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It is with great sadness that I have to report that our dear friend and tireless supporter, not least as long-term co-chair of the ecbi Advisory Committee, Ambassador Bo Kjellén from Sweden, passed away peacefully on 26 December 2024 with his family by his side .
Bo was chief negotiator for the Swedish Ministry of Environment from 1990 and head of the Swedish delegation during the preparations for the Rio Conference in 1992 and the Conference itself, and for the climate negotiations under the...
31 December 2024
ecbi has published an update to its 2021 report Quo Vadis COP? Future Arrangements for Intergovernmental Meetings under the UNFCCC – Settled and Fit for Purpose (March 2021), which was premised on the fact that the purpose of the multilateral climate negotiations had shifted from negotiating multilateral treaties to implementing them. This shift of focus needed to be reflected in a shift in the role and functioning of the involved multilateral bodies, in particular the Conference of the Parties (COP)...
19 December 2024
On 4 and 5 December, ecbi Director Benito Müller attended a Workshop on Enhanced Direct Access (EDA) for Locally Led Adaptation (LLA) organised by Anju Sharma of the Global Center on Adaptation together with the Green Climate Fund and the Adaptation Fund in Nairobi Kenya. The meeting provided an opportunity to: hear the experiences of entities who have implemented EDA projects; provide inputs on ways in which the modality can be further streamlined; and generate ideas for future EDA proposals. Professor Müller...
05 December 2024
With ecbi set to publish an update to its 2021 report Quo Vadis COP? Future Arrangements for Intergovernmental Meetings under the UNFCCC – Settled and Fit for Purpose, many prominent people that are or have been involved in the climate process have signed onto a Club of Rome letter calling for reform to the COP process. Signatories include former UN Secretary-General Ban ki-Moon, former UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres, former President of Ireland Mary Robinson, and former...
19 November 2024
