Below are remarks delivered by UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell following the adoption of the agenda at the UN June Climate Meetings, Sixty-second session of the Subsidiary Bodies (SB62), in Bonn, Germany, on Tuesday 17 June 2025.
Colleagues - time is short, so I will skip my formal statement of welcome. It will be posted on the website instead.
I will just say this: The past 30 hours have been hard. And have not reflected the urgency that we face.
Yes, the issues have been complex, as they usually are.
But now we have consensus.
Through cooperation and compromise, we have resolved the impasse.
In parallel, work has been proceeding on important mandated events.
- The GGA workshop
- The Ocean Dialogue
- And the workshop under the Sharm el-Sheikh Dialogue
We must now move the work ahead.
This means we will need to make up time. We are working on practical ways to help you do so, including extending the availability of these facilities.
I will make only one other point:
Even if imperfect, even if no country or group gets everything it wants, climate multilateralism has delivered clear progress at each recent COP.
But clearly more is needed, and faster. And we need to demonstrate to the world that climate cooperation can deliver. Now more than ever.
And if we want COP30 to take us another global step forward, we need the next eight days to deliver concrete progress, across all aspects of the agenda.
Time is short, so let's get to work.
I thank you.
