Climate Dialogues

The UN Climate Change Dialogues 2020 (Climate Dialogues) are taking place to continue UNFCCC progress remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic. Most events of the Dialogues are webcast to a broad audience. For information, please see the Climate Dialogues website.

Resources

The Deep Ocean Stewardship Initiative (DOSI), has conducted an analysis of submissions to the UNFCCC Oceans and Climate Change Dialogue (Day 1 – 2 December and Day 2 – 3 December). If you are interested, you can view the report here.

Events

For those Climate Dialogues events which RINGOs are attending as designees, notes will be posted on this page following the event. The RINGO designees are listed under each bullet point. To view the notes, click the link on the event timestamp. If multiple RINGO designees attended, the link to the notes are after their names. To contact the RINGO designees, click the link on their name.

November 23

• 15:00 – 16:30 “Information event on the compilation and synthesis of 4th biennial reports of Annex I Parties”
  • NONE – verified
• 17:00 – 18:30 – SB Chairs’ Briefing to Observers (watch the webcast here)
  • Tracy Bach, CFP RINGO, Washington University in St. Louis
• 18:00 – 19:30 – “Paris Agreement Implementation and Compliance Committee”
  • Adriana Del Borghi — University of Genoa (Unige)
  • Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger — Centre for International Sustainable Development Law / University of Cambridge

November 24

• 09:00-10:00: Twelfth meeting of the research dialogue: Science for global net-zero – Poster Session (Day 1 and Theme 1 – part I)
  • Lucia Ravens — Tufts University
• 12:00-14:00: Twelfth Meeting of the Research Dialogue (Day 1)
  • Lucia Ravens — Tufts University
  • Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger — Centre for International Sustainable Development Law / University of Cambridge
• 12:00-15:00: Koronivia joint work on agriculture. workshop on improved livestock management systems, including agropastoral production systems and others (day 1)
  • Allison Chatrchyan — Cornell University, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
  • Gert Nyberg — Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
• 13:00 -14:30: Progress update on the work of the Standing Committee on Finance (SCF)
  • Tracy Bach — CFP RINGO, Washington University in St. Louis
  • Archer Christian
• 16:00-17:00: Twelfth meeting of the research dialogue special event: world adaptation science programme
  • NONE
• 17:00 – 18:00: Twelfth meeting of the research dialogue: Science for global net-zero – Poster Session (Day 1 and Theme 1 – part II)
  • Doreen Stabinsky — College of the Atlantic

November 25

• 08:00-09:30: Keeping momentum on capacity-building – the work of the paris committee on capacity-building in 2020
  • Greg Walker
• 09:00-10:00: Twelfth meeting of the research dialogue: Science for global net-zero – Poster Session (Day 2 and Theme 2 – part I)
  • Lucia Ravens — Tufts University
• 11:00 – 12:30: The Executive Committee of the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage event
  • Melanie Pill
  • Lisa Vanhala — notes here
• 12:00 – 14:00: Twelfth Meeting of the Research Dialogue (Day 2)
  • Lucia Ravens — Tufts University
• 12:00 – 15:00: koronivia joint work on agriculture. workshop on improved livestock management systems, including agropastoral production systems and others (day 2)
  • Allison Chatrchyan
  • Gert Nyberg
• 13:00-14:30: Update on LEG support to the least developed countries under the UNFCCC
  • Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger — Centre for International Sustainable Development Law / University of Cambridge
• 16:00-18:00: Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform (LCIPP) special event: advancing safeguards, protocols and good practices for knowledge-sharing and exchange of experiences for climate change adaptation, resilience and mitigation
  • Panchali Saikia
  • Michael Weisberg
• 17:00-18:00: Twelfth meeting of the research dialogue: Science for global net-zero – Poster Session (Day 2 and Theme 2 – part II)
  • Doreen Stabinsky — College of the Atlantic

November 26

• 13:00 – 15:00: First meeting of the structured expert dialogue of the second periodic review (day 1)
  • Lucia Ravens — Tufts University
• 13:30 – 15:00: Addressing knowledge gaps: biodiversity and climate change adaptation
  • Miriam Kennet — Green Economics Institute — notes here
  • Kristina Johansson — Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) — notes here
• 14:00 – 15:30: Informal forum of the Consultative Group of Experts (CGE) on the measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) and the enhanced transparency framework (ETF)
  • NONE – verified
• 14:00 – 16:00: Baselines and additionality in the 6.4 mechanism: informal meeting of Article 6 experts
  • Axel Michaelowa — Institute of Political Science / University of Zurich and Center for Comparative and International Studies (CIS)
• 15:00 – 16:00: Achievements of the Technical Examination Processes: 2016-2020
  • Lucia Ravens — Tufts University

