CLIMATE CHANGE NEGOTIATIONS FOR YOUNG AFRICAN NEGOTIATORS - 2024
Announcement in Brief
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Background
The multilateral climate change processes have evolved over time from the non-binding commitment under UN Convention to the legally binding commitments for developed countries under the Kyoto Protocol and to the Paris Agreement (PA) that build upon the convention and brings all nations into a common cause to undertake ambitious efforts to combat climate change and adapt to its effects, with enhanced support to assist developing countries. The PA also address the issues of loss and damage.
Following the completion of the PA’s rulebook, the process is now focusing on the implementation of mitigation and adaptation with enhanced support to assist developing countries to achieve their commitments. The PA added the loss and damage into its workstream. This online training will deal with negotiation of work programmes under the following areas; just transition; adaptation mainly dealing with adaptation finance and capacity; operationalization of the loss and damage fund and its assessment; negotiating carbon markets; climate finance in the context of financing adaptation, assess to existing funds, methods of tracking, project development, monitoring and evaluation, gender and youth.
Objectives
The aim of this assignment is to build the negotiating capacity among the young African negotiators to fully participate in the implementation of the various workstreams under the Convention and the Paris Agreement.
Furthermore, the online course will empower the African Youth on how to undertake vigorous ambitious climate action using support provided to overcome the climate change cries as current efforts by Parties and Non-state actors to reduce GHGs emissions are not enough to keep temperature increase below 1.5C.
At the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Demonstrate a high level of cognitive understanding of the current and ongoing status of the negotiations of the work programs in areas such as just transition, climate finance with emphasis on financing adaptation, assess to existing funds, tracking, development of projects and monitoring and evaluation.
- Articulate clearly the ongoing negotiations on the operationalization of the loss and damage fund as well as its assessment and the negotiating carbon markets.
- Command an insightful knowledge of the workstreams and programmes under the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement negotiation process on gender and youth.
