Climate 411: United Nations
Momentum Builds for Agriculture at COP 24
5 years 4 months ago
Agriculture negotiators arrived in Katowice, Poland eager to get to work on the Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture during COP 24. Over the course of the first week of the COP, it became clear that the negotiators were determined to keep the momentum towards addressing agriculture issues in the context of climate change.
Breanna Lujan
COP 24: Transparency, ambition and carbon markets on the Paris rulebook agenda in Katowice
5 years 4 months ago
At the climate talks in Katowice, two issues will be particularly important: how to operationalize the Paris Agreement’s transparency system, and how that transparency system should link to a new framework for international carbon market cooperation.
Alex Hanafi
Forests could be a hot topic at COP 24 despite not being on the agenda
5 years 5 months ago
Katowice, Poland was an odd location to pick for this year’s UNFCCC Conference of Parties (COP 24). The city is small and its ambiance may not be very conducive for climate negotiations (it is frigid, dark, and shrouded with coal smog in December). Yet this is where the important task of finalizing the rules of […]
Chris Meyer
7 reasons avoiding double counting of emissions reductions helps countries, and the environment
5 years 7 months ago
Meeting the Paris Agreement’s ambitious goal – to hold “the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial level” – will necessitate dramatic reductions in total emissions of greenhouse gases. Market-based approaches that follow well-established […]
Alex Hanafi
Once is enough: how climate negotiators can protect the environmental integrity of the Paris Agreement by avoiding double counting
5 years 7 months ago
Climate ambition is often thought of in terms of the stringency of emission reduction commitments, expressed by countries under the landmark Paris Agreement as Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). While the NDCs that have been pledged by countries are important, they are only the first step. To truly assess progress in reducing global climate pollution, it […]
Alex Hanafi
Sowing the seeds of a roadmap for agriculture
5 years 11 months ago
At last November’s COP23 in Germany, Parties involved in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations on agriculture celebrated a notable victory after agreeing to create the Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture (KJWA). The KJWA marks a shift in focus from agricultural adaptation activities only, to a broader discussion of mitigation related […]
Breanna Lujan
Agriculture negotiations reach agreement at COP23
6 years 5 months ago
In what could be the iconic decision of COP 23, negotiators in Bonn agreed to new future negotiation processes to “jointly address” a number of new agriculture topics, overcoming longstanding hurdles that had blocked progress on the topic in recent years. Why is this important? Emissions from agriculture are expected to continue growing as the […]
Chris Meyer
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