The Path towards 1.5 degrees Celsius. CEPS Policy Brief No. 336, 3 December 2015

Alharthi, Awwad Atiah (2015) The Path towards 1.5 degrees Celsius. CEPS Policy Brief No. 336, 3 December 2015. [Policy Paper]

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Abstract

In less than one year, the country-led exercise in preparing Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) has accomplished what the top-down approach characteristic of the UNFCCC has not been able to achieve in over 21 years of negotiations, namely to produce a sound agreement to reduce climate change. As such, the UNFCCC should adopt a new process similar to that used in developing the INDCs, in which Parties to the Convention would mobilise their national efforts, but on a wider scale and under certain agreed binding conditions. To ensure a comprehensive engagement, this Policy Brief recommends the introduction of a four-tier system in which the most developed nations called upon to take the lead, but with the very least developed nations also contributing to the intended UN objective.

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