INSIDER: 4 Key Questions for the Design of the Global Stocktake

The document outlines a framework for designing the global stocktake, a periodic review process under the Paris Agreement. It proposes four critical areas of focus for the Ad hoc Working Group on the Paris Agreement (APA): determining the necessary information inputs, establishing operational modalities to ensure transparency and accountability, defining the outputs required to inform future actions, and ensuring the process effectively drives increased climate ambition and implementation support.

• The global stocktake is a central part of the Paris Agreement's 'ambition mechanism,' designed to be a dynamic process that informs successive Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and responds to climate science, technological shifts, and economic opportunities.
• The design of the global stocktake's inputs should involve creating a comprehensive list of information sources, including national reports, UNFCCC subsidiary body reports, and scientific inputs such as the IPCC report on 1.5C, while also considering contributions from civil society and other UN organizations.
• Operational modalities for the stocktake must be comprehensive, facilitative, and based on equity and the best available science, with a focus on creating an open multilateral process to enhance transparency, trust, and accountability between Parties.
• The outputs of the global stocktake, which are intended to inform the updating and enhancing of actions and international cooperation, could take the form of analysis, reports, recommendations from UNFCCC bodies, or decisions by the CMA.
• To drive further ambition, the global stocktake should identify barriers to implementation and link countries to necessary support through the Technology Mechanism, the Financial Mechanism, and UNFCCC capacity-building bodies.

APA

World Resources Institute (2016). INSIDER: 4 Key Questions for the Design of the Global Stocktake. https://www.wri.org/technical-perspectives/insider-4-key-questions-design-global-stocktake

Chicago

World Resources Institute. INSIDER: 4 Key Questions for the Design of the Global Stocktake. 2016. https://www.wri.org/technical-perspectives/insider-4-key-questions-design-global-stocktake.

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BibTeX

@techreport{worldresourcesinstitute2016insider, author = {{World Resources Institute}}, title = {{INSIDER: 4 Key Questions for the Design of the Global Stocktake}}, institution = {World Resources Institute}, year = {2016}, month = may, url = {https://www.wri.org/technical-perspectives/insider-4-key-questions-design-global-stocktake}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }