IUCN at the 62nd session of the Subsidiary Bodies to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
From 16 to 26 June 2025, IUCN is participating in the sixty second session of the Subsidiary Bodies to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC SB62).
Convened at the World Conference Centre in Bonn, Germany, UNFCCC SB62 will bring together over 5,000 government representatives and observers and lay the groundwork for ambitious outcomes to be achieved at UNFCCC COP30, to be held in Belém, Brazil in November 2025.
Parties will focus on a wide range of issues in Bonn. These include finalising indicators for assessing progress on the 2030 targets agreed under the Global Goal on Adaptation, enhancing ambition on climate finance through the Baku-to-Belém Roadmap to 1.3 T, and following up on the implementation of the Global Stocktake outcomes, including through progress on the mitigation and just transition work programmes, and the submission of new Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) due in 2025.
In addition, a number of important mandated events, workshops and dialogues, including on the respective linkages between climate change and gender, ocean, agriculture and food security, and Indigenous peoples and local communities, will be held during SB62. Other high-level briefings, roundtables and consultations will be also convened by the current and incoming COP Presidencies and the High-Level Champions on building greater climate ambition and action, including by enhancing synergies across the Rio Conventions.
In addition to following the negotiations, IUCN will be actively engaged in several of these discussions, especially to advance joint action on climate and nature. Some of the key sessions and events that it will participate in during SB62 include the following:
- 15 June: Technical information exchange on enhanced cooperation and policy coherence to support the implementation of the Rio Conventions (IUCN submission)
- 16 June: UAE-Belém work programme workshop on indicators under the global goal on adaptation (IUCN submission)
- 16/18/19 June: SB62 in-session workshop on gender and climate change (IUCN submission)
- 16/19 June: COP30 Presidency consultations on ‘Baku-to-Belém Roadmap to 1.3 T’ (IUCN submission)
- 17 June: SB62 in-session workshop on systemic and holistic approaches to implementation of climate action on agriculture, food systems and food security under SJWA (IUCN submission)
- 17 June: COP30 Presidency special event on ‘Bringing the legacy of Rio to Belem: opportunities for Rio Conventions synergies at COP30’
- 17/18 June: Ocean and Climate Change Dialogue (see IUCN’s key messages for UNOC3)
- 18 June: COP30 Presidency/High-Level Champions roundtable on Forests, Water, Oceans and Biodiversity
- 19 June: SB62 in-person meeting of Marrakech Partnership members and Climate High-Level Champions
- 19 June: Multistakeholder Dialogue on Nature Positive Energy Transition – Driving Synergies from Policy to Implementation convened by the CMS Energy Task Force (see here)
- 19/20 June: Annual Global Stocktake/NDC Dialogue 2025 (see latest Nature4Climate Guide for including Nature in NDCs)
- 20 June: Presidency event on 'From Baku to Belém: Driving Adaptation Ambition from Negotiations to Action' led by both the COP29 and COP30 Presidencies & Champions (see here)
- 21 June: 11th EbA Knowledge Day co-hosted by UNEP and IUCN (see here)
- 24 June: IUCN-led official SB62 side event on ‘Strengthening the Nature-Climate Nexus at COP30?’ (see here)
In addition, IUCN will host meetings of the ENACT Partnership and the Global EbA Fund and engage in various other nature-climate-related workshops and events. The IUCN delegation will also highlight the forthcoming IUCN World Conservation Congress as a key space and opportunity to continue building global momentum for joint-up policies and actions that benefit climate, nature and people.
