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Our Rights Can’t Be In (Brackets) / Nuestros derechos no pueden estar entre (paréntesis) (ECO 2, SB56)
7 Jun 2022
ECO is happy to share this part of our publication with the Indigenous Peoples Caucus(IPO) to help amplify their voice. This article reflects the views of the IPO. The International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change is back in Bonn for in-person climate action call! We all witnessed the regression of climate actions during the […]
Adaptation: A Short-Lived Honeymoon / Adaptación: Una luna de miel de corta duración (ECO 2, SB56)
7 Jun 2022
Yesterday morning, ECO started the day full of hope and energy, eager to join the class reunion. On its way to the World Conference Center in Bonn (WCCB), ECO enjoyed the bright sunshine and happily greeted old and new UNFCCC friends, while patiently waiting for its SB56 badge. After all, this was a special moment: […]
Recipe for Success for the Glasgow Dialogue on Loss and Damage / Receta para el éxito en el Diálogo de Glasgow sobre Pérdidas y Daños (ECO 2, SB56)
7 Jun 2022
Today is the day to demand results from the most critical compromise of COP26: after G77+China demanded a Loss and Damage finance facility, they were fobbed off with the Glasgow Dialogue. Now ECO came across this great recipe for preparing a successful Glasgow Dialogue that can at least live up to its potential. A filling […]
Short Message from IPCC to the Structured Expert Dialogue, Global Stocktake and Mitigation Work Programme (and Everyone else): 1.5°C is Still Possible if Action and Ambition Get Substantially Increased / Breve mensaje del IPCC al Diálogo Estructurado de Expertos, al Inventario Global y al Programa de Trabajo de Mitigación (y a todos los demás): 1,5°C aún es posible si se aumenta sustancialmente la acción y la ambición(ECO 2, SB56)
7 Jun 2022
Yesterday, IPCC lead authors gave a presentation to Parties on the Working Group II contribution to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) , focusing on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability. The scientists delivered a grim message: human-induced climate change is causing dangerous and widespread disruption affecting the lives of billions of people, with people and ecosystems […]
Article 6.8: The Youngest is Always the Hottest Sibling / Artículo 6.8: El menor es siempre el hermano más atractivo (ECO 2, SB56)
7 Jun 2022
Article 6.8 fans, today is your day! And for those who aren’t fans yet, here are some reasons you should be and ideas to bring forward in today’s workshop: Article 6.8 has often been left behind in the negotiations with Parties focusing on the market mechanisms contained in other parts of Article 6. But 6.8 […]
A message from Stockholm+50: Transform systems, phase-out fossil fuels, build a just transition / Un mensaje de Estocolmo+50: transformar los sistemas, eliminar los combustibles fósiles y construir una transición justa(ECO 1, SB56)
6 Jun 2022
Celebrating 50 years since the first UN conference on the environment, Kenya and Sweden, supported by UNEP, co-hosted last week Stockholm+50 – a UN conference on how to accelerate the 2030 agenda and the SDGs. The Stockholm+50 key recommendations should guide negotiators in Bonn. Particularly Recommendation 3, which reads: “Adopt system wide change in the […]
The emissions that Paris forgot / Las emisiones que París olvidó (ECO 1, SB56)
6 Jun 2022
If someone wanted to paint a picture of the disfunctions and failure of multilateralism in preventing a climatic disaster, they would find a target-rich environment in the global efforts to control emissions for international shipping and aviation. Contrary to popular misconception, these emissions were not left out of the Paris Agreement. In fact, emissions from […]
Transforming to Adapt / Transformando para adaptarse (ECO 1, SB56)
6 Jun 2022
‘Transformation refers to a change in the fundamental attributes of natural and human systems’ (Source: IPCC AR6) Everybody agrees that to deal with and respond to the climate crisis, there needs to be transformation in the systems that have led us to where we are now. And that includes the UNFCCC. Twenty-eight years of business […]
Is Germany dodging its climate finance commitments? / ¿Alemania está eludiendo sus compromisos de financiamiento climático? (ECO 1, SB56)
6 Jun 2022
For the Paris Agreement’s implementation, mutual trust is a key ingredient. This holds true also with regard to commitments made by developed countries to provide climate finance to developing countries. Now, ECO remembers well, that time last year when developed countries finally acknowledged that they had not kept their promise to ramp up climate finance […]
Groundhog Day: the Glasgow Dialogue must not repeat the Suva Expert Dialogue! / Día de la marmota: ¡el Diálogo de Glasgow no debe repetir el Diálogo de Expertos de Suva! (ECO 1, SB56)
6 Jun 2022
Under the climate agreements, if you want to access climate finance to install solar panels to mitigate your greenhouse gas emissions, you can access the climate facility to purchase the panels. If your house is threatened by increased flood risk, you can access climate finance to raise your house to adapt, again paid for by […]