#BonnClimateConference 2024 #MidCop waiting for the formal kickoff.
Whilst waiting I’ve been looking at this, a document assessing competing bids to host the Santiago Network unfccc.int/santiago-netwo… which was finally agreed to go forward - to. E operationalised - at COP27 in Sharm-el-Sheikh.
The history of the “Loss & Damages” work program within the UNFCCC post the Paris Treaty is somewhat fraught politically which makes the decision making process on this question politically interesting. And the increasing incidence of weather disasters needing a “loss & damages”… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
(Note - there is now movement on stage here in #BonnClimateConference)
As previously mentioned, recent history in relation to Loss & Damages makes the subject politically complicated. Especially given that the two contenders for the role come from opposite ends of the geopolitical spectrum.
The Glasgow COP26 in particular resulted in a very significant disappointment for the developing world when a Scottish Govt “Loss & Damages” facility was dropped on the final night following opposition from developed nations. This was only reversed in Sharm at COP27 after a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Thé meeting has now started and UNFCCC Exec Sec. Simon Stiell has just raised the subject of getting the Loss & Damages work underway at the top of his speech.
“We need to show that the era of implementation (of the Paris Agreement) has begun.”
Earlier Stiell said that we (humanity) are at a “tipping point” following a long gestational period of COPs. (which did not deliver enough action).
After remarks from the SBSTA chair we are now hearing from the SBI (Subsidiary body on implementation) chair who hails from Pakistan where there was a massive flood last year affecting 33 million people.
“When we arrived in Egypt Loss & Damages was not even on the Agenda and yet we ended up with a result.”
This plenary meeting is about agreeing on the Agenda for this #BonnClimateConference. Apparently it is not yet agreed.
The expectations for the agenda for this meeting was set out in a note to the conference some time ago.
Note that it’s not unusual for their to be disagreements on the Agenda in COP Meetings.
The consensus based decision making process makes agreement on the work program… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Classic COP they can’t even agree on the Agenda. But have agreed to begin nevertheless and come back to the Agenda later after consultations.
I’m going to move to check out the Loss & Damages session which I am now wondering whether it’s one of the agenda items in dispute.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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