The #BonnClimateConference, one of the most significant yearly held conferences, is kicking off in a week. This year it's taking place throughout June 3-13, organized by UNFCCC to set a path for environmental action and policy.
Being the preamble to COP, it lays the foundations for the topics that are discussed at #COP29 and other significant environmental conferences.
One of Arboretica’s main projects is providing analyses on what shapes the present industry and world dynamics surrounding #climatechange and #climateaction, which includes both the Bonn and COP conferences.
You can check out our previous findings here: https://lnkd.in/gY7yPT6r
Take a look at this year's Bonn conference at https://unfccc.int/sb60
In the final stretch of #COP28 negotiations, Filipino civil society leaders from Center for Energy, Ecology, and Development (CEED), Philippine Movement for Climate Justice and Youth for Climate Hope urge the Philippine delegation to come out with a stronger position on phasing out #fossilfuels, as they believe its voice can be instrumental in the final decision that global leaders will take.
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Our current environmental policies and hyper-activity to get back to "business as usual" since the pandemic are having catastrophic repercussions on entire ecosystems that will have us reaching the "point of no return" sooner than later. We need action NOW...#COP28#NoMoreTrumps#ActionNow#NoPlanetB
🇮🇪 Ireland stands at a crucial juncture as the world focuses on just transition at COP28. The government plans to establish a Just Transition Commission, learning from global best practices in policy and planning processes.
In this op-ed Vilja Johansson and Diarmuid Torney examine Ireland's approach in line with the Aarhus Convention.
🔑 They highlight these key aspects:
• Integrating Just Transition into climate policies.
• Broad public participation and stakeholder engagement.
• Effective governance with planning, expert advice, and accountability.
The path forward for Ireland involves aligning the Just Transition Commission with existing climate governance, ensuring a fair and inclusive approach to climate transition.
Want to know more? Read the full op-ed that was published by RTE, here👉 https://lnkd.in/diHPYA5V#COP28#JustTransition#ClimateAction#Ireland#EnvironmentalPolicyDublin City University
I find this Reuters article by Maria and Mandy defending the controversial move by #SBTi, (now reversed due to stakeholder pressure), deeply troubling.
They agree that supply chain decarbonisation is the biggest challenge of the signatories. The main reason why this is lagging is, instead of tackling this as a collective value chain goal, each company in the value chain is focused on their own scopes 1/2, and pass 'mandates' for their supply chain to decarbonise. The article itself says some signatories are still figuring out how to measure scope 3 emissions demostrating lack of seriousness about scope 3. The response to this should not be allowing more shortcuts but to hold them accountable.
The solution in the article is to open up carbon credits/EACs to offset Scope 3 emissions. This creates misalignment between the way individual supply chain companies can decarbonise (no EACs) and with the signatory company scope 3 (EACs). Thus the need for collectively tackling it is further removed. Instead, signatories can buy EACs from the cheapest offer, and wash their hands away. This is similar to current approach with RECs. We will not solve the climate crisis with this.
They acknowledge the key problem - that companies are not putting enough investment andthe results are plain to see. This could have been easily solved by asking companies to commit sufficient funding to supply chain decarbonisation. This can be tracked by adjusting the reporting requirements for SBTi. SBTi can ask companies to set a carbon price, and calculate the total cost of scope 3 emissions, and report the investment in supply chain decarbonisation against the total cost of scope 3 emissions. And if they are serious, SBTi can mandate a minimum percentage spend.
We can guess what this simple reporting change will tell you, that at least 80% of companies who signed up for SBTi will have zero to negligible spend on supply chain decarbonisation, relative to their scope 3 emissions.
There are many ways to fund supply chain decarbonisation - our recent whitepaper on funding fashion industry decarbonisation shows many old and new pathways. Note - none of them was relying on EACs. https://lnkd.in/gNuVizQ6
It is true that global South is not receiving funding - and asking the signatories (most of whom have supply chains in global south) to take responsibilities for supply chain decarbonisation will do just that - and is in line with the Paris agreement which specifically required such financial flows.
There are great projects for carbon credits in the developing world, related to ecosystems and forestry - though what is legit is increasingly being challenged. Investments to these are required, but should not be conflated with value chain decarbonisation requirement.
The statement on 9 April from the Board of the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), released as part of the process of revising the SBTi’s Net Zero Standard, was a strategic steer to further explore the role that Environmental Attribute Certificates, including carbon credits, may be able to play in climate mitigation.
It marks a significant milestone in the global battle against climate change. In the context of the urgent challenge we face to reduce emissions, this is a bold step that will help accelerate corporate climate action around the world.
Countries committed to the Paris Agreement almost a decade ago. They are now discussing the update and ratchetting – increasing the ambition of – their emission reduction plans. Around the world, thousands of companies have made commitments to cut their emissions in half by 2030 and reach net zero by 2050. Yet the money hasn’t followed...
The potential for SBTi to update the scope 3 guidance and their Net Zero Standard is not a carte blanche for companies to use any instrument at their disposal but a limited, strategic and high-quality addition to their climate toolkit.
Read more in a new op-ed published in Reuters by María Mendiluce, CEO, We Mean Business Coalition, Science Based Targets initiative, and Mandy Rambharos, Vice President, Global Climate Cooperation, Environmental Defense Fund: https://lnkd.in/dkUuy5ck
TODAY at #COP28 Azerbaijan Pavilion to shape future perspectives on reporting under Article 13!
Dec 4 13:00 -14:15 GST (UTC +4)/ 18:00-19:15 (JPN)
Lessons Learned from Reporting on Article 13 within the MLP in Eurasia, Central Asia and the Caucasus
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The Mutual Learning Program for Enhanced Transparency (MLP), supported by the Ministry of Environment of Japan and implemented by IGES with Mitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulting in close collaboration with the Capacity Building Initiative for Transparency – Global Support Programme (CBIT-GSP), aims to support developing countries in their understanding how to apply the reporting guidance under Article 6 and 13, explore improvement areas of the climate reporting under the UNFCCC as well as to strengthen a network of institutions and individuals working on Article 6 and 13.
Chisa Umemiya Temuulen Murun
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Learn more about the Importance of Enhancing Transparency in National Climate Reporting and Support for Developing Countries below↓
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Why is it so hard to make decisions about climate change?
If you suspect skullduggery you'll enjoy the story of COP decision making by Dr Joanna Depledge, an expert on the international climate change negotiations
Dr Depledge leads us through a well told history of the climate COPs, illustrated as a series of important decisions: those taken and those obstructed
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🇺🇳 UN climate decisions at COPs are always adopted by consensus.
Unlike most other multilateral environmental conventions, there is no majority voting rule, not even a “last resort” one, that can be invoked if there is no consensus.
🔎 How did this happen? And how has consensus decision-making played out over the decades?
Read more from Dr Joanna Depledge here ⬇️
https://bit.ly/3V5oc7w#UNclimateTalks#COP#Consensus#ClimateChange
You can check out our previous findings here: https://www.arboretica.com/blog/bonn-climate-conference/