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Obergassel, Wolfgang, Bauer, Steffen, Hermwille, Lukas, Aykut, Stefan C., Boran, Idil, Chan, Sander, Fraude, Carolin, Klein, Richard J. T., Mar, Kathleen A., Schroeder, Heike 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2342-2030 and Simeonova, Katia
(2022)
From regime-building to implementation: Harnessing the UN climate conferences to drive climate action.
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 13 (6).
ISSN 1757-7780
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Abstract
The gap between the internationally agreed climate objectives and tangible emissions reductions looms large. We explore how the supreme decision-making body of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Conference of the Parties (COP), could develop to promote more effective climate policy. We argue that promoting implementation of climate action could benefit from focusing more on individual sectoral systems, particularly for mitigation. We consider five key governance functions of international institutions to discuss how the COP and the sessions it convenes could advance implementation of the Paris Agreement: guidance and signal, rules and standards, transparency and accountability, means of implementation, and knowledge and learning. In addition, we consider the role of the COP and its sessions as mega-events of global climate policy. We identify opportunities for promoting sectoral climate action across all five governance functions and for both the COP as a formal body and the COP sessions as conducive events. Harnessing these opportunities would require stronger involvement of national ministries in addition to the ministries of foreign affairs and environment that traditionally run the COP process, as well as stronger involvement of non-Party stakeholders within formal COP processes.
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| Additional Information: | Funding Information: Part of the work for this article was funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) through DIE's Klimalog project (www.klimalog.info). |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | climate regime,conference of the parties,cop,unfccc,geography, planning and development,global and planetary change,atmospheric science,sdg 13 - climate action ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3305 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development) University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Global Environmental Justice Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Climate Change University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Nov 2022 09:30 |
| Last Modified: | 17 May 2023 01:38 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/89670 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/wcc.797 |
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