We must also address the challenges that hinder financial support for women, girls, and marginalized groups. This includes ensuring a fair transition and finding solutions to broaden access to finance. The program will also examine accountability mechanisms to turn promises and ambition into tangible results. The main objectives for this day are:

To reach the scale that is needed and will put forward a Presidential agenda to showcase specific innovate approaches to close the finance gaps, especially where it is needed the most. This will include scaling up private financing for investing into climate transition to support inclusive as sustainable economic growth.

The Presidency together with the High-Level Champions, with the support from the Marrakech Partnership, and the UNFCCC secretariat aim to provide an integrated thematic program this year. It will notably be framed by the vision of the COP28 Presidency described in its letter to the Parties, and take into account the Climate Action Pathways, the Breakthrough Agenda, and the Sharm El Sheikh Adaptation Agenda , in order to drive the systemic transformations needed in every thematic area to fulfill the Paris Agreement. The High-Level Champions and the UNFCCC secretariat will be soon announcing the Marrakech Partnership and the Global Climate Action program for COP 28, which will be part of this full two-week thematic program.

This thematic day at COP28 will focus on three key aspects: scaling up efforts, improving access, and enhancing affordability. This will involve reforms to the international financial system, the delivery of enhanced concessional support, the development of sustainable finance markets, and strengthening voluntary carbon markets. Additionally, COP28 will introduce trade as a means for climate-smart, equitable growth, including supply chain decarbonization, transition, and resilience.

The COP28 Presidency is pleased to share preliminary information on a first set of events planned for the thematic program at COP28 across the two weeks of the conference. The events are a product of guidance from a diverse set of stakeholders on the outcomes they would like to see under each thematic day, also reflecting inputs from the open consultation process earlier this year. This draft program will be supplemented with additional events in several tranches over the coming months, including mandated events under the UNFCCC process. As the Presidency is looking into maximizing synergies, some event topics may change or be merged. The COP28 thematic program is designed to unite a diverse range of stakeholders - all levels of governments, youth, business and investors, civil society, frontline communities, indigenous peoples, and others - around specific solutions that must be scaled up this decade to limit warming to 1.5 degrees, build resilience, and mobilize finance at scale. This set of solutions constitutes the response to the Global Stocktake, looking where the world stands on climate action and support, identifying the gaps, and working together to agree on solutions pathways to 2030 and beyond.