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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
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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14 January 2025
