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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
In June 2024, ecbi Director Benito Müller introduced the proposal for a Climate Solidarity Alliance to a meeting of the Climate and Development Ministerial (C&DM) at Wilton Park, at the invitation of Christopher Bartlett from Vanuatu. In his pre-recorded message, which kicked off the session, Müller explained that the idea of such an alliance is based on a 20-year-old proposal for an air passenger levy to support developing countries deal with climate impacts through adaptation. While the original idea was...
02 July 2024
