COP26 President-Designate and
Spain’s Deputy Prime Minister for the Ecological Transition
and the Demographic Challenge met on 12 May 2021 in
Madrid.
They released the following statement:
Today, despite the extraordinary times we are facing, we
jointly reaffirmed that it is crucial that we reinforce and
demonstrate that domestic and multilateral action needs to
be accelerated on the way to COP26 in Glasgow.
We underscored our determination to closely cooperate and
lead by example through our own socially just energy and
ecological transitions, and highlighted the need to
encourage increased climate ambition, especially from the
world’s major economies, in a context of cooperation and
global solidarity.
COP26 will be a crucial moment for establishing continued
trust in the multilateral process for addressing climate
action. In this context, we exchanged views on UNFCCC
Negotiations, taking into account the need to reach a
balanced outcome in Glasgow which lays the foundations for
an African COP in 2022.
We discussed the importance of scaling up international
climate finance and private investment for both mitigation
and adaptation as well as the crucial role of finance in
enabling action and ambition - on both emissions and
resilience - in all countries. This will be crucial in
building the trust of developing countries ahead of COP26.
Following Spain’s hosting of COP25, we also discussed the
COP26 Presidency’s commitment to working with all countries
to finalise the Paris Rulebook and successfully advance
wider negotiations issues, including the elements required
to drive increased ambition and transparency. We discussed
how Spain can help drive progress on all of these fronts
resolving that it is critical to work closely with all
parties in order to ensure the success we need in Glasgow.
