The Policy Analysis Programme

One of the key constraints to the negotiating capacity of many developing countries in the UN climate change negotiations is the lack of solid analysis and policy advice concerning the effects of the issues being negotiated. The differences in analytic capacity with the industrialized world are profound and institutionally manifest. The OECD, for instance, has an immense apparatus producing thorough and focused reports, including direct advice on future policy responses to each of the member countries in all relevant areas and social activities. These reports range from broad scenario discussions to more focused analyses and are, as such, critical to the countries' positioning in the global climate change negotiations.

Due to the lack of economic and institutional capacity, such material is in general not produced by or for the poorer developing countries. The ecbi Policy Analysis Programme (PAP) seeks to help remedy this situation and partly fill this gap by identifying and generating information and policy advice relevant to developing countries' concerns in the UN climate change negotiations. If such material is to serve as the basis for discussions on future policies, it has to be perceived of as relevant, timely, and trustworthy by the ultimate target stakeholder group, i.e. the developing country negotiators in question. The activities of the PAP are carried out in close collaboration with these stakeholders, particularly through a dialogue during the FP and WP activities as guided by the ecbi Steering Committee and Annual General Meeting.

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