Social unrest in Chile and its effects on the climate agenda and COP25 Analysis Hosting COP 25 in Chile would have been an excellent chance to visualize the continent’s environmental problems and improve the space for negotiations. Now, Latin American civil society is making an effort to make their voices heard in Madrid. By Javiera Valencia
While Failing to Gain Much Ground at COP 24, Finance for “Loss and Damage” Could Advance in 2019 Commentary Developing countries achieved some small wins for loss and damage at COP24 in Katowice, but 2019 is when real advances on financing for loss and damage could be made. By Julie-Anne Richards
Rising Public Climate Finance Flows Only Tell Part of the Story Commentary In order to tell the real story of public climate finance flows more details than just the quantity of finance is needed. Normative and qualitative criteria are necessary to complete the picture. By Liane Schalatek
What's at stake for COP 24? Briefing The Katowice UN Climate Change Conference will take place in Katowice from the 3rd till the 14th of December 2018. By Don Lehr
“We will not drown, we are here to fight”: An assessment of the Fiji COP 23 in Bonn In depth analysis COP 23 was one COP in two zones: The Bula zone was the site of the official negotiations - with little relevance to what happens in the real world. The Bonn zone hosted dozens of civil society kiosks and hundreds of events searching for real solutions. By Liane Schalatek , Lili Fuhr and Don Lehr
In Bonn & Beyond, Gender-Responsive Climate Finance Is More Than Numbers Commentary What does a normative framing and a push for the gender-responsiveness of climate finance mean for the global climate finance architecture and the Green Climate Fund? A set of four new information briefs as part of an annual update of the Climate Finance Fundamentals (CFF) briefing series explores this relationship. By Liane Schalatek
“We’ll always have Paris” At the UN’s COP 22 climate conference in Marrakech, the international community closed ranks despite (or perhaps because of?) the election of Donald Trump as the next U.S. president. By Lili Fuhr , Liane Schalatek and Simon Ilse
Marrakech: modest progress on loss and damage, but more on the horizon Marrakech was never going to write history on loss and damage in the same way that Paris did in 2015. Whilst the progress made in the Paris Agreement was tangible at Marrakech, rich countries didn’t allow a real breakthrough yet. The Marrakech talks did, however, lay some groundwork for future progress. By Julie-Anne Richards
Morocco Must Breathe Life into the Paris Agreement At the UN climate summit in Morocco from November 7 - 18 (COP 22), the global climate community aims to breathe life into the Paris Agreement. However, the real discussion about the most contentious points, including finance and what to do with loss & damage, begins only now in earnest. By Liane Schalatek , Lili Fuhr and Simon Ilse
What it Will Take to Strengthen Gender-mainstreaming in the UNFCCC As the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change contemplates enhancing its ongoing work program on gender at the next climate summit in Marrakesh in November (COP 22), a submission by hbs North America recommends key goals and principles to really advance gender mainstreaming in the climate process and in implementing climate actions. By Liane Schalatek