The first Global Stocktake (GST) is happening in the context of intersecting crises that are harming human rights across the globe. Climate impacts are occurring at an unprecedented scale and scientific reports confirm that we are far off track to keep global warming below 1.5°C, a limit that is already too high to really protect people and ecosystems. As thirty years of negotiations under the UNFCCC failed to address major drivers of the climate crisis such as fossil fuel production, and the Paris Agreement up until today has not delivered meaningful action, the GST is a crucial opportunity to change course from the dangerous direction we are headed, jeopardizing human rights and biodiversity at massive scale.
