Second Climate Week of 2025 kicks off in Ethiopia
Baku, September 4, AZERTAC
The Ethiopian capital of Addis Abba is playing host to the second Climate Week of 2025 (CW2) on September 1-6, 2025, immediately before the Second Africa Climate Summit (ACS2), under the theme “Dialogues for Ambition and Implementation.
Organized by UN Climate Change (UNFCCC) and hosted by Ethiopia, it is designed to translate climate ambition into tangible action, convening Parties, non-Party stakeholders, and practitioners from around the world.
Participants will share knowledge, forge partnerships, and explore globally relevant solutions, ensuring that discussions feed directly into African and global climate negotiations and implementation pathways, including ACS2 and COP30 in Brazil later this year.
This alignment offers the opportunity to connect the outcomes of CW2 with those of ACS2, integrating Africa’s ambitions into global climate frameworks and enabling opportunities for partnerships and investments.
COP29 Presidency is also attending the event. In her opening remarks, Nigar Arpadarai, UN Climate Change High-Level Champion for COP29 Azerbaijan, said that it was an absolute honour for her to represent COP29 Presidency at Second Climate Week of the year here in beautiful Addis-Ababa, adding that this important week is a starting point of the marathon with a finish line in Belem.
“The world today is unbalanced and fragmented. It’s filled with mistrust, conflict and sovereign egoism. With this in mind, it is doubly important that we managed to collectively take a number of historic decisions at COP29. We delivered groundbreaking decisions with the potential of promising results for climate action. We were guided by the principle of fairness to all and supporting the most vulnerable and least equipped to respond. We did our best to make sure that COP29 became a platform where the voice of Global South is heard and at the same time, the goals of COP remain in the focus of the work we do,” the UN Climate Change High-Level Champion for COP29 Azerbaijan mentioned.
“COP as a process is unique as it spans over decades and continents. It represents humanity’s largest systemic effort to overcome self-interest and develop a collective plan grounded in accountability and self-restraint.
To succeed, the COP process requires more than just time and financing — it demands fairness and honesty from all stakeholders.
To remain effective, it must continuously reinvent itself.
In this context, the finalization of the multi-year process on the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG), also known as the Baku Finance Goal, was a major milestone. That sets a target of at least $300 billion per year by 2035 to developing countries, lay out a bold ambition to scale up climate finance to at least $1.3 trillion per year by 2035. Together with the incoming COP30 Presidency, we are working on our key cross-presidency mandate: the Baku-to-Belem Roadmap to $1.3 trillion,” Nigar Arpadarai emphasized.
“Alongside the Baku Finance Goal, key decisions in Baku included agreements on Article 6, gender, adaptation, mitigation. We got the Loss and Damage Fund up and running and ready to distribute money in 2025 and many other critical achievements,” she noted.
“I firmly believe that technological advancement holds the key to revitalizing the Green Agenda. Innovation, driven by human talent and new economic opportunities, should be our focus—rather than relying solely on regulation and restrictions.
I would also like to mention that COP29 Presidency is hosting events on the margins of this Climate Week, with a particular focus on Africa. Among these is a high-level event dedicated to addressing Africa’s special needs and circumstances, which will take place on September 6 here in this building. This event is organized in line with the commitments made by the COP29 Presidency to raise awareness of Africa’s unique challenges throughout the year,” UN Climate Change High-Level Champion Arpadarai added.
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