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A new report by ecbi assesses key outcomes from COP27, focusing on discussions and decisions related to ambition, finance, loss and damage, and the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA). The report explains that, while COP27 failed to move the needle closer to the temperature goal of 1.5°C, it did result in an historic (and unexpected) decision to establish a fund and funding arrangements to respond to loss and damage for those most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Other...
20 March 2023
ecbi has published its latest Annual Report covering the period April 2021 through December 2022. The Bonn Seminar, Fellows Colloquium, and the Oxford Seminar took place during the report period, all convening for the first time since before the pandemic. In late 2021, the Danish government agreed to provide funding for echo's Phase V for 2022-2025, which followed a 2021bridging grant from the Swiss government. ecbi and Perspectives Climate Research co-hosted a workshop on Supporting Adaptation Through Article 6 of...
20 February 2023
Malik Amin Aslam Khan, former Pakistani Minister for Climate Change (pictured in photo), has sent an open letter to the Board of the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (IC-VCM) calling for the proposed Share of Proceeds (SoP) as a Core Carbon Principle (CCP) of the VCM to also include a Loss & Damage (L&D) Response component. He reiterates his support for letters from AOSIS and the least developed countries (LDCs) and from the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF), the...
25 January 2023
The decision to establish a Loss and Damage Response Fund in Sharm el Sheikh has been hailed as “historic” in the multilateral climate regime, and recognises that loss and damage is not a future threat, but a reality that many countries, particularly developing countries, face today. Paragraph 7(a) of that decision ( Decision -/CP.27 -/CMA.4 ), requests the Secretariat to conduct two workshops in 2023 relevant to addressing loss and damage, while paragraph 7(c) invites Parties and relevant organizations to...
24 January 2023
