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ODI On... UNFCCC 2012 climate change conferences in Bonn

14 - 25 May 2012

The 2012 climate change intersessional meetings in Bonn will need to pick up the momentum generated in Durban. The Durban Platform has the goal of “enhancing mitigation ambition to identify and to explore options for a range of actions that can close the ambition gap with a view to ensuring the highest possible mitigation efforts by all Parties”, and includes a commitment to develop a “new protocol, another legal instrument or agreed outcome with legal force” by 2015.

ODI staff will be hosting and participating in a number of events at Bonn, including the REDD+ partnership workshop on drivers of deforestation, CDKN's climate knowledge brokers workshop and side events on transparency of climate finance.

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Supporting climate negotiators: lessons learned and future opportunities

Event - Round-table - 23 May 2012 18:30 - 20:30 (GMT+00)

In the world of international climate change negotiations, parties’ positions on different issues grab the headlines. But how often do we stop and think about the negotiators themselves – particularly when they’re from low-income, poorly-resourced delegations? This roundtable discussion will explore how to better support climate negotiators.

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Climate finance transparency

Event - Round-table - 18 May 2012 10:00 - 13:00 (GMT+00)

In collaboration with World Resources Institute (WRI) and Publish What You Fund, this round table building will explore a number of new studies that have recently been completed. These include two reviews of the scope, objectives and reporting practices of the UK and US climate finance contributions by  and an analysis of the aid transparency and climate finance nexus.

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Smita Nakhooda

Shedding light on fast-start finance

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 18 May 2012
'It’s not presently possible to say with confidence how much funding has been disbursed or where it’s going... consistent fast-start finance reports that provide detailed lists of projects and programs supported are needed'
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REDD+ and adaptation in Nepal

Publication - Research reports and studies - 18 May 2012
Simon West
This case study examines how REDD+ and adaptation policies are currently aligned in Nepal’s national policy, before assessing whether planning for REDD+, outlined in the Readiness Preparation Proposal (R-PP), is likely to contribute to adaptive capacity at the local level.
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Synergies between REDD+ and adaptive capacity at the local level - a Ghana case study

Publication - Research reports and studies - 18 May 2012
William McFarland
This case study uses the Local Adaptive Capacity (LAC) framework developed by the African Climate Change Resilience Alliance (ACCRA) to compare how REDD+ strategy options may impact LAC in Ghana. It analyses not only how REDD+ may affect the provision of assets necessary for adapting to climate change, but also the role of REDD+ in building processes and functions that develop the adaptive capacity of people at the local level.
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Following the money: reviewing fast-start finance contributions

Event - Side Event - 17 May 2012 18:00 - 20:00 (GMT+00)

It is imperative to understand where and how developed countries are delivering on their climate finance pledges. This event will present key lessons from case studies of the UK and US fast-start finance contributions, as well as preliminary conclusions from a similar study of Japan’s contribution. The studies are lead by ODI, World Resources Institute (WRI), and Institute for Global Environmental Studies (IGES), respectively, in collaboration with the Open Climate Network, a partnership of researchers and civil society to track country progress on climate change. Invited panelists include representatives from: UK DFID, US Department of State, Government of Mali, Government of South Africa, Oxfam International and UNFCCC Secretariat.

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REDD+ partnership meeting

Event - Panel Discussion - 13 May 2012 15:30 - 16:30 (GMT+00)

The REDD+ Partnership serves as an interim platform for its partner countries to scale up actions and finance for initiatives to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) in developing countries. On the second day of the second REDD+ Partnership meeting in 2012, a workshop on the drivers of deforestation and REDD+ was held. Charlene Watson was speaking in the third panel discussion on the role of finance in address the drivers of deforestation.

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Emily Brickell

Drive on by? Will upcoming meetings in Bonn take the opportunity to make progress on addressing drivers of deforestation?

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 10 May 2012
'Recognition of the need to reduce emissions from forests as part of efforts to avoid dangerous global warming has helped push forests up the political agenda. Whether these efforts are able to face head on the trade-offs and conflicts that exist and find solutions to these challenges will be one of its biggest tests.'
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The U.S fast start finance contribution

Publication - Research reports and studies - 1 May 2012
Taryn Fransen, Kirsten Stasio and Smita Nakhooda
This assessment considers U.S. efforts to provide 'fast start finance' (FSF) in fiscal years 2010 and 2011 in the context of the pledge by developed countries to mobilize $30 billion from 2010 to 2012 under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). It is part of a series scrutinizing how developed countries are defining, delivering, and reporting FSF.
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The UK fast start finance contribution

Publication - Research reports and studies - 1 May 2012
Smita Nakhooda and Taryn Fransen, with Allister Wenzel, Alice Caravani and Kirsten Stasio
This assessment considers UK efforts to provide 'fast start finance' (FSF) in 2010/11 and 2011/12 in the context of the pledge by developed countries to mobilise USD 30 billion from 2010 to 2012 under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). It is part of a series of studies scrutinising how developed countries are defining, delivering, and reporting FSF.
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REDD+ and energy: a cross-sectoral approach to REDD+ and implications for the poor

Publication - Discussion papers - 31 August 2011
Kristy Graham
The energy sector and forests are closely linked at local, regional and global levels. This paper examines what these linkages mean for the implementation of REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation), and identifies policy options that have the potential to meet the dual objectives of REDD+ and the energy sector.
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REDD+ and agriculture: A cross-sectoral approach to REDD+ and implications for the poor

Publication - Research reports and studies - 31 August 2011
Kristy Graham and Raffaele Vignola
The paper outlines the linkages between forests and agriculture, and the need for REDD+ to effectively address the drivers of deforestation and forest degradation from the agriculture sector. It goes onto discuss the potential policy options for doing this, including their potential socio-economic impacts and how policy design and targeted REDD+ revenues can be used to mitigate these impacts.
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Overview

The 2012 climate change intersessional meetings in Bonn will need to pick up the momentum generated in Durban. The Durban Platform has the goal of “enhancing mitigation ambition to identify and to explore options for a range of actions that can close the ambition gap with a view to ensuring the highest possible mitigation efforts by all Parties”, and includes a commitment to develop a “new protocol, another legal instrument or agreed outcome with legal force” by 2015.

A governing instrument for a Green Climate Fund as a financial instrument of the convention was agreed. Progress will also need to be made on the issue of how to ensure transparency on the delivery of finance to support developing countries to address climate change. Limited progress was made on the incentive frameworks for reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) in Durban although the option remains on the table, and some progress was made on baselines and safeguards.

REDD+ negotiations in Bonn will pick up on the drivers of deforestation which there was not time to address last December. Agreement is needed on  how to deal with cross-sectoral challenges that touch on complex issues such as food security and rural development. 

The ODI Climate Change, Forests and Environment team will actively engage in the intersessional discussions, and convene a number of events in Bonn, including as part of the Climate and Development Knowledge Network. Our focus will be on transparency effective delivery of climate finance in climate finance: we will release new studies on the UK and US contributions to climate finance which will be featured at a side event with WRI on 18May, and roll out an enhanced version of Climate Funds Update, a joint initiative with the Heinrich Böll Foundation to monitor climate finance. 

We will also follow negotiations on REDD+ , and participate in the second meeting of the REDD+ Partnership  to be held the weekend before the UNFCCC talks begin. We will post frequent commentary on major developments and reports from the meetings we convene over as the negotiations proceed.

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
Climate and Environment
Venue: 
Maritim Hotel, Bonn