Comprendre le Règlement de Paris

This briefing by the World Resources Institute explains the purpose and components of the Paris Rulebook, which provides the operational guidelines for implementing the Paris Agreement on climate change. It details the mechanisms for national climate planning, transparency in reporting, and the processes for reviewing individual and collective progress to ensure global climate goals are met.

• The Paris Rulebook is designed to transform the Paris Agreement into an operational system by providing specific tools and processes for countries to implement and strengthen their national climate plans, known as Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).
• The Paris Agreement defines three primary objectives: limiting global temperature rise to well below 2°C (with efforts to limit it to 1.5°C), enhancing countries' ability to adapt to climate impacts, and aligning financial flows with low-emission and climate-resilient development paths.
• Negotiators are working to establish common guidelines for NDCs, including whether all parties should use common timeframes for implementation and what specific information on mitigation measures is required to ensure transparency and comparability between countries.
• The Rulebook addresses the accounting of mitigation measures to prevent double counting and ensure environmental integrity, though these guidelines are optional for the first round of NDCs but mandatory for future ones.
• The Paris Agreement introduces a common transparency framework requiring all countries to report national greenhouse gas emissions and NDC progress at least every two years, while allowing flexibility for developing countries based on their capacities.
• Progress is reviewed through a two-phase individual process—technical expert review followed by a facilitative multilateral consideration—and a collective 'Global Stocktake' occurring every five years starting in 2023.
• A non-punitive committee is established to facilitate implementation and promote compliance, providing assistance to countries that fail to communicate NDCs or national reports and identifying systemic issues.

APA

World Resources Institute (n.d.). Comprendre le Règlement de Paris. https://wriorg.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/explaining-paris-rulebook-french.pdf?_ga=2.125528387.818967484.1542637377-237314188.1500995966

Chicago

World Resources Institute. Comprendre le Règlement de Paris. n.d. https://wriorg.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/explaining-paris-rulebook-french.pdf?_ga=2.125528387.818967484.1542637377-237314188.1500995966.

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BibTeX

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