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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2009 ecbi Informe sobre el Taller Regional del ecbi para el Desarrollo de Capacidades para las Negociaciones de la ConvenciÛn Marco de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Cambio Clim·tico, Bolivia.
2009 ecbi Informe sobre el Taller Regional del ecbi para el Desarrollo de Capacidades para las Negociaciones de la ConvenciÛn Marco de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Cambio Clim·tico 17-19 de Agosto de 2009, La Paz, Bolivia
Climate Change Finance Sources, Institutions, and Governance
2009 Fellows Presentation on Finance
A new ecbi Policy Brief concerning Key Issues on Governance of Climate Change Finance, 2009.
Based on the proceedings of the ecbi meeting on 9 August 2009 at La Redoute in Bonn, a new ecbi Policy Brief concerning Key Issues on Governance of Climate Change Finance has been published, together with written answers by the UK participants to the questions put by Anders Wijkman, the moderator of the meeting.
Un mÈcanisme financier concu et fonctionnant de faÁon adÈquate, capable de faciliter le financement et díencourager des ressources nouvelles et additionnelles de maniËre transparente, responsable, efficace et effective est Ègalement perÁu comme essentiel.
Le consensus sur une action visant ‡ aborder les changements climatiques repose sur le principe
des responsabilitÈs communes mais diffÈrenciÈes et sur les obligations et engagements ÈnumÈrÈs
‡ líArticle 4 de la Convention cadre des Nations Unies sur les Changements Climatiques
(CCNUCC). Líune des principales caractÈristiques de cet Article concerne líengagement pris par
les pays dÈveloppÈs de soutenir les efforts des pays en dÈveloppement. Le fait de parvenir ‡ un
accord quant ‡ la maniËre díaborder cette obligation est gÈnÈralement considÈrÈ comme líune
des clÈs du succËs ‡ Copenhague, ‡ la fin de cette annÈe. Un mÈcanisme financier conÁu et
fonctionnant de faÁon adÈquate, capable de faciliter le financement et díencourager des
ressources nouvelles et additionnelles de maniËre transparente, responsable, efficace et effective
est Ègalement perÁu comme essentiel.
Architecture at gouvernance
Taxe sur le transport aerien de passagers en faveur de l'adaptation (IAPAL)
PROPOSITION DU GROUPE DES PAYS LES MOINS AVANCES (PMA) dans le cadre du Plan díACTION DE BALI Soumise ‡ la CCNUCC AWG-LCA le 12 dÈcembre 2008avec Treize Questions/rÈponses - Taxe sur le transport aerien de passagers en faveur de l'adaptation (IAPAL)
This ecbi Policy Brief is based on the presentations and discussion at the 2009 round of the annual ecbi Bonn Seminars held on 7 June 2009
This ecbi Policy Brief is based on the presentations and discussion at the 2009 round of the
annual ecbi Bonn Seminars held on 7 June 2009 at La Redoute in Bonn/Bad Godesberg,
during the sixth session of the Ad-hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action
(AWG-LCA). Unlike previopus meetings, this event was focused on a single theme, namely
the future of climate change finance, with a focus on institutional and governance issues. For
this reason it was also decided to replace the usual proceedings with a more analytic policy
brief, based also on the draft negotiating text on enhanced action on the provision of
financial resources and investment that emerged from the negotiations.
The Reformed Financial Mechanism II; Section III. Compliance Oversight
The Reformed Financial Mechanism II; Section III. Compliance Oversight
Part II The Question of Oversight, Post Copenhagen Synthesis Report
A future climate financing architecture ñ an opportunity for radical change?