The Glasgow Climate Change Conference convened after a yearlong postponement due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. Parties adopted the Glasgow Climate Pact: a series of three overarching cover decisions that provide an overall political narrative of the Conference of the Parties (COP). For the first time in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) process, there is a reference to phasing down unabated coal power and phasing out inefficient fossil fuel subsidies.
Some of the substantive aspects of the decisions include sections on science, adaptation, adaptation finance, mitigation, finance, technology and capacity building, loss and damage, implementation, and collaboration in the cover decisions, except for the one related to the Kyoto Protocol (the KP finished by the end of the year 2020 and was amended by the Paris Agreement).
Our Emissions and Biofuels department was the most interested in the implementation of the future reporting framework inside the Enhance Transparency Framework under the Article 13 of the Paris Agreement. Although the MPG (Modalities Procedures and Guidelines) was agreed on COP24 (2017) in Katowice (Poland), implementation decision was not in place until now. With the pleasure we announce the fact, that after exhausting negotiations we adopted two important decisions:
The CMA adopted the “Guidance for operationalizing the modalities, procedures and guidelines for the enhanced transparency framework referred to in Article 13 of the Paris Agreement” can be find here https://unfccc.int/documents/311138 and corresponding draft CMA decision on “Guidance on cooperative approaches referred to in Article 6, paragraph 2, of the Paris Agreement“ can be find here https://unfccc.int/documents/310510. Decision is describing the review, accounting rules, and defining structured summary of the future reporting by the Parties.
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