2024 Oxford Seminar Discusses Critical Issues in Advance of COP 29 in Baku

The 2024 Oxford Seminar, ecbi’s annual flagship event, took place from 28-30 August at the Examination Schools, with 30 participants attending in person—15 developing country Fellows and 15 European representatives. Of these, 22 (73%) were women. Two regional group chairs and the Chair of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice also participated. The Seminar was preceded by the annual Fellows Colloquium, which took place at Magdalen College from 26-28 August and provided the opportunity for the Fellows to prepare their positions on the issues before meeting with their European counterparts.

Seminar topics included those that will be central to the discussions the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference (COP 29), which will take place in Baku, Azerbaijan, in November.

These included:

• the New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance (NCQG), which is expected to be agreed in Baku;
• Article 6 of the Paris Agreement on cooperative approaches;
• resolving the impasse with respect to the mitigation work programme;
• the Just Transition Work Programme (JTWP) and response measures in the context of the JTWP;
• gender, the Gender Action Plan, and expectations for Baku;
• Climate Solidarity Levies and the proposed Climate Solidarity Alliance;
• advancing the Global Stocktake;
• and the Global Goal on Adaptation.

Seminar presentations can be found on the Oxford Climate Policy Website.

Part of the BVRio group, Oxford Climate Policy, is a founding partner of the European Capacity Building Initiative (ecbi).