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The ecbi provided an opportunity to understand the critical issues for developed country partners. Usually as a negotiator I considered only my priorities. Now I am better prepared and appreciate the need to drive consensus and compromise! David Lesolle, Botswana
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The ecbi Chronicle
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The francophone regional workshop for the countries of West Africa was held in Dakar, Senegal, in July 2010. It proved to be the largest group held for the ecbi, with more than 45 participants including UNFCCC negotiators, parliamentarians and representatives from ministries of finance covering 14 countries.
Discussions centred on the Copenhagen Accord, Africa strategy, mitigation, adaptation, finance, legal issues, and technology transfer. Eight briefing papers were also presented, and participants visited the CSE, the first NIE of the Adaptation Fund Board.
A welcomed outcome of the workshop was the Dakar Resolution. The honourable members of the parliaments initiated this resolution, and both the French and English version will be available on the ecbi website.
L'atelier régional francophone pour l'Afrique de l'Ouest s'est tenu à Dakar au Sénégal en juillet 2010. Cet atelier ECBI est le plus important en nombre de participants qui se soit tenu. Il a, en effet, recueilli la participation de 45 personnes provenant de 14 pays d’Afrique de l’ouest et du centre: les négociateurs à La CCNUCC, des parlementaires des pays concernés et des représentants des Ministères des finances.
Les débats ont principalement portés sur l'Accord de Copenhague, la Stratégie CC de l’Afrique, l'Atténuation, l'Adaptation, les Financements, les questions légales et le Transfert de Technologies.
Huit communications ont été présentées et une réunion a été organisé pour les participants au Centre de Suivi Ecologique du Sénégal, première Entité Nationale de Mise en oeuvre sous le Fonds d'Adaptation.
Un des principaux résultats de cet atelier a été la Résolution de Dakar. Les Honorables parlementaires présents à l’atelier ont initié cette résolution et les versions Française et Anglaise de cette résolution sont disponibles sur le site web de ecbi.
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The Dakar Resolution came from the ecbi West Africa Regional Workshop, held in July 2010, Senegal. It was prepared and signed by the Honourable parliamentarians who attended the workshop. The English translation is also available on the ecbi website.
La Résolution de Dakar a été produite lors de l'atelier régional ecbi pour l'Afrique de l'Ouest. Elle a été préparée et signée par les Honorables parlementaires ayant participé à l'atelier ECBI de Dakar. La version complète en Français/Anglais de cette résolution est disponible sur le site web de ecbi.
• Dakar Resolution (French): document download
• Dakar Resolution (English): document download | |
On June 6th 2010, the second meeting of the Finance Circle was held in Bonn, Germany. Twenty-one participants attended including those from Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, DRC, EC, Egypt, Indonesia, Gambia, Georgia, Pakistan, Philipines, Poland, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sweden, UK, and the USA.
The focus of the discussion was on the "recipient end‟ of the financial architecture, i.e. the elements of a climate finance regime that could or should be located in the recipient countries. Particular attention was given to the idea of National Funding Entities, as exemplified in the newly established Bangladesh multi donor trust fund (Bangladesh Climate Change Resilience Fund – BCCRF), and how a devolution of decision making to such national entities could help not only in overcoming the “problem of administrative size” but also be the catalyst in mainstreaming climate change into domestic policies.
• Finance Circle Bonn June 2010: document download
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The ecbi Bonn Seminar was held in June 2010 at La Redoute in Bonn/Bad Godesberg. Summary and flyer to follow shortly.
• Presentation: document download
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The ecbi Annual Report summarises activities undertaken in the period April 2009 to March 2010, carried out by the Fellowship Programme and the Workshop Programme of the ecbi, as well as common activities.
• ecbi Annual Report 2009/10: document download
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The legal format of the outcome of the current twin-track negotiations is one of the most pressing problems to be resolved in the run-up to the next UN climate change conference in Cancun, Mexico. This ecbi Policy Brief puts forward a proposal of how an outcome could be made legally binding for all key Parties without having to introduce a new global treaty.
