Context
Climate change is a global challenge that affects all countries, but its impacts are felt more severely in developing countries, and by specific social groups. The extent of the efforts and cooperation required to mitigate the harmful effects of climate change are significant. South-South cooperation refers to the framework of collaboration between developing countries in the political, economic, social, cultural, environmental, and technological realms. It is a platform for countries, international organizations, civil society, academics and the private sector to exchange knowledge, skills, resources, and successful practices in a variety of fields. The concept of South-South cooperation has emerged as a significant tool for achieving sustainable development, including addressing climate change challenges.
The 6th Capacity-building Talk will offer a space to explore challenges and share good practices of climate action capacity-building provided in the framework of South-South cooperation. South-South cooperation can play an important complementary role to North-South cooperation in enhancing capacities in developing countries to implement effective climate action. This has been highlighted in a joint report by the United Nations Executive Office of the Secretary-General and the UNFCCC secretariat on “Catalysing the Implementation of NDCs in the Context of the 2030 Agenda through South-South Cooperation”, as well as through a series of reports by the UNFCCC Technology Executive Committee on South-South and triangular cooperation on climate technologies.
Objectives
The 6th Capacity-building Talk aims to bring together a wide range of stakeholders involved in capacity-building. In addition to providing space for general reflections and perspectives on capacity-building for South-South cooperation, the session will specifically consider the following aspects:
1. Showcasing and discussing good practices from various capacity-building initiatives that unlock South-South cooperation for climate action and focus on retaining developing countries' capacities at the individual, institutional and systemic levels.
2. Exploring persistent challenges faced by South-South cooperation initiatives that aim to build climate capacities and ways to overcome them.
3. Recommendations and opportunities to build synergies and avoid fragmentation in initiatives, including with regard to better engaging key stakeholders, and facilitating their access to capacity-building support.
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