Briefing Note: Bangkok Climate Talks, September 2018

This briefing note by the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) argues for the integration of human rights and people-centered principles into the Paris Agreement Implementation Guidelines. It provides specific wording proposals for the Bangkok session of the Subsidiary Bodies (September 2018) across four key areas: Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), the Transparency Framework, the Global Stocktake, and Article 6 mechanisms.

• CIEL proposes that guidance for Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) should invite Parties to provide information on both the procedural and substantive integration of human rights. Procedurally, this includes how stakeholders such as women, youth, elders, local communities, and indigenous peoples were consulted. Substantively, it includes how the NDC preparation was informed by intergenerational equity, food security, gender equality, just transition, indigenous peoples rights, and ecosystem integrity and protection of biodiversity.
• Regarding the Transparency Framework, the document suggests that reporting guidelines should encourage Parties to share information on the integration of just transition, food security, public participation, gender equality, human rights, and indigenous and traditional knowledge into climate action. It specifically recommends that reporting on national circumstances and institutional arrangements refer to "public participation and stakeholders engagement" rather than just "stakeholders engagement."
• For the Global Stocktake, CIEL argues that the process must allow for the effective participation and input of non-Party stakeholders. Furthermore, the list of information needs for the Stocktake should be expanded to include gender equality, human rights, ecosystem integrity, and just transition, alongside existing references to social justice, poverty eradication, and climate refugees.
• The briefing emphasizes that Article 6 mechanisms must include safeguards to prevent the repetition of mistakes made by the Clean Development Mechanism. Specifically, the Sustainable Development Mechanism (Article 6.4) should require projects to comply with social and environmental safeguards, provide avenues for redress, and ensure meaningful public consultation with local communities and indigenous peoples throughout the project lifecycle.
• In relation to Article 6.2, the document advocates for maintaining requirements that cooperative approaches and Internationally Transferred Mitigation Outcomes (ITMOs) do not represent a threat to or adversely affect human rights, and that ITMOs used toward NDCs must avoid 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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