European Capacity Building Initiative Oxford Fellowships and Oxford Climate Policy staff, Magdalen College, summer 2005.

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ecbi Regional Workshop for East and Southern Africa, Gaborone, Botswana 
Workshop participants
Delegates from Botswana, Comoros, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Sudan, Uganda, Zambia participated in this 3 day workshop held from the 23 to 25 of September 2008 in Gaborone, Botswana Ministry of Environment, Wildlife & Tourism. The aim of the workshop was to build sustained capacity in support of international climate change negotiations.

The Regional workshop was inaugurated by Mr Mathias Chakalisa, Permanent Secretary of Ministry of Environment, Wildlife & Tourism. A link to the photo album is below.
• Picasa album: http://picasaweb.google.com/admn.ocp/EcbiRegionalWorkshopForSouthernEastAfrica2008#
• Workshop flyer: /downloads/53Botswana_Regional_Workshop.pdf
ecbi Fellowships and Oxford Seminar 2008 
The ecbi Oxford Seminar (part of the ecbi Fellowships) is an annual three day event where senior developing country UN climate change negotiators meet their European colleagues to discuss key issues concerning the ongoing UN climate change negotiations. The 2008 Oxford Seminar was held at Oxford Town Hall, from 3th September to 5th September. The gathering was attended by 45 delegates from 23 countries. To access the ecbi Oxford Fellowships& Seminar report and photo album please click on links below.


• Fellowships photo album: http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/admn.ocp/EcbiFellowships2008#
• Fellowships Report: ../downloads/ecbi_Fellowships2008Final1Report.pdf
ecbi Fellowships 2008 in Christ Church College, Oxford 
The Fellowships will begin with the Fellowship Colloquium (1–3 Sept) for Fellows and invited experts only, where the Fellows will be given a chance to exchange views among themselves, to discuss issues chosen by them with the invited experts, and to prepare for the visit of their European Colleagues during the subsequent (3–6 Sept.) Oxford Seminar with high-level government representatives from the participating European Partner countries as well as the European Commission.

The Fellowships Programme – typically for higher-level government officials/civil servants (‘decision makers’) who play a leading role in the UNFCCC process both domestically and internationally – lies at the heart of the ecbi.

Its primary purpose is to build trust and exchange procedural and institutional knowledge both among the Fellows (‘South-South trust-building’), and between them and their European colleagues (‘North-South trustbuilding’).

The venue for the Fellowships will this year be Christ Church College, founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII,
and alma mater of many famous pupils and dons such as the philosopher John Locke, and the mathematician
The Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known under his pen name ‘Lewis Carroll, who placed
Alice’s Wonderland in the College’s Fellows Garden.
Regional Workshop for South and and South East Asia, Maldives 
Workshop participants
Delegates from Bangladesh, Indonesia, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Vietnam participated in this 3 day workshop held from the 12 to 14 of August 2008 in Male. The Workshop was organized jointly by the Ministry of Environment of Maldives and the ecbi. The aim of the workshop is to build sustained capacity in support of international climate change negotiations.
The Regional workshop was inaugurated by Mr. Abdullahi Majeed, Deputy Minister of Environment of Maldives. In the opening remarks he highlighted the importance of the workshop in climate negotiations, especially the most vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change, namely for Least Developed Countries (LDC) and Small Island Developing States (SIDS).
• Workshop Flyer: ../downloads/ecbi_reportMALERW2008.pdf
ecbi dinner for members of the Adaptation Fund Board 
16th of June 2008. The ecbi Fellowship Programme organised a dinner for a number of developing country and European Board members as part of the ecbi trust building activities on the evening of the first day of the second meeting of the Adaptation Fund Board in Bonn/Germany.
ecbi Bonn Seminar 2008 
participants of the ecbi Bonn Seminar 2008
On the 8th June 2007, the ecbi Fellowship Programme held the third Bonn Seminar gathering together 56 delegates, during the intersessional meeting of the UNFCCC Subsidiary Bodies in Bonn, Germany to maintaining and strengthening the momentum of the trust-building activities of the Oxford Fellowships – particularly the North-South component. Report is comming soon.
• Workshop flyer: ../downloads/2008Bonn_Seminar.pdf
ecbi Annual Report 2007/08 
The ecbi was launched in May 2005 during the 22nd Meeting of the UNFCCC Subsidiary Bodies(SB) in Bonn. This is its third annual report.

The impact of the ecbi on the international negotiations, although difficult to quantify, has been significant, particularly in the context of the
Adaptation Fund negotiations.

An indication of the impact of the ecbi activities was the fact that three of the ecbi Fellows and two ecbi participants were selected for the Adaptation Fund Board, one of which subsequently elected as
its first Chair.

• annual report 2007/08: ../downloads/ecbi_Annual_Report_07-08
ecbi Dinner at the inaugural Adaptation Fund Board meeting 
On the evening of the first day of the first meeting of the Adaptation Fund Board (26-28 March, Bonn/Germany), the ecbi Fellowship Programme organised a dinner for a number of developing country and European Board members as part of the ecbi trust building activities.

The dinner was also attended by a leading member of the World Bank Climate Investment Fund initiative, who informed the dinner guests about plans for a 'Pilot Programme on Climate Resilience'.
On the road to Bali: operationalising the Kyoto Protocol Adaptation Fund 
ecbi Fellows 2007
Taking the time to get the governance structure of the Adaptation Fund right will be worth it in the long term, say five Oxford Fellows for 2007 - Enele Sopoaga (Tuvalu), Lydia Greyling (South Africa), David Lesolle (Botswana), Emily Massawa (Kenya) and José Miguez (Brazil), in an IIED/ecbi opinion piece on one of the key questions to be discussed in Bali, which expands on the piece written by the 2006 Fellows: Operationalising the Kyoto Protocol's Adaptation Fund - a new proposal.
• 2006 IIED/ecbi opinion piece: http://www.eurocapacity.org/downloads/11061IIED.pdf
• 2007 IIED/ecbi Opinion Piece: ../downloads/IIED-ecbi_AF_2007.pdf
ecbi 2007 Pre-COP LDC Workshop 
Paricipants of ecbi Pre-COP13 Workshop
The ecbi brought together UN climate change delegates from 22 countries to strengthen the capacity of Least Developed Countries to negotiate and implement the UNFCCC and the Kyoto Protocol and to engage in a number of trust-building activities.

The ecbi Pre-COP Workshop was held in Nusa Dua/Bali, Indonesia the venue of the 2007 UN Climate Change Conference (COP13/MOP3)
• Flyer:: ../downloads/20022008_Pre-COPflyerWEB
ecbi side event at COP13-open to all 
On the 5 December 2007 ecbi is organizing a side event at COP13,
Bali, Indonesia, in the EU Pavilion, Nusa dua Beach Hotel, from 15:30-17:30.

The event will showcase the work of the ecbi carried out in 2007 and look forward to next year’s activities, with a particular view to get stakeholder feed-back on proposed extensions of the activities, such as a series of Regional Workshops for Latin America.

All welcome.

• Flyer: ../downloads/side_event.pdf
2007 Regional ecbi Workshop for South and Southeast Asia in Bangkok 
Participants of Bangkok workshop
The Regional Workshop for South and Southeast Asia in Thailand brought together 22 delegates from several Asian countries to engage in a number of trust-building activities as well as ensuring a wider recognition of the issues related to climate change in their countries.

The event has been hosted in the Asian Institute of Technology.
• Workshop Flyer: http://www.eurocapacity.org/downloads/ecbiRWBangkok_flyer.pdf
ATELIER REGIONAL FRANCOPHONE ecbi POUR L’AFRIQUE DE L’OUEST EN 2007 
Les travaux de l’atelier régional 2007 de renforcement des capacités sur les changements climatiques pour les pays francophones d’Afrique de l’Ouest se sont déroulés du 15 au 17 octobre 2007 à Dakar (Sénégal). L’atelier a regroupé les points focaux de la Convention Cadre des Nations Unies sur les Changements Climatiques (CCNUCC), ainsi que des représentants des Ministères chargés des Finances et/ou du Plan venus de 9 pays africains: Bénin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Gambie, Guinée, Guinée- Bissau, Mali, Niger et Sénégal.

Il y avait au total 23 participants. Trois cadres de l’ecbi étaient là pour animer les travaux. Les participants ont discuté des questions saillantes à l’ordre du jour des réunions COP13 et COP/MOP3 devant se tenir en décembre prochain.

Ils se sont notamment penchés sur divers aspects du renforcement des capacités, dont le besoin se fait fort sentir dans la région.


• Workshop flyer (French): 20080310Dakarflyerin_FRENCH3
2007 ecbi Regional Workshop for West Africa in Dakar 
Participants of Dakar Workshop
The francophone regional workshop for the countries of West Africa was held in Dakar (Senegal) from 15 to 17 October 2007.

The workshop brought together the focal points to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), as well as representatives of ministries responsible for finances and/or planning from 9 African countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, The Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger and Senegal.

There were 23 participants in total. Three ecbi resource persons assisted with the workshop. The workshop discussed the key issues for the upcoming COP13 and COP/MOP3 meetings and focused in particular on the various aspects of capacity building, much needed in the region.

