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A new international climate change agreement that will have legal force and be applicable to all countries is being negotiated under the auspices of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The agreement is to be adopted by 2015 and come into effect from 2020. An...
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The term low-emission development strategies (LEDS) first emerged under the United Nations Framework Convention on … formally agreed definition exists, LEDS are generally used to describe forward-looking national economic development plans or … primarily intended to help advance national climate change and development policy in a more co-ordinated, coherent and strategic …
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countries beyond the existing Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), and to encourage mitigation at least possible cost. The …
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At COP 17 in Durban, countries defined a new market-based mechanism to promote cost-effective mitigation actions, guided by a set of principles previously agreed at COP 16. These principles include “stimulating mitigation across broad segments of the economy”, “ensuring a net decrease...
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The Cancún Agreements formalise a collective commitment by developed countries to provide new and additional funding for action on climate change in developing countries both in the short- and longer-term. This collective financial commitment requires a system to measure, report and verify...
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side, a key goal may be to integrate NAMAs in developing countries into national development plans and to address a … good starting point for further development of a linking framework.<BR>Le Plan d'action de Bali a proposé pour la première …
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This paper reviews proposals for the design of sectoral and related market mechanisms that are being debated both in the UNFCCC negotiations and in different domestic legislative contexts. Decisions on the design and scope of the mechanisms in the UNFCCC negotiations would affect the future...
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