Tackling the challenges of assessing collective progress for an effective Global Stocktake

The document addresses the challenge of ensuring individual country contributions align with the collective goals of the Paris Agreement through the Global Stocktake (GST). It evaluates the potential and limits of the GST process and suggests specific improvements to maximize its effectiveness, including the use of a performance distributions approach and independent support from academia and civil society.

• The Paris Agreement's hybrid structure, which mixes collective goals with individual contributions, does not ensure that those individual efforts are sufficient to meet the overall collective objectives.
• To maximize the effectiveness of the UNFCCC GST process, the report recommends four specific actions: implementing a public appraisal of inputs, utilizing a performance distributions approach, incorporating detailed sectoral system discussions in expert dialogues, and requesting the IPCC to identify benchmarks based on available research.
• The official Global Stocktake process should be supplemented by independent efforts from the academic community and civil society.

APA

NewClimate Institute (2019). Tackling the challenges of assessing collective progress for an effective Global Stocktake. http://www.newclimate.org/resources/publications/tackling-the-challenges-of-assessing-collective-progress-for-an-effective

Chicago

NewClimate Institute. Tackling the challenges of assessing collective progress for an effective Global Stocktake. 2019. http://www.newclimate.org/resources/publications/tackling-the-challenges-of-assessing-collective-progress-for-an-effective.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{newclimateinstitute2019tackling, author = {{NewClimate Institute}}, title = {{Tackling the challenges of assessing collective progress for an effective Global Stocktake}}, institution = {NewClimate Institute}, year = {2019}, month = nov, url = {http://www.newclimate.org/resources/publications/tackling-the-challenges-of-assessing-collective-progress-for-an-effective}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }