Saleemul Huq, director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), and senior fellow of the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), gives his views on capacity building at COP24 in Katowice, Poland. He discusses its place in the Paris Agreement, why it’s important, what’s being done on the issue, and what progress can be expected at …
Understanding the art of negotiation at COP24
Under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) all the countries meet each year at the annual Conference of Parties (COP) held in December—moving from continent to continent each year to review progress and agree on any new decisions. It is a two-week-long event with the first week dedicated to technical negotiators and the second week to high-level …
Saleemul Huq short update from COP24
Saleemul Huq, director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), and senior fellow of the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), gives his views as COP24 gets under way in Katowice, Poland. He discusses the Paris Agreement rulebook, and why the recent wildfires in the United States and other global disasters mean the discussions on loss …
My COP24 Blog No:1 – by Dr. Saleemul Huq
I just arrived in freezing Katowice in Poland for COP24 and even before the COP started, attended a pre-COP strategy meeting on Loss and Damage for the four negotiating groups that are amongst the most Vulnerable. Namely the LDC Group, Africa, AOSIS and AILAC. The meeting which was organised by ICCCAD with support from Mercy Corps went very well and …
Making the Rule Book for implementing the Paris Agreement
In December 2015 in Paris, at the 21st annual Conference of Parties (COP21) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), 174 countries, including the United States of America under then President Obama, agreed to the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. This historic agreement is now the universally agreed roadmap to tackle climate change going forward. Even though …
Measuring the global goal on climate change adaptation -Bangladesh’s contribution to the upcoming debate at COP24
In the Paris Agreement on climate change, which was agreed on in December 2015 at the 21st Conference of Parties (COP21) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), all countries agreed to take actions to tackle climate change through both mitigation (to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases) and adaptation (to cope with the adverse impacts). Through Article …
Road to Katowice
Are we prepared enough with the uneven progress made in bangkok climate talks? The resumed 48th sessions of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA 48-2) and Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI 48-2) as well as the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Paris Agreement (APA 1-6) took place from September 4-9, 2018, at the United Nations Conference …
