EU CLIMATE DIPLOMACY PROGRAMME

Mission

The Climate Diplomacy team aims to secure European climate leadership within the context of the global climate negotiations and international cooperation. The team works in seamless collaboration with Project Catalyst, and reaches out to key stakeholders in and outside Europe to see, understand and use the Project Catalyst analysis and insights.

What we do

The Climate Diplomacy Programme seeks to secure adequate commitments from the EU and its member states to tackle global warming, and monitor their follow-through. According to Project Catalyst analysis, relative to business as usual the EU has to deliver at least 1.4Gt domestic reductions, and 3.1Gt abatement in developing countries by a mix of carbon market finance (offsets) and new, additional public finance by 2020.

Furthermore, support for early action, before 2012, is urgently needed. It will serve to build trust, test specific approaches to climate finance, and create the conditions for large-scale climate finance post-2012. The Climate Diplomacy Programme works towards creating specific partnerships with progressive developing countries on early action.

Case Study

With its considerable network and expertise from the Project Catalyst analysis, the ECF Climate Diplomacy programme has successfully increased the previously lacking recognition in EU Finance Ministries that funding has to be forthcoming for climate mitigation and adaptation in developing countries. The EU adopted 100 billion as the necessary funding for developing countries. Overall, the team’s sponsored activities helped create a high level of attention to an intense policy debate and has helped to convince decision makers in Ministries and offices of Heads of State to step up the EU’s engagement on the issue of offset and public funding obligation.