The Brazilian government presented this Thursday (9), in Bonn, Germany, an overview of the international negotiations in COP23. Ambassador José Antonio Marcondes de Carvalho, the country's chief negotiator, stressed that the main objective of the conference is to advance the Rulebook of Paris Agreement, a book of rules and guidelines that should guide the implementation of greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets assumed by each country.
Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay are leading the work of monitoring the targets and are producing a document that will outline how these calculations should be made. The document is expected to be finalized next weekend.
According to the Brazilian assessment, there is positive progress in negotiations on how and when each country should report its nationally determined contributions and on how financial support and progress on GHG emission inventories should be reported.
The first conclusion of COP23, which will go to the plenary session, is the postponement of the decision on the GHG impact metric until 2019. This discussion was coordinated by Brazil at the G77, in partnership with Argentina and Uruguay.
Other points under negotiation by the parties at COP23 are the use of internationally transferred mitigation results (Article 6, item 3); the establishment of a facilitation committee for compliance with the Agreement (Article 15); and the best way to provide transparency to resources directed to developing countries.
Marcondes emphasized that the acceleration of actions before the deadline set by the Paris Agreement (2020) is on the agenda, but faces resistance from developed countries. The next reports from the Brazilian delegation will be passed on next Monday (13) in the Bangkok room in the Bonn Zone.
