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UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called on parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to move important climate negotiations online to minimize delays caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. However, concerns around moving negotiations online overweigh the urgency expressed by Guterres and others to not let the pandemic delay negotiations any further.
This survey asked what you think about moving parts or the entire process of international climate negotiations online.
Plenary at COP24 in Katowice, Poland, 2018. Photo: UNFCCC / Flickr.
After 25 years of regular negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Covid-19 has brought face-to-face meetings to a halt. But the pandemic has also forced a greater reckoning on whether the process – and in particular the large COP gatherings – remains fit for purpose. The most obvious alternative, to conduct the process at least in part or even primarily online, brings both challenges and opportunities.
That is why the Online Climate Negotiations project, funded by the Swedish Ministry of Environment, explores whether online technology could strengthen the process in ways that help overcome any of the constraints of a face-to-face process – and how we can turn the current challenge into an opportunity and make the climate negotiations more inclusive, transparent and effective.
The survey offered anyone with a stake in the process an opportunity to express their views. It was open until Sunday, 18 April 2021, 23:59 CEST.
Project / There is a unique opportunity to build climate diplomacy back better in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, our study finds.
Perspective / Since the Paris Agreement was reached five years ago, climate negotiations have been fraught with frustrations. Their role has changed - as should their format.
Perspective / Reforming the process of international climate negotiations and realising that we are all in this together - two opportunities created by the COP26 deferral.
Feature / The UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) has been postponed by one full year to November 2021.
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