Dear GEP-eders, as previously announced on this list, the Wuppertal Institute and the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) are planning to host an expert workshop under the theme "It's the End of the COP as We Know It,“ originally planned for 26-27 May 2020.
Given the current CoViD-19 pandemic, the event may not go ahead as planned. Our decision will depend in part on whether the UNFCCC Subsidiary Bodies will convene as planned or not in Bonn in the first weeks of June; we are also considering to convert the workshop into a webinar series as a potential fallback option for the originally planned physical workshop. In any case, we remain determined to address the important questions of our Call for Proposals and will update you on the definite date and format of the event in early April. Meanwhile, we have extended the deadline to submit your proposals to 3 April 2020: The full call for submissions can be found at: https://wupperinst.org/fa/redaktion/downloads/news/End_of_COP_Call_for_Proposals_260520.pdf General reminder & background: The purpose of this expert workshop is to discuss how the nature of the annual meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) may be (re)shaped to make the best use of what has become a global focusing event for climate action. With the adoption of the Paris Agreement in 2015 and subsequently the completion of the corresponding rulebook at COP24 in Katowice, the UNFCCC has mostly completed the regime building process. For more than a decade the negotiation of first the Copenhagen Accord and subsequently the Paris Agreement dominated the annual UN climate conferences. While some issues will require ongoing negotiations, the imminent conclusion of the regime building pro-cess represents a critical juncture for multilateral climate governance. Specifically, it opens a new chapter for the UNFCCC and the organisation of its annual COP as the focus shifts from negotiation to implementation. Indeed, the negotiating capacity that is now being freed up should be refocused to faciliating implementation, monitoring progress and, crucially, raising ambition. Thank you, take care and best wishes, Lukas Hermwille Wuppertal Institute & Steffen Bauer ************************************** DEUTSCHES INSTITUT FÜR ENTWICKLUNGSPOLITIK (DIE) German Development Institute Dr. Steffen Bauer Tulpenfeld 6 D - 53113 Bonn TEL : 0228-94927-153 FAX : 0228-94927-130 mailto : steffen.ba...@die-gdi.de web: http://www.die-gdi.de ************************************** -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gep-ed+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/OF5D2ECCFB.A34762C6-ONC1258535.00567D8D-C1258535.0058703E%40die-gdi.de.
