United for the Planet: Insights from the 2024 UN Climate, Biodiversity, and Land COPs

Event Type
IDOS at the Conferences of the Parties

Location / Date
Cali, Baku, Riyadh, 21.10.2024 until 13.12.2024

German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)

The 2024 meetings of the Conferences of the Parties (COPs) to the three Rio Conventions - the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) - are set to play a crucial role in addressing the ever-deepening planetary crisis. These COPs will serve as key platforms for enhancing global and national efforts in biodiversity protection, climate change mitigation and adaptation, land restoration and drought resilience, and for ensuring adequate financial support, especially for countries with limited capacities. IDOS will be active in these processes as an observer organisation. We will showcase our research findings at events and analyse progress made on various agenda items of the negotiations.

Events

COP16 Cali, Colombia (21 October–1 November 2024)

The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)

Main Contacts

• Jean Carlo Rodriguez  (Jean.Rodriguez@idos-research.de)
• Marcelo Inacio da Cunha  (Marcelo.InaciodaCunha@idos-research.de)

COP29Baku, Azerbaijan (11 - 22 Nov. 2024)

UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

Main Contacts

• Mariya Aleksandrova  (Mariya.Aleksandrova@idos-research.de)
• Ines Dombrowsky  (Ines.Dombrosky@idos-reseaerch.de)

COP29 Press briefing for journalists (in German) on 7 November

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IDOS Events

Realising the Just Energy Transition through ambitious and sustainable hydrogen projects (Official Side Event)

Organizers

• Smeeta Fokeer, United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
• UNIDO
• UNCTAD
• UNEP
• ENECE
• IRENA
• AfDB
• Government of South Africa

Coordinates

• World Conference Center, SIDE EVENT 8; Thursday, 14 Nov 2024 18:30-20:00

The side-event explored guidelines to establish the sustainability of large-scale clean hydrogen projects in line with just energy transition aspects, helping governments transparently prioritize project proposals that satisfy national SDG goals.

Speakers

• Petra Schwager, Chief of the Climate & Technology Partnerships Division, UNIDO
• Clovis Freire Junior, Chief of the Commodity Research and Analysis Section, UNCTAD
• Gabriela Prata Dias, Head of Section on Business Models and Finance, UNEP CCC
• Dario Liguti, Director, Sustainable Energy, UNECE
• Roland Roesch, Director of the IRENA Innovation and Technology Centre (IITC)
• Wale Shonibare, Director - Energy Financial Solutions, Policy & Regulation at African Development Bank
• Rebecca Maserumule, Chief Director Hydrogen and Energy at the National Department of Science, Technology and Innovation of the Government of South Africa
• Tilman Altenburg (online), CO-Head of the Department “Transformation of Economic and Social Systems” at the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
• Frank Wouters (online), Chairman of the MENA Hydrogen Alliance

Climate Solutions for Vulnerable Countries
Organizers

• Azerbaijan Technical University
• Asian Development Bank
• Asian Development Bank Institute

Coordinates

• Azerbaijan Technical University and online, Friday, 15 Nov 2024

IDOS activities

• Anna-Katharina Hornidge (Director, IDOS) - Panelist “Solutions for Adaptation”

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Climate Finance for Vulnerable Countries

Organizers

• Asian Development Bank
• Asian Development Bank Institute
• ADA University

Coordinates

• ADA University and online, Sunday, 17 Nov 2024 08:30-16:25

IDOS activities

• Anna-Katharina Hornidge (Director, IDOS) will moderate “Financing solutions for loss and damage”, From 15:00-16:00

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Governance for strengthening SDG-climate synergies
(Official Side Event)

Organizers

• TERI School of Advanced Studies
• Asia Society
• Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association
• German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU)

Coordinates

• Baku Stadium, Room SIDE EVENT 1, 18 Nov 2024 16:45-18:15

IDOS activities

• Anna-Katharina Hornidge (Director, IDOS) – Speaker

Over time, insulation has set in governance processes involving sustainable development goals and climate change. This session will seek to cover examples of multilateral processes, climate-related water emergencies, finance which require adaptive and effective governance at all levels.

