BCPH (Cecoedecon) Submission to the OWG on Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction

Climate Change and Disaster; Need for a Human Rights Based Approach to Disaster Reduction and Sustainable Development Submission to OWG by CECOEDECON (NGO in consultative status with ECOSOC), PAIRVI, Bharat Jan Vigyan Jathha and Beyond Copenhagen Introduction In May 2013 carbon concentration reached 400 parts per million (ppm) at observatory in Hawaii. Global carbon concentration is supposed to reach 400 ppm soon. It was 315 ppm in 1958, 375 ppm in 2000 (UNEP, 2012). While it increased by 60 ppm in 42 years till 2000, in the last decade...

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Brief Report on the Beyond Copenhagen Side Event during 7th Session of OWG in New York

Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction; Missing Link Between UNFCCC and OWG Processes 7th Session of the OWG Side Event 7th Jan, 2014, Conference Room A, Secretariat Building, UNHQ, New York Brief report CECOEDECON along with BJVJ, PAIRVI, SADED, Beyond Copenhagen in collaboration with Oxfam India and MISEREOR organized a side event during the 7th session of the OWG. The central concern of the event was to explore convergence and...

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Global Forum Shares Lessons on Climate Finance Effectiveness

Global Forum Shares Lessons on Climate Finance Effectiveness Source: http://climate-l.iisd.org/news/global-forum-shares-lessons-on-climate-finance-effectiveness/ The Global Forum on Using Country Systems to Manage Climate Change Finance gathered over 170 participants from ministries of finance, planning and environment to share climate finance effectiveness lessons. Development partners, civil society organizations (CSOs), and representatives from the UNFCCC and the Green Climate Fund (GCF) were also in attendance. During the Forum,...

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UN Development Group's People’s Voices Brief Released for OWG 7

People’s Voices Brief Released for OWG 7 Source: http://uncsd.iisd.org/news/peoples-voices-brief-released-for-owg-7/ The UN Development Group (UNDG) has issued a 'People's Voices Issue Brief' conveying views on topics for the seventh session of the UN General Assembly's (UNGA) Open Working Group (OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including consumption and production patterns, urbanization, climate change, and disaster risk reduction. The brief summarizes the views of people who contributed to consultations on the post-2015...

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Beyond Copenhagen Side Event in the 7th Session of the OWG, 7 January 2014, UN HQ (New York)

Side event in the 7th session of the OWG 7th January, 06.15 PM, venue CR-A, UNHQ, New York Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction; Missing Link Between the UNFCCC and OWG Processes Organizers: CECOEDECON, Beyond Copenhagen, PAIRVI, BJVJ in collaboration with Oxfam Brief introduction of the event: The objective of the side event is to explore the interlinkages between climate change discussions in the UNFCCC and the OWG. It is understood...

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Second Session of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts on Sustainable Development Financing, 2-6 December 2013, UN HQ (New York)

Second Session of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts  on Sustainable Development Financing 2-6 December 2013, UN HQ (New York) The Second Session of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts on Sustainable Development Financing (ICESDF) was held at the UN Headquarters (New York) from 2-6 December 2013. This intergovernmental Committee comprising 30 experts was established (effective 21 June 2013) by the General Assembly as a follow-up to the outcome of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) to prepare...

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Report on the Outcomes of UNFCCC CoP19, Warsaw

Report on the Outcomes of UNFCCC COP-19, Warsaw, Poland. By: Soumya Dutta A COP with low expectations – The world seems to have learnt a bitter lesson from the experiences of Copenhagen COP-15 in 2009 (and the subsequent ones in Cancun-Mexico, Durban-South Africa and Doha-Qatar), where high expectations from the government negotiators and the country-party negotiating process, lead to frustrations amongst all those expecting a positive & progressive deal. This particular COP in Warsaw, the capital city of Poland, was not expected to...

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