[Pdf-women] Fwd: [WGC Advocacy] WG: [CAN-talk] ECO - June 10

Sat Jun 11 10:16:43 +12 2022

*Hello all,*

*SHARING UPDATES FROM SB56, BONN CLIMATE CONFERENCE, ON NOW IN GERMANY FROM
6-16 JUNE, 2022, AND WITH MANY PACIFIC ISLAND NEGOTIATORS PRESENT,
NEGOTIATING STATE/GROUPS POSITIONS TOWARD COP27 LATER THIS YEAR IN EGYPT -A
VERY IMPORTANT MEETING FOR PACIFIC PEOPLE:*

*This update (and we will send more throughout the 2 weeks) : If you would
like great feminist articles from the Bonn Climate Conference, please see
below this issue of the famous, longtime Eco newsletter that comes out
daily in the middle of the climate conference space!*

*Often news breaks on some critical areas in this newsletter, or it reveals
aspects that are not adequately covered in mainstream media. So subscribe
directly to Eco....  Coming up: More action on the ground in Bonn and by
social movements including here in the Pacific, on social media. Watch for
updates. Join the work.*

*Thanks,*
*Noelene*

--Extract:

*Paris Stallers Must Show the Love*

What would you do with a partner that time and again broke their promises
to you? After a while, a bad relationship must end. But what if you
couldn't leave? What if your life (or, in this case, all life on Earth)
depended on making it work? This is where we stand with countries that are
not fulfilling their promises to the Paris Agreement.

Some countries haven't submitted new or updated NDCs in line with the 2020
ratchet-up cycle. On the heartbreakers list, we have Japan and Australia,
who simply re-submitted their 2015 NDCs with the same goal. Others, like
COP27 host Egypt, haven't even bothered to re-submit. ECO has hope for
Egypt, which finally promised a new NDC, and for Australia following its
recent elections and renewed vows. But actions speak louder than words,
matey! We’ll believe it when we see that beautiful piece of paper.

Those are the bad, but then there are the ugly. They not only break their
promises, they lie to your face. They say they are being more ambitious as
the Paris Agreement asked them to be, but in fact they are back-sliding and
planning to do less than they promised seven years ago in their iNDCs.
ECO’s looking at you, Mexico and Brazil.

In 2020 Mexico and Brazil presented NDCs with the same 2015 percentage
targets, but methodological changes in the estimate of baseline year
emissions means that 2030 carbon levels will be higher under the new NDCs.
Mexico’s creative accounting means 14 MtCO2eq. more. For Brazil, it’s a
staggering 409 MtCO2eq. more. No wonder civil society has taken both
governments to court! In Mexico, the NDC was suspended. In Brazil, the
lawsuit is ongoing, but public pressure forced the government to present a
new NDC in 2022 that increased the percentage of emissions cuts, but still
promises to emit 73 MtCO2eq. more than it had promised in 2015.
Manipulating baselines to deceive others can be a systemic risk for the
Paris Agreement and should be reported to the Compliance Committee.

In Bonn this week, Climate Action Tracker showed that even if all the
climate promises, official and unofficial, made by all countries are fully
met, the world is still heading towards over 2°C of warming. This toxic
relationship is unsustainable. It’s past time for these heartbreakers to
show the Paris Agreement a lot more love.

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*EU Parliament: No Deal NOW on Emissions Trading System Better Than a Bad
Deal*

The Bonn session and upcoming international gatherings, such as the G7 and
the Petersberg Dialogue, are critical for getting an ambitious and just
outcome at COP27. Climate impacts, rising energy prices, energy insecurity
and fossil-fuel related wars demonstrate the urgent need to move quickly
from fossil fuels to renewable energies to bring the world in line with the
goal to keep warming below 1.5°C and to address climate harm. *The EU is
critical for this*, both in terms of domestic mitigation ambition and
increasing support to developing countries.

