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The 2024 Oxford Seminar, ecbi’s annual flagship event, took place from 28-30 August at the Examination Schools, with 30 participants attending in person—15 developing country Fellows and 15 European representatives. Of these, 22 (73%) were women. Two regional group chairs and the Chair of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice also participated. The Seminar was preceded by the annual Fellows Colloquium, which took place at Magdalen College from 26-28 August and provided the opportunity for the Fellows to...
12 September 2024
ecbi and International Peace Institute have published a Discussion Note, titled Could US Port Authorities Adopt Climate Solidarity Levies? A Case Study of New York City and Los Angeles. The note explores the potential for implementing Climate Solidarity Levies (CSLs) at the sub-national level in two major US cities: New York and Los Angeles. CSLs are proposed as innovative sources of funding for addressing loss and damage caused by climate change, particularly through the newly established multilateral Fund for responding to...
10 September 2024
Perspectives Climate Research and ecbi have published a briefing note on Finding Common Ground on the New Quantified Collective Goal on Climate Finance (NCQG) that governments are expected to finalise in Baku in November at the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC (COP29). This explores the state of play of the negotiations, Parties’ priorities, and areas of contention, emphasising areas where common ground can be found and concrete progress achieved. For example, it focuses on, among others: structure of the...
15 August 2024
ecbi has published a Discussion Note, highlighting some of the contentious issues in advance of COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan. COP29 is expected to deliver on key decisions, which are necessary for advancing achievement of the goals of the Paris Agreement, including those related to the new collective quantified goal on climate finance (NCQG), the mitigation work programme (MWP) and ambition in countries’ nationally determined contributions (NDCs), the just transition work programme (JTWP), the global stocktake (GST) outcomes, Article 6 of the...
26 July 2024
