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CMA’s L&D rAPA
8 May 2018
Boum chAPAlakalaka Boum chAPAlakalaka (cursive font) Hey CMA, this is for you! Address loss and damage as you all agreed to 8.2 are the words you should heed To give WIM guidance and authority Boum chAPAlakalaka Boum chAPAlakalaka (cursive font) If you don’t want L&D under the APA Just agree in Bonn to […]
A Common Timeframe Needed to Decide the Common Timeframe
8 May 2018
ECO is getting worried that the negotiators do not have a common view on the timeframe issue to make a decision on the Common Timeframes. How ironic is it to negotiate on common timeframes without a common timeframe for adopting a decision? ECO believes that a good timeframe for this decision to be made would […]
Food for Thought: Some Reflections on Predictability
6 May 2018
On the first day of week 2, ECO would like to help answer a crucial question: what actually makes climate finance predictable? Well, ECO definitely thinks that part of the answer is for countries to provide the relevant information to show how they intend to scale up climate finance. But predictability is also about creating […]
Remember Talanoa
6 May 2018
Yesterday, 105 non-Party stakeholders and 210 Party representatives came together for the Talanoa Dialogue. Fighting negotiation fatigue, vitamin D deficiency, and hangovers from the CAN party the night before, these gallant individuals approached the dialogue with open hearts and minds. Luckily, ECO could follow along remotely €“ listening to all 7 work-streams addressing each of […]
Supporting Civil Society and Civil Rights in Katowice
6 May 2018
ECO congratulates Mr. MichaÅ‚ Kurtyka on his nomination as the COP24 president and looks forward to the opportunities this week brings for Parties and civil society to meet the upcoming presidency. With high stakes for this year’s COP €“ both in relation to the level of ambition and to the implementation of the guidelines, the […]
G77 Paves the Way for Robust Climate Finance Accounting
6 May 2018
For too long donor reports on climate finance have been based on a mishmash of approaches and some questionable methodologies. This resulted in over-counting support in many donor reports. Reaching an agreement on a new set of rules at COP24 presents a long overdue opportunity to address this and build confidence that the US$100 billion commitment […]
Like a job interview – uncomfortable but full of opportunities
6 May 2018
We can see you’re a little nervous, jittery even. During the first week of negotiations, APA item #5 on the enhanced transparency framework discussed the facilitative and multilateral approach to progress and whether the registered observers would be allowed to contribute and provide added-value to the process by posing questions to Parties. ECO […]
Racing Down the Path to 1.5°C Through Ambitious LTS
4 May 2018
ECO was pleasantly surprised with yesterday’s country announcements on long-term strategies (LTS) during the opening plenary session of the Talanoa Dialogue. AILAC and the EU both clearly marked LTS as solutions for tackling climate change. ECO believes such strategies allow countries to structure what they’re going to do to tackle climate and outline how they’re […]
Ludwig: Equity is not a soup can.
4 May 2018
Ludwig is well known to be a lover of modern art, especially of Andy Warhol, who famously said that “art is what you can get away with.” Consequently, he was delighted to see that Australia obviously sha
It’s the finance, stupid
4 May 2018
The writing is on the wall – we need finance and (non-insurance) financial instruments to address loss and damage! The COP has given the ExCom a clear mandate to use the Suva Expert Dialogue (SED) to work on enhancing finance (and other means of support) for vulnerable countries and communities. Developing countries and […]