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SEI at the Bonn Climate Change Conference 2024

The Bonn Climate Change Conference convenes the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC)’s Subsidiary Bodies for key discussions on climate change topics. This essential forum enables governments, civil society, scientists and other stakeholders to exchange ideas and build consensus on global climate action.

SEI researchers will participate, sharing insights on climate finance, transboundary climate risks, loss and damage, and adaptation.

3 to 13 June 2024

As countries enter negotiation starting positions heading towards COP29, here are the key issues to watch:

  • Negotiations on the New Collective Quantified Goal” on climate finance: to what extent is there constructive engagement from the Parties? This includes bridging traditional divides, achieving detailed outcomes, identifying potential zones of consensus, and setting expectations leading up to COP29.
  • Discussions on the updated round of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), due early next year: how ambitious are the updated NDCs and how do they compare with scientific recommendations? The focus will be on understanding the gap between current ambitions and the key leaps required, as well as emerging commitments being discussed.
  • Reflections on the outcome of the first Global Stocktake and other COP28 decisions: which key takeaways are parties focusing on?
  • Deliberations under the UAE-Belém work programme on indicators for measuring progress towards the Global Goal on Adaptation: what form will the work programme take, and what modalities will it adopt? To what extent can these indicators include progress towards adaptation to transboundary climate risks?
  • Announcements and manoeuvring of the Azerbaijan COP29 Presidency and the COP Troika: what are their plans for moving towards an ambitious COP29 package?
  • The third and final Glasgow Dialogue on Loss and Damage: this will focus on coordination and coherence across the different mechanisms and components responding to loss and damage. Additionally, it will examine how existing and new funding arrangements can be scaled up.

Explore comprehensive insights from SEI experts on the critical topics of transboundary climate risks, finance and adaptation strategies in relation to the Bonn Climate Change Conference 2024.

We are all connected

Discover how transboundary climate risks impact global stability and the urgent need for international cooperation to mitigate these threats.

What's the deal with climate finance?

Katherine Browne is one of the few scholars in finance adaptation advising governments in Bonn and leading up to COP29 on how to establish the new climate finance goal, named the “New Collective Quantified Goal”. In this Q&A, hear her view on the challenges and pivotal negotiations shaping the future of climate finance.

Peak focus

SEI's Kate Williamson and Rosie Witton provide insights into the pressing climate issues facing mountainous regions and the solutions likely to be on the agenda in Bonn.

Side event: leveraging just transitions across adaptation, mitigation and trade policies

As climate-trade policies multiply, speakers will outline the need to strive for an international trade system that enables ambitious climate action, boosts sustainable development, increases equity and builds resilience.

This event aims to demonstrate that taking an integrated approach to just transitions – including advancing adaptation and mitigation efforts and climate-trade policies and facilitating open discussion to foster cooperation and coordination – can enable ambitious climate action.

Event details

  • Date: Saturday 8 June
  • Time: 14:45-16:00 (CEST)
  • Location: Bonn side event room. This is an in-person only event.
  • Hosted by: SEI, Climate Strategies, the Independent State of Papua New Guinea and Plataforma CIPO.

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Mikael Allan Mikaelsson
Mikael Allan Mikaelsson

Policy Fellow

SEI Headquarters

Report launch: seeking synergies across Rio Conventions and the SDGs: unlocking transformative strategies for a multi-crisis world

Building on the success of the 2023 Global Report on Climate and SDG Synergy, the Expert Group on Climate and SDG Synergy will launch four thematic reports at Bonn. Comprised of four thematic reports and a final synthesis report, the new edition aims to accelerate action on SDGs and climate through four entry points: policy frameworks, knowledge and data, a proposed new financial system and cities.

SEI Executive Director, Måns Nilsson engaged as thematic co-lead author for one of the reports: Seeking synergy solutions: policies that support both climate and SDG action, alongside SEI Senior Research Fellow, Adis Dzebo as a thematic co-author.

The findings of the four thematic reports will be launched at this event, laying the groundwork for the synthesis report to be released in July.

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Event details

  • Date: Tuesday 11 June
  • Time: 13:15-14:30 (CEST)
  • Location: Meeting room Bonn
  • Hosted by: UNFCCC, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), and UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) on behalf of the Expert group on Climate and SDG Synergy.

SEI experts at Bonn

Katy Harris
Katy Harris

Senior Policy Fellow

SEI Headquarters

Katherine Browne
Katherine Browne

Team Leader: International Climate Risk and Adaptation; Research Fellow

SEI Headquarters

Mikael Allan Mikaelsson
Mikael Allan Mikaelsson

Policy Fellow

SEI Headquarters

Zoha Shawoo
Zoha Shawoo

Scientist

SEI US

Maya Rebermark
Maya Rebermark

Senior Expert in Climate Communications and Impact

Communications

SEI Headquarters

Kate Williamson
Kate Williamson

Research Associate

SEI Oxford

Rosie Witton
Rosie Witton

Research Fellow

SEI Oxford

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