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Loss and Damage Finance: A Framework for Complementarity and Coherence

The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change’s (UNFCCC) 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28) set out a historic agreement to operationalize the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD), including new funding arrangements for responding to loss and damage (L&D). The COP28 decision also established a Board to govern the FRLD (the Board). The […]

Issues and Considerations for the Just Transition Work Programme

The establishment of the Just Transition Work Programme (JTWP) and its inclusion on the agenda of the meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement (CMA) reflects the greater awareness and engagement by Parties on just transition and its inextricable relationship in addressing the challenges and opportunities of shifting to net-zero and climate-resilient economies. There […]

Capitalizing On Transparency to Accelerate Climate Action (Discussion Paper)

Given a challenging political environment, the Paris Agreement (PA) is facing scrutiny about its effectiveness and impact. But it is indeed working as intended by reflecting back what the global community is doing to combat climate change and pointing the way forward as to what more needs to be done collectively. Given geopolitical and economic […]

The Enhanced Transparency Framework (Discussion Paper)

The Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF) is a critical lever to building mutual confidence among Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and enhance international cooperation to reach the goals of the Paris Agreement (PA). December 2025 will mark the ten-year anniversary of adopting the PA. Most of the implementing guidance that operationalizes […]

Issues and Options to Develop Modalities for the Baku Adaptation Roadmap

]The Baku Adaptation Roadmap (BAR), which was launched at the 29th Conference of the Parties (COP29), aims to advance progress towards the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA) under the Paris Agreement and support the implementation of Decision 2/CMA.5, paragraph 38 (see Annex 1) from COP28, which, inter alia, asks Parties to enhance understanding of temperature […]

The Proposal for a New Climate Change Council (Discussion Paper)

At the conclusion of the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro last year, President Lula of Brazil proposed the establishment of a ‘Climate Change Council’ (the Council). While the proposal was not fully elaborated, reportedly the Council would be established under the UN with the purpose of supporting the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change […]

Increasing Efficiency in the UNFCCC Process

This paper was submitted to the UNFCCC on March 31, 2025. Summary The Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) has been discussing the challenges posed by the increasing scale of UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) conferences and approaches to increasing the efficiency of the UNFCCC process for many years. The rapid growth of agenda […]

Comments to Inform Implementation of California Climate-Disclosure Legislation

These comments were submitted to the California Air Resources Board in March 2025 in response to CA SB219.

Assessing progress under the Sharm el-Sheikh Dialogue on Article 2.1(c) and its complementarity to Article 9

This paper was submitted to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change on March 21, 2025.

Modalities for the first Sharm El-Sheikh Joint Work on Implementation of Climate Action on Agriculture and Food Workshop

The paper was submitted on February 28, 2025, to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) web portal for consideration ahead of the 62nd Subsidiary Bodies Meeting in June 2025.