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Q1. How have the COVID-19 pandemic and the current food, energy and financing crises changed the priorities of your organization? The COVID-19 pandemic and the current food, energy and finance crises have not changed the overriding priority of the UNFCCC secretariat which is to facilitate action to address climate change in the framework of the Climate Change Convention (UNFCCC), the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement. However, the COVID-19 pandemic and the food, energy and finance crises have impacted the work of the organization as well as the implementation of climate action by Parties. For example, in conducting various meetings, including meetings of constituted bodies under the UNFCCC, virtual and hybrid formats have been used in addition to the traditional in-person format. Regarding the impact of the food, energy and finance crises on climate action, the decisions taken at • Acknowledged that the impacts of climate change exacerbate the global energy and food crises, and vice versa, particularly in developing countries, • Stressed that the increasingly complex and challenging global geopolitical situation and its impact on the energy, food and economic situations, as well as the additional challenges associated with the socioeconomic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, should not be used as a pretext for backtracking, backsliding or de-prioritizing climate action. The COP 27 conference in Sharm el-Sheikh (Egypt), organized by the UNFCCC secretariat in close...

Seven days into climate talks in the German city of Bonn, governments have not been able to agree on an agenda, sparking fears of two wasted weeks of talks while the climate crisis worsens. Talks on issues like reducing emissions and adapting to climate change have continued but the Pakistani co-chair of the talks Nabeel Munir warned that all their work could be wasted if the agenda is not officially adopted. Towards the end of a two-hour open meeting, Munir told negotiators they were like “a class of primary school” and urged them to “please wake up, what is happening around you is unbelievable”. The room of negotiators and campaigners applauded his words. Munir said 33 million people had been impacted by floods in Pakistan last year, worsened by the climate crisis. “A third of the country [is] under water and I go back and tell my people that we were fighting for agenda for 2 weeks. Come on, is it worth it?” he said. The Overshoot Commission is talking about solar geoengineering. Not everyone thinks it should Urging agreement, Zambia’s lead negotiator Ephraim Mwepya Shitima warned there was a “danger” of losing progress, affecting “the credibility of the process” and “even disrupting some of the critical functions of the [UN climate change agency] if we leave this places without adopting the agenda”. The Bonn talks happen every June and allow negotiators to progress technical talks and prepare the ground for the following Cop summit each November. A failure to agree an a...

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The UNFCCC Conference of the Parties: Parties to the UNFCCC continue to adopt decisions, review progress and consider further action through regular meetings of the Secretariat: The Conference of Parties and the Convention goals are supported by various bodies and organizations. This includes a Subsidiary Bodies: A number of subsidiary bodies also advise the COP. The Subsidiary Body on Scientific and Technical Advice ( More recently, two additional bodies have been established. In late 2005, the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol was established. In late 2007, the COP decided to establish the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-Term Cooperative Action, under the COP. For more information on these bodies, see the sections on “COP 11” and “Post-2012 Issues” (below). Financing and the Global Environment Facility: The UNFCCC includes provision under Article 10 for a Expert Groups and Other Constituted Bodies: The Convention is also supported by a number of The Conference of the Parties also cooperates with, and is supported by, numerous other A History of Climate Change Negotiations The UNFCCC has now been in existence for many years. The ENB UNFCCC Archives). The following section charts the history and development of climate change negotiations from the early 1990s to the end of 2007, with links to more detailed information contained in the Earth Negotiations Bulletin. Negotiation of the UNFCCC: The international political respo...