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High-integrity nature-based climate action: Perspectives from the Global South (Official Side Event)
Organizers

• York University
• Boticário Group Foundation for Nature Protection
• German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
• Sitawi
• Radboud University (RU)

Coordinates

• World Conference Center, SIDE EVENT 5; Wednesday, 20 Nov 2024 15:00-16:30

High-integrity voluntary actions by cities, businesses, and civil society must ensure nature- and people-positive outcomes. A dialogue for transformative nature/ecosystem-based adaptation, mitigation, and financing, to empower communities and Indigenous Peoples, with examples from Latin America.

Speakers

• Idil Boran (York University)
• Sander Chan (Radboud University)
• Pablo Imbach (CATIE - Costa Rica)
• Ines Dombrowsky (German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS))
• Boticario Foundation (Brazil)
• Sitawi (Brazil) 
• other practitioners from Latin America and the Global South

The Declaration on the Use of CBAM Revenues (Official Side Event)

Coordinates

• Ukraine Pavilion, COP 29 venue, Blue Zone; Wednesday, 20 Nov 2024 18:00-19:00, Baku time (15:00 Brussels time)
• Join online

Once the CBAM progresses from the current transitional to the definitive period starting in 2026, after which its implementation will incur a financial obligation on importers, it will also begin yielding revenue that is proportional to the prevailing carbon price under the EU ETS as well as the carbon intensity and volume of imported goods covered by the CBAM. Not only will the revenue collected under the CBAM increase as the mechanism is gradually phased in over the course of nearly a decade, but the simultaneous phasing out of free allocation will also increase the revenue generated from allowance auctioning under the EU ETS.
The goal of this side event is to elaborate on possible options for EU CBAM revenue use. The discussions will be based on The Declaration on the Use of CBAM Revenues. During this side event participants will be invited to discuss the following details of EU CBAM revenue use:

• How the EU should use the revenues generated from the sale of CBAM certificates?
• To whom the potential recycled revenues could be distributed and how the recycling should function?

Speakers

• Andrei Marcu, ERCST
• Michael Mehling, ERCST/MIT
• Aaron Cosbey, ERCST/IISD (Virtual participation)
• Mahendra Shunmoogam, South Africa
• Simone Borghesi, European University Institute
• Clara Brandi, IDOS (Virtual participation)
• Johanna Lehne, E3G (Virtual participation)

COP16 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (2 - 13 December 2024)

UN Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa (UNCCD)

Michael Brüntrup was member of the Intergovernmental Working Group (IWG) on Drought and its co-chair which elaborated the report with key options for enhanced drought under the UNCCD which will be negotiated at COP16 in Riyadh. He will be a member of the official delegation of Germany and of the EU at COP16. He is also Germany‘s corresponding scientist in the Committee on Science and Technology (CST), an organ of the UNCCD, and participates in its meetings and decisions.

Main Contacts

• Michael Bruentrup  (Michael.Bruentrup@idos-research.de)
• Aiveen Donnelly  (Aiveen.Donnelly@idos-research.de)

Sustainable Land Management - the Role of Youth in Innovation (Official Side Event COP16)
Organizers

• Michael Bruentrup and Aiveen Donnelly (IDOS)
• Amos Kabo-Bah (GEO LDN Flagship/University of Energy and Natural Resources)
• Mark Grasy (GEO LDN Secretariat/GIZ)

Coordinates

• Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 9 Dec 2024

For more information, please contact Aiveen Donnelly (Aiveen.Donnelly@idos-research.de)

Publications

Climate and development finance
 

Why a new quantum must go hand in hand with higher quality
Aleksandrova, Mariya / Svea Koch (2024)
The Current Column of 27 May 2024

The new UN climate finance goal: will the EU deliver what’s needed for a fair, ambitious and balanced new collective quantified goal?
Koch, Svea / Mariya Aleksandrova (2024)
in: Hackenesch, C., Keijzer, N., & Koch, S. (Eds., 2024). The European Union’s global role in a changing world: Challenges and opportunities for the new leadership (IDOS Discussion Paper 11/2024)

