C2ES has been deeply involved in the United Nations climate talks for many years, producing expert analysis on issues facing negotiators, and facilitating informal dialogue among key countries.
C2ES has been deeply involved in the United Nations climate talks for many years, producing expert analysis on issues facing negotiators, and facilitating informal dialogue among key countries.
C2ES regularly convenes lead negotiators to discuss key issues in the international climate negotiations. In the two years leading up to COP21 in Paris, C2ES organized the Toward 2015 dialogue to discuss options for a new climate agreement.
International Climate Diplomacy and EngagementC2ES‘s work helped shape the outcome from the first global stocktake under the Paris Agreement by encouraging a strong focus on opportunities to scale up climate ambition. From 2020 to 2023, C2ES sought an ambitious and environmentally effective GST outcome that leveraged COP28 as a forcing event to drive needed real-world action. C2ES is now focused on elaborating a vision of enhanced internal cooperation to help raise the ambition of countries’ nationally determined contributions, as well as their subsequent implementation, including through taking forward the global targets and signals agreed at COP28.
The Global StocktakeLoss and damage is increasingly a reality around the world and a greater focus of attention in international climate diplomacy. C2ES is making this key issue a central part of our mission, working toward achieving an international consensus on this contentious issue—including through expert analysis, policy briefs, blogs, and convenings of key stakeholders—in a way that is effective to help the most climate vulnerable people around the world.
Loss and Damage
C2ES has supported efforts to ensure robust rules for implementing Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, which allows countries voluntarily cooperate with each other to achieve emission reduction targets set out in their NDCs. C2ES is also a member of the Executive Secretariat of the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market, which is establishing a threshold quality standard for carbon credits to ensure a high-integrity voluntary carbon market and drive climate finance at scale into emissions reduction and sustainable growth.
Reducing emissions while adapting to a changing climate will require trillions of dollars in climate finance and investment. This is particularly critical for developing countries and those most vulnerable climate change. C2ES aims to assess the climate finance landscape, inform negotiations and policy, and provide options for outcomes in the context of the UNFCCC.
International Climate Finance