Publications
2019 UNSG Climate Action Summit: A Showcase of Ambition
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Data and Ambition Loops for Enhanced Climate Action: Potential Drivers and Opportunities in Asia
by Yamide Dagnet, Nathan Cogswell, Delfina Grinspan, Elizabeth Reichart and Deborah Drew - September 2019This paper introduces the concept of a “data loop”— the relationship between governments and the private sector focused on enhancing data sharing to accelerate climate action.
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Good Governance for Long-Term Low-Emissions Development Strategies
by Cynthia Elliott, Jesse Worker, Kelly Levin and Katherine Ross - June 2019Long-term planning for climate and development requires tailored governance and institutional arrangements. This paper outlines several governance considerations critical to any national climate planning effort, providing a checklist of key questions that policymakers may consider when developing their long-term strategies.
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Scaling Up Ambition: Leveraging Nationally Determined Contributions and Long-Term Strategies to Achieve the Paris Agreement Goals
by James Vener, Taryn Fransen, Kelly Levin, Jennifer Baumwoll, Cynthia Elliott and Katherine Ross - June 2019Climate action is core to the G20 Agenda on economic growth. This paper highlights the critical need for the world’s top emitters to develop long-term climate and development strategies and strengthen their national climate plans by 2020 under the Paris Agreement.
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Building Capacity for the Paris Agreement’s Enhanced Transparency Framework
What Can We Learn From Countries’ Experiences and UNFCCC Processes?
by Yamide Dagnet, Nathan Cogswell, Neil Bird, Mathilde Bouyé and Marcelo Rocha - March 2019A new paper from the Project for Advancing Climate Transparency examines how the Paris Agreement’s enhanced transparency framework's new requirements have been enhanced, highlights the experiences of countries’ related to transparency, and maps the initiatives and processes designed to support capacity building.
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Tracking Progress of the 2020 Climate Turning Point
by Mengpin Ge, Katie Lebling, Kelly Levin and Johannes Friedrich - February 2019This paper assesses progress toward six sectoral milestones – in energy, transport, land use, industry, infrastructure, and finance – that would need to be met by 2020 to bend the curve in global greenhouse gas emissions and put the world on a pathway consistent with the Paris Agreement.
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Toward Paris Alignment
How the Multilateral Development Banks Can Better Support the Paris Agreement
by Gaia Larsen, Caitlin Smith, Nisha Krishnan, Lutz Weischer, Sophie Bartosch and Hanna Fekete - December 2018 -
Strengthening Nationally Determined Contributions to Catalyze Actions That Reduce Short-Lived Climate Pollutants
by Katherine Ross, Thomas Damassa, Eliza Northrop, David Waskow, Andrew Light, Taryn Fransen and Alexander Tankou - October 2018This paper presents a set of options for how targets, policies, and actions on short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) can be incorporated in new or updated NDCs to support the achievement of global climate goals and national development objectives.