UN Climate Change News, 20 February 2025- Building on the strong foundation laid by the Regional Climate Weeks of recent years, and recognizing the evolving needs of the climate agenda, the UNFCCC secretariat will resume its Climate Weeks in 2025, aligning them more closely with the intergovernmental process under the Convention and the Paris Agreement, while accelerating the translation to action on the ground of decisions adopted under the intergovernmental process.
Climate Weeks will be held twice in 2025 on a rotational basis in different regions, maintaining a global perspective while providing a space for dialogue, capacity-building, and showcasing innovative solutions to support the intergovernmental process and urgent, inclusive, and coordinated climate action.
The events will bring together representatives of Parties and non-Party stakeholders and will combine several UNFCCC-mandated events, as well as high-impact policy dialogues.
"This approach will help bridge the gap between technical dialogues and stakeholder engagement focused on real-economy solutions, and real-world implementation" said Simon Stiell, UN Climate Change Executive Secretary. "Ultimately, this approach aims to help the government-led process to deliver faster progress and concrete outcomes that benefit all economies and people's daily lives, while also delivering cost-savings in the process."
Climate Weeks will serve as a strategic intersessional space that will help to build political momentum, taking place prior to the UN June Climate meetings (SBs) and to the COP each year. They will elevate climate solutions, support implementation and ambition, and show the benefits of strong climate actions in people's daily life and the real economy.
The consolidated approach reduces the need for multiple, dispersed engagements, thereby streamlining participation and minimizing scheduling conflicts across the climate calendar. This will significantly improve cost-effectiveness, and reduce operational complexity and travel needs.
Climate Weeks will remain highly inclusive and open, and are expected to bring together Party representatives, non-Party stakeholders, and key actors whose roles are essential to the thematic discussions, mandated events and policy dialogues that will take place.
Climate Weeks in 2025
The substantive priorities identified for the 2025 Climate Weeks include fostering the space to promote, support, and accelerate the submission of ambitious NDCs before COP30, advancing climate finance as a driver of implementation and ambition, accelerating the submissions of National Adaptation Plans (NAPs), as well as the implementation of the Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF) through the delivery and review of Biennial Transparency Reports, driving forward discussions on gender, inclusivity, just transition, and access to public information and promoting the implementation of Article 6, among potential others.
Each Climate Week will feature a focused and structured programme, consisting of several mandated events, as well as training and capacity-building sessions, solutions-focused exchanges, and curated policy dialogues, all coming together to deliver on the focus areas of the Climate Week.
The first Climate Week of 2025 is envisaged to be held before June and the second Climate Week is envisaged to take place ahead of COP30.
