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DOI	10.1080/14693062.2019.1624494
	Catalyzing mitigation ambition under the Paris Agreement: elements for an effective Global Stocktake
	Hermwille L.; Siemons A.; Förster H.; Jeffery L.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	14693062
起始页码	988
结束页码	1001
卷号	19 期号:8
英文摘要	The Global Stocktake (GST) takes a central role within the architecture of the Paris Agreement, with many hoping that it will become a catalyst for increased mitigation ambition. This paper outlines four governance functions for an ideal GST: pacemaker, ensurer of accountability, driver of ambition and provider of guidance and signal. The GST can set the pace of progress by stimulating and synchronizing policy processes across governance levels. It can ensure accountability of Parties through transparency and public information sharing. Ambition can be enhanced through benchmarks for action and transformative learning. By reiterating and refining the long term visions, it can echo and amplify the guidance and signal provided by the Paris Agreement. The paper further outlines preconditions for the effective performance of these functions. Process-related conditions include: a public appraisal of inputs; a facilitative format that can develop specific recommendations; high-level endorsement to amplify the message and effectively inform national climate policy agendas; and an appropriate schedule, especially with respect to the transparency framework. Underlying information provided by Parties complemented with other (scientific) sources needs to enable benchmark setting for collective climate action, to allow for transparent assessments of the state of emissions and progress of a low-carbon transformation. The information also needs to be politically relevant and concrete enough to trigger enhancement of ambition. We conclude that meeting these conditions would enable an ideal GST and maximize its catalytic effect. Key policy insights The functional argument developed in this article may inspire a purposeful design of the GST as its modalities and procedures are currently being negotiated. The analytical framework provided serves as a benchmark against which to assess the GST's modalities and procedures. Gaps and blind spots in the official GST can and should be addressed by processes external to the climate regime in academia and civil society. © 2019, © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
英文关键词	Global Stocktake; mitigation; NDCs; Paris Agreement; raising ambition; UNFCCC
语种	英语
scopus关键词	analytical framework; benchmarking; collective action; environmental policy; governance approach; learning; mitigation; United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
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/153371
作者单位	Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, Wuppertal, Germany; Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Öko-Institut e.V., Darmstadt, Germany; Öko-Institut e.V., Berlin, Germany; Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Member of the Leibniz Association, Potsdam, Germany
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Hermwille L.,Siemons A.,Förster H.,et al. Catalyzing mitigation ambition under the Paris Agreement: elements for an effective Global Stocktake[J],2019,19(8).
APA	Hermwille L.,Siemons A.,Förster H.,&Jeffery L..(2019).Catalyzing mitigation ambition under the Paris Agreement: elements for an effective Global Stocktake.Climate Policy,19(8).
MLA	Hermwille L.,et al."Catalyzing mitigation ambition under the Paris Agreement: elements for an effective Global Stocktake".Climate Policy 19.8(2019).