12 - 13 September 2023, Paris, France – The Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean (PAM) attended and contributed to the Climate Change Expert Group (CCXG) of the Global Forum on the Environment and Climate Change, organized by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and International Energy Agency (IEA). PAM’s Special Rapporteur on Energy Transition, Hon. Claire Pitollat, France, represented the Assembly.

The CCXG is a group of governmental delegates and experts from developed and developing countries, aimed at enhancing understanding of politically important technical issues in the international climate negotiations, and the implementation of the Paris agreement.

Following-up on its previous edition in March, this session of Global Forum focused on the mitigation work program (MWP), the new collective quantified goal (NCQG) on climate finance and the just transition work program and on the global stock take (GST1).

The event represented the occasion for PAM to engage and exchange with high-level international experts and climate stakeholders on different mitigation and adaptation strategies, while discussing strategies to reach a robust outcome on GST1 at COP28,

All delegates agreed on the need to continue and deepen similar technical discussion with relevant political stakeholders, in order to raise awareness on a number of crucial environmental issues, including the dangerous relation between sea-level rise, food security, damages to agriculture and land degradation, and promote urgent climate actions in this regard.

PAM’s participation in the discussions is a concrete sign of the Assembly’s commitment to encouraging more ambitious NDCs among its Members and a stronger outcome of the GST1 at the COP28, where PAM will join efforts with WTO to ensure that both the UAE Presidency and UN counterparts take into duly consideration in their proceedings the Euro-Mediterranean and Gulf peculiarities. //