Wednesday was a critical moment in the European Parliament (EP) for
advancing climate legislation, and for implementing, and hopefully
overachieving, the block’s NDC. Fossil fuel and other industry lobbyists
who profit from the harmful carbon pyromania fuelling the climate crisis
laid the tinder which then lit political fireworks and drama. The EP almost
sold out climate protection for big polluters’ demands. After conservative
and right wing Parties in the EP voted for an insufficient reduction target
under the Emission Trading System (ETS) reform and a looonnnnggg (!)
hand-out of emission allowances to polluting industries (to 2034), more
progressive Parties had to decide: *No deal now, or a bad deal?*
Fortunately, they said no, avoided a watered down version, and now viable
compromises will be renegotiated. *This risks a dangerous delay in the
process, but it’s also a wake-up call. * MEPs need to recommit to the Paris
Agreement and act on the climate emergency, for the benefit of people in
and outside Europe instead of giving in to the polluters.

After the no vote, other parts of the Fit for 55 legislative package (such
as the Effort Sharing Regulation or the Land Use, Land-Use Change and
Forestry rules) received approval, with some caveats and still insufficient
ambition, but also with good elements (like agreeing that only cars with
zero emissions can be sold after 2035). While others including the
internationally relevant Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism and the
European Social Fund vote were postponed, following the ETS rejection due
to close linkages.

After this dramatic reset, negotiations must double down on efforts for a
stronger, more ambitious Fit for 55 without siding with industry lobbyists,
starting with the EU Council and Environment ministers meetings in June.
This keeps open the possibility that the EU comes to Sharm El-Sheikh with
progress on legislation underpinning its NDC, and the potential to move
beyond 55%. So ECO readers,* if you run into EU delegates in the hallways
in Bonn, remind them what climate leadership means!*

*-----*

*Come Dancing At The MWP Disco! *

On Tuesday ECO unexpectedly ended up in the MWP disco, an exclusive party
for lovers of Mitigation Ambition and Implementation. The music was on but
the room was too small and the bar was not serving drinks. The disco soon
became so full that it was impossible to move and observers had to leave
the room to make some space. ECO loves to dance and tried again to join the
party on Wednesday. This time the disco was bigger and the music was
better. But ECO saw that your dancing was uncoordinated and a little help
is needed to help you synchronize, so here are some Mitigation Ambition and
Implementation dance tips:

   - The MWP should result in sound technical work and outputs, but this
   should also lead to actions and decisions which actually make a real-world
   difference to stay below that all important 1.5°C limit. The outcomes
   should reflect the principles of equity and justice, as well as common but
   differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities. There should
   be a clear balance between ambition and implementation discussions, to
   ensure a focus not only on targets but also addressing policies and
   measures for implementation of NDCs - and going beyond NDCs.
   - The objective of the work programme should be to enhance the ambition
   and implementation of Parties’ efforts to deliver global aggregate
   emissions reductions of at least 43% by 2030 compared to 2019 levels in
   order to be in line with limiting global warming to 1.5°C.
   - The roundtables during the High Level ministerial will offer a
   political check-in for Parties on strengthening and revisiting NDCs, and
   progress on implementation, including the provision of means of
   implementation.
   - Technical dialogues can be organized on sectoral mitigation
   approaches, barriers and solutions. This is supported by the Glasgow
   Climate Pact’s provisions on phasing down coal, phasing out subsidies to
   fossil fuels, just transition, tackling other GHGs such as methane, and
   protecting ecosystems.
   - For those asking how can you have an MWP disco without people?! The
   MWP should be a people centered dialogue, respecting the critical role of
   Indigenous knowledge, justice and equity in the delivery of ambitious
   mitigation and implementation action.
   - Parties should try to incorporate new moves (tools) to deliver on the
   objectives set by the Glasgow Climate Pact and implementation of NDCs and
   commitments such as the Global Methane Pledge, Glasgow Forest Declaration,
   Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance and Breakthroughs - facilitating delivery and
   implementation of signatories.

ECO will see how well you have learnt to dance by assessing your
progressive moves through for instance an invitation to Parties to present
implementation plans and sectoral decarbonization plans, and the reflection
of sectoral commitments in NDCs and LTS synthesis report.

