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ecbi has published a Policy Paper that analyses how the social integrity of the Voluntary Carbon Market (VCM) could be boosted through a “Share of Proceeds for Adaptation (SOPA)” to support the poorest and, particularly, the most vulnerable developing countries in adapting to the adverse impacts of climate impacts. The paper begins by discussing why shoring up VCM’s (social) integrity is important; focuses on the work of the Integrity Council of the VCM (IC-VCM); and identifies options on SOPA operationalisation,...
05 October 2023
On 26 September 2023, ecbi Director Benito Müller gave a presentation on Innovative Sources of Climate Finance at the first 2023 ‘Séminaire Environnement et Relations Internationales’ organised by the Centre for International Studies at Sciences Po, Paris. Given the urgency of providing financial support to the poorest and most vulnerable countries to respond to loss and damage from climate change and given the current global economic and fiscal situation, it is difficult to see how the new Loss & Damage...
27 September 2023
The ecbi Management Group is pleased to announce that Kishan Kumarsingh (Head of Delegation from Trinidad and Tobago) has been given leave by his government to take on the role of Head of the ecbi Fellowship and Trust-building Programme. Amb. Carlos Fuller from Belize has kindly agreed to take on Kishan’s previous role as developing country ecbi Chief Adviser. Kishan has been Trinidad and Tobago's lead climate change negotiator on climate change for the past 25 years. He has held...
19 September 2023
The 2023 ecbi Oxford Seminar convened from 23-25 August at St. Catherine’s College, with developing country and European negotiators discussing: the recent decision adopted by SBSTA58 and SBI58 to establish a Just Transition Work Programme (JTWP), including possible JTWP elements that could be agreed to in Dubai, main topics of discussion under the JTWP, and the role and outcome of the annual high-level ministerial roundtable on just transition; gender, including linkages between gender-responsive climate action and just transition for promoting...
27 August 2023
