Southern CSOs to showcase how NDCs and LEDs can advance climate solutions at COP23 in Bonn

The annual UN climate talks for 2017 will take place from 6 to 17 November at the World Conference Centre Bonn (Germany) under the Fijian Presidency. During this global meeting, Governments are expected to advance discussions on implementation of the Paris Agreement with efforts on developing guidelines on how the Agreement’s provisions will be implemented across a wide range of issues. These include Greenhouse Gas emission reductions, provision of climate finance, adaptation, capacity building and technology transfer.

According to IISD Reporting Services, among others, this meeting is expected to be technical in nature, focused on issues related to operationalizing the Paris Agreement, which is set for completion in 2018 at COP24. Among the many technical issues parties will discuss are: further guidance in relation to mitigation, including on the features of Nationally-Determined Contributions (NDCs), and in relation to adaptation communications; modalities, procedures, and guidelines for the enhanced transparency framework; matters related to the global stocktake; modalities and procedures for the committee to facilitate implementation and enhance compliance; matters related to Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (cooperative approaches); modalities and procedures for the operation and use of a public registry, or registries; and other matters related to the implementation of the Paris Agreement.

Project Partners working under the Project to Promote Implementation of the Paris Agreement (PIPA) that comprise SusWatch Kenya, TaTEDO, and Uganda Coalition for Sustainable Development (UCSD), SustainableEnergy and the International Forum for Sustainable Energy (INFORSE), have issued a policy brief titled: ‘The importance of a poverty reduction focus in the NDCs, transparency framework and global stocktake’. According to this policy brief, the Partners urgue that In the ongoing negotiations on the development of the “Paris Rule book”, it is important that the “rules” are set in order for the resulting NDCs and climate actions to mitigate climate change, build climate resilience, enhance sustainable development and reduce poverty in developing countries. This will increase popular support for the climate actions, and thereby the likelihood of their success.

The 3 PIPA Partners have also partnered up with others to organize a side event on Thursday November 9, 2017 from 16:45 to 18:15 in Room 4, Bonn Zone. In this side event, Partners will showcase village based solutions from South Asia and East Africa and how NDCs & LEDS can promote these solutions, how a good Paris Rulebook can facilitate this. Join us then!