Caracas, Venezuela, July 7th, 2021, 02:00 PM
Virtual Format
In accordance with the resolution of the 19th Summit of Heads of State and Government, held on June 24th, 2021, the Ministers and High Level Authorities on Environment of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – Peoples’ Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP), having met in a virtual format with the purpose of drawing up the roadmap towards the celebration of the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and priority environmental issues, to be held in Glasgow, from October 31st to November 12th, 2021, agreed to:
ROADMAP
TOWARDS COP26
- Hold a 5-day working session during the second week of July among technical and political teams of negotiators from the ALBA countries, under the leadership of the Heads of Delegation, in order to assess and consolidate an ALBA-TCP position towards the COP26 in Glasgow from October 31st to 12th, and its presentation at intermediate events, as appropriate.
- Participate, in accordance with the COP26 agenda, with a joint ALBA-TCP position during the development of COP26, to be held in Glasgow, Scotland from October 31st to November 12th, 2021.
- Create a Youth and Climate Change group of the ALBA-TCP countries before August 5th, 2021, to coordinate joint action on priority environmental issues towards the Youth Conference on Climate Change, to be held from October 28th to 31st, 2021, whose modalities will be defined in due course.
- Develop an exchange among scholars and experts from ALBA-TCP countries in August to prepare a proposed position to be submitted for the approval of ALBA-TCP members on the impact of Unilateral Coercive Measures on the implementation of the Paris Agreement and on the right to sustainable development of the countries, essential elements for the fulfillment of the UNFCCC.
- Hold a meeting of the ALBA TCP Heads of Delegation on climate change to the UNFCCC in September with extra-regional partners of the ALBA TCP, promoting coordination of the position on climate change towards COP26 in Glasgow and other environmental issues (Like-Minded Developing Countries-LMDC, Russia, China, India, African Union), in September.
- Hold the 2nd “Re-establishing our Connection with the Mother Earth” International Forum in August in Caracas, to follow up on the first meeting held in La Paz, Bolivia, on April 22nd and 23rd, 2021, in order to adopt an ALBA TCP declaration on the Global South’s perspective on the protection and defense of Mother Earth.
- Hold the 3rd World People’s Conference on Climate Change in Tiquipaya (Cochabamba, Bolivia) within the framework of the “Urgent and Equitable Call to avoid climate collapse and the reconnection with Mother Earth” in October, with the participation of vulnerable groups to climate change: youth, women and indigenous peoples of the world, with the aim of adopting a statement with a view to the COP26 in Glasgow.