1 - ‘Negotiating Science’ Masks the 2019 Bonn Climate Conference Outcome - THE EAST AFRICAN SUSWATCH E-BULLETIN

According to the IISD Reporting Services, delegates made progress on a number of issues, including: Paris Agreement Article 6 (market and non-market cooperative approaches): On the only outstanding issue from the Katowice Climate Package, the rulebook of the Paris Agreement, parties brought forward the work undertaken in Katowice and worked to ensure that all views were reflected in the draft te. [...] Parties agreed to work in Santiago on the basis the Co-Facilitators’ texts; Terms of Reference (ToR) for the review of the Warsaw International Mechanism on Loss and Damage associated with Climate Change Impacts (WIM): The ToR were adopted, setting out the scope, inputs, and other aspects of the review of the WIM, a mechanism important to developing countries; Reporting tables and other issues. [...] Let’s not negotiate on our survival’ According to The DownToEarth Newsletter (India), considering the state of play of negotiations at Bonn and the outcomes achieved the urgency and political will for climate action is highly inadequate, especially in how the processes have dealt with science and the critical issue of loss and damage. [...] They offer a “decentralised” and country-led approach to the governance of cooperative approaches, but place safeguards at the level of the UNFCCC to ensure the integrity of mitigation outcomes when they are transferred internationally and used to help achieve NDCs; 2. [...] Article 8 of the Paris Agreement, agreed at the twenty-first Conference of the Parties (COP21) to the UNFCCC in December 2015, specifically recognised “the importance of averting, minimising and addressing loss and damage associated with the adverse effects of climate change, including extreme weather events and slow onset events.” As a result of the United States’ intervention in behind-the-scene.