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The Mitigation Work Programme – A Manual From ECO / Programa de Trabajo de Mitigación (MWP) – Un Manual desde ECO (ECO 7, SB56)
13 Jun 2022
First, let’s go back to the main class textbooks. The IPCC Impacts Report tells us with very high confidence that “the magnitude and rate of climate change and associated risks depend strongly on near-term mitigation and adaptation actions, and projected adverse impacts and related losses and damages escalate with every increment of global warming”. Our […]
Rules are Rules / Reglas son Reglas (ECO 7, SB56)
13 Jun 2022
For the last six years, ECO diligently followed and engaged in the development of the Article 6 rules leading up to their adoption in Glasgow. So imagine our surprise when, in the first post-adoption negotiation session, we heard Parties already trying to bypass said rules. It’s been a long and winding road to determine what […]
The N-C-Q-G Tongue Twister: Articulation of Needs Is Crucial / El trabalenguas N-C-Q-G: La articulación de las necesidades es fundamental (ECO 7, SB56)
13 Jun 2022
ECO has been waiting excitedly to engage in THE hot finance ticket for week two (and practising it aloud every morning in anticipation): the second Technical Expert Dialogues for the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG). ECO has also been thinking hard about the new goal, and we’ve come up with four elements, to ensure we […]
Five Messages for the Second Periodic Review / Cinco mensajes para el segundo examen periódico (ECO 7, SB56)
13 Jun 2022
The all-important Long-Term Global Goal (LTGG) aims to hold the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C and pursues efforts to limit it to 1.5°C. Parties have agreed to periodically review the adequacy of the LTGG as well as the progress towards achieving it. ECO has listened very carefully to the presentations […]
Loss and Damage Finance Mythbuster / Cazador de mitos sobre la financiación de pérdidas y daños (ECO 6, SB56)
13 Jun 2022
ECO has been listening keenly in Chamber Hall and the Glasgow Dialogue breakouts over the past few days, eager to see progress on addressing Loss and Damage. But it seems some delegates still haven’t wrapped their heads around the needs of frontline communities (either that or they’re experiencing a major 4 o’clock sugar-crash, with no break […]
Refusing to ‘take note of’ 5% of global emissions / Negándose a “tomar nota” del 5% de las emisiones mundiales (ECO 6, SB56)
13 Jun 2022
Normally in the UNFCCC, ‘taking note of’ a report is the lowest form of recognition. For the reports that ICAO and IMO submit in advance of every SB session, on their efforts to control emissions from international shipping and aviation emissions, the regular response used to be a terse single line conclusion ‘taking note of’ […]
An Emergency Rescue Plan: Not ERP, but MWP (aka the Mitigation Work Program) / Un Plan de Rescate de Emergencia: No ERP, sino MWP (también conocido como Programa de Trabajo de Mitigación) (ECO 6, SB56)
13 Jun 2022
Walking along the never-ending Bonn corridors, ECO has picked up a question in the air: what is the difference between the Mitigation Work Program (MWP) and the Global Stocktake (GST)? And let’s say it loud and clear. No, they are not the same!Yes, they are complementing each other! And yes, certainly the Mitigation Work Program has to […]
We All Win When Agroecology Is In / Todos ganamos con la agroecología (ECO 6, SB56)
13 Jun 2022
Maybe ECO is a bit obsessed with the term ‘agroecology’. Maybe – but rightly so. Agroecology is a term that should appear in a Koronivia decision because it is a working model already implemented around the world, as both a necessity and a solution to many problems. Indeed, agroecology is a science, a practice and a holistic […]
Paris Stallers Must Show the Love / Los que se quedan en París deben demostrar amor (ECO 5, SB56)
11 Jun 2022
What would you do with a partner that time and again broke their promises to you? After a while, a bad relationship must end. But what if you couldn’t leave? What if your life (or, in this case, all life on Earth) depended on making it work? This is where we stand with countries that […]
EU Parliament: No Deal NOW on Emissions Trading System Better Than a Bad Deal / Parlamento de la UE: No tener acuerdo AHORA sobre el sistema de comercio de emisiones es mejor que un mal acuerdo (ECO 5, SB56)
11 Jun 2022
The Bonn session and upcoming international gatherings, such as the G7 and the Petersberg Dialogue, are critical for getting an ambitious and just outcome at COP27. Climate impacts, rising energy prices, energy insecurity and fossil-fuel related wars demonstrate the urgent need to move quickly from fossil fuels to renewable energies to bring the world in […]