19. Calls on OSCE participating States to take urgent and ambitious global climateaction to limit the increase in the average global temperature to 1.5˚C above pre-industrial levels;

20. Urges OSCE participating States to take measures to enhance and achieve theirNationally Determined Contributions under the Paris Agreement;

21. Encourages OSCE participating States to adopt ambitious targets for reachingnet-zero emissions and to establish legislative frameworks that underpin atransparent and accountable process for ensuring emissions reductions;

22. Notes the potential of low-carbon hydrogen as a means of reducing global GHGemissions, and calls on OSCE participating States to increase their investmentin technologies needed to support its production and use;

23. Emphasizes that a green energy transition must be just and beneficial for workersand that OSCE participating States should take proactive action to supportworkers and communities in the transition to a net-zero carbon economy;

24. Recognizes that transitioning to low-carbon economies is essential for the futureprosperity of OSCE participating States, and that carbon pricing provides anincentive to invest in renewable energy, energy efficiency, low-carboninfrastructure, cleaner energy production and technological innovation;

25. Stresses that developed countries must continue to support developing countrieswith climate-change adaptation and mitigation, including by increasing theirinternational climate finance commitments and by collaborating with multilateraldevelopment banks to leverage and attract more private-sector climate-relatedinvestment in developing countries;

26. Notes the particular threat that climate change poses to Arctic, northern andIndigenous peoples, and underscores that national and international climate-adaptation and mitigation measures and targets must be designed andimplemented in a spirit of genuine collaboration with these communities ofpeoples most affected by a changing climate;

27. Emphasizes the need to take into account the needs of women and girls, whoare disproportionately affected by climate change due to various forms of socio-economic inequalities, and to integrate a gender perspective in designingclimate-change adaptation and mitigation policies;

28. Urges OSCE participating States to continue to support investments in researchand development aimed at improving the commercial viability and emissions-reducing potential of carbon capture, utilization and storage technologies;

29. Reiterates the commitments of the European Union to expeditiously phase outthe import of Russian oil, diversify its energy sources to safeguard energysecurity, increase energy efficiency and resilience, and accelerate the greenenergy transition, while at the same time recognizes the right of everyparticipating State to choose the energy mix that best suits the structure of itseconomy and availability of natural resources;

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