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DOI	10.1080/14693062.2019.1695571
	Transparency requirements under the Paris Agreement and their (un)likely impact on strengthening the ambition of nationally determined contributions (NDCs)
	Weikmans R.; Asselt H.V.; Roberts J.T.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	14693062
起始页码	511
结束页码	526
卷号	20 期号:4
英文摘要	How will the Paris Agreement drive countries to address climate change? One expectation of the Agreement is that transparency will stimulate countries to increase the ambition of their pledges by revealing information on Parties’ climate efforts. To this end, the Agreement introduced a new ‘enhanced transparency framework’ (ETF) to report and review information on Parties’ greenhouse gas emissions, progress made in implementing and achieving nationally determined contributions (NDCs), their adaptation actions, and the financial, technological and capacity-building support needed, received and provided to developing country Parties. However, this relationship between transparency and progressive ambition over time remains largely untested. In this article, we first outline several pathways through which increased transparency could potentially lead to increased ambition. These pathways notably depend on the availability of comparable, complete and timely information on the performance of Parties. By reviewing the experience with past and existing transparency arrangements, we identify four types of challenges that will likely pose barriers to the generation of such information by the ETF, and suggest some efforts that might address these challenges to support greater ambition in future rounds of NDCs. Key policy insights The potential use of the flexibilities offered to developing countries on some dimensions of the ETF may lead to the generation of incomplete and incomparable information. It will be difficult to assess and compare progress made by Parties towards achieving their NDCs due to heterogenous, qualitative and conditional NDCs; the variety of indicators that Parties will choose to track their progress; and to weaknesses in the reporting guidelines on climate action and support. Despite ongoing efforts to address this, the information generated by the ETF may be outdated and non-comprehensive due to capacity gaps. The apolitical design of the ETF means that it will not lead to judgments, for example on the level of ambition of an NDC, or even on whether a country is achieving its NDC. The ETF is also not equipped to deal with cases of political unwillingness to participate in the ETF itself. © 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
英文关键词	climate change; nationally determined contributions; Paris Agreement; Transparency; UNFCCC
语种	英语
scopus关键词	capacity building; carbon emission; climate change; developing world; greenhouse gas; transparency
来源期刊	Climate Policy
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/153287
作者单位	Institute for Environmental Management and Land Use Planning, Université Libre de Bruxelles / Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium; Law School, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland; Stockholm Environment Institute, Oxford, United Kingdom; Institute for Environment & Society, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Weikmans R.,Asselt H.V.,Roberts J.T.. Transparency requirements under the Paris Agreement and their (un)likely impact on strengthening the ambition of nationally determined contributions (NDCs)[J],2020,20(4).
APA	Weikmans R.,Asselt H.V.,&Roberts J.T..(2020).Transparency requirements under the Paris Agreement and their (un)likely impact on strengthening the ambition of nationally determined contributions (NDCs).Climate Policy,20(4).
MLA	Weikmans R.,et al."Transparency requirements under the Paris Agreement and their (un)likely impact on strengthening the ambition of nationally determined contributions (NDCs)".Climate Policy 20.4(2020).