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OCP and ecbi have responded to a UNFCCC request for submissions on climate financing with a proposal for a new, collective and quantified public-sector goal on adaptation grant finance. The UNFCCC request was made at the Glasgow Climate Summit, where delegates adopted Decision 9/CMA.3 seeking submissions on a new collective quantified goal on climate finance. The ecbi/OCP submission suggests progress on a new goal is more likely if discussions are held on each of the finance-related elements of the Paris...
01 February 2022
Did COP26 in Glasgow save or doom us? A new report by ecbi, COP26 Key Outcomes , assesses the Glasgow Climate Summit on the level of political ambition it achieved as well as what it delivered on finance, loss and damage, transparency, common time frames, Article 6, and adaptation. It explains and evaluates key formal COP and CMA decisions, as well as the pledges and promises by various coalitions on issues ranging from coal to cars, methane to forests. The...
26 January 2022
Prof Saleemul Huq, Head of the ecbi Training and Support Programme, has been awarded an OBE in the UK New Year's Honours List for services to combatting International Climate Change. The honour was awarded in recognition of his work to build climate expertise in Bangladesh, the UK and around the globe. Dr Huq is director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) . He is an expert on the links between climate change and sustainable development, particularly...
06 January 2022
In December last year, following the Technical Climate Dialogue on Common Time Frames (CTF) convened by the Chair of the UNFCCC Subsidiary Body on Implementation (SBI), an OCP blog announced: ‘Ambition Cycle on course to land in Glasgow’ and at least part of it landed in the UNFCCC COP26 Glasgow decision on CTF. Prof Müller has been part of a group of stakeholders that has been working tirelessly and doggedly over the past seven years to bring about this outcome,...
15 November 2021
