ecbi Publications
ecbi's Publications and Policy Analysis Unit (PPAU) generates information and advice for developing country negotiators that is relevant to the climate negotiations under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Developing countries often lack the economic and institutional capacity for policy analysis. If negotiators are unable to engage proactively by submitting proposals, responding to proposals from other States, and assessing the impact of global climate policy decisions on their individual States, progress in the negotiations can be hampered by the lack of alternatives and uncertainity. The differences in analytic capacity between developing countries and the industrialised world are often profound – developing countries lack support from organisations like the OECD, for instance, which has an immense apparatus producing thorough and focused reports, including direct advice on future policy responses to each of member country.
ecbi publications aim to be relevant to ongoing negotiations under the UNFCCC, timely, and trustworthy. PPAU works with negotiators from developing countries, sometimes through Editorial Committees, to identify UNFCCC issues where further analysis and policy advice is needed. Global experts are then teamed up with negotiators from devleoping countries to produce Policy Briefs and Discussion Notes. This partnership between experts and negotiators helps to ensure that the process of producing a Brief addresses the specific concerns of developing country negotiators; builds the capacity of developing country co-authors in policy analysis; and also builds ownership of the analysis.
For new negotiators, and for use in ecbi Regional and Pre-COP Training Workshops, PPAU produces Background Papers and a series of Pocket Guides. These generally provide a more basic analysis of issues for newcomers to the process, along with the background and history of the issue in the negotiations.
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SBSTA PROGRAMME OF WORK, Impacts ,Vulnerability and Adaptation
dna-buildingECBI8-06
South & Southeast Asia workshop proceedings, 2005
South&Southeast_Asia_Wkshop_Proceedings2005 - Climate Change Negotiations in South & Southeast Asia Workshop Proceedings 2005
About a judgment on the matter of Friends of the Earth, Inc and others versus officers of the OPIC and Ex-Im, both wholly-owned corporations of the United States government.
On the 23rd August, 2005, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California issued an order denying a motion for summary judgment (that is, allowing the case to continue to full trial) in the matter of Friends of the Earth, Inc and others versus officers of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) and the Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im), both wholly-owned corporations of the United States government. Although received with far less fanfare, this judgement is an important milestone in a process that may ultimately have more impact on climate change than the entry into force of the Kyoto Protocol.
attribution and Liability. Myles Allen, Department of Physics, University of Oxford
International Air Passenger. Adaptation Levy-IAPAL-
Submission to the Transitional Committee on the issue of Thematic Funding Windows (Workstreams II & III)
Towards an African Roadmap to Durban
The African Position for the 17th COP of the UNFCCC in Durban, South Africa
Apercu des tractations vers Durban