Third Regional Workshop for Eastern and Southern Africa in Bagomoyo, Tanzania 
Tanzania regional workshop
The ecbi Regional Workshop for Eastern and Southern Africa in Bagomoyo brought together delegates from Botswana, the Comoros, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia between 24th and 26th of September 2007.

Many of the delegates came from ministries other than those for Environment, thus enlarging the scope of the discussions and ensuring a wider recognition of the issues related to climate change in their countries.

• Workshop report: /downloads/tanzania07wordversion-1
2007 Fellowships, Wadham College, Oxford 
2007 Fellows at Wadham College, Oxford
The ECBI Oxford Fellowships 2007 brought together 14 Fellows, Senior Fellows, and Supernumerary Fellows from Botswana, Brazil, Burkina Faso, China, Gabon, Guinea, Kenya, Mexico, South Africa, Tuvalu, Vietnam and negotiators from Germany, Denmark, Netherlands, Portugal,Spain and UK between 1 September and 8 September to engage in a number of trust-building activities.
• Oxford Fellowships Flyer: ../downloads/2007_Fellowship_Flyer_New.pdf
2007 Francophone Fellows in Paris 
Fellows in Paris
Fellows from Burkina Faso, Gabon, Guinea along with ecbi Director have visited French govenment agencies in Paris on 31 August 2007.

The meeting was facilitated by Mr. Nicolas Lambert from the French Foreign Office.
New ecbi Prospectus published 
ecbi Prospectus (revised August 2007): The guide to ecbi Phase II (2008-12) activities, available now for download as a PDF.
• Prospectus: ../downloads/ecbiProspectus2007.pdf
ECBI Bonn Seminar 2007 
On 13 May 2007, the ecbi Fellowship Programme held the second Bonn Seminar during the intersessional meeting of the UNFCCC Subsidiary Bodies in Bonn, Germany to maintaining and strengthening the momentum of the trust-building activities of the Oxford Fellowships – particularly the North-South component.

Among the issues discussed were Integration of climate change and development, a potential 'Bali package', and the governance of the Adaptation Fund.
• Bonn Seminar flyer: ../downloads/ecbi_2007_Bonn_Seminar2.pdf
Letters of Appreciation 
Bubu Pateh Jallow, Mohammad Reazuddin
"...the ecbi institutions are the only ones that are implementing items (other than the NAPA Preparation) of the LDC Work Program under Article 4.9, particularly strengthening the negotiation skills of LDC Parties."

-Mr. Bubu Pateh Jallow, Chair of the LDC Expert Group

"During 2006, I participated and was actively engaged in two regional workshops, organised to refresh as well as enhance further negotiation skills. I have noted how useful these interactions have been when I recall our collective performance in the negotiations over the past two years."

-Mr. Mohammad Reazuddin, Chair of the LDC Group
• Mohammad Reazuddin's letter: ../downloads/Bangladesh_Letter_of_Appreciation_2006.pdf
• Bubu Pateh Jallow's letter: /downloads/Letter_of_Appreciation_LEG.pdf
Lessons learned in Preparing NAPAs in Eastern and Southern Africa 
ecbi Policy Analysis Report by Dr. Balgis Osman Elasha, Climate Change Unit, Higher Council for Environment& Natural Resources (HCENR) Khartoum, Sudan, and Dr Thomas E. Downing, Stockholm Environment Institute, Oxford Office
• ecbi PA Report: ../downloads/ecbi_NAPA_PA_Project_2007.pdf
Independent Evaluation of the ecbi 
"the ecbi is judged to be a very good, effective programme. It fills a void
and is innovative in its approach to both senior and junior negotiators"
• document: ../downloads/ecbi_Evaluation_2007.pdf
Lessons learned from CDM project approval procedures in Southeast Asia 
Unless a combination of all the success factors can be achieved, ASEAN countries will be able to attract some CDM niche investment but not be able to play in the CDM ‘champions’ league’
• Document: ../downloads/ecbi_CDM_PA_Project_2007.pdf
Implementing the Nairobi Adaptation Fund Decision 
The decision to adopt a ‘one-country-one-vote’ procedure for the Adaptation Fund could help secure political acceptance, but only if augmented by the right to force a secret vote.
• Further information: http://www.oxfordenergy.org/pdfs/EV38.pdf
Adaptation Funding 
Moritz Leuenberger, President of the Swiss Confederation
A Global Carbon Levy for Climate Change Adaptation

"We need a global carbon levy to fund
these obligations in line with the ‘polluter pays’ principle."

