ECO saw a beautiful signing ceremony yesterday in front of Wien and could even catch a glimpse of the host country agreement for COP29. What a privilege it was, but ECO wonders if it will disappear into the deep caverns of the UN system, like all the other COP Host Agreements that have come before this one?
The short sighting was not enough to read the whole document and ECO could not see whether the COP29 host agreed to implementing strong human rights safeguards – critical to safe and meaningful participation in the COP – like Parties agreed to last year in the Arrangements for Intergovernmental Meetings (AIM) room. It shouldn’t be too hard to find out because those very same Parties decided to make the agreements public.
So are they? Join ECO on an exciting treasure hunt to find the host country agreement of COP28!
Puzzled? Yeah, ECO too. After months of trying to get a hold of the host country agreement of COP28 and being sent from pillar to post without success, ECO is not too excited to start yet another such hunt for COP29.
How about making the hunt less of a mission impossible by mandating the Secretariat to upload it on UNFCCC.int/HCApublicforreal?