Eileen J. Kirby

Policy and Research Coordinator at @Freshwatersoc. M.S. Science, Tech., and Environmental Policy ‘19 @HHHSchool Views are my own.

[Eileen J. Kirby @nosopro]

I'm privileged to be heading to #COP25 in Madrid in the upcoming weeks. I'll be live tweeting official negotiations, side events, and general impressions of the @UNFCCC conference as it progresses. #MNCOP25

[IPCC @IPCC_CH]

The evidence is clear: the time for action is now. We can halve emissions by 2030.

The #IPCC has just released its latest #ClimateReport on the mitigation of #climatechange.

Press Release ➡️ https://t.co/N9cLJFBbnA
Read the report ➡️ https://t.co/mIdBKgvokW

[Eileen J. Kirby @nosopro]

I'm part of a team that has been studying #groundwater and the people, networks, and institutions involved in governing it across the #GreatLakes region, and we're excited to report out. Mark your calendars! #water #WorldWaterDay

[Rob Marciano @RobMarciano]

Brownsville NWS has taken over all forecast operations from LCH — Lake Charles NWS has left the building.

[Kris Karnauskas @OceansClimateCU]

Plain and simple: The greenhouse effect works, and we are making it stronger.

[💧🌏 Jen Kader @JenWenKad]

Parties have largely been careful to not officially call out the bad actors in any of the sessions I have been in. The High Ambition Coalition just changed that: called out the US, Australia, and Brazil specifically for disrupting negotiations. #COP25 #MNCOP25 @ClimateGenOrg

[Eileen J. Kirby @nosopro]

@JenWenKad The German Pavillion in hall 6 has free coffee available for most of the day, it was very necessary during week 1! Negotiation sessions generally won’t start until ~10 mins after scheduled so theres time to check out events during that period and decide what is most interesting

[Eileen J. Kirby @nosopro]

I’m headed back stateside, but for more #COP25 tweets make sure to follow the Minnesota delegation at #MNCOP25! I’ll be remotely tracking session draft (and eventually hopefully final) documents as they’re released, particularly on #Art6. See you next time @UNFCCC!

[Eileen J. Kirby @nosopro]

At an informal consultation on the #Warsaw mechanism on Loss and Damage, parties are discussing the efficacy of developing new structures to provide financial and technical support or mobilizing more strategically within existing frameworks
#MNCOP25 #COP25

[Eileen J. Kirby @nosopro]

This is another thing that the last minute location change from #Chile to #Madrid likely impacted—which countries would have had greater representation if #COP25 had been held in the Global South as planned?

[Eileen J. Kirby @nosopro]

#COP25 takes an incredible amount of stamina, even as an observer. There are 12.5 hours of back to back scheduled meetings every day for 2 weeks. Negotiators often stay long past this. Benefits of having a large delegation are clear—any amount of rest is valuable here #MNCOP25

[Eileen J. Kirby @nosopro]

Negotiation teams with more members can divide the load; smaller teams—often from LDCs with less resources/capacity and greater vulnerability to #climatechange—must advocate for the planet and their futures nearly 24/7 here

[Eileen J. Kirby @nosopro]

It’s Saturday morning, my last day at #COP25 @COP25CL. There are fewer observer org members here today than there have been during the week, but negotiators are still hard at work. Draft text revisions of #Art6 of #ParisAgreement are underway&anticipated for Mon morning
#MNCOP25

[Eileen J. Kirby @nosopro]

It’s fascinating to observe the editing of draft decision texts. Every word, comma &space is precisely negotiated. At a session I just left, a sentence shorter than a tweet was debated for over a half hour. Decisions about how to address #ClimateChange aren’t made rashly
#MNCOP25

[Eileen J. Kirby @nosopro]

I don’t think I’ve attended a single negotiation so far that hasn’t run out of time for parties to speak at #COP25. For #article6, yet another session of what was supposed to be a single hour of negotiations will start in about 45 minutes. #MNCOP25

[Eileen J. Kirby @nosopro]

#TimeForAction #TiempoDeActuar is not a slogan, it’s a call for action, an acknowledgment that we need to ramp up ambition and commitments to address #climatechange, says #COP25 President @CarolaSchmidtZ at a briefing for observer organizations.

[Eileen J. Kirby @nosopro]

It’s Friday morning at #COP25 in Madrid, and chants from youth demonstrations and #strikeforclimate demanding #climateaction have permeated the halls since 9 am.

[Eileen J. Kirby @nosopro]

“It is time to increase ambitions to meet the goals set under the Paris Agreement. It is high time to make sure marginalized voices are heard and respected, even & especially when they are unable to attend.”
@ClimateGenOrg will be posting my first #COP25 blog tomorrow AM #MNCOP25

[Eileen J. Kirby @nosopro]

At a high level plenary on pre-2020 #GlobalStocktake. Speakers emphasize that while #climate finance is progressing, total amount and distribution proportions still need to improve — currently only 19% is for #adaptation. #COP25 #MNCOP25

[Eileen J. Kirby @nosopro]

Response: the gap is closing because of public interest and policy maker attention, but IPCC is walking a fine line of providing unbiased and complete information about pros and cons of every element of and potential response to #climatechange

[Eileen J. Kirby @nosopro]

Question from the audience: if @IPCC_CH is not responsible for prescribing policy, then who is responsible to fill that gap? #COP25 #MNCOP25