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CVA, Climate and Environment CoP – Webinar #4 : Unpacking Baku COP29 & sharing messages in the Network

Find a full recording of this webinar below.

6 November 2024

08:00am UTC online - zoom

The climate crisis is increasingly recognized as a humanitarian crisis, and the COP is the most important climate decision-making forum, whose agreements and commitments can have potentially huge impacts for the people most affected by climate change. However, for the many humanitarian stakeholders who don’t directly work in the climate space, it can be difficult to find the time or opportunity to understand how it works, which decisions are most relevant, and the implications for crisis affected communities and humanitarian response.

The primary aim of this webinar was to help demystify the COP for humanitarian stakeholders, and to better understand what it might mean for them. It unpacked the main initiatives on the agenda at this year’s COP, which focussed on climate finance and the New Collective Quantified Goals (NCQG). Taking a broad approach, it covered the fundamentals of this unique multipartite meeting, to helped us understand what the expectations, opportunities and risks are. Panelists and presenters represented a range of stakeholders with expertise and direct experience of previous COPs. As well as providing a ‘beginner’s guide’ to the COP, they also explored their key messages and the policy objectives and influencing strategies they and others are pursuing through engagement with the COP.

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Framing questions for the presentations and discussion included:

• What are the potential implications of the initiatives and decisions that will be made at the COP, both for crisis affected people and those aiding them to address and mitigate needs arising from the climate crisis.
• What are the main messages and policy objectives that humanitarian and development organizations and civil society will be bringing to the COP? What would success look like?
• Are there any areas where CVA could or should play a role?
• How might the outcomes of this COP affect planning for COP30, set to take place in Brazil in 2025?

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Moderators

  • Céline Sinitzky Billard, Technical Advisor at the CALP Network, focal person on Social Protection and co-lead of the CVA, climate and environment Community of Practice
  • Michael Belaro, Regional Representative of the CALP Network in Asia Pacific

Panelists

  • Marie Cosquer, Head of advocacy of Food Systems and Climate crisis at Action Contre la Faim / Action Against Hunger and member of the Climate Action Network
  • Adessou Kossivi, Regional Lead (Africa) at Global Network of Civil Society Organisations for Disaster Reduction (GNDR)

Key quotes

 

Marie Cosquer: (at 27.08 minutes)

“So as civil society […], we have a very tremendous role and force within COP. We see that when we have the same message and the entire climate movement cross constituency push for one very top line, it can be very general, like pay up for climate finance and it’s very powerful and this is when we can really put pressure on the states.”

Adessou Kossivi: (at 22.01 minutes) 

“We (CSOs and G77) are looking for additional and autonomous resources that will not affect the existing [financing] mechanism. […] It is important to mention that climate change [financing] will not increase the debts of countries, […] will not make people poorer. Therefore, we don’t call for loan. We are calling for grants that can contribute to supplement the fight the against the phenomenon [due to climate change].”

Panel full bios

Marie Cosquer is advocacy analyst on food systems and the climate crisis at Action Against Hunger (ACFAction contre la Faim). She attends COP and the climate intersessions each year as one of the coordinators for Agriculture in the Climate Action Network international. As well as being involved with the UNFCCC, she engages in various food policy spaces such as the CFS and FAO. Her previous experiences include climate and agriculture advocacy at Oxfam, developing agroecology programmes for French CSOs & partners based in West Africa, and supporting women-led initiatives through fundraising efforts at CARE Morocco.

Adessou Kossivi is a dynamic and active leader in disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change with a very specific focus on early warnings and loss and damage. With a Master’s degree in International Environmental Law (IEL) that focused on the Sendai Framework and the Paris Agreement, he has developed expertise on DRR and climate change throughout his career. As both Climate Change Lead and Regional Lead for Africa with the Global Network of Civil Society Organisations for Disaster Reduction (GNDR), he is well versed in leading and coordinating civil society organisations and networks. He works to support the government of Togo in the climate negotiations, especially on Loss and Damage. Kossivi is a strong advocate of shifting power from the international system to community-led capacities, preparedness and response facilitated by the local organizations; and of inclusion. He is also the Regional Focal Point (Africa) for the NGO Stakeholder Group in the UNDRR-Stakeholder Engagement Mechanism (SEM). Currently Adessou is leading the climate change work of GNDR. He stands for the inclusion and the leadership of local communities.