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This negation of historic responsibilities by developed countries and the blatant undermining of the equity and common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities (CBDR-RC) principles of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and its Paris Agreement, are just two of the numerous tactics being deployed by developed countries in discussions on the New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance (NCQG) to delay and obscure progress towards an ambitious goal.

This cheat sheet provides an exploration of developed country delay and obfuscation tactics observed to date under the meetings of the Ad Hoc Work Program of the NCQG and counter arguments that may be useful for developing country negotiators and civil society organisations. For a full analysis see this publication.