7th edition of MoCA begins in the backdrop of record heat waves and extreme flooding across the world
government representatives from some 40-odd countries, representing major negotiating groups, are in Brussels for the Ministerial on Climate Action (MoCA), jointly chaired by the European Union, China and Canada. The two-day informal ministerial, which begins today, is the first meeting since the UN climate talks Bonn in mid-June that saw sharp exchanges over addressing the need to reduce emissions and the provision of support particularly to developing countries to undertake climate action.
The ministerial will provide the UAE, hosts of the annual climate talks to be held later this year in Dubai, an opportunity to set out its priorities and roll out its plan for COP28. The seventh edition of the MoCA takes place at a critical moment, in the backdrop of record heat waves and devastation from extreme rainfall and flooding across the world, reports of budgetary cuts resulting in governments pulling back on their international climate commitments.
The urgency to act decisively and fast to reduce emissions, to phase out fossil fuel use makes it imperative for the UAE, which holds the COP28 presidency, to indicate its priorities and how it proposes to galvanise countries to act decisively on addressing the climate project. The Bonn talks were marked by an impasse between developed countries, which favoured formal discussion on emission reduction as proposed by the European Union against advanced developing countries, who organised under the banner of Like Minded Developing Countries (LMDC), pushed for formal discussions on finance.
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