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On 24 and 25 March of this year, the ecbi Workshop Programme helped facilitate a national-level workshop in Abuja, Nigeria, for government officials involved in the international climate change negotiations. The workshop was conducted by representatives from the Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development (FIELD) and the Verification Research, Training and Information Centre (VERTIC). The first day of the workshop was spent updating participants on the state of play of the climate change negotiations after the Copenhagen climate change talks. On day two the negotiators took part in a full day negotiation simulation exercise on the topic of finance after Copenhagen. The workshop was funded by the UK Department for International Development (DfID.) The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in Abuja acted as host.
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On the 23 March 2010 the ecbi organized a dinner discussion for members of the Adaptation Fund Board that met for the 9th time in Bonn, Germany. At the 9th meeting of the AF Board, first National Implementing Entity (NIE) was accredited by the Board based on the recommendation by the Accreditation Panel. For the first time in the history of international climate policy, direct access for developing countries becomes operational. Senegali institution, The Centre de Suivi Ecologique (CSE) is this first NIE which can now receive directly funds from the Adaptation Fund Board when good projects are submitted. The Board has also accredited two multilateral implementing entities (MIE): UNDP and World Bank, offering developing countries who do not have yet a National Implementing Entity chose to go through an alternative option when apply for funding.
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The second ecbi workshop was held in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, from the 7th to the 9th of February of 2010, at the Guembe ecological sanctuary. Participants from twelve Latin American countries came together to discuss the outcome of the COP 15, and to exchange ideas and perspectives over the future of the negotiationg process.
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Co-hosted by the World Economic Forum Climate Change Initiative and the European Capacity Building Initiative, the dinner brought together a small group of climate negotiators, public and private sector professionals on 1 November 2009 to discuss the the issue of private secor financing for climate change activities in developing countries.
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'This year the ecbi Oxford Fellowships were housed in Magdalen College Oxford, from 30st August to 5th September 2009, with participation from Brazil, China, the Gambia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Lesotho, Maldives, Mexico, South Africa. The ecbi Oxford Seminar was held in the second half of the week at Oxford Town Hall and was attended by the developing country Fellows European colleagues from Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, and Portugal. The report of this meeting will be published soon.'
• Seminar Report: document download
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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.
• ecbi Policy Brief: document download
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The 2009 ecbi Regional Workshop for East and Southern Africa in Ethiopia was held at Addis Ababa Hilton hotel from 18 to 20 August. The workshop was attended by participants from Botswana, Comoros, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, South Africa, Uganda, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. The workshop report will be published soon.
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• Workshop flyer: document download
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The first ecbi Regional Workshop for Latin America was held at the Plaza Hotel in La Paz, Bolivia, from 17 to 19 of August. The workshop was attended by participants from Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico,Paraguay,Uruguay,Venezuela, Panama and Peru. The workshop report and a photo album to be published soon.
• Workshop flyer (Spanish): document download | |
Les travaux de l’atelier régional 2009 de renforcement des capacités sur les changements climatiques pour les pays francophones d’Afrique de l’ouest se sont déroulés du 21 au 23 juillet 2009 à Dakar au Sénégal. L’atelier a regroupé les points focaux de la Convention Cadre des Nations Unies sur les Changements Climatiques (CCNUCC) ainsi que les représentants des ministères de l’environnement et des finances et ou du plan de 13 pays francophones d’Afrique de l’ouest : Bénin, Burkina Faso, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Gabon, Gambie, Guinée, Guinée Bissau, Mali, Mauritanie, Niger, Togo et Sénégal. L’atelier a regroupé 30 participants et a été animé par les représentants de l’ECBI, de l’IIED et du Oxford Climate Policy.
• Workshop flyer (French): document download
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Suite à l’exemple très réussi de la taxe de solidarité du Groupe pilote français afin de lutter contre le VIH/SIDA, le Groupe des PMA propose une taxe de solidarité en faveur de l’adaptation sur les passagers aériens internationaux, pour fournir un financement adapté à des activités d’adaptation dans les pays et les communautés les plus pauvres et les plus vulnérables.
• IAPAL proposition: document download
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Le consensus sur une action visant à aborder les changements climatiques repose sur le principe des responsabilités communes mais différenciées et sur les obligations et engagements énumérés à l’Article 4 de la Convention cadre des Nations Unies sur les Changements Climatiques (CCNUCC).
• note de politique générale: document download
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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 previous 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.
