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IMO Joins the Mitigation Party
4 May 2018
After 21 years of waiting and an almost doubling in growth of maritime greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions since the adoption of the Kyoto Protocol, members of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) finally committed last month “to reduce the total annual GHG emissions by at least 50% by 2050 compared to 2008″ while pursuing full decarbonisation […]
Cross Cutting GST for Climate Ambition
4 May 2018
In the GST negotiations, Parties have set themselves the task of better organizing their thoughts as currently captured in the co-facilitators” informal document. One way of doing this would be through clarity on which issues should be dealt with in separate work streams, and which should be considered cross-cutting and thus should be dealt with […]
C the Difference?: CGE – CBIT
4 May 2018
ECO, like all of you, wants a strong, robust, and flexible enhanced transparency framework. One of the elements necessary for building a strong enhanced transparency framework is capacity building and the provision of support for it. A good number of programs, initiatives, and efforts currently exist to support developing country Parties prepare their national […]
Koronivia: Seeding principles and harvesting guidelines for climate action in Agriculture
4 May 2018
Parties have started to develop roadmap and timeframe to take forward Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture (KJWA). Parties surely need no reminder that climate action under the Paris Agreement will kick off in 2020, and that agriculture will be one of the key components for many countries” NDCs in adaptation and mitigation. To ensure that […]
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 […]
The “Great 8” for People-Centered Climate Action
4 May 2018
While raising ambition has become the buzzword at the UNFCCC talks, ECO would like to encourage Parties to consider a more comprehensive definition of ambition. What if we measured successful climate action not only from a quantitative perspective (e.g. measured in tons of greenhouse gases and Dollars for climate finance?), but also from a qualitative […]
Time to bridge the GAP!
2 May 2018
Last November, ECO left Bonn on a hopeful note: Parties had agreed to #MindtheGAP. The what? Governments adopted the first-ever UNFCCC Gender Action Plan (GAP), another key milestone in the history of slow but steady inclusion of gender equality in the climate negotiations” arena. 2018 is about bridging the GAP. ECO counts on Parties to seize the […]
ACE Paris Implementation!
2 May 2018
Let’s start at the beginning: Article 6 of the Convention focuses on education, training and public awareness on climate change. So it was natural that in Paris, Parties included Article 12 which commits to “cooperate in taking measures, as appropriate, to enhance climate change education, training, public awareness, public participation and public access to information, recognizing […]