{"id":1034,"date":"2019-12-05T22:11:16","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T22:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/?p=1034"},"modified":"2022-03-09T21:39:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T21:39:16","slug":"day-4-exploring-the-green-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/2019\/12\/05\/day-4-exploring-the-green-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 4: Exploring the Green Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I attended the Article 6 informal negotiations, a side event on Article 6 and decarbonizing the energy sector, and a side event on climate finance. The Article 6 negotiations were extremely well-attended &#8212; negotiators and observers filled the big plenary hall, and there were also lots of people interested in the finance panel. Several panelists in the finance panel pushed for more climate finance to be delivered through multilateral development banks. (The US is a donor to five of these: the World Bank, the African Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and the Inter-American Development Bank.) The argument was that these have been the most effective in mobilizing climate finance so far, and that they can move quickly using existing institutional knowledge and relationships. At the same time these entities can have conflicting priorities and varying mandates, so it seems that this might make more sense as a complement to mechanisms like the GEF, GCF, Adaptation Fund and (eventually?) a fund for loss and damage.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1101\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1101\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG-7283.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1101\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1101 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG-7283-1024x739.jpg\" alt=\"IMG-7283\" width=\"660\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG-7283-1024x739.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG-7283-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG-7283-768x554.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1101\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A painting by Vincente Mercegue Cartes, Age 12, Chile<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I also got a chance to visit the Green Zone, which is the area with broader access than the Blue Zone where negotiations, official side events, and pavilions are hosted. This area turned out to be a very corporate and sanitized space, meant for engagement with Spanish society. I saw lots of school groups, a VR headset exhibit, and an exhibit of children&#8217;s art and letters that had been sent over from Chile.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1100\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1100\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG-7287.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1100\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1100 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG-7287-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"IMG-7287\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG-7287-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG-7287-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG-7287-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1100\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Campground complete with green floor mat, picnic tables, cabin and a trailer selling hot dogs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I attended the Article 6 informal negotiations, a side event on Article 6 and decarbonizing the energy sector, and a side event on climate finance. The Article 6 negotiations were extremely well-attended &#8212; negotiators and observers filled the big plenary hall, and there were also lots of people interested in the finance panel. Several &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/2019\/12\/05\/day-4-exploring-the-green-zone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Day 4: Exploring the Green Zone<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1102,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions\/1102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}