Title: An initiative for sustained capacity building in support of international climate change negotiations
Coordinating Institutions: European capacity building initiative (ecbi) (Link to Process)
Objective: The ecbi aims to promote a more level playing field between government delegations to the international climate change negotiations, and facilitate mutual understanding and trust - above all between European and developing countries.
Project Description:

A key limitation of the United Nations climate change negotiations is the lack of a level playing field between many delegations, particularly North-South, and South-South. Other major obstacles are mutual misunderstanding and a lack of trust, above all between industrialised and developing countries.

The European Capacity Building Initiative () aims to reduce and overcome these limitations and obstacles through a number of capacity- and trust-building activities.

The core of the is focused on collaborations with European and developing countries from Sub-Saharan Africa, and South Asia - including the regional leaders South Africa and India - and the Group of Least Developed Countries (LDCs). Outside these core regions, there is also participation from Brazil and China, as well as from OECD non-Annex B 'Advanced Developing Countries' (ADCs), such as Mexico and Turkey.

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