This new working paper from the World Resources Institute (WRI) provides an overview of the key remaining issues being negotiated under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. Article 6 of the Paris Agreement provides the rules for international cooperation and carbon markets. It’s the final outstanding piece of the Paris rulebook, the rest of which was finalised in 2018. Rules…

…the stakes at an all-time high for these developing and least-developed countries, the Wadadli Action Platform is set to put SIDS challenges in an international spotlight and enhance partnerships to strengthen long-term resilience. The Platform aims to secure new, actionable commitments to address the issues in access to development finance that continue to plague SIDS, such as the long overdue…

…rules for the use of carbon markets and common timeframes for submitting NDCs, and successfully review and strengthen the institutional mechanisms to address loss and damage. The briefing assesses the role of Least Developed Countries in the COP25 negotiations. It suggests that LDCs need to push market and non-market approaches to emissions reductions and common timeframes. At the same time,…

Mokoena France, Co-cordinator for adaptation at the Least Developed Countries (LDC) Group, talked to CASA this month about the climate crisis. https://youtu.be/grvzE2rLHvE In his recent conversation with the Climate Ambition Support Alliance he outlined the LDC Group’s response to the latest Bonn Climate Change Conference (SB56), exploring where progress was made and, more importantly, where more work needs to be…

…on mitigation, adaptation & finance to tackle the climate crisis.” The meeting was finally gavelled to a close at 1:55pm on Sunday. At nearly 44 hours after its scheduled end of 6pm on Friday, this means COP25 became the latest-ever finish by beating COP17 in Durban, which had finished at 6.22am on the Sunday. Read the full summary of COP25. Photo: IISD/Kiara Worth…