• ecbi Policy Brief: document download
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The ecbi Annual report summarizes activities undertaken in period April 2008 to March2009, carried out by the Fellowship Programme and the Workshop Programme of the ecbi. This report is divided into three sections. The first section provides an overview of all major capacity and trust-building activities. The second section summarizes the ecbi policy briefs and the content of the ecbi website.
• ecbi Annual Report 2008-09: document download
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International Air Passenger Adaptation Levy (IAPAL): A proposal by the Group of Least Developed Countries (LDCs) within the framework of the Bali Action Plan, submitted to the UNFCCC AWC-LCA on 12 December 2008; with Thirteen Questions and Answers compiled by Benito Müller
• IAPAL proposal: document download
• in French:: document download | |
Two policy briefs detailing, on the one hand the history of the current financial mechanism, and suggesting, on the other a Reformed Financial Mechanism for the post Copenhagen period by Benito Müller and Luis Gomez-Echeverri are available for downloading.
• Financial Mechanism, History: document download
• Reformed Financial Mechanism: document download | |
Preparing for the seventh session of the AWG-KP and fifth session of the AWG-LCA taking place from Sunday 29 March to Wednesday 8 April 2009 in Bonn, the ecbi gathered together a number of delegates from least developing countries for some strategic discussions. This capacity utilization initiative is crucial for the preparation of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. The ecbi was also able to sponsor the attendance of Ms Kali Litsabako as member of the Lesotho delegation and legal adviser to the LDC Chair., and to fund an ecbi Policy Report on the agenda of the meeting for LDC delegates, prepared by FIELD.
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The Adaptation Fund Board have met for the fifth time in Bonn Germany, March 24-27, 2009. The ecbi, hosted a first Chairs’s Dinner attended by a number of Board members from developing and developed countries. This trust building initiative is important to help members to build mutual understanding and to know each other. The Adaptation Fund has been established under the Kyoto Protocol of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change to finance concrete adaptation projects and programmes in developing countries.
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Mr. Richard Muyungi, former Chair of the AF Board | On behalf of the Adaptation Fund Board, Mr. Muyungi, expresses his appreciation for the support the ecbi has given him as Chair of the Adaptation Fund Board, and the Board in general, over the past year. He also mentions that ecbi dinners have proven to be very useful in building the nec essary trust between the AFB members.
• letter of appreciation, AF: document download | |
15th of December 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 third meeting of the Adaptation Fund Board in Bonn/Germany.
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The ecbi brought together UN climate change delegates from 12 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 Poznan, Poland
the venue of the 2008 UN Climate Change Conference.
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Les travaux de l’atelier régional 2008 de renforcement des capacités sur les changements climatiques pour les pays francophones d’Afrique de l’Ouest se sont déroulés du 28 au 30 octobre 2008 à Conakry (Guinée). 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 13 pays africains: Bénin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Gabon, Gambie, Guinée, Guinée- Bissau, Mali, Mauritanie, Niger, Sénégal, Tchad et Togo. Il y avait au total 22 participants.
• Workshop flyer (French): document download
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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: link
• Workshop flyer: document download | |
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: link
• Fellowships Report: document download
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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.
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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: document download
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16th of June 2008. The ecbi Fellowship Programme organised a final dinner for all 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.
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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: document download
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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: document download
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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'.
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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: link
• 2007 IIED/ecbi Opinion Piece: document download
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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:: document download
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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: document download
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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: link
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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): document download
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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.
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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: document download | |
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: document download
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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.
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ecbi Prospectus (revised August 2007): The guide to ecbi Phase II (2008-12) activities, available now for download as a PDF.
• Prospectus: document download
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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: document download
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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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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: document download
• Bubu Pateh Jallow's letter: document download | |
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: document download
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"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: document download
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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: link
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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: link
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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: document download
• IATAL Guardian article: document download | |
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: document download | |
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: document download
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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: document download
• Fiche Atelier Mali: document download | |
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: link
• flyer for the report: document download
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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: document download
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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: document download
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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: document download
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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: document download
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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: document download
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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: document download
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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]
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On Friday 2 December 2005, 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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ecbi was officially launched at the 22nd meeting of the Subsidiary Bodies to the UNFCCC, in May 2005.
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