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Our Blue Pacific 1.5 journey to COP28

- The Pacific Political Climate Champions

One Blue Ocean, One Blue Action and impact for the

Planet: The Ocean-Climate Paris Agreement: The Global

Nexus Stocktake

Fiji Prime Minister, Hon. Sitiveni Rabuka, is our Pacific Cook Islands Prime Minister, Mark Brown, is our Pacific
Political Climate Champion on the Ocean-Climate Nexus. Political Climate Champion on the Global Stocktake.
The ocean-climate nexus is growing in importance The global stocktake is about the status of implementation
but has always been a vital component of Pacific climate of the Paris Agreement. The basis of the Global Stocktake
resilience and livelihoods. It is vitally linked to our food is predicated upon science, and how adequate the global
security, economies, livelihoods, and cultural identity. community has been in meeting the overall goal of the Paris
Agreement, that of reach the 1.5 degree C temperature goal.
Our nations seek greater inclusion and implementation
of Ocean components in the UNFCCC negotiations, and Mobilising political momentum from the Pacific region to
for including measures to protect the ocean in National ensure the Global Stock meets this Goal must be translated
Adaptation Plans and Nationally Determined Contributions into urgent and meaningful action, such as the increasing and
critical need to reduce global emissions, is the core task for
We seek access and increased sustainable financing for
the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14 – the Global Stocktake champion.
Life below water. The results of the first global stocktake needs to catalyse
the direction the world needs to move toward the 2 Global
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Our Leaders will continue to rally, lead, and share best
practices and encourage respective Parties to commit to Stocktake.
Ocean action. The global stocktake is a cross-cutting inventory that
covers every issue under the Paris Agreement, such as Loss
and Damage, Ocean-Climate Nexus, Gender and Social
Inclusion, Just Transition, Adaptation, Mitigation, and Climate
Finance.
Importantly, the Global Stocktake champion will advocate
that COP28 sets robust and ambitious targets on that
pathway toward the 2 Global Stocktake Report in 2028.
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