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ecbi convened a regional workshop for negotiators from the Caribbean region from 18-20 March in Tobago. The workshop, which was attended by 16 negotiators from 10 countries, covered key issues of importance to the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) in the multilateral climate change negotiations under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Kishan Kumarsingh, Lead Climate Negotiator for Trinidad and Tobago and Head, ecbi Fellowship and Training Programme (FTP), said the goal of the workshop is to provide...
22 April 2025
ecbi has published a note, which summarises a series of Oxford Climate Policy Blog posts advocating for the formation of a Climate Solidarity Alliance (CSA) and implementation of Climate Solidarity Levies (CSLs) as a means of generating innovative and additional funding, in particular for climate-related loss and damage.
The CSA is envisioned as a partnership of national and sub-national actors who are willing to show solidarity with the poorest and most vulnerable to help them deal with climate change. A...
26 February 2025
On 12 February, ecbi Director Benito Müller made a presentation on Climate Solidarity Levies and Alliance at the Center for International Studies at Sciences Po in Paris, France. He spoke about the Climate Solidarity Alliance (CSA) proposal, which seeks to create a coalition of national and sub-national actors willing to implement Climate Solidarity Levies. Modelled on the French air ticket solidarity tax originally proposed by French President Chirac and Brazilian President Lula in 2005, the levies would seek to generate innovative funding...
20 February 2025
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...
13 February 2025
