technology transfer and capacity-building for

mitigation and adaptation
42. Urges developed country Parties to provide financial resources to assist developing
country Parties with respect to both mitigation and adaptation, in continuation of their
existing obligations under the Convention, and encourages other Parties to provide or
continue to provide such support voluntarily;
43. Acknowledges the growing need of developing country Parties, in particular due to the
increasing impacts of climate change and increased indebtedness as a consequence of the
coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, and calls for greater support to be channelled through
grants and other highly concessional forms of finance;
44. Emphasizes the need to mobilize climate finance from all sources to reach the level
needed to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement, including significantly enhanced support
for developing country Parties, beyond USD 100 billion per year;
45. Welcomes recent commitments made by many developed country Parties to increase
their provision of climate finance in 2021–2025 and looks forward to these Parties providing
greater clarity on these commitments through their next biennial communications under
Article 9, paragraph 5, of the Paris Agreement;
46. Urges the operating entities of the financial mechanism, multilateral development
banks and other financial institutions to further scale-up investments in climate action and
 calls for continued increase in the scale and effectiveness of climate finance from all sources
globally;
47. Welcomes the first report on the determination of needs of developing country Parties
related to implementing the Convention and the Paris Agreement and the fourth biennial
assessment and overview of climate finance flows by the Standing Committee on Finance;
48. Welcomes the initiation of deliberations on a new collective quantified goal on climate
finance [Placeholder: dependent on outcomes of CMA 8(e) New Collective Quantified Goal];
49. Underscores the importance of these deliberations being informed by further work to
understand and accelerate the actions required to address the financing needs of developing
country Parties and to make finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse
gas emissions and climate-resilient development, building on the work of the Standing
Committee on Finance;
50. Emphasizes the challenges faced by many developing country Parties in accessing
finance and encourages further efforts to enhance access to finance, including by the
operating entities of the Financial Mechanism;
51. Notes the specific concerns raised with regard to eligibility and ability to access
concessional forms of climate finance and re-emphasizes the importance of the provision of
scaled-up financial resources, taking into account the needs of developing country Parties
that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change;
52. Encourages relevant multilateral institutions to consider how vulnerability to the
adverse effects of climate change could be reflected in the provision and mobilization of
concessional financial resources;
53. Underscores the urgency of making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards
low greenhouse gas emissions and climate-resilient development in a transparent and
inclusive manner that leads to sustainable growth;
54. Calls upon developed country Parties, multilateral development banks and other
financial institutions to accelerate the alignment of their financing activities with the goals of
the Paris Agreement, noting the need for commitments to be informed by the best available
science and in line with efforts to ensure sustainable development and the eradication of
poverty;
55. Acknowledges the progress made on capacity-building, particularly in relation to
enhancing the coherence and coordination of capacity-building activities towards the
implementation of the Convention and the Paris Agreement;
56. Recognizes the need to continue supporting developing country Parties in identifying
and addressing both current and emerging capacity-building gaps and needs, and to catalyze
climate action and solutions to respond;
57. Also welcomes the outcomes of the “COP26 Catalyst for Climate Action Assembly”
and the strong commitments made by many Parties to take action forward;
58. Further welcomes the joint annual reports of the Technology Executive Committee
and the Climate Technology Centre and Network for 2020 and 2021 and invites the two
bodies to strengthen their collaboration;
59. Emphasizes the importance of technology development and transfer for the
implementation of mitigation and adaptation action, and the importance of predictable,
sustainable and adequate funding for the Technology Mechanism;

VI. Loss and damage

60. Acknowledges that climate change has already and will increasingly cause loss and
damage and, as temperatures rise, impacts from climate and weather extremes, as well as
slow onset events, will pose an ever-greater social, economic and environmental threat;
 61. Reiterates the urgency of scaling up action and support, including finance, technology
transfer and capacity-building, for implementing approaches for averting, minimizing and
addressing loss and damage associated with the adverse effects of climate change in
developing country Parties that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate
change;
62. Urges developed country Parties, operating entities of the Financial Mechanism,
United Nations and intergovernmental organizations and other bilateral and multilateral
institutions, including non-governmental organizations and private sources, to provide
enhanced and additional support for activities addressing loss and damage associated with
climate change impacts;
63. Recognizes the importance of technical assistance in building capacity to implement
approaches to averting, minimizing and addressing loss and damage;
64. Welcomes the further operationalization of the Santiago network for averting,
minimizing and addressing loss and damage associated with the adverse effects of climate
change, including the agreement on its functions and process for further developing its
institutional arrangements;
65. Acknowledges the important role of a broad range of stakeholders at the local, national
and regional levels, including indigenous peoples, in averting, minimizing and addressing
loss and damage.
66. [Placeholder: Outcomes of Ministerial consultations]

VII. Implementation
67. Resolves to move swiftly with the full implementation and delivery of the Paris
Agreement;
68. Welcomes the start of the global stocktake and expresses its determination for the
process to be comprehensive and inclusive, address necessary structural and systemic change,
and increase ambition as part of a global effort based on equity and the best available science;
69. Encourages the high-level champions to support the effective participation of non-
Party stakeholders in the global stocktake;
70. [Placeholder - welcome completion of the Paris Rulebook]
71. Urges Parties to swiftly make the necessary preparations for ensuring timely reporting
under the enhanced transparency framework in line with Article 13 of the Paris Agreement
and the timelines set out in decision 1/CMA.1;
72. [Placeholder on support for enhanced transparency framework reporting
requirements]
73. Recognizes the need to take into consideration the concerns of Parties with economies
most affected by the impacts of response measures, particularly developing country Parties,
in line with Article 4, paragraph 15, of the Paris Agreement;
74. Also recognizes the need to ensure a just transition towards a low-carbon future and
the creation of decent work and quality jobs, including through the alignment of financial
flows with the Paris Agreement, deployment and transfer of technology, and provision of
appropriate support to developing country Parties;

VIII. Collaboration
75. Recognizes the importance of international collaboration on innovative climate action,
including technological advancement, across all actors of society, sectors and regions, in
contributing to progress towards the objective of the Convention and the goals of the Paris
Agreement;
76. Also recognizes the important role of non-Party stakeholders, including civil society,
indigenous peoples, youth and other stakeholders, in contributing to progress towards the
objective of the Convention and the goals of the Paris Agreement;
77. Encourages continued and strengthened collaboration between Parties and non-Party
stakeholders;
78. Invites Parties and stakeholders to ensure meaningful youth participation in decision-
making processes;
79. Welcomes the improvement of the Marrakech Partnership for Global Climate Action
for enhancing ambition;
80. Commends the high-level champions for their leadership and actions to date to
facilitate the scaling up and introduction of new and strengthened voluntary efforts by non-
Party stakeholders;
81. Acknowledges the work of the secretariat engaging with non-Party stakeholders and
improving the Non-State Actor Zone for Climate Action platform to also support
accountability and track progress of voluntary initiatives;
82. Emphasizes the important role indigenous peoples’ knowledge and experience can
play in effective action on climate change and urges Parties to actively involve indigenous
peoples in implementing climate action and to engage with the second three-year workplan
of the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform for 2022–2024;
83. Takes note of the estimated budgetary implications of the activities to be undertaken
by the secretariat referred to in this decision;
84. Requests that the actions of the secretariat called for in this decision be undertaken
subject to the availability of financial resources.