Connecting GST outcomes and COP28 workstreams

Every five years, the Global Stocktake (GST) assesses collective progress towards the Paris Agreement’s long-term goals. Examining mitigation, adaptation, means of implementation and support, response measures, and loss and damage, the GST takes stock of actions and support to inform greater ambition towards an equitable global climate response. The outcome of the first GST forms the core of the broader UAE Consensus, significantly overlapping with many COP28 workstreams. This paper analyses the complex GST decision, exploring how it connects to other COP28 workstreams. However, the litmus test of the GST’s ambition is in its implementation. The paper argues that effective implementation needs to be inter-connected, within the UNFCCC, in national-level action and across the broader landscape. →