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Oxford Climate Policy is a founding partner of the European Capacity Building Initiative (ecbi). OCP works through ecbi to provide sustained capacity building for climate change negotiators to promote a level playing field between governments in the international climate negotiations, and to build trust between developed and developing country negotiators. 

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Briefing Note Focuses on Finding Common Ground on the NCQG

Perspectives Climate Research and ecbi have published a briefing note on Finding Common Ground on the New Quantified Collective Goal on Climate Finance (NCQG) that governments are expected to finalise in Baku in November at the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC (COP29). This explores the state of play of the negotiations, Parties’ priorities, and areas of contention, emphasising areas where common ground can be found and concrete progress achieved. For example, it focuses on, among others: structure of the...

15 August 2024
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ecbi Discussion Note Highlights Main Issues for Baku/COP29

ecbi has published a Discussion Note, highlighting some of the contentious issues in advance of COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan. COP29 is expected to deliver on key decisions, which are necessary for advancing achievement of the goals of the Paris Agreement, including those related to the new collective quantified goal on climate finance (NCQG), the mitigation work programme (MWP) and ambition in countries’ nationally determined contributions (NDCs), the just transition work programme (JTWP), the global stocktake (GST) outcomes, Article 6 of the...

26 July 2024
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ecbi Director Presents on Climate Solidarity Levies to the Climate and Development Ministerial

In June 2024, ecbi Director Benito Müller introduced the proposal for a Climate Solidarity Alliance to a meeting of the Climate and Development Ministerial (C&DM) at Wilton Park, at the invitation of Christopher Bartlett from Vanuatu. In his pre-recorded message, which kicked off the session, Müller explained that the idea of such an alliance is based on a 20-year-old proposal for an air passenger levy to support developing countries deal with climate impacts through adaptation. While the original idea was...

02 July 2024
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IPI Panel Discussion Addresses Mobilising Finance for Climate Action

During a virtual panel discussion organised by the International Peace Institute, ecbi Director Benito Müller presented on the potential of climate levies to fund climate action, particularly loss and damage. The event, Mobilizing Finance for Climate, Inequality, and Sustainable Development: New Taxes and Levies, took place on 18 June. During the event, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, IPI President and CEO, provided welcoming remarks and the event was moderated by Jimena Leiva Roesch, Director of Global Initiatives, IPI.

In his presentation, Müller mentioned discussed the proposal for aviation and...

28 June 2024
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