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Showing 1 - 9 of 9 results|IISD/ENB summary meeting report2023UN Climate Change Conference - United Arab Emirates Nov/Dec 2023
Parties adopted a decision operationalizing the new loss and damage fund and a number of parties announced pledges for its initial capitalization. But negotiations were difficult on the other central outcomes: the first Global Stocktake, the Global Goal on Adaptation
MEAs:United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ChangeTopics:Environmental Governance,Climate and AtmosphereKeywords:Adaptation, Climate change, Subsidiary Body for Implementation, Adaptation Fund, Indigenous peoples, Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice, Capacity building, Mitigation, Clean Development Mechanism, Small Island Developing States, Greenhouse gases, Least Developed Countries, Implementation, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Alliance of Small Island States, Carbon Market|IISD/ENB summary meeting report2022Sharm El-Sheikh Climate Change Conference - November 2022
For the first time, countries agreed to recognize the need for finance to respond to loss and damage associated with the adverse effects of climate change, and quickly established a fund and the necessary funding arrangements, with the details to
MEAs:United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ChangeTopics:Environmental Governance,Climate and AtmosphereKeywords:Climate change, Subsidiary Body for Implementation, Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice, Adaptation Fund, Adaptation, Greenhouse gases, Clean Development Mechanism, Implementation, Indigenous peoples, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Capacity building|IISD/ENB summary meeting report20214th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury (COP-4)
Parties adopted two essential decisions: the 2022 programme of work and budget, and setting 21-25 March 2022 as the dates for COP-4.2 in person in Bali, Indonesia.
MEAs:Minamata Convention on MercuryTopics:Chemicals and WasteKeywords:Global Environment Facility, Meetings, Conference Room Paper, United Nations Environment Programme, Capacity building, European Union, Wastes, Scale of assessment, Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee, Financial rules, Trust fund, La Francophonie, Memorandum of Understanding, Open-ended Working Group|IISD/ENB summary meeting report2021Glasgow Climate Change Conference
Despite divisive negotiations at COP 26, parties managed to finalize the Paris Agreement Rulebook and adopt other substantive outcomes. During the closing plenaries, parties reflected that the overall package was not perfect, and many stressed that they were adopting the
MEAs:United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ChangeTopics:Environmental Governance,Climate and AtmosphereKeywords:European Union, Subsidiary Body for Implementation, Climate change, Adaptation, Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice, Adaptation Fund, Capacity building, Indigenous peoples, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Least Developed Countries, Alliance of Small Island States, Greenhouse gases|IISD/ENB summary meeting report20212021 Meetings of the Conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions (BRS COPs)
Parties and stakeholders to the three global hazardous chemicals and wastes conventions convened online to deal with urgent operational and substantive work including election of officers, the programmes of work and budgets for all three conventions, and a decision regarding
MEAs:Rotterdam Convention,Stockholm Convention,Basel ConventionTopics:Chemicals and WasteKeywords:Global Environment Facility, Wastes, Chemical Review Committee, Persistent Organic Pollutants, Compliance Committee, European Union, Financial rules, Hazardous wastes, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Conference Room Paper, Open-ended Working Group, Meetings, Scale of assessment, United Nations Environment Programme, Group of Latin American and Caribbean States, National Implementation Plan, Persistant Organic Pollutant Review Committee, Small Island Developing States, Trust fund|IISD/ENB summary meeting report2019Chile/Madrid Climate Change Conference - December 2019
Disconnects between the demands of people, science, and what the process could deliver—and between countries that want to look to the future and those focused on the past—ultimately undermined the ability for the Chile/Madrid Climate Change Conference to deliver, despite
MEAs:United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ChangeTopics:Environmental Governance,Climate and AtmosphereKeywords:Climate change, Subsidiary Body for Implementation, Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice, African Group of Negotiators, Adaptation, Adaptation Fund, Greenhouse gases, Indigenous peoples, Alliance of Small Island States, Global Environment Facility, Least Developed Countries, Capacity building|IISD/ENB summary meeting report2018Katowice Climate Change Conference - December 2018
Parties adopted the Katowice Climate Package at COP 24, which finalized nearly all of the Paris Agreement Work Programme, including decisions to facilitate common interpretation and implementation of the Paris Agreement on the mitigation section of NDCs, adaptation communications, transparency
MEAs:United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ChangeTopics:Environmental Governance,Climate and AtmosphereKeywords:Climate change, Subsidiary Body for Implementation, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Implementation, Adaptation Fund, Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice, Adaptation, Mitigation, Indigenous peoples, Subsidiary body, Capacity building, Least Developed Countries|IISD/ENB summary meeting report2017Fiji / Bonn Climate Change Conference - November 2017
The COP launched the Talanoa Dialogue, a facilitative dialogue to take stock of collective progress towards the Paris Agreement’s long-term goals. COP 23 also established the “Fiji Momentum for Implementation,” a decision giving prominence to pre-2020 implementation and ambition. Parties
MEAs:United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ChangeTopics:Environmental Governance,Climate and AtmosphereKeywords:Implementation, Subsidiary Body for Implementation, Adaptation Fund, Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice, Climate change, Capacity building, Indigenous peoples, African Group of Negotiators, Adaptation, Umbrella Group|IISD/ENB summary meeting report2016Marrakech Climate Change Conference - November 2016
The Marrakech Climate Change Conference COP 22 was perceived to have two tasks. To the outside world, delegates had to demonstrate the UNFCCC could contribute to the momentum generated post-Paris by the actions of non-state actors, as well as other
MEAs:United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ChangeTopics:Environmental Governance,Climate and AtmosphereKeywords:Climate change, Subsidiary Body for Implementation, Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice, Adaptation Fund, Adaptation
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