The MWP disco will be complementary to and coordinate with discos around
the block on scaling up mitigation and implementation including the Global
Stocktake, SDGs and more.

ECO suggests keeping the MWP disco going till 2030.

Now that you know the moves, you can give it your all on the floor on
Tuesday! ECO can’t wait to dance!

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*Spotting the G in the GST*

*ECO is happy to share this part of our publication with the Women Gender
Constituency(WGC) to help amplify their voice. This article reflects the
views of the WGC.*

We have all been waiting for this G moment, the Global Stocktake. A number
crunching exercise. A moment to calculate fairytale emissions reductions
and fancy carbon budgets, to fill in tons of tables, fulfill blurry
indicators, and draw colorful figures. However, ECO wants to remind Parties
not to lose the essential point in this exercise. 50 years of trying and
you still don’t spot the G in mitiGation, nor in the Global adaptation
Goal, nor in technoloGy nor in loss and damaGe? We are on fire and you
refuse to see it.

Don’t you think that we should all cool down and give it one last try? How
can we do things differently, so that we all stay alive? Just follow the
instructions and listen to the Gender Action Plan. From priority area A to
E you will find the right way to the G in the Paris aGreement. Science
backs this approach. The latest IPCC report tells us that reducing our
inequalities will help us cope with unbearably HOT situations. So, in the
GST, let us focus on the crucial aspects that we should take stock of and
let bloom. We must prioritize the needs of those at the forefront, and
support their vital contribution to protecting ecosystems and ensuring a
just, safe, and sustainable home for all.

Because, dear friends, whether we like it or not, we live in a gendered
world. From the moment we wake up to the moment we go to bed, all our
actions are influenced by structural inequalities and their underlying
gender patterns. And they count when it comes to overcoming crises and
reaching the Paris Goal. How could we foster a massive energy transition
when women and girls in all their diversity are kicked out from technical
education and green jobs and are confronted with a glass ceiling in this
sector? How is it possible to develop climate resilient agroecology when
women farmers, who ensure food security, have neither access to nor control
over water and financial resources? How on Earth would we be able to
protect forests - the lungs of our earth- if Indigenous women and girls are
denied land rights? How are we going to cut down emissions if patriarchy
upholds harmful gendered behaviors and binaries – from the jobs we have,
the transport we use, the foods we eat and the way we treat our waste -
these binaries hold us back from all have equal rights and voice in climate
action – and in turn, severely limit the possibility of action that is both
inclusive and transformative.

When discussing both the GAP and the GST, ECO wonders if Parties already
forgot that they agreed on some essential conclusions during CSW66 in New
York a few months ago. The enhanced Lima Work Programme on Gender and its
GAP provide a more comprehensive, systematic approach to gender and climate
justice. ECO now expects Parties to make progress on the implementation,
with substantial means, building on the lessons of the Covid 19 pandemic.
That would certainly help them spot the G in the Global Stocktake.

*ends.*

-- 
*Noelene Nabulivou, Fiji*
Skype: 'noelene.nabulivou2'
General Email: noelenen at gmail.com

*Affiliations/Movement roles:*

**Executive Director, DIVA for Equality*
*Convenor, Women Defending the Commons coalition
*Convenor, Fiji Grassroots Feminists coalition
*Pacific Feminist SRHR Coalition, Co-convenor /Secretariat
<http://www.fwrm.org.fj/index.php/news/media-releases/2013/292-re-framing-re-articulating-and-re-energizing-srhr-in-the-pacific>

*Pacific Partnerships to Strengthen Gender, Climate Change Response and
Sustainable Development, (PPGCCSD) - Convenor
<https://www.facebook.com/PPGCCSD>
*Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, International Adviser
<https://www.astraeafoundation.org/about-us/our-team/#filter=.advisors>
**Global Civil Society Advisory Committee (CSAC) to UNDP
<http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/partners/civil_society_organizations/advisorycommittee.html>*

" I knew i didn't want to be an intellectual, spending my life in books and
libraries without knowing what the hell is going on in the streets. Theory
without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory. The two
have to go together" ~Assata Shakur
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