May 20, 2012
Over the past two years, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and RECOFTC – The Center for People and Forests have brought together regional experts to reflect on the outcomes of the 15th and 16th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The resulting booklets Forests and Climate Change After Copenhagen: An Asia-Pacific Perspective and Forests and Climate Change After Cancun: An...
May 16, 2012
Discussions on how mitigation and adaptation funds will be raised and used in the second commitment period of Kyoto Protocol from 2013-2020 will be key during the climate change talks in Bonn to ensure that REDD+ can move forward. Forest-rich nations cannot wait much longer without progress in financing, said an expert.
REDD+ cannot wait for the new climate treaty that is scheduled to start in 2020 before receiving adequate funding to move past pilot projects, said Louis...
May 15, 2012
This side event organized by Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) will focus on emerging issues in Asia under a new framework after Durban including climate unilateralism, development of MRV on new market mechanisms, quality-of-governance standards for REDD+, and energy scenarios in Japan after the Fukushima accident. It will present IGES’s own analysis and take of these current issues.
Topics and Speakers:
- Emerging new framework after...
U.N. climate talks in Durban this week agreed to define new market mechanisms under a successor treaty to the Kyoto Protocol, but pushed forward a decision to develop rules for them until next year. Negotiators decided the mechanisms would operate under the UNFCCC Conference of the Parties and “bear in mind different circumstances of developed and developing countries”.
But they failed to agree to develop the underlying framework in Durban, pushing the effort...
May 14, 2012
Opening today, negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol are scheduled to continue in Bonn, Germany, until 25 May 2012. The conference comprises the 36th sessions of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) and the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA). It also includes the 15th session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA), the 17th session of...
May 11, 2012
FIELD has produced this guide in response to requests for a short overview for new negotiators who do not have time to read longer guides to the UNFCCC process. The guide may be helpful for government representatives or others who attend a UNFCCC conference for the first time. It may also provide some helpful information for others.
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May 10, 2012
The future of the climate change process depends on how successful we can be in creating this “multi-tracked” approach, where firstly, action and resources would not be limited and boxed according to the usual UNFCCC approach that unfortunately has become very politicized; and secondly as they would have to be simultaneously applied.
Discussion of the details of these multiple tracks is outside the scope of this paper, however, it suffices to say that the time is ripe to...
FIELD has prepared a short guide in response to requests for a short overview for new negotiators who do not have time to read longer guides to the UNFCCC process. This new working paper “The UNFCCC after Durban: Recognizing limitations and calling for a multi-track approach to climate multilateralism and action” is prepared by Tony La Viña and colleagues.
The guide may be helpful for government representatives or others who attend a UNFCCC conference for the first...
May 8, 2012
CDM Policy Dialogue request support and input to an open letter they prepared to draw attention to several urgent concerns about the CDM.
At COP-17 in Durban, the CDM Policy Dialogue was established to review the CDM. A final report is expected to be released in September 2012. Given the urgent need for thorough reform, expectations are high and it remains to be seen if the policy dialogue panel will be able to cure the many diseases of the CDM. They are doing their...
April 16, 2012
A national Green Climate Fund will soon be set up to facilitate future financial flow from the global Green Climate Fund into Viet Nam.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung requested the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to work with relevant finance and planning ministries to establish the fund after reviewing the United Nations COP 17 climate summit held in Durban last December.The global Green Climate Fund, which aims to channel aid to developing nations...