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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
A new ecbi Discussion Note, entitled Sustainable Aviation Fuels - The Way Forward: From Biological to Synthetic Fuels , focuses on the key role Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAFs) play in meeting the aviation industry’s commitment to net-zero emissions by 2050. SAFs are “drop in” fuels that replace fossil-based fuels (kerosene) without the need to change aircraft engines or fuelling infrastructure. Synthetic SAFs, while today accounting only for a tiny proportion of jet fuel, could in the coming decades replace all...
26 August 2023
On 30 June in New York, the International Peace Institute (IPI), with Oxford Climate Policy (OCP), organised an event on Innovative Finance for Loss and Damage: Capitalizing the New Fund . During the event, participants discussed deficiencies and shortfalls in L&D funding, underscored innovative ways to capitalise on the new fund, argued that multiple solutions are needed, and presented several innovative options. Moderator Zaid Al-Hussein, IPI President and CEO, recalling that the decision in Sharm El-Sheikh on L&D financing is...
11 July 2023
