The Mechanism to Facilitate Implementation and Promote Compliance with the Paris Agreement: Design Options

This working paper by the Project for Advancing Climate Transparency (PACT) consortium analyzes design options for the Article 15 mechanism of the Paris Agreement, which establishes an expert-based committee to facilitate implementation and promote compliance.

• The Article 15 mechanism of the Paris Agreement establishes an expert-based committee intended to support and assist Parties, both individually and collectively, in achieving the agreement's long-term goals and purpose.
• To ensure the committee operates effectively, the paper identifies three central issues that require a balanced approach: the process for referring individual Parties to the committee, the specific measures the committee can use, and the operational guidance needed to define the committee's discretionary boundaries.
• Parties were developing the modalities and procedures for the committee for adoption at the 24th Conference of the Parties (COP24) in December 2018, with the paper suggesting these procedures be tailored to the specific features of the Paris Agreement while drawing on lessons from other regimes.

APA

World Resources Institute (n.d.). The Mechanism to Facilitate Implementation and Promote Compliance with the Paris Agreement: Design Options. https://www.wri.org/research/mechanism-facilitate-implementation-and-promote-compliance-paris-agreement-design-options

Chicago

World Resources Institute. The Mechanism to Facilitate Implementation and Promote Compliance with the Paris Agreement: Design Options. n.d. https://www.wri.org/research/mechanism-facilitate-implementation-and-promote-compliance-paris-agreement-design-options.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{worldresourcesinstitutendmechanism, author = {{World Resources Institute}}, title = {{The Mechanism to Facilitate Implementation and Promote Compliance with the Paris Agreement: Design Options}}, institution = {World Resources Institute}, url = {https://www.wri.org/research/mechanism-facilitate-implementation-and-promote-compliance-paris-agreement-design-options}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }