We will not drown, we are here to fight

COP 23 served as a technical transition to establish the 'Paris Rulebook' for implementing the Paris Agreement. Key outcomes included the design of the Talanoa Dialogue for monitoring collective efforts, a breakthrough agreement to address agriculture and food security, and the adoption of a Gender Action Plan. However, the document notes a lack of substantial progress on long-term climate finance and 'loss and damage' funding, while highlighting a tension between official negotiations and civil society demands for climate justice and an end to the fossil fuel era.

• COP 23 was primarily a technical meeting focused on creating the 'Paris Rulebook', which will specify how the elements of the Paris Agreement are achieved, including the counting of nationally determined contributions (NDCs), transparency, and compliance.
• The Talanoa Dialogue was established as a mechanism to monitor the implementation of the Paris Agreement and serves as a precursor to the 'Global Stocktake' scheduled to begin in 2023.
• A significant breakthrough occurred regarding agriculture, with developed countries agreeing to allow subsidiary bodies to address agriculture-related issues and food security vulnerabilities.
• The conference achieved progress on social inclusion through the adoption of a Gender Action Plan to mainstream gender in climate policy and the creation of the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform.
• Negotiations on climate finance were largely unsuccessful, with no significant new contributions to the 100-billion-dollar annual goal and a 'hopelessly weak' outcome regarding 'loss and damage' finance, resulting only in an expert dialogue for 2018.

APA

Lehr, D. (2018). We will not drown, we are here to fight. Green European Journal. https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/we-will-not-drown-we-are-here-to-fight/

Chicago

Lehr, Don. We will not drown, we are here to fight. Green European Journal, 2018. https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/we-will-not-drown-we-are-here-to-fight/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{lehr2018will, author = {Lehr, Don}, title = {{We will not drown, we are here to fight}}, institution = {Green European Journal}, year = {2018}, month = jan, url = {https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/we-will-not-drown-we-are-here-to-fight/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }