Briefing Note: Bangkok Climate Talks, September 2018

The document provides specific wording suggestions to ensure that the Paris Agreement's rights-based vision is reflected in the guidelines for Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), the Transparency Framework, the Global Stocktake, and Article 6 mechanisms. It emphasizes that these guidelines should promote the integration of human rights, gender equality, and indigenous rights without creating new obligations for Parties or new conditionalities for climate finance.

• The author argues that the Implementation Guidelines should invite Parties to provide information on how human rights considerations, including indigenous peoples' rights, just transition, gender equality, food security, ecosystem integrity, and intergenerational equity, informed the preparation of their NDCs.
• Regarding the Transparency Framework, the document proposes that reporting guidelines should invite Parties to share information on the integration of human rights, gender equality, indigenous and traditional knowledge, just transition, public participation, and food security into climate action.
• The briefing suggests that the Global Stocktake should include inputs on social dimensions of climate action, specifically mentioning human rights, food security, gender equality, just transition, and the integration of indigenous and traditional knowledge.
• For Article 6 mechanisms, the document asserts that these should not repeat the mistakes of the Clean Development Mechanism and must include safeguards to prevent harm and ensure projects do not undermine human rights obligations.
• Specifically for the Sustainable Development Mechanism (Article 6.4), the author recommends the inclusion of environmental and social safeguards, meaningful public consultation with local communities and indigenous peoples, and a grievance redress mechanism.
• The document proposes that the reporting of Internationally Transferred Mitigation Outcomes (ITMOs) under Article 6.2 should be conditional on the avoidance of human rights abuses and environmental harm.

APA

Center for International Environmental Law (2018). Briefing Note: Bangkok Climate Talks, September 2018. https://www.ciel.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/CIEL_Note_Bangkok_final2.pdf

Chicago

Center for International Environmental Law. Briefing Note: Bangkok Climate Talks, September 2018. 2018. https://www.ciel.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/CIEL_Note_Bangkok_final2.pdf.

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@techreport{centerforinternationalenvironmentallaw2018briefing, author = {{Center for International Environmental Law}}, title = {{Briefing Note: Bangkok Climate Talks, September 2018}}, institution = {Center for International Environmental Law}, year = {2018}, month = aug, url = {https://www.ciel.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/CIEL_Note_Bangkok_final2.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }