Implementation Lab: Latin America and Caribbean Regional Climate Week
13 May 2021 | Virtual

As part of the mandate given at COP 25 to improve the Marrakech Partnership for enhancing ambition, the High-level Champions, Gonzalo Muñoz, High-Level Champion of the COP 25 Presidency of Chile, and Mr. Nigel Topping, High-Level Champion of the COP 26 Presidency of the United Kingdom, conducted a process to gather feedback from Parties and non-Party stakeholders to develop their vision and strategy for collectively striving for a 1.5 degree, resilient world. This process has demonstrated that the High-Level Champions have a key responsibility to converge non-Party stakeholders and provide a bridge to national governments, highlighting opportunities and solutions for implementation. Providing this bridge is one of the key functions of an improved Marrakech Partnership[1], facilitating an implementation and ambition loop using the Climate Action Pathways[2] and Race-to-Zero Breakthroughs[3] as the basis for collaboration. In light of this role, the Champions will be piloting “Implementation Labs” to be held during Regional Climate Weeks.

Net-zero Investment Lab: Public and Private Sector Collaboration on Accelerating Green Investment in SIDS
30 March 2021 | 23 February 2021 | Virtual

Since the Earth Summit in 1992, Small Island Developing States (SIDS) have been recognised as a special category of countries that have unique circumstances and needs arising from the adverse impacts of climate change. Furthermore, the COVID-19 pandemic has crippled the SIDS economies and livelihoods. The Alliance of Small Islands States (AOSIS) has been the moral advocate and champion on high climate ambition for the island nations and has achieved remarkable accomplishments on global climate change and sustainable development agenda, including the formation of UNFCCC, Kyoto Protocol and most recently Paris Agreement. SIDS have committed to transitioning key sectors to ensure they meet the 1.5°C goal, as reflected in the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), including ambition towards 100% renewable energy targets. Launched at the UN Climate Action Summit in 2019, the “Accelerating Renewable Energy Transition in SIDS” initiative committed to transition to ambitious sustainable energy targets by 2030, by leveraging the SIDS Lighthouses Initiative (LHI).

Pacific NDC Dialogue: Enhancing and Implementing the Pacific SIDS Commitments to the Paris Agreement through Energy Transformation
23 February 2021 | 23 February 2021 | Webinar

The Small Island Developing States played a pivotal and cohesive role in the lead up to the adoption of the Paris Agreement and were amongst the first countries to ratify and submit their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).

Technical Webinar Series-Transforming SIDs Power System through VRE
29 October 2020 | 29 October 2020 | Webinar

This webinar was an initiative by IRENA to support Small island developing states in their transition to a sustainable energy future. It aims to outreach our publication “Transforming small island states” and share results and recommendations of some of the grid assessment studies conducted in the recent past for Islands.

Energy Transformation in Small Island Developing States Towards Sustainable and Climate Resilient Post-Pandemic Recovery
15 September 2020 | 15 September 2020 | Webinar

Ministers, high-level representatives of Small Island States (SIDS) along with partner countries, and multilateral institutions met virtually on 15 September 2020, 8:00 – 9:30 EST, to discuss Energy Transformation in SIDS towards Sustainable and Climate resilient Post-Pandemic Recovery as part of the webinar series of the UN Climate Action Summit’s Energy Transition Track . The series were organized by the Governments of Denmark and Ethiopia as co-chairs of the Energy Track.