Date: Friday, June 12, 2026
Time: 13:30-18:00 CEST
Location: Bonn, Germany, and online (Zoom)
As countries pursue the 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement, the focus is shifting from setting ambitious targets to ensuring that transition pathways are equitable, financially viable, and implementable across diverse contexts. This requires navigating constrained public finances, rising debt, uneven access to climate finance, and evolving geopolitical dynamics, while closing the gap between global pathways and national policy realities.
This workshop, hosted during SB64, comes at a particularly critical moment. The First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels in Santa Marta, Colombia highlighted that while the global energy transition is accelerating and increasingly irreversible, countries still face significant structural dependencies, financial constraints, and geopolitical risks that hinder implementation. With a growing coalition of countries now focused on turning commitments into action, the need for practical, equitable, and financeable transition pathways has never been more urgent. In addition, with insights emerging from the first Global Stocktake and the latest round of NDCs, 2026 is a critical moment to help shape the analytical and policy foundations for the 2028 Global Stocktake.
Against this backdrop, this NEWPATHWAYS workshop will convene stakeholders from policy, academia, civil society, industry, and finance to explore:
- How can global and national climate pathways be better aligned to support coherent and policy-relevant climate action?
- How can equity and finance considerations be effectively integrated into mitigation pathways, particularly given limited fiscal space, rising debt burdens, and uneven access to finance?
- How can transition challenges such as overshoot, carbon dioxide removal (CDR), and the shift away from fossil fuels be addressed within feasible and sustainable pathways?
- How can fair burden-sharing and international equity principles guide climate strategies under shifting geopolitical dynamics and diverse national contexts?
If you’re interested in attending either in-person or online, please contact Ms. Theofania Troupi at theofania.troupi@climatestrategies.org.
