2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29)

Positioned as one of the flagship reports of the UN Secretary General’s Early Warnings for All (EW4All) initiative, the joint Technology Executive Committee (TEC) and the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) policy brief highlights the essential role of climate technology policies and scalable fit-for-purpose technology solutions in improving climate information and disaster risk knowledge, enhancing the effectiveness of multi-hazard early warning systems (MHEWS).

Access the policy brief here.

The joint policy brief:

• Provides overview of the relevant technology policy and implementation needs and priorities of countries, including analysis of national action and planning documents, including NDCs, NAPS and TNAs;
• Showcases a wide array of scalable technology measures, platforms and services and their applications for improving risk knowledge and information to advance MHEWS in different country or regional contexts;
• Presents key findings and recommendations for Parties, international organisations and stakeholders to scale up policies and implementations with fit-for-purpose technology solutions.

Key Messages and Recommendations

The brief’s executive summary, which also serves as TEC’s key messages and recommendations for consideration at COP29 and CMA6. offers a high-level summary of the key findings and recommendations for Parties, international organisations and all stakeholders to scale up innovation and MHEWS technology solutions with six action points:

• Consider MHEWS technologies when preparing and updating NDCs, NAPs, TNAs and other documents;
• Invest in multisectoral technology solutions;
• Leverage international initiatives and public-private partnerships;
• Support the integration of technologies into projects to promote local stakeholder engagement;
• Build the technical capacity of stakeholders in developing countries;
• Leverage the global community of scientific experts and innovators