Assembly/AU/Dec.669(XXX) Page 2 7. APPLAUDS Fiji in collaboration with Germany for successfully hosting COP 23/ CMP13/CMA1.2 and APPRECIATES Germany for the additional contribution of €50 million to the Adaptation Fund announced at the meeting and ALSO RECOGNISES France for jointly hosting the One Planet Summit along with other key Partners in December 2017 and for mobilizing more resources to implement laudable initiatives and projects for climate action as part of the implementation of the Paris Agreement; 8. URGES developed country Parties to scale up the current levels of climate finance, through agreement among Parties on concrete pathways and accounting methodologies for achieving the collective goal by developed countries to mobilize USD 100 billion a year by 2020 and beyond, while striking a balance in the allocation of financial resources between adaptation and mitigation as a trust-building effort in the negotiations, and including a significant increase in grant-based support for adaptation and adequate support for capacity building and technology transfer; 9. STRESSES the importance of initiating substantive negotiations, immediately and prior to the completion of the Paris Work Programme, on the long-term finance goal for the post-2025 period, so as to ensure scaled up, additional and predictable levels of public finance to implement developing countries’ ambitious nationally determined contributions; 10. FURTHER URGES the Parties and the COP23 and COP24 Presidencies to expedite action on consultations involving specific needs and special circumstances of Africa, as mandated by COP22 to urgently reach consensus for support to the African populace, especially the most vulnerable communities such as women, youth and children to benefit from the implementation of the Paris Agreement; 11. CALLS ON all Parties to work together as 2018 is crucial in the context of Talanoa Dialogue and the need to advance work on the pre-2020 agenda and agree on the details of the 'Paris Rulebook', which will be announced at COP24 in Poland to deliver Planet Earth from the looming danger of slow and insufficient actions to deliver progress on the support to the developing countries especially Africa in the implementation of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs); and ALSO URGES Member States to facilitate the AMCEN and AGN members to participate in all negotiation processes towards the Talanoa (Facilitative Dialogue) and COP 24; 12. FURTHER URGES partners to support African countries in the implementation of their NDCs and laudable continental initiatives such as the High-Level Work Programme on Climate Change Action in Africa (WPCCAA) with components on Gender Women and Youth Programmes on Climate Change; Climate for Development in Africa (ClimDev-Africa) Programme Phase 2; and Africa Climate 30th Ordinary Session of the Assembly, 28- 29 January 2018, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia