ecbi has published its Annual Report for 2025. An important milestone for ecbi, 2025 marked ecbi's 20th anniversary. The annual Bonn and Oxford Seminars convened as did a training workshop for novice negotiators from the Caribbean region. ecbi published an update to its Pocket Guide to Finance under the Paris Agreement, and several discussion notes, policy briefs and blog posts. These touched on such issues as the future of the intergovernmental process and the proposed Climate Solidarity Alliance and Levies, among others. ecbi Executive Director Benito Müller kept a busy schedule presenting on these issues at seminars, including in New Delhi and at Sciences Po in Paris.

Message from the Director

2025 marked a milestone for ecbi as we celebrated its 20th Anniversary. I had the opportunity to look back and highlight some of our achievements at the 2025 Oxford Seminar dinner (for more, see the OCP/ecbi blog post: ecbi@20: Looking back. We are also grateful to DANIDA for extending their Phase V funding for ecbi to 2026. This will allow us to fundraise for ecbi Phase VI, which will be under the Directorship of Kishan Kumarsingh, currently Head of the ecbi Fellowship and Trust-building Programme. It has been an honour and a pleasure to direct the ecbi over the last two decades and I sincerely hope we will be able to secure its continuation.