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ecbi has published its 2024 Annual Report. The Bonn Seminar, Fellows Colloquium, and Oxford Seminar took place during the report period, covering a range of issues of relevance to the intergovernmental climate negotiations. ecbi also published numerous discussion notes, policy briefs, and blog posts, including on the future of the intergovernmental process with an an update to its 2021 Quo Vadis COP? report. ecbi also published reports on the new collective quantified goal on climate finance and on the proposed...
The 2025 ecbi New Delhi seminar, which took place at the India International Centre on 6 January 2025, focused on: future arrangements for the UN climate change process to make it fit for purpose; and the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) for climate finance.
Benito Müller, ecbi Director, opened the seminar by remembering long-term Co-Chair of the ecbi Advisory Committee, Ambassador Bo Kjellén from Sweden, who passed away peacefully on 26 December 2024.
Future Arrangements under the UNFCCC
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It is with great sadness that I have to report that our dear friend and tireless supporter, not least as long-term co-chair of the ecbi Advisory Committee, Ambassador Bo Kjellén from Sweden, passed away peacefully on 26 December 2024 with his family by his side .
Bo was chief negotiator for the Swedish Ministry of Environment from 1990 and head of the Swedish delegation during the preparations for the Rio Conference in 1992 and the Conference itself, and for the climate negotiations under the...
ecbi has published an update to its 2021 report Quo Vadis COP? Future Arrangements for Intergovernmental Meetings under the UNFCCC – Settled and Fit for Purpose (March 2021), which was premised on the fact that the purpose of the multilateral climate negotiations had shifted from negotiating multilateral treaties to implementing them. This shift of focus needed to be reflected in a shift in the role and functioning of the involved multilateral bodies, in particular the Conference of the Parties (COP)...