European Capacity Building Initiative
ecbi Publications
ecbi's Publications and Policy Analysis Unit (PPAU) generates information and advice for developing country negotiators that is relevant to the climate negotiations under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Developing countries often lack the economic and institutional capacity for policy analysis. If negotiators are unable to engage proactively by submitting proposals, responding to proposals from other States, and assessing the impact of global climate policy decisions on their individual States, progress in the negotiations can be hampered by the lack of alternatives and uncertainity. The differences in analytic capacity between developing countries and the industrialised world are often profound – developing countries lack support from organisations like the OECD, for instance, which has an immense apparatus producing thorough and focused reports, including direct advice on future policy responses to each of member country.
ecbi publications aim to be relevant to ongoing negotiations under the UNFCCC, timely, and trustworthy. PPAU works with negotiators from developing countries, sometimes through Editorial Committees, to identify UNFCCC issues where further analysis and policy advice is needed. Global experts are then teamed up with negotiators from devleoping countries to produce Policy Briefs and Discussion Notes. This partnership between experts and negotiators helps to ensure that the process of producing a Brief addresses the specific concerns of developing country negotiators; builds the capacity of developing country co-authors in policy analysis; and also builds ownership of the analysis.
For new negotiators, and for use in ecbi Regional and Pre-COP Training Workshops, PPAU produces Background Papers and a series of Pocket Guides. These generally provide a more basic analysis of issues for newcomers to the process, along with the background and history of the issue in the negotiations.
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The 2007 regional workshop for Eastern and Southern Africa, held in Bagamoyo, Tanzania.
2007 ecbi REGIONAL WORKSHOP FOR EASTERN AND SOUTHERN AFRICA, 24 TO 26 SEPTEMBER 2007, BAGAMOYO, TANZANIA
Introduction to basics of Climate Change
Five of the 2007 Oxford Fellows have written an IIED/ecbi opinion piece on how the Adaptation Fund should be operated
Five of the 2007 Oxford Fellows, namely Enele Sopoaga (Tuvalu), Lydia Greyling (South Africa), David Lesolle (Botswana), Emily Massawa (Kenya), JosÈ Miguez (Brazil), have written an IIED/ecbi opinion piece on how the Adaptation Fund should be operated which will be one of the key questions to be sorted out in Bali, and which expands on the piece written by the 2006 Fellows: Operationalising the Kyoto Protocol's Adaptation Fund - a new proposal.
Operationalizing the Kyoto Protocol Adaptation Fund
Climate Change and Water in Africa, 2006 - Presentation by Mark New of OUCE.
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Assessing Vulnerability and Adaptation Mechanisms to Climate-related Risks: An Overview of SEI Activities
Differential Treatment in International Environmental Law, Tables & Figures
Differential Treatment in International Environmental Law
Adapting to climate, water and health stress: Insights from Limpopo, South Africa.