-Moritz Leuenberger, President of the Swiss Confederation, IIED/ecbi Opinion paper 12 December 2006

Flying to new green heights:

The pre-budget report is likely to tax low-cost flights, but only international cooperation can solve climate change.

- Jim Giles, Guardian Unlimited, 6 December 2006.


"Western nations have little interest in boosting aid budgets. But an international tax would be collected and distributed by an international body, so there would be limited domestic political penalties for supporting it."
• ecbi/IIED Opinion piece: ../downloads/ecbi-IIED_Leuenberger.pdf
• IATAL Guardian article: http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/jim_giles/2006/12/post_746.html
ecbi Side Event at COP12/MOP2 
The ecbi will hold a public side event at the EU Pavilion on its opening day (Tuesday 7 November),
Time: 15:15h - 16:45h
Room 2
List of speakers and topics:
• Side event flyer: ../downloads/COP12-MOP2_side_event_flyer2.pdf
Operationalising the Kyoto Protocol's Adaptation Fund - a new proposal 
2006 ecbi Fellows
Three ecbi Fellows, Amjad Abdullah (Maldives), Bubu Pateh Jallow (The Gambia)and Mohammad Reazuddin (Bangladesh) have written an Opinion Piece on Operationalising the Kyoto Protocol's Adaptation Fund, a topic that will loom
large at the forthcoming Climate Change Conference in Nairobi.
• Full text: ../downloads/11061IIED.pdf
First Francophone ecbi Regional Workshop in West Africa 
Francophone 2006 West Africa Workshop
L’an 2006, du 10 au 12 octobre se sont déroulés dans les locaux de l’hôtel OLYMPE, à Bamako (MALI) les travaux de l’atelier régional de renforcement des capacités sur les changements climatiques des pays francophones d’Afrique de l’Ouest.

L’atelier a regroupé les points focaux de la Convention Cadre des Nations Unies sur les Changements Climatiques (CCNUCC), et les représentants des Ministères chargés des Finances et/ou du Plan venus de Burkina Faso, Benin, Mali, Niger, Sénégal, Tchad, Guinée Conakry, Guinée Bissau, Gambie, et Togo.

• Report: ../downloads/2006_W_Africa_Workshop_Flyer_English.pdf
• Fiche Atelier Mali: ../downloads/2006_W_Africa_Workshop_Flyer_French.pdf
IATAL - International Air Travel Adaptation Levy 
A Question of Responsibility and Solidarity
“The proposal should be used as starting point for the debate on how airlines can be made responsible for their emissions – it is an innovative way of thinking, exploring new ways of supporting the adaptation fund.”

Developing country participant of the 2006 ecbi Oxford Seminar

"IATAL - an outline proposal for an International Air Transport Adaptation Levy"
by Benito Müller and Cameron Hepburn,

EV36, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, October 2006

Lists of other publications by the authors available at: www.OxfordClimatePolicy.org
www.economics.ox.ac.uk/members/cameron.hepburn/ Download full report here.
• weblink: http://www.oxfordenergy.org/pdfs/EV36.pdf
• flyer for the report: ../downloads/IATAL_flyer_final[1].pdf
Attracting more CDM projects to Africa 
2006 East & Southern Africa Workshop
Despite efforts to establish necessary institutional structures, few CDM projects are taking place in Africa. The 2006 ecbi Regional Workshop for Eastern and Southern Africa suggested ways to improve the situation.
• further information: ../downloads/2006E-SAfricaWorkshopFlyer.pdf
Fellows propose new architecture for Adaptation Fund 
The 2006 ecbi Oxford Fellows agree on a proposal to give the COP/MOP direct control of the Adaptation Fund, and ensure effective representation of countries’ interests.
• further information: ../downloads/2006FellowshipFlyer.pdf
New governance structure needed for Adaptation Fund 
The participants of the 2006 ecbi Regional Workshop for South and Southeast Asia call for different rules for the governance of the Adaptation Fund, which is based on mandatory private sector contributions from the CDM instead of voluntary donations from rich countries.
• further information: ../downloads/2006S-SEAsianWorkshopFlyer.pdf
Annual Report 2005/2006 
Following its launch on 23 May 2005 during the 22nd Meeting of the UNFCCC Subsidiary Bodies (SB) in Bonn, the ecbi has organised the Oxford Fellowships under the Fellowship Programme, a number of workshops and initiated two projects under the aegis of the Policy Analysis Programme.
• further information: ../downloads/ECBI_2005-06_Annual_Report_final.pdf
ecbi Senior Bursaries 2006 
Senior Bursaries, Bonn 2006
ecbi funds the participation of senior delegates to participate in a Seminar and the intersessional UNFCCC Subsidiary Bodies meetings in Bonn. In the first year of the scheme, five Bursaries were distributed to senior delegates from Bhutan, Egypt, Mali, Morocco and Thailand.
• further information: ../downloads/ECBI_2006_Senior_Bursaries.pdf
ECBI Bonn Seminar 2006 
In May 2006, the ECBI’s Oxford Fellowship Programme organised two capacity- and trust-building activities linked to the intersessional meeting of the UNFCCC Subsidiary Bodies in Bonn, Germany: the Bonn Seminar and the Senior Bursaries 2006.

