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New Quantified Collective Goal Decision and Loss and Damage (18/02/2025)
Query: Can paragraph 5 of the Decision adopted at CMA 6 on the NCQG (the “Decision”)[1] be interpreted as meaning that “loss and damage” contributions in Nationally Determined Contributions (“NDCs”) will be supported? For example, Vanuatu has costed their Loss and Damage contributions in their NDC.[2](“Query 1”); and The FRLD is an operating entity of […]
Process around adoption of NCQG decision (09/01/2025)
Query: The New Collective Quantified Goal on Finance (NCQG) decision text was adopted at the closing plenary of the CMA on Saturday and Sunday 23/24 November with little chance for Parties and Groups to speak (the gavel fell very quickly). Immediately after the gavelling went through, a few countries took the floor to express their […]
Investment layer in draft NCQG decision (22/11/2024)
The initial version of this advice (Advice to Q103-24) was produced in reaction to the NCQG draft text posted on the 21st of November 2024 at 03:00 (DT.DD.CMA6.i11a.1). The following day an updated draft text was published (22/11/2024 15:20, DT.DD.CMA6.i11a.2) and as a result, we updated our advice to the query (Advice to Q106-24). Context […]
New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance (05/11/2024)
Updated for COP 29, our explainer on the New Collective Quantified Goal on climate finance (NCQG) provides an overview of NCQG discussions and the core elements: the quantum and quality of finance, the structure and nature of the NCQG (including sources and allocation), the contributor base, the timeframe for the NCQG, and accountability and transparency […]
Finance for Loss and Damage within the NCQG: analysis of the contributors base (12/09/2024)
Query:
Query: Please provide a summary of the framework for finance under the Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework under the Convention of Biological Diversity and consider it in the context of the New Collective Quantified Goal on climate finance. Background: The report by the co-chairs of the ad hoc work programme on the new collective quantified goal […]
Including a sub-goal on loss and damage within the New Collective Quantified Goal (07/06/2024)
Query: What are some of the considerations relevant for the inclusion of a sub-goal on loss and damage within the NCQG?
Legal basis of the New Collective Quantified Goal and its link to Article 9 of the Paris Agreement (07/06/2024)
Query: What is the legal basis for the new collective quantified goal (it is not mentioned in the Convention or Paris Agreement, but in COP and CMA decisions)? What is the link, if any, between NCQG and Article 9 of the Paris Agreement?
Fiscal measures in climate negotiations and potential entry points for discussions (30/11/2023)
Query: Are fiscal measures debated/negotiated under the finance track of the climate negotiations? If so, could you summarise this? If not, could you suggest potential entry points? Advice: Fiscal measures as potential sources of climate finance are debated within the climate finance framework (broadly intended), but they seem to be hardly negotiated as specific items […]
Literature Review – Funding sources in context of NCQG (29/09/2023)
We have been instructed to prepare a literature review of what is understood as the contributor base in the context of the new collective quantified goal (“NCQG”). You have requested that this literature review focuses on precisely what the “sources, instruments and channels” are, as referenced in Article 9.3 Paris Agreement. We set out below […]
Summary of SB 56 outcomes (22/08/2022)
The 56th sessions of SBSTA and SBI met over the period 06 to 16 June 2022. Aside from the formal negotiations on SB agendas, there were a number of additional mandated events. This paper provides a short summary of the discussions in different subject areas. To help the reader and provide a general overview, it […]
Glasgow Dialogue mandate (22/03/2022)
1) Does the mandate of the Glasgow Dialogue resulting from the CMA decision allow for negotiation on Loss & Damage or is it going to be a series of workshops (and talkshops) held on the sidelines, in conjunction with the SBI session, with no inputs to the COPs? 2) How might the process feed into […]