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Despite the U.S. exit from the Paris Agreement, countries are maintaining their commitment to climate plans and aiming for a clean energy transition, according to UN climate chief Simon Stiell. He emphasized the need for stronger national climate plans and highlighted that countries like China, Brazil, and India are taking significant actions to reduce emissions. Stiell also noted the mobilization of $2 trillion in climate finance and called for increased funding to support climate efforts in poorer nations.

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Despite the U.S. exit from the Paris Agreement, countries are maintaining their commitment to climate plans and aiming for a clean energy transition, according to UN climate chief Simon Stiell. He emphasized the need for stronger national climate plans and highlighted that countries like China, Brazil, and India are taking significant actions to reduce emissions. Stiell also noted the mobilization of $2 trillion in climate finance and called for increased funding to support climate efforts in poorer nations.

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Countries staying committed to climate plans after US Paris pact exit, UN climate chief
says
By Lisandra Paraguassu and Valerie Volcovici
BRASILIA/WASHINGTON, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Countries are
staying committed to their national climate plans and looking
to lead the clean energy transition, as the United States plans
to exit the Paris climate agreement, the UN's top climate
official said in his first speech of the year on Thursday.

Simon Stiell, executive secretary of the UN Framework


Convention on Climate Change, laid out priorities ahead of
annual climate talks in November, and encouraged countries
to prepare stronger national climate plans this year, even
after U.S. President Donald Trump said he will remove the
world's second-biggest greenhouse gas emitter from the Paris
agreement.
"A country may step back, but others are already stepping into their place to seize the
opportunity, and to reap the massive rewards: stronger economic growth, more jobs, less
pollution and far lower health costs, more secure and affordable energy," Stiell said in a speech
in Brazil's capital Brasilia, alongside COP30 President Ambassador André Corrêa do Lago.

Asked about which countries are stepping up, Stiell says they will know at the end of the year,
as the countries deliver a new round of NDCs.

"The call is for greater ambition, for these plans to be economy wide. These will be the most
comprehensive climate plans ever developed, the third generation of NDCs. We'll be able to
give better commentary as we synthesize that toward the end of the year", said the UN
climate chief.

"But in terms of actions being taken, just looking at what is happening within the markets,
region by region, country by country, it's very clear, as I said, those that are pushing forward,
regardless of whatever rhetoric there is about those who wish to step back", he argued, citing,
for example, what China, Brazil and India are doing on reducing emissions.

Stiell said in the 10 years since the Paris Agreement was adopted, the world has become more
divided but the climate negotiation process has "managed to buck the trend."

Some governments have faced political backlash to climate policies. Green candidates in
Europe are losing support and the U.S. elected Trump, who campaigned against the Biden
administration's climate-centered agenda.

Even so, Stiell said the world has mobilized around $2 trillion in climate finance, money to
support poorer countries' efforts to reduce emissions and adapt to climate impacts, from
"nearly nothing" over the last decade. He called on countries to increase the amount of
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climate finance they agreed to target at last year's climate summit of $300 billion annually by
2035.

Stiell said the Paris Agreement provides all the mechanisms to drive countries to reduce
emissions, but recognizes it "lacks enforceability".

"And at the end of the day, it is for countries to nationally


enforce and manage. And what we're seeing there is that gap
between what needs to be done and what is being done", he
said.

Stiell said also that he expects the vast majority of countries


to submit new national climate plans under the Paris
agreement this year. The UNFCCC has a February 10 deadline
for submissions of those plans but many countries said they
would submit them later in the year.

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