Sophie Yeo, RTCC Climate negotiators are set for a heavy workload at December’s summit in Lima, after a week of interim discussions in Bonn returned no conclusions. Key issues, including the nature of pledges to be made by countries early next year, remain unresolved as negotiators prepare...
ECO has always believed that the Convention, with its Annexes and principles, need not, and must not, be a straight jacket that restricts the ability of the UNFCCC to adapt to emerging realities. While some developed countries give the distinct impression that they would like...
Bonn, 24 October (Hilary Chiew) – Developing countries were firmly opposed to any attempts by developed countries to depart from their obligations under the UNFCCC as regards the provision of finance in the post-2015 climate agreement. They also insisted that the provision of finance by developed...
ECO would not want negotiators to leave Bonn with the feeling that no progress was made on finance–which is what will enable the implementation of any fair and ambitious agreement reached in Paris. The good news first: ECO senses convergence on the view that future finance...
Sophie Yeo, RTCC Deeply entrenched positions are holding back attempts to negotiate a draft text for the UN climate deal at talks this week in Bonn. In just over a year, countries must reach consensus on politically difficult issues for an agreement in Paris, including whether rich...
Monday’s ADP session on adaptation and loss and damage covered a lot of ground. LDCs’ call to base all adaptation actions on certain guiding principles, as agreed upon in the Cancun Adaptation Framework, set off the debate on a positive foot. Promoting a gender-sensitive and participatory...
Adaptation is the word of the day in Bonn today. As the talks moved past the Opening Plenary and into the nitty gritty of negotiating a new 2015 agreement, much of the day was devoted to the issue of how countries are adapting to the...
In the UNFCCC circus, ECO rarely favours one Party and its views over another. But this week, ECO is tempted to make an exception on finance. ECO secretly hopes that the AILAC submission on INDCs has been every negotiators’ bed-time reading last night in preparation...
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