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The Non-state and Subnational Action Guide

A Non-state and subnational action guide, providing policy makers with tools and support to assess the effects of their climate policies.

Mobilising Nordic climate finance post Paris

Study to identify how Nordic institutions can best contribute to mobilising climate finance for developing countries to support the PA.

EU Climate diplomacy

Reviewed the EU’s climate diplomacy effectiveness from 2009-2015, and developed recommendations on the EU’s strategy for the negotiations.

Ambition to Action

A2A supports Argentina, Indonesia, and Kenya with the implementation of their NDCs by applying a benefits-based approach.

Innovative Financing for the Adaptation Fund: Pathways and Potentials
Publication date 16 Feb 2017

This new report explores the potential of seven innovative climate finance options to meet the financing needs of the Adaptation Fund. It concludes that if implemented in a collective manner, these can provide a steady and predictable stream of finance for the Fund. However, the Adaptation Fund Board needs to proactively engage with relevant decision makers, following a dynamic resource mobilisation strategy. Potential engagement pathways for each option are discussed as well. The publication is authored by NewClimate Institute and Germanwatch and supported by the International Climate...

What the Paris Agreement means for climate action in the Netherlands

This analysis translates the goals of the international climate regime as determined by the Paris Agreement into the context of the Netherlands.

The potential of business initiatives in emission reduction

Companies commitments to contribute to the long-term targets of the PA can significantly reduce emissions, with supportive policy.

Benefits of climate change mitigation action in cities

The project involved quantitative analysis of the benefits of potential climate change mitigation actions for cities.

Supporting the Tunisian Solar Plan NAMA

Develop a NAMA framework to create enabling conditions through policy and derisiking instruments into the electricity sector.

Benchmarking Guide for climate policy instruments

Provide an overview and practical guidance for policy-makers and practitioners on the main design elements of establishing benchmarks.

What the Paris Agreement means for Germany’s climate action

This analysis translates the goals of the international climate regime as determined by the Paris Agreement into the German context.

A turnaround of global greenhouse gas emission trends on the horizon – regardless of Pres. Trump
Publication date 09 Feb 2017

Recent developments, particularly in India and China, give hope that the rise of global coal use has permanently stopped, and growth in global energy-related greenhouse gas emissions can reverse much earlier than thought only two years ago. China’s coal consumption has declined from 2013 onwards, and is predicted to have fallen again significantly also in 2016. India has stated that coal-fired power plants currently under construction may not be needed. With the two largest coal consumers slowing growth, global use could now permanently be on a downward trend, bringing the temperature goal of...

Innovative Financing Options for the Adaptation Fund

Provide an updated analysis on carbon pricing instruments to serve as a new source of innovative finance for the Adaptation Fund.

International market mechanisms after Paris
Publication date 17 Nov 2016

The Paris Agreement includes Article 6 with several provisions, which allow for the use of the international carbon market. In this paper, Cooperative Approaches (CA, Art. 6.2-3) and the Mechanism for Sustainable Development and Mitigation (MSDM, Art. 6.4-7) will be considered as the market mechanisms, which constitute the basis of the international carbon market under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The purpose of this paper is to identify the main goals and aims of the international carbon market, take into account the general context and environment for...

Ten steps in ten years toward the 1.5˚C warming limit – Climate Action Tracker
Publication date 16 Nov 2016

The Climate Action Tracker today spelt out ten important, short-term steps that key sectors need to take to help the world achieve the Paris Agreement’s 1.5˚C limit: All key sectors—energy generation, road transport, buildings, industry, forestry and land use, and commercial agriculture—have to begin major efforts to cut emissions by, latest, 2020. By 2025 they should have accelerated these efforts in order to reach globally aggregated zero carbon dioxide emissions by mid-century, and zero greenhouse gas emissions overall roughly in the 2060s. The CAT scientists warned that in today’s carbon...

Major challenges ahead for Paris Agreement to meet its 1.5°C warming limit
Publication date 10 Nov 2016

Press release from the Climate Action Tracker Read the full analysis from the Climate Action Tracker The rapid entry into force of the Paris Agreement has created the legal basis for countries to increase their level of action and ambition to meet the 1.5°C warming limit over the next two years in the lead-up to 2018. The Climate Action Tracker (CAT) has evaluated the starting point for this process and found there has been little progress on national climate policies in the eleven months since the Paris Agreement was adopted. Government pledges and climate action commitments made under the...

Trump ist Risiko für die internationale Klimapolitik
Publication date 09 Nov 2016

(Foto: Mosa'ab Elshamy/AP) Ein Jahr nach der Annahme des Paris Agreements diskutieren die Regierungen diese Woche in Marrakesch die technischen Details der Umsetzung. Die Wahl von Donald Trump als neuer Präsident der USA stellt für die internationale Klimapolitik ein großes Risiko dar, mit direkten Auswirkungen sowohl auf nationaler Ebene für die USA als auch für den gesamten internationalen Klimaverhandlungsprozess im Zuge des Paris Abkommens. Trotz Vorbehalten des amerikanischen Kongresses setzte die Regierung unter Präsident Barack Obama mehrere Klimaschutzmaßnahmen durch. Im Climate Action...

Trump’s election is a high risk for international climate policy
Publication date 09 Nov 2016

A year on from the adoption of the Paris Agreement, Governments are in Marrakech this week to discuss further details on the technicalities for the implementation of the Paris Agreement. The election of Donald Trump as President of the USA poses a high risk to international climate policy with implications on the national level for the USA and for the broader international climate process around the Paris Agreement. The Obama Administration pushed climate action despite congressional reservations. Under the Climate Action Plan, the US introduced mitigation actions in a step wise manner. One...

Event: Innovative financing options for the Adaptation Fund
Venue COP22
Date 09 Nov 2016

Carsten Warnecke from NewClimate Institute presented at COP22 in Marrakesh on innovative financing options for the Adaptation Fund. 09 November 2016, 11:30 Mediterranean Room, COP22 Livestream

Event: Updated analysis of current climate policies and mitigation scenarios
Venue COP22
Date 08 Nov 2016

Takeshi Kuramochi from NewClimate Institute presented at COP22 in Marrakesh on current climate policies and mitigation scenarios of major emitting countries. 08 November 2016, 16:30 EU Pavilion, COP22 Side event flyer

Event: Comparing the ambition level of INDCs
Venue COP22
Date 08 Nov 2016

Niklas Höhne presented at COP22 in Marrakech on ambition in INDCs. 08 November 2016, 16:30 EU Pavilion, COP22 Side event flyer

Event: Sectoral approaches for NDC implementation
Venue COP22
Date 07 Nov 2016

Thomas Day presented from Marrakech at COP22 on sectoral approaches for NDC implementation. 07 November 2016 EU Pavilion, COP22

Event: INDC preparation process and countries' progress
Venue COP22
Date 07 Nov 2016

Takeshi Kuramochi presented from Marrakech at COP22 on the INDC preparation process and countries' progress. 07 November 2016 Marrakech, COP22 For further presentations held at the side event see UNFCCC SEORS

Greenhouse gas mitigation scenarios for major emitting countries
Publication date 04 Nov 2016

This new report by NewClimate Institute, PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) provides an overview of projected greenhouse gas emissions in 25 major emitting countries/regions up to 2030, taking into account the emission trajectories based on current policies and the implementation of intended nationally determined contributions (INDCs) and nationally determined contributions (NDCs). Key findings of the current study: The degree to which countries/regions are likely to achieve their 2030 targets under current...

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