The UN Climate Change secretariat’s 2022 Annual Report highlights achievements and milestones by the secretariat and the intergovernmental Process in addressing the climate emergency, and towards achieving the long-term objectives of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement.

The 2022 edition covers the historic decision taken at COP27 to establish a dedicated fund and funding arrangements for addressing loss and damage, stepping up adaptation and transparency support, and the logistical operations that went into organizing COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh – among the largest climate change conferences to date.

Special features chart the thirty-year journey of the UNFCCC Process and preparatory work towards the first global stocktake, while opening words by the UN Secretary-General António Guterres and UN Climate Change Simon Stiell provide context to the secretariat’s work in the wider, global push to tackle climate change and its impacts.

The report also looks ahead to 2023 which will see the conclusion of the first global stocktake, work to operationalize the loss and damage fund and funding arrangements, and progress on the mitigation work programme and towards the global goal on adaptation.

Dedicated sections cover the secretariat’s efforts to enhance efficiencies in the Process as well as the secretariat’s organizational structure, staffing and financial performance during 2022.

This is the secretariat’s sixth report and it aims to further enhance the understanding of the secretariat’s work for a broad range of stakeholders on our accomplishments, and also the challenges and opportunities of addressing climate change.

A shorter, mandated summary version of the Annual Report was also submitted to the UNFCCC Subsidiary Body for Implementation and is available at the link below.