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This document is produced by ENERGIES 2050 on behalf of the Institut de la Francophonie pour le Développement Durable (IFDD), a subsidiary body of the International Organization of La Francophonie (OIF). It is part of our program to support climate negotiations and climate negotiators. ENERGIES 2050 has produced the Climate Negotiations Guide, its Summary for Decision-Makers and Technical notes accompanied by capacity-building programs on behalf of the IFDD since COP 20 in Lima in 2014.
The Summary for Decision-Makers accompanies the Negotiation Guide on climate issues under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This 85-page technical document in French aims to prepare delegates for the negotiations at the Conference of the Parties (COP 28), which will take place from November 30 to December 12, 2023, in Dubai, by deciphering the progress made at COP27 and the challenges at the heart of climate change negotiations, notably on mitigation, adaptation and climate finance. It offers an up-to-date analysis in French translation of these issues to facilitate discussions. The document also includes explanatory factsheets and recent scientific elements for informed decision-making support.
Decoding the results of COP27 on the key issues of the negotiations and progress ahead of COP28
The Conference of the Parties (COP 27), held in Sharm el-Sheikh from November 6 to 18, 2022, under the Egyptian presidency, allowed the adoption of a package of major decisions. These decisions constitute the “Sharm el-Sheikh Plan of Implementation” and cover various key aspects, including science, climate ambition, mitigation, adaptation, loss and damage, finance and technology. The plan includes also commitments on the just transition, ocean and forest management, as well as guidelines for Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, which frames market mechanisms. This framework of decisions represents a milestone, rather than an outcome, highlighting the urgency of increased ambition and climate support, particularly for climate-related loss and damage. The creation of a dedicated fund was hailed as a significant step forward, although its modalities are to be finalized in 2023.
The intersessional session in Bonn, from June 5 to 15, 2023, brought together the subsidiary bodies (Subsidiary Body for Implementation [SBI] and Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advise [SBSTA]) for their 58th sessions. Marked by procedural blockages around the adoption of agendas, negotiations finally continued thanks to provisional agendas, narrowly adopted on June 14. More than twenty items were discussed, notably on loss and damage, climate financing and the first global stocktaking scheduled to conclude at COP28 in Dubai. These exchanges, though laborious, were seen as crucial to strengthening international collaboration on climate, anticipating the next stages of the negotiations.
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