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CLIMATE CRISIS
COP28 IN DUBAI (UAE)
ABOUT COP26 ... Why does Congress need to know about COP28? (1)Congress and International Climate Finance (2) What’s on the Table for the Negotiations? (3) The First Global Stocktake
COP28 IN DUBAI (UAE)
ABOUT COP26 ... Why does Congress need to know about COP28? (1)Congress and International Climate Finance (2) What’s on the Table for the Negotiations? (3) The First Global Stocktake
Daniel Bresette and Anna McGinn in Dubai
Original article:
Peter Burgess COMMENTARY
Peter Burgess
Daniel Bresette, EESI eesi@eesi.org via bounce.s7.exacttarget.com
December 14th 2023 ... 8:38 PM
Friend,
My colleague Anna McGinn and I (pictured above) were in Dubai for the first week of COP28, the U.N. climate negotiations. We were there to report on the proceedings for our Congressional audience.
It is really important for our elected leaders on Capitol Hill to understand what was happening at COP28 and how it affects their constituents back home. Why? Because climate action at scale is contingent on the will of Congress to do what needs to be done.
Together with our ace team in Washington, we published a comprehensive daily newsletter to track U.S.-related goings-on and issues important to Congress.
EESI was able to fill this unique but important niche: educating senators and representatives and their staff about COP28 and the critical role the U.S. plays in efforts to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C (2.7°F).
We also held an official U.N. side event about carbon markets as well as two press conferences. These events at COP28 provided an opportunity for diverse stakeholders to reflect on the negotiations and discuss the implications for U.S. policymakers and the communities they represent.
EESI press conference on U.S. perspectives on COP28 featuring (from left) Daniel Bresette, Mayor Errick Simmons (Greenville, Mississippi), Raya Salter, Esq., and Michael Jeans, President and CEO of Growth Opps, a green bank in Ohio. Credit: Carrie Lederer | Carrier Pigeon Productions
And in the lead-up to the negotiations, we organized a briefing series about some of the biggest, thorniest issues like international climate finance and the first “global stocktake” of efforts by the U.S. and other countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The bottom line: The world made important progress on key issues like raising ambition and moving away from fossil fuels, but it is not nearly enough. (You can scroll a little further down to read more about where the negotiations settled on the biggest issues.)
Thanks for your partnership at this critical time for climate change solutions.
With appreciation and warm regards,
Daniel Bresette
Environmental and Energy Study Institute ... President
P.S. Much more needs to be done. And we have an ambitious plan for 2024, starting with a briefing about the latest National Climate Assessment. Will you please make a year-end gift today to help make all of this possible?
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Briefing Series: What Congress Needs to Know About COP28
What Congress Needs to Know About COP28
The Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) held a briefing series on what Congress needs to know about the 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Briefings covered key issues at play in international climate negotiations and why they matter for U.S. efforts to address climate change.
The briefings in this series are:
- Congress and International Climate Finance
- What’s on the Table for the Negotiations?
- The First Global Stocktake
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The Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) held a briefing on Congress’s role in the global effort to finance climate solutions. While investments in climate action are expensive, the impacts of climate change at home and abroad are even more costly. With demand for climate-related finance increasing around the globe, what levers are available to Congress to scale up financial flows? How does Congress’s approach to international climate finance impact actions by the private sector, multilateral development banks, and other global financial institutions? This briefing brought together a panel that explored these questions and discussed possible policy solutions.
What’s on the Table for the Negotiations?
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The Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) held a briefing about what Congress can expect during the upcoming international climate negotiations in Dubai (COP28). From the opening World Climate Action Summit to the intense negotiations during the final days, thousands of events will take place over the course of the two-week United Nations session. This briefing will help you identify what to follow, whether you are on the ground in Dubai or back in D.C.
Panelists unpacked the overall process of international climate negotiations, discussed the key topics on the agenda, reviewed possible climate policy outcomes, and explored pathways for subsequent Congressional action.
The First Global Stocktake
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The Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) held a briefing about the first global stocktake of efforts to address climate change. This stocktaking process, established by the Paris Agreement, aims to assess the world’s collective progress towards the goal of keeping global average temperature rise well below 2°C (3.6°F). For more than a year, government representatives and non-governmental stakeholders from around the world have contributed to this process, which will inform a report that will be released ahead of the international climate negotiations in Dubai (COP28). Panelists discussed the implications of the global stocktake for greenhouse gas emissions reductions and climate adaptation in the United States and abroad and consider how it will inform discussions at COP28.
For more information, contact Dan O'Brien at dobrien@eesi.org or (202) 662-1880.