Chapter 13: Ambition and Compliance

Recommended materials

UNFCCC Secretariat, Aggregate effect of the intended nationally determined contributions: an update, doc. FCCC/CP/2016/2 (2 May 2016)

Alexander Zahar, “A Bottom-Up Compliance Mechanism for the Paris Agreement” (2017) 1:1 Chinese Journal of Environmental Law 69

Benoit Mayer, “Construing International Climate Change Law as a Compliance Regime” (2017) 7:1 Transnational Environmental Law 115

Supplementary materials

Adrian E. Raftery et al., “Less than 2 °C warming by 2100 unlikely” (2017) 7 Nature Climate Change 367

Alexander Zahar, International Climate Change Law and State Compliance (Routledge, 2015)

Latest materials

Weikmans, van Asselt & Roberts, “Transparency requirements under the Paris Agreement and their (un)likely impact on strengthening the ambition of nationally determined contributions (NDCs)”, Climate Policy

https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2019.1695571

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Felicity Deane, Anna Huggins and Md Saiful Karim, “Measuring, monitoring, reporting and verification of shipping emissions: Evaluating transparency and answerability”

Forthcoming in Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law. https://doi.org/10.1111/reel.12308  

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In the news

“Study finds shock rise in levels of potent greenhouse gas” (Guardian)

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/21/study-finds-shock-rise-in-levels-of-potent-greenhouse-gas-hfc-23  

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Aligning fossil fuel production with the Paris Agreement

Insights for the UNFCCC Talanoa Dialogue, by the Stockholm Environment Institute. A compelling argument for supply-side mitigation policies.https://www.sei.org/publications/aligning-fossil-fuel-production-paris-agreement/

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