HAC members came together in the margins of #Petersberg2024 to discuss how our members can work together to deliver results on key issues this year, including climate finance, 1.5-aligned NDCs, and adaptation, and how we turn the promises of #COP28 into reality.

Our statement from Chair Minister John Silk, at the close of #COP28 🔽

#FossilFuelPhaseOut #ClimateAction

We cannot accept latest GST text. Need way forward that ensures we meet 1.5C-scaled up climate finance esp. for adaptation & phasing out fossil fuels with differentiation. This text doesn’t set clear pathway for either. GST meant to ratchet ambition, where is the ambition? #COP28

#COP28 draft text reax

“The Marshall Islands did not come here to sign our death warrant.

'We came here to fight for 1.5C and for the only way to achieve that: a fossil fuel phase out. What we have seen today is unacceptable.

John Silk, minister from Marshall Islands

We welcome the endorsement of We Mean Business Coalition for our 2023 Leaders statement, lending the weight of 200 businesses to:

🌎 #FossilFuelPhaseOut
🌏Abatement🚫greenlighting fossil expansion
🌍Just & equitable transition, clean energy access
🌍Drastic adaptation
🌎Finance mobilisation

'There can be no more pretense that 2 degrees is an acceptable future. We must be bold and deliver a phase out of the consumption & production of fossil fuels - all fossil fuels - and deliver access to clean, renewable energy for all.' Min. John Silk, Marshall Islands

#COP28

'Adaptation is an essential part of a successful outcome at COP28. I am convinced: we need a strong framework on #adaptation that focuses on people, livelihoods and ecosystems. ' Leonore Gewessler 🇦🇹🌎

#COP28

'A lowest common denominator outcome is unacceptable to this group. We must urgently ramp up our ambition across all areas. The very integrity of the Paris Agreement is at risk.'

Minister John Silk at HAC Press conference today

#COP28 #FossilFuelPhaseOut

En la Plenaria de la #COP28 , hicimos un llamado para que las negociaciones que le interesan a los países, sean más abiertas. Es urgente, que revisemos el modelo financiero mundial y los efectos que la deuda está generando en economías como la nuestra.

'The reality we need to face and actually embrace is that we have to phase out fossil fuels, period.' —Wopke Hoekstra, EU climate chief, just made it clear in Dubai that the EU won't settle for fossil fuel 'phase down' language in the final #COP28 text. It's 'phase out' or bust.

HAC Ministers & Envoys met over dinner at the mid-way point through #COP28 . We are united and fighting for:

🌎1.5C = non-negotiable
🌍A guiding star on adaptation
🌏 #FossilFuelPhaseOut & an energy package that leaves no one behind
🌏Transformational finance

#1.5ToStayAlive

3 Pacific Ministers of the High Ambition Coalition say that tripling renewables is needed, but it isn't enough on its own - we need a #fossilfuelphaseout .

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unclimatesummit.org/tripling-renew…

🇵🇼Today at #COP28 , President Surangel Whipps Jr. President Surangel Whipps, Jr. of Palau delivered these remarks at our press conference, calling for a commitment to 1.5, a #FossilFuelPhaseOut , ambition on adaptation in order to save lives, a new deal on #climatefinance , & more.

Full remarks🔽

Press Conference today at 1:00 Dubai time.

If you're at COP, we'll be in Press Conference Room 1 - otherwise you can watch online here:
unfccc.int/COP28/schedule…

#COP28 #ClimateAction #COP28 UAE #Cop28Dubai

Our response to this 1st #GlobalStocktake will have a decisive impact on the likelihood of staying under 1.5C with no overshoot.

We carry the burden to urgently course-correct for present & future generations. We must not fail.

Full statement➡️shorturl.at/gmFKZ

#COP28