Thematic Brief on Mitigation

Developed countries should support Least Developed Countries to build institutional and technical capacity to implement the Paris Agreement.

• Need to increase carbon prices and enhance the adoption of carbon pricing programs which are critical to reduce carbon emissions to keep the global temperature increase under 2 degrees Celsius. Carbon
pricing mechanisms should therefore be transparent, measurable and comparable.
• All Annex 1 countries should accelerate energy transitions, phase out fossil fuels, and undertake ambitious sectoral actions while making good on all their financial commitments.
• Parties especially the Developed countries should support just transitions to clean energy in developing countries.
The twenty-seventh session of the Conference of Parties

(COP 27), the seventeenth session of the Conference of Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the
Kyoto Protocol (CMP 17), and the fourth session of the Conference of Parties serving as the meeting of the
Parties to the Paris Agreement (CMA 4) is scheduled to take place at Sharm El Sheikh International Convention
Centre (SHICC), El Salam Road, in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt from 6 –18 November 2022. It is an opportunity
for the international community to catalyse the muchneeded progress on climate action and also a chance
to highlight Africa’s leadership in tackling climate change and its vision for a just and sustainable future that leaves
no one behind.