The Bonn Seminar was organised on 21 May 2006 with the purpose of maintaining and strengthening the momentum of the trust-building activities of the Oxford Fellowships – particularly the North-South component.
• Further information: ../downloads/ECBI_2006_Bonn_Seminarshort.pdf
ecbi Fellow co-chairs successful compliance negotiations at COP/MOP1 
Mamadou Honadia COP/MOP1 © IISD
Following informal consultations, Co-Chair Mamadou Honadia introduced a draft decision stating that Parties “approve and adopt” the compliance mechanism as contained in Decision 24/CP.7.

The text adds that consideration of an amendment to the Protocol will commence at SBI 24 with a view to making a decision at COP/MOP 3. Parties raised no objections and decided to forward it to COP/MOP 1 for adoption. [ENB Thursday, 8 December 2005 Vol. 12 No. 289 Page 2]
ecbi special event at COP11/MOP1 
On Friday 2 December 2006, a special event was organised in the EU Pavilion at COP11/MOP1 in Montreal, Canada, to present an overview of ecbi activities in the first six months since its inception.
ecbi Regional Workshop, Dhaka 
Participants highlighted the need to assess the lessons learned through the NAPA process and find ways to integrate
climate change issues into national and sectoral policy and practice during the ecbi Regional Workshop for South and South East Asia, held from 30 to 31 October 2005.
• further information: ../downloads/ECBI2005BangladeshWorkshop.pdf
ecbi Regional Workshop, Nanyuki, Kenya 
The need for a review of CDM performance in Africa dominated discussions at the first ecbi Regional Workshop for Eastern and Southern Africa, held from 18 to 21 October 2005.
• further information: ../downloads/ECBI2005KenyaWorkshop.pdf
"ecbi activities led to closer North-South relations" in Montreal 
Mr Bubu Patheh Jallow, The Gambia, High-Level Statement COP11/MOP1
Following a request for information regarding North-South trust building activities from the floor at the high-level panel of the Development and Adaptation Days during the recent Montreal Climate Change Conference, Mr Bubu Pateh Jallow (lead negotiator of The Gambia), told the participants about the ecbi in general, and the Oxford Fellowships, in particular.

He conveyed the praise of his fellow negotiators who had participated in the 2005 Fellowships and his personal assessment that the ecbi activities had led to closer North-South relations during the Montreal negotiations.

He also suggested that it might be useful in this context if the European negotiators would find the time to visit their developing country colleagues to get a proper picture of the constraints they find themselves in.
2005 Oxford Fellowships 
Rich discussions on post-2012 negotiations, CDM, mainstreaming, and impacts and adaptation characterised the pilot round of the ecbi Oxford Fellowships, which took place in Oxford from 18 to 30 September 2005.
• further information: ../downloads/ECBI_2005_Oxford_Fellowships.pdf
ecbi launch 
ecbi was officially launched at the 22nd meeting of the Subsidiary Bodies to the UNFCCC, in May 2005.
• Further information: http://www.iisd.ca/climate/sb22/enbots/23may.html
• Further news from: http://news.bbc.co.uk
event calendar-ECBI Regional Workshops 2007 
Last year we held a successful series of regional workshops for climate change negtiators from least developed countries countries in:

(i) Eastern and Southern Africa in Naivasha, Kenya,

(ii) Western./Francophone Africa in Bamako, Mali and

(iii) South and Southeast Asia in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Each workshop brought together the Climate Change Negotiators from all the least developed countries in each region (as well as representatives from Finance and Planning ministries from each country) to discuss and prepare for COP12 which was to be held in Nairobi in November 2006.

We are again planning to hold the series of regional workshops this year in preparation for COP13 in Bali, Indonesia in December 2007.

The proposed dates for the regional ecbi workshops are as follows:

1. Eastern and Southern Africa to be held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania from 24 to 26 September (confirmed)

2. West/Francophone Africa to be held in Dakar, Senegal from 15 to 17 October (to be confirmed).

3. South and Souteast Asia to be held in Bangkok, Thailand (to be confirmed) from 29 to 31 October (to be confirmed).

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