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High Stakes in Bangkok: WRI Lays Out Three Must-Do Challenges for Climate Negotiators

September 6, 2018
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Full Story: Climate Home News @ClimateHome
Primary Author: Yamide Dagnet @YDagnet and Nathan Cogswell @NathanCogswell/World Resources Institute @WorldResources

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Since the Paris Agreement on climate change was adopted in December 2015, negotiators have been grappling with how to set it in motion with a strong framework of rules and operating procedures, commonly known as the “implementing guidelines” or “the Paris Rulebook”. 

These guidelines are essential to drive a fair and effective process that will support all countries to achieve zero-carbon, climate resilient transformation in the coming decades.

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The clock is ticking. In 2015, countries set a deadline of December 2018 to finalize the implementing guidelines at COP 24 in Katowice, Poland. With time running out, and uneven progress made so far, countries have agreed to an interim meeting in Bangkok, Thailand next week to advance their work before the end of the year. A “satisfactory outcome in Katowice will be in jeopardy,” the presiding officers of the negotiating session recently warned, unless negotiators can decide on a clear and cohesive negotiating text that ministers can take up and approve in a few short months.

That means negotiators have three critical tasks to advance while in Bangkok:

  • Understanding, clarifying, and streamlining the options on the table: Discussions must begin to identify compromise options and those which have the potential to win support.
  • Translating the options into legal language that can be used for a COP decision: Once options have been clarified and streamlined, they will need to be translated into language setting out specific, final, modalities, procedures, and guidelines.
  • Generating a negotiating text: Once all the options have been translated into legal language, they need to be compiled, organized, and presented in a manner that best facilitates final negotiations in good faith.

Unlike other climate negotiation sessions that include dozens of side events and an exhibit hall, there will be none of those at the Bangkok session in order to minimize distractions and ensure negotiators make maximum progress advancing the rulebook.

The Stakes of Bangkok

The issues inherent in the negotiations are politically and technically complex. “Negotiating groups” will delve into the key elements of the implementing guidelines, including:

  • How countries will communicate their climate plans (in the form of nationally determined contributions, or NDCs), and report and account for the impact of their actions as well as the support provided or received;
  • How countries will review the progress made individually and collectively to curb emissions, adapt to the changing climate, and scale up finance;
  • How countries will cooperate with each other (using market and non-market approaches) and provide indicative information on the future provision of support to countries in need of climate finance;
  • How an expert committee will operate to facilitate implementation and promote compliance.

In the end, all these elements must work together to create multi-year cycles of planning, implementation, and review that lead to more ambitious national action to curb greenhouse gas emissions while also achieving sustainable development.

To date, negotiating groups have made uneven progress in developing advanced options and guidance. While the nature of negotiations in each group differs, there are several common sticking points. The guidelines must provide flexibility and support for parties that need it, while avoiding the developed-versus-developing country dynamics that have often been a challenge in previous climate negotiations.

In addition, parties must agree on the level of detail of the information to share in order to build confidence and trust in countries’ efforts, and on the scope and effective governance of the various mechanisms. And, though some issues are more mature than others, they also need to represent a coherent and balanced package when considered as a whole.

The Game Plan

As they head into the Bangkok negotiations, countries have additional resources at their disposal to help them work through the sticking points. These include informal tools produced by the negotiation co-chairs and a new publication released earlier this month by the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the Project for Advancing Climate Transparency (PACT) consortium, which provides suggestions for negotiators to meet their December 2018 deadline.

Informed by careful analysis and the experience of negotiators and other key stakeholders, PACT’s major new working paper provides an overarching vision and practical suggestions for the foundational elements of the Paris Agreement’s implementing guidelines. This unique publication can help negotiators overcome the remaining negotiating hurdles and achieve clear, robust, and cohesive implementing guidelines.

While negotiators work to draft and adopt guidelines for adoption in Katowice this December, they will benefit from keeping in mind the cooperative spirit of the Agreement. By negotiating in good faith and demonstrating renewed trust in multilateral systems, they can solidify the global response to the climate challenge and bring the agreement truly to life.

On the way to COP 24, key milestones include the Global Climate Action Summit in mid-September, which will celebrate and incentivize climate action from states, regions, cities, and the private sector through such initiatives as science-based targets. The One Planet Summit on the margins of the UN General Assembly in late September will continue to galvanize and scale up financial support from the private sector and others. And the upcoming Climate Vulnerable Forum virtual leaders’ summit on November 22 aims to create a coalition of countries committed to strengthening their climate action to meet the most ambitious Paris goal of limiting temperature rise to 1.5°C.

If they are successful at the Bangkok session, countries will lay the ground for success at COP 24, where they can adopt rules and guidelines that strengthen domestic efforts, guide countries’ efforts to strengthen their national contributions by 2020, and leverage global initiatives driving action by countries and many other actors.

This article was originally published on the World Resources Institute’s website. Yamide Dagnet is a senior associate and Nathan Cogswell is a research analyst with WRI’s international climate action initiative.



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