November 27

• 13:00 – 14:30: Technical dialogue with Parties and observers by the SBI Chair on experiences, good practices and lessons from LEG work to inform LEG review
  • Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger
  • Miriam Kennet — notes here
• 13:00 – 15:00: Capacity-building Talk on “Monitoring and Evaluation of Capacity- building”
  • Chisa Umemiya
  • Molly White
• 13:00 – 15:00: First meeting of the structured expert dialogue of the second periodic review (day 2)
  • Lucia Ravens
  • Doreen Stabinsky
• 13:00 – 15:00: In-session workshop on long-term climate finance (Part I)
  • Tracy Bach — notes here
  • Archer Christian — notes here
• 15:00 – 17:00: The Importance of Compliance: Lessons learned and best practices as input into the effective functioning of the Paris Agreement Implementation and Compliance Committee
  • Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger
  • Adriana Del Borghi — notes here

November 30

• 08:30 – 09:30: Earth Information Day 2020 – Poster session part I
  • Lucia Ravens
• 10:00 – 12:30: Earth Information Day 2020 – Dialogue
  • Adriana Del Borghi
  • Miriam Kennet
• 12:30 – 14:00: Scaling up adaptation actions through partnerships: addressing knowledge gaps
  • Beatrice Liese
  • Greg Walker
• 14:00 – 16:00: Informal event of the forum on the impacts of the implementation of response measures
  • Lindsey Fielder Cook
  • Kazunao Sato
• 14:00 – 16:30: Dialogue on the relationship between land and climate change adaptation related matters (day 1)
  • Beatrice Liese
  • Ingrid Timboe — notes here.
• 17:00 – 18:00: Earth Information Day 2020 – Poster session part 2
  • Lucia Ravens
• 17:00 – 19:00: Round table on pre-2020 implementation and ambition (day 1)
  • Lena Dominelli — notes here.
  • Renata Morbiducci — notes here.

December 1

• 12:00 – 15:00: Koronivia joint work on agriculture – workshop on socioeconomic and food security dimensions of climate change in the agricultural sector (day 1)
  • Allison Chatrchyan — presentation PowerPoint here.
  • Malin Gustafsson — notes here.
• 15:00-16:30: NDC enhancement and covid-19 recovery: regional trends and country experiences
  • Tracy Bach
• 15:00 – 17:30: Dialogue on the relationship between land and climate change adaptation related matters (day 2)
  • Lindsey Fielder Cook
  • Ingrid Timboe
• 16:30 – 18:30: Round table on pre-2020 implementation and ambition (day 2)
  • Clement Brousse
  • Maggie White
• 17:30 – 19:00: Adaptation committee: achievements in 2020
  • Katy Harris
• 19:00 – 20:30: Informal joint presidency and incoming-presidency technical event: Rising to the challenge of climate risk
  • Tracy Bach — notes here
  • Katy Harris — notes here

December 2

• 12:00 – 15:00: Koronivia joint work on agriculture – workshop on socioeconomic and food security dimensions of climate change in the agricultural sector (day 2)
  • Allison Chatrchyan
  • Malin Gustafsson — notes here.
• 13:00 – 14:30: Technical dialogue on common time frames for nationally determined contributions referred to in Article 4, paragraph 10, of the Paris Agreement
  • Miriam Kennet
  • Beth Martin — notes here, presentation #1 here, presentation #2 here
• 2130 – 2355: Ocean and Climate Change Dialogue to consider how to strengthen adaptation and mitigation action (day 1)
  • Kristina Johansson — notes here
  • Thecla Keizer — notes here

December 3

• 13:00 – 14:30: LDC 2050 Vision and Initiatives: synergy with support mechanisms for the LDCs under the UNFCCC
  • Tracy Bach
  • Miriam Kennet
• 15:00 – 16:00: Informal Consultations by the SBI Chair matters related to the review of the Doha work programme for Article 6 of the Convention
  • Lucia Ravens
• 15:00 – 16:30: Adaptation Fund event: serving the Paris Agreement through financing adaptation action, innovation and learning
  • Archer Christian — notes here
  • Tracy Bach — notes here
• 17:00 – 19:00: Presidency’s Open Dialogue between representatives of Observers and Parties
  • Marilyn Averill
  • Tracy Bach
  • Harriet Thew — notes here.
  • Lena Dominelli — notes here.
    RINGO statement here
• 1900 – 2030: Developing the Santiago Network for Loss and Damage
  • Maya Prabhu
  • Doreen Stabinsky
• 21:00 – 23:30: Ocean and Climate Change Dialogue to consider how to strengthen adaptation and mitigation action (day 2)
  • Thecla Keizer — notes here
  • Lisa Levin — notes here