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Query: 1. Is it legal to discuss and agree on guidance to the operating entities of the Financial Mechanism under any COP agenda item, in particular in technology agenda items such as the linkage between the technology mechanism and financial mechanism, or must such guidance come from the GEF and GCF agenda items only? 2. […]

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 …

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 […]

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 …