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What Success Means For COP21

If you want to know what how a rational optimist defines success for COP21, cop21-label_reduit_transparenttake a look at Rob Stavins’s latest post.  Here’s his “Paris Scorecard” for what success will look like:

  • Include approximately 90% of global emissions in the set of INDCs that are submitted and part of the Paris Agreement (compared with 14% in the current commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol).…
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The Second Installment of our Paris Climate Change Negotiations Tracker

As the date for the Paris climate talks logomoves closer, we have our second installment of our climate negotiations tracker.  This episode discusses the concept of “dynamism” – being able to adjust over time just how ambitious the mitigation goals will be; the mechanism for assessing the Nationally Determined Contributions, or NDCs; the role of non-state actors; and how to differentiate among developed and developing countries.… More