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SLYCAN Trust and LRI have jointly produced a background note on the Global Goal on Adaptation and how to operationalize it. As the GGA work programme has started, this document has been

Whilst the UN Committee dismissed the complaint on procedural grounds, its decision contains important findings on foreseeability, causation and cross-border responsibility. Through its findings of intergenerational equity and extraterritorial responsibility, the Committee

Article 2.1c of the Paris Agreement sets a goal of making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate-resilient development. This briefing provides an overview of the

The oversight mechanisms established by the Paris Agreement are key to ensure scrutiny and accountability of Parties’ actions and support in an otherwise largely nationally determined regime. This briefing paper briefly introduces

The Covid 19 pandemic has created human suffering on a global scale, but also a strange window of opportunity to rethink how we live, work and play. For the time being, calls

This paper provides a comparative analysis of Latin American climate change framework legislation in Mexico, Peru, Guatemala, Honduras and Paraguay. It assesses if and to what extent the legislation in those countries

Achieving the Paris Agreement’s long term temperature goal will require Parties to make rapid, deep and economy-wide GHG emission reductions. One mechanism through which this can be done is domestic technical regulations.

As countries begin the process of turning their commitments under the Paris Agreement into action at domestic level, many developing countries acknowledge that their current legal and institutional framework is insufficient to

The Talanoa Dialogue was launched at the UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn (COP23) in November 2017. It invites parties and civil society stakeholders to engage in collective efforts to limit the

The paper offers an initial overview of relevant law and policy areas that could be subject to regulatory interventions for developing country parties to fully comply with and benefit from the provisions

In December 2015, the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) adopted the Paris Agreement. It establishes a general framework for a universal, long-term

In Paris, on 12 December 2016, the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change adopted the Paris Agreement with accompanying COP decisions. The Paris Agreement