Comment les contributions déterminées au niveau national (NDCs) des Parties peuvent-elles être intégrées dans un nouvel accord sur le climat 2015 de Paris ? Conseil : Si les Parties n’adoptent pas un nouvel instrument juridique international formellement contraignant (mais plutôt un ensemble de décisions de la COP ou une simple entente politique), …

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In the Bonn ADP session (June 2015) Parties have been working on the basis of the ‘Geneva text’ but – in addition – have also created other working documents to capture the ongoing discussions. As a result, there will be two or more ADP documents at the end of the session in Bonn. What would be […]

How can Parties’ nationally determined contributions (NDCs) be integrated into a new 2015 Paris climate agreement? Advice: If the Parties do not adopt a new formally binding international legal instrument (but rather a set of COP decisions or a purely political deal) then the question of “integration” is of limited relevance. For the purposes …

1. What is the significance of the 6 month deadline under Art.17 para.2 UNFCCC? Is it a “hard” deadline for a protocol or does it hold for any other outcome “with legal force”? 2. If we don’t have an agreed draft text by the end of the Geneva session, does that mean that we cannot […]