{"id":1080,"date":"2019-12-04T22:47:59","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T22:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/?p=1080"},"modified":"2022-03-09T21:39:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T21:39:16","slug":"gef-btr-roundtable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/2019\/12\/04\/gef-btr-roundtable\/","title":{"rendered":"GEF BTR Roundtable"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the way to the Article 6 negotiations this afternoon I ran into the wonderful Liz Nichols (former Swarthmore professor and now finance negotiator from the State Department) and decided to tag along with her for a bit instead.\u00a0 We stopped by the US State Department Delegation Room and chatted while her colleagues busily prepared for their meetings.<\/p>\n

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I followed Liz to an informal meeting about the details of providing GEF support for Parties to the Paris Agreement to submit the (new) required BTRs (biennial transparency\u00a0reports).\u00a0 These are huge all-sector audits that contain a national greenhouse gas inventory and progress updates on achieving NDCs.\u00a0 These reports are hugely expensive for developing countries, so funding is a make-or-break issue for whether these will be ready by January 2024.\u00a0 It’s hard to manage emissions without measuring them, so this is a really big deal for tracking progress and reducing emissions.<\/p>\n

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I sat at a small table in the GEF pavilion with Liz and a couple of other US negotiators, GEF leads, representatives from UNDP and UNEP and three donor and LDC parties.\u00a0 The discussion was a technical one on how to design the funding process for the BTRs to make it accessible and effective.\u00a0 Even in a small group there were a lot of competing interests and perspectives even though everyone had (more or less) the same goal.\u00a0 It really drove home what Liz had told us before — that the details are important and hard to get right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the way to the Article 6 negotiations this afternoon I ran into the wonderful Liz Nichols (former Swarthmore professor and now finance negotiator from the State Department) and decided to tag along with her for a bit instead.\u00a0 We stopped by the US State Department Delegation Room and chatted while her colleagues busily prepared … Continue reading GEF BTR Roundtable<\/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":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080"}],"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=1080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1084,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions\/1084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}