The document discusses the Mitigation Work Programme established at COP26 to urgently scale up climate change mitigation ambition and implementation this decade. It recommends the programme have a clear timeline to 2030 with initial focused activities up to 2024, including sectoral benchmarks to identify gaps from 1.5°C pathways. It also calls for complementarity between the Mitigation Work Programme, HLMR, and GST to mobilize adequate finance, technology, and capacity building for effective implementation of climate actions.

1. Session B1: Mitigation work programme –
Enhancing ambition and implementation
Climate Change Expert Group (CCXG)
Global Forum on the Environment and Climate Change
13-14 September 2022
Manjeet Dhakal (Advisor to the LDC Chair)

2. Ambition for 1.5°C
• The world has already warmed by 1.1°C due to human made
climate change.
• IPCC WG1 report confirmed that the 1.5°C limit is still within
reach, which requires deep and sustained emission reductions to
decline by ~45% from the 2010 level by 2030
• Global GHG emission in 2030 are projected to
be 15.9% higher compared to 2010 level,
taking into account implementation of the
latest NDCs
• We urgently need faster emissions cuts to
2030.
Fig: NDC Synthesis Report, UNFCCC (25 Oct 2021)

3. Glasgow Climate Pact mitigation outcome
'Glasgow Climate Pact’ has set a way forward for how to close the
emission gap to limit temperature increase to 1.5°C, including by
• Requesting Parties to revisit and strengthen the 2030 targets in their
NDCs as necessary to align with the PA temperature goal by end of
2022
• Urges Parties that have not yet done so to communicate long-term
greenhouse gas emission development strategies (LTS) by CMA4
• Calls upon Parties to accelerate efforts towards phasedown of
unabated coal power and phase-out of inefficient fossil fuel subside
• Established the Work Programme to urgently scale up mitigation
ambition and implementation in this critical decade.

4. MWP to facilitate enhanced ambition and implementation of NDCs
• A timeline to 2030 is critically important
• Establish multi-year programme with initial 2 years focused activities up to 2024 setting out
concrete calendar of activities and clear milestones
• After reviewing the performance and effectiveness of 2 years’ work programme in 2024, the
CMA should adopt 2nd phase of the work programme for the remaining period of 2025 onward
• Structured around sectoral focus
• Especially important for high-emitting sectors
• Action within sectors to be included in further NDC updates
• Support sectoral benchmarking to identify gap to 1.5oC pathways
• Complementarity and linkage between three processes – MWP, HLMR and GST
• Role of the HLMR and relationship to MWP
• Relationship between MWP and GST
• Creating enabling conditions for effective implementation of mitigation actions
through mobilization of adequate support in terms of finance, technology and
capacity building

5. Other areas to consider on MWP
• Focus on urgency in this decade for scaling up ambition and
implementation
• Informed by latest science - peak emissions asap and halve
GHG emissions by 2030
• Processes should facilitate sharing of sectoral best practices
and enable capacity building
• Tracking of progress on closing gaps to 1.5°C pathways and
alignment with long term targets (LTS)
• Major emitters have critical role to play, such as G20
responsible for almost 80% of global emission