What the Lima Call for Climate Action means for Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs)
What the Lima Call for Climate Action means for Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) / Niklas Höhne, Hanna Fekete & Thomas Day, New Climate Institute’s blog, 15/12/2014
By providing an agreed set of options for the elements to be included in the agreement and underlying principles, the outcomes of COP20 in Lima – the Lima Call for Climate Action – sets the framework for negotiations throughout 2015. As the curtain finally comes down on yet another very long round of COP negotiations, NewClimate Institute takes a look at what the Lima Call for Climate Action means for the development of Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) over the coming months.
Under the Ad-Hoc Durban Platform, countries are currently negotiating a new global climate agreement, the first international climate change agreement expected to explicitly commit all countries to specific climate change mitigation plans (for a blue print of such an agreement see the output of the ACT2015 project)…