SUMMARY OF RIGHTS-RELATED DEVELOPMENTS AT COP19

The document evaluates the outcomes of COP19 through a human rights lens, noting progress in establishing the Warsaw Mechanism for loss and damage and rules for REDD+ safeguards, while criticizing the lack of accountability in the Green Climate Fund and the postponement of Clean Development Mechanism reforms.

• Parties at COP19 agreed to a process to identify "substantial, scalable and replicable" mitigation actions to enhance short-term ambition, while continuing to review if the two-degree temperature limit is sufficient to avoid "dangerous" climate change.
• Negotiations to revise the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) modalities and procedures were postponed to June 2014, though proposed changes include strengthening stakeholder consultation and ensuring activities respect human rights.
• The UNFCCC held its first in-session workshop on gender, leading to a proposed two-year work programme on gender balance and capacity-building, although gender provisions were omitted from the ADP and finance decisions.
• The COP provided guidance to the Green Climate Fund (GCF) to balance resources between mitigation and adaptation and prioritize vulnerable countries, but the briefing describes this guidance as "very weak" due to a lack of operational timeframes and failure to address civil society participation and accountability.
• The "Warsaw Mechanism" was established to address loss and damage associated with climate change impacts, including extreme and slow onset events, though it was placed under the Adaptation Framework rather than as a separate third pillar.
• Regarding REDD+, Parties agreed on rules for measurement, reporting, verification, and safeguards, requiring countries to report on how safeguards are respected to receive funding, although the briefing notes a lack of guidance on the quality and frequency of this reporting.

APA

Center for International Environmental Law (2013). SUMMARY OF RIGHTS-RELATED DEVELOPMENTS AT COP19. https://www.ciel.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/COP19_RightsBasedDev_23Dec2013.pdf

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Center for International Environmental Law. SUMMARY OF RIGHTS-RELATED DEVELOPMENTS AT COP19. 2013. https://www.ciel.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/COP19_RightsBasedDev_23Dec2013.pdf.

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@techreport{centerforinternationalenvironmentallaw2013summary, author = {{Center for International Environmental Law}}, title = {{SUMMARY OF RIGHTS-RELATED DEVELOPMENTS AT COP19}}, institution = {Center for International Environmental Law}, year = {2013}, month = dec, url = {https://www.ciel.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/COP19_RightsBasedDev_23Dec2013.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }