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Bonn Climate Change Conference (SB58)

The Climate Change Conference of UNFCCC Subsidiary Bodies (UNFCCC SB58), Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) and Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) will meet in Bonn between 5 and 15 June. View the schedule of events here.

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Opportunity Fund: Call for Proposals

The Climate Ambition Support Alliance (CASA), a UK Government funded programme that seeks to strengthen the capacity and support the engagement of climate-vulnerable countries in international climate negotiations, is pleased to announce the launch of its Opportunity Fund. This call for proposals is for a funding opportunity to support climate vulnerable countries with international climate negotiations and their implementation.

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Least Developed Countries (LDC) Group reacts to COP27 outcomes

“This is the first time in many years that our nations do not come out of a COP empty-handed. COP27 has delivered a historic decision in establishing a fund to address loss and damage,” said Madeleine Diouf Sarr, Chair of the Least Developed Countries Group.

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AOSIS Chair COP27 statement: ‘A mission 30 years in the making, accomplished’

Historic loss and damage response fund to assist and support developing countries is finally established at UN climate summit. The AOSIS Chair, the Hon. Minister Molwyn Joseph, Antigua and Barbuda, delivers a statement in response.

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Somaya Abdoun: new finance goal must contain grant target

Ms Somaya Abdoun of Sudan, a climate finance negotiator for the Least Developed Countries Group in the UNFCCC, shared her thoughts on progress in the negotiations, mid-way through COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. Ms Abdoun discusses the Group’s concern that too much of current climate finance is in the form of loans which lead to… Read more »

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