Getting special drawing rights right: opportunities for re-channelling SDRs to vulnerable countries
Zattler, Jürgen K.(2024)
Policy Brief (9/2024)

Channelling special drawing rights to multilateral development banks: overcoming remaining legal and political obstacles
Berensmann, Kathrin / Yabibal Walle / Elise Dufief / Paulo Esteves / Rob Floyd / Yu Ye (2024)
Policy Brief (30/2024)

The EU Sustainable Finance Strategy: proposals for reform and extension
Hilbrich, Sören / Kathrin Berensmann (2024)
in: Hackenesch, C., Keijzer, N., & Koch, S. (Eds., 2024). The European Union’s global role in a changing world: Challenges and opportunities for the new leadership (IDOS Discussion Paper 11/2024)

Trade, energy & climate change mitigation
 

Trade and climate change: how to design better climate-related provisions in preferential trade agreements
Brandi, Clara / Kateryna Holzer / Jean-Frédéric Morin / Harro van Asselt / Katharina Weber (2024)
Policy Brief (21/2023)

A strategic phase-out of Colombia’s diesel subsidy to support the energy transition
Böhl Gutierrez, Mauricio / José Vega Araújo / Elisa Arond (2024)
Policy Brief (20/2024)

Greening economies in partner countries: priorities for International cooperation
Altenburg, Tilmann / Anna Pegels / Mauricio Böhl Gutierrez et al. (2024)
Policy Brief (2/2024)

EU energy and climate policy as a balancing act: the European Green Deal among internal and external forces
Alexia Faus Onbargi and Daniele Malerba (2024)
in: Hackenesch, C., Keijzer, N., & Koch, S. (Eds., 2024). The European Union’s global role in a changing world: Challenges and opportunities for the new leadership (IDOS Discussion Paper 11/2024)

Transforming the rhetoric of Just Energy Transition Partnerships into reality: the devil lies in the details
Banerjee, Aparajita (2024)
in: PLOS Sustainability and Transformation 3 (8), e0000121

Biodiversity and nature protection
 

Why protected areas alone are not enough to prevent the loss of biodiversity
Hein, Jonas / Marcelo Inacio Da Cunha / Jean Carlo Rodriguez de Francisco (2024)
The Current Column of 21 May 2024

The new EU Deforestation Regulation: towards inclusive and sustainable forest and agricultural commodity chains
Marcelo Inacio da Cunha and George T. Mudimu (2024)
in: Hackenesch, C., Keijzer, N., & Koch, S. (Eds., 2024). The European Union’s global role in a changing world: Challenges and opportunities for the new leadership (IDOS Discussion Paper 11/2024)

The future of development cooperation
 

From the Summit of the Future to the Hamburg Sustainability Conference
Hornidge, Anna-Katharina / Axel Berger (2024)
The Current Column of 30 September 2024

Trump 2.0 in times of political upheaval? Implications of a possible second presidency for International politics and Europe
Klingebiel, Stephan / Max-Otto Baumann (2024)
Policy Brief (24/2024)

Where to now for development policy? Between niche and mainstream, between charity and self-interest
Zattler, Jürgen (2024)
Policy Brief (17/2024)

Tomorrow’s global development landscape: mapping trends and reform dynamics
Janus, Heiner / Niels Keijzer / Svea Koch
Policy Brief (4/2024)

• Klimalog: Climate-resilient and nature-compatible sustainable development through socially just transformation (Klimalog III)
• BIOdiversity and ecosystem protection driven by Environmental JUSTice (BIO-JUST)
• Concepts for Reducing the Effects of Anthropogenic pressures and uses on marine Ecosystems and on Biodiversity (CREATE)
  RethinkBlue (Rethinking the Blue Economy: Socio-Ecological Impacts and Opportunities) Implementing sustainable development goals in an incoherent world: Aligning climate action and reduced inequalities (ClimEQ)
• Social Cohesion in Displacement Contexts
• Between Crisis Management and Global Sustainability Transformation: The Role of the European Union
• How does the COVID-19 pandemic affect climate policy? Case studies on climate targets, recovery spending, and carbon fiscal reform (COVCLIM)

Hinweis

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