Environmental Integrity Group

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The Environmental Integrity Group (EIG) is a negotiation group consisting of 6 parties to the UNFCCC. When it was formed in 2000, it only consisted of Switzerland, Korea, and Mexico.Yamin & Depledge: The International Climate Change Regime, 2004, Cambridge, p.47, {{ISBN|9780521840897}}, [http://WWW.CAMBRIDGE.ORG/9780521840897 Link].

History

The Environmental Integrity Group was initiated by Switzerland during the negotiations of the Kyoto Protocol, where only party groups were allowed to negotiate. Switzerland was not part of any group and they did not want to join the Umbrella Group. So Switzerland declared to form the EIG and invited other independent parties to join.{{cite web| url = http://www.climatechangenews.com/2015/01/20/meet-the-unlikely-climate-allies-bridging-divides-in-un-talks/ | website = climatechangenews.com | title = Meet the unlikely climate allies bridging divides in UN talks | date = 20 January 2015}}

Joint Submissions

2016 on matters of the Global Stock Take (GST)[https://www.bafu.admin.ch/dam/bafu/de/dokumente/klima/fachinfo-daten/eig-submission-gst-final.pdf.download.pdf/EIG%20Submission%20GST%20final.pdf bafu.admin.ch - EIG Submission GST (pdf)]

Members

2000 {{flag|Switzerland}} (founding member)
2000 {{flag|Republic of Korea}} (founding member)
2000 {{flag|Mexico}} (founding member)
20?? {{flag|Liechtenstein}}
20?? {{flag|Monaco}}
2017 {{flag|Georgia}}{{cite web| url = https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/parties-non-party-stakeholders/parties/party-groupings | title = Party Groupings | work = United Nationals Climate Change| accessdate = 8 October 2018}}

Literature and References

Literature

[http://cclotus.blogspot.com/2016/03/who-is-environmental-integrity-group-by.html Emily Laur: Who is the Environmental Integrity Group?, In: Digital Lotus: Thursday, March 24, 2016.]

'References

Category:United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change