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ecbi has published a policy brief on Bulk Purchasing as a Climate Finance Multiplier with Lessons from Small Island Developing States, Article 6.8, and Climate Technology Deployment. It updates ecbi's 2021 Policy Brief on International Bulk Purchasing as an NMA: Using Article 6.8 of the Paris Agreement to reduce the cost of climate technology, which proposed international bulk purchasing as a non-market approach (NMA) under Article 6.8 of the Paris Agreement. The authors argued that aggregating demand for climate technologies...
15 September 2026
ecbi held its 2026 Oxford Seminar from 26–28 August at the Examination Schools, University of Oxford. Forty-two participants from 26 countries — 16 developing and 10 European — took part, joined by representatives of ecbi and of academic and legal-support organisations. Women made up 55% of participants.
Held annually since 2005 and conducted under the Chatham House Rule, the Seminar brings invited negotiators from developing and European countries together in an informal setting ahead of the year's Conference of...
01 September 2026
A new opinion article, published in Climate Home News on 4 August 2026, draws on the findings and recommendations of ecbi’s policy report, Quo Vadis COP? Future Arrangements for Intergovernmental Meetings under the UNFCCC – Settled and Fit for Purpose: 2024 Update, by Benito Müller, Jen Allan, Matthias Roesti, and Luis Gomez-Echeverri.
“Is FOMO undermining climate diplomacy?” distils one of the report’s central arguments: that the annual UN climate conferences have evolved into three distinct events—a negotiating session, a...
08 August 2026
On 15 June, the UNFCCC Secretariat at the UN Campus in Bonn convened an informal discussion on the future of COPs and climate multilateralism, with practical reforms to strengthen the implementation role of the UN climate regime at the centre of the discussions.
The meeting brought together a small group of experts and thought leaders to reflect on how the UNFCCC process can remain effective as it transitions from negotiating agreements to supporting their implementation.
ecbi Director Benito Müller presented new...
18 June 2026
